Episode 1574 Scott Adams: Today's Live Stream Will Be Exceptional
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Summary
The dopamine hit of the day, Rob Reiner's tweet about the Rittenhouse case, Black Friday, and much, much more. Plus, a play about how the left and right are completely ignorant about each other's news.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the best thing that's ever happened to you.
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Yeah, I know that's a big claim, but I'm going to back it up.
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By the end of this live stream, you're going to say to yourself,
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wow, that might have been the best thing that's ever happened to me.
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Now, if you'd like to make it extra, extra good, what would you do?
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That's right, that's right. You all got it right.
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You'd have the simultaneous sip, and all you'd do is a cup or mug or a glass or a tank or a chalice or a stein,
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a canteen jug or a flask or a vessel of any kind,
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fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better except shopping.
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Well, happy Black Friday, as the racists call it.
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Anyway, it turns out that you're allowed to shop today, even if you're not black.
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So it's called Black Friday, but it turns out everybody can shop, which I feel is very open-minded.
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I don't know if I told you my play with Rob Reiner's tweet, and it's a play that I use a lot.
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Now, you know how the left and the right are in their own news bubbles and social media bubbles,
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So if you're trying to persuade the other side, how do you do it?
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There's something very loud happening outside my house.
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I don't know what it is, but there's heavy equipment right outside my house.
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Never hire a wrecking crew for your neighbor's house.
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Anyway, my play with Rob Reiner's tweet in which he said he had a bunch of stuff wrong about the Rittenhouse case.
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Now, remember, by November 23rd, the entire country should know the actual story of Rittenhouse.
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Well, listen to how bad his version was, and I'll add something to what I've said before about this.
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An underage kid illegally took an assault rifle across state lines.
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Didn't take it across state lines, and it wasn't illegal.
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Now, there were charges that were dropped, but by the time they went to a verdict,
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there were no charges about any gun-related thing.
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Well, you'd have to be in a pretty deep bubble, right?
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Now, I saw some people saying, oh, they know it.
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The level of ignorance that both sides have about each other's news is really shocking.
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And if you don't think that's the whole story here, you think that they're just lying,
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and of course they know the real story, I don't think so.
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I would place a very large bet that when Rob Reiner wrote this tweet, he did not know the actual story,
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Well, it does report it, but it reports it inaccurately.
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My play is not to embarrass Rob Reiner, because I don't care about him individually.
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And my play is not to convince a whole bunch of people on the right,
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Well, here's my hypothesis, and I think it's fairly accurate,
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which is that blue check Twitter people kind of pay attention to the other blue checks.
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Now, if you don't have a blue check next to your name, you may not have experienced this.
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There's somebody at my door, and I'm going to have to figure out what's going on here,
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because something big is happening right outside my door right now.
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I better check on this, see if it's anything important.
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It's a bird sitting in front of my security camera.
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It just walks in front of my security camera every day.
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because my neighborhood's been hit with a crime wave
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and carrying your stuff away while you're home.
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So it's a dangerous neighborhood at the moment.
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Anyway, my play with Rob Reiner is to get him to see my comment,
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I'm trying only to convince Rob Reiner that his news is wrong.
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I'm just trying to convince people that they're watching fake news.
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I think that's doable, especially with the Rittenhouse case.
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working hard to deny human agency to black criminals.
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But there are a whole bunch of nudges going on here.
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And it feels like people are starting to see it.
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Because I don't know what that damn thing's doing
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So as you can see, she still has her feeding tube in, and her bandaging is getting a little ragged.
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So she's got a few more days of the feeding tube.
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I just use it for the medicine because she won't take medicine without spitting it out.
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And in a few days, she'll get this off, and she'll be all good.
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That was your Black Friday special cat episode.