Episode 1765 Scott Adams: The News Is Slow So Let's Talk About The Nature Of Reality And Fake News.
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, we talk about the Epstein scandal, the Biden border wall plan, and why the media needs to know what s going on with Epstein. Plus, a new theory about what really happened to Epstein and why it s so big.
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Ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Highlight of Civilization.
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it's the Highlight of Civilization and the Highlight of your day.
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And you happen to be here for it. What are the odds of that?
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Fifteen billion years of the universe evolving.
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Most of it's just empty, cold, dark, lifeless space.
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Okay, 13.6 billion years if you want to be like that.
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The kind of people who will never settle for an ordinary day
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such-tanker, chelzer, steiner, kentine, jugger, flask,
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They would fill it with their favorite beverage.
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Feel your serotonin getting a little boost, too?
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So, you want to talk about good news and stuff?
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Let's just do funny stories and good news today.
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that they're going to restart some border wall construction.
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Talk about a slow news day thing to slip in there?
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P-A-T-C-H space S-O-M-E space H-O-L-E-S, right?
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But that's completely different than patch the holes.
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Have we reached the point in the Ukraine-Russia
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Because it looks like that's what the status quo
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Russia versus Ukraine, both sides can beat both
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Russia will not have enough forces to defend every
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So, in theory, shouldn't you see Ukraine putting, like,
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And then Russia says, hey, I guess we'd better move
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So, have they not achieved permanent whack-a-mole
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everywhere, at least in that, you know, that, let's
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smallish place it wanted if it wanted to put its
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And Russia could take it back and wouldn't be able to
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prediction that there's going to be a whole lot of
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taking towns and losing towns and taking towns back.
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Because nobody's going to put enough forces in there
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And nobody's going to stop fighting, it looks like.
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So, I guess they're just going to whack-a-mole for a
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And so, the best I could do is tell you that other
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people have worse problems than you do, sometimes.
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The world is actually trending in the right direction.
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The odds of a nuclear war with Russia, I think, are at
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I'm not really seeing North Korea complain too much.
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I do see the economy of the United States still has
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When we have our predicted recession in the first
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quarter, have you noticed all the smart people are
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saying there's going to be a recession in the first
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Now, recessions are painful for, you know, people at the
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It's sort of cleaning out the system and gets rid of some
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Yeah, we don't like a forest fire, but you have to have
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You know, it cleans out the forest and stuff like
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So, I think we're in this weird situation where we're in the
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maintenance part of a, you know, long-term cycle and the
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maintenance part's no fun because we like the bubble part.
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We just have to do, I don't know, four to five years of
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So, I wouldn't be, well, I'm not going to give you any
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I'm not going to sell any stocks for four or five years.
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Is crypto here to stay now that it had such a meltdown?
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People saying yes are probably the people who own some crypto.
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What would happen if a government, let's say our
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government, decided to do a government guarantee of your
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So, how much does the bank insure, the government insure of
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So, imagine if the United States government said, if you use a
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certain kind of wallet, maybe they'd have to limit it to what
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But if you use a certain kind of wallet, they would guarantee your
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But maybe the only thing they guarantee is not that somebody
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But that crypto, I don't know, the blockchain doesn't fall apart or have
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Somebody says, get out of here, Satan, with your government regulations.
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But I'll tell you what keeps me from having more crypto.
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I feel like I trust myself to put money in the stock market or even a bank.
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But I don't trust myself to navigate a crypto wallet sufficiently,
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accurately enough that somebody wouldn't steal all of it.
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So I would say that I'm personally way under-invested compared to what I would be
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It's beyond my risk level for just the interface.
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I mean, by the time you get into the good technology
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you've got to learn a lot to get to that point.
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But I think young people also don't have much to lose.
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You know, I keep hearing the stories about the person who made a million dollars in crypto
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and then wrote it and mortgaged some houses to buy some more,
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But that makes sense if you're young, you can recover from it.
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I wouldn't move to a country with a smaller military yet.
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But the thing I worry the most is not being protected.
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Yeah, Australia seems a little exposed out there.
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I hate to say it, Australia, but I just look at the map, and I'm like,
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you know, in the short run, Australia is fine, five, ten years.
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In a hundred years, Australia is going to look like an island destination of China, I'm afraid.
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Australia is the worst for freedom, somebody says.
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All right, I've got nothing else to say today, and I don't want to take your time, because you've got a great day coming up.
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How many of you feel better because you attended coffee with Scott Adams?
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How many of you feel a little bit better now than you did right at the beginning?
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Is there another Elon tweet, or do you want me to talk about the one I already talked about?
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How many of you know that I once lost the ability to talk, and my greatest goal in life was to be able to do exactly what I'm doing right now,
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which is to talk to you with a perfect voice, according to me.
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So that was one of several incurable conditions that I cured.
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By the way, I keep hearing from people that I have, in fact, cured the sneeze, and in at least one case, cured hiccups.
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And the technique, if you haven't heard, is that if you're about to have a real sneeze, you just imagine that you had the real sneeze first.
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And the imagining the sneeze can erase the actual one.
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There's nothing in your nose that really needs to come out.
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So of all the things that I've ever done in my life,
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I don't think anything is more weird or wonderful than the fact that I cured the common sneeze.
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I think some sneezes, you can't stop like that.
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But that would be the weirdest thing that should be in my Wikipedia, but won't be.
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So I cured shy bladder, cured spasmodic dysphonia, cured a focal dystonia once.
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I got it back, but I still have to get rid of that.
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You know, when I jokingly say I have more cures than Jesus,
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I mean, there are probably lots of people who wrote a book about, you know,
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how to do something smarter and probably saved a lot of lives, too.
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Probably every doctor has saved more lives than Jesus,
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But I have cured a number of incurable diseases for myself and for other people.
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Does anybody have any anxiety right now that you'd like to be cured of?
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So a number of you are feeling some general anxiety right now, right?
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And as I'm talking, watch how your anxiety will start to take care of itself.
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Or it might happen in steps, where it looks like it's less than more than,
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than way less than, a little bit more than way less.
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That you're literally made of, you know, digits, just zeros and ones.
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And the moment you can imagine yourself in the game,
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you can also imagine yourself as not being very important,
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So what happens to you in this game doesn't really matter.
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Because if something bad happens, you're reborn.
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and you don't have to believe in the simulation.
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The mental exercise is just imagine none of it's real.
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And you're actually behind your eyes looking out.
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And you picture yourself as this tiny little creature
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And all you're doing is just looking at your hand move.
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And keep telling yourself it's not happening on its own.
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You're actually ordering each of these fingers to do that.
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that something has been lifted from your chest?
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is that there is a social contagion element to it.