Episode 1593 Scott Adams: Let's Talk About the Funny Stuff in the News Today
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 3 minutes
Words per Minute
139.55168
Summary
The dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, the hit that makes it all the better: coffee! Enjoy it with a cup or mug or glass, a bowl or chalice, a canteen, or a glass of any kind, filled with your favorite liquid.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the best thing that's ever happened to you.
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Yep, I say that every day because it's true every single day.
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We're mild and we won't hurt you, but you can't stop us.
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And if you'd like to take this to the next level, and why wouldn't you?
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Well, when I look at you, I see people who are smarter, better, sexier than everyone else who's not watching this.
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And so I know you'd like to take it up to the next level, and all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a canteen jug or a flax, a vessel of any kind,
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
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Stop and smell the coffee beans or whatever you got going there.
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At the end of yesterday's live stream, I gave you a tip for removing foods from your diet and sulfites in particular.
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Has anybody else discovered that they do have an allergy to sulfides or sulfites?
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Could it be that, have you noticed that there's a asthma?
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I need an update on this, but the last I knew, there was this huge uptick in asthma in adults in the United States.
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I know that was true a while ago, you know, years ago, that there was this giant unexplained uptick in asthma.
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And it took me decades to find out it was that additive that was getting me.
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Because most asthma is either triggered by exercise or allergies.
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And if there's a food additive that got to some percentage of the public and caused them to have allergies,
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So could it be a food allergy is the reason that the asthma spiked?
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Let me tell you something that a system I've been using on Twitter,
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that's one of the best things that I ever came up with.
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You've heard it before, but I just want to reinforce it so you can use it yourself.
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If somebody comes after you personally on Twitter, you know, they're not criticizing the argument,
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they're calling you stupid or, you know, just some personal insult.
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Before you respond, before you respond, because you're going to want to insult them back right away,
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And see if it's somebody who works in the arts.
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Because ever since I started doing that and then sharing it with you,
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you'll find that people who work in the arts go for the ad hominem.
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One, it could be they don't have the analytical skills to go at it a different way.
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But two, it could be they don't have the same distinction between reality and fantasy.
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In other words, it might not, you know, matter to them so much if you're right.
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It just matters that they're mad at you because you disagree.
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And so I think there's also a performance element to it.
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That people insulting, especially somebody who's, you know, in the public eye.
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When people insult me, I think there's always a performance element to it.
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And so as soon as I see that it's somebody in the arts, I completely discount it.
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Because the moment you think it's about you, you're going to be mad.
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It's about the performance they want to put on.
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It's about them dealing with their own feelings and emotion.
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And the number of times that I get insulted and then I check and, oh, it's an artist.
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It's a writer or it's a visual artist of some kind.
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Yeah, I'll tell you, the Hollywood writers are absolutely the worst.
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Because they hate me also because I make money writing.
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And if you're a writer, you really hate people who make money writing.
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98% of them do because 98% of writers don't make much money writing.
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Now, did you all see the Elon Musk response to Elizabeth Warren on Twitter?
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So on the same day that Elon Musk becomes Time Person of the Year,
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Elon Musk proved to us why he is the best choice they've ever made for the Time Person of the Year.
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you'd have to give him some consideration just based on this tweet response.
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That alone, if he'd never fired a rocket into space or become the richest person in the world.
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So Elizabeth Warren decides to use Elon Musk as her, I don't know,
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If you just use somebody as your example, I guess.
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will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else.
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He's like single-handedly solving the biggest problems in the world for our country.
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Elon Musk, I would say, is the reason that battery technology is advancing so much.
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I mean, Tesla's got to be the big driver of showing that that market exists, etc.
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And, of course, battery storage will be one of the key technologies of the future.
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He's taking us to space, better than NASA was doing,
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the most important strategic thing in the history of,
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Controlling space and having space competence first,
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So Elon Musk is doing, like, the work that even our government can do.
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So Elon Musk, who also is the only marketing for Tesla,
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I've never seen anybody do marketing better than this.
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I mean, Apple was pretty great, but they spent money on it.
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and he gets the same bang for the buck as Apple does.
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Anyway, so after Elizabeth Warren tries to dunk on Elon Musk,
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It's just, you know, just sort of like a warning shot.
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He followed it up soon after with another tweet.
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would just randomly yell at everyone for no reason.
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Now, it's not that he wrote it like a joke, per se,
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This is pure low-energy Jeb-level quality stuff.
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please don't call the manager on me, Senator Karen.