Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1763 Scott Adams： I Teach You How To Use A Fake Legislation To Solve Fake News, And More Fun

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00:00:58.520 That's good. Well, so there are, how many counties do you think there are in America? Anybody?

00:01:09.700 Just take a guess without looking it up. How many counties do you think there are in America?

00:01:14.920 Yeah. The answer is 3,143. So out of the 3,143 counties, how many of them decided to go back

00:01:28.280 to a mask mandate for indoor activities yesterday? How many? Out of 3,143 counties, just one. Just one.

00:01:37.700 Yeah. And here's a second question. Which of those 3,143 counties does Scott live in? Right. So which

00:01:50.760 one does Scott live in of the 3,143 counties? That's right. That's right. It's the same one. Yeah.

00:01:58.860 One out of 3,143 counties. And that's my fucking county. Uh-huh. Yeah. One out of 3,143 1.00

00:02:13.240 odds. And my number came up. Fuck everybody. Fuck everybody. Fuck, fuck everybody. Just fuck everybody.

00:02:24.060 Fuck everybody. What do I do with that? Seriously, people. Do you believe that I'm not running the 1.00

00:02:33.980 simulation now? I mean, I've been trying to hide it. You know, ever since Elon and I made an agreement

00:02:42.000 to run the simulation, I've been telling him, can you back off a little bit? It's getting a little

00:02:47.220 bit obvious. You've got the user interface controls here. Richest man in the world. A little bit on the

00:02:52.580 nose. A little bit on the nose. And Elon's like, nobody's going to notice. Watch this. I can do

00:03:00.820 anything I want. Watch this. I will go from Democrat to Republican right in front of you. I'm like, no.

00:03:08.460 You can't do that. That's crazy. If you go from Democrat to Republican right in front of everybody,

00:03:16.020 and your companies are still solvent when you're done with that, everybody's going to know you run

00:03:20.680 the simulation. It's bad enough you're the richest person in the world. That's obvious that you run

00:03:26.140 the simulation. But don't do that. That's just like a magic trick. I mean, that's just like turning

00:03:34.120 water into wine or something. I mean, come on. Be a little bit subtle about it. But it does turn out

00:03:41.340 that everything in the world is only related to me personally. And so the one county that I live in

00:03:48.840 in the United States decided to have mask mandates. So fuck everybody and fuck everything. That's how I 1.00

00:03:57.420 feel today. I don't think I'll be wearing too many masks because I think I'll just stay home and ride it

00:04:06.940 down. I just can't handle it anymore. I just can't take the fight anymore. Like I'm just going to ride

00:04:13.920 it out this time, I think. Well, there's a, are you noticing that Dilbert has moved into the big

00:04:22.980 pharma industry? So if you're not following the Dilbert comic because it hasn't been edgy enough for

00:04:29.440 you lately, well, I solved that for you. So I realized that as a, this week, by the way, I turned

00:04:37.020 65. I had always imagined, really always, my whole life, that at age 65, I would definitely be done with

00:04:45.720 work one way or another. Now, I'm not the retirement type. So I mean, I'm always going to do something,

00:04:52.260 but it'd be more like optional kind of work. You know, I guess this would be like optional work.

00:04:57.980 I don't have to do it, but I like it, so I'd probably do it anyway. But I thought if Dilbert

00:05:06.300 is going to ride into, you know, obscurity along with me, I might as well take some chances. So

00:05:13.860 Dilbert's going to be causing a little bit more trouble than normal. A little more trouble than

00:05:18.960 normal. So look for that. So Dilbert's company just entered the big pharma industry.

00:05:27.980 So CNN has a story about how the Biden advisors are not getting along. Now, are you surprised by

00:05:37.860 that? Because that used to be the anonymous kind of stories you'd hear all the time about the

00:05:42.380 Trump administration. And I always tell you, you could pick any presidency, just randomly pick any

00:05:49.260 presidency, and then do a story about how the advisors are not getting along, and they're all

00:05:54.720 pissing and moaning about what the boss is doing. That's just every group, everywhere,

00:05:59.380 anywhere there's a leader. That's everyone, all the time. I made a comic strip specifically

00:06:05.500 to highlight that phenomenon, that it doesn't matter where you are. All the staff is complaining

00:06:11.240 about the leaders all the time. So, but it is notable when CNN runs a story about Biden

00:06:16.560 having aides that, I guess they're the old school, you know, the classic aides who have been with

00:06:22.460 Biden forever, who are trying to get him to do like one scheduled event per topic, and then

00:06:28.680 nobody cares. So he just doesn't know how to break through. And I'm thinking to myself,

00:06:35.280 is that bad? The one thing that works for Biden is being invisible. Am I right? So CNN, it looks like

00:06:45.300 they're trying to help Biden somehow by having these gentle criticisms. I don't know that Biden would

00:06:52.940 be better off communicating more. Do you? I think you're better off communicating more if you're doing

00:07:00.000 good work. Am I right? See if you'd agree with this. If you're doing a good job, then communicating

00:07:08.400 more is probably good. Because more people will find out you're doing a good job. If you're helpless

00:07:14.200 or you're doing nothing, is it really good to communicate more? To show that you have great

00:07:20.180 empathy for the thing you can't fix? Does that really push you ahead? You get a little ahead in that?

00:07:25.780 I don't know. I think Biden might be the one exception to the rule, where even though his

00:07:33.140 approvals are in the basement, the only thing that could make it worse is hearing from him more.

00:07:40.440 Isn't it? Seems like it. So I think they're playing it right by keeping him away from the public.

00:07:47.660 All right, here's the funniest story of the day. And I love it when

00:07:52.480 when the fake news gets their stories mixed. One of the reasons not to lie was this Mark Twain

00:08:02.880 said this, maybe? Tell me who said this. It's a famous quote. But one of the reasons to not lie

00:08:07.900 is that you don't have to remember all your stories and keep them straight. So if you meet a new person,

00:08:13.840 you don't have to think, okay, what does this person know? And what stories have I told this

00:08:19.020 person's friends? All right, I got to be compatible with that version of the story. So that's a good

00:08:24.120 reason to not lie. It's just hard to keep it all straight. But it also applies to fake news.

00:08:31.920 What happens if you do two fake news stories and they conflict? Well, here's one example.

00:08:40.900 So we know now that Donald Trump Jr., during the January 6th protests at the Capitol, he texted at

00:08:51.540 2.53 p.m., so it's right in the middle of it. He tweeted to Mark Meadows that the president,

00:08:58.220 quote, he's got to condemn this shit ASAP. So in other words, Donald Trump Jr., 1.00

00:09:04.900 Jr., Donald Trump Jr., in the middle of the protests was trying to get his father to condemn them and shut

00:09:13.340 them down. Do you know what that means? That means that according to CNN, there was a planned

00:09:21.520 insurrection that the president was somehow part of, and that one of the people who was not aware of

00:09:28.500 the planned insurrection was Don Jr. Do you think that their two fake news stories got

00:09:37.100 conflicted there? You can't have it both ways. Either it was a planned overthrow of the country

00:09:46.020 and an insurrection, and Don Jr. knew about it, or it wasn't a planned insurrection, and that's the

00:09:55.580 reason Don Jr. tried to close it down immediately, as any patriot would.

00:10:02.900 Somebody says purposely kept out. Really? Really? You think somebody would do an insurrection to keep

00:10:08.900 Trump in office, and they would try to keep out Don Jr. from the plan? Because what? He'd be a... I mean,

00:10:18.860 none of it makes sense. So I was thinking about this concept of taking one fake news from the fake

00:10:28.540 news industry and always comparing it to their other fake news, and if you can find the right

00:10:34.280 pair of fake news or the right pair of stories, you can have one debunk the other, and this is a good

00:10:40.860 example. So how can they continue with their, it was a planned, you know, insurrection without Don Jr.

00:10:49.940 being aware of it? Now, because the texts, you know, were happening in real time, I don't think

00:10:57.860 anybody doubts that the texts are his real opinion, Don Jr.'s opinion that this needs to be stopped right

00:11:03.400 away. That looked like his real opinion. So he says maybe he's lying. Really? You think he would be,

00:11:12.820 you know, sending a fake tweet to Mark Meadows just in case later something came up? No. That's a little

00:11:19.960 too clever. Sometimes the things are exactly what they look like. Exactly what they look like. It looked

00:11:27.580 like there was a bad situation happening in the Capitol, and Don Jr., like most of the world,

00:11:34.140 said, hey, let's have less of that. And then he sent a text because he could. That's the whole story.

00:11:41.960 And then suddenly it's an insurrection. Now, CNN would also have us believe the following,

00:11:47.200 that America is the kind of country that Republicans especially will bring guns to absolutely anything.

00:11:55.460 They'll bring guns to concerts. They'll bring them to protests. They'll bring guns. They'll just bring

00:12:01.440 guns everywhere. They'll bring them to the store. They'll keep them in their car. But we are told by

00:12:06.100 CNN that the one place the Republicans will not bring and brandish guns, I don't know who had them,

00:12:12.340 but they didn't brandish them, is to an armed insurrection. So the only place a Republican won't

00:12:19.280 bring a gun is to a planned armed insurrection. That's what the news is telling us. That all those

00:12:28.540 other times, Republicans are going to be loaded for bear, literally and figuratively. But the only

00:12:37.000 time they don't is when it's time to use the guns for armed insurrection. So then they leave them home.

00:12:42.920 And somehow, somehow the base, the Democrat base is buying all of this. These are clearly

00:12:51.340 conflicting, conflicting fake newses. But I would like to suggest an even better way to play this.

00:13:00.360 Rather than just wait for the news to serve up these pairs of stories that don't make sense together,

00:13:06.380 what if you push it a little bit? And here's what I'd suggest. And this is based on,

00:13:13.800 damn it, I wish this had been my idea. I would love for you to hear this idea and think, 0.95

00:13:19.340 oh, he thought of that? But no. Chuck Madden, who's a user on Twitter, not the famous Chuck Madden,

00:13:26.200 as far as I know. But Chuck Madden had this tweet idea.

00:13:29.120 And then I stole his idea. And I reworded it this way in the tweet. I said, Republicans should

00:13:40.260 propose a permanent ban on every kind of weapon that was fired or brandished on the January 6th

00:13:46.940 insurrectionists, by the insurrectionists, quote insurrectionists, but not limited to, right?

00:13:53.320 So this complete ban that Republicans should suggest would be a complete ban on every kind of weapon

00:14:01.840 that was either fired or brandished, you know, shown, by the insurrectionists. Now, not including

00:14:10.140 the police, because the security needs weapons, of course. But if you don't count the people

00:14:16.560 defending the Capitol, I think every single weapon used by the insurrectionists should be banned,

00:14:22.140 banned forever. Now, you might say to yourself, Scott, that would ban nothing.

00:14:35.160 Wow. I'm just hearing that Alex Epstein's book just is screaming up the bestseller list. So that's

00:14:48.460 the one everybody's, there's a lot of pushback trying to keep it. It's called Fossil Future.

00:14:54.100 And it looks like it's number two. Yeah, it was number, anyway, it was doing great. So let's see

00:15:01.120 if we can get that to number one. Anyway, back to my main story here. What do you think of that?

00:15:08.340 What do you think of coming up with legislation? The legislation, of course, would be mostly a prank.

00:15:18.000 But the point of the legislation is to make the fake news cover it. Because they would have to cover

00:15:24.180 that every single weapon used by the insurrectionists would be banned. How would they cover that?

00:15:30.580 Seriously, how would they cover it? Would they say, we're not going to cover it because it's just a joke?

00:15:35.000 They would have to explain why it's a joke, wouldn't they? The reason it's a joke is because

00:15:41.300 no weapons were used by the insurrectionists, except for a bison hat and a podium, I think.

00:15:47.600 So I think it would be extra funny to ban podiums and bison hats as weapons of war. Because nobody's

00:15:56.980 going to, you know, they're not going to get anybody to approve the legislation. So it doesn't

00:16:01.340 matter what it says. It's just for effect. And then I thought, could there be any other

00:16:06.820 opportunities where you could make fake legislation to highlight the fact that there's fake news?

00:16:13.660 Could you make a law against every fake news? Think about it. Here's another one. Suppose you

00:16:23.080 made a law that says the news business cannot intentionally, has to be intentional, cannot

00:16:31.300 intentionally give misleading medical news, intentionally, accidentally is still okay. But

00:16:39.460 you cannot intentionally give misleading news during a pandemic. And then he uses your example,

00:16:47.560 CNN's reporting that the president suggested drinking bleach. And you say, we're trying to prevent

00:16:55.700 any reporting that is non-medical during a pandemic. You say, example one is CNN's coverage saying

00:17:09.740 that the president suggested drinking bleach. Because you say, that should be illegal. Because they know

00:17:16.060 that he didn't. That would be the claim. They know he didn't say it. It's a pandemic. You don't want

00:17:22.820 to give misleading information from an official source. And they did. They changed what the official

00:17:29.440 source said, the president of the United States. They changed it. And they made it wrong from something

00:17:35.080 that made sense and wouldn't have hurt anybody, because he wasn't talking about bleach. And they turned

00:17:40.300 it into bleach. And then they turned it into something that could have killed somebody. What about

00:17:44.860 ivermectin? Do you think ivermectin would fall into that? I think so. Because it seems to me that

00:17:51.780 the news turned ivermectin into horse paste and something else. And that wasn't accurate. I mean,

00:17:58.820 it wasn't an accurate way to present it anyway. It was technically accurate. And so could you come up

00:18:06.080 with legislation that would never get passed? But just to make a point of it, every time there's

00:18:11.180 a fake news, you come up with a fake law to deal with the fake news. I think you would find there

00:18:18.940 are lots of ways to do it. I don't know. Maybe it's a bad use of Congress. But the fact that our fake

00:18:25.320 news stands forever doesn't seem like we should put up with that. All right. Remember I told you that

00:18:35.100 follow the money always works. But follow the insurance can even tell you what's going to happen

00:18:43.100 before it happens. So now we have a story that Germany, the country of Germany, is not helping

00:18:49.560 Volkswagen insure against risk for doing business in China. And the reason being the Uyghurs and 1.00

00:18:59.180 maybe whatever else political risk there is. So China is becoming too risky for business.

00:19:06.000 Do you remember when I first started saying that? How many of you remember, and maybe you can tell me

00:19:13.040 what year it was, when I started saying, I'm going to tell people that China is too risky for business.

00:19:19.560 2018, somebody says? That sounds about right. And do you remember in 2018, did that sound kind of

00:19:27.640 exaggerated? Didn't really sound like something that could happen, did it? Right? In 2018, China was a 0.88

00:19:38.460 very safe bet. Tons of companies were working there and they were happy about it. So I was the one who said

00:19:45.580 that you would soon see it being too risky to do business in China. And I've been promoting that 1.00

00:19:53.100 point of view quite heavily for a few years. And here it is. Here's people running the insurance

00:19:59.700 risk for Germany just said, no, it's too risky for us. And there you go. And what about Putin moving his

00:20:09.740 oil around? Well, he can find other ways to move his oil around and sell it. But if he wants

00:20:15.740 everything to be insured, which is typically important for transporters, maybe not. Maybe he

00:20:23.260 won't get insured. So follow the insurance. It's going to tell you what's going on here. Here's the biggest

00:20:29.660 story of all humankind. Maybe. I mean, if you see if you can think of what would be a bigger story in the

00:20:40.140 like history of civilization. It sounds that this could be like a little bit of tiny invention I'm

00:20:47.300 going to tell you about. Just a little invention. Biggest thing in civilization. Maybe. It's a

00:20:55.660 so scientists and engineers at the University of Texas at Austin, they created a solution that looks

00:21:03.100 like sand and some low cost chemical. So it's a low cost gel film that they can make with abundant

00:21:11.420 materials. In other words, you don't need any rare earth materials. You don't need to mine for diamonds

00:21:16.540 or gold or anything. It's just sort of routine things you can put together. And when you put these routine

00:21:22.060 things together, they suck moisture out of the air and they turn it into drinking water.

00:21:30.700 What? What? It's like a little compound that looks like sand and some other junk in there.

00:21:37.820 And you just sort of put it there over a bucket of water and it just turns the air into water.

00:21:48.700 What? Now, if this thing actually works, I don't know, it looks like it might, that just changes

00:21:55.660 everything. Imagine if nobody ever had a water problem again. All you'd need is a bucket of sand and

00:22:02.060 it would create all the water you want. Yeah. I'm seeing in the comments, I'm skeptical. You should be.

00:22:10.220 But the amounts of water that they're talking about are crazy.

00:22:15.580 So here's what they're estimating. That even in the driest climates, you can get all kinds of stuff.

00:22:21.420 So the material would cost $2 per kilogram. And one kilogram

00:22:30.860 can produce more than six liters of water per day in areas with less than 15% relative humidity.

00:22:39.180 And it can make up to 13 liters of water in areas with more relative humidity.

00:22:46.220 13 liters of water for one kilogram of this little material in one day can make 13 kilos. What?

00:22:55.660 And none of this is even slightly possible, does it? Somebody says it's being done in Morocco.

00:23:03.980 Yeah, you know, those of you who are calling BS on this story, I get it. I get it. It doesn't sound true.

00:23:10.860 But what if it is? What if it is? Think about it. We might be on the brink of near unlimited

00:23:20.380 electrical power fusion. So the cost of electricity is going to plunge. The cost of getting drinking

00:23:29.180 water might plunge. The ability to live off grid. Now, if you've got a Tesla battery and you've got,

00:23:38.220 you know, this stuff for bringing you enough water. And then you've got, let's say, a Bill Gates.

00:23:47.020 What do you call it? Bill Gates is making toilets that don't require plumbing. 0.56

00:23:52.460 Just, I guess, I don't know. It somehow takes care of itself. And we're now almost at the point

00:24:00.380 where living off the grid, yeah, with your Starlink thing. You could pretty much live completely off

00:24:06.860 the grid without giving up anything. We're really close to not having to give up anything.

00:24:14.780 Well, we'll see. I think we're going to have fusion and water from the air and 3D printed food

00:24:25.420 and 3D printed manufacturing everywhere. That's what the future looks like.

00:24:30.060 Well, Elon Musk says he's going to cut 10% of Tesla staff because he sees trouble ahead with the economy.

00:24:37.820 Now, can somebody help me out? Why is the trouble ahead with the economy?

00:24:47.420 Well, like, why is he, pretty much all the smart people are predicting some kind of recession next year, right?

00:24:57.020 Now, would I ask why your first instinct was inflation, right?

00:25:04.380 So, the inflation means there's less money to spend. Except, you don't have inflation if people,

00:25:13.740 you only have inflation if people are spending. And if people are spending, you don't have a recession.

00:25:21.100 So, here's how tough economics are. I don't, I'm not really seeing the supply chain collapsing the way

00:25:30.460 people say it should have. I feel like somehow we're figuring out workarounds somehow. I mean,

00:25:36.060 I don't understand how the economy is working right now. Like, I don't know why we're not,

00:25:41.020 we haven't already run out of everything. I have no understanding of how we're still alive.

00:25:47.420 Because the news must be so disconnected from reality that we think we're dying any minute,

00:25:53.500 but nothing like that is happening in the real world. I mean, it looks like there's a complete

00:25:58.860 disconnect between economics and what we observe, right? Why do people still have jobs?

00:26:06.220 What's going on? Well, like, I'm completely confused at how any of this is still working. And yet it is.

00:26:15.340 I mean, it doesn't even look like it's strained, really. If you walk down the street,

00:26:19.980 does it look like things are falling apart? I mean, there's still a lot of stores closed from,

00:26:25.820 you know, the pandemic or whatever, but it doesn't really look like things fell apart.

00:26:29.900 It looks like the weakest part of the economy got sort of washed out, but it was going to wash out

00:26:37.500 anyway. Yeah, we see the gas at $10 and I know that hurts, but I'll bet people have just pulled back

00:26:45.820 their driving. So maybe that's what will hurt the economy. Oh, that could be it. If people drive less,

00:26:51.980 they'll spend less. I know. Well, I'm going to say that I'm going to be a contrarian here.

00:26:59.260 And while it makes sense, let me explain what I think makes sense from Musk's point of view as a

00:27:06.540 leader. Here's a general statement. If your company is growing, every now and then you should pause and

00:27:15.420 cut 10% back. Does everybody agree with that? If you have a growing company and things are going

00:27:23.900 well, it would be smart if you could do it. It's tough to execute. But every now and then you should

00:27:30.140 just say, okay, we're just going to fire 10% of the people that we have so far and then we'll start

00:27:34.540 growing again. Because you very easily, in good times when you're growing, it's easy to add employees

00:27:41.980 you didn't need that much. And then they've been there a few years and you say to yourself, okay,

00:27:46.540 could we just get rid of them? Did they do anything? And then you have to get rid of them.

00:27:50.700 So my take on Elon Musk, without reading his mind, because we can't read his mind,

00:28:00.380 is that he's picking the very best time to do this because it looks like there's a reason.

00:28:05.980 It looks like there's a reason. But it would be good to do anyway.

00:28:12.460 So that's the part I don't think he'll ever say out loud, which is that he probably thought there

00:28:18.140 was too much fat in the organization and had nothing to do with the recession. But if you can

00:28:23.020 use the recession as your go-to, well, I think the economy is turning south. I better start getting

00:28:28.700 ahead of it. Then it looks like you're ahead of the trend and there's no way it's going to be wrong.

00:28:36.780 Every company can get rid of 10% of their employees. They can all do it. And it wouldn't make any

00:28:42.060 difference tomorrow. So whether or not there's going to be a downturn, we don't know. But if you're

00:28:48.860 one of the smartest people in the world, you would definitely take the opportunity created by the

00:28:55.340 downturn to make some adjustments in your company. So no surprise.

00:29:06.620 I don't know if there's a recession coming. I really don't. Because everything that we

00:29:13.980 thought we could predict didn't happen. I mean, I guess everybody predicted we'd have more inflation

00:29:20.060 because we spent more money. But that's more just math.

00:29:28.380 Somebody's saying that I'm so rich, I don't realize that most people's money will be going

00:29:32.300 only to the necessary items. Well, I mean, obviously, I understand what happens when people have less

00:29:39.020 money. Did you think I didn't understand that? What I'm noticing is that people save to so much money

00:29:47.100 during the pandemic that there's a little bit of excess cash burning a hole in their pockets,

00:29:53.660 like they haven't had time to spend it. So I've got a feeling there's more

00:29:59.580 slop or more play in the economy than the experts think. And that we'll be fine.

00:30:06.620 So I'm going to stick with my original prediction, which is as long as employment stays good,

00:30:12.460 you'll be fine. Everything else will work its way out. Employment is the one that's catastrophic.

00:30:18.300 You lose employment and then it's the Great Depression. But as long as you're employed,

00:30:23.900 I don't know, I think we'll just limp along and figure our way out. That's what it looks like to me.

00:30:29.100 That's the good news. And it's a very non-newsy day.

00:30:41.580 Why did Fed attack? What's that?

00:30:46.460 The Fed said they will drive the economy into recession to tame record inflation, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:30:51.340 Yeah. So the Fed says that they're going to do it, they're going to intentionally create a recession?

00:31:00.700 I don't know. I think they'll intentionally slow things down.

00:31:11.900 Free money passed out by Biden, no matter how you slice it, is worthless. Is it?

00:31:16.380 Yeah, it's hard to get employees even in rural, yeah.

00:31:26.540 Your spouse took a 25% pay cut?

00:31:32.620 No, savings rates did not go up, that's true.

00:31:35.180 But when you talk to people individually, people will individually often say,

00:31:43.180 I've got this money I didn't spend and now I want to go somewhere.

00:31:55.900 Part of things like Tesla, yeah, so Coinbase just rescinded a bunch of job offers.

00:32:01.340 But Coinbase is a special case because crypto is, you know, so volatile.

00:32:08.220 And Tesla is a special case too.

00:32:11.340 So I wouldn't worry about that.

00:32:20.620 All right. Investment portfolios are starting to tank in the short run.

00:32:25.500 But you should not be owning a portfolio for the short run.

00:32:30.300 Yeah, the short run is ugly.

00:32:32.860 I mean, my net worth is down a third or something, which is pretty painful.

00:32:46.380 So tell me about the baby food shortage.

00:32:49.580 We talked about that.

00:32:50.620 I think baby food shortage is the scariest, one of the scariest things I've ever heard of.

00:32:56.020 Yeah, the fly formula.

00:32:58.860 But it looks like we figured it out, right?

00:33:04.880 What is happening to the mothers who actually can't get any? 0.89

00:33:08.700 Like, are they feeding their babies instead?

00:33:12.160 So there's part of the story that's missing, like the water people doing instead.

00:33:16.400 I hear all the stories about not finding anything, just milk.

00:33:24.640 Goat milk if over six months.

00:33:28.720 These babies are in the hospital.

00:33:30.280 Friday, what, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:33:45.420 All right.

00:33:48.320 Yeah, I don't understand what's going on with that situation.

00:33:51.140 I feel like there should either be more reporting on it or more information.

00:33:56.200 It's a little bit of a black box there.

00:34:00.280 All right.

00:34:01.960 Imagine if that same story existed during the Trump administration.

00:34:06.460 Imagine the Trump administration being in charge and babies not getting enough food.

00:34:12.040 Can you even imagine that?

00:34:14.560 Like, the fact that it's being treated with such kid gloves is only because it's a Democrat administration.

00:34:27.240 Would have been deported.

00:34:30.280 All right.

00:34:35.240 Is there any other story that I should have talked about, but I didn't?

00:34:41.200 I even thought the gas prices went down a little bit.

00:34:43.920 Oh, yeah.

00:34:44.200 Matt Walsh's What is a Woman movie is out.

00:34:50.160 I saw some interesting reviews on that, but I'm definitely going to watch that tonight.

00:35:00.620 Does anybody watch that?

00:35:02.400 Matt Walsh is a documentary or film?

00:35:06.440 What is a Woman? 1.00

00:35:07.620 Apparently, the fun part is watching people try to answer simple questions, which to me sounds pretty entertaining.

00:35:16.600 So, I'll definitely be watching that tonight.

00:35:22.060 Will I ever do interviews again?

00:35:23.740 You mean interviews with other people?

00:35:26.160 As in, I interview other people?

00:35:28.120 Is that what you're asking?

00:35:29.980 Maybe.

00:35:31.040 I don't know.

00:35:32.620 Maybe.

00:35:32.960 I don't enjoy them as much.

00:35:36.700 That's the trouble.

00:35:40.820 When I do this, it's as comfortable as just waking up.

00:35:46.920 But if I have somebody on, I usually have to read a book.

00:35:49.820 I mean, it's just a whole level difference.

00:35:52.380 But maybe.

00:35:54.140 Special cases.

00:35:58.280 COVID update.

00:36:00.040 Well, I don't think I have any lingering after effects, although yesterday, I was pretty tired.

00:36:08.000 Yesterday, I fell asleep six times during the ordinary day.

00:36:15.480 In other words, I would wake up in a chair six times yesterday.

00:36:19.600 At least six times I would go.

00:36:22.380 Okay, where am I?

00:36:25.080 Okay, I guess it's about two o'clock in the afternoon.

00:36:28.600 And I just had to figure out who I was and where I was.

00:36:31.820 Now, is that because of COVID or just not getting enough sleep?

00:36:36.660 I don't know.

00:36:38.200 So, I think I'm going to.

00:36:41.840 So, I don't feel any brain fog.

00:36:44.620 I did feel brain fog when I had the active symptoms.

00:36:49.780 But at the moment, I don't feel any.

00:36:51.800 I've lost anything.

00:36:52.520 All right.

00:36:59.700 You're old.

00:37:01.480 Take your vitamins.

00:37:02.780 Thank you for that.

00:37:07.580 Putin and cancer?

00:37:08.720 I don't know.

00:37:12.620 All right.

00:37:13.100 Yeah, it looks like lack of sleep is my problem.

00:37:18.500 I think I'm going to take a break from cannabis for a while.

00:37:23.280 I made the mistake of getting some product that is super, super powerful.

00:37:31.320 And it really sort of ruined the experience.

00:37:35.500 I didn't think that was possible.

00:37:38.020 But it turned it from a thing that would always make you feel better to something that would make you feel different.

00:37:43.280 Which wasn't really the plan.

00:37:49.220 So, I think I'll take a little break from that.

00:37:59.580 Newsday is printing an old Dilbert?

00:38:02.200 Really?

00:38:03.420 Is that because they couldn't handle the pharma comics?

00:38:07.280 I wonder if anybody else is not running Dilbert this week.

00:38:10.220 Because Dilbert's a big pharma now.

00:38:17.480 Stefan, you are so wrong.

00:38:20.420 It's not like I haven't tried that method multiple times in the last 40 years.

00:38:35.780 All right.

00:38:36.460 The inventor of dry sand.

00:38:40.720 Wear gloves.

00:38:41.440 Okay, that's funny.

00:38:43.680 All right.

00:38:44.200 That's all I got.

00:38:45.960 And maybe tomorrow will be a big news day.

00:38:49.920 But that's it for today.

00:38:51.320 Probably the best show you've ever seen.

00:38:53.500 And let's see if we can go fix all of America's problems.

00:38:59.280 Because I'll bet we can.

00:39:00.760 I'll bet we can.

00:39:02.480 All right.

00:39:03.500 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:39:04.280 All right.

00:39:06.400 All right.

00:39:06.580 All right.

00:39:07.680 Bye.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 03, 2022

Episode 1763 Scott Adams： I Teach You How To Use A Fake Legislation To Solve Fake News, And More Fun

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