Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1459 Scott Adams： News, Persuasion and Coffee

00:00:00.000 Well everybody on YouTube and locals today I started the stream at the same

00:00:09.420 time I had been trying to start the local stream a little early to give you

00:00:14.220 a little extra but I find that it detracts from the let's say the

00:00:22.380 crispness of the beginning of the show so it was started at the same time but

00:00:28.640 for locals people I'll stay a little bit after and look at your comments and

00:00:31.880 answer some questions but how about everybody else would you like to make

00:00:37.640 this one of the best days ever because it's starting to shape up that way I

00:00:41.960 mean already it's looking like one of the best days and all you need is a

00:00:46.420 cup or mug or a glass a tank or gels or stein a canteen jug or flask a vessel of

00:00:51.620 any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee join me now for the

00:00:57.980 unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes

00:01:01.680 everything better yeah you know what it is it's called the simultaneous sip and

00:01:06.100 it happens now go oh that's some good stuff well here's the weirdest thing about

00:01:18.120 me I know it's a long list but here's here's one of the weirdest things about

00:01:24.100 me for all of my life I've seen glimpses of my future sometimes decades before

00:01:33.480 that future happened for example I saw myself as a famous cartoonist I saw

00:01:38.140 myself talking to lots of people in some context I didn't know I saw where I was

00:01:45.120 gonna live I saw the house I was gonna live in I saw a lot of stuff that happened

00:01:50.020 exactly like I imagined it but some of it you say to yourself well that's just

00:01:54.200 because you worked hard at your goal and you know what you want wanted and you got

00:01:59.020 it but some of them were really weird like one of them was that I would someday be

00:02:04.980 invited to the White House to chat with the president right and then that

00:02:11.240 happened I actually got invited to the White House to chat with the president now did

00:02:16.720 you see that one coming I didn't but there was one there's one thing about my

00:02:22.260 future that was this really clear vision it was ridiculous and it just happened just

00:02:31.560 ridiculous and I realized that it already happened actually it happened some time

00:02:36.640 ago but it's happening again right now and here's what it is keep in mind that I 0.84

00:02:41.680 have no musical ability let's let's all agree with that I've been trying to teach

00:02:48.680 myself to play drums and I have a I have a drum teacher now and I think my drum

00:02:53.020 teacher would agree that I'm nowhere near being able to play a whole song or

00:02:56.980 having any any real musical talent whatsoever none but despite that I've

00:03:03.940 always had this vision in my head that I would be a song lyricist maybe not

00:03:11.500 writing the melody and stuff but doesn't make any sense because I have no

00:03:16.840 experience in the in the realm but turns out I'm already a song lyricist and I

00:03:23.760 didn't do anything didn't take any work so Akira the Don some of you know him

00:03:29.140 from Twitter creates music by taking people who do podcasts you know you're

00:03:35.140 Jordan Peterson's people like me and then turning their their language that they use in

00:03:41.000 their live streams or their podcast basically exactly what I'm doing now and he takes

00:03:45.800 samples out and turns it into the the vocals that accompany the music and he just came out with a whole

00:03:54.980 bunch of new ones they're not they're not released to you yet but I got to preview

00:03:58.340 them and I'll be damned he's invented a whole new genre it's it's it's it's a

00:04:06.200 legitimate entirely new genre and I feel like it's gonna get bigger because almost

00:04:13.820 everybody I know has heard it likes it it's just really sort of good stuff so

00:04:19.440 what he does is he tries to take and by the way this is the same technique the Beatles used I'm a big

00:04:25.400 student of the Beatles yeah meaning way if this is where you find it I'm a big student of the Beatles

00:04:31.160 because of their work process how is it that they got such consistently great results and other people

00:04:39.680 didn't I'll tell you what the first trick was they didn't have any rules about what was in and what

00:04:46.260 was out if something sounded good it was in that's it they a lot of the music wasn't even musical

00:04:53.800 instruments it was distorted sounds and putting microphones in the wrong place in the piano and

00:04:59.620 you know adjusting things so they didn't sound like they normally did using the feedback instead

00:05:04.660 of the music so a lot of a lot of what the Beatles did was they'd come in and they say all right this is

00:05:11.260 my Beatles accent all right do you have any ideas for a song and then one of them would say yeah I've got

00:05:17.140 this a little bit it'll be you know several lines and and some music and they say that's all I got I

00:05:24.220 got this a little bit and then somebody else would say well I've got this little bit and my bit has

00:05:29.640 nothing to do with your bit musically let's put them together because then you'll have two bits that we

00:05:34.880 like and then they would put together a whole song that was basically nonsense made up of just parts you

00:05:42.240 like and then it sounded great and uh in in one way Akira the Don who does these meaning wave things

00:05:51.420 is doing the same thing because he's taking the good bits and of what people are saying in podcasts

00:05:56.500 you know both me and other people and putting them and putting them to music and should they I mean

00:06:04.360 the the words were not written to be in the song but if it sounds good why not

00:06:08.700 so I think he's sort of borrowing a system from the Beatles in the sense of if it sounds good

00:06:15.220 it's music so there you go one of my lifelong uh I guess you'd say visions of something that would

00:06:25.340 happen in my life the least likely thing that could ever happen in my life is happening

00:06:30.560 it's happening in a big way it's just weird um meanwhile Ron DeSantis is doing the best impression

00:06:40.340 I've ever seen of a g-rated Donald Trump imagine if if Trump uh didn't say you know things like 0.84

00:06:49.080 bullshit and stuff in public and you imagine that he was just toned down to be the g-rated version 0.97

00:06:55.080 well he'd be Ron DeSantis uh here's what Ron DeSantis said about Biden uh wanting I guess 0.99

00:07:02.920 passports or whatever for vaccinations and DeSantis said uh I don't want to hear a blip

00:07:08.980 about COVID from you until you do your job and secure the border that's right I don't want to

00:07:16.920 hear a blip from you in fact if I could extend this thought Ron uh DeSantis Governor DeSantis

00:07:23.760 I don't think you'll mind if I extend your thinking a little bit and say

00:07:27.140 if uh if you don't secure the border you can take your bip and just shove it up your bip 1.00

00:07:35.020 you can suck my bip and uh hope you stop and bip so go bip you bip everybody who looks like you 1.00

00:07:44.540 and bip the horse you came in on bip all of you so that's the g-rated version of uh Trump 1.00

00:07:51.120 and uh it makes me wonder do you think the g-rated version of Trump can get elected president 0.81

00:07:57.020 because in a weird way it's what we all want right didn't you all say damn it if we could just get the

00:08:05.600 good parts of Trump you know the parts you voted for without all the controversy wouldn't that be good 0.50

00:08:11.800 well maybe not maybe not maybe maybe there's a it's a package for a reason it could be that all

00:08:21.400 of that non-g-rated stuff all that provocation is part of the show but the show is part of the the work

00:08:28.160 you got to put it on the show to get the work done sometimes and that's something that Trump

00:08:34.300 knew better than anybody all right I would like some t-shirts uh don't send me these t-shirts this

00:08:41.860 is just for fun um I would like one t-shirt that simply has this message written really big and I

00:08:48.880 want a bunch of them so that I can wear them every day and it should say my face does not indicate my 0.69

00:08:54.680 mood you've heard of something called resting bitch face where some people just look like they're 1.00

00:09:02.040 unpleasant with their normal face well I have some some version of that apparently where uh no matter 0.91

00:09:11.200 what relationship I'm in or where I am somebody's gonna ask me if I've got a big problem who died

00:09:17.700 why am I so angry what made me so upset today and usually I say something like this what I'm in a good

00:09:27.740 mood today just like yesterday and the day before I'm actually usually in a good mood but my face

00:09:35.980 doesn't know it apparently there's some miscommunication with my face because from you know face down

00:09:42.220 everything seems pretty good pretty pretty good um so I want that one I also want uh one shirt that

00:09:51.180 has nothing but the message you are misinterpreting my opinion again that's it just you are misinterpreting

00:09:59.900 my opinion again I'll just wear those every day I don't think I would wear anything else like I'll

00:10:06.380 wear them to the store I'll wear them I'll wear them on live stream all right now there's probably

00:10:13.740 nothing you want more than for me not to talk about anything involving the pandemic right

00:10:24.220 um somebody says move your phone away from the speakers

00:10:31.580 but I don't have any speakers on and I don't think that's um I don't think you mean that all right

00:10:40.620 but there are some really interesting things that have happened recently that uh so here's the thing

00:10:46.780 I'm not going to talk you into wearing masks or vaccinations I think I'm pretty much with my audience

00:10:53.900 at this point so as of today but maybe for different reasons I think many of you who are watching this

00:11:01.340 would say don't make us wear masks because masks don't work whereas I say don't make us wear masks

00:11:09.820 although they probably work a little bit and in some cases you probably want them if you're around

00:11:14.140 old people or something so we may disagree about whether masks have any effectiveness whatsoever

00:11:20.460 but I don't think we disagree at this point that you know if you're vaccinated at least you're kind

00:11:26.380 of done with it and if you're not vaccinated and you have the chance to get vaccinated I don't care if

00:11:30.700 you wear a mask why do I care you know and and I also think that the sooner I get the virus the better

00:11:38.460 because I'm vaccinated so I'm at my peak resistance right now and I feel like I'll probably get it

00:11:44.940 anyway so you know my my chance I think my lowest odds of having long COVID are if I get it now so

00:11:54.380 that's where I'm at so I think I'm I agree with most of my audience at this point but for different

00:11:59.420 reasons right we just got here a different way but here are some things that are new um did you know

00:12:08.140 what's the difference between an FDA approved vaccine and an emergency use vaccine anybody anybody

00:12:17.020 how many of you knew the difference because one of the big complaints and it's a good one is that 1.00

00:12:22.380 the vaccinations are not FDA approved that means something right doesn't that mean something so what's

00:12:29.500 the difference between FDA approved and what we've had so far well Dr Sanjay Gupta answered that question

00:12:38.220 on CNN um and if I can be uh if I can be objective for 15 seconds this is really good so CNN did good

00:12:50.860 work here via Sanjay Gupta who often does good work and so I'd like to give him a shout out this is the

00:12:56.860 first time I've seen this so this is like news that I wanted to see I was actively asking this exact

00:13:02.940 question and he answered it it goes like this so the difference between emergency use and FDA approval

00:13:11.340 is two months of data for the emergency use versus full approval would be six months now don't you want

00:13:19.100 to see six months you do right but let me ask you this um if you had six months of data would you feel

00:13:30.940 comfortable with that because I guess the FDA is okay with six months would that be enough because the

00:13:39.180 six months tell you that the long-term risks are uh are fine do you let me uh block a few people here

00:13:50.940 anybody who's talking about moderate audio is going to get blocked by that user

00:13:57.580 give me give me a moment just gonna hide some more users okay

00:14:01.980 um so I think that the FDA approval is uh useful because six months is probably a lot better than

00:14:11.420 two months but how much difference do you think there would be between the two month data and the

00:14:16.300 six month there we go there's another one hide this user yeah everybody who's using the word crackling

00:14:24.700 and the audio we're just blocking you all and I know it's true I'm not arguing whether it's happening or

00:14:30.220 not I'm just blocking you for saying it anyway because it's ruining the show

00:14:35.900 so any more anybody else want to get blocked I'm just blocking people on YouTube now anybody else

00:14:43.340 okay we're good for a while um

00:14:48.140 so here's the other stuff apparently there's a whole bunch of paperwork and lawyer stuff

00:14:54.060 and then there's review of manufacturing facilities which I imagine would be easy because they're already

00:14:58.700 manufacturing um discussions about how it'll be marketing etc so a lot of it is paperwork and

00:15:04.620 lawyers but there's also the six month thing now we've already had six months right don't you think

00:15:11.180 that we have um don't you think that we have enough information that the FDA should at least have all the data

00:15:20.140 data right do you think that if the FDA had seen six months of data which they've certainly seen by

00:15:28.300 now don't you think from from the real world um if they saw a problem we'd know about it right

00:15:35.100 they wouldn't wait for the full cycle to go through they'd say wait a minute wait a minute our six month

00:15:40.060 data shows a problem I need a confirmation on that but let me just put out the thought

00:15:47.660 that we already know if the thing is safe for six months so can somebody fact check me on that send me

00:15:55.820 a tweet or something do we have six months already because the vaccines have been out and would the FDA

00:16:03.420 have already told us if that data showed problems I feel like we're already there so the question the

00:16:11.580 the part where people say hey we need FDA approval you're waiting for lawyers I need a fact check on

00:16:18.700 that right please but just fact check this if you're waiting for FDA approval the only thing you're waiting

00:16:27.580 for is lawyers has nothing to do with safety anymore give me a fact check on that I think that's true

00:16:35.180 that you you think you're waiting for the FDA to approve it but you're actually just waiting for lawyers

00:16:40.780 has nothing to do with safety at this point so if that put that factor into your variables um

00:16:48.940 i tweeted this because i feel as though the united states is on a a strategy that can only end in disaster

00:16:56.780 and knows it but doesn't know how to get out of it and it looks like this there um so i said there

00:17:05.340 are two things the best way to beat the virus and the variants is a rapid pace of vaccination

00:17:11.020 so if you could imagine that you could snap your fingers boop and everybody was vaccinated but it's

00:17:17.020 impossible of course but if you could would that stop the virus and all the variants and the answer is yes

00:17:24.700 yes yes if everybody got vaccinated by magic all at once the variants of the virus would be stopped

00:17:31.420 but the best way to destroy civilization might be a sluggish vaccination pace in other words vaccinating

00:17:40.460 slowly might be the very worst thing or too slow if you vaccinate too slow there's some thought

00:17:48.220 and there's also some disagreement on this but that that alone would would spark evolution of variants

00:17:55.820 so correct me if i'm wrong the ideal is that the government wants to vaccinate fast which might work

00:18:04.060 the reality is that they're vaccinating too slow because there's resistance to vaccinations so are we

00:18:11.420 not only not on a path that largely guarantees the destruction of civilization itself if things went

00:18:18.140 the way it looks like they're going is that really a strategy and is the only hope of beating this

00:18:25.340 persuading more people to get the vaccination like really really fast is that is our only hope persuasion

00:18:32.780 for you know at least in terms of the strategy now let me let me ask you a question let me ask you a moral and ethical

00:18:42.940 question and i'm going to use your opinions to guide my actions are you ready for this i don't believe that good

00:18:51.660 persuaders have worked on the question of vaccinations i think it's mostly scientists and and politicians and stuff

00:19:00.780 doing the best they can to persuade people but i don't believe anybody good has worked on it you know

00:19:06.860 somebody who really has deep skills at this but i have some skills if we got to the point where we

00:19:14.300 knew for sure this was true that fast vaccinations would end the pandemic but slow vaccinations the path

00:19:21.580 we're on would destroy civilization i'm exaggerating a little bit but it would just be the worst case scenario

00:19:26.620 um i'm not exaggerating a little bit i'm exaggerating a lot but just say it's the worst case scenario

00:19:32.780 is there a point is there a point where people like me who could be more persuasive especially with a

00:19:40.220 platform when does it become my responsibility and obligation to talk you into it does that ever happen

00:19:50.860 that's a serious question because it's a question that i'm gonna have to deal with

00:19:57.100 and it's life and death right it's literally life and death

00:20:03.260 okay karen karen you will be deleted from the channel um

00:20:10.860 um your name was actually karen that's funny um so so here we go we've got we've got this situation

00:20:20.940 where um i've got an ethical dilemma because you know this is spider-man problem with the more influence

00:20:29.660 you have the more responsibility you have so i i'm sort of accidentally in a responsible position that i

00:20:36.700 didn't want because i don't want to be responsible for your health not even a little bit do not want

00:20:43.100 to be responsible for your decisions or your health that's the last thing i want but if we're on a path

00:20:49.260 to destruction and the only thing that looks like you could stop it is talking other people into getting

00:20:56.540 the vaccinations really fast what the hell am i going to do it's really a problem yeah and and i'm

00:21:05.980 certainly sensitive to the article to the argument that under no circumstance is it persuasive but

00:21:12.780 here's the counter-argument are you ready for the counter-argument if we accept and i think everybody

00:21:18.940 does that talking somebody into getting a medical procedure is kind of unethical they need to make

00:21:25.260 their own decisions you don't want to influence that too much if you're not a doctor but at the same

00:21:30.540 time here's the counter-argument you're all being persuaded all the time you're not really making

00:21:36.780 up your own decision it just feels like that your your decision is the product of the forces that are

00:21:43.660 influencing you and a little bit about your brain architecture and experience but mostly it's about

00:21:49.580 your influences i would say at this point maybe 80 is influences so you're being persuaded

00:21:57.500 so if i persuade you you're still being persuaded if i don't persuade you you're still being persuaded

00:22:05.420 so it could be that the unethical thing happens no matter what you do

00:22:10.060 because you're not really making up your own decisions the news is persuading you social media

00:22:14.940 your friends you're basically being talked into it you just don't know it

00:22:18.940 so if i persuaded you you'd know it and then it would be my fault right so i i would have to live

00:22:27.740 out my days knowing that i've killed people because you know nothing is so safe that somebody isn't

00:22:33.980 going to die from it somebody's going to be telling me that you know their daughter or son died because 0.89

00:22:40.140 of some damn thing that i talked them into all right so that's just a dilemma i'm dealing with right 0.74

00:22:45.980 now let me ask you this question i asked this on twitter if you are currently unvaccinated so this 0.91

00:22:53.900 is only a question for unvaccinated people would you agree to get vaccinated if biden agreed to secure

00:23:00.060 the border as part of the deal now uh you could answer this question in the comments as well

00:23:08.140 but the way it was answered uh by just my twitter followers so very unscientific and biased poll

00:23:14.140 um 28 when i checked last said yes 28 said yes do you believe that now of course it's again

00:23:27.100 it's very unscientific it's my followers etc but that was way more than i expected did you think

00:23:33.820 it would be that high that's close to 25 okay you're funny you're funny but you maybe you're not

00:23:41.180 wrong we'll see um here's how i take this one of the big lessons about persuasion and one of the things

00:23:49.020 i try to do in these live live streams is always teach you something about persuasion because if you if

00:23:54.780 you're picking that up just sort of by watching this content you're going to be way ahead in life so

00:24:02.140 here's a lesson on persuasion um it takes a different approach for every person

00:24:07.740 right people don't get persuaded by the same approach all the time if you want to if you want

00:24:13.100 to persuade 100 people you might need 10 different techniques you know you're lucky if you can get 10

00:24:19.820 people with a technique so if you were trying to convince people to get vaccinated it looks like

00:24:26.540 there's a substantial pool of them who would respond to a deal they take a deal because you've got this

00:24:34.460 weird situation where you're asking people to take a personal risk like so here's the framing where it all

00:24:40.860 makes sense um wait there's somebody else to block here all right hide that user all right and your mic is

00:24:54.780 not shirt yeah my mic is on my shirt we'll get rid of you hide user all right 0.81

00:25:03.900 so here's here's how i would frame this uh in the context of the pandemic the government is asking

00:25:14.780 you to sacrifice for the collective am i right so the argument is not just it's good for you

00:25:22.540 but that it's good for society that's why you should get vaccinated even if you're not worried

00:25:26.060 about yourself it's good for society what argument does that sound like

00:25:30.140 the audio is breaking up we'll hide you oh let me get my sign out sorry hold on

00:25:49.020 so i know that i know the audio is not fine for some of you but i'm not going to do anything about

00:26:02.620 it i'm not going to do anything about it because whatever it is it's not something i control um

00:26:12.140 so here is the the lesson i keep getting interrupted by every 0.96

00:26:15.580 fucking asshole and wants to talk about the audio i know you're trying to help me please 1.00

00:26:19.580 fucking stop just stop um 1.00

00:26:26.700 i'm just so pissed off i can barely even talk 0.99

00:26:32.220 do you know some problems yeah i'm starting to heat up because there's some problems that

00:26:38.860 uh are not big problems but they are so persistent that the little problem you know just gets you know

00:26:49.020 just gets out of control so oh that's a good that's a good idea somebody says just turn off youtube

00:26:56.300 that would solve my problem all right so the point is that you're being asked to get your vaccination for

00:27:04.540 society not necessarily for yourself that is socialism socialism am i right do you think that there it's

00:27:14.060 a coincidence that a lot of republicans don't want the shot some of it is they don't trust the government

00:27:19.340 don't trust whatever that's fine but don't you think that on some level getting shots for the benefit of

00:27:27.660 other people is socialism doesn't it feel like that and you're seeing all the democrats it seems like

00:27:36.220 tell you you should do it because they like their socialism doing things for the collective and the

00:27:41.180 republicans just have sort of a just a natural aversion to not taking care of yourself first

00:27:49.100 which by the way is a way better system take care of yourself first and that that's usually the best

00:27:55.820 thing for other people this might be an exception it might be but here's why i think making a deal

00:28:02.460 for closing the borders in in return for vaccinations could could actually convince maybe 20 or 30 percent

00:28:10.860 of republicans why because it's a deal it's no longer uh it's no longer just socialism it's a deal

00:28:20.620 and how many republicans really really really want the border to be closed

00:28:27.180 and does it seem fair that you should be sacrificing for the collective while the borders open how can you

00:28:33.980 ask me to sacrifice for the collective when you're not i need you to sacrifice for the collective a little

00:28:39.660 bit then talk to me right if your government isn't doing the most basic hygiene for the country

00:28:47.260 don't ask me to sacrifice for the country if you're not even trying you know we need to be in this

00:28:55.740 together so that's why the idea of a deal where biden just says all right all right if the only way

00:29:02.060 we're going to get past the pandemic and get enough people vaccinated is for me to close the border

00:29:07.180 tight i hate doing it it's against everything i believe but i gotta do it would you get vaccinated then

00:29:13.740 a lot of people said yes that's never going to happen but it's an interesting

00:29:18.300 persuasion lesson i think all right here's something that pisses me off a lot

00:29:25.900 um

00:29:29.420 yeah so i'm hearing that there's static on youtube but it's clear on locals

00:29:35.580 looks like something on my end but it's probably not all right

00:29:40.460 um anyway

00:29:49.660 i know if if you have my phone number and you want to text me in the middle of the live stream

00:29:55.420 it does help me and it really pisses me off at the same time so thank you for helping me you really

00:30:01.740 pissed me off at the same time but thank you i mean i appreciate it um rapid testing

00:30:10.460 so a year ago the smart people were saying that if we had rapid testing even if it was less

00:30:15.580 accurate it would squash the virus because we could just be testing the hell out of it and um

00:30:23.420 and then we could uh you know even if it wasn't accurate as as accurate as other tests

00:30:29.180 we'd still get on top of it now it's a year later and the vaccinations don't seem to be enough

00:30:35.340 where is my rapid test i know somebody who has covid symptoms who has to wait three days for a result

00:30:44.860 three days hey youtube um we're done with you too many people complaining about the sound if you want

00:30:52.060 to go over to uh the locals platform for the rest of this uh go to scottadams.locals.com

00:30:59.580 or see my tweet where there's a where there's a link and you can go over to locals normally it's

00:31:05.180 a subscription service but i opened it just for this video so you can see that with no without any

00:31:10.860 commercial content and apparently with uh without whatever audio problems you're having so goodbye to

00:31:17.500 youtube all right youtube's gone um so uh somebody needs to go to jail

00:31:29.580 let me say that again as clearly as possible somebody needs to go to jail for the fact that

00:31:36.140 we don't have rapid testing because maybe there is something completely legal that happened that's

00:31:43.980 keeping this from being widely available but i don't think so it almost has to be something illegal

00:31:50.780 to have stopped something so obviously useful from happening it's doable it's useful it would stop

00:31:57.100 the biggest problem in the world we know how to do it it's straightforward there's no real argument

00:32:02.940 about the math of it and we don't have it tell me one reason that doesn't have to do with the

00:32:09.740 illegality bribes pharmaceuticals preventing it whatever tell me one reason that we don't have that 0.99

00:32:16.060 it's not because of crime it's got to be crime somebody needs to be in the fucking jail 0.96

00:32:21.900 and i'm talking about like serious jail i'm talking about you know 30 years because somebody is doing 0.97

00:32:29.100 something that is killing hundreds of thousands of us and crushing the economy and it's got to be

00:32:34.700 somebody doing it for money because nobody's going to do it for any other reason right even incompetence

00:32:40.860 can't get you there it can't be explained by incompetence politics can't be explained by science

00:32:46.860 can't be explained by money it's got to be crime and why is there not even a story about it you know

00:32:54.300 where where is the press doing the story about how we would be past the problem already or at least

00:33:00.140 we'd be handling it much better if we had rapid testing and we don't where's the news why am i asking

00:33:07.660 this question all right here's the maybe good news uh monoclonal antibodies we now know that a

00:33:15.580 subcutaneous shot which would be a really tiny needle so it just gets it in your skin it doesn't

00:33:21.820 have to go too deep into your arm or anything so unlike the regular shots it would just be a tiny little

00:33:27.900 little prick let's say uh and i guess the results are just amazing it just really it just knocks out the

00:33:36.460 the covet if you already have symptoms it just whacks it out and your odds of being hospitalized

00:33:41.420 if you get that in time within 10 days i guess your odds of being hospitalized just drop to

00:33:46.860 practically nothing now here's my question for those of you who are afraid of getting the vaccine

00:33:58.940 would you be afraid of getting the monoclonal antibodies

00:34:02.380 and why would one be different is it because it's different technology is it because the

00:34:08.700 monoclonal antibodies have been around longer and used in different context

00:34:13.340 because my understanding is it would be a cocktail it would be at least two of them i think maybe two of

00:34:18.060 them mixed together or something like that and isn't that something that's never been used for this

00:34:25.820 so i need to look into it first yeah so my question is how many people who would not want to get a

00:34:34.140 vaccination are going to end up infected and then when the doctor says well you're infected our best

00:34:40.220 treatment is these monoclonal antibodies are you going to say to them whoa i didn't get the vaccination

00:34:46.700 because i wasn't so sure about them you better not give me the monoclonal antibodies either

00:34:51.580 i'll bet zero people will say that i'll bet zero people will say that i'll bet almost every person

00:35:00.060 who said no to the vaccination will just sort of routinely say yes to what the doctor says you got

00:35:06.620 to do now if you're actually sitting in the doctor's office with covid that's been tested and the doctor

00:35:14.300 says if i put this in your arm your risk goes to zero if i don't you're going to have a really hard

00:35:20.540 time and maybe you might die are you going to have him put the uh the monoclonal antibody in you

00:35:28.860 yeah you are yeah you are every fear you had about the the vaccination will just go away and then

00:35:38.300 they'll give you this other thing that also hasn't been approved by the fda for this you know it's been

00:35:43.580 around long enough that i wouldn't worry about it but it's kind of the same question if you've got

00:35:49.420 six months of data on the vaccinations which we do because it's been used for that long it would

00:35:56.140 have been great if we had six months before we started to use them at all but we have six months

00:36:00.140 now and if the fda isn't stopping it with the data they've already seen i would say that the

00:36:07.020 vaccinations and the monoclonal antibodies would be roughly similar risk you say they're both things

00:36:14.300 that have been around long enough that if there were problems we'd know it and they're still kind

00:36:20.860 of newish for this application seems like a fairly similar risk to me all right california recall

00:36:29.340 election for the governor is going to have mail-in ballots can we have an election without covid please

00:36:39.340 please can we have an election without any pandemic just once please well um i don't know what that's

00:36:49.820 going to do to the california election but let me make a guess if gavin newson wins which i think most

00:36:58.380 people expect he will will the republicans feel that the election was held fairly huh let me predict the

00:37:07.740 future no they think it's unfair so we're basically creating just recreating the the big lie situation

00:37:20.060 as the democrats like to call it all right that's all i've got for today um i will uh figure out what

00:37:31.740 the hell is wrong with my audio situation um i will tell you that i have two separate systems

00:37:41.580 yeah somebody's saying it's the splitter it's really the only common system but do you really

00:37:45.980 think the splitter is the problem do you somebody says it sounds like rf interference you know one thing

00:37:52.780 it could be oh you know let me test it you test it on you right so i've got my phone here um let me tell

00:38:00.860 you see if i put it somewhere if i can create the problem all right so i'm going to put my phone

00:38:10.220 right next to possibly low battery no i don't have a low battery on anything everything's plugged in

00:38:16.140 except my phone and that's fully charged so you don't hear anything if i get near you with the phone

00:38:22.620 turn the phone off somebody says well the sound is good right now

00:38:25.500 um the reason i'm using my phone is because my none of my printers in the house work too loud

00:38:37.100 um next time it happens turn off the phone i can't because i don't have any printers in the house

00:38:42.780 they all stopped working and it's the only way i can see my notes so impedance matching is not good

00:38:50.300 with a splitter well i'm um my impedance is the same it goes to the same equipment

00:38:59.180 yeah the most obvious thing to do is i'll just use two microphones and if that's a problem i'd be

00:39:07.180 surprised i don't think i have a loose connection because i've got these high-end high-end connections

00:39:11.820 i've checked them all um i might throw my printer off the balcony

00:39:21.740 so the crack was only on youtube swap the mics well there's one mic going to both systems but

00:39:29.020 i'll do two mics tomorrow um i wonder if it has to do with which system turned on first that could be it

00:39:44.300 uh swap the outputs

00:39:48.620 well it's got to be something that's common to both systems all right that's all for today

00:39:52.380 and i will talk to you tomorrow

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 05, 2021

Episode 1459 Scott Adams： News, Persuasion and Coffee

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