Episode 1657 Scott Adams: Let's Talk About All the Lies, Deceptions and BS in Today's Headlines
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Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, host Scott Adams talks about a new show on Amazon Prime Video that he didn t think would be allowed in the 90s, and why he thinks it's a good idea to have a woman in the lead role in the new series, Jack Reacher. Plus, a poll that says Biden should take a cognitive test.
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Well, there's a new TV series on Amazon Prime that I didn't think you could even make a show like this.
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You know, you've seen some provocative content lately, but wow.
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Let me describe this, and you tell me if you think this would...
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Honestly, I didn't think you could even put something like this on any kind of a streaming service in 2022.
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Because it's not like these are backward times when we were less awake and aware.
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And there's a streaming service who thought this would be okay to stream to the American public.
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Now let's see if you're as disgusted by this as I am.
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It's called Reacher, and it involves a man who plays the role of a hero.
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You do not have this kind of a show with a man as the main character doing heroic things like beating people up who deserve it.
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This character should be played by a black woman who weighs no more than 95 pounds.
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And that 95-pound black woman, if she were in the role that she was born to play, of Reacher,
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she would be beating up 10, 12 people simultaneously.
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Because that's what you can do when you have skills, and you weigh 95 pounds.
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So, I'm a little shocked that there could be this muscular white guy starring in a series.
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Anyway, Rasmussen has a poll that says that 66%, roughly two-thirds of people polled in America,
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But more interesting is the percentage that say Biden is mentally and physically up to the job of president.
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Does anybody want to take a guess about the approximate?
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But approximately, just off the top of your head,
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how many people do you think would say, as a percentage,
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that Biden is mentally and physically up to the job of president?
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When I told you that you were sexier than normal,
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And I think you can see it clearly in these answers.
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Yes, without the benefit of any scientific polling,
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each of you knew that approximately a quarter of the public
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From a cognitive scientist, Scott Barry Kaufman,
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But the edibles I do are usually only about 5 to 10 milligrams of THC content.
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I didn't realize until a second after I ate most of it
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So it was 10 to 20 times the power of what he would normally experience.
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and I won't read you the whole thread because it's worth looking at.
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So he decides before he starts losing his, let's say, powers of judgment,
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he realizes that in a few minutes he's just going to be tripping balls.
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I mean, he's just going to be in an interesting situation.
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which is what makes this whole thing interesting,
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and I guess at some point he decided to document his experience.
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So he decides to take an Uber to the emergency room
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he can ride it out with professionals around in case something goes.
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And I guess they took his pulse, and they're like,
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And so as I expected with my complete lack of medical training,
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he wasn't in, it didn't look like he was actually going to die.
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He was just going to have a real interesting mental experience.
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Now he describes it as hallucinating, basically, like a trip.
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or maybe I'm just too acclimated to it or something,
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but I've never had anything even close to that.
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But I will accept that if you took ten times your normal amount,
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So anyway, the net of it is that this cognitive scientist
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and you've never had a hallucination experience,
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you're working on the other side of the curtain,
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you know, the part where everybody can see stuff.
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all the stuff you couldn't see on the other side.
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And that's what happened to, I think, Scott Barry Kaufman.
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But he's got an interesting experience in front of him, I believe.
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There's no way he could go through the experience he did
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and ended up with a good story to tell and some insights
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You can't come out of that not wanting to be a little curious.
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And here's what I would say to Scott Barry Kaufman
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Whatever he experienced with this overdose of the cookie,
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well, every experience with that is not in any way
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roughly similar to what a mushroom experience would be.
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But the most important part of this question was
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and I sent him a message to see if I could get the rest of it
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I also wonder how much of that cookie I could have eaten
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You know, I'm pretty sure I could have polished off half a box
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Anyway, here's a story that I didn't talk about when it was newer
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which they later walked back a little bit and said,
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and quietly sold or donated $6 billion worth of stock
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that presumably have something to do with feeding people.
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is that the most baller thing you've ever heard in your life?
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if you give $6 billion, we could cure world hunger,
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you know, that that math could even make sense.
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When you can make your real moves in the real world also funny,
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You want to know who the real operators are in this world?
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you have somebody operating on a whole different level.
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So much so that looking for the humor in people's moves
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which is interesting because it shouldn't be interesting,
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And she was talking about the Canadian government.
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So while it seems like much of the political right
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maybe you don't need to say anything about that.
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if anybody talked about traveling domestically,