Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1408 Scott Adams： It's a Lovely Day For an International Simultaneous Sip

00:00:00.440 Hey everybody, I'm glad you got here early. It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams, probably the

00:00:06.860 best time anybody's ever had in the history of human civilization, and it's not going to get

00:00:13.080 any worse today. I mean, today it's might even take it up a level. I can't promise it, but it

00:00:19.180 might go from the best thing ever to slightly better. Not saying every time, but very possible,

00:00:26.500 so stay around for that. Now, I know you want the simultaneous sip, but I have to share a joke I

00:00:33.900 heard on Twitter before we do that. Credit to Twitter user Dr. Sexy, S-E-K-Z-I, who made this

00:00:43.500 joke. Well, the context is the Jeffrey Toobin situation, and now somebody got arrested for

00:00:51.880 lube-in-the-tubin in Times Square. And so there were many funny tweets about it, but Dr. Sexy's

00:01:00.140 tweeted, can no longer do it on a plane, or you might get arrested for filling the joke. Let's

00:01:08.700 see if you're funny. Are you funny? You can't pleasure yourself on a plane, or you might get

00:01:16.100 arrested for hijacking. I wish I'd thought of that one. Well, if you'd like to enjoy the

00:01:27.160 simultaneous sip to its maximum, maximum ability, what do you need? That's right. You need a

00:01:36.060 copper mug or a glass of tech or jealous of a stein, a canteen, a junk of glass, a vessel of

00:01:39.380 any kind. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the

00:01:45.760 thing that makes everything better all over the world at the same time. It's called the

00:01:49.820 simultaneous sip. And Mark, you made it just in time. Hope you have your cup. Go!

00:01:56.120 Now, I didn't find my cheat sheet to remember the simultaneous sip introduction. I actually

00:02:09.500 Googled it and then wrote it down. I had to actually listen to my own podcast, an earlier

00:02:16.980 one, and then transcribe it. It's like, oh, what's the order of that? All right, well, there's

00:02:22.420 lots of stuff going on. How many of you saw Tucker Carlson and he was interviewing a gentleman

00:02:29.480 from Revolver, whose name I forgot to write down, but I wish I had. And the gentleman from

00:02:36.620 Revolver had noted that apparently there are many domestic acts of violence. Let's call them

00:02:43.920 terrorism, but domestic acts, domestic, yeah, terror attacks. And there's a weird coincidence

00:02:50.280 to a lot of them, which is there were FBI informants or FBI assets, maybe is a better

00:02:58.580 word, involved with all of the groups or not every one of them, of course, but they seem

00:03:04.400 to be consistently involved. And the suggestion is that maybe they're more than just watching

00:03:11.160 them. Maybe they're participating a little bit too much. Maybe they're even prodding people

00:03:18.440 to do something that they wouldn't necessarily have done or maybe not done as soon. So what

00:03:25.000 do you think about that? We've got some other evidence, Tucker Carlson's show talked about.

00:03:31.180 Apparently there are some unindicted co-conspirators involved in the January 6th, let's say, demonstration

00:03:41.040 on the Capitol. And the suggestion is, wait a minute, why would somebody be a co-conspirator?

00:03:49.420 And evidently we know who they are, but they would not be indicted. Hmm. What are the reasons

00:03:56.440 that somebody would be not indicted? Well, I'm not a lawyer, so, you know, if I'm wrong about

00:04:01.660 this, somebody will correct me. But it sounds like one of the reasons is that they might be

00:04:06.020 an informant or have some prior relationship with law enforcement. So that's out there.

00:04:12.840 We don't know the details of that, but something to look at, right? And apparently there are,

00:04:20.340 as Tucker was saying, 10,000 hours of video of the January 6th event that's not being made

00:04:25.860 available to the public. What? Is there a reason for that? No reason given. Maybe one of the reasons

00:04:33.060 is we'd see something they don't want us to see. Hmm. I don't know. So here's my take on that.

00:04:39.760 I have a hard time believing that anybody in the FBI or law enforcement would talk somebody into

00:04:48.400 doing an actual terror attack. For what reason? I don't know. But if you're talking about the

00:04:55.600 January 6th event, which CNN calls an insurrection, and other people call it a demonstration of free

00:05:07.020 speech that went a little too far. Somewhere in between is probably the truth. And a little bit

00:05:13.620 closer to the free speech. But since that wasn't really something that people could have anticipated

00:05:23.520 being an actual, you know, a violent thing where people died. At least in my opinion. In my opinion,

00:05:31.240 I don't think it was obvious that violence would happen, you know. And maybe there are some law

00:05:39.400 enforcement related people who had a little bit too much to do with that. But I think you'd have to

00:05:44.520 put this in the speculation category. I would love to tell you. Yeah, I'm all mic'd. I'm all mic'd.

00:05:52.260 That's why my shirt looks like this. I'd love to tell you that I'm buying in totally to the FBI as

00:05:59.620 somehow causing domestic attacks. But it doesn't quite smell right to me. However, there are legitimate

00:06:09.100 questions. And those questions do lean in that direction. There's no doubt about that. But just

00:06:15.480 because we don't know the answers to why we haven't seen the video, why there are unindicted

00:06:20.520 co-conspirators, that doesn't mean there's one explanation for it. There could be others. And

00:06:26.980 there might be, you know, there might be one or more example of an FBI agent who did go too far.

00:06:34.760 But I don't know that it's some kind of pattern. So I'm not going to go that far.

00:06:40.580 But I will say that Tucker laying it out there and Revolver News being the original source of this,

00:06:48.300 I think this is good work. Good work. You know, don't get too far ahead of the facts.

00:06:56.000 But this is a good frame. We should understand this. The fact that it looks so damning,

00:07:02.820 that's all you need to look into it a little further. But I'm not quite on the conspiracy side of this yet.

00:07:09.700 Do you remember when CNN was mocking Trump when he was president for the G7 allegedly laughing at him?

00:07:21.740 Now, I don't know that they really were laughing at him versus laughing near him or whatever.

00:07:27.240 So I'm not even sure it's real news. But let's say it's true because CNN made a big deal about it 0.87

00:07:36.100 and sort of mocked the president for that. Now, Sky News in Australia, if you've seen this clip,

00:07:44.520 Sky News has been mocking CNN for basically just not even trying to be a news network anymore.

00:07:52.760 And I think that's fair. I don't believe you could say that the point of CNN is news anymore.

00:08:00.100 Could you? Is there anybody who would disagree with that statement?

00:08:04.860 In the comments, I want to see how far you've gone in understanding what's going on here.

00:08:11.300 How many people think CNN is actually trying, like legitimately in their minds,

00:08:18.120 thinking we'll tell the news as objectively as possible?

00:08:21.840 How many think they're even trying to do that?

00:08:23.700 Because it doesn't look like they're trying, does it?

00:08:27.200 It doesn't even look a little bit like they're trying.

00:08:29.740 It looks like they're just a brain, yeah, as Ryan is saying in the comments,

00:08:34.420 it looks like they're just a brainwashing organization built around a news model.

00:08:40.420 And that's all it is.

00:08:42.140 But apparently Sky News in Australia is laughing at them.

00:08:45.600 And they just did a segment showing how differently they treated Trump going to the G7 versus Biden.

00:08:52.940 And it was pretty funny.

00:08:55.820 Hey, I'd like to give a shout out to Brian Machiavelli,

00:09:01.580 who reports that he lost 40 pounds in the last six months.

00:09:06.980 Now, if you're asking yourself, why am I talking about somebody's weight loss?

00:09:11.500 The reason is that a lot of people are reporting amazing results during the pandemic.

00:09:20.360 And I retweeted Brian's success.

00:09:23.200 And by the way, Brian, congratulations.

00:09:25.800 That's really impressive.

00:09:27.220 I got to say, 40 pounds in six months.

00:09:29.900 And the before and after pictures are crazy.

00:09:32.480 Mark Schneider, same thing.

00:09:34.320 Another, these are two people that I know primarily from Twitter exchanges.

00:09:39.160 And Mark Schneider, same thing.

00:09:40.840 And just took the opportunity to turn the pandemic into a plus.

00:09:44.940 Oh, my God.

00:09:45.480 Here are some comments.

00:09:47.200 Adele lost 40 pounds.

00:09:49.580 Johnny lost 30 pounds.

00:09:53.000 Wow.

00:09:54.360 If anybody else, 20 pounds.

00:09:56.620 Michelle.

00:09:57.900 How did they do it?

00:09:59.020 Well, thank you for asking.

00:10:01.640 In Brian's tweet, he suggests that people read my book.

00:10:06.460 Had it failed almost everything and still went big.

00:10:09.260 Kind of the story of my life.

00:10:10.540 Now, the point of the book, for those of you who shared, 20 pounds.

00:10:15.140 Holy cow. 0.89

00:10:17.600 Curliss, 25 pounds.

00:10:19.160 Jeez.

00:10:20.220 This is crazy.

00:10:22.100 I wasn't expecting this.

00:10:23.900 Dwayne, 50 pounds.

00:10:25.380 Ann, 20 pounds. 1.00

00:10:26.640 John, 60 pounds.

00:10:27.880 Sam got his deadlift from 250 to 450.

00:10:32.100 Holy jeez.

00:10:35.220 Gained, needed pounds successfully.

00:10:37.440 Somebody gained successfully.

00:10:39.940 Matt says he gained 300 pounds, but I don't think I believe that.

00:10:43.760 Melanie, 40 pounds in eight months.

00:10:46.320 Southern guy, 30 pounds.

00:10:48.740 Holy cow. 0.89

00:10:49.720 Tim, 35.

00:10:52.420 Wow.

00:10:53.980 09, 25.

00:10:57.040 Jack, 90.

00:10:59.020 Matt, 30.

00:11:01.600 I think these are real, by the way.

00:11:03.820 I'm not making this up.

00:11:05.740 Lose.

00:11:06.520 No, I'm sorry.

00:11:08.120 Boffin.

00:11:10.600 Boffin says he lost 160 pounds in a divorce.

00:11:14.280 Okay, that's funny.

00:11:15.660 Jennifer, 30.

00:11:17.840 Wow.

00:11:18.900 Well, keep reading the comments.

00:11:20.220 I won't read all of them, but my mind is kind of boggled.

00:11:23.480 So, many of you might remember, at the beginning of the pandemic, I was trying to find some

00:11:30.120 way to be a helpful force during a difficult time, and I was recommending that people took

00:11:37.160 the, holy, I'm, my mind is just blowing up here.

00:11:43.020 I'm looking at your comments, and it's insane.

00:11:47.360 Holy cow. 0.89

00:11:49.760 Wow.

00:11:50.280 So, I'm just blown away by this.

00:11:54.500 Keep reading them as they go by.

00:11:57.760 So, I had advised people to use the pandemic as a once-in-a-lifetime, I hope, situation where

00:12:04.600 you would have more free time than usual.

00:12:06.620 Not your choice.

00:12:07.800 You didn't want the free time, and you wish you had your social life and maybe your job

00:12:11.500 back.

00:12:12.540 And I said, find something to improve.

00:12:16.100 Learn a skill.

00:12:17.780 Get fit.

00:12:18.820 Lose some weight.

00:12:19.480 And a number of people just did just that.

00:12:22.860 Now, as Brian Machiavelli noted, my book, How to Feel, Almost Everything and Still Win

00:12:29.540 Big, teaches you how to do that.

00:12:31.540 So, it teaches you how to build a system, your own system, you know, not my system.

00:12:36.040 If I were telling you how to do it, it probably wouldn't work, because we're all a little different.

00:12:40.640 But if I teach you how to build a system that works for you, which was the point of it, point

00:12:44.920 of the book, apparently it works.

00:12:49.140 And honestly, it might be the world's best diet program at this point.

00:12:54.400 I mean, look at the results.

00:12:55.500 Is there anybody who gets this kind of results with normal diet programs?

00:13:00.700 Now, the point of it is it's not a normal diet program.

00:13:04.760 It just teaches you how to systemize what people treat as a goal and just turn it into a system,

00:13:10.900 and it's just something you do every day.

00:13:12.060 So, for all of you who did something amazing during the pandemic, you showed a lot of character

00:13:24.740 there, because it would be really easy to just eat chocolate and sit out the pandemic.

00:13:32.840 But those of you who did far more than that, I salute you.

00:13:38.240 All right.

00:13:39.080 Dr. Nicole Sapphire, you know her, MD, probably seen her on Fox News, et cetera. 0.95

00:13:47.680 Another good person to follow, so I recommend her as a Twitter follow.

00:13:53.020 And she's tweeting today that the FDA has updated some information on adolescents and the vaccinations.

00:14:03.140 And apparently, there's just enough of a problem of side effects that they're recommending a halt for adolescents.

00:14:12.360 All right.

00:14:12.580 So adults still recommending it.

00:14:15.040 But for adolescents, they're saying, well, the risk-reward is different because the adolescents have a very low risk.

00:14:21.580 But there's some side effects to worry about.

00:14:23.500 So until they know more about that, at least according to this tweet, it looks like they're going to look into that.

00:14:32.140 Linda says, Greg Gutfeld is killing it in the ratings.

00:14:35.760 Yes, he is.

00:14:37.280 Yeah.

00:14:37.680 You know, as soon as I heard he would have a show at that time period, you'd know it was going to be huge.

00:14:44.620 And sure enough, sure enough, so congratulations to Greg.

00:14:51.720 One of the big stories is Hunter Biden is selling his artwork for anywhere from $75,000 to half a million per painting.

00:15:02.960 Per painting.

00:15:04.760 Now, you might say to yourself, hmm, is Hunter Biden a famous artist?

00:15:10.780 No.

00:15:11.640 No.

00:15:12.020 Is Hunter Biden a really good artist?

00:15:16.760 Well, that's subjective, isn't it?

00:15:19.520 I don't believe he'd be giving half a million dollars.

00:15:23.720 Thank you, Sparky.

00:15:25.200 I don't believe that Hunter Biden would get half a million dollars for a painting if his name were not Biden.

00:15:32.220 Does anybody think he would?

00:15:33.580 Now, the real risk here to the country, if not the world, is that it's a bribery scheme.

00:15:42.020 Yeah, it's a money laundering scheme.

00:15:44.300 And if it's not obvious to you how it's a money laundering scheme, it goes like this.

00:15:49.400 Hey, look, I made some scratchings on a piece of paper.

00:15:53.080 It's for sale.

00:15:54.540 Oh, look, somebody just offered me a half a million dollars for it.

00:15:58.820 Somebody connected to China.

00:16:01.360 They just like art, I guess.

00:16:02.700 So, China sends somebody to buy a half-million-dollar painting, and then what does Hunter Biden say to himself?

00:16:12.340 Hmm, I think I'll make some more paintings, and more Chinese people, maybe with government support, will be buying these paintings.

00:16:22.880 But, I don't want to, you know, say bad things about China.

00:16:28.400 I don't want to not sell them paintings.

00:16:30.820 And maybe it won't be China specifically that buys the paintings.

00:16:35.160 Could be somebody else who kind of wants Hunter Biden to have a good impression of him for whatever political connections that might cause.

00:16:45.340 And here's the amazing thing about this is that pretty much everybody who's, you know, at least alert to scams and money laundering schemes, almost everybody saw this immediately, right?

00:17:01.400 Was there anybody who's sort of got a worldly viewpoint who didn't see this?

00:17:08.140 Like, oh, well, that's like the most obvious money laundering scheme of all time.

00:17:13.900 You could not come up with a better or more obvious or really more routine, you know, just an ordinary money laundering scheme.

00:17:23.840 How does he get away with that?

00:17:26.760 Because have you ever heard the standard that you want to avoid even the appearance of conflict?

00:17:34.480 He's not doing that.

00:17:36.400 He is creating the appearance of conflict.

00:17:39.260 In the most obvious, right-in-your-face kind of way.

00:17:45.960 Hey, you want to see some conflict, you know, of interest?

00:17:51.040 Yeah, let me show you one.

00:17:52.280 It's gigantic.

00:17:53.060 Now, to be clear, I can't say that I know Hunter Biden has bad intentions or that, you know, he's up to no good.

00:18:04.000 Maybe he's just an artist who's finding that people will pay more for his art than maybe he thought.

00:18:10.680 Or maybe he's a better artist than I thought.

00:18:14.200 Maybe.

00:18:15.480 Maybe.

00:18:16.000 But I think this is one of those situations where you have to avoid the appearance of money laundering if you're the president's son.

00:18:26.240 Right?

00:18:27.220 Does it matter if he's doing it for that purpose?

00:18:32.080 I don't think so.

00:18:33.720 I don't think that matters.

00:18:35.700 Does it matter if there's some kind of, you know, proof or even strong suggestion that he's doing this for some nefarious reason?

00:18:44.080 It doesn't matter.

00:18:46.480 It really doesn't matter.

00:18:48.360 If you do something that is so glaringly, obviously a conflict of interest, or maybe I'll soften that and say glaringly, obviously a risk of conflict of interest.

00:19:04.220 Let's remove the certainty and just say it's clearly a risk.

00:19:09.020 That's all you need to know.

00:19:10.380 So at what point does somebody just stop caring if it's obvious?

00:19:18.340 This guy seems to have no shame whatsoever.

00:19:21.480 Yeah, it's obvious.

00:19:22.420 I'll do it anyway.

00:19:24.160 And I'm wondering what the conversation looked like between the president and Hunter.

00:19:28.980 I assume they had one.

00:19:30.400 When Biden found out this was going on. 1.00

00:19:34.080 You know, Biden's only operating on half a brain, and even he would shut that shit down. 1.00

00:19:38.860 Don't you think? 0.99

00:19:39.420 Don't you think Joe Biden is sort of suggesting that maybe you back away from this a little bit?

00:19:46.280 You know, sell a couple of paintings, but maybe you back away from this.

00:19:52.420 Jeremiah says he'd say, I'm proud of you, boy.

00:19:55.720 Maybe you would.

00:19:57.260 And of course, the big guy gets 10%, but I doubt we're going to see any evidence of that happening.

00:20:02.280 Here's an interesting story.

00:20:05.260 Apparently, the feds are investigating why so many presumed, of course, we don't know for sure, but presumed Chinese spy left China and came to the United States sooner than their normal schedule would have suggested.

00:20:22.600 Some of them, you know, were students or whatever, so they have a, let's call it a cover story, and maybe they actually are students.

00:20:31.780 But they are assumed, some of them or many of them, to be Chinese agents.

00:20:37.660 And somehow, before the border closed, before Trump closed travel from China, they got out, and they got out suspiciously early and suspiciously in larger numbers than, you know, history would suggest.

00:20:52.760 What did they know that you don't know, or didn't know at the time?

00:20:59.520 Now, the suggestion is, at least in one report I was reading, the suggestion is that maybe they knew how bad things were, and therefore China, the government, was hiding it.

00:21:12.460 But their spies certainly knew it, so the spies were acting as if they knew things were going to get really bad really fast.

00:21:18.760 And so they quickly moved to, you know, traveled to America, because that's where they can be effective.

00:21:25.360 Maybe.

00:21:27.040 Can't rule out that hypothesis.

00:21:30.380 But I'll give you another one.

00:21:32.860 Don't you think that China knows what the administration is discussing and when?

00:21:41.040 Because I feel like they do.

00:21:43.800 You know, there's no leak, there's, you know, ways to find stuff out.

00:21:47.280 I feel as if China would have known, well before Trump made the decision, they would have known it was being talked about.

00:21:56.680 And if it was being talked about at the highest levels, that's all you need.

00:22:01.580 They're talking about it.

00:22:02.780 Let's go now and reduce any risk that anything will change.

00:22:07.700 So go as soon as you can.

00:22:09.240 Just a normal risk-reward kind of a calculation.

00:22:13.480 And that's a possibility.

00:22:16.280 The other possibility is, have I ever told you that I have this weird, I don't know, certainly the evidence that we live in a simulation is how often the headline news involves me personally?

00:22:34.060 I've talked about this a number of times.

00:22:36.140 But you've seen this, right?

00:22:37.000 How many times has the news somehow been about me, like literally me, quite a few times?

00:22:45.980 And here's what, I don't know the exact timing of when these alleged spies came to the United States in January of 2020.

00:22:53.740 But at the end of January, Trump closed travel.

00:23:00.500 Sometime before that, a week, more than a week or so, I think, if I recall, I was publicly calling for the border to be closed.

00:23:08.980 Now, do you think China monitors its top, I don't know, let's say, top 20 critics in the United States, the people who have some kind of public platform and are talking about China in a critical way?

00:23:26.360 And wouldn't you say, I don't know how to measure this kind of thing, so I'll put this in the form of a question, not a statement.

00:23:34.640 Would it be fair to say I'm in the top 20?

00:23:36.660 If you were China, and you were trying to keep an eye on the critics, because they might influence public policy toward China, don't you think they're watching me?

00:23:47.840 Because it would be crazy for them not to.

00:23:50.300 I don't think anybody's got a more hard-line but reasonable stance against China than I do. 0.55

00:23:57.620 I mean, they've got to be looking at Tom Cotton, right?

00:24:00.540 I mean, he's the senator, but, you know, obviously.

00:24:03.660 They've got to be looking at, you know, everybody in Congress who's saying bad things about China.

00:24:09.180 But also, they would be looking at Gordon Chang, right, and a number of other people who say bad things about China.

00:24:17.540 But there's no way I'm not in the top 20, and certainly they're going to fall into the top 20.

00:24:24.240 So, maybe your wife's a Chinese spy. 0.99

00:24:28.500 Well, that would explain a lot, wouldn't it?

00:24:31.020 It would explain why she married me in the first place.

00:24:34.740 Yeah, maybe she is a Chinese spy. 0.99

00:24:37.280 Good call.

00:24:38.820 I better check into that.

00:24:40.460 So, my point is, depending on when those Chinese spies came out, I might have been the cause. 0.81

00:24:46.480 Or at least, you know, some part of the cause.

00:24:48.900 Which is weird.

00:24:49.640 I like to watch the news more than I like to be the news.

00:24:54.620 But maybe in this case, I don't know what the odds are.

00:24:57.620 It's more likely that they were hearing chatter before they heard me say it.

00:25:02.660 But I might be part of the story.

00:25:04.320 I don't know.

00:25:04.920 Maybe.

00:25:05.140 All right.

00:25:12.940 CNN embarrassed themselves again by gushing over the Biden handshake with Putin.

00:25:20.980 How many of you saw Putin and Biden having their little handshake before they went to the building?

00:25:26.980 And Jim Scuto, you can pronounce his name at home any way you'd like.

00:25:40.400 And by the way, I don't mispronounce people's names on purpose.

00:25:44.700 I'm not trying to be disrespectful in that particular way.

00:25:48.200 I'm just really bad at pronouncing names.

00:25:50.260 So Jim Scuto, I guess, this is what he said.

00:25:57.560 Quote, the handshake, Biden looked in the eye of Putin with a smile, and Putin looked away.

00:26:03.640 These moments are about public posturing and how you project strength.

00:26:09.040 Putin looked away.

00:26:11.220 Did that happen?

00:26:14.140 Well, it's on CNN, right?

00:26:16.200 And nobody corrected him.

00:26:17.580 And it is true that when they shook hands, they shook hands.

00:26:22.960 And then you saw Putin look this way.

00:26:26.440 And you saw Biden keeping his stare on him.

00:26:30.620 That we thought.

00:26:32.060 Did you see Putin blink?

00:26:35.260 Did Joe's steely gaze make him back down and have to look away to get away from the hot fire of Biden's presence?

00:26:45.700 Was Biden's alpha personality so strong that Putin, the head of a nuclear power, couldn't handle it?

00:26:56.300 Because Putin is so weak, apparently, according to CNN, that he can't even look our president in the eye.

00:27:04.940 Or is it because Biden is so dragon-like with his fury at his resolution that nobody could stand that gaze for much long?

00:27:17.000 They'd have to look away.

00:27:18.000 I suppose that's one interpretation.

00:27:22.020 Let me tell you my interpretation.

00:27:25.180 And I want to see if it matches yours.

00:27:27.820 So the two men shake.

00:27:29.940 Biden keeps looking at Putin.

00:27:32.420 Putin looks toward the cameras.

00:27:37.220 The cameras.

00:27:39.240 As he was shaking hands, Putin did this.

00:27:42.460 He smiled at all the cameras.

00:27:48.160 Biden forgot the cameras were there or didn't care or didn't pick up on the cue or his dementia was setting in or he just didn't know what to do.

00:27:59.580 And he didn't look at the camera.

00:28:02.620 That was a camera photo op.

00:28:05.080 Now, it's possible.

00:28:05.940 Let me back up and make this not a Biden criticism because you don't know what he was thinking.

00:28:12.300 He might have been operating at a higher level than I'm giving credit for.

00:28:16.220 Possible.

00:28:17.780 And that is that he didn't want to look at the camera to make the photo op like a little bit friendlier than he wanted it to be.

00:28:26.420 Putin wants to make it look like they're friends and everything's good.

00:28:29.940 So he's looking at the camera.

00:28:31.840 Biden might not want to give him that photo, which would be smart.

00:28:35.940 Right.

00:28:36.440 Just he basically took the took the friendly photo where they're both looking at the camera and he just didn't give him that.

00:28:43.800 Maybe smart.

00:28:45.220 So I'm not going to say he was necessarily out of it and didn't understand the situation.

00:28:49.960 But Putin was just looking at the camera and it was exactly the right thing he should have done.

00:28:55.500 And CNN is reporting it like he blinked.

00:28:59.520 Biden stared him down.

00:29:01.320 Nothing like that.

00:29:02.220 I asked a question on Twitter that so far has not gotten me banned, because when people like me ask or talk about medical anything, we're on shaky ground.

00:29:19.520 But I asked this question and it's just the question.

00:29:24.060 Right.

00:29:24.300 So there's no there's no belief here yet.

00:29:28.000 Just the question.

00:29:29.320 I noted that after I got my second vaccination, Moderna vaccination, that I seemed healthier than normal.

00:29:37.340 And indeed, it seems like my allergies went away.

00:29:39.640 Now, that happened before I came here.

00:29:44.720 Carpe, good to see you.

00:29:46.860 He says, remember when presidents didn't need flashcards?

00:29:50.440 I was thinking of Carpe.

00:29:52.540 Dunked him a lot recently because nobody made a good meme out of Macron going like this with Biden.

00:30:00.840 This is why we need Carpe back in the game.

00:30:03.160 What was I talking about?

00:30:06.100 Oh, I felt healthier and my allergies seemed to go away before I left my normal environment.

00:30:12.560 I noticed it.

00:30:13.660 And so I asked people on Twitter, hey, if you had this experience, has anybody had some beneficial thing happen after the second shot?

00:30:24.260 And I got a mixed reaction.

00:30:26.840 So a number of people said, no, I felt worse or, I don't know, you know, various little medical problems seem to have come after.

00:30:35.020 But surprisingly, quite a number of people said that their allergies seem to have gone away or substantially reduced after the second shot.

00:30:47.020 I know, I know, I know.

00:30:48.460 It also is coincidentally right after the allergy season ends.

00:30:53.720 Right.

00:30:54.680 That's the obvious thing.

00:30:56.840 Somebody says the placebo effect.

00:30:58.960 I don't know if the placebo effect works on allergies.

00:31:04.400 There's a good question for you.

00:31:06.460 I respect the observation because we know the placebo effect is fairly universal and seems to be in just about everything we study.

00:31:17.580 So it's real.

00:31:18.860 You can't ignore it.

00:31:20.600 But the placebo effect would, number one, assume that you thought that was going to happen.

00:31:26.840 So the placebo effect sort of depends on the person expecting an outcome.

00:31:33.180 I didn't expect this.

00:31:34.480 I didn't expect anything except a vaccination.

00:31:38.040 So probably the essential part of what makes a placebo work, which is the mental part.

00:31:45.160 I didn't have that mental part.

00:31:47.980 So to me, it would have been just a surprise, right, which is the opposite of a placebo.

00:31:52.240 So I don't think it was placebo.

00:31:55.580 A number of other people reported it.

00:31:57.460 It's just anecdotal.

00:31:58.440 I wouldn't take any of this too seriously.

00:32:02.000 But here's an interesting fact.

00:32:07.000 And I tweeted this, so you'll see it in my timeline from just a few hours ago.

00:32:11.200 But apparently there's something called nonspecific effects from vaccinations.

00:32:17.380 Have you ever heard of that?

00:32:19.520 Nonspecific effects.

00:32:20.760 Apparently there is, it's a well, not well known, but it's a known phenomenon that you

00:32:29.780 can get a vaccination for a specific problem.

00:32:33.160 And that vaccination can cause a number of other problems.

00:32:37.840 So nonspecific problems, basically.

00:32:40.360 Things you didn't think were going to be a problem, side effects.

00:32:42.800 But also can fix other problems.

00:32:47.860 And there's a little story about some, you know, older kinds of vaccinations that were

00:32:53.340 used on some, you know, non-industrial tribe somewhere, and it reduced their overall mortality

00:32:59.780 for reasons that had nothing to do with the vaccination.

00:33:03.620 So we do know that that's a real thing.

00:33:06.760 That sometimes a vaccination, the same vaccination, can cause some people some extra problems,

00:33:13.640 and some people might actually live longer.

00:33:17.800 And that could actually change your life expectancy.

00:33:21.620 Now, I'm not saying that that's true necessarily of these vaccinations, because we've got some

00:33:26.900 new technology going on, et cetera.

00:33:30.040 But be aware, it's an actual thing.

00:33:33.680 So, maybe.

00:33:37.060 I'll let you know if my allergies come back.

00:33:40.160 But, so far, so good.

00:33:44.420 All right.

00:33:46.960 Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, or Raffensperger, not burger.

00:33:55.840 He tweeted that new revelations that Fulton County is unable to produce all ballot drop

00:34:04.560 box transfer documents will be investigated thoroughly, as we have when other countries

00:34:10.940 blow the law.

00:34:12.360 So, Georgia is looking into the lack of transfer documents.

00:34:18.560 The transfer documents would show, you know, who had it, where it went to, et cetera, and

00:34:23.020 those are missing, which suggests, at least the possibility, that some of them could have

00:34:29.380 disappeared.

00:34:32.240 We wouldn't know, would we?

00:34:34.380 So, what would happen?

00:34:36.400 Let me give you this hypothetical.

00:34:39.080 What would happen if we can, if we determine that the chain of custody can never be determined?

00:34:44.380 Because, I think, I think those votes don't count.

00:34:51.660 But it's too late to really change the outcome.

00:34:55.160 I mean, there's no real, I don't think there's any practical way that any election is going

00:35:00.060 to be overturned for any reason.

00:35:02.180 It's just too late.

00:35:03.740 And I actually agree with that.

00:35:06.120 I think it would be terribly destabilizing to change things in the middle of a president's

00:35:12.100 term.

00:35:12.320 So, if anything, it might influence, you know, the next election.

00:35:17.660 So, maybe increase the chances of Trump getting back in office.

00:35:22.340 But, what do you think as a citizen?

00:35:25.820 You know, for those of you who are American citizens watching this, what do you think about

00:35:30.000 the fact that at the moment, we don't know if we had a real election?

00:35:35.040 The fact that the transfer documents are missing tells you you don't know if you had a real election.

00:35:44.380 I mean, literally, you don't know.

00:35:46.980 Now, can I be banned from that?

00:35:49.160 Because I'm making a very specific claim, which is, you know, in the news and not in dispute, that these documents are missing.

00:35:59.240 That's all.

00:36:00.300 And if the documents are missing, we don't know if we had a proper election.

00:36:05.960 That's just a fair statement, right?

00:36:08.480 I think I won't get kicked off for that.

00:36:10.800 Somebody was mocking me on Twitter, which is, you know, half of what Twitter is, saying that my prediction that Trump would win and that the slaughter meter was predicting his win with great certainty shows I had a wrong prediction.

00:36:31.420 Now, I agree with that characterization.

00:36:35.560 It's definitely a wrong prediction.

00:36:37.980 But why is it wrong?

00:36:40.080 Is it wrong because I'm not good at reading the mood of voters?

00:36:45.540 Perhaps.

00:36:46.880 Perhaps.

00:36:48.760 But I think it was wrong because the election was determined by lawyers.

00:36:54.120 Meaning that prior to the vote by anybody, the lawyers had decided what the rules would be.

00:37:00.580 And the rule change probably determined the election.

00:37:05.020 I'm guessing.

00:37:06.240 So I was definitely wrong.

00:37:08.500 But I think it's important to look at why.

00:37:11.160 And I don't think we know why, especially if these transfer forms are missing.

00:37:16.600 So there could be more than one reason that I was wrong.

00:37:19.720 One of them, at least, is that lawyers lawyered up the rules to favor one side over the other. 0.87

00:37:26.440 And sure enough, the favored side won.

00:37:28.600 So I don't know if voters even mattered.

00:37:33.000 Voters really, all we did is get the result close enough that the lawyers had the final vote.

00:37:39.580 That's all we did.

00:37:41.020 Basically, voters gave the imprint of something like Democratic-ish happening.

00:37:47.860 But we didn't determine the winner.

00:37:51.200 That was determined by the rules.

00:37:53.400 If there had been different rules, probably different outcomes.

00:37:57.640 I don't know if it would have changed the result, but it certainly would have been a big difference.

00:38:02.140 Speaking of Biden, did you see the video where he confused Libya and Syria?

00:38:10.860 You know, allegedly three times.

00:38:12.780 You know, one of those times, I'm not sure he really confused them.

00:38:16.960 But he definitely confused them.

00:38:19.140 And I have a little bit of sympathy for that because I confuse things all the time and always have.

00:38:32.040 So how many times have I said the wrong country?

00:38:36.280 Kind of all the time, right?

00:38:38.540 I mean, you've seen me do it.

00:38:39.580 And I still feel that I'm mentally competent.

00:38:45.160 And I don't know that that's a big deal on its own.

00:38:49.680 Just confusing the country.

00:38:52.240 Or even, honestly, forgetting what city you're in when you're campaigning.

00:38:57.040 Those are kind of normal things.

00:38:59.560 Kind of normal.

00:39:01.140 Now, Angela says, but Adams is not president.

00:39:04.760 But humans are president.

00:39:06.900 Humans.

00:39:07.420 And humans do that all the time.

00:39:10.160 I'm not sure that I would say that that by itself is a bad thing.

00:39:15.520 But do you think that the G7 leaders are laughing at him for not knowing the difference between Libya and Syria?

00:39:22.320 Oh, I think they might have had a chuckle over that.

00:39:25.560 Oh, I think they did.

00:39:27.220 Is there a national security threat when our president can't remember which country is the important one?

00:39:35.240 I think there is, right?

00:39:37.420 Wouldn't you imagine?

00:39:41.800 Yeah.

00:39:42.540 It introduced the same person twice.

00:39:44.560 Yeah.

00:39:44.800 So Biden has all these little gaffes.

00:39:47.140 And they do look like, you know, genuinely they're memory problems or whatever.

00:39:51.460 I don't know how important it is.

00:39:54.760 Because these are the types of mistakes that his handlers would fix.

00:40:00.180 You know, it's not like he's going to go to a meeting and make a decision about Libya when he thought he was talking about Syria.

00:40:07.280 People would stop him from doing that.

00:40:09.700 Jill would stop him, right?

00:40:10.700 So he's a weird president because we don't know exactly.

00:40:17.660 It's some combination of his handlers plus what he's willing to do.

00:40:23.380 Because obviously he's not going to be willing to do everything his handlers want him to do.

00:40:27.920 He's still got free will and a lot of experience.

00:40:30.380 But we don't really have like a presidency with a strong leader.

00:40:35.860 We have some sort of a committee, mostly people we don't know, whose work we only see as it's presented through Biden.

00:40:43.700 And honestly, I don't know if it matters.

00:40:46.980 I really don't.

00:40:48.220 You can assume that our adversaries would at least try to get a little more adventurous just to see what happens.

00:40:57.100 But I'm not seeing a play out yet.

00:41:00.160 Is it a danger to the Republic and maybe the whole world?

00:41:04.640 Yeah.

00:41:05.300 Yeah, it is.

00:41:06.000 Yeah, it's, he's a little too Joe Biden-ish at this point with his age and declining mental state that I think he's a genuine risk to the Republic.

00:41:23.080 But I don't know how big it is because his handlers are probably, probably doing a good job for Democrats.

00:41:31.620 Having the world leaders love you is not a good thing.

00:41:36.560 Yeah, that's true.

00:41:38.380 You don't want them to like you too much.

00:41:42.720 Yeah, Vanity Fair is photographing first ladies again. 0.65

00:41:46.200 Can you believe they skipped Melania?

00:41:49.340 Now, I'm not a historian, but let's say Jackie Kennedy was, you know, considered a cover-worthy model.

00:41:58.720 But there aren't many of them.

00:42:00.120 And there's certainly nobody in Melania's class, you know, somebody who's a professional model and looks it.

00:42:08.460 So the fact that they skipped her is just a big F you.

00:42:15.860 Barbara Bush is your favorite first lady, somebody says.

00:42:19.320 Yeah.

00:42:19.900 Yeah, Elena says, yeah, let's skip the supermodel when we're designing our covers.

00:42:25.940 Don't use the supermodel. 0.80

00:42:27.080 Wait for Jill Biden. 1.00

00:42:30.120 Matt says that COVID was like acupuncture for your allergies.

00:42:36.280 Well, I don't know if I buy into that analogy, but.

00:42:43.260 Tikan the Jazz says it's closer now to the CCP.

00:42:47.720 Xi is the leader, but he's really just the most powerful guy in the committee.

00:42:50.640 Oh, yes.

00:42:51.400 So China is ruling by committee.

00:42:55.900 But I have to think that you wouldn't want to go against Xi at this point.

00:43:00.460 On paper, it's the party that's in power, right?

00:43:04.360 And they just have somebody doing the work of the leader.

00:43:07.920 But I have a feeling that Xi has consolidated power to the point that if he had a strong critic in the CCP, probably just get killed or eliminated somehow.

00:43:21.680 I don't imagine that he has real criticism.

00:43:24.320 I do imagine that he has full control.

00:43:26.920 Can't know for sure.

00:43:27.960 Obama and Susan Rice are running things.

00:43:37.160 That's what somebody says here.

00:43:39.420 What's new in Santorini?

00:43:40.720 Well, let me tell you.

00:43:41.700 So Christine and I took an e-bike tour of Santorini today.

00:43:48.700 So I'm in Greece.

00:43:49.900 And if you haven't tried an e-bike, I know it's boring.

00:43:54.760 I keep saying it all when I talk about e-bikes.

00:43:59.720 But they are the future.

00:44:01.360 The moment you get on one, the first time you ever try an e-bike, you will be hooked.

00:44:06.740 And it doesn't matter if you like motorcycles better or you like your regular bike.

00:44:11.120 They are just crazy good.

00:44:12.800 It's like insanely good technology.

00:44:16.040 So anyway, we go to the middle of nowhere, this little shack basically, where they've got an e-bike and four-wheel drive things that you rent.

00:44:25.900 We got our e-bikes.

00:44:27.320 And I didn't know exactly what to expect.

00:44:29.700 It was an island tour.

00:44:32.040 What I expected was kind of a leisurely stroll around the island, maybe the perimeter and stuff.

00:44:39.240 What I knew we wouldn't do, because that would be crazy, would be to go up these steep hills or to go through any of these narrow streets.

00:44:50.020 Because some of the streets are so narrow that the bicycle handles would be pretty close to the walls on both sides.

00:44:58.380 That's sort of a dangerous thing because the ground is all uneven everywhere.

00:45:02.000 So in any part of the city, the ground is uneven everywhere, right?

00:45:07.640 So you don't want to go through a narrow, steep hill with an uneven floor on a vehicle that you just got on, right?

00:45:17.300 It's like everything is wrong with that.

00:45:18.860 That model is too dangerous.

00:45:20.180 So I knew we weren't going to go through any narrow streets.

00:45:23.160 And obviously, we're not going to go to the top of the mountain, because they didn't even know if we had the ability to do that, even with an e-bike.

00:45:32.040 So we went to the top of a mountain, and we went through the narrow streets.

00:45:39.360 By the way, the reason the streets are so narrow here is that they were designed that way originally to repel pirates and invaders.

00:45:47.420 Because you would make the invaders go through a narrow passage, and you could kill them one at a time.

00:45:53.500 And once their bodies built up, they became a barrier to their own rest of the attack.

00:45:59.720 So the streets are insanely narrow, or at least the passageways between things are insanely narrow.

00:46:08.240 I think I took four spills.

00:46:12.500 I fell off the dead bike, I think, four times.

00:46:15.540 Christine, about the same.

00:46:18.840 About the same.

00:46:20.560 It was the most rugged, dangerous thing I've done in a long time.

00:46:27.160 But it was great.

00:46:29.380 So let me say this first off.

00:46:31.560 I highly recommend it.

00:46:33.460 If you ever get a chance to do an e-bike tour, even in Santorini,

00:46:37.040 even though it's, let's say, by American nanny standards, almost none of this would have been even legal in the United States.

00:46:48.960 I mean, literally.

00:46:50.400 The safety standards here are quaint.

00:46:56.980 All the little narrow passageways and low barriers over a cliff.

00:47:03.640 I mean, you just would never do any of this stuff in the United States.

00:47:07.820 But we're trying to go up these narrow hills and stuff, and it was just amazing.

00:47:13.260 But here's the funny part.

00:47:15.260 The best feature of the trip is that we ended up on all these narrow trails that it looks like only animals used.

00:47:24.780 And we're going over rocks and things.

00:47:27.840 By the way, I've never done trail riding.

00:47:32.560 So I've never been on a bicycle on anything that wasn't a paved thing for any length of time.

00:47:38.540 So this was my first experience riding up an unpaved in many places.

00:47:44.560 A lot of it was paved.

00:47:45.360 But in places, it was just a trail with big rocks everywhere, and you're hitting rocks and stuff.

00:47:51.620 Then a number of parts were soft sand.

00:47:56.920 So your front tire would go into it, and it would just go, and you'd be laying by the side of the road.

00:48:03.280 And the guides did it perfectly.

00:48:05.640 So I guess if you're experienced enough and you know the route, you're fine.

00:48:11.080 But if you're not that experienced with this route, and you've never ridden on a trail, it was pretty freaking dangerous.

00:48:18.740 But here's the best part.

00:48:20.360 Do you know what was at the top of the mountain?

00:48:23.360 A winery.

00:48:24.980 So we went to the top of the mountain to the winery.

00:48:27.160 Just beautiful views.

00:48:28.920 Absolutely recommend it.

00:48:30.400 It was the greatest thing.

00:48:31.260 But it was for wine tasting.

00:48:38.000 And, no, I don't drink, so I just put my tongue in a glass and tasted it, so I didn't really drink.

00:48:45.620 But can you imagine their business model is to do this insanely dangerous ride and then have some drinks and ride back down the hill.

00:48:58.920 And there was one part that was so dangerous that I don't think a goat would have done it.

00:49:05.160 Like, you know, you've got a cliff, and you've got this narrow path, and you're on a bicycle on, like, dirt and rocks.

00:49:12.480 So there was one part of it.

00:49:13.880 They said, you better walk your bike so you don't fall off the cliff.

00:49:18.460 And we did.

00:49:19.240 So, you know, I make it sound like it's more dangerous than it probably was.

00:49:25.200 But the odds of you falling off your bike multiple times on this trip are really high.

00:49:31.620 Really high.

00:49:33.280 As I see in the comments, you're asking about Dr. Drew.

00:49:36.440 I'm actually going to be having dinner with Dr. Drew in about half an hour.

00:49:43.280 And I've got to get ready for that.

00:49:44.360 So, I hope he brought his medical bag.

00:49:51.700 You might need some extra bandages.

00:49:54.200 All right.

00:49:54.760 How's the food?

00:49:56.800 The food is spectacular in many individual cases.

00:50:03.640 But a lot of it is stuff that I don't eat.

00:50:05.840 And then there are a lot of things that are a cultural difference that takes a little explaining.

00:50:13.780 For example, I ordered a bagel with cream cheese, toasted.

00:50:19.400 Basic thing, right?

00:50:20.360 A toasted bagel with cream cheese.

00:50:22.740 And the first time I ordered it, it came and it was cold.

00:50:25.460 And I thought, oh, probably they just forgot to toast it or something.

00:50:29.720 Then the second time I ordered it, it came sort of refrigerator cold with cream cheese.

00:50:35.540 Now, in the comments, is there anybody who would eat a cold bagel that had never been toasted with cream cheese?

00:50:44.160 Has anybody ever eaten that in the history of people eating bagels?

00:50:48.160 And I think it was a different sort of a cultural difference.

00:50:56.960 And I think that maybe some other countries do it or some other people.

00:51:00.940 Or they're just not used to Americans ordering bagels because it wasn't on the menu.

00:51:05.960 You know, it's such a nice hotel that you can just sort of order stuff that's not on the menu and it just shows up.

00:51:16.680 Oh, some of you have.

00:51:18.160 Some of you, Nick says, you've actually eaten a cold bagel, but with cream cheese.

00:51:23.600 I've eaten a delicious bagel without cream cheese, but why would you put it?

00:51:30.900 Yes, and I'm talking not room temperature.

00:51:33.220 I'm talking it was cool to the touch, like it came out of a refrigerator recently.

00:51:39.820 So, here's my point.

00:51:42.440 I would say that the food and the service here are spectacular.

00:51:45.200 Just really first rate.

00:51:48.160 But, if you don't know what to order, you can get something you didn't expect.

00:51:54.420 And I don't eat a lot of exotic things.

00:51:56.640 All right.

00:52:03.340 I'm just looking at your comments for a moment.

00:52:06.920 Some of you have eaten bagels not toasted with cream cheese.

00:52:11.500 Interesting.

00:52:13.080 All right.

00:52:13.520 So, somebody says Trump is going to visit the border before Kamala Harris.

00:52:20.400 That would be funny.

00:52:22.300 I sure hope that happens.

00:52:24.180 All right.

00:52:24.740 I need to go do something else.

00:52:26.860 I hope you enjoyed the best coffee with Scott Adams of all time.

00:52:32.640 Until tomorrow, it's going to be even better.

00:52:35.180 You just wait.

00:52:36.100 And I will talk to you tomorrow.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 16, 2021

Episode 1408 Scott Adams： It's a Lovely Day For an International Simultaneous Sip

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