Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 19, 2021


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


Episode Stats

Length

40 minutes

Words per Minute

146.36366

Word Count

5,951

Sentence Count

425

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 bodily noise. I can't help that, really. Hey, everybody, come on in here. You know what time
00:00:07.940 it is. Yeah, you do. You don't even have to look at the clock because you know your body is already
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
00:01:17.900 for you. All right. How many of you would like to enjoy a thing called the simultaneous sepia? That's
00:01:25.360 right. All of you. And if you would like to enjoy it to its maximum extent, like way better than average
00:01:32.700 is what we're talking about here. All you need is a cup or mug or glass, a tank or gel, a canteen,
00:01:38.200 jug, a glass, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I got some coffee right
00:01:44.440 here. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day. The
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
00:05:53.120 do it. Now, the mirrored box trick is an aid to visualization, basically. It just, it gives you,
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
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
00:14:57.900 of a weasel yourself. You know, if you're being honest, we're all little weasely sometimes. So
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,
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
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
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
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
00:21:48.340 somebody's head. If you suggest that a scrotum should be in the same general neighborhood of a head,
00:21:58.000 and I don't know what the right distance is. Because that matters, right? Let's imagine that
00:22:05.760 these earbuds, or whatever the fuck these are called, imagine this was a scrotum. Work with me
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.
00:22:26.180 Could you please move your scrotum away from my forehead? So I think everybody would agree on
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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.
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,
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
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
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.
00:27:53.080 This is why people hate Democrats. It's cringy. Well, it's cringy if it was serious.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.