I went to get my vaccination yesterday, but it didn t work out so well. Here's what you should never do before you go to get your shot: look for the "end of the line" before you leave the house.
00:00:00.000Hey everybody, come on in. It's time. Time for Coffee with Scott Adams, the best part of your
00:00:09.960day. Every single time. Still alive. Yes, I'm still alive. I went to get my vaccination yesterday,
00:00:19.440but it didn't work out for me. I'll tell you about that in a minute. Now, what would you need to do
00:00:25.560to make this the best day ever? Well, part of it is having the simultaneous sip, and all you need is
00:00:31.220a cuppa mug or a glass of tankard, chalice of stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:00:37.160Fill it with your favorite liquid. Have I mentioned I like coffee? And join me now for the unparalleled
00:00:42.960pleasure of the dopamine the other day, the thing that makes everything better. Come on, come on,
00:00:46.340grab your cup. It's time. Now. Ah, I think we nailed the simultaneity at that time. Better than usual,
00:00:59.640really. Yes, so I'd say your day is getting off to a good start, isn't it? So yesterday, after weeks of
00:01:09.180waiting for my first vaccination shot, the closest place I could get one was about an hour away in
00:01:17.500heavy traffic. But I thought to myself, nothing will stop me. Nothing will stop me from driving an
00:01:24.980hour across town, getting that jab. I'm going to take the chance. And then I did something
00:01:31.480that you should never do before you go to get a vaccination. I'm going to give you a little bit
00:01:39.500of, dare I say, medical advice. And it goes like this. Before you leave the house to get your
00:01:47.640vaccination, don't do what I did. Don't be like me. Do not do this. Huh. I think I'll see what's on
00:01:57.060Twitter before I... Yes, the very last tweet I looked at before I walked out the door, by coincidence,
00:02:13.560was somebody who allegedly got the shot and dropped dead within hours. Now, given that tens of millions
00:02:21.580of people are getting these vaccinations and that they're being targeted primarily in the early days
00:02:28.040at the people most vulnerable, weren't there going to be a lot of people dropping dead after the
00:02:34.420vaccination, no matter what? Because a lot of people drop dead. And if millions of them are getting
00:02:41.080vaccinations, some of them are going to drop dead pretty soon after getting a vaccination. Doesn't
00:02:47.980necessarily mean the vaccination, did it? But if it's the last thing you see before you leave for
00:02:54.320your vaccination, your experience might go like mine. I drive an hour. I get there. And when I get
00:03:01.700there, it's a big fairgrounds parking lot with, you know, massive operation. And a guy waves me over
00:03:08.820and I drive up and he says to me, what county are you from? So I guess depending on your county,
00:03:16.700you got in a different line. And so I said, Alameda. He was standing right here. I mean,
00:03:22.320he was sort of this far away. And he said, but what county are you in? And I said, Alameda.
00:03:30.900And he looked at me and he said, but what county? And I looked at him and said, Alameda. And he
00:03:41.720looked at me and said, but what county? And I said, Alameda. And then he said, what's that line
00:03:52.500over there? Now, I don't know why that conversation happened that way. I just know that it did.
00:03:58.560And so I looked at the line and I said, whoa, there's a lot of cars in that line. So it was a
00:04:05.900line of cars. But I said, I don't know how long that line is, but I'll go to the end of it and see
00:04:12.160how it goes. So I pulled down the block to find the end of the line. And it turns out it continued
00:04:18.640around the corner. So I turned the corner and kept looking for the end of the line. And then it turned
00:04:24.940the corner again. And then I looked to the end of the line and I couldn't see it. The line for
00:04:32.940Alameda looked to be about two hours would be my guess, about two hours. And I didn't have gas
00:04:43.140in my car. And I can't go four hours without using a restroom because this looked like it was going to
00:04:50.180take a while. You know, plus you got to wait after you get it and stuff. So I turned around and went
00:04:54.220home. So will I be like that person who missed the flight and is glad he did? Or am I going to die
00:05:04.720because I didn't get the vaccination? One of those two things could happen or none of it will make any
00:05:10.580difference at all. That's also possible. But in my case, it didn't really make any difference if I
00:05:16.180got the vaccination unless Christina got it about the same time. And she's not eligible yet, being so
00:05:23.340young. I got to tell you, though, I wanted an extra week or two to just see what's coming out lately,
00:05:32.440because it feels like there's more stuff coming out lately. Kind of like another week or two to see.
00:05:39.000But I tried to make another reservation and I can't do it. So I'm eligible for it. But I can't
00:05:46.340find a way to get a vaccination in my county that I can actually do. So I'll try to work on that.
00:05:52.560But I don't know how dumb people do this. I honestly don't. How do dumb people just navigate
00:05:59.220this situation? I'm pretty smart. Got a lot of capabilities. I got computers and internet and all
00:06:07.100that. I can't figure out how to get a vaccination. Now you're going to say, Scott, Scott, Scott,
00:06:13.300I don't think this could be much easier. Look at this website. Follow the link. You just put in
00:06:20.340your town and you put in your eligibility and it just tells you where to get it. It's as simple as
00:06:25.240that. Well, don't you think I tried that? I tried that. Here's how that goes. Put in all your
00:06:32.580information. Put in some more information. Put in a little more information. Now about some more
00:06:38.400information. Now we'll tell you where you can get the vaccination. You can get it at CVS right down
00:06:45.520the street from you. Perfect. That's this is a good website. Gave it my information. It told me the
00:06:52.780store is right down the street. Bam. Click on the store. No vaccinations available at all. Not like in a
00:07:00.880long time. Just none. So go back, put in your information, pick another store. Finds out no
00:07:09.980vaccinations. So there's not actually even a website that helps you because you can find places that
00:07:15.460don't have it. In fact, it's literally a database of places you can't get it. That's it. It's literally
00:07:24.600a database where you put in all your information and it tells you all the places that you're not going
00:07:29.880to be able to get anything. Here's another place you can't get shit. Well, I'll put in a little more
00:07:34.320information. Oh, here's another place you can't get shit. That's very helpful. All right. I would like
00:07:41.740to predict the headline for next week. Are you ready for this? I made a lot of predictions. Some good,
00:07:51.120some bad. But this one I'm feeling good about. Are you ready? Seeing into the future now. Into the
00:07:59.340future. Everybody, please calm your thoughts. This helps me. Looking into the future. One week from
00:08:06.760now, headline on CNN and maybe other major news outlets will be experts concerned about a new
00:08:19.680wave of infections. There you go. Next week's headlines, experts are concerned about a new wave of
00:08:28.860infections. Anybody want to make a bet? Make a bet. Come on. Yeah, you're not going to bet against that,
00:08:37.740are you? Well, if I were to ask you, what would be the most perfect headline for a story? Something
00:08:46.140that when you read the headline, it doesn't make you unhappy. That would be good, right? Most of the
00:08:52.220headlines make you happy or unhappy. So you'd want a headline that was so perfect, it didn't make you
00:08:57.360unhappy. But it just made you think, oh, you know that feeling? Oh, here's the headline. This is a real
00:09:05.960headline. I'm not making this up. Elon Musk partner says he could build the real Jurassic Park
00:09:14.460with genetically engineered dinosaurs. That is what I wanted to hear today. Do you know what I wanted
00:09:22.720to hear when I woke up? Please, dear God, somebody tell me that they can make a Jurassic Park with
00:09:28.320genetically modified dinosaurs, which is, by the way, better than actual dinosaurs. The real Jurassic Park,
00:09:37.680the real one, the real movie Jurassic Park, they tried to revive actual dinosaurs, which I feel is
00:09:46.080sort of the loser way to do this. Once you've got your genetic engineering up and running and you can
00:09:51.760mate your genetic freaks, as Elon Musk's partner in, I guess, Neuralink, he says you could build a
00:10:01.420better dinosaur. Why would you build a traditional dinosaur when you could build like a turbo dinosaur
00:10:07.260with, you know, freaking lasers on its head or whatever it is. So I don't know what could make me
00:10:13.060happier. Nothing could make me happier than Elon Musk's partner, because you know he's smart, right? If it were
00:10:20.800just some dumb guy, you wouldn't care. But can't wait for that. On Joe Rogan's recent podcast in which he was
00:10:30.300talking with Dan Crenshaw, my name came up in a discussion of the simulation theory. And I wanted
00:10:39.680to add to add a little bit to that. The first thing I would like to note is that I can't remember another
00:10:46.680time when somebody mentioned my name in public without adding the Dilber guy.
00:10:52.760Something's happened in my life or career that my name can be mentioned in public without adding
00:11:01.180the Dilber guy, and people will still, you know, have a good chance of knowing what they're talking
00:11:06.320about. So one of the things Dan Crenshaw said is that whether or not the simulation theory is true
00:11:13.040or false or independent of its reality, what good is it? Like, what would it do for you? What would be
00:11:20.220the functional purpose of believing we're in a simulation? It's a good question, right? Because if it's just
00:11:27.060something that happens in your brain, and you don't make any different decisions, nothing's different.
00:11:33.460It's as if it's, you don't even need to talk about it, which is an interesting point. But I would, I would
00:11:40.460submit that a belief in the simulation, if you can call it belief, because it's more of a statistical risk
00:11:48.940management situation, in my opinion, that you would, I think you would act differently. And here's
00:11:55.860why. Let me give you an example. Do you know the story of the four minute mile? It used to be believed
00:12:01.980that no human could ever run a mile in less than four minutes. And everybody who tried failed. And
00:12:09.120then one day, somebody did it. One day, somebody broke the four minute mile. And as soon as one person
00:12:16.500did it, lots of people broke it. Was it Bob Hayes? Somebody's saying? You have the right
00:12:22.320name? I have allergies, not a cold. Somebody's asking me. And so after the four minute mile
00:12:31.920was broken, then other people broke it too. And the thinking, I'm not sure if this is true,
00:12:37.060it might have been there were just, just better training in those days. But the thinking was
00:12:42.200that it was a sort of a psychological barrier. Somebody says Roger Bannister. I'm seeing different
00:12:49.800names here. So I don't know who was giving me that other name. But it looks like, oh, now I'm seeing
00:12:56.960John Walker, Roger Bannister. It doesn't matter who it was. You can Google it. I'm seeing a lot of
00:13:04.060different names for that. That's interesting. But here's why I think it's important to think of
00:13:11.580your reality as a simulation. Number one, if we are a simulation, could we steer our reality?
00:13:20.460Meaning that could you influence your subjective reality more easily if you are a simulation than if
00:13:30.300it was something like a traditional reality where you're just, you know, you're subject to the laws
00:13:35.740of physics. But in a simulation, you wouldn't be. You would be in the sense that code is part of
00:13:42.240physics. But you would be able to do anything in a world in which software was your conscious
00:13:47.840experience. So the first thing is, could you use affirmations or any other technique to change your
00:13:55.800subjective reality, which is the only one you experience? So that's the first thing. And
00:14:01.640nextly, would you feel the same? Would your subjective experience of your life be different
00:14:09.840if you thought you were in a simulation? Well, one thing it would do is make you wonder if some people
00:14:15.760are NPCs, right? Now that might be bad, because you might think, well, they don't have souls or
00:14:21.580something like you do. But here's what I think is the most important part of thinking you're in a
00:14:30.600simulation. And that is prediction. I feel as if, if this is a simulation, that we would be able to
00:14:40.080predict some things. And I've made predictions before based on the simulation, and they happen
00:14:47.440freakishly consistently, which doesn't mean we're in a simulation. It's just an experience I have,
00:14:54.300right? It's not science. So let me give you an example. I have noticed a pattern in my life
00:15:01.740that my actual life plays like a video game, meaning that I get one problem after another
00:15:09.760in a very consistent schedule. The moment I solve any big problem in my life, see if this is true
00:15:17.940for you. The moment I solve any big problem, the new one queues up as soon as you celebrate it.
00:15:26.760Like it might be a few hours, but right after you solve a big problem, a new one takes its place.
00:15:32.840Have you ever noticed that? And you say to yourself, that can't be a coincidence. Because if problems
00:15:40.660came in randomly, sometimes you would have 15 problems. Sometimes you wouldn't have any. How
00:15:47.540long do you ever go without a new fairly substantial problem just showing up on your doorstep?
00:15:53.900It's just hours, right? Is it just me? So I've started to actually conceive of my actual life
00:16:04.600as a video game. And then I see, all right, how consistent is it to being programmed? A lot of
00:16:10.980people are saying yes in the comments. You're having the same experience. I'll tell you. So last night,
00:16:17.640Christine and I went out to dinner, finally can go out to dinner. And we're having this amazing
00:16:23.720dinner. We had, you know, incredible night. It was just wonderful. And we're sort of celebrating
00:16:30.620that, you know, one other of a million problems had just been defeated. So we're, and while we're
00:16:38.600celebrating, I said to her, you know, if this is a video game, which it feels like it is, then our new
00:16:45.240problem will arrive sometime tonight. Because you never wait long after one gets solved. And it did.
00:16:52.200It did. It did. It came right on schedule. Came out of nowhere. It was something I'd never even
00:16:58.180heard a hint of. Now, is it solvable? Yes, it is. Just like the last problem. It's a whole series of
00:17:06.180large, you know, large meaning you're really going to have to put some, put a little muscle into getting
00:17:12.520past it, but completely solvable. Somebody says I jinxed it. I'm not sure jinx is the thing. But
00:17:20.600when, when you see how, how consistent your challenges are, like scheduled, it just doesn't
00:17:29.660look like an accident. It looks like you entered a game. And you had a series of challenges and you're
00:17:36.260trying to accomplish something. You know, I told you before that, you know, my life is the strangest
00:17:41.620life you've ever seen. I mean, the, the, the number of times, well, let me ask you, you've, you've
00:17:47.620probably seen it yourself. Have you ever noticed how many times I'm at the center of national stories
00:17:54.440in the comments? I want to, I want to see if anybody else has noticed. Have you noticed how often
00:18:00.120it just feels like this weird coincidence, doesn't it? Just a weird coincidence that I'm
00:18:06.220at the middle of a whole bunch of national stories. Now, do I, do I say, Hey, there's a national
00:18:12.560story. I'm going to go get involved in that. Not really. Not really. I mean, I'm interested
00:18:19.860in a lot of things and I get involved in a lot of things, but I'm not pursuing that objective,
00:18:24.580but it does seem to happen. The number of times I turn on TV and there's some big story
00:18:31.200and it's somebody I just talked to, you know, somebody I just texted and now they're on TV
00:18:35.880in the middle of a national story all the time, almost every day or at least every week, I would
00:18:42.280say. So I can't explain that. My life seems to defy any statistical observation by a lot.
00:18:52.400All right. So that's the bottom line. If we're a video game and you tell yourself that you're
00:19:01.740playing against a bunch of tests and your reward is to get to the next level. And it feels like
00:19:07.840that's what my life feels like. I feel like I keep getting to the next level. And what that did was
00:19:14.500it removes your stress. Because if you think you live in a simulation that's a video game and you're
00:19:20.920trying to solve these little puzzles, you say, oh, this is a video game. I'll solve this little
00:19:25.280puzzle. That feels different than I have a gigantic problem. Oh, another gigantic problem.
00:19:32.260So if you're processing your experience as a bunch of gigantic problems, as opposed to a game that has
00:19:39.160a bunch of puzzles, how do you feel? Well, you feel a lot better if you think you're playing a game.
00:19:46.060And your experience will probably look just like you did. At least mine has.
00:19:52.840Check out Decentraland. Many of you have been suggesting that. So I think I probably will
00:20:00.240check that out. I'll Google it, I swear. Let's talk about the Floyd trial. If you read CNN's coverage,
00:20:08.080the prosecution ripped apart the defense, and it's all over because everybody that the prosecution
00:20:15.240talked to says there's no doubt about it. What Officer Chauvin-Shaven did killed George Floyd,
00:20:24.560and there's no doubt about it. So that's how CNN covers it. What do you think is the reality?
00:20:30.300Well, it's not what CNN says. That's for sure. Here's closer to the reality. Apparently yesterday
00:20:40.260was the day the prosecution got to show some evidence they hadn't shown before. And it's a
00:20:46.740day when the defense doesn't get as much, let's say, as much time and as much ability to introduce
00:20:55.220their own evidence. So basically it was the prosecution's day to present a case. And what
00:21:01.400do I tell you happens every time lawyers are involved and lawyer one presents a case? Is it convincing?
00:21:11.860Yes. Whichever lawyer is talking today is going to be convincing. So when Nelson was initially having
00:21:20.440his day, was he convincing? Yeah. Yeah, he was convincing. It looked like fentanyl was the problem,
00:21:28.500and that's the end of the story. He had experts, and the experts testified, and what else is there to
00:21:34.080say? Reasonable doubt all over the place. But then the prosecution talks. And the prosecution brings in
00:21:42.160its experts, and they apparently are experts. And those people say, nope, it's 100% clear, at least to
00:21:52.120these experts. The fentanyl had nothing to do with it, because they could look at the video, and they
00:21:57.560could determine the breathing pattern for the video, and they could know the timing of things, and there
00:22:03.480was a leg kick that means maybe your last gasp or something. And they looked at positions and angles,
00:22:11.380and they looked at some documents, and they concluded that there's no way that this was a fentanyl
00:22:18.660death, because his breathing wasn't consistent with a fentanyl death, etc. And so what do you think?
00:22:29.840So the prosecution just put on a case that had experts saying there was nothing here except the
00:22:36.260officer's actions, and they probably should have known better. Are we done?
00:22:41.380Are they convicted? No. It always looks like a slam dunk, you're done, no matter which lawyer talks.
00:22:50.100I've told you this 100 times. So whatever you're feeling about it today doesn't mean too much.
00:22:57.060Here are the facts that seem relevant to me at this point.
00:23:03.200We now have the autopsy that said the fentanyl level was high enough to kill him, but other experts who
00:23:13.220looked at video and other evidence and said, you know, probably wouldn't have, and that it didn't.
00:23:22.180So we have now a disagreement about whether fentanyl killed him or not.
00:23:25.560Now I think the autopsy or chief examiner or whatever is going to be talking today.
00:23:31.600So the side that says fentanyl was potentially, just potentially, a cause will be cross-examined, I believe.
00:23:41.100So today is going to be maybe the most important day, could be the most important day.
00:23:48.360But here's a point from legal insurrection, which is if you are the police officers and you are in the middle of doing what you're doing and the crowd is around you,
00:24:04.220you're distracted, Floyd is big and dangerous, or they could have thought, and he was just resisting arrest,
00:24:13.100and you've got all these variables going on, they didn't really have the same luxury or even training as the experts.
00:24:22.460So would it be important that the experts were sure the cops were doing something wrong,
00:24:30.000but the experts had all different information because they're watching it after the fact,
00:24:35.060and they can watch it in slow motion and different angles and everything.
00:24:38.460So what the experts had was the luxury of no distraction.
00:24:43.680They could just dig down and find out what's real, plus the luxury of being experts,
00:24:49.340which these police officers did not share this medical expertise.
00:24:53.760The police officers being blamed for their actions either intentionally killing him, which is not really the charge,
00:25:01.820but rather putting him in a situation where they should have known it was dangerous.
00:25:05.240I believe that the experts for the prosecution have proved in the following.
00:25:12.940If you were also an expert, and if you were not in the middle of the situation,
00:25:18.800and if you were not the police officer worried about the crowd,
00:25:22.440and if you did not have 15 things in your head trying to keep it going,
00:25:26.940and if you had been trained in a way that you weren't trained,
00:25:29.980you might have had the same opinion as the experts,
00:25:32.740meaning that you would have handled it differently.
00:25:35.240But there's no evidence been presented yet that the police officers had any training
00:25:43.200that would map to what the experts have.
00:25:46.820In other words, the experts kind of made a case that you'd have to be an expert