Episode 1372 Scott Adams: Pipeline Hackers, Tiger Loose in Houston, China Persuasion Game, More Fun
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Summary
Comedian Michael Che is being accused of cultural misappropriation, and Great Britain wants to pass a law that could ban wokeness from universities. Also, Mark Wilkinson's birthday is coming up, and Scott Adams talks about the dopamine hit of the day: the simultaneous sip.
Transcript
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If you're wondering, Scott, do you only own maybe two T-shirts?
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No, I bought a pile of T-shirts, many of them the same colors.
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So if you see me looking exactly the same, well, that's because I'm lazy.
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And I just buy piles of the same thing and then just wear them.
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However, you're here because you would like to enjoy the simultaneous sip with people all over the world.
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And all you need is a cup or mug or a glass of Tinker Chels, a steiner, a canteen, a jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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And I know that people all over the world are scurrying.
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Scurrying like happy little chipmunks to grab their vessels to join me now in the simultaneous sip.
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I don't know if it's your birthday, but I'm sure you have one this year.
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In my favorite category of the left eats itself,
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Michael Che, who is getting some trouble for cultural misappropriation or cultural appropriation.
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So, I guess Michael Che, who happens to be black, which is important to this story,
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is being accused of writing a skit in which somebody uses, there's a word for it,
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Now, of course, it was Elon Musk who was speaking the words,
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but it was actually written by a black guy who's getting in trouble for writing things
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So, when I say like a black guy, I mean he was writing it from knowledge.
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So, this reminds me of one of my favorite scenes on YouTube with Norm Macdonald.
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I've told you before, I got obsessed watching Norm Macdonald clips on YouTube.
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You can just line them up and watch one after another.
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And there's something much funnier if you watch all of his clips,
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because the thing that Norm Macdonald does, you know, he tells individual jokes,
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but there's always a larger joke that's just above the jokes.
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And if you don't see a lot of them, you don't get the larger context that the individual,
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But if you don't see that the real joke is the layer above the joke,
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And one of the clips that makes me laugh every time I see it
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is he was doing a weekend update when he was doing that for Saturday Night Live,
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And he does one of his jokes, and it's like super sexist.
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And the audience is like, whoa, I can't believe you said that.
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And then Norm says, well, that joke was written by a woman.
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He goes, now you don't know what the hell to do, do you?
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Now you don't know what the hell to do, do you?
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Because as soon as you realize that it wasn't him who wrote the joke,
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your head goes, ah, okay, now I don't know what to think.
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Great Britain is looking to pass some kind of law to cancel cancel culture.
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So it's actually a war on wokeness over there in Great Britain.
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So the idea is that people denied a platform by universities
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So if a university says you're the wrong kind of person
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So the example of Michael Che being almost cancelled
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literally passing a law against it like it's a crime.
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Like wokeness has achieved the level of criminal behavior.
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is that what percentage of people over, let's say, 70
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because that's basically the whole story, right?
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But again, that's going to be the older people.
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I said, how do you feel after the first vaccination?
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And the reason I asked is because I feel better.
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About a quarter of the people are more relieved.
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it's because you're afraid of the long-term effects.
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I don't think that anybody looks at the short-term risk
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Well, I just interacted with somebody on Twitter
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I'll just give you my risk management approach.
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which you can say something about the category,