Episode 2645 CWSA 10⧸31⧸24
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 11 minutes
Words per Minute
144.96954
Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, Scott Adams talks about fake news, fake costumes, fake fashion, fake celebrities, fake scientists, fake facts, fake stories, fake science, fake art, fake history, and fake science fiction.
Transcript
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they're there but there's not all right enough of that
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well everybody welcome to the highlight of human civilization
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it's called coffee with scott adams and if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that
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you can't even understand with your tiny shiny human brains all you need for that is a copper
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mug or a glass a tanker chalice or style a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind
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fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of
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the dope being in the day thing makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip it happens
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now delicious well as you might have noticed i'm wearing my halloween costume it's a part
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casper the ghost part uh trump supporter bag of garbage really it's the same costume you put a
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hole you put a couple of eye holes in a white garbage bag and you're either a ghost or possibly
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a trump supporter that's right i hope you've got your garbage costumes ready i can't wear this
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all right well did you know that studies have suggested that drinking coffee may
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lower your risk of liver disease that's right how's your risk of liver disease would you like to
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okay took care of that there's a study in sci post you'll never believe this
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this is going to take a little bit of preparation because science has a shocker for you
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high fluid intelligence boosts your ability to accept corrected misinformation
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that's right now when i take this new study about how smart people can
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take in new information and potentially improve their opinions
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i say to myself wait a minute when you look at the entire context it's starting to look
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i don't know we'll have to look into that a little bit more
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but it's shocking to find out that smart people can do things that
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well here's your fake story of the day i like fake stories that have been fake since i was a child
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that is it's updated all the time but it's the same fake story since i was a little kid
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we used to we used to talk about it at the dinner table and my parents thought it was real
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and so did your parents and so did most of you you all think this is real
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uh the story is that boeing allegedly overcharged the military eight thousand percent
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for an airplane soap dispensers for airplane soap dispensers popular science
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now what is what is fake about that does anybody know the answer is
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lots of the same stuff you can lower the cost by having a permanent assembly line and
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and making those things every day and then the cost per unit goes down and down and down
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and even if that new part should cost one dollar
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it's still going to cost them a hundred thousand dollars
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to rebuild the you know the uh let's say the assembly line
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they've got to redesign it they've got to fit it they got to test it
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so the the fake news is they're not charging you eight thousand dollars or whatever the number is
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they're not charging you eight thousand dollars for something that costs a dollar
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they're charging eight thousand dollars for something that costs them eight thousand dollars
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now you could argue well they should have kept up their assembly line the whole time so that it would cost a dollar
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to which i'd say to do what to sit there doing nothing all the time
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or why would anybody have an assembly line just in case
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somebody needed uh to replace their airplane soap dispenser
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you wouldn't so it's just one of those situations where there isn't any economical way
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to have plenteous uh spare parts of the unimportant stuff
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for a very expensive item that there aren't many of
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so that's been fake news since i was a little bit of a kid
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the things we used to get excited about when i was a kid is we'd watch
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and i'd be a little kid and i'd say that's obviously fake wrestling that wrestling's all
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fake why do people believe that's real and then we'd watch a uh a fashion show
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you know and you you see all the fashion show and it'd be like
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and now the most beautiful woman in the world will show you that she can wear a piece of garbage
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and then she'll walk out in like her garbage outfit with you know yellow
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and then we'd sit at home because we were like unintelligent people
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you know we didn't know much in our little town of wyndham
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and we sit there watching and do you know what we would say
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nobody's gonna buy a a garbage hat a license plate dress what are they thinking
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and boy are we at home so much smarter than the people who thought that
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i mean come on and then later you grow up and you find out
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that they don't plan to sell a license plate dress
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and do things like say who would ever want a license plate dress
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from that company whose name i totally remember now
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and then you figure out ah wrestling's not real
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all of it and maybe those fashion shows are just so you'll pay attention
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ah and maybe that soap dispenser actually cost a thousand dollars to make
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there's some research from phys.org showing that
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out of home activities have declined since the pandemic
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but um what do you think is left out of this story
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if you saw some research that said people are spending less time out of their home
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and they don't have money to go out to go to a restaurant
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my guess is if everybody had twice as much money tomorrow
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so i'm gonna go with money being the main thing here