Episode 945 Scott Adams: Oh My Goodness, What Fun We Will Have This Morning While Sipping
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Summary
Scott Adams has the best coffee you ve ever had, and it s all because he s drinking it while talking about the stupid pandemic that is the Trump administration and the dumbest people on television. Scott Adams is a stand-up comedian, podcaster, writer, and podcaster. He is a frequent guest host on Comedy Central and hosts a weekly show called "Scott Adams' Morning Show."
Transcript
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Pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pum, pum, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, well, where is everybody? come on in, come on in.
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It's time. Those of you who are exercising, congratulations. Get that pump in there.
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Those of you who are just waking up, drinking your coffee, be you commuting, I don't know if many people are commuting.
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Before we get going, for what will be probably one of the most, most, that's not even a word,
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one of the most amazing coffees with Scott Adams you've ever had.
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And I'm talking about from the beginning of time, not even just my lifetime,
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And all you need is, yeah, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein,
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a canteen jug or a flask or a vessel or a penicine.
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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine to the end of the day,
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the thing that makes everything better, including the stupid pandemic.
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It's called the Simultaneous Sip, and it happens now. Go!
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For those of you who just fast-forwarded at 1.5 speed or 2 times speed watching this,
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you might be watching it on the Locals Network, for example, Locals Platform.
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And now you can slow down and get to the good stuff.
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He apparently is not too happy with Brian Williams.
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Now, you can tell me that back in 2016, when people were saying,
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Would you be laughing right now if we had not normalized this behavior?
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Whatever Brian Williams did, I don't know what it was.
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He probably had some bad coverage of the president.
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But whatever Brian Williams did, he earned a double tweet.
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Now, when you've done something so bad that the president double-tweets you,
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I must admit that Lion Brian Williams is, while dumber than hell, quite a bit smarter than fake news.
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CNN, Anchorman, Don Lemon, the, quote, dumbest man on television.
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Then you have Psycho Joe, quote, whatever happened to your girlfriend?
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Scarborough, another of the low-IQ individuals.
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If you don't find that funny, you're dead on the inside.
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And the funny thing is, the president has probably just some of the best comedic sensibilities,
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probably the best, maybe since Abraham Lincoln or something, comedic sensibilities.
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Because even the order in which he put these things, and I'm going to talk about that in a little bit,
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Because he starts out with Lion Brian Williams, because that was his target of the day.
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But he wants to, like, throw some other people under the bus.
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But he's smarter than, quote, Anchorman Don Lemon, the dumbest man on television.
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Don Lemon had nothing to do with whatever Brian Williams did.
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And then he just throws in a psycho Joe Scarborough, quote, whatever happened to your girlfriend?
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Now, of course, the funny part, the funny part is not just that he's saying it.
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And the funny part is not just that it's worded comedically.
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If you want to know what makes something funny, it's things that don't go together.
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It's two things that are in the same sentence that don't belong.
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You know, if you saw a dog wearing a hat, you'd laugh.
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I mean, not all of you, but you might laugh because dogs are not supposed to wear a hat.
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So the reason the president, his tweets are so funny, and I admit it's just to the base.
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But what makes it funny is not just the fact that it's so perfectly worded.
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What makes it funny is that he did it at all because it doesn't fit.
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The president is just not supposed to be saying these things.
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If anybody else in the world had made the same tweet, would it be funny?
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The fact that the president is saying it is what makes it funny.
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So the president went after, gently, he gently went after Bill Mitchell today with a tweet
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on this question of whether Sweden is doing great.
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So Bill Mitchell, as you know, is one of the president's biggest supporters in the Internet world.
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But he decided to be sort of on the other side of the president this one time
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and wishes that the economy would open up sooner than the president wants it to open up.
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So Bill Mitchell tweeted that, you know, a tweet that Sweden was playing it differently
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So the Sweden situation is just the perfect example of how humans can't agree on anything when it's political.
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You would think that we should be able to agree at least on whether Sweden is doing well
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or Sweden is not doing well compared to other things, right?
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Wouldn't you think that would be the easiest thing to agree on?
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But it turns out that there are smart people disagreeing on that.
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But the numbers are starting to look bad for Sweden.
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So I think Sweden has something like 10 times more death than Norway and Finland and Denmark.
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But in the whole country of Sweden, there are only 2,500 deaths as of yesterday, I suppose.
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I'm getting sick of everybody in the public having to remind you that we also know it's a tragedy when people die.
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In case I ever forget to throw into the middle of my sentence,
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and of course it's a tragedy when even one life is lost,
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because it is, it's just too stupid to have to say it every time.
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But you feel like you have to do that in public.
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It's like, we'd like to open up sooner, not later,
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Just assume that I'm thinking that if I don't say it explicitly.
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and he's essentially urging people to take a little closer look at Sweden's numbers,
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But, Sweden's hospitals have not crashed, right?
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So, you actually do have an argument both ways.
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You have an argument that they have way more death than countries that played it differently,
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So, it seems objectively true that somebody says no mind reading.
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Did I say something that would fall in that category?
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I don't know if I did, but if I did, it's fair to call it out.
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Anyway, so there's one argument that says Sweden's doing terrible,
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but I don't know if you can say it was the wrong decision yet.
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You saw that there were some notes found from the investigators
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because there was another set of notes that were just found.
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but somebody involved in the Flynn investigation,
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And then there's a little drawing at the bottom
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as if there's some chance that they won't be pardoned.
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you know they're either going to be exonerated or pardoned
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There's several words for getting people out of trouble.
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And I don't know how to be more amused by this.
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And I'm going to use the Cheryl the Server theory
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and people will go to the restaurant all winter.
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they're suddenly put off their game a little bit.
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But I think that just the disruption in routine