Episode 2056 Scott Adams: Bad Week For DeSantis, Alvin Bragg, TikTok, AI. Great Week For Trump
Episode Stats
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1 hour and 2 minutes
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146.0224
Summary
The age gap between men and women in relationships is increasing. Is it because women are getting more serious at an earlier age, or because they like older men more? In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, host Scott Adams talks to Larry Elder about this and more.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams.
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It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.
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Well, there's going to be a theme for today's live stream.
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The theme is, it seems like everything's going my way.
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Let's see if I can connect it all together and make that theme work, okay?
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I'll start with a tweet I just saw before I went live from David Boxenhorn.
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It's been in the news lately that the age gap between men and women in relationships is increasing.
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I've seen a lot of speculation about why this is, but not the one that comes to my mind.
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Women want children at an earlier age than men do.
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Do you think that's why older men and younger women are getting together?
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Now, this happens to be one of the few categories I can speak about with some authority.
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There are a lot of things I talk about that's maybe not my sweet spot.
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Maybe I'm just sort of speculating about other people.
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But now and then, there's a topic that I can talk to with great authority.
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You know, financial security would be right up there.
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But almost equal to it is a mindset difference.
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As a general statement that does not apply to every person,
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I think women look for people who are like their dad,
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and men look for people who maybe remind them of their mom in some ways.
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Not necessarily looks, but in terms of personality and stuff.
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Now, the problem is that younger men remind women of their mother.
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So if somebody reminds you of your mother and your female,
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who think that the men their age just are not exactly manly enough, basically.
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And so they're looking for older guys who are still a little less woke.
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So one way I could put it is there's a split preference.
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Plenty of young women like extra wokeness with their men before they cheat on them.
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Obviously, the woke men will all be cheated on.
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But maybe some portion of women just prefer guys that remind them of their dad.
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You know, sort of a self-determination mindset, you know, less complaining, that sort of thing.
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In the news, coffee has been tested and apparently is not as risky for your cardiac health as once thought.
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Coffee is associated with a longer life and taking more steps when you're alive and getting more done and being more focused and all that.
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So coffee, not so bad for you after all, at least for your heart, very specifically.
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My conversation with Larry Elder, he graciously interviewed me for his Epoch Times site, but you can see it.
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So just Google Larry Elder and Scott Adams and it'll pop right up.
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Or you can see the link in my Twitter feed today toward the top.
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You know, Larry Elder interview worked out nicely, I thought.
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Here's something that doesn't have anything directly to do with me, but I'm going to weigh in.
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Apparently there's a national Adderall shortage.
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So I guess the government has put some kind of a cap on how much can be made.
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Now, I've watched the arguments online and they're very predictable.
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It's the everyone, no, the fewer they are, the complete.
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So this argument is in the form of, let's pretend that if there's a large group of people, that whenever we talk about them, that the few people in that group are considered the same as all of them.
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You see the people who genuinely need Adderall, because there is a type of person, a type of brain, where it's all positive.
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So they say, hey, this is a valuable thing I need and it's being prevented and it's all bad.
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If you're on Adderall and you need it, and then you have to go without it, that's no joke.
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I don't think people understand what that's, the implications of that.
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That can turn a person into a completely dysfunctional person.
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And there may be some health risks of not tapering off as well.
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I don't know about that, but I think the withdrawal is kind of nasty.
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So you've got one group who's saying this is a national emergency and is created by the government.
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And people like me are going to be really, really in trouble.
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There's a group of human beings in this country who are government, for reasons that may have been well-intentioned, but of course everything goes wrong.
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And I feel like there's zero empathy, because a lot of people are in the other camp that says,
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oh, this is just because you found a legal way to get a meth.
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Oh, it's, you know, uh-huh, you won't be able to concentrate extra good, so big deal, you'll just be like me after that.
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Both sides are right, completely right, for some percentage of the population.
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But both of them are completely wrong about what's going on with the other half.
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I don't know if it's half, but something like that.
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And once again, it's another example of complete inability to have a useful conversation.
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The honest conversation is that a lack of Adderall will absolutely screw maybe tens of millions of people.
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And at the same time, it's 100% true that the drug is really overused and over-prescribed,
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and that people who don't need it, need it, are certainly getting it.
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So is nobody able to say both things can be true, that we have a national emergency for a group of Americans
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who it looks like the other group of Americans just don't give a shit about, don't give a shit about them?
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I'm going to take the same view on this that I take with, I know this will seem weird, Confederate statues.
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That my opinion of Confederate statues isn't really part of the issue.
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The issue is some large percentage, doesn't mean it's a majority,
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but some large percentage of Americans are offended by it.
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I mean, I could argue against it, but it's just a fact that people are offended.
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So I'll just, I'll treat the fact that people feel that way as important.
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Now, obviously the analogy doesn't work for a medical thing.
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But the point is, if there's a huge bunch of Americans who legitimately are going to get screwed by this,
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You should care because these are innocent people with a real medical problem,
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and your government is going to leave them out there to just fucking twist.
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Now, I don't have an easy solution because I also know that it's overprescribed.
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But my personal ethical bias is toward the actual people who have medical use for it.
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yeah, if you don't have empathy for that group,
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maybe it's because you don't know how bad it will be,
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But maybe just talk to some people who have an actual medical need for it,
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There's a real medical crisis coming that's big.
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It's going to affect productivity, relationships, everything.
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I mean, we've got a big problem coming if we don't fix that.
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Oliver Stone, who you might imagine is a left-leaning kind of a guy,
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Now, I'm sure he talks about the good and the bad of it,
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the only thing that can save us from climate change is nuclear energy.
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Well, I would say that this audience, by and large,
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You know, the people who are better informed about nuclear energy
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It's only the people who are lesser informed about the risks.
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Generation 3 nuclear plants never had a problem.
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The current ones that you would build today never had a problem.
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And if they did have a problem, it probably wouldn't be that big.
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I mean, I hope he makes money on it and all that.
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But to me, this just looks like pure patriotism
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from somebody whose views might not always line up with mine.
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that the Democrats don't argue in favor of keeping TikTok
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because if they did, it would sound either stupid
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that TikTok's Chinese owners sell their steaks.
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Now, I didn't know that the Biden administration
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I guess that's the softer thing than banning it.
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while getting rid of some of the Chinese risk of ownership.
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and being able to persuade political events in America
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since the last time Jerry Nadler said something.
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How in the world can you support a team that's this stupid?
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But does he think that his own base is so stupid
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that the real issue he's identified is they got no swag?
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the context here is that he wants to use TikTok
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because the counter-argument has now been surfaced
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Do they know that they shouldn't call it a vaccination?
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That's still the official medical consensus in America.
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do you think China's own pharmaceutical company
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to do something that's bad for the government of China
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in the American system and the European systems.
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there's some weird distorted thing happening in China
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Because if, well, let me ask you this question.
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and the government had to do it all over again,
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do you think they would have done it the same way?
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But I think they would have still given it over 60
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But, you know, the Chinese have all the same information
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So I don't, I guess it's a confusing situation.
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is that you can more quickly come up with a vaccine,
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You can do it more quickly than the old way of,