Episode 909 Scott Adams: Was Live
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1 hour and 1 minute
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154.9275
Summary
It's time to climb down from your perch of worry and start to feel a little more optimistic about the day, and get ready to relax into an awesome night s rest. This week, we have some controversial things to talk about, but when it's all done, you'll be in a perfect condition to drift off to sleep.
Transcript
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Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, ah, that is good swaddling right there.
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Well, come on everybody, it's time for your evening, climb down from your perch of worry
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and start to feel good about the day and feel a little more optimistic and get ready to relax
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But when it's all done, your brain will be exhausted.
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You'll be in a perfect condition to drift off to sleep.
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So I did a little poll on Twitter, because I can, and I asked people,
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how many people think that that weird sickness they had in January, because so many of us
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report something like that, how many of us think we actually had coronavirus already?
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And how many people do you think said that they think they actually had the coronavirus already?
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And of hundreds and hundreds of people who answered.
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So I'm also one of the people who had a weird, whatever was wrong with me in January was not like anything I've experienced before.
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Couldn't walk upstairs, short of breath on everything, thought I was going to die.
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But I didn't have a cough, so, you know, maybe it wasn't it.
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So it turns out about 48% of the people answering the unscientific poll think they already had the coronavirus.
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Now, what does that do to your calculation about risk and your calculation about going back to work?
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What does it mean if, let's say, there's something like 48% of the entire country thinks that?
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Because I don't think there's any reason that the people who follow me on Twitter are more likely to think they had the coronavirus.
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But if I had to guess, I'd guess the half of the country, everywhere you ask, would say,
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you know, I did have some strange illness in January.
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Now, why this is important is, in order for the government to make a decision about when to go back to work and how,
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If you're calculating the odds of, you know, catastrophic hospitalizations, or even your own odds,
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or your odds that somebody in your family would get it from you, those sorts of things,
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it really, really is going to be influenced by whether you think you already have the antibodies, right?
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And so I worry that that's exactly the sort of thing which could be like a gigantic influence in public opinion,
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which would, of course, have a gigantic influence on what the government could do,
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because the government can't really do something that the public hates too much.
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So it would be great to be able to figure out how many of us have actually had it
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so that you could get talked out at the odds that you're one of the few people who had it.
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Because I don't think 50% of the country had coronavirus in January.
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because it feels like the odds of it making a difference are so low
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that I can't tell myself to walk across the parking lot and get a shot.
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I probably should, you know, if I were being super rational about it.
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But the benefit in terms of mentally, how much benefit I think I got,
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I think they're just guessing with these flu shots.
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It's like, you know, they're trying to guess which one is going to be the active one,
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and it's already too late by the time the shot is put together.
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but the benefit has shrunk to the point where I can't motivate myself to do it.
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So don't take my advice on that, that's for sure.
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and that alerted me to it, and somebody asked me my opinion on it,
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I needed something to listen to, so I listened to it.
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So it's definitely worth watching in the same way that I love all the ancient alien TV shows.
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I don't quite think those shows are necessarily spot on what really happened,
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because I'm always amazed that they can find so much evidence for any damn theory that they won't.
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So it doesn't have to be true to be recommendable.
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You can make your own mind up about how much is true.
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But anyway, it's a Hollywood stuntman who said he sort of ended up going down this rabbit hole of discovery
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about what's really running the world and how things really work.
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And he had the following revelations, if you can call it that.
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Now, again, you get to decide, are these true revelations,
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But here are the things he believes that he has plenty of evidence for.
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Number one, that the CIA is and always has been influencing movies and books and entertainment
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to brainwash the public for whatever reasons the CIA and the country think would be good for the country
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So claim number one, CIA influences popular culture on a routine basis for some effect.
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At the very least, we all know that the military has always worked with Hollywood
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to make sure the military is portrayed in a good light.
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And that's clearly just propaganda for the country.
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Now, you should also expect, and here's my general statement about these things.
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Whenever you have a situation where it's possible to do something,
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and there are a lot of people involved, so it's not just one not making a decision,
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And there's a gigantic upside gain potentially, not necessarily,
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but potentially a huge upside gain at almost no risk.
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In all of those situations, bad behavior happens every time.
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huh, I wonder if this is one of those rare times
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and the odds of being caught and punished are basically nothing.
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Now, in the film, he offers some evidence and talks about things that are unclassified and all,
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But I don't think you need any evidence because, of course, it's being done.
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Do I need any evidence to know that the CIA is attempting, anyway,
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to influence other countries by influencing their media and their news?
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Well, I have no evidence to suggest that's true.
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There's not really much penalty of getting caught.
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As long as those factors are in place, of course it's happening.
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And you should assume that other countries are also trying to influence
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So, for a documentary that's making shocking claims,
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I found it fairly ordinary, at least on that part.
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I don't think we can necessarily spot those cases.
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I can tell that that part of the movie was influenced by the CIA.
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If they're doing it, they're probably clever enough
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Or if it's heavy-handed, such as making the military look good,
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then it's probably exactly what you think it is.
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But I don't think you can necessarily spot those clever ways
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If you're watching a movie, it might not always be obvious,
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I think they should just change their initials to CIA.
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Does anybody doubt that there are powerful groups?
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and if you're going to throw in Hillary Clinton,
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So you can extend it to the point of ridiculous.