Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1759 Scott Adams： Day Two Of COVID, Not So Good. Hope Your Day Is Going Better, Let's Sip

00:00:00.000 Oh, good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of civilization.

00:00:07.020 Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:00:09.380 Today will be the special COVID version, because I got myself a bad case of the COVID, day

00:00:17.060 two of symptoms.

00:00:18.960 And let me tell you, it's really unpleasant, really, really unpleasant.

00:00:23.120 But the biggest part about it, which I'll tell you later, is the brain fog.

00:00:26.800 So, I may have some trouble getting through this.

00:00:30.560 It's pretty bad.

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00:00:51.980 All right.

00:00:59.760 I've got some confessions.

00:01:01.900 Confession time.

00:01:04.380 I'm going to tell you something that was too embarrassing to tell you yesterday.

00:01:08.480 What I'm going to tell you today.

00:01:10.300 So, I told you I tried to get some Paxlovid.

00:01:14.180 I guess it's the Pfizer pill.

00:01:16.880 And I did not succeed.

00:01:19.880 Ultimately, I decided to go without it.

00:01:22.200 But I did try to get it and did not succeed.

00:01:24.980 And do you know why I did not succeed in getting it?

00:01:28.400 Anybody want to guess?

00:01:30.080 Why did I not succeed in getting the Pavloxin or whatever it is?

00:01:37.140 Too in shape?

00:01:38.380 No.

00:01:38.740 Well, I don't know.

00:01:39.360 Maybe.

00:01:41.580 Here's the answer.

00:01:42.640 And here's the embarrassing answer.

00:01:43.920 Too much brain fog.

00:01:46.680 I actually couldn't figure out how to receive a phone call.

00:01:50.500 Now, let me say that again.

00:01:52.460 I couldn't figure out how to receive a phone call.

00:01:56.920 And my medical service, Kaiser, they have to call you back.

00:02:02.460 So, you can't call them.

00:02:03.760 They have to call you back.

00:02:05.560 I couldn't figure out how to receive a call.

00:02:07.640 Now, here's why.

00:02:08.460 I have my phone ringer turned off unless it's in my contacts, which I did a long time ago.

00:02:17.680 And so, I said to myself, oh, if I'm going to get this call, I better turn my notifications back on, because I know I turned them off.

00:02:24.960 So, I went into my iPhone, went to the part about notifications, went to the part about phone notifications.

00:02:32.820 And there was nothing there about turning my ringer back on for contacts.

00:02:38.460 Before you go on, you want to jump in and tell me how to do it, right?

00:02:45.400 I know how to do it.

00:02:47.620 I just go to Google and say, how do I turn my ringer back on?

00:02:51.760 And it will tell me how to do it.

00:02:53.840 I didn't know that yesterday.

00:02:55.120 Or, to put it in a more accurate way, I kind of knew it.

00:03:01.160 I couldn't execute it.

00:03:03.200 I just couldn't do it.

00:03:04.860 So, I was actually mentally incompetent and trying to navigate a complicated situation that I hadn't been in.

00:03:15.620 Now, for things which I've experienced before, I'm fine, right?

00:03:19.520 So, I know how to do little stuff.

00:03:22.760 But, yeah, somebody says it sounds like getting old.

00:03:25.860 But, here's the thing.

00:03:27.300 If I didn't have the brain fog, I just would have Googled it and changed my phone and taken the call and gotten the drug.

00:03:33.560 It's not hard.

00:03:35.060 There's nothing to it.

00:03:37.620 But, I didn't have anybody at the moment.

00:03:40.000 I don't have any adults in the house.

00:03:42.200 And, I didn't want to call somebody and admit that I couldn't figure out how to use my phone.

00:03:46.860 I was so degraded that I just couldn't get past it.

00:03:49.920 Just couldn't figure it out.

00:03:50.700 And, ultimately, I decided not to take the drug anyway.

00:03:53.960 Because, how much testing went into that drug?

00:03:59.980 Here, we've all been talking about the vaccinations.

00:04:02.740 You know, was it tested enough and stuff.

00:04:04.800 And, I thought, well, what makes the pill any better?

00:04:08.380 I don't know.

00:04:08.820 Well, why should I assume that that's safe?

00:04:11.620 So, if you take the assumption that you're going to be fine anyway, maybe it takes an extra day or two.

00:04:18.340 I'm not sure it made sense to take the pill unless you were in a, let's say, a worse situation.

00:04:25.520 So, the brain fog is the hardest part.

00:04:31.300 Yesterday, I just sat there and just stared at a wall for 18 hours, I think.

00:04:36.340 I could barely do anything.

00:04:37.580 And, I tried sleeping a massive amount, which I never do.

00:04:44.440 And, let me tell you, I hate sleeping.

00:04:46.740 Oh, God, I hated it.

00:04:48.560 I did a lot of it.

00:04:50.180 I probably needed it.

00:04:51.180 But, man, I hated it.

00:04:52.320 And, I started dreaming again.

00:04:56.560 Because, I haven't dreamed in, I don't know, decades.

00:04:58.900 Because, I don't sleep enough to actually get to the rapid eye movements.

00:05:02.920 So, I slept enough to dream.

00:05:05.460 I didn't like it at all.

00:05:07.560 How do you people put up with dreams?

00:05:10.100 They're all just, like, annoying, frustrating things.

00:05:13.800 I mean, it's not like I had, like, an awesome sex dream or something.

00:05:16.620 That'd be cool.

00:05:17.100 But, no.

00:05:18.440 Just, like, awesome, weird things that bother you.

00:05:20.820 That's all.

00:05:22.320 So, I'm sorry that you dream.

00:05:25.980 I don't plan to do any more of that.

00:05:28.560 Here's something I learned.

00:05:31.260 Did you know that George Washington didn't know dinosaurs existed?

00:05:39.540 That George...

00:05:40.900 Check this to see if it's true.

00:05:43.460 But, the first dinosaur was discovered in the early 1800s.

00:05:48.960 And, George Washington had already lived and died by then.

00:05:52.320 Yeah, if you want to say, remember my dreams, that's more accurate.

00:05:57.360 That's true.

00:06:01.800 You're low in B vitamins if you can't remember your dreams?

00:06:04.160 No, it just means I don't sleep more than four hours a night.

00:06:07.180 That's what it usually means.

00:06:09.160 So, I never get to the rapid eye movement stuff.

00:06:11.620 Didn't that, no, I don't have a sore throat.

00:06:17.360 I do have a dry cough.

00:06:21.920 And a runny nose and brain fog.

00:06:25.180 Ugh, it's awful.

00:06:26.700 But I also, I couldn't take a Tylenol because I couldn't eat.

00:06:31.220 I'm just super nauseous all the time.

00:06:36.280 I also had this problem, which is I couldn't eat anything because my mouth was so dry that it would just turn into concrete in my mouth.

00:06:45.540 Like, I couldn't just take a piece of bread and just eat it.

00:06:49.460 It would turn into, like, I couldn't even swallow it.

00:06:52.780 It just would turn into some kind of weird thing.

00:06:55.360 Keep using mouthwash, somebody says.

00:07:00.760 Yeah, oh well.

00:07:02.800 Anyway, I saw a movie called The Lost City last night with Sandra Bullock.

00:07:08.220 Anybody seen that?

00:07:09.760 Pretty good.

00:07:11.160 Pretty good.

00:07:11.880 A little too long, as usual.

00:07:13.780 But Sandra Bullock makes good movies. 1.00

00:07:16.480 I think Sandra Bullock and Tom Cruise are the last, you know, great stars, it seems like.

00:07:23.000 But, you know, I was watching Sandra Bullock and I was trying to figure out, how old is she?

00:07:30.080 Because she looks exactly like she's always looked.

00:07:32.920 And she's 57.

00:07:36.180 And she looks, maybe when she made it, she was 55.

00:07:39.700 But, oh my God.

00:07:42.600 Oh my God.

00:07:43.640 Just whatever, whatever fitness thing she's doing is working out.

00:07:47.940 And she's older than her co-star, so they finally had the older woman, younger guy situation going on there.

00:08:01.060 Well, you know, when we've got these school shootings, we need AOC to tell us what the basic problem is.

00:08:06.240 And she came through for us.

00:08:08.400 She said that the basic problem is America's patriarchal society and masculinity that's, quote, rooted in the subjugation of other people.

00:08:16.720 So if we had less patriarchal society and our masculinity was not rooted in the subjugation of other people, we might shoot less people.

00:08:29.120 But I ask you this question.

00:08:31.580 Interesting hypothesis.

00:08:34.080 But would that mean that wherever there is the greatest patriarchal societies, you would have the most mass shootings?

00:08:39.740 And I don't think that's the case, is it?

00:08:44.100 Because when I run through my mind of all the mass shooting places that also have, well, all the places that have a patriarchal society, I don't feel like they have a lot of mass shootings there.

00:08:56.900 I feel like the more patriarchal the society, the fewer there are.

00:09:01.340 Did anybody do the math?

00:09:05.880 I don't know.

00:09:07.280 Well, everybody's got a theory.

00:09:13.340 The other theory is that there's too many missing dads.

00:09:16.560 What do you think of that?

00:09:18.260 That all the bad behavior and the school shootings are from missing dads?

00:09:26.280 Lots of yeses.

00:09:27.420 That's a conservative point of view.

00:09:28.980 There's missing dads.

00:09:30.040 Here's the counter to that hypothesis.

00:09:34.340 There does seem to be a correlation.

00:09:36.920 So the people who don't have dads do seem to get in more trouble.

00:09:40.640 That part we all agree on, right?

00:09:42.680 If you don't have a dad, more likely to get in trouble.

00:09:47.820 I think that data stands.

00:09:50.420 But do they have the correlation or the causation correct?

00:09:57.640 Let me ask you this.

00:09:58.740 Would there be anything about the people whose fathers left or didn't have a father in the first place?

00:10:05.560 Would there be anything else that that group had in common other than the fact that the child doesn't have a dad?

00:10:11.460 Wouldn't it be a lot?

00:10:15.960 Don't the people who only have one parent have a lot in common?

00:10:19.480 Poverty, for example.

00:10:22.040 Poverty.

00:10:23.080 And what about the nature of the dad?

00:10:25.680 Do we believe that genetics don't have any role in anything?

00:10:29.940 If you're a dad who's likely to leave or to not take care of a kid,

00:10:35.740 does that genetic propensity, is it likely to follow to the child?

00:10:42.460 I mean, not every time, of course. 0.95

00:10:44.940 But crazy ex-wife. 1.00

00:10:46.840 And, yeah, did the father leave because the mother's crazy? 0.93

00:10:52.660 What kind of mental health do couples have, on average, if they've broken up versus if they didn't?

00:11:00.880 I don't know.

00:11:01.780 Seems to me, seems to me, they've got a lot of correlations there, and they've picked out one.

00:11:08.380 No dad, bad behavior.

00:11:12.460 Seems to me that the no dad thing and the bad behavior are both caused by the same thing,

00:11:17.400 which is parents who are not quite fit to be parents.

00:11:21.280 And if you have two parents that are not fit to be parents, and you put them together and have a child,

00:11:27.900 is that child going to be really competent?

00:11:31.220 I don't know.

00:11:31.820 Maybe.

00:11:32.040 But it seems like you're selecting for a certain personality type.

00:11:38.080 That the single and having a baby, on average, this is not about every person, right?

00:11:44.640 Everybody's in a different situation.

00:11:45.900 But on average, you don't think you could find a correlation with a lot of other stuff,

00:11:52.240 other than that the dad was there or the dad was not there.

00:11:54.780 To me, it seems like the missing dad is a symptom of some deeper problem.

00:12:00.660 And, you know, it affected the dad in the same way it affected the kid.

00:12:04.520 I don't know.

00:12:05.460 I'm just saying that I don't believe that it's as simple as no dad equals mass shooter, more likely.

00:12:11.880 I don't think it's that simple.

00:12:12.800 How about this one?

00:12:18.100 How many of the mass shooters also played violent video games?

00:12:22.960 Do you know that?

00:12:24.000 I don't think I've ever seen that mentioned.

00:12:27.820 So of the mass shootings, the school mass shootings,

00:12:31.600 how many of them played a lot of violent video games?

00:12:36.680 Because I feel like it's every one of them.

00:12:38.940 But I've never seen that mentioned.

00:12:43.600 Depends on the decade.

00:12:47.540 Now, you're saying everyone plays violent video games, but not as often.

00:12:53.120 Now, even if everyone did, that doesn't mean the game is causing it.

00:12:56.820 But it might for some people.

00:12:59.440 You know, 99.9% of people are going to be completely unaffected by their entertainment choices.

00:13:03.920 But it only takes one to pick up a gun.

00:13:08.160 All right.

00:13:08.860 So that's sort of an open question.

00:13:12.380 Sirius XM host Dean Obadile.

00:13:16.060 Obadile?

00:13:17.680 So I guess he was arguing that there's no constitutional right to own a gun and that it's a mirage.

00:13:24.920 You know, there's no such thing as a constitutional right to own a gun.

00:13:28.400 What do you think of that? 0.97

00:13:29.260 I feel like that's ridiculous. 0.93

00:13:36.000 And it's not because the Constitution says you can own a gun. 0.78

00:13:40.160 That's not why.

00:13:41.580 It doesn't matter what the Constitution says.

00:13:43.900 If the Supreme Court says that's what it says, then you have the right.

00:13:49.260 That's how it works, right?

00:13:50.480 The Constitution of the United States could be just a dictionary with nothing in it.

00:13:59.020 But if the Supreme Court says, yeah, it's right there.

00:14:01.080 I see it.

00:14:01.760 There's a right to own a gun right in there.

00:14:03.700 Then you have the right to own a gun.

00:14:06.240 That's what our system is.

00:14:08.460 The system is the Supreme Court tells you what's there.

00:14:11.600 And if they make up something, that's your right.

00:14:14.460 Because didn't they make up the right of abortion? 1.00

00:14:21.240 I mean, that was basically they pieced together some privacy elements from different places and sort of made something up, right?

00:14:27.560 So what if you buy the premise, and I don't.

00:14:34.900 I mean, I'm willing to, actually.

00:14:36.380 I am willing to.

00:14:37.380 But what if you bought the premise that the actual original Constitution did not contemplate gun ownership the way we have it today?

00:14:46.580 It doesn't matter.

00:14:48.080 It doesn't matter.

00:14:49.680 Because the Supreme Court said it's there.

00:14:52.160 That's how our system works.

00:14:53.940 It doesn't matter if it's there.

00:14:55.060 To have the right.

00:14:57.460 Now, if you're arguing that the Supreme Court made a mistake, that's a good argument. 0.99

00:15:03.260 Or at least one that you could credibly make.

00:15:06.840 But once they've decided, you do have the right.

00:15:10.980 That's what it means.

00:15:12.020 To have a right means, you know, somebody gave it to you.

00:15:15.880 Now, some say you have rights to do everything until the government takes it away.

00:15:20.280 Well, okay.

00:15:21.840 I'll give you that.

00:15:22.500 But the government does tell you what is and what is not allowed in our current system.

00:15:30.160 Yeah, the Federalist Papers help explain some of the framers thinking.

00:15:33.780 It doesn't matter, does it?

00:15:35.440 It really doesn't matter if it's in the original document.

00:15:38.880 It only matters if the Supreme Court is willing to say it's there.

00:15:42.540 That's all.

00:15:42.980 All right.

00:15:49.700 Washington Post senior editor Mark Fisher, I guess on Thursday, he tweeted that the AR-15 was, quote, invented for Nazi infantrymen.

00:15:59.900 The quality of our discourse is so bad.

00:16:08.560 What if it was?

00:16:09.680 And the Volkswagen was invented by Hitler, so should you not buy a Volkswagen? 0.97

00:16:18.900 I actually know some people who won't buy a Volkswagen for that reason.

00:16:22.640 But what if it was?

00:16:25.560 You know, what if this is true?

00:16:27.800 I don't know if that is true.

00:16:29.220 But what if it is?

00:16:31.500 Does it matter?

00:16:32.880 It's completely irrelevant to the question of whether you want one.

00:16:36.220 I don't care who invented it.

00:16:37.980 Do you?

00:16:44.020 All right.

00:16:48.260 And documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has called for the U.S. to repeal the Second Amendment entirely.

00:16:55.660 All right.

00:16:56.440 Well, I guess you've got to say something pretty extreme to get some attention these days.

00:17:00.080 But I don't see that happening.

00:17:05.760 Let me ask you this.

00:17:07.280 We're all afraid of the slippery slope, right?

00:17:10.900 And if you restricted gun laws in any way, would you agree that it encourages more restrictions?

00:17:20.820 I think that's true.

00:17:22.180 If somebody asks for a restriction and gets it, they're going to say, ooh, that worked.

00:17:26.320 Let's ask for some more restrictions.

00:17:28.700 See if we can get them.

00:17:29.460 All right.

00:17:30.080 So I think we would pretty much all agree that the slippery slope is a real thing.

00:17:35.860 Can we agree?

00:17:37.960 In this specific example, I'm anti-slippery slope for lots of things.

00:17:43.880 But in this specific example, there's no question that if you asked for something you want and you got it,

00:17:49.460 why wouldn't you ask for something else?

00:17:51.580 It wouldn't make any sense not to.

00:17:53.320 I mean, in that case, it's pretty straightforward, right?

00:17:55.080 So let me ask you this.

00:17:57.820 Is there any area in American life in which the age limit disallowed young people from doing something?

00:18:09.860 And then that situation specifically, just an age limit question.

00:18:14.760 Nothing else.

00:18:16.040 Just an age limit.

00:18:17.320 Has that ever become a slippery slope?

00:18:21.160 Cigarettes have an age limit.

00:18:23.280 Alcohol has an age limit.

00:18:24.680 Cigarettes have an age limit.

00:18:25.680 Cigarettes have an age limit.

00:18:26.680 Drinking?

00:18:28.900 How did that become a slippery slope?

00:18:33.360 Voting?

00:18:35.340 No, we've changed those things.

00:18:38.100 We've altered the age.

00:18:39.540 But that didn't lead to changes in non-age-related things, did it?

00:18:46.720 To me, it just looks like there were just a bunch of things that were done.

00:18:51.040 And, all right, let me ask you this.

00:18:52.720 Is there anything that has an age limit on it now that you think should not?

00:18:58.940 All right, here's the new question.

00:19:00.660 Is there anything that has an age restriction on it now that you think should not?

00:19:06.020 Somebody said work.

00:19:06.960 Well, work's a special case.

00:19:09.540 Yeah, I'll give you work, okay?

00:19:12.200 But we're not talking about work.

00:19:17.080 All right.

00:19:21.500 So here's the question. 1.00

00:19:22.900 Gay sex. 1.00

00:19:26.220 Here's the question. 0.99

00:19:28.040 Do you think that putting an age limit on firearms for, let's say, 21 or 25, for, let's say, an AR,

00:19:37.860 do you think that that would become a slippery slope toward more restrictions?

00:19:48.280 Mostly yes.

00:19:49.600 A lot of no's.

00:19:53.320 Yeah.

00:19:53.720 It makes you wonder if there's some way to manage that.

00:19:58.780 Because I think if you could convince Republicans, let me ask you this.

00:20:06.760 Behind closed doors, if you were talking privately to your Republican senator, do you think your Republican senator would say that increasing the age limit for ARs would be a bad idea?

00:20:20.560 Now, forget about the slippery slope problem.

00:20:23.880 If you could only do that, do you think any senators would disagree with that?

00:20:30.840 Probably not.

00:20:32.060 Probably not behind closed doors.

00:20:33.980 I don't think so.

00:20:35.180 They would just be worried about how it looks and what it might lead to, right?

00:20:39.140 I think they would agree that everything needs an age limit.

00:20:42.540 And how about this?

00:20:47.580 How about this?

00:20:48.900 Suppose you're Republicans and you say, here's the deal.

00:20:53.020 We'll put an age limit on the AR firearms.

00:20:57.920 But in return, we want an age restriction on social media.

00:21:04.140 Boom.

00:21:04.780 Boom.

00:21:04.860 Let that sink in for a moment.

00:21:14.200 Just let it sink in.

00:21:17.780 Right?

00:21:19.720 Because if you make a deal, then you have less odds of the slippery slope, right?

00:21:26.960 Am I right?

00:21:27.980 Because that would be a deal.

00:21:29.180 You'd say, okay, well, we fixed social media and we're giving up a little bit on guns.

00:21:35.740 So that's not exactly like a slippery slope.

00:21:38.340 That's more like a deal where you both got something.

00:21:41.280 See, the slippery slope happens when somebody gets something for free and the other team just gave something away.

00:21:50.220 If you could get something just by asking for it, wouldn't you do more of it?

00:21:56.720 Of course you would.

00:21:57.360 But if you could only get something by making a deal where you've got to give up something to get it, well, you're going to do a lot less of it because there aren't that many deals to be had.

00:22:08.220 So why don't we stop arguing about whether social media is hurting people or guns and just make a deal and say these are two things that kids shouldn't be doing or young people.

00:22:23.140 Shouldn't be doing these, shouldn't be on social media until maybe 18 and shouldn't get it gone until maybe whatever, whatever we decide.

00:22:32.100 I'm not sure 25 is the right number, but it feels like 21 is the right number at the very minimum because the number of people under 21 who are doing it. 0.98

00:22:42.460 I think you ought to have to see the data to know what the right number is.

00:22:46.900 Unenforceable, somebody says.

00:22:48.560 Well, that's true of every law, right?

00:22:51.500 You can't make people...

00:22:53.460 What's unenforceability?

00:22:56.660 Unenforceable that kids use social media?

00:22:58.200 No, you could police that pretty easily.

00:23:05.040 You have to be 35 to be president, so why not make everything 35?

00:23:08.900 Well, you know, the presidency is one of those few things where the older you are, maybe the better you are, up to a certain point.

00:23:17.200 I mean, the 70s and 80s is too old.

00:23:19.400 But certainly between 35 and 65, well, here's something I can speak to with great personal knowledge.

00:23:30.880 If you compared what I know today at 65 to what I knew at 35, it's a pretty big difference.

00:23:40.440 And I would be afraid of me being president at 35.

00:23:44.640 At 65, I could do the job.

00:23:46.220 So could you, probably, at 65.

00:23:50.740 It's just that you learn enough along the path that you think, oh, yeah, I could do that job.

00:23:56.500 I could do that job.

00:23:58.120 But at 35, I didn't know how anybody could do that job.

00:24:00.760 It just looked impossible.

00:24:02.820 Like, I thought, how in the world do you find somebody who could be president?

00:24:05.600 There's so many topics, so much to do.

00:24:08.280 And now I just look at it and think, oh, I could do that.

00:24:10.560 Yeah, I could do that.

00:24:16.220 Yeah, rural kids hunt.

00:24:22.100 You could make exceptions for, you know, hunting, I suppose.

00:24:29.660 Or you could also make an exception that says, you know, if you're under a certain age,

00:24:34.800 you could use a head gun if you're with somebody over a certain age.

00:24:39.400 How about that? 0.94

00:24:40.320 That's what they do with automobiles, right?

00:24:41.880 If you're just getting your permit, you can drive as long as you're with somebody older.

00:24:47.220 Well, if you're hunting, correct me if I'm wrong.

00:24:50.320 When you hunt, you usually go with somebody else, don't you?

00:24:53.520 I don't hunt, so.

00:24:55.440 How many people hunt alone?

00:24:58.260 Hunting is usually with another person, right?

00:25:02.540 Oh, some of you do hunt alone.

00:25:04.100 Okay.

00:25:04.640 So there's a little of both.

00:25:05.380 But it wouldn't be a big deal to say that if you're 18, you need to be with somebody older.

00:25:11.620 I don't know that it would probably wouldn't make that much difference in your happiness, would it?

00:25:21.080 Would the age limit apply to women? 1.00

00:25:23.340 Oh, now there's a provocative question. 0.93

00:25:26.080 You mofo. 0.86

00:25:27.540 That is such a good question. 0.66

00:25:30.900 All right, here's the question.

00:25:32.000 Since women basically never do mass shootings, why should there be any age limit for women to own a handgun or any kind of gun? 1.00

00:25:41.520 I agree. 0.99

00:25:43.960 I fucking hate it, but I agree. 0.99

00:25:47.140 I hate that this is a clear case where discriminating against men makes complete sense. 0.99

00:25:55.520 Am I right?

00:25:56.540 Usually I'm on that soapbox.

00:25:59.220 Don't discriminate against men.

00:26:01.920 Yeah, there's enough of that already.

00:26:03.180 Too much pushback.

00:26:04.360 You know, it's gone too far.

00:26:06.240 But if you ask me what's more dangerous, a man having access to guns at 17 or a woman, let's say a woman at 17, 0.83

00:26:17.660 I don't think there's any comparison.

00:26:22.400 There's no comparison.

00:26:23.440 And if you want to throw in LGBTQ, okay with me. 0.98

00:26:29.920 Until there's a mass shooting from an LGBTQ member. 1.00

00:26:34.200 Oh, actually, there probably have been.

00:26:36.220 I'll bet there have been, right?

00:26:38.320 Somebody do me a fact check on that. 1.00

00:26:40.540 But if it's never happened, don't they have an argument?

00:26:46.460 I suppose it's never happened.

00:26:48.000 Yeah, Orlando's is maybe. 0.96

00:26:49.580 That might have been gay, right? 1.00

00:26:50.740 The Orlando shooter. 0.97

00:26:52.420 But I think that was undetermined.

00:27:05.720 Oh, you think Uvalde was?

00:27:08.080 You think that he was gay?

00:27:10.920 The shooter?

00:27:12.060 I haven't heard that.

00:27:13.060 Now, why would you care if I got vaccinated?

00:27:24.300 Somebody says there on comments on YouTube that they forgive me for getting vaccinated

00:27:29.660 because I'm doing these things.

00:27:38.840 All right, Gerald, you can go away.

00:27:40.620 All right.

00:27:43.060 Goodbye. 0.66

00:27:45.180 The media said the Uvalde shooter was gay. 0.53

00:27:51.220 Huh.

00:27:53.180 Well, let me be clear about my vaccination decisions.

00:27:59.620 It's none of your business.

00:28:01.900 I mean, I'm happy to tell you what I did, but your opinion of what I should do doesn't have

00:28:07.020 any impact on me.

00:28:08.480 AR-15s are very seldom used in homicides, but they're used often in mass shootings.

00:28:16.540 I saw the list recently.

00:28:20.380 Spiraling into the brain fog, probably.

00:28:22.540 All right.

00:28:28.640 Pretty much all the data on the school shootings is fake.

00:28:32.460 There was a story saying there were 27 mass school shootings, but really it was 27 school

00:28:39.460 shootings, which would include any gun activity, including one-on-one, and even when nobody

00:28:45.760 got hurt or killed.

00:28:47.880 So it's a problem, but all our data is incorrect.

00:28:52.820 So basically, it's all bad data.

00:29:01.640 All right.

00:29:02.280 So how about Ukraine?

00:29:07.440 So I saw on Fox, I think it was a Fox News story, in which buried at the bottom of the

00:29:12.300 article, they basically say that Putin won the war, that his primary goal was controlling

00:29:20.500 the east part of Ukraine, and he now has it.

00:29:23.560 So he has, he's actually won the war.

00:29:27.620 What do you think?

00:29:29.880 Has Russia won the war, and now all they're doing is consolidating?

00:29:37.240 Yeah, the ruble is doing well.

00:29:39.900 There doesn't seem to be, you know, massive civil war.

00:29:45.340 They seem to be able to adjust so far.

00:29:48.040 So if that's true, if Russia essentially succeeded, then would you also say that all the money we

00:30:01.180 spent to prevent it was wasted?

00:30:04.460 Did we waste all of our money because we didn't prevent anything?

00:30:09.700 Nothing happened except it took longer for Russia to do it and probably killed more people 0.90

00:30:14.160 than they would have otherwise. 0.93

00:30:14.940 I feel like we completely screwed the pooch.

00:30:19.360 Now, I'm not saying that we didn't have good intentions, but I don't think it destroyed Russia.

00:30:28.600 I don't think it's going to replace Putin.

00:30:32.160 And it made a war on your neighbors look like a good idea.

00:30:37.740 Did it not?

00:30:38.680 Because 10 years from now, Putin's going to, this is just going to look like a great victory 0.97

00:30:45.140 for Putin within his own country.

00:30:47.180 So I would say that we managed to show that Russia can attack their neighbors with old 1.00

00:30:53.040 equipment and get away with it.

00:30:54.820 All right, so let's, so somebody's saying, but wait, you claimed Ukraine victory a few days ago.

00:31:05.880 It depends what you think was Putin's goal.

00:31:10.540 If you believe that Putin's goal was to take over the entire country, then he failed.

00:31:15.060 And it doesn't look like he will succeed anytime soon.

00:31:19.800 But now even Fox News is saying, well, his primary goal was that stuff on the East, so

00:31:26.360 he got all of that.

00:31:28.240 To which I say, here's your story where Ukraine won and also Russia won.

00:31:35.740 It's the only way you can get past it.

00:31:37.360 So the only way this can end is if Putin says, I got total success, I took the parts I wanted.

00:31:45.280 And Ukraine says, total success or large success, because we're still Ukraine.

00:31:51.400 We're smaller, but we're still Ukraine, and we're still fighting to liberate those entities.

00:31:59.720 So I think you can say with complete confidence that Russia won the war and also Ukraine won

00:32:05.460 the war.

00:32:05.760 It's the only war where both sides won.

00:32:08.820 It's the best war of all. 0.58

00:32:10.620 Both sides won.

00:32:13.560 We were played.

00:32:15.120 Yes, we were.

00:32:19.100 Apparently, Trump is using ultra-mega to fundraise.

00:32:23.980 No surprise, right?

00:32:24.940 So as soon as you heard Biden saying there was this ultra-mega group, and almost everybody

00:32:30.660 who was pro-Trump said, ultra-mega?

00:32:33.820 Ultra-mega.

00:32:35.880 Ultra-mega.

00:32:36.800 Yeah.

00:32:37.960 That sounds pretty good.

00:32:39.720 So the Democrats are just hideously bad at this branding stuff.

00:32:44.840 And Trump, of course, is the best of all time.

00:32:47.180 So every time they take the worst branders in the world, and they go against the best brander

00:32:53.180 in the world, it always turns out like this.

00:32:55.940 It always goes this way.

00:32:57.600 And as soon as they said it, you all knew what Trump was going to do.

00:33:01.660 You knew he was going to snatch the gun out of their hand and turn it around.

00:33:05.240 You knew that.

00:33:06.280 He's done it too many times for you not to know that.

00:33:08.820 Especially with ultra-mega.

00:33:11.740 I mean, as soon as you heard it, you're like, okay, I see where this is going.

00:33:14.660 And it did.

00:33:17.500 All right.

00:33:21.320 And I guess Trump is calling the January 6th business, he says, calling it an insurrection

00:33:29.660 is a hoax.

00:33:31.820 A hoax, you say?

00:33:32.880 Now, when you hear that word, hoax, does it make you feel like there are some kind of

00:33:44.120 voices he listens to more than others?

00:33:47.460 Or that somebody does?

00:33:49.440 Because I'm not sure a hoax was a word that we would have used for this sort of thing five

00:33:54.260 years ago.

00:33:56.300 Am I right?

00:33:57.080 Hoax feels like a branding thing.

00:34:03.680 And I think Mike Cernovich is primarily the one who brought hoax into the political conversation.

00:34:12.080 Am I right?

00:34:13.420 That was Cernovich, right?

00:34:15.160 Now, I use it all the time, but I think Cernovich is the father of that word for political purposes.

00:34:24.840 So Trump has picked up on that.

00:34:27.080 Now, I fixed a typo and then republished my list of 10 top 10 hoaxes.

00:34:35.480 But I added another typo in there.

00:34:37.680 So I fixed the typo that I added when I fixed the other typo.

00:34:43.160 But then there was another typo in there that I fixed.

00:34:45.700 So I'm on my fourth edition of it this morning.

00:34:48.700 Have I mentioned I have brain fog?

00:34:51.100 Has that come up at all?

00:34:52.720 I think I mentioned that earlier, right?

00:34:54.180 Yeah, it's really hard just to do basic stuff.

00:34:57.080 It is hard to do basic stuff.

00:34:59.740 I tried to find some Tylenol yesterday.

00:35:02.240 If you're coming in late, I'm second day of COVID symptoms.

00:35:05.320 And I couldn't figure out how to get Tylenol.

00:35:10.680 Like, it took me half a day to figure out how to get Tylenol.

00:35:14.460 I just door-dashed it eventually.

00:35:16.780 But, yeah.

00:35:20.700 Now, so I see you're prompting me about the Nancy Pelosi's husband getting a DUI.

00:35:28.240 I don't know that that has anything to do with anything.

00:35:33.760 Honestly.

00:35:34.680 I think when a family member gets in trouble, that's just too far for me.

00:35:41.540 You know, if one of the Trump kids did something unsavory, I would just say that's about them.

00:35:49.120 I don't think that Nancy Pelosi's husband is telling us anything about Nancy Pelosi or about politics or anything important.

00:36:05.460 Yeah, maybe he's done some insider trading.

00:36:07.800 That's another question.

00:36:08.740 I don't know about that.

00:36:13.200 Tells us that the head case theory is real.

00:36:15.560 Well, I don't know.

00:36:22.300 Hunter's laptop, that's on the host list.

00:36:25.620 What about the big guy?

00:36:28.200 So I guess the Amber Heard jury continues tomorrow.

00:36:34.560 Do you think, what do you think that's going to end up?

00:36:38.080 Where's that going to end up?

00:36:40.600 Does it look like Johnny is going to win?

00:36:42.760 You think Amber wins?

00:36:48.780 I don't know.

00:36:49.820 Because what I didn't hear is the law.

00:36:54.420 Generally during a trial, there's some point where somebody describes the law.

00:36:58.900 And then they say, you're seeing if this criteria is being met to say that the law has been broken.

00:37:05.000 Or if there's libel or whatever the charge is.

00:37:08.800 I haven't heard that.

00:37:09.900 So what I haven't heard is you must prove this, and here's the evidence they presented.

00:37:17.260 So I don't really have a sense of who's winning in this.

00:37:22.240 In the court of public opinion, Johnny Depp won.

00:37:25.540 Can we agree on that?

00:37:27.780 In the court of public opinion, Johnny Depp won.

00:37:30.640 Now imagine if Johnny Depp loses this.

00:37:34.280 Imagine that.

00:37:35.760 Imagine losing this.

00:37:36.920 That would be pretty bad.

00:37:41.420 Because it would just be more abuse on top of the other abuse.

00:37:44.640 And by the way, I'm not so sure that he's never done anything wrong in his life.

00:37:49.080 So it's not like I'm a huge Johnny Depp makes no mistakes kind of guy.

00:37:54.660 But it would look like she was the abuser and she got away with even more.

00:37:58.980 So that would be bad.

00:38:03.180 No, I haven't watched a Norm Macdonald special yet.

00:38:05.740 Where is it, by the way?

00:38:08.380 The Norm Macdonald special that he did before he passed.

00:38:12.280 And we're just seeing it now.

00:38:13.800 It's on Netflix.

00:38:14.960 I will watch it.

00:38:15.880 I'll watch it today, actually.

00:38:19.960 Am I a fan of 21 Jump Street?

00:38:21.940 Not really.

00:38:23.320 Not really.

00:38:23.960 Not really.

00:38:23.980 Not really.

00:38:28.980 Oh, yeah.

00:38:34.160 That Biden implied in his speech recently that Trump supporters killed a cop on January 6th, which didn't happen.

00:38:45.380 It's amazing.

00:38:47.780 It is really amazing watching how much Biden lies and how much that's not being called out.

00:38:55.220 It's really incredible.

00:39:04.860 Did he say multiple cops?

00:39:06.480 Did he say they killed two cops when there were actually zero?

00:39:14.620 Some of you are well behind on my personal life.

00:39:17.320 So I'm divorced, in case anybody is not caught catching on.

00:39:29.580 I'm in the process of divorce.

00:39:33.960 All right.

00:39:38.920 You didn't know that, Erica?

00:39:41.720 Pay attention.

00:39:45.680 All right.

00:39:46.180 All right. 0.96

00:39:47.320 Biden's wild lies are worse than Trump.

00:39:52.840 Oh, I don't know.

00:39:57.460 Now, in case you're wondering, the...

00:40:04.100 It's a reasonable question.

00:40:05.640 Is the brain fog from marijuana or from COVID?

00:40:09.240 I can only tell you this.

00:40:11.320 That I often smoke marijuana to get smarter.

00:40:15.600 In a creative way.

00:40:17.320 So, creativity actually is enhanced.

00:40:20.680 And for what I do, it actually helps.

00:40:23.140 But I can tell you that whatever is going on now is not enhancing anything. 0.99

00:40:27.460 I am just dumber. 0.99

00:40:28.600 I am just dumber right now. 0.99

00:40:31.140 There's no marijuana effect going on. 0.56

00:40:37.140 Do I know how I got COVID?

00:40:38.660 I don't.

00:40:39.420 Because apparently you can get it from, you know, like a week or two before you know you have it.

00:40:43.620 So, I have no idea.

00:40:44.620 So, I have no idea.

00:40:46.040 If I had to guess, probably the airplane.

00:40:49.380 The only other place that I was with a crowd, and there's nobody in my personal life that I know that has it.

00:40:57.920 So, I don't know anybody that I've been anywhere near that has it.

00:41:02.580 Yeah.

00:41:03.160 I've asked people to test that they have.

00:41:04.860 So, I'm guessing it was when I flew.

00:41:07.960 Yeah.

00:41:08.180 It was probably in Maui.

00:41:09.480 Because I had basically no human contact in Maui.

00:41:13.340 And it was just a plane.

00:41:16.020 So, I don't know.

00:41:17.640 Now, the movie theater is where I got the symptoms.

00:41:19.660 But they would have been there for days before the movie.

00:41:24.840 I'm only taking Tylenol right now.

00:41:28.960 I got the flu when I flew.

00:41:31.420 True enough.

00:41:36.720 Yeah, you know, I do think that planes are relatively safe because their filtration systems are so good.

00:41:42.860 But I don't really know where else I would have gotten it.

00:41:46.300 Because I don't know anybody else who has it.

00:41:50.620 In fact, the other day, I was saying, why is it I don't know anybody who has COVID?

00:41:55.340 Like I used to.

00:41:56.320 Always know somebody.

00:41:57.180 But at the moment, I didn't know anybody.

00:42:01.500 I dialed it all bleach.

00:42:03.200 Yeah, it's the first time I got COVID.

00:42:05.580 And my vaccinations have worn off.

00:42:09.720 So, I'm effectively unvaccinated at this point.

00:42:12.920 I did the first two, but that's it.

00:42:19.660 All right, Eric, I see your comment.

00:42:26.040 I appreciate it.

00:42:30.120 Oh, here's another factoid I meant to mention.

00:42:32.880 So, prior to getting COVID, whenever I got it the last few weeks, I was aware that my immunity was at its lowest point that I could remember.

00:42:44.220 Now, that can't be a coincidence, right?

00:42:48.080 And I knew my natural immunity was in the basement because for about two weeks, I hadn't been able to sleep.

00:42:55.300 And I was just completely exhausted all the time.

00:42:59.200 So, I was very aware that I could get sick because my immunity was so low, and I'm sure enough.

00:43:04.000 Which makes me wonder if the Omicron is so measly that you don't even get it if you're basically healthy.

00:43:12.540 I wonder if my normal good health would have just slapped it away.

00:43:17.860 Because it's been...

00:43:21.000 I was trying to think the last time I felt this sick.

00:43:25.980 And I'm thinking 30 years.

00:43:29.940 Maybe 30 years.

00:43:31.040 This is as sick as I've been in 30 years.

00:43:32.960 Because I don't even get bad colds or, like, regular flus in decades.

00:43:38.440 I can't remember anything like this.

00:43:40.260 Even when I get a cold, it's just a sniffle for a day or something.

00:43:44.220 That's about it.

00:43:47.200 Yeah, so let me say what other people have said.

00:43:50.600 This doesn't feel like an organic disease.

00:43:56.280 Whatever's happening in my head is not like any other thing that's ever happened to me.

00:44:00.980 And my body as well.

00:44:03.740 And the hardest part is the temperature dysregulation.

00:44:08.780 Because if I just walk from my office to another part of the house,

00:44:13.320 I might have to change my shirt twice.

00:44:16.660 Because I'll put on my sweatshirt because I'm freezing.

00:44:19.900 I'll open the door to walk down the hall, and I'll be sweating.

00:44:22.660 I'll take off my sweatshirt to the end of the hall, and then I'll be freezing again.

00:44:26.780 I'll put on my sweatshirt.

00:44:27.900 It's actually that fast.

00:44:31.840 The temperature thing could go on and on.

00:44:40.720 Hormones.

00:44:43.620 Back pain for three days.

00:44:44.920 Wow.

00:44:46.580 All right.

00:44:47.040 Take a bath to regulate your temperature.

00:44:50.300 Is that a thing?

00:44:53.260 I don't know.

00:44:54.520 All right.

00:44:54.980 That's all for now.

00:44:55.720 And I'm going to go do something else, which is probably just sleeping.

00:44:59.820 And I will talk to you later.

00:45:06.420 Bye for now.

00:45:07.060 Bye for now.

00:45:09.100 Bye for now.

00:45:11.060 Bye for now.

00:45:13.060 Bye for now.

00:45:15.120 Bye for now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 30, 2022

Episode 1759 Scott Adams： Day Two Of COVID, Not So Good. Hope Your Day Is Going Better, Let's Sip

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