Episode 3010 CWSA 11⧸06⧸25
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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, Scott Adams talks about what it means to be useful and why it's important to be a useful human being. Scott Adams is a standup comedian, bestselling author, and podcaster. He's also the host of the hit podcast, Coffee With Scott Adams.
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there's room room up at the front grab your most comfortable chair your most delicious beverage
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and get ready for the experience that you've been waiting for
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that's right stocks uh all right well that's not good stock market is down
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but we'll pretend we didn't even see that didn't even see it didn't happen
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good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called
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jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for
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the unparalleled pleasure at the dopamine here today the thing that makes everything better
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it's called the simultaneous step what happens now
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well i'm going to warn you in advance that as you know my health journey has included some days where
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the pain is pretty bad it's pretty bad this morning so i'm operating on some painkillers that i typically
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try really hard not to do before the show because it'll make me all loopy so today's show will be
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loopy i have no idea what's going to happen today and neither do you i might pass out
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anything could happen today am i going to nancy grace swearing i shouldn't have said that
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uh but what we're going to do is make sure that i'm watching your comments here
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all right there we are boom boom boom favorite part of the day commencing now hey i wonder if
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there's any science that they didn't need to do because they could have just asked me oh here we are
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according to bianca setchinago there's a new research that says if you cluster unhealthy habits
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linked to higher depression you'll have even worse depression let me see could i could i figure this
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one out on my own so if you do a thing one thing that's linked with making you depressed it won't be
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as bad as if you did two things that would make you depressed individually i think i would have been
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all over that yeah yeah next time just ask me you probably heard a bunch of airports are cutting back
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service 10 today how many of you would go to an airport if you knew they'd cut back service 10
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and you didn't know is everybody in the same job today or or are people filling in for other people
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because of the 10 thing i'd be a little worried about about flying today but you know 10 doesn't sound
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that bad unless you're flying on an airline that's part of a system that's 40 years away from being
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modernized so if i were you if you can postpone your trip maybe maybe it'd be a good time
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i saw yelon musk was doing a podcast and he had some useful uh advice about being useful
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um and this is you you might recognize this is so exactly my my opinion as well uh and i like it
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whenever the smartest person in the world agrees with me that always feels good it's like wait wait he
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agreed with me oh that's cool so here's his advice for young entrepreneurs he says try to be as useful
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as possible uh and later he clarified useful to the most number of people and that if you aspire to do
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that and also something calls true work your probability of success is much higher do whatever
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it takes to succeed smash your ego be humble it's a super big deal so you've heard me talk about
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getting your ego out of the process of success so you've heard me say that it's a great advice uh be
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humble just in general it's a good thing just to imagine that you don't have all the answers and
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you know maybe you're gonna have to work hard to get the answers and uh be useful to the most number
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of people that's literally my my mission in life that's why i'm doing this i'm literally doing it right
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now i could be giving advice to one person but but as uh elon would point out wouldn't it be better
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if you gave advice to a hundred thousand people so that's what i'm doing probably a hundred thousand
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people will see this eventually so great great elon musk advice be useful to the most number of people
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um speaking of musk spacex uh won a two billion dollar golden dome contract
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so golden dome i'm sure there's a joke i can make about the golden dome it does sound like trump's
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haircut but uh apparently it's not this has something to do with the shooting down incoming
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missiles but uh why did uh spacex get the contract and nobody else did they're the only ones who can
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do it now that's that's what i call useful how how many of you can shoot down 600 incoming missiles at the
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same time you no you anybody and then like elon it's like well i can do that how many 600 same time yeah
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i could probably do that what's more useful what would be more useful than shooting down incoming missiles
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if we're attacked anyway there are other uh legacy defense contractors that's what mario
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an awful is describing them as legacy defense contractors they've already spent decades and
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billions of dollars and they've never they haven't really gotten close to being able to solve it but
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spacex already has 10 000 satellites and the smartest people you're ever gonna see so i feel like they
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can knock this off fairly quickly we'll see we have an elon and you don't
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so according to interesting engineering we may be nearing what they call the end of of brain surgery
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they're working on i guess they're kind of close to these injectable chips that will self-implant to
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treat brain disease safely so basically you just give somebody a shot and these tiny little programmed
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whatever they are will find their way to your brain they can even uh pass the brain the brain blood
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what is it blood brain barrier and it can get it can find on its own when i say on its own it's
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programmed to do it to the right part of the brain and then it just inserts itself into that part of the
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brain and apparently it's wrapped in some kind of organic wrapper so that it's not rejected so it's part
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you the organic wrapper part and it's or part human whatever it is and uh and part machine so the human
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part keeps it from being rejected totally and the machine part does the the cool stuff i don't know is
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that going to work do you think you do you think you were born into the time that you could get a shot
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uh you know in your arm like from a needle and it'll fix your brain because little little robots
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basically would go in there and just fix it does that sound like something that's going to happen in
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your lifetime it really doesn't i don't know if it's going to happen or not but it doesn't sound like
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something that's going to happen that sounds pretty aspirational well as you know california had this
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thing called prop 50 that passed by a pretty good margin and prop 50 will allow the state to redistrict
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and get rid of those pesky republicans entirely i don't know if it's entirely but it's going to be
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close to entirely so it pretty much is going to get rid of republicans but did you know that there's
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a high correlation between democrats and people of color did you know that well there is and so
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there's also a correlation with race not just party and so they're being sued um so gavin newsom or the
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state or somebody is being sued because it's unconstitutional to have a racial gerrymandering
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now if they say but but but but we're not doing it for racial reasons then the argument would be
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then why does it look exactly like you are but but but it's really just democrats
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getting more and republicans getting less and that's just politics that's not race that's just politics
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to which i say hmm and yet there is one other correlation that we're noticing here
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there's one other correlation so i'm not so sure that this lawsuit will succeed uh i feel like it
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probably won't because all they have to do is say no no no it's about politics and we make the decision
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based on how many republicans are not based on how many white people are but we'll see i mean to me it
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seems at least half racist you know at the minimum it's half racist i just don't know is half racist
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enough to change it you know you want you want it to be no racist right zero racist would be ideal
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i don't know we'll see um what what else is happening in the world of racism cbs just fired an experienced
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uh old white guy attorney it wasn't that old uh because he was a middle-aged man this is the the
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daily mail is reporting so they replaced him with a black former intern because he was a middle-aged
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white man so that's how the daily mail is and will potter are describing it um however there's a lawsuit
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over that because you know what is the worst idea in the world messing with a lawyer yeah here's some
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good advice for you should you ever decide to mess with somebody don't do it with somebody who doesn't
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have to pay to hire a lawyer because he is the lawyer i mean maybe he is paying a lawyer i don't know
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but if you go after a lawyer you're going to get sued and you're going to spend a lot of time
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figuring stuff out that the lawyer didn't have to figure out because they do it routinely
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i just filled out some paperwork i worked all day trying to figure out what your paperwork said
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i had to hire a lawyer to figure out what your paperwork said so never mess with a lawyer
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and by the way i'm not saying this just because of the story this has been my lifetime
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my lifetime advice i've given this advice a lot of times don't mess with lawyers it's just all bad
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you know just don't do it just treat them right and they won't sue you but you gotta you're gonna
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have to try extra hard just to make sure you don't get in that situation
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so that's uh so that's cbs being racist allegedly so i saw mom donnie by the way it turns out that
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whoever is in charge of the dictation software on my apple devices really hates mom donnie
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because if you use the dictation feature it says either mom donnie as in a mother who's also a
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dominatrix two words or mom dummy i swear to god i'm not making this up it actually says mom
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dummy or mom donnie those are the two options you can get with voice
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so all morning i've been cursing at it it's like no no it's mom i'm donnie mom donnie m-o-m-o-m-a
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anyway so mom donnie um had a new phrase which reminds you that it's not luck
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it's not luck that he got where he is right there's something else going on and it's not luck
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