Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1336 Scott Adams： How to Quit Coke and Other Junk Food, Virus News, and Updates

00:00:00.000 Well, well, well. Yeah, I'm a little bit late. A little bit late. You know, have you ever wondered

00:00:11.520 what would it be like to watch Coffee with Scott Adams if he had no time to prepare and had

00:00:20.700 literally just awakened 15 minutes earlier? What would that be like? Well, you're going to find

00:00:27.420 out. And if you'd like to enjoy it, and I know you would, I mean, why not? Why not enjoy it, right?

00:00:34.620 All you need is a cup or mug or glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask,

00:00:39.020 a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the

00:00:45.540 unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.

00:00:52.280 It's called the simultaneous sip. If you haven't tried it, oh, I feel sorry for you. Those of

00:00:57.400 you who have, get ready. It's happening now. Do you remember, some of you have been watching

00:01:09.180 me for a while, I once told you that if you take the Dale Carnegie course, one of the things

00:01:14.860 it teaches you is really, really valuable for some situations. One of those situations is

00:01:22.440 happening right now. And let me tell you a little bit of a story before I get into that.

00:01:31.200 Years ago, I was doing a book tour, going around the country, signing books for whatever book was

00:01:37.380 out. And I got to a Denver bookstore, one of the biggest ones in, I don't know, the country or

00:01:42.740 Denver, just some massive bookstore that had a room with a stadium audience and everything. I mean,

00:01:49.280 it was just a big bookstore. And I get there and the owner of the bookstore greets me and says,

00:01:54.040 all right, people have been waiting for two hours to see you. And I said, oh, that's great. And I

00:02:01.660 thought they meant to sign books. And they said, yeah, they can't wait to hear your speech. And I

00:02:06.460 said, what? Yeah, your speech that you're going to give in 10 minutes. They're really excited about it.

00:02:12.580 And I said, huh, I didn't know I was giving a speech in 10 minutes. No idea. I thought I was

00:02:20.480 just there to sign books. But apparently, the audience had already assembled. So there were,

00:02:25.840 I don't know, several hundred people in the room waiting to hear my speech, which didn't exist.

00:02:31.220 So my point is, if you take the Dale Carnegie course, they actually teach you how to be prepared

00:02:37.900 to always have a speech. So you can walk into these situations, as I did, I just gave a speech,

00:02:45.180 because you just always have one. Now, it's usually pieces of speeches, right? So you have

00:02:50.860 these little components that if you get in one of these situations, you can just take them off the

00:02:55.560 shelf. You say, okay, I'll take one of these, one of these, one of these, and I'll just put them

00:02:59.680 together on the fly, which is what I just did. So that story about the bookstore, some of you have

00:03:06.260 heard it before. And the point of it is, it's one of my shelf points. Always keep a few on the shelf.

00:03:13.760 So anytime you get a little situation like this, you go, oh, I'll introduce it by the Denver bookstore

00:03:20.700 story. And then I'll have a good momentum going, and then I'll find other pieces as I go.

00:03:27.600 So I'm going to give you today my first mandatory Twitter follow recommendation. You ready? Now,

00:03:38.420 when I say mandatory, I'm going to the next level. I'm taking it up. Because I've told you before,

00:03:44.380 there are some people you should follow. I'll probably mention them again. But there are a

00:03:48.420 number of people who are just way better to follow than other people, because they have some kind of

00:03:54.300 insight, or they're just good at tweeting or something. And I'm going to give you my first

00:03:59.620 ever mandatory follow. Meaning that if you follow me, I'm telling you, it's mandatory.

00:04:08.440 Glenn Greenwald. Now, if you don't already follow Glenn Greenwald, here's the first thing you need to

00:04:14.740 know. Has nothing to do with politics. He talks about politics. So his domain is politics. But that's

00:04:21.940 not the recommendation. He's one of the few people who every time he writes or tweets,

00:04:27.060 he can take the curtain of reality and just pushes it back. And then he's done. And then he brings it

00:04:33.800 back, you know, after you're done reading them. And then you have to live in that other artificial

00:04:37.540 world for a while. And then Glenn Greenwald says something, and he pulls the curtain back again,

00:04:43.200 and you can see the real world for a little bit. Now, usually, he's pulling back the curtain on

00:04:47.760 the media itself. So that you can see that you're living in an artificial world,

00:04:53.780 literally, that you've created an artificial, subjective world that you're living in.

00:04:59.820 And he's one of the people, and there aren't many of them, who don't live in that world.

00:05:04.880 I don't know why. I would love to know the history of what, you know, hallucinogenics he's ever tried in

00:05:11.440 his life, if any. I would love to know how he became who he is. Because somehow he lives outside

00:05:17.940 that world. And he can just pull the curtain back and look and show you. It's kind of amazing. So

00:05:24.740 he's a mandatory follow, because he shows you what's on the other side of the curtain. And you

00:05:31.060 don't get that from everybody. I'll give you other mandatories as we go along here. Here's a way to know

00:05:37.120 if you are dumb. A lot of you have been wondering, am I dumb? You ever have that thought? You know,

00:05:43.680 sometimes it might be the imposter effect. You're not really dumb, but you worry that you are compared

00:05:48.360 to other people. But one way to know you are dumb is if you hear an argument, and the first thing you

00:05:54.980 think is, oh, you love that person you're talking about. Why don't you just kiss them? Apparently,

00:06:02.600 you love them. Okay, if that's your response to an argument, you're kind of dumb. You're not really

00:06:12.280 ready for talking in public. Okay? If you say, oh, oh, Scott, you're defending, you're defending the

00:06:20.060 worst person. You're an apologist for the worst person. If you if that's your feeling, you're dumb.

00:06:28.460 Because you can't use for some reason, you can't separate an argument, which could be good or bad,

00:06:35.420 from the people who are making it. If you can't do that, you just probably shouldn't talk in public.

00:06:42.860 Maybe that's not for you. Okay? Have I set you up enough?

00:06:47.060 All right, let's talk about Matt Gaetz. Because I refuse to be limited by dumb people not

00:06:58.620 understanding that you can talk about people, you can talk about their situation, but you're not an

00:07:04.040 apologist defending people. You're just not that person, right? Can we do that? All right, I would

00:07:10.080 like to know that the people who follow me are smart enough to separate an argument from people. If you

00:07:16.160 can't do that, you're on the wrong live stream. So let's do that. As these stories go, and of course,

00:07:23.720 you all know the weird Matt Gaetz story, there's allegations of orgies with underage people with

00:07:30.500 no evidence that we've seen to suggest any of that's true. But the longer you wait, don't you

00:07:37.500 expect the evidence to come out? Big old story like this, you know, more and more evidence is coming

00:07:43.000 out. So it becomes a different story. The longer you wait, it starts as one thing. And now it's,

00:07:49.560 it's evolving. And it's so evolved to sort of a new thing. And that's, that's what I'm going to

00:07:56.600 describe right now. Number one, Matt Gaetz has said from the beginning that any allegations that he was

00:08:03.960 with a 70 year old are just completely false. It just doesn't exist. But he's gone further to say

00:08:19.620 that the accuser doesn't exist. That's pretty gutsy, isn't it? How many people accused of something like

00:08:28.080 this would go so far as to say, not only did I not do it, but the accuser doesn't exist?

00:08:37.480 Now, that's a pretty big claim. Later, if you find out that the accuser does exist,

00:08:44.880 you know, then there's a separate question of whether anything happened with that accuser,

00:08:48.520 similar to what was accused. But isn't that it? Is that an unusual claim? Don't you think?

00:08:56.280 Because if somebody knew that the accuser would exist, in other words, if Matt Gaetz knew the

00:09:02.300 person exists, wouldn't that be the worst defense to say that they don't even exist? Right? Unless

00:09:10.360 it's true. If you put yourself in that position, right? Now, we can't read his mind. Okay, so we're

00:09:17.300 not reading his mind. But put yourself in the position, you've been accused of something with an

00:09:22.600 underage person, 17. Would you say, if you knew you'd been accused of that, would you say,

00:09:30.200 no, we did not do that thing? I know who you're talking about, but certainly we didn't do that

00:09:35.260 thing. That's very different from saying nobody exists, that they just don't exist. That's really

00:09:42.700 different. I don't know that, like, you'd have to be pretty sure they don't exist, wouldn't you?

00:09:48.220 Because for sure, the simplest thing to prove is that a person exists.

00:09:54.640 Am I wrong? Is there anything easier to prove than that a person exists? He's really, it's

00:10:04.680 interesting, isn't it? Because what happens if they produce the person? He looks really, really bad.

00:10:11.760 Would he put himself in a position, and it's not, it's obvious that he's thought about it and planned

00:10:16.300 his defense, right? It's not like an off-the-cuff thing he said. He's saying this repeatedly and often,

00:10:22.100 the person doesn't exist. Now, if that person ends up existing, that's going to completely change

00:10:30.720 what I think about the situation, and for you too, I would think. But at the moment, every day that goes

00:10:36.640 by, when we don't hear that the person exists, and by the way, I don't think the person would be

00:10:42.560 still 17, right? A number of months have gone by since the accusations even began.

00:10:50.900 So statistically speaking, it seems deeply unlikely that there's still a minor involved,

00:10:56.220 at least today. It would be somebody over 18. So do you think that there is somebody deeply involved

00:11:02.720 in some kind of a secret investigation who doesn't want to be known at this point,

00:11:09.140 and the leaks don't produce that person? I don't know. There's something sketchy about the fact

00:11:15.020 that the longer you wait, you don't find out. Now, if tomorrow we hear the name of the person

00:11:20.960 and the person exists, change everything, right? I'm just saying that every day that goes by,

00:11:26.120 you have to say, I'm starting to wonder if this person exists. That's the reasonable question.

00:11:31.540 Here's the other part that I haven't heard anybody say. There's this weird element of it where apparently

00:11:39.120 the Gateses had involved the FBI before any of this broke. They had involved the FBI in what they

00:11:46.060 believed was an extortion attempt, all right? So here's the key point, that the Gates father and son

00:11:55.980 both believed that it was an extortion attempt, so much so that they got the law enforcement involved.

00:12:02.920 All right. Now, we've seen the documents. If you haven't seen them yet, they're in the news today.

00:12:07.700 We see the documents and emails going back and forth between the two attorney types who were proposing

00:12:15.060 to Gates Sr. that for $25 million, they could get this alleged, what would you call them, captive back

00:12:27.000 from Iran who may or may not exist, right? He may or may not be alive. We don't know. There's indication

00:12:33.120 he's not alive, but these two people said they had indication he was alive. You and I don't know.

00:12:38.220 So we don't know if that guy exists. But imagine you're the Gateses and people approach you and say,

00:12:45.520 for $25 million, we can maybe get this hostage back that you think might not even be real, okay?

00:12:55.040 You're saying to yourself, I'm not even sure there's a real guy alive that could be saved. And if he is,

00:13:02.200 why isn't the government doing it, right? So it's kind of sketchy, right? The government wouldn't do this?

00:13:08.220 Are you saying that there's nobody in the government of the United States who would be

00:13:12.720 interested in getting back this hostage? So right away, it's sketchy, right? Now, you could argue,

00:13:19.140 oh, the government tried or they don't care or they don't believe the story, but it's true. So you 0.99

00:13:24.700 could maybe, maybe come up with some stretch of a story that would say, yeah, this is the way to do it.

00:13:32.620 You wouldn't use the government. You would, you would make some deal with a private citizen.

00:13:38.380 I mean, it doesn't, it doesn't pass the sniff test, right? But, but it doesn't fail it so badly

00:13:44.740 that you could say it's impossible, right? It doesn't pass the sniff test, but it's not completely ruled

00:13:53.200 out. Okay. Now I looked at the documents, the emails back and forth. And the way it's, the way

00:14:01.120 it's presented is that, Hey, there's an extra benefit. If you help us out with this $25 million

00:14:07.200 that they called the loan, but I don't know if you would call it a loan because a loan is something

00:14:13.200 you expect to get repaid. I don't know if anybody expected that to be repaid. So let's, let's first say

00:14:19.440 that characterizing it as a loan is maybe a subjective call, even if there was some alleged

00:14:26.100 plan to repay it feels a little iffy to me. Now, when you looked at the documents, did you say to

00:14:33.740 yourself, there's an extortion thing? Because part of the offer was that they would try to lobby the

00:14:40.060 government to get Matt Gaetz cleared or pardoned, presidentially pardoned of some wrongdoings,

00:14:47.820 which were unspecific about whatever they heard about these sex crimes. Now, do you believe that

00:14:53.020 these two lawyers had enough weight that they could have done anything at all to get a pardon

00:14:59.160 from Matt Gaetz? Should he have done anything that so far we're not aware of? Right? So let me say it

00:15:05.560 again. There's no evidence of a specific anything. None, no evidence, right? To the public. We don't know

00:15:13.020 if anybody else has seen anything. But you and I have seen no evidence of a crime. Now imagine you're

00:15:18.320 the Gaetz's and you've got this offer that will help you, will help you get out of this alleged crime

00:15:25.880 if you help us with this alleged loan for a captive who is allegedly alive.

00:15:33.660 What do you do with that? Well, what the Gaetz's did is they went to law enforcement and they said,

00:15:40.560 this feels like extortion. All right? Now, let me ask you this. We're amateurs looking from the

00:15:48.900 outside, right? And we take the clues and car pay. Good to see you. That wasn't worth $20. You should

00:15:57.620 just text me. But thank you. What was I saying? I was just good to see you. Carpe. Carpe Dunctum

00:16:05.460 has just joined the show here. So we're looking at this situation and here's my question that I

00:16:13.440 haven't seen answered. What would cause the Gaetz's to think this was extortion? What would cause them

00:16:22.080 to think that? I think one thing that would certainly cause you to think that is, wait for

00:16:29.140 it, if you were Matt Gaetz and you knew for sure that you had not been involved in any sex crimes,

00:16:38.060 right? If you thought you had been involved in sexual crimes and these people said, we have a way to

00:16:47.940 maybe help you get out. Wouldn't you be a little bit interested in talking to them if you'd done the

00:16:54.400 crime? Because if you've done the crime and allegedly there's an investigation, you know there's witnesses

00:17:01.660 and you know there's real evidence and you know you're in real big trouble. You would at least listen

00:17:09.120 to the offer, wouldn't you? Yeah, you would. The only situation in which you would say, my God,

00:17:15.780 this looks like an obvious scam, is if you knew there was no crime. Thank you, Kevin.

00:17:26.760 Yeah. And I haven't seen anybody mention that. It seems to me that given that these documents and

00:17:34.700 the offer from the two lawyer people were, they were kind of sketchy, the way they handled it was as if

00:17:44.220 they didn't believe there was any crime. That's the way they handled it. That means something.

00:17:51.060 They didn't handle it as if, well, maybe there is a crime here. They handled it like no crime

00:17:56.240 existed. That's the way you'd handle it. This must be a scam because there's no crime. They're trying to

00:18:02.500 extort me over no crime. You go right to law enforcement. But suppose you had done the crime and you knew it.

00:18:10.480 Is the first thing you do to get law enforcement involved? I don't think so. It doesn't quite fit,

00:18:19.160 does it? So I would say the documents are quite exculpatory, but we are far from knowing the final

00:18:27.380 conclusion to any of this. I'm just going to say that the Gates situation is looking better for Gates

00:18:33.260 every day and worse for his accusers, but we'll keep watching this. Meanwhile, World War Three has

00:18:39.140 begun. I don't know if you've heard about this. World War Three is underway. And I'm not even kidding.

00:18:46.980 There's an actual world war that just started. Apparently, the way it's begun is that China has 1.00

00:18:53.000 started to capture Philippine fishing territory by just moving 220 fishing boats to fish, but they're

00:19:04.760 not exactly there to fish. They're really there as part of the military to occupy until they have so

00:19:11.680 much functional control of the sea that for all practical purposes, China owns it, which is what

00:19:19.220 they're doing to the entire South China Sea. It's hard to see that as not World War Three, 1.00

00:19:26.100 because they are literally conquering territory. It just happens to be ocean territory. And they're

00:19:31.160 doing it directly with assets. It's obvious. There's no question about it. It is World War Three.

00:19:38.220 They are absorbing enormous swaths of the earth and putting it under Chinese control. 1.00

00:19:46.160 Parts of the world that people think China doesn't control. Now, the thing that makes it 0.99

00:19:52.340 a little different than, say, a normal world war,

00:19:58.440 a little different, is that

00:20:02.500 China might need that ocean to feed its people in the future. So apparently it's very rich in fish,

00:20:11.400 and I don't think that they want to control it just for export. I think that China has a massive

00:20:17.280 problem feeding its people just because there are so many of them, and they probably need that fish 0.97

00:20:22.420 in the future. So it's not like a regular war of conquest. It might be a war of necessity,

00:20:28.500 and I don't know what historical precedent there is for a war of necessity or presumed advantage

00:20:36.220 slash necessity. It's a little different. But it's a similar strategy they're using that Russia 0.86

00:20:42.300 used in the Ukraine, where you send in, I guess the Russians sent in what were called the little 1.00

00:20:48.860 green men. So they were Russian soldiers, and they just took off their uniforms. And they just invaded

00:20:57.100 Ukraine and said, oh, no, we're not military. Are you kidding? No, look at me. I'm not even wearing a

00:21:04.120 uniform. How could I be Russian military? Until there are so many of them there, it becomes kind 0.96

00:21:09.920 of a fact on the ground that Russia controls some territory. So China's doing the same thing with

00:21:17.200 these fishing boats. They're just making it a fact that they own it over time. Let's talk about

00:21:22.220 Coca-Cola. Let me start by saying I oppose boycotts. I oppose boycotts. As soon as you go down that boycott

00:21:31.900 road, and you get re-boycotted, everybody's boycotting everybody, it's just better to let business be

00:21:39.860 business and let politics be politics. It's just better, right? It's better for all of us. Let's just not be

00:21:46.340 attacking companies. But sometimes, sometimes the company attacks you. That's not your fault, right?

00:21:56.400 Sometimes the company attacks you. Well, that's different. I would say don't boycott a company

00:22:03.500 just because they have some opinion or something. But if that company attacks you, well, you certainly

00:22:10.200 have a right to defend yourself. And so let's talk about Coke. So there are many conservatives who would

00:22:18.060 consider that Coke, Coca-Cola, the company has attacked them, in a way, by going after Georgia

00:22:25.160 for their voting ID laws, which conservatives would say are just common sense. And it's the same laws or

00:22:32.200 similar laws requiring an ID to vote similar to most countries, most places, nothing unusual about it.

00:22:38.860 So this is just an attack by a company on the system and on conservatives, basically.

00:22:46.780 So many conservatives have called for people to stop drinking Coca-Cola. Matt Walsh did a tweet,

00:22:54.840 which he summed it up well. I'll just read it. He said, Coca-Cola went from indoctrinating its

00:22:59.900 employees in critical race theory to fighting against Georgia's voter ID law. Is there any good reason

00:23:06.520 for any conservative to ever buy another Coke product again? We could cut them off out of our

00:23:12.860 life with no effort. Why shouldn't we? Now, here's my take on this. Quitting Diet Coke or Coke is really

00:23:23.560 hard. I know, because I had a 12 Diet Coke a day habit for, I don't know, 30 years or something. And I did

00:23:32.280 quit. But it was hard. And I'm going to tell you how. So I'm going to teach you how to stop your Diet Coke

00:23:40.580 habit or Coke habit, soda habit. And it's not hard if you do it right. If you do it wrong, it's pretty hard. And I'll

00:23:47.940 teach you how to do it right. And it goes like this. Don't quit anything else at the same time. It is such a strong

00:23:55.880 addiction. At least that's how I found it to be. Not addiction is the scientific term, but, you know,

00:24:01.080 functionally it's an addiction. That if you're trying to, let's say, improve your entire diet,

00:24:08.480 the same time you're quitting Diet Coke, that's a lot to ask of you. All right? You want to be hungry

00:24:13.600 and also not have a Diet Coke. Those are two really strong forces to be fighting at the same time.

00:24:20.720 So I say take two months, give yourself a break on the rest of your diet, you know, eat healthy food,

00:24:27.900 but don't obsess over it. And just do one thing. Just quit Diet Coke or Coke or soda. It doesn't have

00:24:36.200 to be the Coca-Cola company. Just sugary drinks. Just quit that. In two months, you will not only not

00:24:44.560 crave it, it will look like a chemical experiment, not even look like a food beverage.

00:24:50.520 In two months, the way you think of it will completely change just by not drinking it.

00:24:57.340 You don't have to do anything else. Just don't drink it for two months and you will think it's

00:25:02.460 crazy that anybody puts that in their body. It won't even look like a beverage. I look at a soda

00:25:09.740 now and I think, oh my God, I just feel sorry for anybody who drinks this stuff after drinking 12 sodas

00:25:16.680 a day for 30 years, right? So I'm the biggest hypocrite in the world. And that's what I'm telling

00:25:20.760 you. The moment you go two months without it, it doesn't look the same when you're done. Completely

00:25:26.700 changes what it is subjectively. So two months, don't do anything else hard. Just do that. And here's the

00:25:34.220 extra, extra benefit. You know, I like to find the benefit out of chaos, right? Whenever there's chaos,

00:25:41.220 there's advantage. Whenever there's tragedy, there's something, some little thing somebody

00:25:47.220 created to make money. And here's what the Coca-Cola company did for you. And you should thank them for

00:25:54.380 this. Coca-Cola just made it the easiest it's ever been to stop drinking soda because they pissed you

00:26:04.940 off. Use it. Use it. If you're pissed off, don't waste that. Do not waste a good anger. Employ it. Use it.

00:26:19.300 When that Diet Coke's looking at you saying, drink me, drink me. Use this anger and say,

00:26:27.320 I would love to drink you, you little freaking bastard. But I'm not because I hate you. I hate

00:26:34.520 you. Use it. The Coca-Cola company made, I think, a gigantic business mistake because they made it

00:26:44.920 easier for a third of the country to quit their product. And it's good for your health if you do.

00:26:51.500 Now, I'm just going to quote people who know more than I do to make that claim that it's good for

00:26:56.100 your health if you do. So do it. Take the good from this, which is they made it easy.

00:27:03.800 Dr. Nicole Sapphire tweeted on these sets of tweets. And she said, pandemic side, an unhealthy diet 0.87

00:27:11.560 that contributes to approximately 678,000 deaths each year with diabetes, heart disease, and obesity

00:27:20.000 making people vulnerable to COVID-19. And this number is much larger in 2020 because of the pandemic.

00:27:28.160 678,000 people a year dying from basically eating themselves to death. That's the comorbidity that puts

00:27:35.960 them in the vulnerable position. So let's get healthy. I want everybody who watches this live

00:27:43.620 stream to be healthier than the average. Just take the tips and put together a system that works

00:27:52.560 for you. All right, let's talk about the Floyd trial. So there was something interesting that came

00:27:58.340 out of that. You know, I've been telling you that the defense for a shaven, they'd be missing, 1.00

00:28:05.400 they'd be missing the most obvious play if they don't challenge the quality of video evidence.

00:28:13.460 All right. You want to, you want to challenge the idea that just because you think you saw it with

00:28:20.580 your own eyes on video, that doesn't mean anything because video lies. So the very, the point that video

00:28:27.560 lies and lies a lot and lies easily, it has to be communicated to the, to the jury. Because if the jury

00:28:35.340 sits there and thinks, well, it's on video, I saw it with my own eyes, it's over. So the defense,

00:28:42.060 I'm going to give them a, they get an A plus for the following move. Apparently they had some camera

00:28:48.880 angles in which it showed that a shaven's knee at some point, we don't know how often during the nine

00:28:57.160 minutes. We don't know how often this was, but at some point, shaven's knee was actually on the

00:29:03.880 shoulder blade above the neck. And it's very clear in the photos. But at other times, I think he was

00:29:10.580 on the neck. So the way that, I guess the way the lawyer introduced this was he asked one of the

00:29:18.420 experts, whoever was on stand, if he'd heard of a camera angle bias. Have you ever heard of camera

00:29:25.140 angle bias? And I think the witness said no. And then he showed him two photos side by side,

00:29:32.980 one, the one you've probably seen that looks exactly like the knee is on his neck. And then

00:29:38.040 another camera angle of the same thing where it looks like it's on maybe further back on his shoulder

00:29:44.000 blade. And apparently they time stamped it. So you can tell it's the same time. Now, imagine you're

00:29:51.260 in the jury. The entire time you've been watching these videos, so because you've seen them as part of

00:29:57.860 the trial, the entire time all you saw, all you saw was a knee on the neck. And now the defense says,

00:30:06.200 okay, here's a different angle. It's not on the neck. Now you might say to yourself, but Scott,

00:30:13.080 that doesn't matter. Because he took his, he just took it off at one point, put it back on.

00:30:18.580 It's not really relevant to anything. To which I would say it is relevant to intent. The entire

00:30:25.000 argument is that, you know, he intentionally put Floyd in a dangerous situation, not intentionally

00:30:33.200 killed him. Intentionally killed him, I think is a higher charge, but intentionally put him in a

00:30:37.700 dangerous situation. Where if he took his knee off every now and then, that would suggest he was

00:30:43.340 trying to mitigate the danger, right? That he was aware of a situation that was trying to not kill him.

00:30:50.140 Because sometimes he took his knee off the neck. But I think there's other evidence that suggests that

00:30:54.840 might have been after he'd already passed out. So he might have been dead by then. Don't know that part.

00:30:59.500 So the only thing I'll say is, I don't know if the evidence makes the point the defense wanted to

00:31:04.420 make, because of the timing. It might have been too late when the knee was off. But it's a really

00:31:09.620 good play in terms of persuasion. Because the persuasion of it is that the jury just learned that

00:31:17.120 they can't trust their own eyes. Regardless of the timing of when the knee was on the neck or the

00:31:23.540 shoulder, the lesson is the same. You can't tell by looking at it. That's really

00:31:29.420 good defense. That's really good. We'll see what happens. Again, for the people who are watching

00:31:38.820 this, I don't defend Shaven. I don't defend Matt Gaetz. We just talk about the persuasion element of it

00:31:47.160 and see if we can learn anything. Carl Bergstrom, who often tweets about the virus and statistical

00:31:56.880 truths about it, is warning us that we're misinterpreting, we being the public,

00:32:06.820 excuse me, that we're misinterpreting what it means to reach herd immunity. And specifically,

00:32:16.780 specifically, that herd immunity doesn't mean that we're past all the trouble and that the virus goes

00:32:25.080 away. So herd immunity, you should understand, is not the point when you don't have any more virus or

00:32:30.840 more deaths. Herd immunity is when it doesn't go as fast. In other words, it's not another pandemic

00:32:39.320 peak coming. But the baseline infections could just go forever. I mean, you could just have new babies

00:32:46.940 being born and being infected forever. So if you think that getting to herd immunity means, oh, we're

00:32:54.640 done, throw away the masks, stop the social distancing, unfortunately, it might not mean that.

00:33:01.480 Now, I'm not telling you that we're going to wear masks forever. I don't think we will.

00:33:05.240 But we, the cough has to be a technique, somebody says. Nope, just woke up. And I got a little

00:33:15.280 allergies at the moment. So here's what I would add to this. I'm less concerned because the weirdness

00:33:26.500 of this virus is that we might be able to vaccinate basically 100% of the people who would die.

00:33:32.220 So if the, it's not a dry cough, don't worry. I don't have COVID. So I'm going to disagree with

00:33:42.920 Carl Bergstrom, even though he's about 100 times smarter than I am on the topic I'm disagreeing. And

00:33:48.900 the only thing I'm going to add is that I think this virus is not like any other virus, because you

00:33:54.100 actually could, you could vaccinate 100% of the people who might die from it. Nothing would stop you

00:34:00.720 from doing that. All right. So what happens if 100% of the people who are vulnerable, or something

00:34:06.280 like it, get vaccinated? Do you care if the rest of the people get it? I don't know. I don't know if

00:34:13.300 you care. Now you got the long haul problem, but isn't the long haul problem probably, you know,

00:34:20.620 even that people seem to get over it. It's just a really bad problem for several months.

00:34:25.060 Elon Musk said he will not take the vaccine. Interesting. I should tell you that I have

00:34:32.900 scheduled myself to take the vaccine. I've been telling you that I wouldn't make a decision until

00:34:37.940 I had to, until it was available, because I'd get all the information I could. And I've decided that

00:34:44.340 given my age, that I'm going to take it. If I were Elon Musk's age, I don't know. I might think

00:34:54.400 differently, but I'm not. So I'm going to call this early today, because I'm going to go do some

00:35:02.500 other things, and my allergies are killing me. So I'm not that old, but I've got asthma. You know,

00:35:09.680 don't take a chance. And I will talk to you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 06, 2021

Episode 1336 Scott Adams： How to Quit Coke and Other Junk Food, Virus News, and Updates

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