Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1320 Scott Adams： Cancer Cures, Trump Wax Punching Bag, CRT Index Fund, A Hypnosis Trick for Mind Reading

00:00:00.000 you probably wondered where I was well I turned on the camera and I saw the preview and it turns

00:00:10.400 out my shirt was inside out and you don't want to go live to the world with your shirt inside out

00:00:19.740 and so I had to make you wait didn't want to see you do a didn't want you to have to watch the

00:00:26.380 wardrobe adjustment wardrobe failure well it looks like the weather forecast for my kitchen

00:00:33.100 is no rain yeah for the first time in two days the weather forecast inside my house in my kitchen

00:00:40.880 no rain spent the entire day yesterday trying to fix a sprinkler system leak and a lot of rain in

00:00:50.240 the kitchen let's just say but it's all fixed now so how would you like to enjoy the simultaneous sip

00:00:57.740 I know I know that's why you're here of course you'd like to enjoy it and all you'd need is a

00:01:04.460 cup or mug or glass a tank of chalice of time canteen jug of flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your

00:01:09.680 favorite liquid and I don't like that kitchen rainwater I like coffee join me now for the

00:01:16.380 dopamine the other day the thing makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and it's

00:01:22.020 going to excite people all over the world right now go

00:01:27.660 you want a little hypnosis trick I know you do here's a little trick

00:01:40.620 to make people listen to your points and this works in hypnosis but it can work in just communication

00:01:50.820 the amount you pause and the emphasis you put on things can be really really sticky meaning that

00:02:03.380 if you vary your voice just right people can't look away because they're going to wait for your next word

00:02:09.860 so I'll give you an example that if I were going to say for example that the best thing in the world was

00:02:17.180 spaghetti made you wait didn't I see how I made you wait one of the things about public speaking

00:02:27.220 is that time flows differently for the person who's speaking than for the audience and you have to

00:02:35.960 you have to understand that difference and compensate for it but that's another story

00:02:39.500 let's talk about the golden age which is upon us you know I was talking about the golden age almost

00:02:45.600 here and then the pandemic hit and people said Scott Scott Scott I don't think you've ever been more

00:02:52.740 wrong about the golden age because we got ourselves a pandemic instead to which I said what kind of a bad

00:03:01.500 optimist are you if you were a good optimist like me and like most of you you would say to yourself

00:03:10.880 sometimes you've got to reboot the system sometimes before you can build an impressive new building you have

00:03:17.540 to demolish the one that's there and the pandemic like some big reboot just made us rethink everything

00:03:24.320 try different things change our priorities and here's one of the side effects that may have come out of

00:03:33.420 the coronavirus pandemic apparently this mRNA vaccine is a platform which has a very good chance of working for 0.74

00:03:44.740 not only you know obviously this this virus but future viruses so our position against future pandemics might be way better than it was because of what happened this year but here's the fun part one of the scientists behind the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine says that the same technology has a good chance of working for cancer

00:04:11.740 and not only might it work for cancer but they might be able to make a vaccine that works on just your cancer a customized vaccine now we're not right knocking on the door of that but apparently there's nothing about the technology that tells you it can't be done which is to say it's looking at this point where it's more of an engineering problem where you've figured out the science-y part

00:04:41.560 but now you've got to experiment your way to making it useful and once you've got to experiment your way to making it useful and once you pass out of that pure science part and you get into I'll call it the engineering part you know that trial and error trying to get a light bulb that will last longer type of thing you just keep trying it we might we might we might

00:05:03.560 be entering the engineering phase for curing cancer now you didn't see that coming out of the pandemic did you have you noticed that even though Trump is out of the news he's just always in your head and he's like this filter and any news story you see at least if you've been talking about politics for the last several years like I have everything looks like a Trump story even when it isn't so here's a story about

00:05:33.540 LeBron James he gets some kind of an ankle injury and he's going to be out indefinitely and this is a pure sports story and when I read this story all I think is wow it seems like Trump critics have a lot of bad luck that's the first thing I thought and I thought wait a minute it's not just Trump critics that have bad luck I feel as though even Trump supporters have bad luck that if

00:06:03.520 if you care about Trump something bad is going to happen to you now of course you know it doesn't matter which way you care you hate him or you love him something bad will happen to you now of course this is just a psychological confirmation by his thing there's nothing to it statistically but because the news always calls out people who are famous for more than one thing and one of them is criticizing Trump it has this weird impression where

00:06:30.320 you're either you're either going to have a really good time you're either going to have a really good time like like Brady you know winning the Super Bowl or a really bad time like LeBron getting injured but somehow it's all about Trump but it isn't

00:06:43.320 also about LeBron apparently LeBron was asked if he's going to get the vaccination now keep in mind

00:06:51.140 that LeBron has voluntarily taken what I'd call a leadership position in society and for the the top athletes they almost can't avoid it right almost anything they do it just puts them in a position of you know what are you doing and then it's a leadership thing even if they didn't want that to be the case so LeBron has taken some leadership positions on the various wokeness items

00:07:21.140 so he's he's all in on the wokeness stuff but and like the hoaxes in particular so he he pushed the pretty sure he pushed the Charlottesville hoax so when it comes to hoaxes and wokeness he's all in on leadership but when they asked him if he wanted if he was going to get the vaccination he said he'd uh planning on keeping that decision private

00:07:45.140 he's planning on keeping his vaccination decision private now how much influence would LeBron James have on the black community who is hesitant to get the vaccination 0.87

00:07:58.860 somebody says that means no but I'll bet not if if you wanted to bet against me I would bet it means yes that he got it because remember there are a lot of people who think that's a dumb idea

00:08:11.140 so if you got the vaccination you wouldn't want to have to explain it all the time so it might be that it might be that not making a comment is the only way he can you know live his life because he doesn't want to have to be explaining this every day

00:08:27.000 so I can see that but I do question why he would not take leadership in the thing that saves lives but he would take leadership in the thing that he gets everything wrong

00:08:37.740 he can't tell the hoaxes from the real stuff and he's in the wokeness

00:08:42.140 so here's the problem with making your sports stars your leaders they're not really trained for that

00:08:50.580 you know if you ask me how smart is LeBron James I would say if you just based it on you know his ability to succeed so well at his sport

00:09:00.920 it's not all about physicality he must have some kind of genius that applies to you know his his chosen sport

00:09:09.880 and if you watch him play it does look like genius it's just a you know specialized kind

00:09:15.200 uh but he doesn't really have the exactly the right material for this kind of leadership and I think

00:09:22.720 that it shows in this case

00:09:23.820 here's a story that you're not hearing why is it that um the people who are most resistant to getting

00:09:35.220 the vaccinations are black americans and trump supporters where are all the stories saying you know

00:09:44.100 trump supporters and black americans sure have a lot in common

00:09:48.020 wouldn't you expect that that there's always that story you know about the um the strange bedfellows and

00:09:57.020 the the fish out of water and any any time two things that shouldn't be on the same team

00:10:02.120 you know if ted cruz tweets something about aoc that's you know on the same side which he's done

00:10:09.740 it's a national story right it's like wait a minute ted cruz can't be agreeing with aoc

00:10:15.680 that can't be happening but here one of the biggest stories in the world

00:10:20.580 is that trump supporters and black americans have very similar skepticism about the science and the

00:10:29.720 experts and i feel like i've been saying this for four years now that it seems to me that black

00:10:37.540 americans are natural republicans i know it seems weird but i i think i think the trend if you had to

00:10:46.980 project forward there'll be a lot more black conservatives because it works it works if you tell 1.00

00:10:54.400 you if you say i think i'll be a democrat let's say you're you're black you're american you're trying 0.98

00:11:00.420 to decide you know who you are in life etc if you decide that you're you know one of the democrats you

00:11:07.200 get thrown in with every other uh ethnic um gender situation and you're not very special you're just

00:11:16.600 another person who's a victim in some ways right but have you noticed that every it seems like every

00:11:25.220 black person who becomes a republican does really well you know they they get more attention because

00:11:33.160 it's a little more special get get a more you know it's more uh non non-standard you know a little

00:11:40.200 bit it's a little bit non-standard not a lot um so it just seems to me that the black population will 1.00

00:11:47.520 probably eventually figure out that the republicans are the ones who have better systems and and they're

00:11:54.920 just better off and they'll get more of what they need that way i told you that i was going to start a

00:12:01.680 thing which i haven't yet started except a little bit of defending the hard to defend

00:12:08.380 and i'm going to do this on tuesday i'll announce later who i'm defending but i'm going to i haven't

00:12:15.540 signed on yet to clubhouse but i'm planning to do that and by tuesday and i'll do a clubhouse in which

00:12:22.420 i'm going to defend a really hard to defend person all right and we'll let you know who it is later

00:12:29.160 now keep in mind that the whole point of the exercise the point of the exercise is to pick somebody

00:12:35.520 who's hard to defend right so i'm going to act like a defense attorney for somebody who maybe

00:12:42.140 doesn't have the same access to defend themselves now that doesn't mean i agree with them

00:12:47.940 hear that clearly doesn't mean i'm on their side although i might be you don't know it's just not

00:12:56.400 the point the point of it is to give somebody a voice so we'll do that on tuesday i'll give you

00:13:01.700 more information about that uh matthew mcconaughey says he's considering running for texas governor

00:13:08.400 says it's an honorable thing now i don't know if you've seen any video of matthew mcconaughey lately

00:13:16.820 but he seems to be transitioning to become a middle-aged woman and it's an interesting choice

00:13:24.340 because he was like the country's sexiest man i think a few years but he's decided at least

00:13:31.680 visually to take on um to take on the appearance of a middle-aged woman i don't know why but if you've 0.98

00:13:43.600 seen the videos you know what i'm talking about and he's a he's quite sincere

00:13:49.900 in a weird way um in the democrats eat their own jack pasavik was uh tweeting this morning

00:13:59.420 so you heard the story about alexi uh no i'm sorry yeah so uh alexi mccamond was going to work

00:14:10.360 at teen vogue but she got canceled because she said some uh anti-asian things i think so she gets 0.97

00:14:17.180 canceled but one of the people who canceled her another staffer at teen vogue turns out she used 1.00

00:14:23.440 the n-word more than once in tweets and now she's canceled so now the democrats have canceled one of

00:14:31.980 their own and then one of the cancelers of one of the cancelers of one of their own got canceled by

00:14:37.120 their own do they see the problem yet i don't think they do i don't think they do now i should

00:14:45.600 point out that this latest uh accused teen vogue staffer who used the n-word in her tweets if you

00:14:54.060 read the tweets it's pretty clear she's not using it in an insulting way or a racist way but does it

00:15:01.840 matter no indeed it looked like she was trying to use it in a in a way that was too familiar for

00:15:09.620 twitter if you know what i mean she said something that maybe she could have said to her friend and

00:15:14.740 gotten away with it but you don't say that on twitter in 2021 and expect not to get canceled

00:15:21.540 fox news has created a story out of pretending they don't understand how analogies work

00:15:30.780 how many times have you seen a story that depended on the person writing the story not knowing what an

00:15:37.920 analogy was or how they work so here's fox news their headline says about governor cuomo it says

00:15:45.180 cuomo threatened to compare a critic to a child rapist in the leaked audio that sounds pretty bad

00:15:52.040 doesn't it listen to that headline a governor governor cuomo threatened to compare one of his critics to a 0.97

00:15:59.160 child rapist that's pretty bad until you read the story and it goes like this so there were some

00:16:08.560 some democrats so that's his party but they were endorsing him but they were going to give him sort 0.97

00:16:15.160 of a tepid endorsement and say well he's not our first choice but he's better than a republican

00:16:20.900 and cuomo was arguing with this person on the phone and saying you know that's not good enough

00:16:27.240 we're both democrats essentially i'm paraphrasing and he was he uses this analogy

00:16:32.660 um to argue his point so cuomo allegedly said if you ever say well he's better than a republican 0.97

00:16:40.940 again then i'm going to say you're better than a child rapist how about that cuomo was heard telling 0.97

00:16:47.460 lipton on the call now that's just an analogy that's not a threat do you read this and think to 0.98

00:16:58.060 yourself that cuomo will actually go out and then just out of nothing he will start comparing this guy 0.81

00:17:05.360 to a child rapist in public for no reason that the public can understand did this look like a real

00:17:12.280 threat no this wasn't a threat it was an analogy the analogy is that that simply saying somebody's 0.51

00:17:23.680 better than a child rapist is saying they're not that good simply somebody saying somebody is better

00:17:30.740 than a republican if you happen to be a democrat is also not so good it was just an analogy 0.62

00:17:38.280 and and fox news reports it like he threatened him

00:17:42.220 what a slow news day um also fox news and i'm going to teach you a little hypnosis trick here again

00:17:51.120 there's something i learned in hypnosis um training years ago and my hypnosis instructor told me this was

00:18:00.120 true and i said i said there's no way that's true there's no way and i'm going to do the same thing to

00:18:06.920 you i'm going to tell you something that i think is true and you're going to say to yourself no that's

00:18:12.680 not true you might think it's true but that's confirmation bias that's not true but then you're

00:18:20.340 going to have the experience i had which is once your filter is set you're going to start to see it

00:18:25.160 everywhere and your confidence that this is not true is going to be eroded over time the same way

00:18:32.040 your mind was and it goes like this you can often it's not a hundred percent thing but often you can

00:18:38.320 tell people's inner thoughts by their accidental choice of words so if people use uh and i'll give

00:18:47.820 you the example that the hypnotists use so let's say you're going to date with somebody it's the first

00:18:53.960 date and you're wondering if they're interested in you and you're looking at your date and you use the

00:18:58.440 example of it's a guy trying to figure out if the woman is interested and it's before dinner and the

00:19:05.260 woman means to say i'm famished oh man i'm famished but there's a little uh slip of the tongue and she 1.00

00:19:13.960 says oh man i'm ravished i'm ravished

00:19:17.400 what that does is reveal that her inner thoughts were more sexual and that she's good to go because

00:19:25.940 ravished has more to do with sex than it does to do with eating so that it would not be an accidental

00:19:32.020 slip of the tongue it would be like a freudian slip if you will and it would mean something well i was

00:19:39.260 reminded of that when i was looking at this fox news uh article about jeffrey toobin and they used

00:19:48.040 the phrase pulled off at least three times cnn's chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin pulled off

00:19:55.660 a stunning upset on saturday in his first round they're talking about some you know troll tournament

00:20:02.160 about hacks and stuff story doesn't matter but they used the word pulled off i think two or three

00:20:08.300 times in this story yeah toobin pulled it off and now somebody says that it was intentional and i think

00:20:16.820 it might have been so it's possible that this was intentional and it was just somebody who thought

00:20:22.500 i wonder if they're going to notice this is funny just just stick it in there if it's intentional

00:20:27.240 that it's actually just funny and it's fine but and i'm not saying that this is an example of the

00:20:33.180 mind reading thing but it reminded me that um i've been using this technique forever and man does it work

00:20:41.140 it really works if you look for this accidental choice of words it's just like opening somebody's

00:20:47.820 brain up and reading it it works so well that you're going to be mad at me when you find out how

00:20:54.620 well it works and you didn't know that until now um i've asked the question why isn't there no list

00:21:01.440 public list of public companies who are doing critical race theory training wouldn't you like to

00:21:10.740 uh to uh to to to know what group so you could create maybe an index fund to either vet to either

00:21:18.720 invest in them or to invest in the other group now if there if you think the reason i brought this up

00:21:24.760 is to suggest that a company that was uh doing critical race theory training would have lower profits

00:21:32.740 um don't assume that they could have higher profits because you've got what i call the

00:21:39.260 in search of excellence um problem you know years ago the book in search of excellence um had as a

00:21:47.520 thesis i hope i'm not rep i hope i'm not misrepresenting this that the better you treated your

00:21:53.020 employees the more you could attract good employees and good employees are what make you successful

00:21:59.740 so that the the the really good treatment of your staff would be way to predict who's going to do

00:22:09.100 well now at the time when i was writing the dilbert comic as i still am i said to myself

00:22:14.260 that feels a little backwards to me that feels like backwards thinking because in my experience

00:22:21.660 the companies that could treat their their employees well were the ones that were already wildly

00:22:27.740 profitable so instead of treating company instead of treating employees well and that makes you

00:22:34.460 profitable it seemed obvious to me that companies who were rich had enough money to treat their

00:22:41.560 employees well and that's all it was um so in the in likewise and now it's a different situation but

00:22:51.020 you can see how i got there with the crt index fund it could be that only companies were doing so well

00:22:58.540 that they can they can start worrying about non-core functions it might be an indication of companies

00:23:06.780 that think they're doing so well that they can now you know worry about the the broader societal things

00:23:12.780 it might actually be an index fund that outperforms the the other possibility is that it would end up

00:23:20.700 being a bunch of companies that don't know what's important and then they would underperform it might tell

00:23:27.100 you there's something wrong with management or it might tell you there's something right with management

00:23:32.460 it might be it might be exactly the thing that makes them successful but wouldn't you like to know

00:23:38.060 um rasmussen reminds us that half of american voters do not believe that joe biden uh is in

00:24:04.780 charge of the presidency have we ever been in a situation where half of the country didn't know

00:24:09.820 who the president was because they couldn't tell if the guy who got elected actually is making the

00:24:14.780 decisions uh that's really different and shocking and on twitter somebody was noting that our system is so

00:24:23.980 good that you can elect somebody with dementia and mostly it keeps working i would say there have been

00:24:32.620 some mistakes but mostly it keeps working um did you see the story about the wax museum san antonio wax

00:24:40.220 museum they had to remove their uh trump wax figure and put it in storage because people kept punching it

00:24:48.700 i guess people kept punching the wax statue of trump and i've told you before that uh one of the best

00:24:56.140 business um things to understand is that you don't tell your customers what business you're in

00:25:03.740 you do on day one but eventually your customers tell you what business you're in

00:25:09.020 because they treat you like you that you're in that business even if you didn't want to be in that

00:25:12.700 business and so it seems to me that the customers at this wax museum were teaching the wax museum that

00:25:21.420 maybe they needed to be a different kind of business maybe they should be more in the

00:25:26.620 punching bag kind of business have you ever seen this punching bag that looks like a 0.92

00:25:32.620 an adult white male and you punch it but he's got a face that i don't know is it me 0.89

00:25:41.740 does that not look a little like a muscular trump with you know maybe a little bit different haircut 0.91

00:25:47.900 just a little bit so it seems to me that the wax museum should have gone into the punching bag

00:25:57.260 business make themselves a proper punching bag that'll take a punch and

00:26:04.940 just become a boxing business yeah now if i were trump i would be very tempted to create one of these

00:26:15.020 these punching bags as a fundraiser because would you buy well i don't know if trump supporters would

00:26:23.020 buy a punching bag but maybe his his haters would could he fund himself entirely by getting his haters

00:26:30.940 to buy expensive punching bags the trump punching bags trump punch anyway

00:26:40.060 um so even the new york times is saying that trump's leadership on vaccinations was not just a success but

00:26:49.980 a really big one and um compared to europe trump was the winner now here's here's how history is going to look at this

00:27:02.460 i think history is not going to be too clear on whether masks and keeping schools closed made as much

00:27:12.140 difference as people hoped but nobody's going to question that vaccines made a big difference

00:27:18.940 so it seems to me that history is going to judge that on the thing that we can't measure made much of a difference

00:27:25.980 and by the way there are plenty of people the experts still say masks make a difference so that the

00:27:32.540 the bulk of experts are still solidly on the pro-mask side but nonetheless it is true that when we try to look

00:27:39.420 at the data of how the masks worked in this pandemic it's not really clear is it like i'm still pro-mask

00:27:48.620 because i think it had to at least decrease the viral load given that we know how much you

00:27:54.460 are exposed to makes a difference in your outcomes i still think the odds that a mask makes some

00:28:01.260 difference in some cases is you know was worth the risk management but given the history won't be sure

00:28:08.300 about the masks but we will be very sure about vaccinations it's going to look like the thing

00:28:14.460 that trump did right may have saved millions because you know our leadership on vaccines certainly

00:28:22.940 affected the rest of the world trump might have saved millions how many did he kill to take the

00:28:30.540 critics perspective how many did trump kill by not being let's say serious enough about masks early on

00:28:39.260 we don't know don't know maybe some maybe a few maybe none it can't be measured we just don't know

00:28:51.020 so history is just gonna freaking love trump because he did one of the greatest things that's ever been

00:28:57.260 done now to be fair it could have gone wrong right it didn't have to work but it did and if you're a

00:29:05.580 leader and you guess right you do get credit and it looks like he guessed right and he did he's getting

00:29:11.740 credit it's an amazing thing but here's the question i asked what's happening with china and vaccinations

00:29:20.700 because why don't i know that is china as uh as aggressive vaccinating because they get a lot of 0.76

00:29:29.100 people how in the world can they get all their people vaccinated and here's the question i ask what

00:29:35.900 happens when the united states and europe gets all vaccinated but china isn't close to being 0.94

00:29:43.500 vaccinated doesn't that virus get back into china and doesn't china just get wiped out because they 0.69

00:29:51.100 don't have vaccinations i feel as if there's something i don't understand here can china continue 1.00

00:29:57.500 to live in a world where other countries are traveling because they've been vaccinated but china doesn't 1.00

00:30:04.060 let those people in their country is that what's going to happen because either china has to stay in 0.98

00:30:10.460 some kind of at least um international lockdown which i think there's somewhat internationally locked

00:30:16.540 down right they're either going to have to stay isolated or they're going to have another wave of

00:30:24.140 pandemic that doesn't hit the united states so i just have a question about that because if they

00:30:29.420 don't have another wave why not how could it not happen um and let me and let me just throw this in the

00:30:40.460 mix do you think that any intelligence agencies or countries are gaming this coronavirus for example do you

00:30:48.940 think that anybody took a bunch of live virus and you know just spread it in the city of the other or put

00:30:56.060 it on the doorknobs of the you know the parliament of some other country so all the all the people

00:31:03.100 would get it i feel as if there's a a non-zero chance that somebody's intelligence agency is using the

00:31:10.460 coronavirus for bad reasons and here's the question is there any country in the world that would get

00:31:16.540 vaccinated and be really mad at china that would have the ability to reinfect china just for revenge 1.00

00:31:26.940 now i don't think i don't think a proper government would do anything like that but there there were

00:31:32.780 the uh what was it the opium wars it wasn't that long ago so anything's possible um here's a question

00:31:43.260 i saw on twitter that has been bugging me a lot which is when we're watching the uh the crisis

00:31:51.100 on the border and the all the kids who are coming in unaccompanied we have to assume that the kids did

00:31:58.540 not make the deals with the cartels by themselves that is to say that the cartels no doubt dealt with

00:32:05.020 the parents and the parents said yes i will pay you to take my children across the border and then the

00:32:10.460 cartel delivers them to the border but doesn't that mean that every kid who comes into the united states

00:32:18.300 is known by a cartel member who also knows their parents and has access to the parents

00:32:27.100 doesn't that make tens of thousands of these migrant kids sort of have to do the bidding of 0.95

00:32:33.340 the cartel once they get into this country because the alternative is you know i know where your parents

00:32:40.620 live and there's nothing you can do about it i feel like we've we're letting in tens of thousands of

00:32:47.820 kids who can easily be blackmailed by the cartel that's not a story that's not a story

00:32:59.500 you know and of course obviously most of the tens of thousands could be just innocent children and

00:33:04.940 they go on with their life but you wouldn't need that many kids who are in the pockets of the cartels

00:33:11.580 to cause some trouble or at least participate in you know drug traffic or whatever

00:33:18.140 um so you know what what is the worst thing about succeeding the worst thing about succeeding is that

00:33:25.820 breeds failure the the one thing will guarantee your failure is succeeding and you see that everywhere

00:33:32.700 like if a company succeeds too much and it becomes known as this one thing it's too hard to change

00:33:38.300 to another thing and then they fail because of that one thing like polaroid cameras i use the example

00:33:44.540 but ron desantis has this problem now so he's considered a success story as a governor in florida

00:33:51.580 but because he's so successful where are the spring break crowds going to go where are people going to travel

00:33:59.020 if they if they're going to travel i feel like ron desantis is so successful

00:34:07.820 that it's going to cause people to come in and wreck their state with outside coronavirus so success breeds

00:34:15.900 failure and that's that's going to be ron desantis problem it's going to it's going to look like

00:34:22.780 his latest decision was not so good it still looks like his past decisions were pretty good

00:34:29.100 but this latest one to allow a spring break it's not going to look so good i think so um

00:34:38.380 not many spring breaks actually i don't know what that means

00:34:44.940 um

00:34:48.460 curfews are starting yeah in florida they're starting to arrest people and curfews and stuff but one thing

00:34:54.780 you can tell for sure is that young people do not care if old people die and i think that's really

00:35:01.020 clear that young people do not care about saving the lives of old people it's just not just not even

00:35:08.140 interesting to them and i can't say that i would have been any different at that age

00:35:13.020 um somebody says why young people are under virtually zero risk from the the virus is there

00:35:22.620 still somebody watching this a year into the pandemic who doesn't understand that young people can

00:35:28.460 spread the coronavirus because in the question somebody was acting like young people don't have

00:35:35.580 anything to do with anybody else you know if they don't get sick that's just their business but if

00:35:41.660 you don't understand that they can infect other people how could you have gone a year and not know

00:35:47.180 that somebody's saying we're at herd yeah i saw i saw an article today that some scientists are saying

00:35:53.660 we might be closer to herd than we think i wouldn't rule that out but i don't think that's credible yet

00:36:00.300 um but if the elderly are vaccinated what's the risk um low and that's that's why things are opening 0.61

00:36:12.620 up yeah between the fact that young people don't get it so much and old people are vaccinated we're

00:36:19.180 we're uh we're getting ready to fix this i was i was taking a walk yesterday and i'm walking all by

00:36:25.580 myself down the sidewalk and i see from a a great distance two other people one has a mask but it's

00:36:32.540 it's down and he's walking he's he's way ahead of me so he's nowhere near me and then there's a

00:36:37.820 bicyclist coming around the corner and is going to pass this other person now keep in mind there are no

00:36:44.380 other humans in visual sight because my neighborhood is you know not that many people only three of us in

00:36:52.780 the entire visual plane and i'm i'm completely out of their action the bicyclist is wearing a mask

00:37:05.100 i can't explain it how did we get to the point where a bicyclist is wearing a mask

00:37:11.020 biking where there are no people now the bicyclist is in sort of the middle of the road because there's

00:37:16.700 not even traffic there's not even people in cars so the bicyclist is pretty far from the guy on the

00:37:23.260 sidewalk who has his mask off and the guy on the sidewalk puts his mask on just for the moment that

00:37:31.580 the guy in the bicycle who is 20 feet away when he passes him in the road just so they have a mask on

00:37:37.980 when that guy goes by and i said to myself what's going on here because there's something happening

00:37:46.940 that is way beyond uh the virus there's like a psychological phenomenon here that i think will

00:37:53.820 be studied for studied for decades um and i think that yeah somebody's saying in the comments it's

00:38:01.260 virtue signaling that's exactly what it is but i and i find myself doing very similar things

00:38:07.740 which is i find myself giving people like way more space than they need if i'm passing them on

00:38:13.180 sidewalks and stuff and i feel that i'm also virtue signaling but there's a little bit more to that

00:38:20.700 a little bit more somebody says being polite yeah that's closer to it because what you don't know

00:38:27.340 is what the other person is thinking and there are people who are scared to death of the virus

00:38:35.100 so if i'm you know if i see somebody coming the other way who i think since i don't know could be

00:38:42.220 scared to death of getting the virus maybe they have comorbidities you know maybe they're just a

00:38:46.620 scared person um i would like to make them feel more comfortable so i might wear a mask where it doesn't

00:38:54.300 make any sense i might give them extra space where it doesn't make any sense so a lot of it is just

00:38:58.860 about making other people feel comfortable but there's another part of this that i don't know if

00:39:04.140 anybody's felt this yet but every time i see a stranger like you know from the distance they they

00:39:12.060 start giving me space before i'm even near them i feel like that stranger did something for me

00:39:19.020 because i don't think that they were giving space for themselves because nobody's really afraid

00:39:24.940 outdoors really they're just trying to be considerate to whoever they're walking past and i have seen

00:39:31.900 because of the covid distancing stuff more people have acted considerate to me in the past year

00:39:39.420 than all of my life put together i've never seen so many physical acts of consideration you know i i

00:39:49.660 will consider getting out of your way i will put on this mask for you i have to admit it's not all bad

00:39:57.580 you know i want the masks to go away as soon as possible just like all of you they're horrible

00:40:02.140 um i mean i had to wear a mask all day in my house yesterday because uh one of the people working

00:40:10.860 had a mask on and you know if if you let somebody in your house with a mask on you're going to wear a

00:40:16.140 mask right just consideration i didn't have to but was being polite um somebody says it is terrible you're

00:40:26.700 wrong no it's net terrible i'm not disagreeing with you that the masking is on average terrible i don't

00:40:35.340 we don't know yet exactly how much difference it made but i'm just saying that people have

00:40:40.860 demonstrated a willingness to be considerate to other people at a scale which we've never seen before

00:40:47.340 that's all and that's worth calling out

00:40:51.740 yeah it's it's my house so i could have done whatever i wanted but i want to be considerate

00:40:55.660 that's all um who's zao zao bae deng was mentally unable to memorize and resate the nuclear football

00:41:07.180 codes i don't know what you're talking about there's some story about dengs i guess i'll have to catch up

00:41:13.820 on that all right i don't have much else to say and so i will talk to you tomorrow bye for now

00:41:20.860 what a um mind your own business on the vaccines

00:41:33.820 joe biden

00:41:37.020 oh they're calling biden okay i got it

00:41:42.780 um no more mass talk yeah people get mad when i talk about masks

00:41:50.860 um i'm just looking at your comments have you ever hypnotized someone to do what you want

00:41:59.260 well that's what hypnosis i've hypnotized lots of people i would say it's to do what they want

00:42:07.500 that's how it works oh so so you're making a joke on joe biden's name and calling him

00:42:15.820 uh show by den dang so it sounds chinese i get it okay i get it now

00:42:23.500 what book or course on hypnosis do i recommend i don't i've never seen a good book on it or and

00:42:28.380 i'm not aware of any good course on it um

00:42:36.380 let's see are you listening to my persuasion book now good thanks

00:42:39.740 youtube is shadow banning me big time yeah my my youtube numbers are are way way down

00:42:48.700 and i'm gonna by the way i'm also on uh what's the name of it uh rumble so if you want to if you

00:42:58.140 want to watch on rumble you'd see it in replay um

00:43:01.500 can i hypnotize you to be happy to wear a mask i wish i wish i could oh my sprinkler broke in my

00:43:13.180 ceiling i've got a fire suppression sprinkler and it just got a little hole in it here's the weirdest

00:43:18.780 thing about the uh the fix of my sprinkler system so we open up open up the ceiling and you can see the

00:43:24.620 actual leak spraying out and it's spraying continuously so there's no doubt about where the

00:43:30.620 leak is so the guy comes in he removes that piece of pipe you know has to drain the pipes and turn off

00:43:36.700 the water and stuff and we take the pipe out where the leak was and he hands it to me he goes where's

00:43:42.220 the leak in this because i replaced the part you said had the leak but here's the tube i mean show

00:43:48.940 me where there's a hole in this because it wasn't where a joint was it was like right in the middle

00:43:54.060 of a length of tube and this thing is like this real thick pvc or some kind of pvc and there was

00:44:01.100 no hole in it there was nothing wrong with no crack no hole and we couldn't make it leak artificially

00:44:08.540 we put water in it we couldn't make it leak it was some kind of pvc and um but it stopped the problem

00:44:16.220 when he replaced it a micro hole yeah it was the uh the strangest thing well even with pressure

00:44:26.860 though you would still be able to see the hole wouldn't you because it's not that much water

00:44:31.260 pressure is it yeah i think it was a hairline fracture but we couldn't find it when we looked

00:44:36.940 at it it was which was weird all right that's all for now and i'll talk to you later

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 21, 2021

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