Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1411 Scott Adams： Ice Cream, Ponies, and Sunsets Are Irrelevant to This Program

00:00:00.000 bodily noise. I can't help that, really. Hey, everybody, come on in here. You know what time

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00:00:13.920 telling you, your mind, your soul. It's all the same message that it's time for Coffee with Scott

00:00:21.180 Adams the best part of the day. Now, I want to manage your expectations today. In all likelihood,

00:00:31.080 this will be the worst, the worst Coffee with Scott Adams of all time. It could be. Now, I'm just

00:00:39.940 managing your expectations, so if I clear that bar, well, yeah, that's a bonus, but could be the worst

00:00:46.560 one ever. Well, I hear in the news that there's an increase in shark attacks. That's right. You

00:00:54.920 thought the COVID was going to get you? No. You thought the climate change was going to get you?

00:01:01.540 No. It's going to be sharks. Sharks with freaking lasers on their heads. I'm just saying that before

00:01:07.020 you put it in the comments because I know you will. I know you so well. Somebody's going to say

00:01:12.060 freaking lasers on their head. Somebody's going to do it, but you don't have to now because I did it

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00:01:51.460 thing that makes everything except shark attacks better. It's called the simultaneous sip and watch

00:01:57.740 it happen right now. Go. Yeah, you would think that it would be harder for the sharks to attack

00:02:09.620 because they got to bite through the little masks first. I assume they're wearing masks.

00:02:16.240 I'm in Santorini, Greece right now for anybody who didn't know it. And there's a statue here

00:02:24.700 wearing a surgical mask. Some wag climbed over a fence and got to the place you're not supposed

00:02:34.180 to get to and put a surgical mask on one of the pieces of art here. Pretty funny.

00:02:42.420 All right. Well, I just tweeted out this morning or retweeted. There's a little bit in Mashable.

00:02:49.720 Mashable. So Mashable is something you should follow. It's a Twitter account and I guess a website,

00:02:56.960 magazine site, whatever it is. But they have items on all the new cool technology, the stuff that you

00:03:03.420 don't see in the regular news. And there is a mind-blowing story. Every once in a while you'll

00:03:10.280 see a story and you'll say, what? Here's one. Apparently they have now developed an artificial

00:03:18.200 arm and hand, you know, that's fully articulated that can be controlled by a person's mind while

00:03:26.380 that person is using their normal hands to do a task at the same time. So in other words, they've

00:03:34.060 got this test. Now, apparently every person can't do it, but some number of people can repeat this

00:03:39.800 experiment. So they'll give them a task where they're doing something with their two normal

00:03:43.980 hands. And then they'll just simply, I think, I think they just have to want, just think about it,

00:03:52.180 just sort of want the mechanical arm, which has some sensors attached, obviously, to your externally,

00:03:58.540 to your brain, just want it to reach over and pick up a bottle and hold it. And a number of the people

00:04:06.000 can actually work with their two normal hands and have the mechanical hand come over and pick up their

00:04:11.420 drink and give it to them while they're still working with their other two hands. Are you freaked

00:04:16.040 out by that? You should be. Have you ever known anybody who lost, let's say they had a stroke or

00:04:24.600 something and they lost control of their, any part of their body? The process to get back control of,

00:04:32.400 let's say, an arm or a leg, to get your brain to control it again once that connection has been lost

00:04:38.460 is so creepy because all you have to do is want it, basically. Now, there's some tricks. One of the

00:04:49.180 tricks is, have you ever heard of this, the, what do they call it? It's like a, there's a mirrored box

00:04:56.240 where you take your hand that works properly and put it in there, reverses it, so it looks like your other

00:05:02.760 hand. So if your right hand is good, but your left hand needs rehabilitation because your brain is not

00:05:08.560 connected to it, you put your both hands under the thing and your brain will think that it's controlling

00:05:15.160 your other hand because the mirror has reversed them, and then your brain connects to the hand

00:05:21.160 that wasn't working, and then you can use it. Does that just freak you out? Your brain is so elastic,

00:05:29.960 it can just want to control an arm, either your own arm that lost the connection through a stroke,

00:05:36.660 or even a freaking mechanical arm, a robot arm, and the part that you have to do is visualize it.

00:05:46.920 See where I'm going with this? You just have to visualize it, and your freaking brain and body 0.99

00:05:53.120 do it. Now, the mirrored box trick is an aid to visualization, basically. It just, it gives you, 0.96

00:06:02.100 you know, if you can't imagine it, you just see it. So you don't have to imagine it, you're seeing it,

00:06:07.320 but you're not seeing something real. I'll tell you, if you don't think you can change a whole bunch

00:06:13.920 of stuff about your brain, you know, my experience as, for if there's even one person who doesn't know

00:06:20.580 this by now, I'm a trained hypnotist. And once you learn how elastic and how programmable the brain

00:06:29.460 and the body are, it changes everything about your perception of just what's possible, why things work

00:06:36.060 the way they do, why people become what they become, all that stuff. You just, your brain opens up, and

00:06:42.580 you stop thinking, oh, it's free will. And it's just some kind of, you know, mechanical process.

00:06:50.060 But somebody says psilocybin helps. It certainly does. So Glenn Greenwald is doing his usual

00:06:58.240 tremendous work for the public. You know, there's some people in the, what world would you say,

00:07:05.420 journalism world, I guess, that, you know, of course, everybody works for money.

00:07:12.580 So there's nobody who isn't doing it, at least partially, because it's a job. But I feel like

00:07:18.260 there are some people who are just taking it to another level. They're actually trying to help the

00:07:22.840 world. And I think Greenwald is one of those. And here's his, his edition today. So you know the

00:07:33.080 story of Tucker Carlson, famously, and a Revolver publication, have been talking about the fact that,

00:07:40.920 and Revolver, I think, is the initiator of this idea, that the FBI had penetrated and had assets in a

00:07:48.820 number of different organizations. And there's some thought that maybe, maybe, or at least this is the

00:07:55.540 conspiracy theory part, unproven, that maybe the FBI is causing the terrorism. In other words, somebody is

00:08:02.280 just trying to, well, it's trying to push an organization a little farther than it might have pushed itself.

00:08:07.420 And that's, I would say there's no, no proof of that. But there are some questions that are

00:08:14.520 unanswered, that sort of give you the feeling, sort of a suggestion, like, maybe you better look into

00:08:19.960 this a little more. So one of the things that Greenwald is correcting, I saw in his writing today

00:08:26.580 on Substack. And by the way, you should follow him, follow him on Substack. That would be the most useful

00:08:33.220 thing you could do, as well as Twitter. He said that when Tucker and the Revolver guy were noting

00:08:39.840 that, and by the way, could somebody please, in the comments, help me? Because I keep talking about

00:08:48.540 the story without doing the minimal amount of Googling to find out the name of the Revolver

00:08:54.220 guy. One of you must know it. Just put it in the comments, and then I'll say it. Is it

00:09:00.340 Darren Beattie? Is that the name? Okay, thank you. Well, that didn't take long. So Darren Beattie. So

00:09:08.800 first of all, I apologize to Darren Beattie, because I shouldn't be telling a story without leaving,

00:09:13.460 you know, without mentioning his name, since basically he's the originator of the story.

00:09:17.260 So my apologies. So one of the odd things is that there are people who are unindicted co-conspirators

00:09:29.540 about the January 6th protest slash whatever you want to call it at the Capitol. And the thinking is

00:09:38.500 that that might be a tell that it's the infiltrating FBI agents that are the ones that are unindicted

00:09:47.000 because you wouldn't want to name them and you wouldn't want to indict them because they're,

00:09:50.780 you know, they're undercover. But apparently the people who are smarter than I am, quite a few of

00:09:58.140 them, certainly when it comes to the law, say that you wouldn't do that, that that's not telling you

00:10:04.040 anything. I think Glenn Greenwald was making that point. And if I understood the reason, and I think I

00:10:11.320 don't, the reason was that you wouldn't consider the FBI assets as unindicted co-conspirators because

00:10:20.800 they wouldn't be co-conspirators. They would be FBI agents. And I said to myself, okay, like I get,

00:10:31.320 I get the technical accuracy of that, that they would not actually be co-conspirators. They would be

00:10:37.280 undercover agents. But if you wanted to keep them undercover, wouldn't you treat them like they

00:10:44.920 were real people? And so I'm not entirely sure that, that, so there's still some gray area in the

00:10:54.960 story is all I'm saying. Not being a lawyer, I'm not quite buying the story that you wouldn't treat

00:11:01.600 them the way you would treat a real person who is in the organization, if you wanted them to stay

00:11:08.500 undercover. Stephen Miller on Twitter had a really good catch here. CNN had a story. So here's a story

00:11:18.940 as it's tweeted by CNN, and then it's on their website. Quote, within days, China will reach a

00:11:26.680 staggering 1 billion doses in its COVID-19 vaccination drive, a scale and speed unrivaled

00:11:33.400 by any other country in the world. And it's an analysis by Nectargan and Lori Lui, if I've

00:11:44.020 pronounced that anywhere close. Stephen Miller points out that both of these analysts who are saying that

00:11:52.560 China is just doing amazing, amazing. China is great. And the two people who wrote this article

00:12:00.600 live in Hong Kong. So it's just, it's just Chinese propaganda. And it's running on, it's running on CNN

00:12:14.280 like it's an analysis. Now, maybe the data's correct. I don't know. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Can we

00:12:22.220 trust China's data? I doubt it. But I think it's probably safe to say they got a lot of vaccinations

00:12:28.200 done. But if you didn't know, now if, in other words, if Stephen Miller hadn't done the work for you,

00:12:35.680 would you have known that that wasn't real news? That it was just propaganda from China? Would you

00:12:44.280 have known? I don't know if I would have known that without, you know, the little boost by somebody

00:12:50.420 who knew it more than I do, Stephen Miller. So that's pretty scary, isn't it? How easily pure

00:12:59.400 propaganda can be reformatted as news, you wouldn't know the difference. It would look just like it.

00:13:05.680 So can somebody give me a little fact check on this? There's, oh God, do I get kicked off of

00:13:15.360 social media if I say this wrong? So this is not a fact I'm about to state. This is a conspiracy

00:13:22.860 theory. Let's call it that. So what I'm about to say has no known factual basis, as far as I know.

00:13:30.480 But did you see a story that said that somebody in China got a patent on a corona, the COVID-19

00:13:39.640 vaccination long before we all knew about it? And that there was actually a patent there

00:13:48.480 that would suggest that they knew things way before they told us? Thanks, Mark. So Mark bought the

00:14:01.860 Way of the Weasel book, one of my books, for his dad. I have to tell you, though, I hate to ruin your

00:14:10.840 gift. That is my worst book. No lie. It's my worst book. Now, if you like it, that'd be great. Now,

00:14:20.320 let me tell you why it's my worst book. It's not because the writing was subpar, not because it was

00:14:26.300 less funny. It's because the theme of the book is that everybody is a weasel. And it turns out that

00:14:34.320 people will really buy books if you say, my boss is an idiot, but I'm pretty smart. People will buy 1.00

00:14:41.100 the hell out of that book, because it makes them feel good. Like, I'm smarter than my boss. I'll take

00:14:46.300 that framework. And I'll apply that. I'll buy that. I'll give this as a gift. I'm so much smarter than

00:14:51.460 my boss. But as soon as you say, well, your boss is a weasel. Yeah, we all know that. But you're a bit 0.99

00:14:57.900 of a weasel yourself. You know, if you're being honest, we're all little weasely sometimes. So 0.80

00:15:04.680 that was the theme that I thought I could make a book out of. It turns out that people don't want

00:15:10.240 to buy a book that says they're weasels. Which is funny, because it's so obvious after the fact.

00:15:19.300 Somehow I went all the way through the publishing process, because I think it was at sort of the height

00:15:24.140 of my publishing power at that point, because my books have been doing well. But I wish my publisher

00:15:30.520 had talked me out of that one. Because in Russia's fact, it's just such a mistake. But, like I said, 0.86

00:15:39.860 the writing and the writing and the jokes are just as good as anything. If you want to give him the best

00:15:44.280 book I've ever read or ever written, I would give him Had I Failed Almost Everything and Still Win Big,

00:15:51.180 or Win Bigly, or Loser Think. Those would be the three for Father's Day. So if anybody's going to do a

00:15:58.200 Father's Day gift, those would be the three books that would work for your father. All right, you all

00:16:05.240 know the Yanni and Laurel thing, right? You know, there's the audio illusion. Some people hear Yanni,

00:16:11.120 some people hear Laurel. Well, there's a new one that is mind-boggling. Because I didn't count them,

00:16:18.420 but I think there are nine different things you can hear just by looking at the word in print

00:16:24.220 while you're listening to it. And I could hear, I think, five of the nine clear as day, as long as

00:16:33.200 I was looking at the words that said that. They would say exactly that. And then I would go down

00:16:37.660 the list, and a whole different sentence, I could hear it perfectly. And then there'd be one that just

00:16:43.980 didn't change anything. Like, I couldn't hear it at all. But five out of nine completely different

00:16:51.360 sentences, I could hear clear as day when I'm prompted for it. And they're different. The link

00:16:59.860 would be on my Twitter feed. So just go to Scott Adams Says. And I tweeted it today. So you'll see it

00:17:07.400 in the top, I don't know, top 20 tweets. You'll find it pretty quickly. So you have to look at that.

00:17:13.040 It's mind-blowing. It really is. Joel Pollack pointed out that Juneteenth, as a holiday, which we're

00:17:24.180 getting under a Democrat administration, turns out that Trump had suggested making that a holiday.

00:17:31.940 It was part of his proposed platinum plan for black Americans. You know, he had a larger set

00:17:40.020 of plans. And part of the plans were making Juneteenth a national holiday. So once again,

00:17:46.580 Joe Biden, as Joel pointed out, Joe Biden is following the lead of Trump.

00:17:55.020 And how many times is this going to happen? The list is starting to grow, right? So there are two

00:18:03.760 things that seem to be happening. Either Biden does pretty much what Trump did. And everybody says

00:18:10.300 it's a good idea. Or he goes the other direction, such as in the border. And everybody says it's a

00:18:15.840 disaster. He's really trapped, isn't he? And remember, I, you know, I'd predicted this that Biden

00:18:21.820 would end up doing, or whoever was the next president, no matter who won the, who won in

00:18:28.300 the last election. Whenever Trump is done, people are going to be copying him. His worst critics

00:18:36.460 are going to copy him. Because it works. There's just a whole bunch of stuff that Trump does

00:18:43.000 that is the right decision. And it works. So I've said it before. And every, every time we get a new

00:18:52.660 piece of information like this, I say it again, Trump's administration, whether it ends up being

00:18:59.040 two or, or, or the initial four years, is going to look like one of the best administrations of all

00:19:07.140 time. And, but it's going to take a while for people to realize that. Did you hear that Dave

00:19:15.180 Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, pretty, you know, a fairly enormous site online, has a big

00:19:24.380 impact. He got, he's back on now. He's, he's been reinstated, but he was suspended by Twitter.

00:19:30.180 Now, a lot of people get suspended by Twitter. So that alone is not a big story, right? But here's

00:19:38.340 the big story. Doesn't know why. Doesn't know why. He's guessing it's some kind of a mean tweet he did

00:19:48.460 about dropping his nuts on somebody's head. But I feel like I've said much worse than that.

00:19:55.580 Have you ever seen my Twitter feed? I don't think I'm always polite. But it could be that

00:20:04.920 as soon as you add a kinetic element to it, maybe that's the line. Because dropping your nuts on

00:20:13.660 somebody's head would be a violent attack, right? I mean, it would be at the very least a sexually 0.99

00:20:21.160 abusive attack. So even though it's obvious that it wasn't meant as an actual physical threat,

00:20:30.900 maybe that's just the line that Twitter says. If it's kinetic, in other words, if you say something

00:20:38.220 is going to move, like your nuts being on a head, doesn't matter if it's, you know, a weapon,

00:20:44.440 putting your nuts on somebody's head is kinetic, maybe that's the difference versus just saying 0.97

00:20:51.660 somebody is ugly or dumb or something that doesn't seem to get you banned. So we're kind of reading the 0.98

00:20:59.000 tea leaves here and trying to figure out what gets people banned. And that's my latest guess. There's a

00:21:05.580 kinetic portion of that. Or again, because we're guessing, it could be scrotum related. Remember,

00:21:14.920 I was surprised to find out that YouTube specifically mectin and hydroxychloroquine

00:21:22.160 as two things you can't mention in a positive sense. I was surprised that their terms of service

00:21:29.260 are specific about those two things. Don't do that. But it could be, I haven't read Twitter's

00:21:35.340 terms of service, they might have something in there about scrotums. It's like, well, you can talk

00:21:40.040 about a scrotum. You can say you have one. You can say you shave it. But you can't get it anywhere near 0.99

00:21:48.340 somebody's head. If you suggest that a scrotum should be in the same general neighborhood of a head, 0.95

00:21:58.000 and I don't know what the right distance is. Because that matters, right? Let's imagine that 0.59

00:22:05.760 these earbuds, or whatever the fuck these are called, imagine this was a scrotum. Work with me 1.00

00:22:13.260 here and see if we can come up with a reasonable standard. Acceptable or not acceptable? I would say

00:22:20.960 not acceptable. If somebody's scrotum is on your forehead, you'd be like, that's not cool. 0.97

00:22:26.180 Could you please move your scrotum away from my forehead? So I think everybody would agree on 0.98

00:22:30.980 this one, right? This one? Uncool. Totally uncool. If somebody's scrotum is anywhere in your nose or

00:22:41.320 mouth area, that's not cool. Right? So you should get banned for that. But what about this? But what 0.98

00:22:50.640 about, you know, let's say there's like a foot of distance between a scrotum and your head? Now is 0.99

00:22:58.420 that an assault? Well, suppose you quickly turned and walked in that direction. Say, you're right back

00:23:07.800 to the bad situation. Because people do that. They'll just turn and quickly, oh, and next thing you know,

00:23:12.960 you've got a scrotum right near like muzzle situation. And that's not good. So I would think 0.93

00:23:18.120 the minimum scrotum to skull distance would be somewhere in the at least a yard, maybe a yard or

00:23:28.260 two minimum. But I think this is exactly the sort of thing that should be written specifically in the

00:23:35.240 terms of service. Because I make a lot of scrotum comments. I mean, if you if you did a search for all

00:23:42.580 the times I've mentioned a scrotum on Twitter, 20, 30 times, I don't know, it's just scrotum this, 0.97

00:23:51.080 scrotum that. So we need a little more clarity on that situation. That's all I'm saying. That's all 0.91

00:23:56.300 I'm saying. Big surprise in Iran. They had a election for president. And I know you didn't see this coming.

00:24:06.120 But it looks like they elected an ultra conservative.

00:24:12.800 Did not see that coming. Now it turns out that only ultra conservatives were allowed to run.

00:24:18.100 So that probably increased the chances that one of them would win. But good work Iran in pretending 1.00

00:24:24.880 to have something like a democracy.

00:24:26.360 Did you hear about Bill Maher ripping into Lin-Manuel Miranda? Now you know him from

00:24:38.200 stage plays from Hamilton specifically, but he's got some other new kind of play now called

00:24:45.940 In the Heights. And apparently he didn't add enough diversity. So Lin-Manuel Miranda

00:24:52.540 got a little pushback and for not having enough diversity. And here's his apology

00:25:00.240 that Bill Maher ripped into. I'll tell you about that in a moment. But I want to read his apology

00:25:07.020 because remember I told you that these apologies for getting canceled or almost canceled are now

00:25:16.960 where the line between parity and reality. 0.90

00:25:22.720 Matt says, it's fine if he said, I'd like your head to move rapidly upwards to my stationary scrotum, 0.51

00:25:29.380 but the scrotum itself can't be kinetic.

00:25:34.380 That's a good upgrade. Yeah, I feel that's right.

00:25:37.880 You can't have the scrotum moving toward the head,

00:25:41.320 but if the head is moving towards the scrotum, it's more of a voluntary situation. So that's

00:25:47.060 probably okay. Thank you for that upgrade. Back to our main story. So I'm going to read you

00:25:54.020 Lin-Manuel Miranda's apology. And here's what you have to determine. Is he canning?

00:26:02.960 Seriously, I'm going to read this and you'll say to yourself, I'm not sure he's serious about this,

00:26:09.180 but I can't wait till I get canceled because you're going to see the apology of a lifetime when I do it

00:26:15.300 and you know it's going to happen. So sooner or later, you're going to see the best fucking apology 0.98

00:26:20.380 you've ever heard of. But let's see how Lin-Manuel Miranda did. Now, can somebody do a fact check on 0.97

00:26:27.780 me? He wrote Hamilton, right? Am I right? He is actually the author of the play Hamilton and

00:26:36.000 maybe in the Heights. I don't know. So remember, he's, he's a skilled writer. Okay. So he's not

00:26:41.780 like, I believe, right? I'm getting yeses here, right? So he's a very smart, talented, skilled writer.

00:26:50.560 So let's see what the skilled writer said. Quote, I can hear the hurt and frustration over colorism.

00:26:57.840 It's a red flag. Of feeling still unseen in the feedback, he continued. I hear that without

00:27:05.540 sufficient, without sufficient dark-skinned Afro-Latino representation, the work feels

00:27:12.480 extractive of the community we wanted so much to represent with pride and joy. In trying to paint

00:27:19.180 a mosaic of this community, we fell short. I'm truly sorry. I'm learning from the feedback.

00:27:26.660 I thank you for raising it. And I'm listening. I promise to do better in my future projects.

00:27:33.580 Here's what Bill Maher said. Bill Maher said, please stop apologizing. Please stop apologizing.

00:27:41.160 You're the guy who made the founding fathers black and Hispanic. Mayor Bill Maher exclaimed during the

00:27:47.440 show's pale discussion. Quote, I don't think that you have to apologize to Twitter for fuck's sake. 0.98

00:27:53.080 This is why people hate Democrats. It's cringy. Well, it's cringy if it was serious. 0.99

00:28:02.380 Well, was it? You know, do you imagine that Lin-Manuel Miranda sat down and he wrote that with like

00:28:10.500 tears in his eyes and a solemn approach and deep regret for the hurt that he has caused?

00:28:16.600 Because he has a good history of inclusion for, let's say, what's the word here? For the Latino

00:28:29.540 community and the African-American community. But he's a little short on the Afro-Latino community.

00:28:34.900 And if you're going to leave out that group, well, you need, you have some work. You have some work to

00:28:41.800 do, don't you? So what do you think? Is he serious? In the comments, tell me, do you think he was

00:28:53.400 completely serious, Lin-Manuel Miranda, when he wrote that? Or do you think he was laughing when he

00:28:58.820 wrote it and said, ah, this will take care of it? I can't tell. I honestly can't tell. Because I'm sure

00:29:06.920 that he's entirely, um, entirely honest and well-meaning and that he's been more successful

00:29:15.100 than anybody I can think of in being inclusive of all people, or apparently not all people, but being

00:29:22.620 very inclusive. So I'm looking at your comments, uh, seriously, sarcasm, completely serious. It

00:29:31.220 feels serious. Dripping with sarcasm. Uh, somebody says he's doing both simultaneously. That's sort of

00:29:39.780 where I'm at. That's sort of where I'm at. I do think, look, he was trying to do something serious.

00:29:45.580 But when you put in words like, the work feels extractive of the community we wanted so much to

00:29:53.460 represent with pride and joy, I don't know. I don't know if that's serious. Maybe. Could be.

00:30:03.460 I wouldn't, I mean, if, if you were here in the room, and I could ask him, and I, I knew that he would

00:30:08.480 tell me the truth, and he said it was serious, I'd believe him. I'd believe him, you know, if I heard it

00:30:13.440 from the source, but you can't tell just by reading it. It's like, well, maybe, maybe serious. I don't

00:30:19.240 know. Yeah. Apology accepted. Somebody says. All right. Well, let me tell you, um, I'm going to be,

00:30:32.260 uh, flying tomorrow. And, uh, I believe I will be on the airplane during this time period. Um,

00:30:43.360 so if you don't hear from me at this time tomorrow, there's a pretty good chance you'll

00:30:48.640 hear from me the day after. But if you don't hear from me the day after, there's a very high

00:30:54.320 chance you're going to hear from me the day after that, because it's going to take me two days to

00:30:58.160 get home. So we're going to be flying a lot. What do I do on flights? Well, this last one, I had a panic

00:31:08.180 attack. So that wasn't cool. I think my first one, I don't, I don't have any, uh, any history

00:31:14.660 of that. Now the panic attack is not because I have fear of flying, which I don't, but masks,

00:31:21.960 wearing a mask for 18 hours is to me like, wow, it's like torture. And so, uh, sort of 18 hours of

00:31:33.420 having somebody's scrotum on your forehead, uh, it's uncomfortable, really, really uncomfortable. 0.88

00:31:41.140 So I'll tell you the good and the bad. If you, if you fly well, uh, and you can fly with a mask 0.51

00:31:46.940 for 18 hours, uh, with a few breaks, go ahead and do it because Greece right now, let me give a little

00:31:53.900 commercial for at least Santorini in Greece. It's the best time to come. If you can get to Santorini

00:32:01.420 and you, in other words, if you can handle the trap, um, all the testing and the vaccinations

00:32:07.600 and the travel problems and the masking, if you can handle the travel getting here is the best

00:32:14.440 freaking thing you've ever done in your life because it's not very busy, you know, it's keeping

00:32:18.480 other people away. So fortunately for me, Christina is, uh, uh, a world traveler and, you know,

00:32:26.460 she can do things that she can make things easier than, than I could, if I were doing it myself.

00:32:34.020 All right. So definitely come here. I had the same, we had the same experience at Bora Bora during the

00:32:39.800 pandemic when it was open briefly. If you can get away, the crowds are really small and everything's

00:32:47.520 better. And wow, are the Greek people, um, appreciative when they see Americans coming in

00:32:55.280 very, very appreciative. You know, I've, uh, I haven't traveled a ton, but you know how everybody

00:33:02.740 always says, Oh, the people are there are so nice. Hey, yellow airman, you're too nice. Thank you.

00:33:08.540 You know, people always say, wherever you go, it seems like, Oh, the people there are so nice. The

00:33:13.240 people there are so nice. The exception being Los Angeles. That's the only place I've been

00:33:17.440 where you want. You leave Los Angeles and you think, I don't think the people here were very

00:33:22.280 nice at all, but it's the only place. Um, however, you may have heard that the Greeks are unusually 1.00

00:33:30.500 friendly. Let me tell you, the Greeks are unusually friendly. This is the warmest, friendliest place

00:33:41.040 I've ever been. Nothing's even close. Right. And I'm talking about just every interaction with every

00:33:49.960 person here is a joy. And mostly the staff, you know, those are the people that we're interacting

00:33:56.880 with shop owners and restaurants and stuff like that. But the, the people who live and work here

00:34:02.020 are fricking amazing. Like you actually will feel like you feel like you make a friend every time you

00:34:09.280 talk to somebody here. It's crazy. It's crazy. I've never seen anything like it. So for that alone,

00:34:14.340 it's worth coming. Somebody says Chicago and Portland are pretty friendly. Well, okay. You know,

00:34:23.640 and people say New York can be kind of hard edged, but, uh, I don't know if you would agree with this

00:34:30.260 or disagree. Um, yeah, maybe it's because it's an Island. I see your comment there. Um, but New Yorkers

00:34:40.020 will maybe talk tough and, you know, they've got a certain style, but a New Yorker will help you

00:34:47.320 in a heartbeat, right? I'm talking about mostly Manhattan, but the New Yorkers are super helpful.

00:34:54.080 They just have a style about them. So even, even they're super nice. Yeah. Texas. Um, I'm being

00:35:03.260 asked, did I get the vaccine? Yes. So I did get the full Moderna. Now I told you before that, um,

00:35:11.100 I'm not suggesting that this has any, uh, uh, truth to it, but my allergies have suspiciously

00:35:19.760 gone away since I got the second shot after a lifetime of them not going away, like my whole

00:35:29.780 life. And then I got the second shot and suddenly my sinuses opened up. My sense of smell started

00:35:37.340 coming back. I don't know if it's a coincidence. It makes me wonder if the, if there's like a little

00:35:43.560 bit more virus in terms of, uh, sinuses, cause I've had sinuses of infections forever.

00:35:51.740 So I'm wondering if that's, if it wasn't just an allergy thing, maybe there was a sinus infection

00:35:57.160 and it just took it out at the same time. Now I'm not suggesting that's true. So put this squarely in

00:36:05.020 the dumb guy speculation, right? Don't, don't assume that this has any truth to it, but it's weird. 0.94

00:36:13.560 It's weird. I mean, if we assume that people dying the day after the vaccination means something,

00:36:19.940 which it doesn't because there's so many people getting the vaccination, you're guaranteed to have

00:36:25.620 some people die right after they get it because people die. So, uh, and, and you're also guaranteed

00:36:33.020 that any kind of vaccination is going to have some real side effects. So people, some of them really

00:36:37.820 will die. Um, if we're in a simulation, there's, there's a question. Let's see. If we're in a

00:36:48.320 simulation, should we buy a lottery tickets? Here's an affirmations, um, thought experiment.

00:36:58.500 What would happen if two people were doing affirmations to try to get the same job? And it's

00:37:05.960 a job only one person can get, but there are two people doing affirmations to get the

00:37:10.680 job. Could they change the, change the simulation, um, effectively? Well, no, because only one person

00:37:19.760 can get it. Thank you, David. Um, only one person can, uh, get the job. So, you know, it's not

00:37:27.900 going to work for both of them, but what about an affirmation in which you're not competing with

00:37:34.180 anybody? Cause I think those are the ones that if anything works, it would be those, right? So

00:37:40.880 something like, uh, you will get wealthy. You're not really, that doesn't directly compete with

00:37:47.600 somebody else because you can get wealthy in a variety of ways that don't take any money from

00:37:52.020 anybody. It just creates more money. So I would stick to affirmations and visualizing what you

00:37:59.340 want, uh, in ways that are not taking something directly out of somebody else's pocket. Because

00:38:05.600 if we're a simulation, you don't know how many people can, um, manipulate it. Maybe not everybody,

00:38:13.240 but you don't want to be competing against somebody who's also an author,

00:38:16.900 author of the simulation in this case. So to answer your question, buying a lottery ticket

00:38:24.340 probably wouldn't work because everybody who bought one is visualizing themselves winning.

00:38:30.200 So you're competing against, you know, a zillion people. It's probably the least likely thing to

00:38:34.840 work, even if we're a simulation, because it's not a simulation for your benefit. It would be a

00:38:40.820 simulation in which presumably there are multiple entities. Um, do you want to be an NPC or a player?

00:38:50.620 Exactly. And I'm just looking at your, uh, comments. Is Trump aware of this? I don't know.

00:39:01.360 Let's see what that's about. Um, okay. All right. That's all I have for today. And, uh, I'll try,

00:39:17.720 I might be able to, uh, connect with you while I'm on the flight just before it takes off. So I might

00:39:24.720 come on just for the sip, but that depends if I'm on the flight in time, blah, blah, blah. So forget about

00:39:29.980 it. I may or may not be there and, uh, get a guest host for tomorrow. Who could possibly replace me?

00:39:38.880 Who could possibly do this? Have a sip, talk about the news. It's very difficult. Yeah, actually,

00:39:48.400 everybody could do it. Uh, no sugar in my coffee, but thanks for asking. I take it. I take it black.

00:39:56.320 Um, yeah, the plane has wifi, but, uh, I don't know if I'll actually be sitting down and be ready

00:40:04.960 to do it in time. Um, Brian Stelzer, Stelter. Yeah, he's in the news. I saw the Joe Rogan, uh,

00:40:16.120 taking on Stelter. Uh, put Christina on tomorrow. You know, Christina, uh, probably will not be 0.96

00:40:28.900 guesting on here, but I would love it if she would. So that would be up to her. All right,

00:40:34.620 that's all for now. And I will talk to you maybe tomorrow, but see you soon.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 19, 2021

Episode 1411 Scott Adams： Ice Cream, Ponies, and Sunsets Are Irrelevant to This Program

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