Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1259 Scott Adams： Belated Coffee

00:00:00.000 bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum well let's see if this works i'm deeply skeptical 0.54

00:00:10.180 coming to you from the other side of the planet well might be on the same side of the planet as

00:00:16.180 you but probably not so come on in here we've got stuff to talk about assuming this works

00:00:22.140 who knows if i've got enough wi-fi here to get all the way across the world but i feel like i do

00:00:28.560 so would you like to uh see a little bit of where i'm at as soon as we get a few more people i'll

00:00:38.340 show you that so let's talk about joe biden um the bad news is he seems to be very much a america

00:00:47.940 last kind of a president now is that always a bad idea because trump sold us on america first

00:00:56.560 being a good idea so what is it a bad idea to put yourself first and what is it a good idea

00:01:03.500 let me give you some examples some context when world war ii ended the united states was unusually

00:01:12.740 generous i think you could say to to the defeated powers germany and japan and i don't know that we

00:01:19.820 were necessarily putting america first then uh except in the long term now did it work

00:01:26.400 in the long run to put america let's say a little bit disadvantaged if we're giving any money to other

00:01:34.540 countries and the answer is it did work in fact germany and japan are two of our best allies and

00:01:42.100 uh i would say it's one of the most successful things ever done in the history of the planet

00:01:47.500 so there are cases um you know obvious cases where uh putting other countries first

00:01:54.680 could work out great but did that work out with china because i feel like it's not that you should

00:02:03.180 put others first or you should put yourself first i feel like every situation might be a little

00:02:08.300 different so china being maybe a little more aggressive about its role in the world maybe you

00:02:16.540 can't put them first because they're putting themselves first but let's say the vietnam war is

00:02:23.360 over and eventually vietnam and the united states want to make friends i don't know that we've done

00:02:29.020 anything that would be called putting vietnam ahead of ourselves but it certainly made sense to be

00:02:34.640 friends and i think that'll work out in the long run so i think it depends on the country so let's

00:02:40.020 take a look at some of those other not america first things that uh biden did see how they how they

00:02:47.120 stack up compared to these historical examples so you got um i'll do this up in a minute

00:02:54.920 actually you probably want me to do that now and i will

00:02:59.380 so sorry i missed you this morning it was quite a nightmare in the hotel experience of trying to

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00:03:58.460 saying so biden's done a few other america last things let's say the paris climate uh accord

00:04:05.940 that feels like america last but does it make sense in other words is our involvement in it

00:04:13.680 somehow going to uh let's say make the world better for everyone including america well that's the idea

00:04:20.940 right now if the climate accords did anything like that probably be a pretty good idea but it feels as

00:04:32.040 though it doesn't do anything like that if you actually look at the agreement it just seems good

00:04:37.380 for china bad for america and that's the end of it that's it that's the beginning and the end of the

00:04:42.640 story good good for them bad for us and it's written that way it's written intentionally that way

00:04:49.220 because the idea is that china needed a little extra extra flexibility because it would take them much

00:04:55.640 longer to become green is that a good idea or bad idea well if it's a good idea it tells you that

00:05:04.920 somehow somehow that works out but it's hard for me to imagine this scenario where anything is

00:05:13.820 different because of it except that we're disadvantaged it's hard for me to i'd like to hear somebody

00:05:20.700 explain the story of how doing the climate accords leads in a logical connected way to a better world

00:05:29.640 easily you could have made that argument with let's say the the marshall plan and germany and helping

00:05:36.080 out japan after world war ii it's an easy it's an easy story you say well if we're good to them and we

00:05:42.700 rebuild their country we'll be allies and that'll be good forever and it worked but if you can't do that

00:05:49.220 with the paris climate accord you know a logical easy story that says oh yeah you do this and we're

00:05:55.220 hoping that this happens and then this will happen sort of logically flowing but i don't really see it

00:06:00.420 it doesn't mean it's not there maybe it just takes a better explanation than what i've heard so far

00:06:06.580 um let's see the other the other things that uh that biden is doing that uh are not give me some

00:06:16.580 other examples there are a few other things he's doing that don't look like they're america first

00:06:20.200 uh ending the uh the pipeline so the first thing biden is doing is screwing canada

00:06:27.140 he's screwing canada by canceling the pipeline after they put a whole bunch of money and work

00:06:34.100 into it for years uh now i suppose you can make an argument uh that the environmentalists would that

00:06:40.320 it's good for america but i just don't see it you know the the pipeline is one of those things where

00:06:46.680 if everything went wrong it would be pretty bad but that's true of everything isn't it couldn't you

00:06:52.640 say that at the hoover dam oh don't build that hoover dam because if that thing breaks that's gonna be bad

00:07:00.540 it feels like any big project you could make some kind of an argument that if you did it wrong

00:07:08.040 bad stuff would happen that feels generally true all right um then what was the other stuff that

00:07:18.680 biden did today oh he i think he signed something about uh transgender bathrooms and sports

00:07:26.400 got that going uh basically just reversing everything everything that trump did i don't

00:07:33.580 know how much of any of this is going to affect me i don't know if you've had that thought there's a

00:07:39.180 whole bunch of stuff that i kind of prefer to be different you know i i kind of i've mapped pretty

00:07:45.960 closely but not exactly to a lot of the trump policies but they don't actually affect me that much

00:07:52.320 you know i'm not playing any sports in high school i don't think the the the climate will be any

00:07:59.720 different with or without the accord i don't personally gain anything from the pipeline that

00:08:05.120 would be obvious i mean maybe it would affect uh energy costs at some point so it's really hard to

00:08:11.540 it's hard to get excited about any of this stuff it all seems small but let me give biden one

00:08:18.800 objective compliment if i understand the topic right and it goes like this you you heard me

00:08:26.340 complaining about the trump administration not approving these rapid tests that are less sensitive

00:08:31.800 but they can they can find the um the strong cases and given that we know that most of the spreading

00:08:38.620 happens from people have a high viral load in their nose and mouth that that study just came out today

00:08:44.920 so it's seems to be confirmed uh that the super spreaders literally have more of the virus

00:08:51.620 in the in the mask of their face uh mask being a different word than an actual mask mask meaning

00:08:58.980 your your sort of nose mouth area and uh so if it's true that the real problem is the people who have a ton

00:09:09.560 of virus in them then it's also true that the less sensitive tests would get all of the super spreaders

00:09:16.540 so nobody would argue that the less sensitive tests would miss the super spreaders they would only

00:09:22.360 argue that it would miss the marginal cases but maybe you only need to get the super spreaders because

00:09:27.400 they're the ones doing the damage so biden has signed some kind of executive order that uh promotes

00:09:34.260 that uh that approach now i've been complaining that this might be the most important thing

00:09:41.960 um maybe even more than the vaccinations in terms of how important they are but but at least

00:09:47.080 you know equivalent to vaccinations if not more now again this assumes that the tests work and they can

00:09:54.960 be they can be made in quantity and all these other things but biden just signed an order that

00:10:03.300 i've been complaining that trump has ignored he's ignored the topic or he did he didn't say yes he

00:10:11.000 didn't say no he just acted like it didn't exist i don't know why so if biden has done this one thing

00:10:17.800 and it's right that looks like it might be you know too early to tell but it looks like it might be

00:10:24.300 right gonna give him full credit now that doesn't mean that everything else he does is right but

00:10:30.380 you know i'm not gonna i'm not going to uh you know disavow biden for doing something i've been

00:10:38.120 asking for for six months so that part's good the uh there's also a question that jack wasabic was

00:10:45.760 asking i saw on twitter he said uh uh is joe biden still putting kids in cages now of course the topic

00:10:53.980 is not funny uh yes it's deadly serious but the but watching how biden deals with the fact

00:11:03.380 that the only reason anybody was ever in one of those containers which you would call the cage

00:11:08.940 the only reason anybody was in it is that nobody had a better idea right if anybody had a better idea

00:11:16.240 i think we would have used it and the argument which you probably never heard uh biden won a 0.95

00:11:24.700 majority of votes you are dumb so commenter says well let me let me i gotta address that so commenter 1.00

00:11:33.900 i've said there are two categories of unambiguously stupid people when it comes to the election and 1.00

00:11:42.200 any any claims of impropriety the two stupid types of people are people who are 100 sure it was 0.99

00:11:48.640 fraudulent and enough fraudulent that it changed the election and the people who are 100 sure it 1.00

00:11:54.980 wasn't those positions are stupid they're just stupid and honestly there's no way i can soften that 1.00

00:12:02.640 because you don't know you don't know the only thing you know is that people looked in some small 1.00

00:12:10.220 places and didn't find anything that would change the election result that's it that's all you know

00:12:16.060 it's a fairly non-transparent system and even if it were transparent did you look at it how much time

00:12:24.960 did you do counting ballots and recounting and auditing and looking at the software what did you do nothing

00:12:33.500 so even if other people have done the things that need to be done which they can't because the system

00:12:40.660 doesn't allow that level of transparency you can do recounts and audits and that's great but it doesn't

00:12:45.600 get all the things that could be done if somebody wanted to you know fix an election so the only thing

00:12:51.860 you can know for sure is that you either have a suspicion that looks suspicious and so therefore i think

00:13:00.280 maybe there's a chance of something wrong but that's just a guess because there are reasons that

00:13:06.500 anomalies happen probably every election some anomalies are out there there might have been more this time

00:13:11.220 because it was hard to predict and it was a special election and trump was in it and you know and everything 0.99

00:13:17.960 was different about this election so if you're sure in either direction you're just stupid and there's 0.97

00:13:24.360 no way to soften that it's a probability thing certainty is just wrong answer unless you're looking 0.98

00:13:31.960 into it yourself and you're not all right so uh what was i saying about biden uh the other thing biden

00:13:38.980 did somebody will have to remind me somebody says if you don't believe the election was rigged you're not

00:13:47.940 paying attention well you can believe anything you want right belief not really the right approach

00:13:58.800 because how would you like the jury to do that if you were on trial uh jury we've got some i don't know

00:14:07.840 there are indications i feel like in my gut sort of a hunch i believe you're guilty not really good

00:14:16.020 standard and i don't think it would be a good standard for you know major world decisions either

00:14:22.140 i just believe i feel like i got this gut feeling got this gut feeling but having mocked it

00:14:30.600 let me agree with you that i have that gut feeling if he asked me to make a decision with my body

00:14:39.200 and by every bias that i've ever developed in my life if that was the way i made decisions i would

00:14:47.160 say i'll just go with my gut instinct doesn't feel right so everybody here who says scott just look at

00:14:55.820 it it doesn't feel right i i feel the same thing you do it doesn't feel like it was possible

00:15:02.740 but in the real world things happen every single day that didn't look possible so if your standard is

00:15:13.060 how you feel that's not really how you make decisions so um i would say be open to the possibility

00:15:22.900 totally reasonable being sure not reasonable not even a little bit reasonable now i might be going

00:15:30.860 a little bit harder on you than i normally would because i realize you know i watch my my twitter

00:15:37.380 followers when i do stuff like this and i go so it's all bad for me if i you know if i go at you

00:15:45.720 directly because you're you know you're primarily my audience but having watched the damage that

00:15:52.860 happened to the people who bought into the queue stuff i feel today that i let you down you meaning

00:16:01.060 the public not you specifically i feel like i let you down because months ago i was or years ago i guess

00:16:08.140 a few years i was pushing pretty hard against the queue stuff and i sort of made it a thing you know i

00:16:13.500 was going to use my time and my whatever credibility i had to to see if i could stop that thing for the

00:16:19.580 good of all now at the time i really didn't know how big it would get i certainly didn't know it would

00:16:26.120 you know incite a uh some kind of trouble at the uh or an assault on the capital you know i didn't know

00:16:31.860 that i think that was um not obvious you know at any point two years ago but um so yeah i'm seeing

00:16:43.220 the comments scott take a break and collect yourself you're losing it see this is what i'm

00:16:48.560 going to do more of not less so so those are the comments i'm looking to see i want the people who

00:16:54.560 think i've just completely lost it because if you've watched me for four years or whatever

00:17:00.000 and you've agreed with me up to this point uh or at least you've agreed with some you know majority

00:17:06.580 of things i've said up to this point i'll ask you this one thing just consider just consider

00:17:13.900 that i might be right now i might be wrong as well you can consider that too but don't rule it out i

00:17:21.300 mean if if you've been watching my live uh streams um and you were to compare what you predicted

00:17:28.040 to me if your predictions are better then don't pay attention to me but probably for most of you

00:17:36.400 that wasn't the case so put it all in context uh you sound merely like a lawyer somebody says

00:17:45.100 consider will there be uh will i be sipping sanka just looking at some of your uh comments all right so

00:17:54.080 joe biden i would say that uh so far he looks to be a disaster on immigration i mean like this could

00:18:04.780 be really really bad i don't think it will be uh so it's a statistical thing again but what the heck

00:18:13.140 is he going to do right oh i was talking about the the kids in cages thing for those who don't

00:18:18.800 understand the topic and that would be most people i guess and probably in that category as well

00:18:23.800 but one thing i do understand is that the cages were primarily a short-term uh way to keep kids

00:18:32.780 away from predators because the the predators were taking them across the border and god knows what

00:18:38.920 kind of things were going to happen to the kids and if you the only way to separate them given the

00:18:44.500 the tons of people who came in compared to the resources that they they had was to do something

00:18:51.260 that nobody wanted to do which is physically separate the kids put them in these things that

00:18:55.860 people are calling cages i don't think you could be happy about it you can't be happy about anything

00:19:01.200 like that that happens to a kid but you can certainly say i get why it happened so the point is how is biden

00:19:09.520 going to have a better result because he has the same problem and he has the same two solutions

00:19:15.920 nobody came up with a middle ground including you know biden and anybody who criticized them

00:19:22.480 so one solution is you let those kids go with the predators and that's basically you're killing the

00:19:27.680 kid you know at least in terms of the quality of the rest of their life um and the other thing is you

00:19:34.220 put them in cages and that's unacceptable you know on a human level so if you only have two choices

00:19:40.780 and they're both terrible for kids what's biden going to do now if it turns out that biden figures

00:19:50.640 out you know his administration figures out a way to deal with this in an efficient way that's better

00:19:56.240 than what the trump administration did i'll give him credit i'd like to see that and if he could do

00:20:02.220 that that'd be great you know as long as we have good border security and all that now my take on

00:20:08.500 border security is that if you argue how many people should come in you're arguing it wrong

00:20:14.200 uh the way to argue border security is this you say we need to have complete border security

00:20:21.620 but that's one decision so one decision is to control your borders yes or no the answer's got to

00:20:28.520 be yes right because nobody who has a country that everybody wants to move to can get away with having

00:20:35.300 no borders just there's just no way that can work in long run uh so anyway biden's gonna have to

00:20:47.220 close the border but my point was he's gonna have to control the border in some fashion we'll see what

00:20:51.880 he does well my point is that you make the decision about do you control your border or not once you say

00:20:57.480 yes that's one decision and then the second decision which is separate is how do you control it oops who

00:21:06.600 do you let in and under what circumstances so i think those decisions should be separate i think

00:21:13.320 there's a hundred percent solid argument for having a border that we can open and close as the situation 0.97

00:21:19.480 requires it's just having a tool so arguing against having a toolbox is just stupid arguing about how 0.89

00:21:29.400 to use those tools makes perfect sense so i would love to see an immigration system that removes human 1.00

00:21:37.880 judgment as much as possible from the decision of who gets in and here's the way you could do it

00:21:43.720 imagine that economists it probably have to be you know bipartisan economists come up with some

00:21:49.320 kind of a formula and it's just the best they can do right these these types of algorithms and

00:21:54.360 formulas are going to be approximations at best but let's say the economist come up with some kind of

00:21:59.480 formula that says this under our current condition so let's say unemployment rate and whatever kinds of

00:22:06.360 jobs we need to be filled uh under a certain set of conditions you just turn the knob and let more people

00:22:12.280 in because it's good for us it's good for them it's good for us economy's humming along you need a few more

00:22:18.280 people turn the knob a little bit let them in then whatever happens maybe you have some terrorism issues

00:22:24.920 and pandemic issues uh economic issues and you just say based on you know these these criteria that

00:22:34.440 everybody can see we'll have to dial it back a little if you did that who whose fault would it be

00:22:41.880 right you could remove the humans from it just say look these are the conditions in which you want

00:22:48.440 more people of a certain type these are the conditions where you don't and we'll just adjust

00:22:53.880 up and down based on those conditions nobody even has to make a decision we just look at the data

00:22:59.000 unemployment is seven percent turn it down unemployment drops to you know i don't know three percent turn it

00:23:07.160 up that's it get the people out of the decision there's no situation in which we don't want immigration

00:23:14.520 uh we just want to be able to control it um yeah so biden's promised a hundred know what a million

00:23:23.720 million vaccinations a day which is basically what we're already doing so that's a good promise uh if

00:23:30.360 i'm going to be um i'm going to try as hard as possible i don't think i'll be able to pull this off

00:23:36.120 we're going to try as hard as possible to be objective about biden now i criticize trump on the

00:23:43.000 rapid testing and health care and the capital assault and you know i've had a bunch of things

00:23:48.600 that i criticize trump for i want to i want to do the same

00:23:53.080 so some of your comments are cruel they're cruel

00:24:05.960 um cnn removed counter what's that mean uh scott what about asylum that's where the problem lies yeah

00:24:18.280 why would we need asylum if we had a good immigration system so so the problem always

00:24:25.240 comes back to immigration control you wouldn't need any uh asylum cities if you had a good 0.69

00:24:32.600 immigration system there would be nobody here who needed asylum so you want to fix the base problem is

00:24:39.080 what you want to do uh somebody says we'll see civil war we're not we're nowhere near that the the most

00:24:47.400 likely thing that will happen let's say just in general well let me give you some big big context

00:24:53.880 it is generally true that every big world power through history has reached some point where

00:25:01.560 they declined right roman empire boom um you know you can go through history mayan empire boom so

00:25:10.440 there's probably no situation in the long long long run where any any country just dominates forever

00:25:18.360 or is at the top of the pile or even exists in the long run long run but the end of a uh

00:25:26.040 a civilization happens once all right you only you only get finished once but there's just hundreds or

00:25:36.120 thousands of things that happen between the start and that one time you're done that look like bad

00:25:42.520 things are going to happen then they don't and so if you're going to follow the odds what are the odds

00:25:49.400 that you just happen to be alive and it's this year that we had you know the destruction of the

00:25:54.680 united states in the civil war nothing's impossible but what are the odds like solo

00:26:02.600 i don't talk to anybody who wants a revolution you know i hear lots of people complaining about

00:26:08.760 freedom of speech and the private platform companies restricting it and in their private

00:26:13.640 way not the public way you know everybody's got a complaint right some people's still mad about the

00:26:20.200 election and everything else but i don't see anybody who wants a civil war just doesn't seem possible

00:26:28.520 the most likely thing that will happen is that success will kill whoever is winning

00:26:35.000 that's the most likely thing that happens so the beauty of our two let's say our two system

00:26:41.160 our two-party system is that you have a way for somebody to lose every four years and that loser

00:26:51.000 goes back and gets stronger and then comes back and fights again and sometimes win so the most

00:26:56.440 likely outcome of a successful republican presidency would be a democrat is next the most likely outcome

00:27:04.360 of a successful or even an unsuccessful uh four to eight years of democrat presidents is a republican

00:27:12.600 the most likely thing that will happen after biden is a republican and that's even with uh any kind of

00:27:19.960 you know clever mischief that the democrats do to add a state legalize some you know undocumented people 0.70

00:27:27.800 who become voters put them in the census you know they can do lots of stuff but our country really really

00:27:35.000 likes two parties fighting it out and not one of them winning every time and i speculate no way to know

00:27:41.960 this for sure but i speculate that one of the the worst problems that trump had in terms of re-election

00:27:49.560 was his success and specifically his success in uh in the supreme court nominations i feel that

00:28:00.200 trump was so successful sort of locking down a republican conservative

00:28:06.920 power base in the supreme court that it then because we don't like anybody to move too much power in one direction

00:28:14.360 it just we just like that middle americans do so the most likely outcome is a biden

00:28:22.840 harris overreach could last four years could last eight years but the the most logical outcome of that

00:28:30.200 would be people saying all right we have enough of this let's try something else that's what i think

00:28:36.200 now it's not it's not impossible that things would slippery slope all the way to the end of the

00:28:42.200 the republic could happen but uh not very likely yeah i'd put that in the one percent range maybe

00:28:50.280 something like that uh please explain what's the middle in 2021 well the middle is a lot of stuff

00:28:58.280 the middle is being able to control immigration no matter what you decide to do with how many people

00:29:04.040 get in that's that's the middle ground if you said to somebody we'll let in as many people as make

00:29:10.760 sense but we want the option of closing the border if we need to would people really argue against that

00:29:17.480 you're just saying we want the tool but we'd like to we'd love to let in as many people from central and

00:29:24.120 you know south america and mexico to to do the jobs that need to be filled it's fairly middle ground

00:29:31.720 infrastructure fairly middle um you know i think energy policy at least the public is closer to the

00:29:39.240 middle there was uh what was it that uh biden did recently that's oh i think it's the the keystone

00:29:46.360 pipeline has a majority of public approval and he decided to go against the majority on that so

00:29:55.080 um all right let me show you where i'm at you want to see my uh situation here so i'm in bora bora and

00:30:03.960 uh that is in french polynesia i'll show you just the back of the bungalow here

00:30:14.040 so we've got this porch situation

00:30:18.280 yeah then so it's raining right now so i'm under a covered area and this is just about the most

00:30:27.960 beautiful place you'll ever see in your life and there are a bunch of these bungalows you see this

00:30:35.000 one behind me so the one i'm in is sort of similar to the one you see in the background there it's kind

00:30:42.440 of like that and so this morning uh i was i was tweeting this morning i'll give you an update on it

00:30:51.960 so every time i go to a hotel i have this problem which i call a sort of engineer

00:30:59.080 sort of engineering blindness that i have which is if i have a user interface or some kind of device

00:31:06.280 that i have to turn on and they don't build it right i can't figure out where the on button is

00:31:11.960 because they don't put it where i can find it it's like and my blindness is that if i know the button

00:31:17.880 should be in a place and it's not there i i'm literally blind to where else it is because it

00:31:23.560 shouldn't be there makes no sense but it's just you know a bias i bring to everything so this place

00:31:30.120 has all kinds of weird uh uh lighting uh i'll take you inside let's go inside you have to actually see

00:31:38.680 this to appreciate it

00:31:40.120 so you know in other countries to get all these weird situations a light switch so i'll just give

00:31:48.520 you a sample all right you see this panel what's all this business what what's this guy what is all

00:31:57.560 this what are these guys so you know none of this labeled so i'm like trying to trying to figure it all

00:32:03.240 out now and then you've got um let's see over here here's my favorite part see this this is if you

00:32:13.560 if you read it carefully you have to go way like really close i don't think you can see it but i think

00:32:20.200 it says uh main switch it's the main switch so now if you're designing this room and you put something

00:32:30.760 near the front door near the entry door and it was called the main switch what would you think that

00:32:37.080 did would you think it controlled all the lights because that's what i thought i thought oh my lights

00:32:43.480 are not coming on i'll just turn on the main switch but i turned on the main switch and it only turned on

00:32:50.200 my bathroom light and the light directly above christina's head in the bed where she was trying to

00:32:57.000 sleep and i thought that is not what i'd call a main light because keep in mind the other lights

00:33:03.320 didn't come on i couldn't even with the switches they didn't come on uh hours later six hours of of

00:33:10.600 sitting in the dark and texting the uh the front desk to tell me can you please tell me how to turn on

00:33:16.760 the lights and they say we'll send somebody right over and i said no no don't send anybody over

00:33:23.320 simply tell me where i could find the magic button because i know there's one in here there's a way to

00:33:31.080 turn on the lights in here i'll find that button just tell me where it is and they said well you know

00:33:37.080 get that master switch i'm like been there been there master switch not the answer and then they said

00:33:44.600 well what about the master switch in the bedroom and i said you have two master switches

00:33:51.800 is that a master switch for the bedroom separate from the master switch from the other nope they're

00:33:59.080 all master switches so apparently this was the whole place was uh wired by an electrician who just hated

00:34:05.720 people that's that's my best guess just an electrician who hated people

00:34:09.400 so here here's the outer room

00:34:28.200 see if i can clear that up for you does that help you see it or no nope so you probably can't see much

00:34:35.160 out that window but that's situation here so we uh we had to travel through tahiti so we stayed at a

00:34:43.320 place in tahiti for uh one night and doing anything in another country is just uh so hard to figure out

00:34:54.360 so christina uh wanted to do an errand before we flew over to borogora and uh we're told that tahiti is

00:35:02.280 so safe that it's perfectly safe for a woman to go you know off in a taxi do some errands and come back 0.99

00:35:09.240 to the hotel but there are so few taxis in tahiti i don't know why they don't have uber uber and there

00:35:17.080 are only a few taxis and they're so few that they go by their first name so if you want a taxi you ask for

00:35:24.520 diane or kathy those are the brands and when we got picked up at the airport the there was a chinese

00:35:33.560 woman who was the uh driver and she goes i'm diane diane and she kept telling me i'm diane if you need

00:35:41.080 a taxi call diane and i thought that's weird why do i really need to know her first name then i found

00:35:46.680 out the whole system you know when you see the business cards of all the taxis you can call it's

00:35:51.480 just the first names of several people who and it's not the real name she could tell you know her

00:35:56.280 name was not diane when she was born in china uh so so christina we managed to get a cab she takes one 0.69

00:36:06.600 to do her errand and then she can't get a taxi back she's got internet connection problems and it took us

00:36:13.560 it took hours to retrieve her and find a find a taxi and get it to her and all that but in the meantime

00:36:19.480 she comes back she finally gets back and she says uh you know gosh there are more people uh men in

00:36:26.120 cars like doing wolf whistles and you know catcalls and stuff i've never seen it this bad and so then

00:36:34.280 i'm i'm feeling bad because i feel like i should have gone with her because it didn't sound as safe

00:36:38.360 as i thought and i said well how bad was it she goes well i'm just walking down the street and you know

00:36:44.840 people men are like yelling at me from the cars and stuff and i go but how much are you talking about

00:36:54.360 two or three she goes no no way way way more than that i go are you telling me that in just the

00:37:02.680 hour or so that you were walking down the street that more than 10 people yelled at you from a car some

00:37:11.240 kind of sexual harassing thing she goes no no way more than 10. and i said give me a rough estimate 1.00

00:37:21.800 while you were walking down the street for one hour in a public place totally safe like a main highway

00:37:27.400 right not any kind of seedy place or anything how many how many people would you just roughly estimate

00:37:34.360 she said 50 to 100. her estimate was at least 50 separate cars often with multiple men so in one

00:37:47.960 hour she was she was cackled by 50 to 100 people i have no idea if that's some kind of weird cultural

00:37:58.200 thing or if it was just the christian effect because you know i'm not sure that's even so different if

00:38:03.720 she's walking around in miami or something but that was just crazy um how is that possible

00:38:15.320 i don't know she is the most beautiful woman in the world so uh there's that

00:38:21.320 in the in the comments uh i'm seeing people saying you're bragging you're bragging of course i am

00:38:30.760 um i told christina i was going to tell this story and then people would say

00:38:34.920 you're you're cleverly bragging and uh let me just say that your your insight is incredible

00:38:42.600 all right so i don't know if i'll be able to do coffee with scott adams tomorrow morning at the

00:38:52.520 appointed time i really i really thought i'd be there this morning but it did take me several

00:38:58.280 hours to figure out how to turn on the lights here not that i'm proud of it yeah all right um

00:39:08.120 i'm just looking at your comments for a second

00:39:15.800 and somebody says you seem stressed are you kidding i've never been so relaxed in my life

00:39:22.360 that just the first day here is the most relaxing thing i've ever felt there's something about the

00:39:27.960 temperature or the water i don't know what it is but you don't feel the same here that's for sure

00:39:38.120 uh so i'll be here until the 20 i think i'm returning on the 29th it's a i think it'll be

00:39:45.800 uh eight days actually here for a lot of travel

00:39:53.960 um

00:39:56.760 you like the color of the wood have you been swimming now we're gonna i got my trunks on now going

00:40:02.600 swimming in a moment yeah i'll be sunscreening like crazy all right got my i got nothing else to

00:40:09.480 say um by the way i'm coming to you on my phone using stream yard software stream yard lets me use

00:40:18.600 one device to send to both periscope and youtube and others um and it looks like it's working really

00:40:24.440 well so i'm actually pretty impressed with this i think i might end up using this going forward

00:40:32.600 oh you're you're listening to my book how to field almost everything good

00:40:40.040 sound is good i think what my problem with with the buzzing sound

00:40:44.520 is i use my laptop as a stand for my other device so i just put my other device on the laptop and i

00:40:51.800 think it's too many devices close to each other

00:40:59.320 um yes thank you for missing me cat but i will be

00:41:06.120 uh you only get you only get one vacation like this in your life

00:41:11.960 i expect

00:41:14.520 have a cocktail for you i just might

00:41:16.680 all right

00:41:20.200 all right i got nothing else to say so i'm gonna sign off now if i can figure out how

00:41:24.760 and i'll talk to you tomorrow

00:41:34.120 you

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 22, 2021

Episode 1259 Scott Adams： Belated Coffee

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