Episode 1403 Scott Adams: Bunnies and Chocolate Ice Cream Are the Decoy Topics For Today
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Summary
Scott Adams talks about transgender people, infrastructure, and the " simultaneous sip" and much, much more. The simultaneous sip is when two people have a conversation about the same topic and have completely different opinions about it, and they still agree on the same thing.
Transcript
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Hey, everybody. Come on in. You're just on time, and it's time for Coffee with Scott Adams.
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A lot of people are saying it's the best thing that's ever happened to them.
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I can't give you their names because they'd like to remain anonymous, but I'm telling you,
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anonymous people everywhere are saying that this is the best thing that's ever happened.
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But first, I'd like to talk about word thinking, because I want to get you all mad before we start.
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Here's a typical conversation between a potential transgender person and a typical conservative.
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I told you, you're going to get mad. It goes like this.
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Transgender says, you know, I know I was born with male body parts, but on the inside, in my mind, I feel that I'm really female.
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And I'd like the freedom to be able to live my internal life, you know, my mental truth.
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And that will take some changes on my external parts.
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I get what you're saying, that I was born with male body parts.
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But the part you can't see, the part that's in my head, thinks I'm female and always has.
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So I get your point, but I'd like to alter the exterior part to make it consistent with my interior thoughts.
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And the transgender says, yeah, we've been over this.
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On the outside, biologically, the stuff you can see, I'm definitely a man.
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But on the inside, the part you can't see, that's personal to me,
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I'd like to live consistent with my interior truth.
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It's just two people having a different conversation while imagining it's the same conversation.
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Somebody says, LOL, they never concede physical biology.
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The operation, its only point is because they concede the physical reality.
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Now, the question of who plays in what sports leagues is a completely separate question.
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And I think there's room for disagreement in that.
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But there's no disagreement about the fact that somebody has male parts or female parts when they're born.
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And we act as if there's somehow, that's a disagreement.
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Now that we've settled that, and you know that that's a fake debate,
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how about the simultaneous sip, if there's anybody left?
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And if you'd like to enjoy this to the maximum extent,
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all you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask,
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day,
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It's called the simultaneous sip, and you're going to savor it.
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Well, apparently there's a bipartisan group of senators,
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And these awesome people in the middle of the political spectrum
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Now, of course, they would have to sell their agreement to the wider body of Congress,
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but amazingly, 5 Dems and 5 Republicans came up with an agreement for an infrastructure package.
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Would you like to hear the details of what they came up with?
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It's not like anybody's going to implement this agreement.
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The whole reason that people disagree is for political reasons.
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hey, if we were to ignore the politics of this for a moment,
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what kind of agreement would we come up with that was just sort of good work for the public?
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Do you think AOC cares what these 10 people came up with?
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Now, Biden might care, because he is centrist by nature, I think.
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is that the bipartisan agreement means absolutely nothing in today's day and age.
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Suppose that Congress actually agreed on some version of this bipartisan package.
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Do you know why we've never done it this way before?
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Maybe you can think of some historical situation.
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I don't think this is really a thing you can do.
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Because the people involved are not trying to do what's right.
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They're trying to do what their side agrees with, etc.
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If there's anything I would like to be wrong about,
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because it's just a little bit too on the nose.
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So, I guess I'm a little on the fence on this one.
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says that he'd take a thousand more American hostages
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Now, I'm thinking he probably won't get elected.
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That doesn't really seem like a campaign promise
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Do you think that a candidate for president in Iran
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that somebody would have really said in public.
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So, I'm going to put a little asterisk next to this one
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Critical race theory being taught in our schools
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by taking their credibility completely out of the universe,
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It wasn't the way anybody would have wanted to do it.
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So, it's possible that this is what breaks the system
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and breaks the control of the teachers' unions,
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which they do effectively by controlling politics,
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Now, that education could include a trade skill.
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And so, I would like to make this following statement.
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you know that I like systems over goals, right?
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is to have everything equal and no racism, right?