Episode 1964 Scott Adams: Why The Country Doesn't Agree On Vaccinations. You Won't Like It
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 17 minutes
Words per Minute
148.82664
Summary
Scott Adams is back with another bonus episode of the highlight of civilization, and this time, it's all about Congress. According to a recent poll, 42% of voters believe that most members of Congress are corrupt, and 25% think that Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Scott also talks about the future of solar power and battery storage.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the Highlight of Civilization, Coffee with Scott Adams.
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There's never been a finer moment, and today, I don't want to get you too excited, in case anybody's got high blood pressure,
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but there will be two whiteboards today. No! Calm down, calm down. Two whiteboards. You can handle it.
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And if you'd like to get ready for this, the coup de grace, the height of everything,
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well, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure. It's the dopamine of the day. I think it makes everything better.
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Well, Broker, Natalie, I feel the same way about you.
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We've never been met, but that's how confident I am in your qualities.
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Well, let's see. Let's see how smart my audience is.
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I'll tell you that I'm going to prime you with one fact, and then I'm going to stop it. Stop it.
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Local. The local subscribers are so smart, they answer my questions before I even ask them.
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So according to Rasmussen, 42% of voters believe most members of Congress are corrupt.
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42% of voters believe members of Congress are corrupt.
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It makes you wonder what the number has to be before the system crumbles.
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But probably it could be 85% and the system would be stable.
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You're like, yeah, I don't know what to do about it.
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Because it's not like, here's what people don't say.
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Now, there's not something on my nose that's a boo-boo.
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I know it's distracting because it's like right in the middle of my nose.
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What percentage of people, according to the Rasmussen poll,
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what percentage of likely U.S. voters believe that Congress is doing a good or excellent job?
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How many say they're doing a good or excellent job?
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Again, I have the smartest audience in the history of all live streams.
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And by the way, by the time I'm done with you today, you will be the smartest audience.
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I'm going to clear up something for you that by the end of this live stream, you're going
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Every one of you is going to say, oh, shit, I see the pattern now.
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And when you see it, you're going to go, shit, and everything will make sense.
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I'm making a big claim so I can get you excited about thinking I can or cannot do it.
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Well, I saw an interesting video today by Peter Zayn, who is claiming, and yeah, I don't
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have sources for this, but I'll put it out there as one smart person saying smart things.
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It goes like this, that solar is overrated, solar power, and the argument is that the
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peak demand for solar, or no, the peak demand for energy is what time of day?
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What time of day does the night, peak demand is night?
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Now, someday, someday, there have been big breakthroughs in battery storage, so if there
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are big breakthroughs in battery storage, we might have a whole different situation, but
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And then how many places on Earth have the right conditions for solar, where you can get
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But it's a small percentage of the world, so that's the problem.
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Then you have massive environmental problems in the creation of the actual solar panels.
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You've got your slave labor, and you've got to use a massive amount of coal power.
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In other words, it doesn't have to be coal, but that's just the way it's being done.
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So you've got to use all this coal, carbon-wise.
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And his argument is, in many places, you'll never make up the difference, because there
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won't be enough sun, and there won't be enough sun at the right time.
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Now, he says that, compared to that, that wind is actually looking good.
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Apparently, the people who make windmills have learned, they probably knew it all along,
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but they know how to do something about it now.
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They learned that the higher the windmill, the more stable the air, and the more of it
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But what they couldn't do easily before is to build a high enough tower.
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Now, building a windmill also has a carbon footprint, right?
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You know, you have to get materials and mine them, whatever the hell you're doing.
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But apparently, it's allegedly way less of a carbon problem compared to solar.
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And the other advantage is you can put the wind in certain places, and you can guarantee
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So that's a new interesting fact, that if the wind is, or if the tower is high enough,
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That that's sort of a big deal, making them taller, could just change the whole economics.
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I knew taller was better, but I didn't know it would make that much of a difference.
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So you are all more informed than the average person about green stuff.
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And by the time I'm done, man, you're going to be smart.
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That brought in an 88-year-old man, and his complaint was that he had a World War II artillery
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It was eight inches long, about two inches in diameter.
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And it was an unexploded World War II artillery shell.
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And so he goes in the hospital with this artillery shell lodged deep within his rectum.
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Could we agree that was not professional quality?
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If an 88-year-old man goes into a French hospital with an unexploded World War II ordinance up
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his ass, do you think I'm going to do one joke and then go home?
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What was the other thing the doctor said when they saw what the problem was?
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But I don't think that the headline captured the entire beauty of this story.
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Now we're going to take it up to professional level.
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So far, that was sort of amateur citizen-level jokes.
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That's right on the borderline of commercial quality.
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See, this will be the difference between the professionals and the amateurs.
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Doctors ruin the world's best pull-my-finger gag.
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All right, here's a provocative thought, courtesy of Doc Anarchy on Twitter.
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Also has a substack you might be interested in.
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The newest Twitter files showed the FBI was secretly persuading us to hate China, among other countries.
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Do you think that our collective feeling about China happened because we read the news and formed our own opinions independently?
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Do you know what the only real answer to that is?
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Like when you first hear it, you're like, come on.
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And then you think about it for like a second in the context of everything we've learned in the last two years.
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And you say to yourself, oh, actually that's the only way it does work.
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The media assigns your opinion and then you think you came up with it on your own.
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So yes, yes, your opinions were assigned to you by the media.
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Now, not necessarily the FBI, but here's the next question.
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Do you think the FBI, on their own, organically came up with the idea, let's tell everybody to feel bad about China?
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Were they the originators of the thought that eventually got assigned to the public?
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So presumably the FBI is as influenced by the media as everybody else, right?
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Probably everything the FBI knows about China, like 99% of what they know about China, is exactly what you know.
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Do you think the FBI has any special information that would inform their decisions?
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Well, yes, they would have special information about bad behavior of China.
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Is there anybody who doesn't know China's shipping fentanyl to the cartels?
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Like, I doubt there's anything that's really, really bad that the public doesn't already believe is true as well.
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So the question is then, if the FBI is convincing us, who convinced the FBI?
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That was the media, because that's who convinced everybody.
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Who convinced the media that China was the enemy?
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But Trump was saying that China was an adversary.
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Like, you know, just an economic adversary, basically.
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I'm saying, if I did that myself, you wouldn't know.
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And if I told you I did, you'd say, no, you didn't.
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Or some of you would believe it, because you're biased that way.
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Some would not believe it, because you're biased the other way.
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But basically, you would just follow your bias.
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I could actually change the entire global political structure of the world
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and tell you I did it, show you how I did it, and you still couldn't see it.
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I could change the whole fucking world right in front of you, show you I did it,
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Now, one of the coolest things about being a hypnotist is knowing how to hide things in plain sight.
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I do it all the time, and you don't know it, because you can't see it.
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One is persuasion, and the other is magic tricks.
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Magic tricks are about getting you to look in the wrong place, or to think in the wrong place.
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Magic tricks are more about how you think than what you're looking at.
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So, when I combine the two, I can simply make you look in the wrong place
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I can hold it right up to you, and you'd be looking over here.
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Now, it's the damnedest thing, and there's no way I could explain it to you
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in a way you'd actually believe that what I'm telling you is true.
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Am I the reason that opinions about China are so bad at the moment?
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Well, it does track exactly with the death of my stepson.
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If you were to look at the news reports, you'd see a very direct correlation.
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I have a request to hide the dot on my nose, because it's too distracting.
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So, like I was saying, let's continue with the rest of the show.
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You know how on TV, when they have a pregnant actress in a sitcom,
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And you see it immediately, because you know that she's pregnant.
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Do you think I can pull this off for another 45 minutes?
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Whatever you do, do not focus on the dot on my nose.
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to bake your brain like it's never been baked before.
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that when somebody starts their tweet response in debate,
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that that is always a sign of cognitive dissonance?
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it's a signal that the next thing I'm going to say