Episode 1407 Scott Adams: The Simultaneous Sip, Live From Santorini, Greece
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Summary
The dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, it's called the " simultaneous sip" and it happens now, when you skip a day, doesn't it? Join me for the unparalleled pleasure, the "dopamine hit" you've all been waiting for, as I travel to the island of Santorini, Greece.
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It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams, and I know you've been deprived a little bit.
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I left it hanging for a few days, had to do some traveling.
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It's 5 o'clock in the afternoon where I am, but is that going to stop me?
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Today the simultaneous sip will come off without a hitch.
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I'll tell you a little bit about Santorini, in case you want to come here,
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But first, the simultaneous sip, because I know you want it.
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And believe it or not, I actually had to Google it,
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But the way my brain handles memory is I only remember concepts.
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So I can't remember phone numbers and specifics and names and anything in its proper order,
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But if you'd like to enjoy the simultaneous sip, then why wouldn't you, really?
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I mean, it's the greatest thing that's ever happened.
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If you'd like to enjoy it to its maximum potential,
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all you need is a cup of mug or glass, a tank or chalice, a canteen, a jug, a flask,
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a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid.
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The dopamine hit of the day, the thing makes everything better.
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Oh, so much better when you skip a day, doesn't it?
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Well, let me tell you a little bit about Santorini.
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I've been doing some humorous content on the local platform, subscription platform.
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But I will tell you the staff here are terrific.
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And somehow, one of my favorite foods is a Greek salad.
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But if you eat a Greek salad in the United States,
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you get one of these tomatoes that have been gassed.
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It doesn't even taste like food by the time it gets to your plate.
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But over here, there's a 20-day period in Santorini
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they actually call it the Santorini salad here,
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it's the most amazing thing you've ever had in your life.
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A lot of it is stuff I'm not used to, different kind of seafood.
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So it's a little bit hard for me to eat over here being a pescatarian,
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But we're having a good time and had a terrific tour today.
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And thank you, all of you, for being patient with me while I take some time.
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Oh, I have to tell you this one little story about Santorini.
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Some kind of an advanced civilization that was, you know, lost somehow.
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Well, the locals believed that Atlantis was here
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or one part of the island was covered by volcanic ash,
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And weirdly, there was an advanced society that lived here 4,000 years ago.
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Now, when I say advanced, I just toured some of the recovered ruins
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4,000 years ago, they had advanced cutting and engineering
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And here are some of the things that their town had.
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They were building three-story homes, personal homes,
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They had a public sewer system underground 4,000 years ago,
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Apparently, they were traveling to Africa on boats,
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And so the thinking is that there were earthquakes
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and then the gutters would run into the streets
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and then the rain gutters were pointed at the streets
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but the grapes also don't have a source of water,
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They evolved into the leaves of the grape spines.
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for the grapes that grow internal to the plant.
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So these are the things you learn when you travel.
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so Biden's White House National Security Council,
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after the intelligence community back in March,
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All right, so you've got this intelligence community
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You don't see any white supremacy in that, right?
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Just domestic violent extremism posed a heightened threat.
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Now, have any of you ever worked for a big company or any big organization?
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all right, here's the answer that I want you to come up with?
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Or maybe you just know what your boss wants to hear.
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And you're trying to give your boss the answer they want,
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So you find some way to say it like it sounds like what the boss wants,
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So what does it mean to say there's a heightened threat of domestic violence?
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Well, somehow, a heightened threat, which means literally nothing,
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Does a heightened threat mean the statistics show there's more of it?
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No, because a threat is something that hasn't happened, right?
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They didn't say we have more domestic violence happening at the moment,
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What they said is it's the biggest threat in the future.
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But let's say they're professionals and they did the war
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by the time it went through the Biden administration ringer,
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it turned into national securities officials warn white supremacy.
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present, quote, the most persistent and lethal threats.
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So you'd expect a statement like that to be backed up
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And what does it mean to be the most persistent threat?
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Would you say that Islamic extremist terrorism is persistent?
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Does it make a difference if your terrorism is sort of consistent
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Like, well, there hasn't been much for a while.
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if it's persistent versus a little less predictable?
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Or even maybe our undercover people have found this out.
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You know, we've dug into this and we know this is big.
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Would you say, oh, 10,000 people died yesterday
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from a terrorist attack, but I'm not too worried
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because the threat wasn't a persistent one, right?
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How do they know what's going to happen in the future?
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What is their source of knowledge about the future?
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that sound exactly like somebody's trying to make their boss happy
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When you hear things like most persistent and lethal threats,
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That doesn't feel like a fact, even if it is a fact.
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It's written in the form of somebody who's trying to fool you,
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That looks, I would say that this effort, the way it's presented,
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You know, what if somebody could produce some data
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oh, okay, I didn't realize it, but that looks pretty bad.
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But I think that they would lead with that, wouldn't they?
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Well, there's a report of a Chinese nuclear plant leak.
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Don't believe anything you hear that comes out of China.
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Okay, now disregard everything you heard about it
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because I believe the information came from vendors,
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But China continues to be the most toxic country of all time.
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I suppose America was pretty competitive there.
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But at the moment, everything that comes out of China seems to kill people.
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Fentanyl, viruses, radiation, pollution, theft, threats.
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until they at least stop sending fentanyl our way.
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And I think we should just make a stand and say,
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look, you know, it's one thing to be a competitor.
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you're just murdering tens of thousands of Americans
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Do you think that China could stand the embarrassment
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you need to figure out what you're doing wrong, right?
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but we're not going to let your diplomats in the country
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And I don't believe there's any precedent, is there?
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or at least that this probably isn't one of them.
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Yeah, I saw the comments saying he looked lost.
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You know, the old sexist thing people would say.
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Like she actually looked like she was a caretaker,
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when Biden's wife basically ordered him around.
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And I don't know if they were really laughing at him
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And I don't think the United States is stronger