Episode 2175 Scott Adams: Come Find Out What's Funny About The News Today. Bring A Beverage
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 7 minutes
Words per Minute
147.76355
Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, Scott talks about the latest in the world of fracking, country music, and a song that makes people think it's racist and promotes lynching. Plus, Scott explains why he doesn't think Jason L. Dean's new song is racist.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopey and the other day
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but have you noticed that the headline is as good as the story?
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Usually the headline tells you everything you need to know.
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The headline was that fracking could lead to big advances in geothermal power.
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And so the idea is that the whole point of fracking is they drill a hole and they shoot water down there.
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And when they shoot the water down there, somehow they get a better, bigger hole or something.
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So they use it for producing oil and gas, I guess.
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But they could maybe use it to get deep into the earth and get some energy out of the heat from the earth.
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I have long been saying that the greatest technology the earth needs is holes.
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That if we could ever learn to build really good holes, we would solve basically everything.
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Because if you could build big holes, like Elon Musk's boring company that just makes tunnels,
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But fracking and boring might open up the interior of the planet for unlimited energy.
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Because if you could inexpensively dig a really deep hole any time you wanted, free energy.
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You know, after the expense of creating it, it's free.
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So, and then I also thought that farming inevitably has to go underground.
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Because you want your farming to have no pests and no problems of nature.
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I don't believe I talked about that Jason L. Dean song in the detail that I wanted to.
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Country star Jason L. Dean has this small town song where he's saying that there are riots
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and the urban unrest, if it came to a small town, those small towners would take care of it.
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Meaning that they would at least use the threat of violence to stop people from doing bad things.
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Now, the first thing I would say about it is having now listened to the entire song.
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The first time I mentioned it, I had not heard it.
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So if I could just recommend it on a purely musical basis, really good.
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Because country music is not my preferred genre.
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So when something in that genre, you know, totally lights me up, it's pretty notable.
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If you can get somebody from the wrong genre to appreciate what you're doing, that's some good stuff.
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But the controversy is that some people are listening to a song and they think it's racist and promoting lynching.
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Other people listen to the same song, and it's not so much the lyrics as the video, the video imagery.
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And they look at the imagery and they say, where is any of that?
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I don't see any video that's highlighting any racial group.
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In fact, it looked like it was shot to decrease that perception.
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You know, there's a lot of vague images and you can't really tell who it is.
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It looked to me intentional that they didn't want it to be about race.
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But, and then what about the question of lynching?
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There's just this suggestion that if violence came to a small town,
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the small town people would react in some forceful way to stop it.
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All right, so now I've told you that I saw zero imagery, zero words to suggest either racism or lynching.
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Now let me tell you what I felt when I heard the song.
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Totally racist, and it looks like it's encouraging lynching.
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So much so that I had to go back and look at it a second time
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to look for those things that triggered me, and guess what?
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There was nothing there that would have given me the impression that I got.
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I legitimately felt the same thing that the Democrats, presumably,
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Do you blame the artist for making a song about, you know,
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the point the artist wanted to make about violence in small towns?
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Do you blame the people who interpreted it the same way I did
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The media has primed us all that violence equals black.
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and it seems to be highly correlated with news reports
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about, you know, BLM or urban areas where there's some violence.
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And without, you know, any statement of what's true
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or what's not true statistically, that's not my point.
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My point is that I'm inundated with things that conflate
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So when I see something that sees this vague urban violence,
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what do you think of when you think of urban violence?
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in some ways, has nothing to do with racism whatsoever.
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And it's really freaky to see something clearly
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So I had that experience, but I recommend the song.
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that the creator of the song should have any blowback.
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I've said this before, but this is the most useful thing
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that a fairly shocking percentage of the trolls on Twitter
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are literally actually drunk, or inebriated in some way.
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And until you understand that, it's a very, like,
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maddening place, because you'll end up doing things like,
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But the moment you tell yourself they're probably drunk,
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All of your, like, I don't know, stress or anxiety
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it just completely goes away when you tell yourself
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and here's something you'll hear a lot from me,
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It doesn't have to be true some of the time or all the time.
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It doesn't have to have any semblance of reality to it.
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So just try telling yourself they're probably drunk
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So if you tell yourself Ron Perlman is an angry drunk,
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But does he look like he might be drunk when he does them?
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And Rob Reiner was the next one I was going to bring up.
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Any chance at all he has a drink of wine with dinner?
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You go to Threads and it's just influencers who
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Uh, something about the century and records of,
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It's all like really smart people saying really
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It feels like Threads is all the C-plus students.