Episode 1405 Scott Adams： Early Sipping
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Summary
Dr. Drew is on vacation in Santorini, Greece, and he's drinking coffee on the deck of a luxury villa overlooking the ocean. He's also talking about a nuclear leak at a Chinese power plant, and the worst hotel in the world.
Transcript
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Hey everybody, can you see me? I'm on the other side of the world.
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Yeah, I'm coming to you live from Santorini, Greece. Would you like to see it? I can show you.
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But first, you probably want the simultaneous sip. Many of you will be waking up to discover
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it already happened. Normally, even when I'm traveling, I would try to hit your time zone
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just right. But today I'll be out on the ocean. And so, I'm going to give it to you a little bit
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early. And I didn't bring my cheat sheet, but I think it goes like this. That all you need
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is a cup or mug or glass, a tankard chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.
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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled
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pleasure of the dopamine the other day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called
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the simultaneous sip. And it's going to happen right now.
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Yeah. Yeah. So, some of you saw I posted on social media that Dr. Drew is coincidentally
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here at the same time. We were actually on the same flight in from Munich. And I realized
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that Dr. Drew has a trick to disguise himself in public. He just puts on sunglasses.
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Because, like me, if you would recognize me at all, you would expect to see a certain
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kind of spectacle on me. And if I change him, I just look like a different person. I put
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a hat on to cover my bald head, put on sunglasses, good to go. Put on a mask. I'm basically the
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unibarmer. Now, would you like to talk about the news or would you like to see the view from
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my front deck? Well, the news is kind of boring. So, we can cover that pretty quickly.
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Let's see. Biden is still Biden. You could do the news without even reading the news.
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Oh, we'll show you the view. I'll show you the view in a moment. So, I guess Putin made
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a good play. So, Putin said, well, I guess Biden asked him to do something about the
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hackers. And Putin said, that'd be a great idea. Why don't we agree to trade hackers?
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You know, we'll give you the hackers we catch that are hacking you. You give us the hackers
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that you caught hacking us and we'll just trade. And I'm thinking to myself, damn it, Putin.
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That was pretty clever because he knows that's not going to happen. But he also got the message
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out that he's getting hacked. Whether that's true or not, we kind of assume it is.
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There's some story of a nuclear leak at a Chinese power plant. What you might not know, and you have
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to do a fact check on this because I don't think I know it either. I don't think a leak in one of the
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more modern versions of a nuclear plant. I don't think a leak is like a meltdown. I think you have
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to have the old technology plants to have a meltdown. I don't know if they have any. So, I wouldn't assume
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automatically that that's some kind of a meltdown coming. It could be just a nuisance, but a big one.
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So, I'm going to show you the view here in a minute.
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Now, let's see. In theory, I could reverse this, right? Yeah. There we go.
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And there's a bit of a story about this part over here.
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So, where you see this, where you see there's kind of a bay here. It looks like a bay.
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That used to be solid ground, apparently, until, at least within recorded history. I forget when.
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But there was some kind of earthquake or volcano or something that all that dropped into the sea.
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So, the villa that we're in comes with its own little pool.
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And the people who designed this are the worst hotel designers of all time.
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Because look at how they forgot to add windows.
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And from where they are sat back, none of the windows of the hotel can see any of this.
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It was like a hotel crime that they didn't give a view internally.
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Because I guess this is traditional architecture.
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So, about half of your view, if you're sitting, for example.
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About half of your view is obscured by the fucking wall.
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You know, this was recently built in the last few years.
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I mean, to the point where I'm not sure we're actually going to even stay the entire trip.
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The rooms themselves are these tiny little claustrophobic.
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But I didn't want to miss the simultaneous sip.