Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1404 Scott Adams： A Sip Before I Travel

00:00:00.600 Well, well, well, what a day today is going to be.

00:00:04.880 Let me tell you about my day before we get to the simultaneous sip.

00:00:09.400 You may have heard that I plan to take a vacation today.

00:00:14.840 I might, but I don't know yet if I'm going to go on the vacation of a lifetime

00:00:21.300 in about an hour and a half, or I'm not.

00:00:26.760 But here's my problem.

00:00:30.760 So my destination, just so you know, is Santorini, Greece.

00:00:35.780 Little island off of Greece.

00:00:38.420 Very expensive.

00:00:40.460 Like, insanely expensive.

00:00:42.540 So expensive, I would only do this once in my life.

00:00:46.360 Probably would never spend this much money on another vacation.

00:00:50.340 Just once.

00:00:51.960 I wanted to spend some Dilber money. 0.73

00:00:54.400 It's a prepaid vacation.

00:00:56.760 So the money's already spent, whether I go or not.

00:01:00.860 And the good news about Greece is that they allow you to go in if you've had your second 0.99

00:01:06.440 vaccination.

00:01:07.680 You don't need to wait the two weeks after the second vaccination, which is good, because

00:01:13.120 it's only about 12 days since my second vaccination.

00:01:16.300 So no problem at all flying from the United States into Greece if you're fully vaccinated.

00:01:25.280 But yesterday afternoon, I ran into a little wrinkle.

00:01:30.320 Turns out that we have a three and a half hour layover in Germany.

00:01:34.740 And Germany doesn't let you in until you've got two weeks, two days short.

00:01:45.040 Can't even fill out the paperwork to get on the plane.

00:01:47.500 So as of right now, I don't know if I'm going to Greece on the trip of a lifetime that I would leave

00:01:58.220 right after this broadcast.

00:02:00.520 So yesterday afternoon, Christina finds the last place in San Francisco that's available to give you a test and a result, a COVID test,

00:02:11.200 because the alternative is you've got to get a COVID test.

00:02:13.700 So if I could get a COVID test and a result that's negative prior to getting on the flight, I can go.

00:02:25.760 I won't be able to know the result of the test for two more hours, which is about when the car service leaves to pick me up.

00:02:37.380 So one of two things is going to happen by 9 a.m. this morning, my time.

00:02:41.520 I will either unpack all of my bags and watch Christina go on the trip of a lifetime, because she might as well go.

00:02:52.160 If I could go or not, it's already prepaid.

00:02:55.560 She might as well go.

00:02:57.700 But I will either unpack my bags or go on the trip of a lifetime that I've already paid for.

00:03:06.600 No, I'm not taking a private jet, but it's a hell of a flight.

00:03:11.520 So I sped to San Francisco, defying possibly some speeding limits, got my test taken.

00:03:21.440 And if it's not a false positive, think about this.

00:03:26.220 If it's a false positive, which is probably the only thing it could be, because I'm pretty well vaccinated.

00:03:31.520 If it's a false positive, I don't get to go.

00:03:37.880 And that's a pretty good possibility.

00:03:40.880 If they lose it, or they have a typo on it, I don't get to go.

00:03:46.560 If it's late, I don't get to go.

00:03:51.660 If they forgot to send it into the lab last night, I don't get to go.

00:03:56.660 So I don't know if I'm going on the trip of a lifetime, but I might.

00:04:01.480 In the meantime, let's see if we can enjoy ourselves with a simultaneous sip.

00:04:05.480 All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice's time, a canteen jug of glass, a vessel of any kind.

00:04:11.040 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:04:13.660 I like coffee.

00:04:15.040 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hither day, the thing that makes everything better.

00:04:21.200 It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.

00:04:23.640 Go! 0.95

00:04:27.740 Ah!

00:04:29.880 Want to hear a weird coincidence?

00:04:32.160 So I mentioned on my livestream that I have a trip upcoming, but I didn't say anything about it.

00:04:37.860 I didn't say it was overseas.

00:04:39.880 I just said I had a trip coming.

00:04:41.800 I get a message from Dr. Drew, who I've known for some time through the Internet and interviews on his show, etc.

00:04:50.460 And Dr. Drew said, where are you going?

00:04:53.580 Because I have a feeling we're going to the same place.

00:04:56.780 Now, how weird is that, right?

00:04:59.120 What are the odds that out of the entire planet that he and I would be going to the same place at the same time?

00:05:08.120 It was an even weird question, right?

00:05:10.100 Like, why would he even ask?

00:05:11.440 So I told him where I was going, and it turns out we'll be within walking distance.

00:05:19.780 So we're probably going to get together and have lunch.

00:05:22.920 That's right.

00:05:23.460 We're going to the same frickin' place on the other side of the planet, within walking distance.

00:05:30.820 And he guessed that with no clues.

00:05:35.120 What is going on?

00:05:36.280 How do you guess that with no clues, other than I have a vacation planned?

00:05:42.700 Not only that, but if I get on the flight, it's going to be the same flight, I think.

00:05:47.680 Or at least the flight from Germany might be the same.

00:05:51.780 So that's what's going on.

00:05:54.020 Let's talk about the news.

00:05:55.620 There was a diver off of Cape Cod who was swallowed by a whale and then spit out.

00:06:03.380 You know, I have to tell you that my own religious training went off the rails when I heard about Jonah and the whale.

00:06:14.220 When I heard the Bible story about Jonah being swallowed by a big fish and then spit out some days later perfectly fine, 0.71

00:06:22.320 I said to myself, you know, I'm not sure I can buy into this religion.

00:06:26.820 And that was sort of the breaking point for me, was the Jonah story.

00:06:30.120 But I think I'm going to have to reassess my entire religious upbringing because there was an actual diver who was swallowed by a whale.

00:06:41.660 And then the whale spit him out.

00:06:43.980 Now, technically, he wasn't in the whale's stomach, but he was completely within the whale's mouth.

00:06:50.040 I guess the whale was doing this lunge feeding, it's called, where they just open their mouth and go through a bunch of stuff

00:06:55.840 and just eat everything that's in the way.

00:06:57.980 He happened to be in the way.

00:06:59.000 Anyway, so he had his scuba, not scuba, but diving gear on, so he could still breathe while he was in the whale's mouth for about 30 seconds.

00:07:09.480 And the whale breached and spit him out, and he was like, blah, blah, blah.

00:07:13.520 And next thing you know, he was a little shaken but not stirred.

00:07:18.600 So I don't know if he was praying when he was in there, but maybe a giant fish can eat a person and spit him out fine.

00:07:26.440 I don't know.

00:07:26.800 So NASA is testing an electric plane.

00:07:31.560 Why?

00:07:32.540 I don't really know.

00:07:33.780 Why does NASA have anything to do with commercial flight? 0.99

00:07:37.520 But I guess they do, because they're testing their own electric airplane for use on Earth as part of developing standards for commercial aircraft.

00:07:48.720 So this is sort of a big deal, because airplanes are going to be electric.

00:07:54.640 And all those airplanes that you hated, that are the same technology for 30 years, maybe, maybe we can get a new kind of air travel that's not horrible.

00:08:06.260 I'm going to spend, maybe, 18 hours on a plane today, or unpacking and staying home.

00:08:12.620 Well, one of those two things is going to happen.

00:08:16.360 But I would sure like to have a better way to fly.

00:08:19.480 Maybe these electric planes will be a way to re-energize the fleets. 0.99

00:08:24.320 So Bill Maher is getting a lot of criticism for being open-minded and not taking a side and just arguing that side, no matter how stupid it is. 0.98

00:08:35.100 And he's arguing that progressives have something called progressophobia. 0.99

00:08:41.520 I think Steven Pinker came up with that. 0.99

00:08:44.840 But it's if you think things are worse now, like more racist or more sexist now, than they have been in the past, you probably have a mental problem. 0.96

00:08:55.060 Because everything is better now. 0.58

00:08:59.840 There's nothing that's worse.

00:09:01.180 Because literally everything in that social realm is better.

00:09:05.620 There's no exceptions. 0.99

00:09:07.200 And if you think it's getting worse instead of better, you probably have a mental problem. 0.86

00:09:13.040 Bill Maher also blasts Biden's idea of free college.

00:09:18.100 Because he points out rightly, wait a minute, why should people who don't go to college, or can't, pay for people who do?

00:09:26.880 Especially when those people may be partying more than studying.

00:09:30.280 How does that make sense?

00:09:33.380 Perfectly fair point.

00:09:35.880 So Bill Maher is becoming a Republican, whether he likes it or not.

00:09:39.420 That's my interpretation, not his, of course.

00:09:42.680 Now, I think he would be more likely to say that he's just looking at the issues.

00:09:47.700 And I think that's fair to say.

00:09:48.640 I've told you about the Ivermectin saga.

00:09:53.460 And Brett Weinstein had Dr. Pierre Corian and did a podcast, Dark Horse podcast.

00:10:01.540 And it's been banned from YouTube.

00:10:04.000 So YouTube has decided that that conversation between a legitimate medical doctor, who has a legitimate opinion, could be right, could be wrong, but he's a qualified person talking in public, exercising freedom of speech.

00:10:21.060 But that was removed from YouTube for allegedly violating their community guidelines against, quote, spam, deceptive practices, and scams.

00:10:31.460 Which one?

00:10:34.640 It was the discussion of Ivermectin.

00:10:37.800 Talking about the risk-reward of a particular drug, which everybody agrees has not gone through the gold standard test.

00:10:49.300 And everybody understands that we'd like that.

00:10:52.520 That would be way better than anything else.

00:10:55.560 But everybody also agrees that there's plenty of studies of lower quality, which, by and large, by a great majority, seem to point in one direction.

00:11:05.200 Now, you can't talk about that without violating a rule against spam.

00:11:11.820 Well, it wasn't spam.

00:11:13.640 Deceptive practices?

00:11:15.080 What was the deceptive practice?

00:11:19.080 Talking in public and showing your work?

00:11:21.840 Is that a deceptive practice?

00:11:24.160 No, it's not even close to that.

00:11:26.100 Is it a scam?

00:11:28.140 No.

00:11:29.280 Nobody talking on this podcast had a financial interest in Ivermectin.

00:11:34.480 They were talking about it.

00:11:37.620 What exactly was the guideline that they violated?

00:11:40.340 Well, apparently it's still up on, I think, Spotify and probably Apple's podcast.

00:11:48.120 So you can still hear the audio of it.

00:11:50.060 But YouTube's decided that we can't have that.

00:11:53.960 Now, I will tell you that there are also professionals who say Ivermectin, the science proves it doesn't work.

00:12:02.620 So just be aware that there are people with equal qualifications who say, no, it's been proven it doesn't work.

00:12:10.740 We have everything we need to know it doesn't work.

00:12:13.680 At the same time, other professionals, also very qualified, saying, oh, yeah, it's totally proven.

00:12:20.400 I mean, effectively proven because the weight of evidence is so strong.

00:12:25.140 So that's your experts for you.

00:12:26.960 They can't really help you on this one.

00:12:28.840 Hey, how about that Arizona audit?

00:12:30.340 I keep telling you that if you don't hear anything from it, anything important, there's probably nothing there.

00:12:37.780 Because by now they would know if a problem was going to happen.

00:12:41.960 Apparently the results are going to come out in less than 10 days.

00:12:45.240 But we would know by now, right?

00:12:48.300 They don't have to count every single vote to know that there's a problem.

00:12:52.840 They would catch that early on if it's a big problem.

00:12:56.640 It would be obvious early.

00:12:57.700 You wouldn't have to wait till the end.

00:13:00.340 And so I asked the question about that on Twitter.

00:13:04.220 And Josh Barnett, who's I guess he's run for Congress in Arizona.

00:13:08.200 So he's connected to the Republicans in Arizona, it sounds like.

00:13:13.020 And he seems to have some kind of an inside knowledge of what's going on over there.

00:13:17.020 And I asked the question, is it more than a chain of custody problem?

00:13:22.540 Because there is some suggestion that some of the mail-in ballots were not documented in their chain of custody.

00:13:31.760 So that you wouldn't know if anything happened in between the time that they were received and the time they were counted.

00:13:36.360 But that wouldn't change the result.

00:13:40.380 Even if it turns out that there's a chain of custody problem, it's not going to overthrow the election.

00:13:46.980 They're still going to say, well, you should have caught that earlier or something like that.

00:13:50.520 Basically, at this point, nothing's going to change.

00:13:52.320 But I asked if that was going to be the extent of what they found.

00:13:57.420 And Josh Barnett tells me it is not.

00:14:00.540 That is not the extent of what they found.

00:14:02.500 And we'll all find out in 10 days.

00:14:04.360 And he sounds pretty confident that we'll hear something that might surprise us.

00:14:10.260 Or maybe it won't surprise you.

00:14:12.280 We'll find out.

00:14:12.860 Anyway, I'm going to be a skeptic on this until something changes my mind.

00:14:19.100 So I'm going to be skeptical and say, I don't think the Arizona audit is going to come up with a smoking gun.

00:14:26.180 Because I feel like I'd know it by now.

00:14:28.840 All right.

00:14:29.400 Now, if they're unusually professional and they've kept a secret better than anybody's ever kept a secret,

00:14:35.620 except maybe the Mueller report, they did a good job of keeping the secret.

00:14:38.780 But, of course, they were also attorneys, and it's a different level of risk, right?

00:14:44.000 I feel like you could trust professional attorneys and investigators a little bit more not to leak

00:14:51.920 than you could trust a bunch of people who volunteered to do an audit.

00:14:56.520 It's a different standard, I would think, of risk.

00:14:59.360 Lawyers having a bigger risk to their reputation.

00:15:04.100 Kim Jong-un is apparently losing weight, quite a bit of weight.

00:15:07.240 I dare say he looks great.

00:15:10.280 In his recent photos, like, actually, it looks great.

00:15:14.640 Now, it's being treated as they don't know if it's good health or bad health,

00:15:19.340 but they're keeping an eye on it.

00:15:21.480 Well, it looks like good health to me.

00:15:25.060 The photos of him looking thinner, he looks really healthy.

00:15:29.820 So, I don't know.

00:15:31.380 I don't think it's necessarily good or bad news.

00:15:34.320 It's just interesting.

00:15:35.120 He's losing weight.

00:15:35.720 All right.

00:15:38.640 Have you noticed that Fox News is running nonstop videos of usually people of color

00:15:46.220 complaining about critical race theory?

00:15:49.260 So, you're seeing that a lot on the right.

00:15:51.560 Do you see any of those stories on CNN or MSNBC?

00:15:55.660 Has either MSNBC or CNN ever, and maybe the answer is yes,

00:16:01.160 so this is actually a question, not a statement,

00:16:03.520 have they ever run one of those video clips where there's a concerned parent,

00:16:09.040 could be black, could be a person of color, some other color,

00:16:13.640 talking in public at, say, a school board meeting or wherever they're meeting, town meeting, 0.73

00:16:18.260 and talking about critical race theory being a disaster?

00:16:21.640 I feel like it only is shown on one side of the world.

00:16:27.880 Now, beware of anecdotal evidence.

00:16:30.700 So, no matter how many individual stories you see of there's a black woman railing against 1.00

00:16:36.680 critical race theory, it doesn't mean that most people are against it or even know what

00:16:41.360 it is, really.

00:16:43.020 So, I wouldn't make too much of anecdote, but I would note that Fox News is making a big

00:16:48.240 deal of it and CNN is not.

00:16:50.100 Now, how important would it be to discredit critical race theory?

00:16:56.940 Is it important to the health of the country?

00:17:00.900 Because the news has this weird responsibility, doesn't it?

00:17:04.920 The news is trying not to give you opinion mixed with the news part.

00:17:09.200 CNN doesn't try too hard to do that.

00:17:10.980 But other news does try to keep the news and the opinion at least a little bit separate.

00:17:15.500 And it just seems to me that maybe Fox News has decided that critical race theory is bad

00:17:25.620 for the country and other news entities have not.

00:17:29.700 So, one thinks it's news and the other thinks maybe not so much.

00:17:33.620 But I heard a way to frame this critical race theory and Marxism so I could understand it.

00:17:41.140 And I feel like I understand it now for the first time.

00:17:43.360 And I've told you before that I was confused about why it is that conservatives keep saying,

00:17:49.280 hey, critical race theory, it's Marxism.

00:17:52.680 And then I keep saying, and, and, connect a few more dots.

00:17:58.860 Those are two different things.

00:18:00.980 In my mind, they're two different things.

00:18:02.980 Why are they, why does one lead to, or why is it similar?

00:18:06.940 I don't get it.

00:18:07.500 So, I did hear a good explanation of this yesterday, which is that Marxism is basically class warfare.

00:18:16.680 The idea that the lower class needs to essentially take money, take it, overthrow the power of the existing power structure,

00:18:25.400 the elites, the rich people, and basically flip the power structure so that the, the people are on top and nobody's rich.

00:18:32.240 So, that's what Marxism is.

00:18:36.160 Critical race theory is just another name for that.

00:18:40.480 Because their focus is on race, but it's still a class.

00:18:45.160 Because they've equated a race, black people, with a class, an underclass. 0.94

00:18:52.620 Now, of course, there are plenty of exceptions, right?

00:18:54.620 But it's close enough, at least for a political movement, it's sort of generally close enough that you can get a lot of people to say,

00:19:03.220 yeah, yeah, let's, let's change the balance of power.

00:19:06.440 And the thing you need to, that you need to work on is understanding, are they parallels?

00:19:16.740 Does one lead to the other?

00:19:18.340 I don't think that's the right way to think of it.

00:19:20.220 I would say that there are parallels, that Marxism is class warfare, critical race theory is class warfare, with a twist, which is throwing in the race part.

00:19:31.200 Marxism is just exactly the same thing, except they leave out the race part, so it's a little, little underpowered.

00:19:37.260 As soon as you add the race part in, it's super powered.

00:19:40.640 So now you've got this shitty idea, Marxism, which basically ruins everything, 0.86

00:19:45.500 except that we've got this new brand, that's like improved, it's like turbo powered with racism, 0.95

00:19:51.640 because you can't argue against racism, can you?

00:19:54.240 Maybe you could argue that capitalism is better than socialism.

00:19:58.700 You could argue that, and you'd have plenty of evidence for it.

00:20:01.900 But can you argue that black people should always be poor? 0.96

00:20:06.360 You can't. 0.99

00:20:07.920 You can't.

00:20:08.620 So that little extra sauce turned Marxism into a more powerful brand, critical race theory.

00:20:16.500 Now, of course, critical race theory is nothing but racism and a power grab,

00:20:20.900 but it is on top of real things.

00:20:27.660 You know, racism is real.

00:20:29.400 I believe systemic racism is very real,

00:20:32.040 especially the teachers' unions ruining the schools

00:20:35.320 so that people can't get a good education if they're lower income.

00:20:39.580 But I think there are real problems.

00:20:41.880 It's just that the critical race theory on top of it

00:20:44.260 isn't really designed to solve those problems so much as to create a power change

00:20:49.640 and maybe create a different set of victims and a different set of winners. 0.99

00:20:54.980 I think what's different about critical race theory

00:20:58.720 is it's not a win-win proposition by design.

00:21:03.500 Right?

00:21:04.780 And suppose you took this frame and somebody says,

00:21:08.280 hey, we'd like to teach critical race theory in school.

00:21:11.440 And then you say, you know, I hear why you want to do that.

00:21:15.520 I understand your reasons.

00:21:17.020 But how about we do something that's a win-win

00:21:19.480 instead of a win-lose?

00:21:23.660 It's hard to argue against a win-win.

00:21:25.740 And critical race theory is clearly, we win so that you lose.

00:21:30.700 Now, their theory would be it's still fair.

00:21:34.180 It's fair for poor people to win 1.00

00:21:35.840 because the rich people have been winning up until now.

00:21:38.880 Or you might change that to,

00:21:40.900 it's fair for black Americans to win for a change 0.99

00:21:43.740 because white Americans have been winning for so long.

00:21:47.100 But they're not trying to hide the fact

00:21:48.820 that they want to win at somebody's expense.

00:21:51.260 And as long as you have that,

00:21:54.220 you're going to rip the country apart.

00:21:56.380 You need to find a way that everybody wins.

00:21:58.600 Let me suggest a way.

00:22:00.340 Black Americans and white Americans

00:22:02.040 teaming up to fix education.

00:22:06.800 What, 75% of all your systemic racism

00:22:10.000 comes right from that.

00:22:12.360 The fact that the schools can't give you

00:22:14.620 a balanced starting point.

00:22:17.560 Fix that.

00:22:18.200 But it's where we all agree. 0.90

00:22:20.560 There's nobody black who wants bad schools 0.60

00:22:22.680 or bad, you know, trade education. 0.97

00:22:25.480 There's nobody white who wants bad schools.

00:22:28.020 And yet we have them.

00:22:29.320 We have bad schools.

00:22:31.700 Why not work on the biggest problem,

00:22:34.560 education,

00:22:35.940 by far the biggest problem,

00:22:38.320 you know, getting everybody trained to have a good job

00:22:40.300 and therefore a good life.

00:22:42.060 And we agree on that.

00:22:43.780 So why would we find the smallest thing

00:22:45.960 we could work on

00:22:46.840 that we disagree on

00:22:48.500 and focus on that?

00:22:50.520 It's not important.

00:22:53.260 And it's a win-lose scenario.

00:22:55.560 And it ignores the important stuff.

00:22:57.420 It's not even close.

00:22:58.260 All right.

00:22:59.540 So if we were serious about fixing race problems, 0.92

00:23:03.120 we wouldn't be focusing on critical race theory.

00:23:05.760 That would be the wrong way to go.

00:23:06.940 Representative Chip Roy of Texas

00:23:11.320 is introducing a bill

00:23:12.360 to ban China from buying property in the U.S.

00:23:16.760 I think it might be focused on Texas

00:23:19.520 because he talks about Texas as land.

00:23:23.660 But without seeing the details,

00:23:25.220 I can't tell if this is intended to be...

00:23:28.380 I think he intends it to be national.

00:23:30.860 That's just my guess.

00:23:32.120 I agree with this idea

00:23:34.960 because China is such a big country

00:23:37.720 that eventually,

00:23:39.060 even if they don't perform as well as the United States,

00:23:42.600 eventually they'll be bigger

00:23:43.820 because they just have so many people

00:23:46.320 and so much industry.

00:23:47.940 So at some point,

00:23:48.760 they'll have so much money

00:23:49.880 that they can just buy stuff

00:23:51.800 and basically destroy the United States

00:23:54.500 by buying it,

00:23:55.820 you know,

00:23:56.160 for all practical purposes.

00:23:58.900 Trump...

00:23:59.120 I guess the Trump Department of Justice

00:24:02.180 was investigating a leak

00:24:04.900 or the leaks.

00:24:06.480 And I think Adam Schiff,

00:24:07.860 his phone records were looked at.

00:24:10.140 And this is pretty scary stuff.

00:24:12.700 So scary

00:24:13.540 that CNN brought back

00:24:15.440 the worse-than-Watergate guy

00:24:17.340 to talk about it.

00:24:18.220 Yes, that's right.

00:24:20.060 Bernstein,

00:24:20.820 the worse-than-Watergate guy,

00:24:22.820 was taking Anna Mothballs

00:24:24.960 and he was wheeled up to CNN

00:24:27.780 to say,

00:24:29.100 Trump's actions go further than Nixon's.

00:24:33.240 He's guilty of crimes against democracy.

00:24:37.160 So Carl Bernstein spit and slobber

00:24:39.700 all over the desk

00:24:40.580 and tells us it's worse than Watergate.

00:24:43.260 Even when he doesn't use the words,

00:24:45.120 he's really saying worse than Watergate.

00:24:47.220 So instead of saying worse than Watergate

00:24:49.100 where he gets mocked

00:24:50.120 for saying worse than Watergate,

00:24:51.640 he simply says,

00:24:53.460 Trump's actions go further than Nixon's.

00:24:56.360 Huh.

00:24:57.520 What did Nixon do? 0.95

00:24:59.180 Oh, Watergate.

00:25:00.340 And Trump's actions go further than Nixon's.

00:25:04.320 He's worse than Watergate.

00:25:06.800 He found another way to say it.

00:25:09.400 And that's your news.

00:25:12.380 Well,

00:25:13.520 Putin and Biden apparently

00:25:15.740 are not going to meet,

00:25:17.560 or they're going to meet,

00:25:18.360 but they're not going to have

00:25:19.000 a joint press conference afterwards.

00:25:22.080 Why?

00:25:24.000 Well,

00:25:24.520 there's two reasons.

00:25:25.660 One,

00:25:26.040 Joe Biden doesn't want to

00:25:27.460 stand next to

00:25:29.380 Putin

00:25:30.560 and act like Putin's,

00:25:32.300 I guess,

00:25:33.320 a peer.

00:25:34.020 So he doesn't want to give Putin

00:25:35.420 the respect,

00:25:37.380 I guess,

00:25:37.980 or the attention,

00:25:39.220 or the,

00:25:40.280 I don't know,

00:25:41.080 national stage

00:25:41.900 of standing next to him

00:25:43.320 and answering questions.

00:25:44.160 That's one interpretation.

00:25:46.960 Perfectly good one.

00:25:48.660 Possibly true.

00:25:50.360 Here's another one.

00:25:52.840 Maybe they don't want Biden

00:25:54.220 to take unscripted questions

00:25:56.120 with Putin standing next to him.

00:25:59.440 Because if you see Biden

00:26:00.940 trying to struggle

00:26:01.920 with an unscripted question

00:26:03.760 and not be able to do it,

00:26:06.300 literally standing next to Putin,

00:26:08.600 who's handling these questions

00:26:10.240 like he's playing tennis,

00:26:11.720 poop,

00:26:12.400 poop,

00:26:12.700 It's not going to look good.

00:26:18.460 All right.

00:26:18.980 So I think this is the right decision

00:26:20.780 by Biden

00:26:21.320 because he can't play

00:26:22.260 in that field.

00:26:23.380 He's just not,

00:26:24.040 he's just not capable.

00:26:25.880 And so why do it?

00:26:27.960 Putin was asked

00:26:28.820 in an interview

00:26:29.320 about Biden versus Trump.

00:26:33.400 Here's what Putin said

00:26:34.520 about Trump.

00:26:35.800 He said Trump was talented,

00:26:37.340 colorful,

00:26:39.580 he's an extraordinary individual.

00:26:42.040 Yep.

00:26:42.720 Talented,

00:26:43.360 colorful,

00:26:44.080 extraordinary individual

00:26:45.440 and not part

00:26:46.140 of the establishment.

00:26:48.500 Here's what he said

00:26:49.360 about Joe Biden.

00:26:51.260 Joe Biden's been

00:26:52.260 in politics

00:26:53.520 for a long time.

00:26:57.360 So that's what he said

00:26:59.100 about Biden.

00:26:59.980 Those are all

00:27:00.800 Biden's good qualities.

00:27:02.860 He's been in politics

00:27:03.880 for a long time.

00:27:05.420 It feels like,

00:27:08.400 it feels like

00:27:09.940 not quite the compliment

00:27:11.400 you would have expected.

00:27:13.400 It feels like

00:27:14.340 Putin has a preference.

00:27:17.300 Sounds like Putin 0.71

00:27:18.200 likes his Trump.

00:27:20.080 Not so happy

00:27:21.500 about Biden.

00:27:22.900 But one wonders

00:27:24.420 what we should think

00:27:25.600 about that.

00:27:26.440 Should that make us

00:27:27.260 like Biden better

00:27:28.340 as a president?

00:27:29.640 Because you'd want

00:27:30.420 the person maybe

00:27:31.560 that Putin likes

00:27:32.520 the least.

00:27:33.560 Or do you want

00:27:35.260 somebody who could

00:27:35.840 work with Putin?

00:27:37.340 But maybe Putin

00:27:38.300 tries to take advantage

00:27:39.240 of you if you

00:27:39.900 just work with him.

00:27:41.200 Don't know.

00:27:42.240 Don't know.

00:27:43.240 But it doesn't seem

00:27:44.500 that Putin is a big fan

00:27:45.980 of Joe Biden.

00:27:49.020 And that

00:27:49.900 is everything

00:27:51.960 I wanted to tell you

00:27:52.960 before I either

00:27:55.100 get on a plane

00:27:56.660 for an amazing vacation

00:27:58.240 or if I get a false

00:28:02.860 positive on my COVID test

00:28:04.520 which I will know

00:28:06.180 in an hour and a half

00:28:08.720 then I'm not going

00:28:11.180 anywhere.

00:28:15.120 Mark says,

00:28:16.260 please consider organizing

00:28:17.300 a donation campaign

00:28:19.080 for Governor Abbott's

00:28:21.360 wall.

00:28:22.620 That would be the Texas

00:28:23.700 wall that Texas

00:28:24.580 is going to try

00:28:25.800 to build on its own.

00:28:30.820 So

00:28:31.260 I don't think

00:28:34.220 I want to get involved

00:28:34.920 in a fundraiser

00:28:35.640 for a wall.

00:28:39.260 But

00:28:39.700 let me ask you this.

00:28:41.720 I'll leave you

00:28:42.180 with one final question.

00:28:46.240 What's the difference

00:28:47.240 between Jeffrey Toobin

00:28:49.420 and Donald Trump?

00:28:52.020 Go.

00:28:52.380 What is the difference

00:28:53.800 between Jeffrey Toobin

00:28:55.280 and Donald Trump?

00:28:58.340 The answer is

00:28:59.420 Trump

00:29:00.300 is

00:29:01.260 accused of

00:29:02.540 stoking

00:29:03.760 and insurrection.

00:29:08.600 Do I need to finish

00:29:09.580 the rest of the joke?

00:29:11.120 So you're supposed

00:29:11.680 to finish in the rest

00:29:12.540 of the joke

00:29:12.960 in your mind.

00:29:13.920 That's how this one works.

00:29:15.500 Yeah.

00:29:15.760 The difference

00:29:16.180 between Jeffrey Toobin

00:29:17.160 and Trump

00:29:17.520 is that Trump

00:29:18.100 is allegedly

00:29:19.980 guilty of

00:29:21.440 stoking

00:29:22.220 his insurrection.

00:29:25.280 Okay.

00:29:25.780 Okay.

00:29:26.160 I see.

00:29:26.460 You get it.

00:29:27.120 Thank you.

00:29:27.680 Thank you.

00:29:28.860 The naughtier version

00:29:30.780 is on Robots Read News

00:29:32.180 on Locals.

00:29:33.300 If you are a subscriber

00:29:34.340 to Locals,

00:29:35.220 you will see more

00:29:36.220 of my Jeffrey Toobin

00:29:37.260 humor

00:29:37.840 because there's

00:29:40.080 just so much of it

00:29:40.840 you can do

00:29:41.340 in the public domain.

00:29:43.120 And I may be doing

00:29:43.880 too much of it

00:29:44.500 in the private domain,

00:29:46.040 but nothing's funnier

00:29:47.500 than Jeffrey Toobin

00:29:49.400 on TV.

00:29:50.140 I'm sorry.

00:29:51.460 And by the way,

00:29:52.060 I'm pro-Jeffrey Toobin

00:29:54.000 not as a person

00:29:55.260 necessarily,

00:29:56.240 but as a public figure

00:29:57.860 who got caught 0.97

00:29:58.820 doing something dumb 0.67

00:29:59.980 that I don't think 0.99

00:30:01.460 should affect his career.

00:30:03.080 I'm happy that

00:30:04.100 his career

00:30:04.740 is back on track.

00:30:06.080 I think that's

00:30:06.620 the standard

00:30:07.100 we would all want

00:30:08.100 to wish upon ourselves.

00:30:10.580 So let's

00:30:11.300 wish him well

00:30:11.980 and we'll be

00:30:14.400 mad at him later

00:30:15.120 when he says

00:30:15.560 things we don't like.

00:30:16.320 All right.

00:30:18.900 And that

00:30:19.660 is what you need

00:30:21.680 to know for today.

00:30:22.760 I will try

00:30:23.740 to do this tomorrow,

00:30:25.560 but there's a time difference.

00:30:27.320 There's some travel.

00:30:28.280 I'm probably not

00:30:28.880 going to be able to,

00:30:29.660 but we'll try.

00:30:30.380 All right.

00:30:31.200 See you soon.

00:30:32.040 Bye-bye.

00:30:32.560 Bye-bye.

00:30:33.600 Bye-bye.

00:30:34.580 Bye-bye.

00:30:36.040 Bye-bye.

00:30:37.400 Bye-bye.

00:30:41.660 Bye-bye.

00:30:42.120 Bye-bye.

00:30:43.560 Bye.

00:30:45.260 Bye-bye.

00:30:46.160 Bye-bye.

00:30:53.840 Bye-bye.

00:30:56.760 Bye-bye.

00:30:57.280 Bye-bye.

00:30:58.380 Bye-bye.

00:30:59.680 Bye-bye.

00:31:00.860 Bye-bye.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 12, 2021

Episode 1404 Scott Adams： A Sip Before I Travel

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