Episode 1559 Scott Adams: Today's Show Will Mostly be About the Public Brainwashing We Are All Experiencing
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 11 minutes
Words per Minute
147.46872
Summary
In this episode, Scott Adams talks about a new invention, Elon Musk's Tesla stock, and why he thinks he might sell a bunch of his stock. Plus, a new Bloomberg piece on him, a potential hit piece on me, and more.
Transcript
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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and everything in between, which we value equally.
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This is the best thing that could have ever happened to you.
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Yeah, it's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and how lucky that you either stumbled in here by luck, congratulations to you,
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or you're so smart that you know you should come here every day.
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Either way, it's a great, great way to start the day.
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I know, I know, it doesn't seem like it could get any better, right?
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But watch this. It's called the simultaneous sip, and no matter how good your day has started, it takes it up another level.
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I know you won't believe it until you try it yourself, but let's try it.
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The dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, including your antibodies.
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The only way you can tell is you feel a little bit extra friction.
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Well, as Marty Blartfest pointed out in a tweet today,
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that Elon Musk was very clever to do a Twitter poll asking people if he should sell a bunch of his Tesla stock.
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It was clever because he warned the public ahead of time and framed it.
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Because if he had simply just sold it, and I think he had to, maybe to pay off some obligations from some other tax thing.
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And imagine if he just sold it and didn't tell anybody that the stock would die, if it would look like he's lost faith.
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And of course, that would be ridiculous because it's only $5 billion, which is not much for him.
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But because he did this little Twitter poll, he made us think that the issue was paying taxes.
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And he's very, if you watch Musk, he's very consistent in understanding the room.
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You know, able to work the room and work your impressions of the room.
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You know, Tesla famously doesn't do advertising.
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Instead, they just make good products that people want to talk about.
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And then Elon Musk does things that people want to talk about.
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Every time Elon Musk does something you think is a little crazy and provocative and maybe he shouldn't have done it,
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if you're not simultaneously thinking to yourself, oh, they don't do regular marketing.
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They draw your attention in non-traditional ways.
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Once you realize that, it's a little more transparent what he's up to.
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Have I told you that I was expecting a hit piece on me?
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Because it's the political season starting to heat up again as we get to 2022.
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So how many thought my prediction would be good, that there would be a hit piece on me?
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Well, yesterday on Twitter, a journalist for SFGate, so this would be a local left-leaning publication,
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asked if I would like to be the subject of a profile.
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Do you know what it means when a journalist asks somebody who talks about politics
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Well, I'm sad to say that I used to be dumb enough to fall for this, and did.
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When I say used to, I'm not talking about when I was in my 20s and I didn't have much experience.
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I'm talking about I fell for this trick five years ago, four years ago.
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So Bloomberg had a journalist who said, hey, we want to do a big feature piece profile on you.
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And I thought to myself, wow, Bloomberg's a pretty big publication,
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Anyway, the point is that Bloomberg clearly was playing on the Democrat team,
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did not count on me retweeting it because I'm a little bit anti-fragile,
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meaning that the more you attack me, the stronger I get.
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And so, indeed, my profile went up instead of down.
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the fake news industry would put their article at the top.
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oh, March 2017 is when the Bloomberg article was.
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but during the election, it was the top result.
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see if I should listen to more of what he says or not,
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So, when the SFGate asked if they could do a profile piece on me,
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I, of course, said, thank you, but no thank you.
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And I would expect that at least somebody will write a piece
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It's far more credible if you can get the topic of your hit piece
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to be part of it, which is what I used to fall for.
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Here's more on my theme that Democrats uniquely don't understand human motivation.
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put it in the bin in your brain with the other examples
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of Democrats not understanding human motivation.
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The humans don't act the way they hope they do.
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Conservatives typically get the human part right.
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Now, it might look like the conservatives are being more cruel
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because they can be more harsh in their worldview,
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I'm almost positive that if you could find out that,
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but if you could prove that pure socialism actually worked,
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It's just that it can't be proved because it doesn't,
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and it violates everything you know about human behavior.
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And Greg Gottfeld tweeted this about CNN's coverage.
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Kyle Rittenhouse on trial for self-defense that they call murder.
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and Don Lemon was on there with two other people,
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conservatives embrace, comma, celebrate white vigilantism.
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Is that the most, let's say, unaware interpretation of conservatives?
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and then imagine that exactly everything else was exactly the same
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and that the people he shot were three white people,
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So anybody who has even a little bit of understanding
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to imagine that conservatives are seeing this to be about race,
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yeah, it's fine to have these peaceful protests