Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 951 Scott Adams： Get in Here!

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00:00:07.980 yes you see the headset you know what that means not only is it an attractive fashion accessory

00:00:16.640 but it allows me to talk to guests and so i will be inviting some guests on to ask you some

00:00:25.140 deeply personal questions deeply personal oh yeah i will be the one asking the question

00:00:31.860 this time so wait for that wait for that so what a weird day it was for me

00:00:41.440 i told you before how strange it is to be me and how small the world has become

00:00:50.160 and today i'm just minding my own business looking on twitter like i often do and i'm thinking

00:00:58.660 what's happening on twitter anything new and i look at a comment and there's somebody commenting

00:01:04.960 back to me i forget what the comment was but i saw in the comment that he was commenting back to me

00:01:12.080 and one other person and the one other person was president trump and i thought to myself wait a

00:01:19.220 minute how does a reply how would a reply have the two of us in there did he add and then i thought

00:01:26.320 i wonder if and i checked president trump's uh timeline and he had he had the three retweets

00:01:37.440 of me and a retweet of something that i tweeted about uh about something greg said on the five

00:01:43.320 and i thought what i'm just minding my own business and the president of the united states is uh is

00:01:53.540 tweeting my uh funny video so i maybe i'm not writing the simulation i'm open to the possibility that

00:02:06.580 there's some other explanation for this reality but my life does not conform to anything normal

00:02:14.620 it is so unusual and always has been that's the weird thing even as a even as a kid

00:02:21.640 my my ordinary experiences seem to somewhat extraordinary even to me you know meaning that

00:02:29.480 just things that you wouldn't expect could could happen to happen all the time and i don't know what

00:02:36.160 that's about honestly i don't i i assume it's selective memory that's my best best guess but why would

00:02:44.560 i have so many of these stories that i have selectively remembered but other people don't

00:02:50.540 why wouldn't other people remember their cool stories like is it just a weird coincidence that

00:02:56.760 that we're the stuff happens to be all the time all right so that was a lot of fun um and uh i don't

00:03:06.860 know if you saw which uh which ones the president uh retweeted but that alone is worth looking at

00:03:13.380 so a couple things um so it seems it would seem that kim jong-un is alive did you see that

00:03:25.900 kim jong-un supreme leader north korea has appeared on video and um still photography

00:03:36.000 at a fertilizer plant grand opening seemed quite spry seemed quite healthy look like he didn't have

00:03:46.120 a care in the world and did it look real to you

00:03:51.500 do you believe it well the president tweeted that he you know wished him well and the president already

00:04:00.700 had said that he knows what the situation is so he had hinted that he was confident he knew the

00:04:08.080 situation and he had said before that he wished uh kim jong-un well um and sure enough you know if

00:04:18.820 you're wishing someone well that would indicate you know you think that they're you know whatever it

00:04:24.940 is is is going to pass and then today he he said uh i think the the tweet was i for one um you know

00:04:33.800 i'm glad to see kim jong-un is is well or something like that so it was just purely friendly

00:04:39.600 leader to leader tweet so now we have the evidence that he's alive we have a video we've got still

00:04:50.920 photography we've got the president's tweet seems pretty authoritative wouldn't you say and by the

00:04:58.800 way south korea never said that he was there was any problem in the first place as far as south korea

00:05:06.060 was concerned they were like we don't say anything so it's that's uh are we done that's it right

00:05:13.040 well or are we let me just put this conspiracy theory into your head now i do this in the spirit

00:05:24.660 of entertainment if anything i say convinces you that some of this is true well that's on you

00:05:32.180 because this is conspiracy theory story time you are not to take these things too literally

00:05:39.860 or should you that is what you will decide look at the look if you will at the video

00:05:48.940 of kim jong-un visiting the plant and tell me that you're positive that's the same guy 0.97

00:05:57.780 in all of the pictures tell me you're positive that's the same guy because in one of them it's

00:06:06.340 either a different guy or he had dental surgery and something was puffed up uh during the middle of

00:06:15.380 the visit but it only lasted a few minutes because it wasn't there in the other photographs

00:06:19.460 is it my imagination or are they are the pictures that showed the fertilizer plant were those also

00:06:29.300 coincidentally the the the pictures in which the alleged kim jong-un was kind of far away

00:06:37.300 am i am i wrong about that am i am i wrong that the close-ups

00:06:42.740 of kim and his face that are clearly him am i wrong to say that those don't show much of a background

00:06:51.700 could be anywhere but the ones where he's sort of far away and it looks like it could be some kind of

00:06:58.420 fertilizer plant well indeed he's a he's a little smidge but he's at a fertilizer plant sure enough

00:07:05.540 if you think that looks like him now further evidence i submit to you if you're just joining

00:07:14.020 don't take any of this too seriously further evidence i submit to you look at the still photographs

00:07:21.140 of the alleged kim jong-un cutting the red tape you will notice that directly beneath kim jong-un

00:07:31.460 there's a shadow it's a shadow between his two feet look for the direction of the sun is the sun

00:07:39.380 directly above him no it is not it is quite clearly um fairly down in the horizon because the the shade

00:07:49.620 from the building which we can see in other photographs is very long so if it's a long shadow

00:07:56.500 it means the sun is fairly low so that's who that was the only lighting it was outdoors it's the only

00:08:03.940 lighting and yet the sun is on the side but the only shadow is between kim jong-un's legs

00:08:14.900 wouldn't you also expect there would be a second shadow on the other side of the second leg

00:08:22.020 why only one leg shows a shadow is he part vampire is one leg a vampire leg that doesn't cast a shadow

00:08:34.180 or or is it possible there's a little photoshop magic now you say to yourself

00:08:44.420 that that background is very distinctive looks real to me but i submit to you it looks like that is a

00:08:51.460 mobile uh viewing stand and a mobile area where he probably cuts a lot of red tape probably fits

00:09:00.100 that right on his train or whatever truck and he brought i think they take it with him it looks like

00:09:06.420 they don't build that on the spot it looks like that's kim jong-un's official platform for cutting stuff

00:09:16.740 so is it possible that they have spliced together some real video of kim jong-un's face from whenever he was

00:09:26.900 feeling great with some grainier photo that's harder to tell that it's him but you could definitely tell

00:09:34.180 that there's a fertilizer plant and maybe there's a still photograph that's suspiciously unclear

00:09:41.220 why would you have an unclear photograph that's coming from an official source because the video

00:09:49.380 wasn't unclear there were there were no still photos that were nice and clear and shadows only apply to one

00:10:00.980 leg not two one of the men had no shadow at all he had no shadow between his legs he had no shadow to the

00:10:08.980 side but another one also had a shadow below but none to the side three people same place in relation to

00:10:16.660 the sun i'm just saying i'm just saying so clearly if you put all the clues together

00:10:24.740 in conspiracy theater it can only mean one thing that china the united states south korea

00:10:36.580 possibly whoever we're talking to in north korea have decided that until things can be sorted out

00:10:42.900 we want no kind of information getting out the president of course would be wise to play along

00:10:50.820 and say absolutely glad you're feeling great which is what you say just a few days after saying uh

00:11:00.420 i hope things turn out well because that's a pretty fast recovery isn't it from i hope things turn out

00:11:08.900 well to hey you're looking pretty good getting around great pretty fast wouldn't you say

00:11:17.380 okay and this concludes episode one of conspiracy theater in which if you believe any of it it's at your own risk

00:11:32.980 i will deny everything it didn't happen none of this happened there

00:11:39.300 so damn it somebody says i would like to take a volunteer i need a volunteer who will answer a 0.96

00:11:53.540 personal question well sort of personal nothing that you would necessarily mind saying in front of other 0.98

00:12:00.260 people the question would be about your internal mental thought processes so i'm going to ask you

00:12:09.780 what you go through in your head in certain situations what you see that sort of thing so i'm looking for

00:12:17.620 some volunteers who and i'm not taking questions right i'm going to be asking the questions this time

00:12:24.740 so we'll see if somebody's game so let's see let's go with uh i think mark

00:12:37.060 mark mark seems like

00:12:42.900 the kind of guy who would answer a question mark hello are you there hi are you game to

00:12:53.700 answer a question about your own mental process sure all right when you're doing a simple math in your

00:13:04.340 head seven plus five describe the process that happens in your head um i uh take the seven and i split the

00:13:15.300 five so add the three to get ten and then add the two on to the ten and and what are you seeing are you

00:13:22.900 seeing digits or are you seeing um units or items when you say you split it and you add it what are you seeing

00:13:30.820 uh digits

00:13:37.300 did you hear me digits oh digits so you're seeing digits so you're actually manipulating digits

00:13:43.300 now uh let me tell you what i see and this is by way of explaining that we're all living on our own

00:13:51.700 reality so if i add seven and five i see uh dominoes and i see you know a domino with five on it and

00:14:00.500 a domino with seven dots and i i just look at them and but i don't do that with every number is i just

00:14:08.500 do it with that that combination all right when you are uh planning to drive someplace and let's say

00:14:16.180 that you're not going to use gps because it's someplace that um you you can get to easily enough

00:14:23.300 without gps do you do you picture the entire route and if so do you picture it from a

00:14:30.340 a bird's eye perspective a map like you're reading it or from the car's perspective when you visualize

00:14:37.620 it go um well if i if i'm going somewhere on and i know and i've done the uh the trip before i don't

00:14:45.540 i don't picture it before i go no so you don't you don't visualize it you just uh drive and take the

00:14:53.220 turns when when you know the turns are ready to be taken all right i i will always visualize

00:15:00.260 the entire drive and if i can't visualize it i'll gps it even even if i've been there a hundred times

00:15:07.220 i'll be like okay why can't i see the whole path so so there's a difference all right uh

00:15:15.780 when when you uh make decisions today let's say big career decisions etc do you visualize yourself in

00:15:24.660 the future as the older version of you in that situation say 20 years from now uh like you mean

00:15:33.860 the wrinkles and that kind of stuff well you know not not just the physical part but like every part

00:15:40.180 of that do you do you visualize yourself in the movie that is you in the future with those decisions

00:15:47.140 you've made working out for you um i think i i visualize yeah the uh how things will work out in

00:15:55.380 terms of you know likelihood but i don't actually visualize myself yeah as an older person i probably

00:16:02.180 just visualize myself as as i am now which is unrealistic but hopefully i never age so so that's

00:16:11.220 interesting because i saw a study i forget when it was a while ago in which they found that they could

00:16:17.220 convince people to save more for their retirement if they showed some if they showed the person a

00:16:24.020 digital um version of themselves aged so they would be artificially aged and if they could see themselves at

00:16:31.380 an older age they would save more money because they would be saving for that version of themselves but

00:16:37.300 as a concept if they just thought about it you know that that future person isn't real you know it's

00:16:43.060 sort of a conceptual you in the future so that's interesting so maybe maybe you should all right thanks so

00:16:48.980 much for the call thank you all right bye now all right so that was male let's do if we can get the

00:17:00.420 the female perspective from miss rhetorical 1.00

00:17:08.340 let's hope miss rhetorical is a real person who is coming on the line miss rhetorical hi are you are

00:17:17.620 you game to answer some questions about your internal thought process yes all right when you are trying to

00:17:25.540 fall asleep you close your eyes now tell me what you think i don't think about anything well that's

00:17:36.500 impossible it's it's possible not to intentionally think about anything are you saying that you allow

00:17:42.660 whatever thoughts to enter your mind just to do it on their own

00:17:45.460 yes and no

00:17:53.060 okay pick one pick one is it more yes or more no no so so what happens if you have unpleasant thoughts do

00:18:04.660 you just go with it no so you push them out yes so you do manage your your thoughts do you ever

00:18:15.380 imagine when you're trying to fall asleep do you imagine the current world or something that will

00:18:22.020 be are you thinking about what could be or will be or or your current situation you're there in bed

00:18:29.700 what will be and do you think of the positive version of it or do you do the worrying version

00:18:37.460 where you're making lists and worrying about getting everything done tomorrow the positive

00:18:41.940 positive so you actually and how often is your positive practical is it like yeah i mean that'll

00:18:49.300 work out or is it like really really positive

00:18:53.860 that's funny no it's more like dreaming

00:18:58.740 so more like dreaming like anything's possible right so you could be

00:19:02.660 and okay and in your imagination um are you the star of it and what are you doing

00:19:13.460 no i'm not the star of it i usually dream about other people other beings

00:19:22.420 humans being you mean you mean other humans yes yes and mostly humans yes okay all right so so you

00:19:35.940 actually have you have movies in your head in which you're not one of the actors or you're just not

00:19:40.980 the star i'm not the star so you're just i'm not a star oh wow well let me let me tell you that's a

00:19:49.700 little bit different than my daydreams so i i know it is so the uh the uh the audience what i'm trying

00:20:00.580 to get at here is how different our internal worlds are because the real life that you lead

00:20:07.620 is as much that secret internal one that's that's the way you process thoughts that's the one that you

00:20:13.140 can't share nobody ever sees so if somebody doesn't ask these you know pretty probing specific

00:20:19.380 questions you would never know how different it was i will tell you that i would never have a

00:20:25.300 daydream in which i was not the personal star of it because why not i'm just making it up if you can

00:20:31.860 make it up make yourself the star because that's that's what most directly feels good to me but i don't

00:20:38.100 think there's a right or wrong to that uh it's just interesting that we have differences all right

00:20:41.940 thanks for the call and let me take another one

00:20:48.500 let's do uh let's do oh man there's a lot of people on tonight all right let's do alex

00:20:58.980 alex alex

00:21:11.540 are you there alex i think it sounds like you had an automobile accident or something alex are you

00:21:17.700 game to answer some questions about your thought process yeah can you hear me yes i can all right

00:21:25.940 here's your first question uh let's say you're with uh the the person of your affection whoever that

00:21:34.020 might be and that and you're just sort of hanging out and that person takes out their phone and you

00:21:41.620 don't really feel like looking at your phone but they're just sitting there looking at their phone

00:21:45.940 what is your internal thought process go um i'd say i wonder what they're looking at and was this

00:21:54.900 more important than me uh more important than what we're doing right now like who are you talking to

00:22:01.540 that's more important or paying attention to that's more important than what we're doing right now together

00:22:07.860 all right and in your mind how long can somebody look at their phone let's say in that situation

00:22:14.260 where it's just the two of you before it's too long because i think in the modern world we accept that

00:22:20.660 checking a message is pretty standard would you would you agree yeah let's say that's a method

00:22:28.420 so how long would somebody be checked out on their phone before you start thinking okay that's rude

00:22:35.220 give it in seconds or minutes however you want to express it i would say it would be under a minute but

00:22:40.900 the way for me i think it would be a bigger tell is if i was to ask a question or um try to

00:22:49.220 them and then they didn't respond or they looked like you know when they kind of look away they go

00:22:54.100 uh-huh uh-huh instead of paying attention that would be to me like okay what's going on all right here's

00:23:02.100 the next one when uh have you ever had too many drinks yeah okay earlier like it like everyone in

00:23:14.900 the world all right when when you've had a few extra drinks do you do you think of it as being out of

00:23:22.420 control or don't you think of it in terms of control at all i feel like i'm in complete control

00:23:32.740 and and yet some people feel the exact opposite like they're out of control i would i would say that

00:23:39.060 i artificially feel like i'm in control when i used to drink uh and i was wrong probably but i felt like

00:23:47.060 it all right um when you find out that there's something you were positive was true for a long

00:23:55.700 time let's say in politics something you thought was really true then you found out it wasn't

00:24:01.620 what's your thought process

00:24:06.340 you know what's funny since listening to you for years now i have a very different approach to it where

00:24:13.540 i recognize the potential cognitive dissonance that i may experience and i now kind of pause and

00:24:22.340 when i'm thinking internally i'm going whoa i can't be wrong i pause and i think wait could i be wrong

00:24:29.380 and i kind of question myself a little bit more now so if i find out that i'm a hundred percent wrong

00:24:36.740 i'm i can accept that um i find that i'm often delighted because anytime that uh this is one of

00:24:48.820 those ways to frame your life so the frame i put on uh an error like that if i'm just like dead wrong

00:24:56.500 about something uh that almost every time there's something valuable you're going to take away from

00:25:02.660 that and you're not going to be wrong the next time because you know this you're going to be alert

00:25:06.980 because the more patterns you see the more capable you are recognizing you know the next bad thing

00:25:12.580 coming so that's the way i think of it um all right um let's see one more uh there's a a hard

00:25:22.340 challenge coming up but it's one that you know you can succeed at it's just hard are you excited

00:25:29.140 uh i would say depends on the area but usually i get a little bit excited i sort of thrive when

00:25:42.020 there's a challenge or when i'm under pressure personally so anything that is to me especially

00:25:48.260 when people say that it can't be done for example i ran a marathon no training a few months ago and

00:25:55.220 everyone said it's impossible and the morning of i was thinking this is insane but yet i just

00:26:00.580 got up and did it and i learned a lot of wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute what what was

00:26:05.860 the the longest distance you would run let's say within the last two weeks before you ran a marathon

00:26:13.860 i didn't run i didn't run at all wait a minute you're telling me that you just got off the couch and

00:26:22.420 ran a marathon i wouldn't say i got off the couch i i work out but i do kind of weight lifting i don't

00:26:30.100 do anything related to endurance or running the most i ever ran was maybe 10 years ago i did 10 kilometers

00:26:35.620 when i used to you know be younger but uh yeah but you train your legs

00:26:42.740 not really it's a weird thing no um nothing out of the ordinary just okay yeah very basic all right

00:26:54.580 well that might be the strangest story i've heard tonight all right well so thanks for the call i

00:27:01.940 appreciate it no problem thanks guy thank you all right let's do another one uh

00:27:12.420 i want to make sure that uh in case in case christina is on here i want to see if she's on here 0.74

00:27:18.580 nope christina where are you all right it's time for um we'll take judith 0.99

00:27:25.860 judith judith judith hello judith can you hear me

00:27:40.500 judith that's not working yes okay we will try something else um i want one more

00:27:48.260 more but we have to try a female to make it fair because we're talking about how people are thinking 1.00

00:27:57.540 so we'll try jen so we have half men half women 0.54

00:28:04.660 jen disappeared as soon as i selected her i wonder why that happens so often

00:28:08.660 is it because i'm scary all right we'll go for uh mark

00:28:20.260 mark are you there

00:28:24.260 may i ask you some questions about your internal thought process absolutely

00:28:30.260 when um

00:28:32.580 when when you're when you see the weekend coming

00:28:35.860 do you say to you do you say to yourself yay i've got you know the weekend or do you say to

00:28:42.340 yourself uh i have to plan and do these things that i don't have to do during the week because it's

00:28:48.260 easy to do my job yeah yeah i've always enjoyed a weekend ever since i was a i was a kid i love the

00:28:55.540 weekend and and do you are you an extrovert i'm an introvert you're an introvert who loves the weekend

00:29:03.140 yes i'm i'm i'm an extroverted introvert i'm i can be outgoing when i want to but let's say it's

00:29:11.700 let's say it's thursday afternoon and you're you're starting to think about the weekend

00:29:17.540 how do you hold it in your head do you see little movies of the things you're going to do it's like oh

00:29:22.260 here's me doing this here's me do that or how do you hold it in your head when you think of the weekend

00:29:27.460 coming well i always picture everything in movies my whole thought process is when i look at

00:29:32.660 things and think about things i see things as as a movie screen do you see them in order so can so

00:29:39.060 do you see like uh thursday you know do you see friday little movies like they're on a stage sort

00:29:45.140 of arcing around to sunday uh no i think about certain items and events that i'm going to do over

00:29:52.260 the weekend and i will think about the ones i'm looking forward to most probably in pictures

00:29:56.580 and do you think everything else around it do you think of them serially or do you sort of almost

00:30:03.060 look down on your schedule and see it filled in and say oh there's that morning thing there's that

00:30:09.300 afternoon thing do you do you see it like as geography or only think of them one at a time uh probably

00:30:17.380 more geography as opposed to yeah is that odd i don't know i mean there's so many ways you could

00:30:26.020 do it and when you're thinking of let's say let's say you've got uh three things you've got to do that

00:30:31.060 day and there are three different places when you're imagining the three different places are you more

00:30:36.660 likely to see yourself there or to think of it on a map and say oh it's uh one over here one over here

00:30:44.100 or one over there and think of it more like from the sky which way do you think of it you probably

00:30:48.820 think of it both ways but which is dominant i probably the map i'll kind of have an overview of

00:30:55.860 different places i need to go and i'll look at it maybe strategically all right if somebody's asking

00:31:01.860 you uh to get for directions to someplace you know and let's say uh it's not that far away would uh and

00:31:11.140 they say how far um would you answer it in terms of miles or would you answer in terms of time it

00:31:18.180 would take to get there i think i would say miles first and are you from the west coast always i am

00:31:28.660 not i'm from the um i'm from the kansas city missouri area okay that's the same answer because i once

00:31:36.020 heard that if you grew up around new york you answer it in time because the the traffic is so bad

00:31:42.980 and all that matters is the time yeah all right thank you for playing well thank you very much all

00:31:49.540 right take care all right i was just experimenting with that to see if we would have any uh aha moments

00:31:56.740 i was doing that at home with uh christina and it was fascinating um i i think maybe it's even better

00:32:03.860 with couples because then those differences are really more meaningful but start asking questions

00:32:10.580 of the type that i was asking it's first of all it's a really good conversation thing

00:32:16.500 to have it because it's so super personal but it's not the kind of personal people don't want to talk

00:32:21.860 about you know it's like super personal and just sort of scientific so you just feel like talking about

00:32:27.940 that um and when you find out how how differently people uh visualize things especially the visual

00:32:36.420 part uh it's it's really remarkable anyway that's all i've got for you tonight remember if you want

00:32:43.700 to get to sleep tonight remember to close your eyes squeeze one muscle at a time until it's really

00:32:50.740 really tight and release it and then go to the next muscle until you've squeezed and released all of

00:32:56.740 your major muscles that you can tense while you're laying down then count from one to 20 maybe even

00:33:04.020 imagining that you're hearing my voice when it happens optionally and when you get to 20 after you do

00:33:10.020 those two things you're just going to melt into the bed and have the best sleep that you've had in a

00:33:16.340 long time so you have that to look forward to and i will talk to you in the morning

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