Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1410 Scott Adams： Sometimes it is About the Anticipation

00:00:00.720 Whoop, move it over here. All right, that's perfect. That's perfect.

00:00:05.280 Well, I'm a little bit late. A little bit late. But, am I stopped? No.

00:00:11.260 I was on the other side of the island, at Santorini, doing a little shopping, having a little lunch,

00:00:17.880 and my internet connection died, and I couldn't get it back.

00:00:22.020 But now, but now, it's all coming together, isn't it?

00:00:26.800 The best time of the day. Slightly delayed, but still here.

00:00:34.060 And suppose you wanted to enjoy it to its maximum extent. What would that take?

00:00:38.880 Yeah, that's right. What you needed would be a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein,

00:00:43.660 a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:00:47.600 Fill with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

00:00:50.940 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.

00:00:59.700 Oh, Rhonda. You're so nice.

00:01:03.320 It's called the Simultaneous Sip, and it's going to happen now.

00:01:06.840 Oh, yeah. So good. So good.

00:01:14.580 Well, I might be a little bit unprepared today, because this vacation thing is very addictive.

00:01:23.340 I don't know if you've ever taken a vacation. I'm not big on them.

00:01:26.520 But lately, I've been trying to get into this whole vacation-y thing.

00:01:31.480 And I've always had this theory that if I took a vacation, well, maybe it's more of a fear or a phobia than a theory,

00:01:40.780 that if I took too much time off, I would never be able to do my job again.

00:01:45.060 Because if you're a cartoonist, there's a very thin line between something that, you know, really makes an impact

00:01:55.080 and something that people just go, eh, well, yeah, that was nice.

00:01:59.400 And I feel that extra 5% is the difference between, you know, something that works and something that doesn't.

00:02:06.200 And I feel like I lose 5% if I take a vacation.

00:02:09.260 So I've always thought, I try to build a life where the vacation is already built into the life.

00:02:16.940 Meaning that every day, I've got a whole bunch of good things happening.

00:02:21.640 But I work also.

00:02:23.500 And that's why I work 7 days a week.

00:02:25.920 Because I don't like to take a day off.

00:02:28.200 I think if I take a day off, I won't be as sharp when I come back.

00:02:31.820 And by the way, it's true.

00:02:33.500 You know, it's not based on nonsense.

00:02:35.780 I actually do lose some sharpness if I don't do something pretty active every day.

00:02:42.620 And I feel as though I'm pushing back age.

00:02:47.600 Because, you've noticed, that I do a lot of tightrope walking on a lot of different topics.

00:02:54.980 And do a lot of different stuff.

00:02:56.940 And I think the net effect of it is it keeps my brain a little bit younger.

00:03:01.300 At least, that's what I'm telling myself.

00:03:03.340 So, why don't we look at what's happening.

00:03:07.460 I'm not sure this is like a big old news day.

00:03:11.300 But let's see if there's anything interesting.

00:03:12.900 All right?

00:03:13.860 So let's see.

00:03:14.740 We've got a couple stories.

00:03:19.380 Tom Cotton is getting on Apple.

00:03:22.880 I guess they were lobbying against an anti-slavery bill in China.

00:03:28.600 Must have been a bill condemning, I don't know, condemning China for the Uyghur holocaust that's going on there. 1.00

00:03:37.160 And so I guess Apple was against the antitrust.

00:03:43.280 So against anything that's against the big platforms.

00:03:45.740 But also against anti-slavery bills.

00:03:49.040 So that's not a good look.

00:03:51.340 Did you see the video of the Chinese fellow?

00:03:58.840 He was talking about the Wuhan lab.

00:04:01.680 And he says that the Wuhan lab should be given the Nobel Prize in medicine.

00:04:10.020 Because I guess they sequenced or found the coronavirus first.

00:04:14.280 Yes, the Wuhan lab did find the coronavirus first. 0.67

00:04:23.580 That's probably a fact.

00:04:26.120 But I don't know if that's quite Nobel Prize material because they may have caused it.

00:04:36.940 How many people think that the virus was natural in the comments?

00:04:42.440 Show me, how many think it was natural?

00:04:45.300 Just coincidentally, as John Stewart famously said, that it came when a bat kissed a turtle.

00:04:54.080 Is there anybody left who believes that?

00:04:57.640 Now, check your, this is another one of those prediction situations.

00:05:02.200 And I always tell you that if you've made a prediction, keep track.

00:05:06.060 See how good you are.

00:05:07.080 It might give you some humility.

00:05:08.200 Or it might make you feel good if you're really good at predicting.

00:05:11.920 I'm not sure anybody's really good at predicting.

00:05:14.140 We don't live in a predictable world.

00:05:18.340 But if I recall, and maybe you can fact check me on this.

00:05:22.180 I'm pretty sure my first statements about this were, that's a mighty big coincidence.

00:05:28.200 Yeah, but maybe.

00:05:29.660 Maybe.

00:05:30.440 But it's a mighty big coincidence that that lab is there.

00:05:33.220 And I will tell you that, you know, in a non-public way, I saw some information early that would suggest it was definitely a lab.

00:05:46.220 But that's stuff that you all know at this point.

00:05:50.340 Yes, I did see the John Stewart clip, and it was hilarious.

00:05:55.120 We miss him.

00:05:56.140 He needs to come back.

00:05:56.980 All right, so this is kind of funny.

00:06:03.200 Elon Musk tweeted a picture of two of his rockets, I guess, getting staged for liftoff.

00:06:10.900 And have you seen these things, his rockets?

00:06:15.080 Because they don't look like, you know, the old kind of rockets.

00:06:17.740 They're kind of fatter, and they're all metal, like a proper sci-fi movie should be.

00:06:25.020 And they don't even look real, because they're so big that your brain can't say, no, there can't be something that big that looks like that.

00:06:37.660 It could either look like that and be small, or it could be really big, but it wouldn't look like that.

00:06:43.420 But somehow he made it look like that and really big.

00:06:46.500 But here's the funny thing I realized.

00:06:51.080 In all likelihood, Elon Musk will put a man on Mars.

00:06:57.440 Would you agree?

00:06:58.900 I mean, he's young enough.

00:07:00.140 He's doing all the right stuff.

00:07:02.140 There's going to be some mishaps, and he said the same thing.

00:07:05.680 But I think he's young enough that he's going to put somebody on Mars.

00:07:10.100 And here's the funny part.

00:07:13.560 It will be one of the greatest human achievements.

00:07:17.160 You know, fingers crossed, everybody's rooting for him.

00:07:20.040 It's one of the few things probably everybody's in favor of, right?

00:07:22.960 There's nobody who doesn't want to put a person on Mars.

00:07:26.220 Let's not say a man on Mars, okay?

00:07:28.340 Let's say a person on Mars.

00:07:29.520 And when that happens, 30% of the public will think it was staged in a studio.

00:07:39.400 Now, how would that feel if you were just, you know, thinking forward and imagine that Elon actually managed to put somebody on Mars?

00:07:48.780 I think it's going to happen.

00:07:50.860 30% of the world will say that didn't happen.

00:07:53.000 Yeah, no, that's just Photoshop and clever editing.

00:07:57.600 And, yeah, that was probably in Arizona.

00:08:01.960 Yeah.

00:08:04.120 So, I guess Joy Reid thinks that people don't want to teach critical race theory in schools

00:08:16.840 because they don't want children to know the accurate history of this country.

00:08:23.480 What?

00:08:25.000 Is there anybody in the world who doesn't want children to learn the accurate history of the country,

00:08:32.440 including slavery, of course?

00:08:35.280 You know, certainly you could argue one of the two or three most important things in the country,

00:08:42.260 you know, depending on how you want to measure things.

00:08:45.040 Or there's a pretty good argument it's the number one most important thing

00:08:48.560 that sort of defines us where we are at this moment.

00:08:51.160 You know, I guess the Revolutionary War would be, you know, maybe number one.

00:08:57.100 But do you think there are people, I think Joel Pollack made this point in a tweet,

00:09:04.980 do you think there's even one person who fits the description of somebody who wants to get rid of critical race theory

00:09:12.000 because they don't want accurate history taught to children?

00:09:16.520 Most of our politics is about imaginary people.

00:09:21.800 Have you noticed that?

00:09:23.100 It's about things that people might do in the future, but you don't know.

00:09:29.040 So, those are imaginary people because the future is imaginary, right?

00:09:32.740 Until it happens, it's imaginary.

00:09:34.020 Then you've got your fake news about the things that people were doing that didn't really happen.

00:09:41.520 So, you've got imaginary people in the past, you've got imaginary people in the future,

00:09:45.300 because that's the only kind you have.

00:09:47.240 And then you have the present, where you have our political pundits

00:09:52.100 describing people who don't exist, not even any one person,

00:09:56.740 and then making an entire impassioned plea, criticizing those imaginary people.

00:10:04.100 Most of politics is imaginary people.

00:10:08.520 Oh, don't get me started about the election integrity, which was perfect, by the way.

00:10:17.200 In case anybody's watching.

00:10:21.020 It was perfect.

00:10:23.340 There were no irregularities.

00:10:26.740 Ivermectin is bad.

00:10:28.540 Ivermectin is bad.

00:10:31.780 Okay.

00:10:32.940 All right.

00:10:33.460 You never know who's listening, really.

00:10:38.900 So, let's see.

00:10:39.680 What else is going on here?

00:10:41.960 Well, we've got...

00:10:44.440 Oh, it was Don Lemon who said that.

00:10:48.120 I'm sorry.

00:10:48.920 I had my stories wrong.

00:10:50.000 It was Don Lemon who said that we're trying to whitewash racism

00:10:54.820 and not teach it in schools.

00:10:57.420 So, I got that story wrong.

00:10:58.840 This is what happens when you're not prepared.

00:11:03.100 So, Matt Gates shared some threatening texts that were going to people he knows.

00:11:09.500 And apparently, some reporters, or at least one in particular, is getting pretty aggressive

00:11:15.220 about sort of subtly, I don't want to use the word threaten, but let's say rattle the cage,

00:11:25.680 put a little psychological pressure on him to come up with some dirt on Matt Gates.

00:11:32.280 And what a world we live in, that people who don't have dirt are being pressured to come up with some

00:11:41.780 or else they'll be in trouble with the press.

00:11:44.160 The press is a little bit too strong, isn't it?

00:11:47.580 So, that's pretty cringy.

00:11:52.940 Let's take a look at what's happening over on Fox News.

00:11:56.760 I looked at CNN and nothing's happening over there.

00:12:00.000 CNN didn't have any news today.

00:12:02.280 The most interesting thing in the news today is that guy who got swallowed by a whale

00:12:08.500 and then spit back out and he was okay.

00:12:12.560 There were some doubts about whether that was a real story.

00:12:17.380 I don't know.

00:12:18.980 I'm not going to start a religion around it, but I'm close.

00:12:24.100 I mean, he did get swallowed by a giant whale, and he did get spit out, apparently.

00:12:29.460 Apparently, he did get spit out and lived.

00:12:34.080 So, I might start a religion around that.

00:12:37.800 You know, I'm pro-religion.

00:12:39.220 I just don't have one.

00:12:40.960 So, we need one that I can enjoy.

00:12:46.900 Now, apparently, Fauci admitted that scientists acknowledged that COVID-19 could be lab-invented

00:12:57.300 illness in early 2020.

00:12:59.160 But didn't everybody?

00:13:01.420 I feel like everybody knew it could have been.

00:13:04.440 Didn't they?

00:13:05.520 Or, you know, I don't think it ever got ruled out in any kind of, you know, rigorous way.

00:13:10.580 Yeah, since my live stream today is, frankly, terrible, because I'm not prepared, I'm glad

00:13:20.180 that you're stepping up in the comments.

00:13:22.580 So, if you replay this, you might want to turn on the comments so you can see the way

00:13:26.080 they happened.

00:13:30.900 Wow.

00:13:31.340 So, the Democrats are really all in on this critical race theory, and I'm a little bit

00:13:38.060 glad about it.

00:13:39.780 Are you?

00:13:41.200 Is there anybody here who thinks critical race theory is going to be a problem?

00:13:48.800 You know what's going to happen, right?

00:13:50.980 The people who might have taken their kids out of public school and put them in a private

00:13:58.200 school is always a reasonably big number, but the number of people who will do it if critical

00:14:04.920 race theory becomes part of the public school curriculum, people are going to be desperate.

00:14:12.220 People are going to cash in their IRAs and their, you know, SEPs and stuff.

00:14:16.640 I feel like people are going to open their wallets to get their kids out of a public school

00:14:22.060 if they're teaching racism, teaching kids to be racist.

00:14:26.680 I think I'd pull my kid out of there right away.

00:14:30.980 And I don't know what's happening in California on that, but yeah, I think it's going to spark

00:14:36.660 a homeschool surge, then maybe the genie can never be put back in the bottle.

00:14:42.780 The teachers' unions have figured out how to do everything wrong.

00:14:46.640 It's like the teachers' unions either feel they have too much power so they can do anything

00:14:52.880 they want, or they don't know that they're getting ready for their own demise by just

00:14:58.920 going too far, basically.

00:15:00.880 Just going too far.

00:15:04.640 Of course, Biden revealed the 16 most valuable infrastructure targets for Putin and said,

00:15:13.100 please don't attack these things.

00:15:14.920 These are our most important ones.

00:15:17.320 I honestly can't think of anything more lame than that.

00:15:20.820 You know, on one hand, it does kind of make sense that, you know, we have certain things

00:15:27.380 that we say, okay, if you attack these things, it's basically war.

00:15:31.860 So maybe that would have been a better way to say it.

00:15:35.820 Let me put it this way.

00:15:37.480 If we think that Russia attacks any of our top infrastructure, and let's say you name

00:15:43.600 all 16, you could say that is equivalent to an armed conflict, because they would be that

00:15:50.020 important to the integrity of the country.

00:15:52.520 Now, if he told them that, that wouldn't be bad, right?

00:15:56.300 Here are 16 things which will cause a shooting war, as far as you know.

00:16:01.600 Maybe we wouldn't, but we say if you touch any one of these things, and we find your

00:16:05.580 fingerprints on them, that's a real war.

00:16:08.680 That's not playing around anymore.

00:16:10.340 These 16 are real war. 0.84

00:16:12.660 Just know that.

00:16:13.760 There's no ambiguity.

00:16:15.300 It's just like a nuclear attack.

00:16:17.300 These 16 are real war, and every weapon is in play.

00:16:21.940 Now, realistically, we're not going to start bombing Russia, but we might get pretty darn 1.00

00:16:29.380 aggressive, and aggressive could take many forms, and it could take some pretty bad ones.

00:16:36.880 So who knows?

00:16:39.680 But if there was a good threat behind it, maybe it wasn't as bad as it looks.

00:16:48.540 I'm just reading the headlines here on Fox.

00:16:50.620 Did Biden actually start to call Putin President Trump?

00:16:55.020 He probably did.

00:16:57.100 But again, how many of you have said president, and then you were going to say some other president,

00:17:04.000 and you ended up saying Trump, not Trump, because he's just, you know, in your head all the time?

00:17:12.980 Here's a question for you.

00:17:15.140 How important is January 6th to Democrats?

00:17:20.620 It's really important, and here's why.

00:17:23.920 Think about the biggest complaint about Trump that felt somewhat real, right?

00:17:32.820 Now, he was always called a racist, blah, blah, blah, but we didn't see, you know,

00:17:39.620 anything that looked like rounding up anybody for concentration camps, so it didn't get nearly

00:17:44.840 as bad as what anybody thought, and actually he was pro-LGBTQ, pro-black Americans.

00:17:52.320 He just got branded the other way.

00:17:54.240 But the biggest issue with Trump, I would say, is that people said he wasn't honest, that he lied, wouldn't you say?

00:18:03.660 Biden made a big deal about that.

00:18:06.380 That and the imaginary people, the fine people hoax.

00:18:11.300 So, you know, Biden's entire reason for running was Trump doesn't tell the truth, and then some things he imagined that happened that didn't.

00:18:22.540 So what if we realized that Trump had failed the fact-checking for four years straight,

00:18:30.000 which even his supporters would say, oh, yeah, he did fail some fact-checking.

00:18:33.740 But what if none of it mattered?

00:18:38.720 What if it was just one of the things that made him more interesting?

00:18:44.120 Because Trump had this weird quality, which is that he was the best promise keeper we've ever seen, right?

00:18:52.960 When he said he would do something, he tried like hell to do it.

00:18:57.280 Now, you could argue he didn't get the wall done.

00:18:59.280 That would be fair.

00:18:59.980 But did he try like hell to do it?

00:19:03.520 Yeah.

00:19:04.220 Like, he tried like hell.

00:19:05.860 Still trying.

00:19:06.940 He's still running for president, as far as we can tell, right?

00:19:09.960 He hasn't given up yet.

00:19:11.880 So did he do what he promised to do?

00:19:15.180 He tried like hell, and he got a lot of it done, all right?

00:19:19.340 So I don't think anybody's ever been more faithful to the voters, period.

00:19:25.180 I don't think anybody's been close.

00:19:26.500 But part of his style is the hyperbole, the exaggeration, the salesmanship, you know, all that.

00:19:33.980 And in that realm, he didn't really care too much about the facts, we assume, because he didn't seem to adhere to them in any rigorous fashion.

00:19:41.440 But what did it matter?

00:19:44.520 Name something that made a difference.

00:19:49.080 January 6th, right?

00:19:51.060 If they didn't have January 6th, literally the last thing that happened, they didn't have one example, unless somebody can come up with one.

00:20:01.160 Yeah, I'd like to be proven wrong about this point.

00:20:03.140 I don't think anybody could have come up with an example, after four years of allegedly lying, that any of it mattered, except, wait for it, here's the payoff.

00:20:15.080 None of that lying mattered, except, it's what made him so interesting that everybody else disappeared.

00:20:22.200 As a technique, it was great.

00:20:26.720 It bothered you, and that's why you watched him.

00:20:29.600 You thought he might lie again, that's why you watched him.

00:20:34.080 We said it was an actual lie, or just an exaggeration, or maybe it was true in a way, and it was interesting.

00:20:41.980 He has a talent for being interesting, and he seems to favor that over the niceties that other people would think would be more important.

00:20:52.420 And he just stays the most interesting person in the world, literally, the most interesting person in the world.

00:20:58.560 And it helps him politically, gives him all kinds of power.

00:21:02.460 So, if they didn't have January 6th, and say, Trump, you lied about the election, the big lie, right?

00:21:10.260 Notice that the big lie is branded the big lie.

00:21:14.460 It's not branded, I don't know, you could come up with a hundred different labels for it, but it's the big lie.

00:21:20.500 Why? Because they finally found something they could sell as a consequence of his lying, or let's say, not passing the fact checking.

00:21:30.680 If they didn't have January 6th, they wouldn't have one example, unless, and again, if I'm wrong, if he could give me another example of where it might have mattered that he said something that wasn't technically true, I don't think he could come up with one.

00:21:47.860 And the big lie, we don't know, and the big lie, we don't know if he's wrong yet.

00:21:54.200 We don't know.

00:21:55.660 My understanding is the Arizona audit has some surprises for you.

00:21:59.860 So, one of the insiders for the Arizona audit says that we're going to see something that will be interesting.

00:22:10.180 Don't know what that is, and I'm going to bet against it changing the election.

00:22:16.320 I think that's an easy bet, but it might be interesting, and it might tell us something we didn't know, and it might change your idea of who is right and who is wrong, but we're going to hold off on that.

00:22:27.240 My guess is there's not much there.

00:22:30.220 So, if you want my prediction, I don't think the audit is going to find enough to overturn an election, and even if it found a lot, it wouldn't overturn the election.

00:22:42.140 You know, it's too late.

00:22:45.520 But that's where that's at.

00:22:49.420 All right.

00:22:50.960 I guess Kamala Harris still hasn't been to the border. 0.99

00:22:54.040 Somebody said that Trump was going to go to the border.

00:22:56.260 Is that true?

00:22:58.060 Is that still on?

00:23:03.520 He said, Syria used chemical weapons on his own people.

00:23:07.460 Did it matter?

00:23:11.580 Yeah, the question is whether any of it mattered.

00:23:15.440 I'm not telling you that he passed the fact-checking all the time.

00:23:20.240 You know, we all agree on that point.

00:23:21.740 Oh, yeah, so he's going there.

00:23:25.620 He was invited by Governor Abbott.

00:23:27.560 Well, I do love the Republican governors, you know, taking it up, and Arizona and, I guess, Texas and Florida is going to be helping those guys.

00:23:37.920 So that means everybody's going to come to my state.

00:23:42.440 So, raise your plans, people.

00:23:45.140 I guess California is where they're all coming.

00:23:48.500 California is getting ready to catch on fire.

00:23:52.180 It's 100 degrees.

00:23:54.020 Air conditioning is breaking everywhere.

00:23:55.700 And the kindling in our forests is getting ready to blow up.

00:24:01.880 So, do you feel that things are poorly managed when we have a zillion people not working and nobody's cleaning up the low brush and debris that's in the forest?

00:24:13.080 I feel like we've got the labor to do that.

00:24:17.380 Yeah, we've got fires and we've got no water.

00:24:21.760 All right.

00:24:22.660 So, all right, that's about all I've got because there's not much happening in the news.

00:24:31.200 Does anybody have anything interesting?

00:24:33.880 Let me give you a, while you're typing, let me give you a little update on masks in Greece, where I am.

00:24:41.400 So, I'm in Santorini.

00:24:43.280 It's a total touristy place.

00:24:46.660 So, their economy pretty much is just based on tourists.

00:24:51.520 Check out Henry George's work, land value tax.

00:24:56.260 Hmm, interesting.

00:24:57.400 Never heard of that.

00:24:59.140 Here's what you need to know.

00:25:01.800 So, the law in Greek is that over here you have to wear a mask.

00:25:06.720 And I think anywhere there are people or something.

00:25:09.780 But the locals were very masked up.

00:25:13.800 And at the hotel I'm at, they're all completely masked.

00:25:17.100 But we went to a neighboring town.

00:25:20.000 And the rules are quite different.

00:25:23.880 There were close to zero tourists wearing masks.

00:25:29.640 And when you went into any of the many, many shops, nobody asked me to put a mask on.

00:25:36.860 Oh, actually once.

00:25:37.900 Only one shop asked me to put a mask on.

00:25:40.460 And, you know, I'm in their country, so I put a mask on, right? 1.00

00:25:43.360 If it were America, depending on the situation, I might push back.

00:25:48.640 But it's their country.

00:25:50.380 So, you know, I'm not going to be that guy.

00:25:52.440 So, here's the thing you can learn from it.

00:25:58.160 And I've said this before.

00:25:59.660 In an emergency, when the emergency starts, the government's in charge.

00:26:04.960 And you kind of want that because you don't want everybody just running around and trying to do their own thing.

00:26:10.200 But once the emergency reaches the, you know, the end zone, and we're getting close to the end of this pandemic, fingers crossed, the government isn't the right engine for that.

00:26:24.780 It's got to be the people.

00:26:26.400 And the people will express their will through economics.

00:26:29.360 And let me tell you, there was not one shopkeeper in this island who wanted to lose a sale after being closed for however long they've been closed.

00:26:41.160 They've been basically starving to death here.

00:26:43.440 I don't know if it's literally starving, but they've been struggling.

00:26:47.840 And they were not going to lose a sale.

00:26:50.860 No small business here was going to turn a tourist away.

00:26:55.460 If you had a wallet, you could shop.

00:27:00.640 And I think that's the lesson.

00:27:03.280 The lesson is economics will become the new government, right?

00:27:07.080 The laws of economics will determine what's open and when.

00:27:12.600 Thank you, Derek.

00:27:13.820 That is beyond generous.

00:27:15.660 I appreciate that.

00:27:21.000 Oh, yeah.

00:27:21.700 The Tucker Carlson question about why were there so many FBI agents seemingly connected to various domestic terror problems.

00:27:33.380 Well, it makes sense that they would be penetrated.

00:27:36.900 So it always makes sense that they would be around that.

00:27:44.080 Ryan, that's a good idea.

00:27:45.360 A closing simultaneous sip.

00:27:49.400 Something that just brings it all together.

00:27:56.840 Dr. Funk Juice, I just noticed that you sent me a message, but I didn't open it yet.

00:28:02.940 I'm going to open it right now while you're watching.

00:28:07.040 Send me a link.

00:28:07.980 Oh, a story about the...

00:28:14.220 Okay.

00:28:14.640 I won't read this out loud until I...

00:28:16.380 Ah, that's great.

00:28:19.880 And happy birthday.

00:28:21.340 Hey, everybody.

00:28:22.100 Say happy birthday to Dr. Funk Juice, who's in the house.

00:28:27.400 Happy birthday to you.

00:28:28.680 33 years old.

00:28:30.920 And we appreciate you greatly.

00:28:33.040 So I would like to dedicate this closing simultaneous sip to Dr. Funk Juice, whose birthday is today.

00:28:43.680 And the good Dr. Funk Juice, happy birthday to you.

00:28:52.920 Good stuff.

00:28:55.120 Yes, as some of you know, I did catch up with Dr. Drew and his wife.

00:28:59.460 And Christine and I had a lovely time with them.

00:29:02.160 And it was just insanely fun.

00:29:05.560 Just hanging out and eating and chatting.

00:29:08.560 And they are so interesting.

00:29:10.820 It's just crazy.

00:29:15.240 All right.

00:29:16.680 I don't think I've got anything else left for you.

00:29:19.020 Anybody else got anything?

00:29:21.740 Sometimes it's just fun to catch up.

00:29:24.480 Tomorrow, maybe I'll actually have some content.

00:29:28.120 But it kind of depends on the news, right?

00:29:30.360 The news has to step up.

00:29:32.160 Mike says, I changed your life.

00:29:38.900 How did I do that, Mike?

00:29:41.440 You know, one of the strange elements of what I do at this part of my life is that you have sort of the Spider-Man problem.

00:29:52.840 That with, you know, with power comes responsibility.

00:29:57.240 And when people tell me that I've changed their lives, which I hear every day, by the way, literally every day, not a joke, every day, somebody messages me or tweets and says, you know, I lost 40 pounds.

00:30:11.760 I got a job.

00:30:12.200 I got a job.

00:30:12.940 I got a job.

00:30:12.960 I got a job.

00:30:13.240 I doubled my income.

00:30:14.800 And most of them are accrediting me for usually my book, how to fill almost everything and still win big.

00:30:21.420 And it's kind of a, it's great, but it's also a prison, but one that I would willingly go into,

00:30:36.520 meaning that if you can help people and you don't, how do you live with that, right?

00:30:45.400 If people are telling me that I've made a difference in their life in fairly large numbers,

00:30:49.880 how do I, how do I stop doing that, right? I mean, there's, I can't even imagine that I could stop

00:30:57.620 trying to be helpful anyway, whether I'm successful or not. All right.

00:31:05.320 Thanks, Luz. Juneteenth, what do you think about Congress voting itself a paid holiday? 0.78

00:31:12.440 What have I told you about selfishness? I gave a little lesson on this in the locals platform.

00:31:22.140 If you were to just assume that the only variable you needed to look at was personal selfishness,

00:31:28.440 how often would it predict what will happen next? Just about all the time. And you're going to say

00:31:35.900 to yourself, but wait, there are all kinds of other variables. And some people are good people.

00:31:41.160 They're not all acting selfish. They're thinking about other people. Sure. That's true. But what

00:31:47.340 predicts best? And what predicts best is people do what's good for themselves consistently. You know,

00:31:54.100 not a hundred percent of the time, maybe, because they might have a difference in opinion of what's

00:32:00.120 good for them. Maybe it's not obvious to you, but it's pretty predictable. And when I heard that

00:32:05.920 Congress was going to vote on whether Congress would get a day off with pay with everybody else

00:32:12.900 who would get the day off, I think government employees, what were the odds that government

00:32:18.400 employees would not vote for a paid holiday for themselves? Pretty low, right? I think it was

00:32:25.980 unanimous, unanimous consent or something. So you didn't have to wonder where that was going to go

00:32:32.100 now. And who exactly wanted to be on record opposing it, right? There were some people on

00:32:38.440 record opposing it, I think.

00:32:43.780 No, I may be confusing two different things. If it was unanimous consent, there wasn't anybody

00:32:48.820 on record. So I think I'm confusing two different stories. I have not seen an HBO show called

00:32:55.220 The Leftovers. All right. Just looking at your comments here, because I just enjoy hanging out

00:33:09.420 with you. Do I think Andrew Yang has a chance? Well, I don't know what the polls are doing. I did not

00:33:15.980 understand he was at the top. Isn't there an ex-police chief? I think there's a black guy who was a

00:33:24.400 police chief. So it's sort of the perfect demographic, right? If you were going to say

00:33:29.300 to yourself, invent the perfect candidate for New York City right now, it would be a black 1.00

00:33:37.180 ex-police chief. That would be your perfect New York City candidate. So I wouldn't be surprised if

00:33:44.860 he wins. But to answer your question directly, Andrew Yang has a lot of capability. He has all the

00:33:52.140 capability you need for pretty much any high-level job. But he has to get elected first.

00:34:04.700 Okay. I just read your comment, but I didn't know what to say about it.

00:34:10.860 Have you heard about the Portland police resigning? Yeah. Well, they resigned from the,

00:34:15.720 I guess the task force or whatever it is that was working on the protests, but they didn't lose

00:34:22.940 their jobs. They just got reassigned. But that was pretty gutsy. So I guess one of their members

00:34:31.240 was charged with something, and they did not think that was appropriate. And all 50 of them just quit,

00:34:38.620 at least from the task force only. So that's a pretty good statement.

00:34:46.740 Eric Adams is the name of the New York City police chief candidate. Well, with a name like that,

00:34:52.920 he's halfway elected. Thanks, Ian. You are too nice. Is the hotel tracking me? Good question.

00:35:03.820 Um, I can tell you that the hotel is, is the hotel is definitely tracking Christina

00:35:11.060 because she's, uh, she's Instagrammed, um, some photos. So I know they're tracking her.

00:35:17.980 I don't know if the hotel has figured out who I am yet. The, one of the great things about, uh, my job

00:35:25.240 back before I was doing the live streaming stuff and the political stuff, uh, I was famous ish for Dilbert,

00:35:32.740 but people would not necessarily recognize me. So wherever I went, I could be famous and anonymous

00:35:37.680 at the same time. But when I travel with Christina, um, everybody who sees her thinks she's famous

00:35:45.020 because you look at her and you go, Oh, you're probably doing something famous. You know, people

00:35:51.380 who look like you are always famous. Uh, and they don't look at me. I could be in a crowd of a thousand

00:35:57.780 people. And if Christina is next to me, I'm invisible. You know what I mean? Right? Yeah.

00:36:04.760 I'm not, I'm not being humble. It's just a fact. I'm literally, I just disappear. So I'm like the

00:36:09.960 invisible man, you know, walking down the street and people are like bumping into me because they

00:36:13.740 didn't even see that I'm here. So, uh, I feel as if, uh, I'm quite anonymous at the moment. Yeah.

00:36:21.060 I'm the hollow man. So between that and sunglasses, it's all I need. Nobody knows who I am.

00:36:35.440 Uh, Audrey wants that ability. Well, you have to get a Christina. It doesn't, it doesn't happen 1.00

00:36:41.280 on its own. Can you show us her picture? Uh, just go to, uh, Instagram or just Google it and just

00:36:52.460 Google Christina with a K, uh, last name Basham, B as in boy, A-S-H-M-A-N. And she'll be the first 0.98

00:37:02.980 one that pops up. Um, oh, yes, there's a story about a China defector, which I don't believe.

00:37:11.620 So that's one that at least the smart people say maybe, but apparently one of the common things to

00:37:19.400 do to mess with another country, a rival country is start a rumor that one of their high level people

00:37:25.800 is defecting. If you wanted to mess with China, what would be a really good way to do it? 1.00

00:37:31.260 Figure out who one of their important people is, and then start a rumor that he's, he's prepping

00:37:37.540 to defect. And then China has to kill them, kill that guy themselves. So I think you can get 1.00

00:37:44.000 countries to jail or kill their own people. If you can successfully start a rumor that that person's

00:37:50.300 getting ready to be a traitor. So when you hear that a high level person is going to defect,

00:37:56.600 your first thought should be probably not. If it happens, it happens. And I changed my mind,

00:38:04.520 but just in terms of, uh, the odds, if you're going to play the odds, don't you think there

00:38:10.920 would be far more rumors of high level of defections? Because you would, you would do

00:38:15.880 that as much as you wanted, right? Because it works. Um, oh, I just, uh, yeah, right. I just,

00:38:23.500 uh, misspelled Christina's name. You're right. B-A-S-H-A-M. Sorry. It's funny when I was doing 0.99

00:38:30.920 it, I felt like there was an extra letter in there as I was saying it, but it wasn't until I saw your

00:38:35.600 comment that I was like, okay, that was an extra letter. Let's get that in there.

00:38:39.260 The fentanyl boss is defecting. I don't know if he was the boss of the fentanyl stuff,

00:38:47.280 but if he was the boss of the fentanyl stuff, uh, we could kill him where he stands and we would be 0.97

00:38:53.300 totally justified in that in, in country. We could kill him in China. And I think that would be 1.00

00:38:57.860 completely justified. Active war, but justified. Thanks, Sean. Appreciate it. Um,

00:39:09.260 and how many of you just, uh, Googled her? I know you did.

00:39:16.100 Our intelligence agencies don't seem concerned about foreign adversaries.

00:39:20.800 Well, we don't know how, we don't know how concerned they are.

00:39:28.200 Yeah, I don't think the, I don't think the high level defector is really defecting. I think that's

00:39:33.440 a rumor. At least if you play the odds, it would be a rumor, but you know, 20% maybe.

00:39:39.260 Let's say 10, 20% chance is true. Would be pretty exciting. I don't think it's going to change

00:39:44.400 anything. Um, all right. Why don't I buy a yacht and go around the world? Somebody says that's not

00:39:56.100 really my thing. I'm not a yacht kind of guy. Will your Apple podcasts ever return? Interesting you

00:40:09.340 would ask that because they never went anywhere. So the last time somebody said, where, where is your

00:40:15.300 podcast on Apple? Uh, we just looked and it was there. So I feel as if there might've been a

00:40:23.280 counterfeit one that maybe got taken off. So look for a real coffee with Scott Adams. I think that's

00:40:32.380 the name of the podcast and it it's there. Yeah. And Dax is telling you, he listens to it. So I'm

00:40:40.720 pretty sure it's, uh, yeah, look for a real coffee with Scott Adams. The real part, if that's missing,

00:40:48.100 I think you end up going to a counterfeit site. Nikki Haley supports the Charlottesville hoax. Oh,

00:40:56.100 so disappointing. So disappointing. Um,

00:41:01.980 Michael asks, did I realize when starting Dilbert that it was funny even to kids with no corporate

00:41:08.620 working experience that applied to anyone who'd had any exposure to an organization? Well, I found

00:41:14.360 that out fairly quickly, um, because a lot of kids would email me and, or parents would say, my kid

00:41:20.840 likes it, but it isn't every kid. It's the smart ones. If you find a kid who reads Dilbert and is a

00:41:30.760 Dilbert fan, they're the smart ones in the class. They're, they're the ones who are getting the good

00:41:36.080 grades very consistently. So there's, there's something about the comic that appeals to a certain type

00:41:42.020 of person, regardless of age. Uh, email wasn't around then. Yes. But, um, around 93 is when I started

00:41:52.360 using email and that was, yeah, several years after I started. You were correct. It's funny. I've been

00:42:00.740 doing this for over 30 years, the cartooning. So five years seems like the beginning, but that's

00:42:06.060 a good correction. Uh, did I, did I ever hear of Mafalda? I don't know what that is.

00:42:13.360 Joshua says, I wrote to you when I was 10. I probably read that.

00:42:19.740 Should people who had COVID get vaccinated, you ask? Well, that's a personal medical decision.

00:42:25.320 So I would not try to influence you on that. I would just say that, uh, smart people do, uh,

00:42:32.160 smart people do. So that doesn't mean it's right for you, but there are people who have looked into

00:42:38.780 it and said, well, I want the convenience of saying that I'm vaccinated. It's easier to prove that than

00:42:44.280 it is to prove my antibodies maybe. So just for practical purposes, people are doing it.

00:42:50.780 All right. I think we've said everything we need to say today. And I think I'm going to close this

00:42:57.800 with a closing simultaneous sip. Get your cup or your mug. Go.

00:43:08.860 That's good stuff. Now we'll talk to you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 18, 2021

Episode 1410 Scott Adams： Sometimes it is About the Anticipation

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