Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3013 CWSA 11⧸09⧸25

00:00:00.560 well there you are it's about time come on in you're in for it today the show of

00:00:08.320 shows gonna be so good I can barely even contain myself but then what's that

00:00:18.040 random get rid of that now let me find your comments so that I can give you the

00:00:25.960 full time of day it's gonna be good it's gonna be a short show today see if he

00:00:33.400 can tell why all right really hmm there we go we're up and running

00:00:55.960 good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's

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00:01:31.040 makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and happens now go well

00:01:43.520 it looks like everything's working yay yay everything's working some people like it

00:01:53.200 when I do a reframe before every show how many of you like to see a reframe before

00:01:58.200 the show a reframe from my book reframe your rain the most important book in the

00:02:05.320 English language and all the other ones too but it's not in those languages it's just

00:02:11.320 most important all right yeah here's the next one this is still in the mental health

00:02:18.940 reframes section of the book well actually you've heard this one before so if anybody

00:02:26.820 hasn't heard this one this was very viral for reasons that kind of surprised me so see

00:02:34.140 if you think this should have gone viral it did at the time so instead of instead of the

00:02:41.240 usual frame that you're a priceless work of art that must be protected how many of you think that

00:02:46.900 I mean it's an exaggeration of course but you think that you're important don't you you think

00:02:53.080 I'm more important than at least to myself I'm more important than other people the trouble is that's

00:02:59.820 kind of limiting it would be better to say you're a potato that is easily replaced

00:03:03.980 here's the background on that if I told you to carry a priceless you know piece of art across the

00:03:15.060 road to another museum you'd be pretty worried that something would go wrong right but you're

00:03:20.460 that priceless art so when you're taking care of yourself you're the priceless art and you're just

00:03:26.740 worried all the time about taking care of it would you like to worry less about what's happening to

00:03:33.040 you and what's going to happen to you and will a bad outcome happen and is it going to be the

00:03:37.680 worst case scenario wouldn't you like to worry about all that less all you have to do is think

00:03:43.600 of yourself as a potato and think if I were delivering a potato like just an actual potato

00:03:49.560 across the street wouldn't even matter if I dropped it it wouldn't matter so as soon as you think of

00:03:57.900 yourself more like the potato which again is not insulting yourself has nothing to do with your ego

00:04:03.720 just assume that you're not so important that if something bad happened to you it would be somehow

00:04:09.600 the end of the world you're more like a potato than a Mona Lisa so when I came up with that one I have

00:04:16.700 to admit I didn't think it would be powerful but it's one of the ones that people have most commented on

00:04:23.020 this but did Greg mention it I think other people have mentioned it in other contexts so I put it out

00:04:29.700 there maybe like it well scientists say they figured out how to use an MRI to transcribe your thoughts do you

00:04:38.800 believe that now that I've completely ruined for you the act of reading stories about science and then

00:04:47.440 believe in them because it's fun to believe them it's like whoa that'd be like a mind reading machine

00:04:52.880 to which I say if you can thwart the mind reading machine just by shaking your head because obviously

00:04:58.460 the MRI makes you be completely still that's not much of a mind reading machine and I don't know what

00:05:04.600 they use it for exactly unless you're like a locked in syndrome or something and I also don't believe

00:05:12.380 that they can do it well and I don't believe that they can do it and repeat it and I don't believe

00:05:17.360 anything about the story what was your first reaction to that was your first reaction to the

00:05:23.380 story wow they figured out how to use an MRI to read your thoughts or was your first thought that's

00:05:30.000 more bullshit just this is just absolutely more bullshit I lean toward the bullshit on this one don't

00:05:38.000 know so it's not I'm not making an allegation I'm just saying how it felt when I read it a little

00:05:43.220 more bullshitty than credible well if you haven't seen it yet Jimmy Kimmel and his wife are on a podcast

00:05:50.700 recently they just did a podcast and apparently Jimmy Kimmel has been pulled off the air

00:05:58.300 and as of this morning when I was preparing there was not yet a reason given has that changed

00:06:05.220 as Kimmel or the network given a reason but apparently he missed a couple nights and they

00:06:11.960 don't know when he's coming back if he's coming back or why he left somebody said that it was maybe

00:06:20.360 a personal thing something personal but then when they showed on the podcast well I don't know when

00:06:28.080 the podcast was was recorded so that might make a difference but we'll find out the mystery

00:06:34.440 but I'll tell you what we learned a little bit about the dynamic there

00:06:38.200 you could tell that Jimmy Kimmel puts a great weight in his wife's opinion do you mind if I say

00:06:48.060 it in the non-judgmental way that would be the non-judgmental way to say it it's clear when you see

00:06:54.400 them interact that he puts a lot of respect into his wife's opinion I'm not saying that's good or bad

00:07:01.460 because you know it's their relationship not mine and there's no one right there's no one way to do

00:07:06.680 anything but you know respecting your spouse is a really good place to start so so if you're going to

00:07:13.240 judge him because he seems a little a little whipped I don't think that's fair I don't think

00:07:20.500 that's fair at all it's his relationship he can be as whipped as he wants or not whipped

00:07:24.700 it's none of our business so and I'm wondering have any of you heard a reason even speculation

00:07:33.080 I am curious as heck what's going on here some of us if it's a personal problem then I just

00:07:40.300 send my I'll send my you know understanding and uh and empathy if there's just some you know might

00:07:48.880 be a family problem or something and that wouldn't be funny all right um but here's the thing I wonder

00:07:58.160 about so his wife Jimmy Kimmel's wife really made me uh curious about her opinions and one of the

00:08:07.560 things she said was that I guess she used to be in a sort of a republican world when she was younger

00:08:12.760 but later she she found out what the other side was saying and liked that side better and became a

00:08:19.940 democrat I guess so that that part makes sense a lot of people have you know gone from one thing to the

00:08:25.660 other um but what she wondered about is uh is is whether she could be deprogrammed so these are her own

00:08:40.160 words you think this is something a republican would say about her but these are her own words

00:08:44.660 she said uh uh quote I wish there was some way to deprogram myself like she said that on the podcast

00:08:52.900 to the world I wish there was some way to deprogram myself because just the act of being around other

00:08:58.980 people who are Trump supporters is disturbing so it's not that she's saying that she's wrong

00:09:05.180 is that she's having a reaction to the world that she wishes she were not having I think that's

00:09:10.280 the right interpretation now again nothing wrong with that right people have opinions that's her

00:09:16.580 opinion but the thing with the thing with the democrat opinions of things now see if see if you agree

00:09:23.060 with this hold on I'm very very parched today

00:09:27.080 the thing I don't understand about liberal opinions is the same thing I sometimes don't understand

00:09:37.340 when it comes from republican values there's a thing that people say and do that just seems like

00:09:44.320 if that's where you're at you shouldn't be talking about politics at all you're not ready

00:09:48.940 and it goes like this all the people who are making mistakes about the data are on the same side

00:09:57.440 you know what I mean and she basically said that so some version of that that she didn't want to be 0.95

00:10:04.680 on the side that was wrong the side that was wrong well here's the part that's hard to explain

00:10:12.880 if you really really were paying attention to politics and you really genuinely instead of you

00:10:19.640 know just saying it because it was fun to say if you genuinely believed and I'm just going to pick a

00:10:25.840 name that Victor Davis Hanson a well-known conservative one of the smartest people in the world

00:10:32.300 he looks like it anyway knows more than you know any 10 people does she really think he's dumb

00:10:38.000 or that he's poorly informed and he's just one person you know if there were only one you could

00:10:44.300 say oh maybe one person got bought off or something but how do you explain you know Molly Hemingway I'll

00:10:50.840 just pick some names some people I like basically Molly Hemingway is super smart how can you possibly

00:10:57.480 look at her work or her writing and go oh that not touch me okay how can you possibly look at her

00:11:07.580 her opinions or writing and think that she's not as smart as you or in this specific case way more

00:11:14.260 informed than you are do you not know that is that something you wouldn't know because I try to be true to

00:11:22.580 this principle for example if I found myself disagreeing on an engineering question with

00:11:30.200 Elon Musk what's my best play is my best play to say you know granted I'm not an engineer and

00:11:39.200 a lot of smart people say that Elon Musk is not just an engineer but the best engineer in the world

00:11:44.800 and maybe the best that ever will be but I think he got one wrong this time do people really do that

00:11:51.040 is that an actual opinion I think he got one wrong this time in his strongest domain you know out of

00:11:59.820 seven billion people the best engineer really if I hear a story about the cost of pharma and you know

00:12:10.040 what laws could be passed or what could be done on and Mark Cuban has an opinion he's actually in the

00:12:16.100 business so if his opinion disagreed with mine I wouldn't I wouldn't try to talk about of it I would

00:12:22.740 say what wait what should I believe and then he'd tell me oh you know this does this this does this

00:12:27.600 and almost certainly it would give me some common sense opinion so how do you how do you look at the

00:12:34.380 world and believe that when you know Ben Shapiro is talking that you listen to listening to a dumb guy

00:12:41.260 come on yeah if you wanted to have a an IQ off or an SAT off where let's say that the 10 smartest

00:12:52.760 conservatives were put up against the 10 smartest Democrats just to have some trivia or some you know

00:13:00.000 some kind of mental IQ contest how do you think how do you think the conservatives would do I think

00:13:07.060 they do pretty well don't you you know do do they have a certain bitch they got smart people do right 1.00

00:13:16.060 so I don't want to fall into my own trap Democrats are very smart people but if you don't understand

00:13:22.780 that people can be wrong on both sides then you should not even be in the conversation would you

00:13:30.040 agree with that if it's not your intention to find out which side is right and it's only your

00:13:36.580 intention to make sure that your side looks right what are you adding to the world like what's your

00:13:42.800 value add there unless you know unless it's your job to do something like you get paid for it that'd be

00:13:50.000 different all right so you know what was what was fun about this is that Jimmy Kimmel's wife is not

00:13:58.540 really part of politics but she said some of the most interesting and new things that I had to talk

00:14:04.660 about so I'm sure they're very nice people I hear good things about them actually

00:14:10.540 the BBC if you haven't seen this story is so it's just mind-boggling the BBC apparently is going to

00:14:20.960 apologize which means that they're admitting it happened for deceptively editing President Trump's

00:14:26.240 January 6th speech in an effort to make it look like he encouraged violence at the Capitol

00:14:32.200 what how is this even real news are we are we so are we so beaten up about how fake the news is

00:14:46.340 that this is sort of a side story am I wrong that this is just a side story that the BBC made up

00:14:54.020 a narrative that just didn't happen and pasted together some clips and made it look like the

00:15:01.180 opposite of what he said that should sort of be the biggest story you've seen except for all the

00:15:08.100 other ones that are just insanely illegal looking certainly looks illegal anyway do you think an

00:15:17.380 apology is gonna save them because Trump's Trump's gonna take the apology of course he's gonna bank the

00:15:27.780 apology but he's gonna use the apology to show that there's no question about fact and then he's gonna

00:15:35.340 ask for something you might sue them get them to settle because they can't they don't have a possibility

00:15:41.600 of winning they couldn't possibly win a lawsuit I don't think I mean I'm no lawyer you'll have to ask the

00:15:48.220 lawyers but yeah I guess some kind of moth is okay I believe the moth either survived or is clinging to my hand

00:16:09.040 as a nasty desiccated corpse it looks good looks good all right so it looks like Trump's gonna get

00:16:19.020 another payday from the BBC according to a ex-user called Chaz Mazel who has been in the past he's been

00:16:29.180 chief of staff at Trump's DOJ and he looks at some data and found that since 1963 listen to this 75% of all

00:16:38.280 the ones done in the country for any reason were Trump now again I didn't fact check this so you

00:16:59.520 might want to fact check that and then he says that 90% of those injunctions came from Democrat appointed

00:17:05.280 judges so 90% from Democrat judges and all of them just recently basically and yet the administration

00:17:16.760 says Chad so and yet with all of those injunctions how did the Trump administration do fighting them off

00:17:25.800 well it won 92% of the time 92% of the time now that is this uh that's just about as anti-authoritarian as

00:17:37.760 you can get right if 8% of the time you said okay you win and you walked away but 92% of the time you

00:17:45.180 were just dead ass right so you just won isn't that like the least authoritarian thing you could think of

00:17:51.560 right if you could walk away from 8% of the things you really want to do but the court said you can't

00:18:00.380 do that and you can walk away and and you can just walk away say all right we really want to do that

00:18:06.340 but we'll work on something else not too authoritarian according to a federal audit and there should be

00:18:16.160 federal audits of all the states all the time every day in my opinion like I actually mean that the

00:18:22.040 federal government's main job should be auditing the states because the states are just out of control

00:18:27.920 they're just taking their money and throwing it in the ocean 62,000 commercial driver's licenses were

00:18:36.020 handed down to people who were in California illegally 62,000 illegal driver's licenses 62,000

00:18:47.080 so if you're wondering is it a big problem small problem that's a lot 62,000 seems like enough that it

00:18:57.800 could move a lot of different races I mean I don't know how many races that would that would be able to

00:19:04.500 change if depending on the distribution all right um do you know how many of you know who Michael

00:19:11.760 Saylor is s-a-y-l-o-r Michael Saylor he's sort of one of the big names or maybe even the biggest name

00:19:18.880 I don't know in crypto uh he's in the commercial side of things so he owns a company and called

00:19:25.060 called micro strategy and uh I've only watched a little bit of his content but it basically goes like

00:19:31.400 this buy bitcoin and then I'll watch some extra other of his content and that content will go like

00:19:39.200 this buy bitcoin but then something like big will happen though you know change the change the nature

00:19:46.520 of everything so you can rethink all your strategies and then he'll come out and he'll say buy bitcoin

00:19:52.440 and the annoying thing is he hasn't been wrong yet if he could be wrong a few times it'd be

00:20:00.180 that'd be nice but in the short run such as right now it actually is it's taken quite a haircut

00:20:06.960 bitcoin has so if you're a very casual casual casual follower of crypto and you're sort of wondering

00:20:14.860 you know I have a little bit should I sell it I don't give advice by the way so this will this will not

00:20:20.600 be advice um I don't give financial or health advice you wouldn't want to listen to any of my financial

00:20:27.940 or health advice um but it's way down way down I don't know 50 or something so some amount from the

00:20:37.800 beginning of the year uh but that's not unusual in the bitcoin world and bitcoin is not like the other

00:20:46.000 cryptos because it's you know got this mathematical uh sort of perpetual value whereas the other ones

00:20:55.300 are literally backed by nothing they both sound like nothing but one of them is you know treated as

00:21:01.860 if it's a something so there's a difference anyway um he's probably going to be right again because

00:21:08.960 i would be amazed if he didn't say buy bitcoin the the argument for bitcoin is that there isn't really

00:21:16.260 any way for it to go down forever it just it's just one of those things that if you just waited

00:21:23.000 you know the there would be periods where it's down for sure but the odds of it just sort of going away

00:21:29.360 a lot of people think it's low so when somebody like me who's not your financial advisor

00:21:37.900 says something as bold as i don't think that bitcoin is just going to go away what happens next

00:21:44.820 when people like me say yeah that's never going to go away you better watch what happens on monday

00:21:52.800 because it'll probably go away on monday because it's just the way the world is is organized

00:21:56.700 it's just the way the simulation works so now you should not listen to me

00:22:01.940 but if that helped uh if that helped but let me ask was that level of detail because i know many

00:22:09.800 of you are way way past that and you understand crypto how many of you found it useful just to hear

00:22:16.940 like a little top level what's up with crypto like i wouldn't go further than that was that useful

00:22:24.760 or no i'm just looking at your comments

00:22:26.380 all right you'll let me know

00:22:32.620 all right apparently chicago's downtown office vacancy rate has now hit a record high of 28 percent

00:22:46.020 can you even imagine the city that's 28 vacant how does it survive that

00:22:53.260 i always speculate that there are some magic numbers for things to fall apart one of them is

00:23:00.680 10 and the other is 20 that if anything goes to 10 problem whatever it is whatever the problem is

00:23:08.000 if it gets to 10 percent then things could you know start getting out of control but also 20

00:23:14.680 depending on the thing you know so whenever i see a 10 or a 20 coming i'm like whoa 10 or 20 coming

00:23:22.280 but when it's at 28 it feels like it's already broken out into you can't get this toothpaste back in the

00:23:29.660 tube is it just me now out here i'm only talking about how it feels this this is again not what's

00:23:36.100 happening this is how it feels like it's out of control and i'm also curious because you may have

00:23:42.240 heard that the real estate in new york city is actually coming back and prices are holding up and

00:23:50.560 people are moving back to new york city so wouldn't it be interesting to know what was so different

00:23:56.740 about new york city that allowed some of it to come back already some of it and

00:24:03.280 and chicago may be getting worse it doesn't even say if it's getting better so just the news is

00:24:09.860 reporting on this i will say for self-improvement purposes as a consumer of news when i see a story

00:24:17.680 like this this is what i want to see context wise i want to see which direction it's moving

00:24:24.740 because 20 it's probably in the story i don't know if it's in the story or not i was skimming things

00:24:30.340 today so i'm pretty sure that they covered the the numbers that matter just news does a really good

00:24:35.560 job by the way you should always check them out uh just the news it's called all right um

00:24:43.080 but 28 you'd want to know which direction it's going and you'd want to know what the other cities

00:24:50.240 besides new york were looking at and you'd want to know why is new york coming back or why do people

00:24:55.720 speculate it's coming back what they do differently is a crime i don't know i guess corporate earnings

00:25:03.120 were kind of good this quarter but people are still worried so they the stock market didn't go

00:25:09.000 up that much uh well actually that's not true everybody's got a different reason for why the

00:25:13.820 stock market didn't move i saw one reason was uh that's already gone up so you know already

00:25:20.880 anticipated good news maybe but have you noticed that whenever the stock market goes up or down

00:25:27.240 whether it goes up or down somebody's got a reason that you can't check you know that you can't really

00:25:35.440 check it's like well i think it's the uh animal spirits bob uh you know people saw trump jump up and

00:25:43.280 grab his ear and suddenly they reach for their wallet and you know everybody's just got some wild ass

00:25:48.780 story that they're pretty sure they can sell especially if they're selling financial products

00:25:53.900 you can never stop bitcoin well that's probably what everybody says before something gets stopped

00:26:04.040 but i know what you mean i agree all right so yesterday i uh lit a match and threw it on some gas

00:26:13.760 and i want to talk this through with you guys okay so this is going to start down with something

00:26:19.560 like i disagree with you but if i do this right by the time i'm finished with this topic which is

00:26:26.600 going to be health care uh you will say oh we're not actually on different pages you ready for this

00:26:34.020 we'll see if i can pull this off what i said was that the i guess some of the democrats were thinking

00:26:40.240 about a one-year extension to the aca obamacare until they could figure out you know a better

00:26:48.460 solution now the republicans were offering to open the government and negotiate just over a few

00:26:55.960 you know the next several weeks a much smaller period of time so when they offered that the only

00:27:03.000 change they offered besides just keeping the government open at the same rate so they can feed the

00:27:09.800 people and then work out a real budget um so they were going to do that but a lot of the

00:27:17.460 republicans said to me when i commented that it seemed reasonable so i to me that was the first

00:27:23.600 reasonable offer now when i say reasonable that doesn't mean they should take it right i mean you've

00:27:29.640 watched me long enough to know a reasonable offer doesn't mean you accept it you know you can do

00:27:35.280 better ask trump if you said if you said to trump they made a reasonable offer should you take it

00:27:41.100 do you think he'd say yes no because he knows how to do this he'd say well we'll maybe we'll bump

00:27:46.940 him up a little bit maybe we'll tap that along a little bit maybe get a little extra because he

00:27:51.220 knows how to do this so so now the democrats have an offer there's something to respond to

00:27:59.340 and people told me scott the reason you can't you just say yes and see if you agree with this okay

00:28:07.740 this this is the part where i'm going to catch you so put on your smartest thinking cap

00:28:12.560 and see where this is going so people told me scott if you let this run for another year

00:28:22.780 and you agree to an extension to essentially the current system then you will have essentially

00:28:29.460 created yet another system that never goes away if you don't get it now you'll never be able to get

00:28:36.620 it right look at the comments if you don't if you don't turn this off when you can when you've got an

00:28:43.460 opportunity you might never get another opportunity to turn it off is that a reasonable point of view

00:28:49.940 how many of you think that's a reasonable point of view that things the government does never go

00:28:57.060 away any any program you implement will never go away how many of you would agree with that

00:29:04.140 statement we'll keep it simple would you agree with this with the statement that any major program

00:29:12.940 because you know this is a major program that any major program that's implemented and lasts for a while

00:29:19.020 you can't get rid of it everybody on the same page you know you know the trick is coming right

00:29:26.220 the prestige i don't even know what that is but it has something to do with magic

00:29:30.860 all right now now i'm going to turn your world around

00:29:34.840 if your point of view is that once something is implemented it can't be changed

00:29:41.060 then it's already implemented and it can't be changed you you have a you have a point of view

00:29:48.820 that is both forward and backward at the same time they can't both be true it can't be true that you

00:29:54.900 could stop this thing now after years of being implemented and being a major program if it's also

00:30:01.060 true that you can't get rid of things once they've been put in so which is it you can't get rid of

00:30:06.820 something than put in or you can only two possibilities but many of you have chosen both

00:30:16.080 you see what i'm saying many of you have chosen both you can't have both it either can be canceled

00:30:24.200 or it can't so what i'm saying is if you accept the notion and by the way this is iffy i'll admit

00:30:32.580 this is iffy but if you accept the notion that all things are cancelable if you try hard enough

00:30:38.720 and and trump would be the ultimate canceler right if you just said to me nobody could cancel this

00:30:47.280 and i said trump you tell me trump couldn't cancel it trump could cancel it he's like the ultimate

00:30:53.620 canceler so you wouldn't compare him to anybody else you know in the canceling department no you got

00:30:59.420 really quiet didn't you all right now i need some confessions

00:31:05.960 for some of you this twisted your brain around 280 degrees how many of you had not realized

00:31:16.040 that it was inconsistent to say you need to cancel it now because nothing can be canceled now

00:31:21.940 how many had caught that before i mentioned it

00:31:25.600 it's kind of sort of hiding there isn't it it's both obvious after i tell you

00:31:33.800 but if i don't tell you directly that it's there and it's looking right at you

00:31:39.320 you know and there's no doubt about it i mean it's not even the opinion

00:31:42.720 it's just a description of what's happening

00:31:45.160 you're right and we can get rid of it yeah i'm usually on the

00:31:50.060 there's some way you can get rid of anything apparently 59 percent of americans blame trump

00:31:55.680 for the increased grocery prices fox news is reporting that 59 percent now you would think

00:32:03.200 that 59 percent blaming grocery prices as often as you have to look at that those are the really

00:32:10.000 insulting ones um you'd think that would be enough to keep a republican from ever winning again

00:32:16.260 well in 2028 let's say don't you think that would be enough to just totally kill the republican chances

00:32:24.060 so the real the real question would be could that be fixed is there any way at all and i'm wondering

00:32:32.000 if there's some clever um totally out of the box way to approach food costs that gives so here's the

00:32:42.000 minimum it would have to do the minimum it would have to do is keep the current system intact

00:32:46.340 so whatever it is would have to be not the government paying for it and um yeah not the government that's

00:32:57.000 the main thing not the government paying for it you know it would have to be just a separate system

00:33:01.800 so let me give you an example suppose somebody started a store for the poor and it only had

00:33:10.360 four items um add some i don't know chicken protein uh some you know something reasonably inexpensive

00:33:20.820 that's a protein and uh you know some vegetables that might even come from some place where the

00:33:28.460 vegetables were suboptimal so they not suboptimal but let's say cut in different shapes so maybe it

00:33:35.040 makes them soup or whatever so yeah so i think if you tried to build a a grocery store that only had

00:33:44.200 when you were done 20 items that that nobody would starve because they'd always have 20 items

00:33:52.580 and it wouldn't be the only place they could give food you know they could also just use their social

00:33:58.420 security or some of it to buy regular food so everybody would still have everything they have now

00:34:03.300 but those people really really wanted to save money and they really really were on a diet

00:34:09.140 could go get their you know chicken nugget thing that's totally healthy

00:34:14.620 uh and the government just make sure that somebody sells it to you

00:34:18.780 no all right just running that idea by you did you see the story i talked about that investigative

00:34:28.340 reporter steve baker um believes that he's uh seen some gait analysis that's how people walk

00:34:37.200 their gate g-a-i-t and that uh the software identified one particular person who i'm going

00:34:44.420 to take the advice of someone i saw online who said don't use the name that's sort of where i'm at on

00:34:50.340 this i'm sort of at i don't think i want to use a name on this one because uh remember what i said

00:34:58.280 if you don't see a video you have to suspend credibility basically you know it doesn't mean it's false

00:35:05.000 but it doesn't mean it's true so my minimum for the pipe bomb video to be credible to not to you

00:35:14.300 just to me this would be my personal standard i would have to see a video of the alleged person

00:35:20.840 walking in in a way that would be similar enough to what they got in video and then i would have to

00:35:26.520 see the the actual video which i'm not even sure they showed us the actual video it might have been

00:35:32.260 some kind of uh clipped or ai video or something so there's something going on and do you remember

00:35:39.320 my first take on this because it's important to track people's first take to see how crazy they are

00:35:46.060 my first take was that if i don't see the video it's not a thing and that's where i still am no video no

00:35:54.440 thing well still uh mark levin and candace owens and uh i guess uh tucker they're they're still

00:36:04.620 trying to entertain us by i don't know creating some right-wing controversy that didn't need to

00:36:11.600 be created whatsoever um i i i'm really curious what they think about the whole situation because

00:36:18.580 it shouldn't matter to any of you should it that you know they all have different opinions i said

00:36:24.020 and i'll say this again i've said this 10 times if i were if i were jewish then things that wouldn't

00:36:31.700 bother me if i'm not jewish would probably bother me and i would see them as anti-semitic and so when

00:36:36.560 i see somebody with a jewish background say that's anti-semitic i say to myself it's not a yes or no

00:36:43.700 you just have a filter not just but you have a filter that would guarantee that if somebody just

00:36:50.820 keeps walking up to that line you've got a right to ask why are you always up on that line why are

00:36:56.900 you so interested in this perfectly fair question but it doesn't mean you're a monster so and i can't

00:37:03.300 read mine so i don't know but i definitely see that if if i were in a group that looked like

00:37:10.020 you know at a historical reason to be worried about something that looks exactly like this to

00:37:16.480 them maybe not to everybody um i i can see it i can see why you'd be concerned about that

00:37:22.860 but i i would be more in the get together and talk it out kind of kind of uh world i'm not sure

00:37:32.460 either i think mark levin might be the one who doesn't want to platform anybody

00:37:36.040 doesn't want to platform i feel like the only people i don't want to platform are the people

00:37:41.640 who don't want to platform anybody that feels like the only sin doesn't it the only sin is

00:37:47.620 censoring not platforming so but anyway use your own judgment

00:37:53.120 so you know how i always tell you that the democrats have what i call the designated liars

00:37:59.240 they have liars that tell the lies that the normal uh normal democrats just can't do because

00:38:05.920 they're just too big the lies are just just so obviously lies and they're so ridiculous

00:38:11.380 that the the regular you know ordinary normie um democrats can't tell that kind of lie

00:38:18.340 but jamie raskin can and swalwell can and adam schiff can you know they're among what i call the

00:38:26.660 designated liars so they trot him out when they do so one of them this one was funny today because

00:38:33.500 there's always a video of jamie raskin saying the opposite of what he's saying now almost every time

00:38:38.740 and uh not too long ago not too many years ago uh he wanted to do away with the filibuster

00:38:45.780 can you guess which party was in charge of the presidency and maybe the house uh when he wanted

00:38:53.680 to get rid of the filibuster you're right yeah when the democrats were in charge he wanted to get

00:38:59.060 rid of the filibuster what do you think he thinks about the filibuster now because it was a good idea

00:39:04.180 then it'd be even a better idea now right nope so when you see the uh the two videos side by side

00:39:14.320 by the way i should be giving i should be giving a video uh credit and i'm not because i didn't write it

00:39:21.960 down so if anybody has a video credit for that that clip find that was genius they should get some

00:39:28.720 attention all right uh one of the other designated liars chris murphy he's pretty funny

00:39:34.920 he's actually talking about i read this in a jonathan turley article on the hill so chris murphy is

00:39:44.960 talking about uh keeping the government shut through the midterms now i'm no political expert

00:39:53.320 i just watch it on tv and on the internet but is that really an advantage to keep it keep the

00:39:59.460 government shut through the midterms doesn't that doesn't that sound batshit crazy to you

00:40:04.080 and and then i thought oh let's put this in context the context for uh the democrats seem to be that

00:40:13.300 something good happens and then they all try to guess what it was that made the good thing happen

00:40:18.360 but they don't know what made the good thing happen so for a while they thought their swearing is what

00:40:23.820 made somebody win an election why because they take they can't tell what works they had no idea what

00:40:30.400 works so like well he swears a lot and they're even talking about it the republicans are actually

00:40:35.220 laughing at it yeah yeah and that makes him look like a fighter yeah it must be the swearing it's the

00:40:41.900 swearing right so they keep coming up with these absolutely crazy hypotheses about why uh why the

00:40:52.540 republicans are winning like one of them is that um all they have to do is get their own joe rogan

00:40:58.260 that might be the funniest the funniest one they ever did because it just broadcasts such a lack of

00:41:06.860 understanding about how anything in the world works oh you can't just make a joe rogan nobody

00:41:11.860 can make a joe rogan his mother had enough trouble doing it and it's only been done once only once

00:41:18.760 anyway when i see his mother i mean she gave birth to him

00:41:23.560 so uh yeah so chris murphy thinks that would be an advantage to keep the government shut

00:41:29.380 maybe you know i and the funny thing is i can't really rule it out because it depends as much on

00:41:37.420 how the news handles it if the news handled it the way they're handling it now cnn has been pretty

00:41:43.900 hard on the democrats does that work for them if cnn is essentially blaming you which they are does

00:41:52.660 that work for democrats feels like they're just not reading the room you know we always say trump's the

00:41:58.360 best at reading the room boy is he he's just the best at reading the room um and i guess the

00:42:05.620 majority leader john thune and by the way john thune is uh named after the sound that a blow dart makes

00:42:14.320 in the jungle sorry anyway he said he told reporters on saturday that senators will remain in session

00:42:27.880 they're going to stay open and they don't get to pretend they're working and collecting their

00:42:34.640 paycheck unless we get some government give us some government you pastors all right that's probably

00:42:44.580 good politics to make it look like the republicans are there the whole time and they're not gonna

00:42:49.320 they're not gonna be lazy and if the democrats agree they can sign it tomorrow so it's a good look

00:42:55.920 i'll say that meanwhile over in the world of fanny and freddie how many of you have any idea

00:43:03.480 what fanny may and freddie mack are like if if somebody brought that up in a conversation over

00:43:11.300 dinner would you have any idea what that was

00:43:14.180 for me the most important part about it is that bill pulte is in charge of both of them

00:43:20.780 he's he's the government um head administrator or i don't know what the actual terms are in this case

00:43:27.240 but you put bill pulte into any business situation and things start getting better

00:43:31.960 and that's actually what's happening right now so one of the things they're looking at

00:43:36.440 is uh considering legal i guess it would be legalizing it this must be illegal right now

00:43:42.820 but they're talking about a 50-year mortgage option now what you know is that uh the longer

00:43:50.480 the loan the more interest you're going to pay right so everybody understands that just because

00:43:55.580 you make it a 50-year loan yes the price per payment can go down quite a bit and allow people

00:44:02.200 into the market but when you're done you might pay triple you might pay triple the interest

00:44:09.500 uh because it's 50 years instead of 30 it's a big difference but on any given payment day

00:44:16.020 it would be cheaper so i would say this is if you're talking to your friends about it here's

00:44:22.080 the one thing you need to know to be the smartest person in the room okay smartest person in the room

00:44:27.760 here it comes it depends on your situation so there could be some people who for example know they

00:44:35.900 have a kind of job that they're doing okay at the moment but they know that they'll do way better in

00:44:42.080 the future because it's just one of those jobs you know maybe they're becoming a gynecologist or

00:44:47.420 something and they know that as they build up the practice they'll have a lot more income in the

00:44:52.100 future if you knew that then you might say all right i'll get the 50-year mortgage because then i can

00:44:58.420 get into a house i like as soon as possible and then when my income zooms up and it might be 10 years

00:45:04.100 but eventually it goes up then i can just refi and refinance and bring it down i win so so you

00:45:12.760 can have both a long-term mortgage on day one so it's cheap in your payments but as soon as you make

00:45:19.980 more money if you do you don't have to but if you did you could pay it down so you get everything

00:45:25.320 um so that would be one example but how many people can know for sure that they're going to

00:45:33.980 make a lot more money later compared to how much they're making now that's a little iffy so everybody's

00:45:40.520 got to manage their own risk profile but this is why you need a bill pulte because this is the sort

00:45:46.740 of thing that's psychological as much as financial because people would have to think i understand

00:45:54.020 what this is i understand when i would use it and i understand what the government is doing

00:45:59.260 to make this easier for me and that's the sort of thing that a pulte can do that an average

00:46:06.100 an average person who's not good at persuasion couldn't do but pulte is amazing

00:46:10.180 all right um trump apparently has made some threats to nigeria based on some coverage from

00:46:20.980 fox news apparently that at least that's the reporting and there's an article in the wall

00:46:26.200 street journal by um some good work by any linsky and drew hinshaw and joe parkinson and uh apparently

00:46:34.940 the leader of nigeria um doesn't think it's such a big problem and the problem that trump is

00:46:41.640 complaining about is he would call it a genocide of christians and he thinks that the uh i guess

00:46:48.400 that would be the islamic goat herders have some very long-term historical beef beef they got a beef

00:46:57.680 with the other uh with the other cattle cattle herding people i guess so there's two entities

00:47:05.160 that are fighting one of them is christian the christians seem to be outnumbered but we're not

00:47:10.740 really getting the best information about how many people are involved this is another one of those

00:47:15.580 how many people are involved this is a lot which direction is it going is it getting worse

00:47:21.840 um so i do like the fact that trump jumped in before he knew all the details but let me say this

00:47:30.440 if you found out later and i'm not sure that you will but if you found out later that the problem

00:47:36.620 wasn't as big as you thought but it was real would you be okay with how he handled it i would

00:47:44.300 because he got something going suppose he made some claims like oh i heard on the news that

00:47:54.560 20 000 people got murdered and they were all christians and their churches got burned down 0.59

00:48:00.040 and then he found out that it wasn't 20 000 it was a thousand would that make you think worse of him

00:48:08.800 not for me no no he might be just genuinely you know wrong but i always tell you as he has a bias

00:48:17.480 for action and whatever the option set is he always picks the strongest option but watch how many times

00:48:25.840 i tell you that and every time i do you go oh i should have caught it that time should have caught it

00:48:32.500 you should have caught it this time yeah but by far the strongest thing you could do

00:48:37.480 is not ask for uh not ask for details on who's actually going to hurt over there

00:48:43.140 there's nothing stronger than i might send my military over there as that's like your first

00:48:48.760 reaction that's pretty strong it doesn't mean he's going to do it it means instead of him having to

00:48:54.160 prove there's a problem it kind of flips the responsibility onto nigeria now nigeria if they're

00:49:00.740 smart are going to have to offer trump some kind of assurance that somebody credible i don't know

00:49:09.600 what the un maybe is going to watch this situation and make sure that there's not you know some kind

00:49:15.840 of genocide that's forming you know there might be a bubble forming even before it happens

00:49:20.200 so i i think he's playing it exactly right and that if he takes the strongest position every time

00:49:27.760 you're just going to see the best president who's ever been and i think you are already

00:49:33.200 all right that ladies and gentlemen

00:49:38.060 was the uh the last thing i wanted to tell you before this one thing it was one thing

00:49:45.380 did you know that the dilbert 2026 calendar is out and if you go to amazon.com and

00:49:53.000 just uh do a search for google calendar 2026 and my name get the one that looks like this

00:49:59.860 don't get the one that's any different color they might be counterfeits there's lots of

00:50:05.660 counterfeits and get the ones that have my name and dilbert's name spelled correctly that that's how

00:50:11.760 they do it they just slightly misspell the name but people are buying this like crazy and it will

00:50:19.480 run out i'm pretty sure i'm gonna check on it today i'll give you an update but i wouldn't wait

00:50:25.180 i definitely wouldn't wait until december to buy it but the choice is yours all right people

00:50:33.380 people uh i feel like singing all right i'm gonna make a confession uh locals are you ready for this

00:50:43.400 confession coming and i've got to open something before i make the confession

00:50:50.540 that makes you stay doesn't it i'll bet not a single person left when i said okay i have to make a

00:50:57.140 confession this is a real confession by the way it's a real one um okay come on phone work faster

00:51:06.140 i want to see your comments right away so i'm putting it on this this device my other one went

00:51:13.720 dark for some reason there we go all right so um you know i give you health updates because you know

00:51:21.040 i've gotten cancer etc uh today it was a little it was rugged so this morning was really painful

00:51:28.380 you know mostly in my back area really painful and uh but there are other there are other signals

00:51:36.200 that might be actually very positive i don't know yet so i'll look into it but here's what i want to

00:51:41.300 confess the confession has nothing to do with the pain the confession has to do with the fact that i

00:51:46.080 solved the pain right before we went live um as you know uh i am a medical user of some things that

00:51:56.160 in california are completely legal and doctors are completely fine with it but i won't say it out

00:52:02.360 loud because you know it's a family show i do not recommend this for anybody under 18 right so if i

00:52:11.080 can say this as clearly as possible so you see that you hear this first first not recommending this

00:52:17.280 you got to make your own decisions and if you're under 18 you don't even get to make those 0.79

00:52:23.020 decisions and probably somebody else is making your own decisions but don't look to me for anything

00:52:28.780 in that domain so a few minutes before i went live i realized i didn't want to get through the show

00:52:36.220 and i didn't want to go short typically what i do right after the show is what i did right before the

00:52:44.040 show so i had um yeah we don't need to go private i wanted this i wanted this to not be private actually

00:52:51.780 um because i think it's important it's important that everybody sees you know just what is and what

00:52:59.480 isn't and what works and what doesn't and that everybody's different and this is just for utility

00:53:04.380 this is not for entertainment this is for utility so question number one i did four gigantic

00:53:13.020 20 25 quality let's say loads loads uh and

00:53:25.480 the only reason that i'm not hanging from the ceiling from the chandelier is that if you do it every day

00:53:33.400 and i'm not recommending it just saying if you did not like me it wouldn't affect it the same way

00:53:40.700 so but what it did do is it distracted and or removed my maybe half of the pain probably removed

00:53:51.380 half of the pain almost instantly but the real question is how was the show all right now now i've

00:53:59.760 confessed you you have to tell me did you enjoy the show or if some of the people on locals knew what

00:54:06.360 was going on because they they see extra stuff but the people who did not know that i wasn't just

00:54:12.440 taking some medicine but i was taking some medicine all right how many of you

00:54:19.760 thought that the show was good and was not harmed by the choice of paths i took i'm very i'm very

00:54:29.220 curious about this loads yeah don't be an mpc

00:54:35.560 i thought it went well but you know i wouldn't be objective about it

00:54:42.640 i thought it went well send me a message if you can

00:54:47.640 oh locals people liked it i think you like it also that i'm transparent

00:54:53.820 isn't that true the fact that i'm transparent about it that just makes it a different situation

00:55:00.760 doesn't it

00:55:02.160 uh thank you

00:55:08.560 uh not as disoriented as i have been you know you're right i actually felt less disoriented

00:55:15.540 than i normally would and the reason is that the medicine that i took is of the sativa variety versus

00:55:24.440 the the kind that makes you tired so i use the wake up smarter well not wake up but keeps you alert

00:55:32.560 so i was doing you know four doses of keep you alert which doesn't last that long so if you wait long

00:55:41.580 enough they end up having the same effect you know you want to take a nap eventually but it might be

00:55:45.880 hours versus minutes

00:55:47.080 went well

00:55:51.480 did anybody like my jokes

00:55:55.140 i can't remember what i said but i remember ad-libbing one joke

00:56:02.140 that i was kind of proud of but then i forgot the joke so i can't

00:56:06.260 i can't enjoy it by thinking about it anymore because i forgot the joke

00:56:11.260 all right

00:56:13.380 oh sergio you're the best

00:56:17.480 i love getting to know my uh my regulars

00:56:21.180 all right

00:56:24.260 approval approval's good

00:56:27.980 oh thune it was a thune joke

00:56:30.740 all right how many of you laughed out loud

00:56:33.920 by the third time i did a thune dark gun sound

00:56:38.980 i'll bet some of you laughed out loud

00:56:42.500 by the third one

00:56:44.040 it's hard not to laugh at that

00:56:48.200 not quite as loopy

00:56:54.680 yeah

00:56:55.180 i see ya

00:56:56.600 yeah

00:56:57.560 you know there's

00:56:58.780 maybe there's a better word for referring to me being loopy in the morning

00:57:02.580 it's not it's not anti-descriptive

00:57:05.720 but if you could come up with any other word

00:57:09.120 besides loopy

00:57:10.680 and again not because it's not accurate

00:57:13.300 i'm just saying

00:57:15.580 there might be some other word

00:57:17.320 it sounds like loopy but it's a little more

00:57:20.300 a little more

00:57:22.220 respectful

00:57:23.400 not that i care about it really

00:57:25.760 don't really care

00:57:26.960 you actually did all right

00:57:29.960 all right everybody

00:57:31.180 i'm gonna try to

00:57:32.960 shut down all the systems

00:57:35.640 and i won't i won't be talking to locals today

00:57:38.540 i'm just

00:57:38.940 i gotta get

00:57:40.000 i gotta get to sleep or something

00:57:42.420 i gotta get less pain

00:57:44.740 is what i need

00:57:45.480 and

00:57:48.460 is youtube live

00:57:52.520 yeah everything's live right now

00:57:55.240 so at the moment

00:57:56.320 all the

00:57:56.980 all the sites are live at the same time

00:57:59.440 all right

00:57:59.820 i have to get one hand

00:58:01.700 six inches high

00:58:03.880 don't ask

00:58:05.320 i know what you're gonna say

00:58:07.400 got it

00:58:11.540 track pad

00:58:12.400 now i gotta use my one finger now

00:58:15.580 damn it

00:58:17.500 can't find my cursor

00:58:19.460 can't find my cursor

00:58:21.820 ah i used my brother's trick and it worked

00:58:24.660 alright everybody

00:58:30.960 bye for now

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 09, 2025

Episode 3013 CWSA 11⧸09⧸25

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