pisode 1971 Scott Adams: Today I Will Separate The Liars From The Brainwashers And Regular Idiots
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Summary
Coffee with Scott Adams and a brief introduction to his new show on Netflix, The Glass Onion. Also, Scott gives his thoughts on the new Star Trek: Into the Spider-Verse. And, of course, there's a movie recommendation.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of civilization.
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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and there's never been a finer situation.
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Yeah, and you either lucked into it, some of you,
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others have been strategically planning for this moment for I don't know how long,
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And we're going to kick off the lesser swearing version of the live stream.
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I'll go all the way to frickin', but then I'm pulling back, pulling back.
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Well, if you'd like to take your experience up a notch, and I think you would, I think you would,
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all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a canteen, a jug or a flask,
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a vessel of any kind, filling with your favorite liquid.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day,
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It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.
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Well, which of the F-word substitutes do you like best?
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The Battlestar Galactica, frackin', seems to be doing well.
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All right, well, maybe I'll, I might, you know, try some of those.
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I'll take some of those for a spin today, okay?
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Have you all been wondering, Scott, can you please tell us what you would personally like
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to watch on the television set, and then maybe I would like to watch it too?
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I've been railing for years about everything that's wrong with movies.
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Number one, probably is not really the best show for the younger set.
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I think maybe this would appeal to people who are used to a certain kind of movie.
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They took what was good about movies in the past, and then they just made one of those.
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And I thought to myself, nobody thought of that before.
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Just take all the things that were good about, you know, movies when we grew up,
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I don't believe there's going to be a chase scene.
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The entire first part of the movie, where usually the first third of a movie is where
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You know, the hero gets divorced, or his family is wiped out, or, you know, there's a hurricane
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And there's, like, some mystery, because it's about a little murder mystery.
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And it's about characters and actors that you've seen.
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And a lot of the actors are ones you're familiar with.
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So, it's just sort of fun to see them all in the same place and stuff.
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All they did, all they did was make it incredibly consumer right.
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Because the awards are won by people who make movies for other people in the movie industry.
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So, people could say, my God, you're acting in that role that made me feel terrible the entire time I watched the movie.
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You acted so well that I had a stomach ache when I left.
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But this movie just doesn't have any parts in it that I don't think.
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But it really is giving me hope that somebody paid attention and figured out how to make a movie, you know, finally.
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All right, here's something I learned today that apparently everybody knew but me.
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Or at least everybody in the local subscription site.
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So, Elon Musk tweeted today, or yesterday maybe,
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almost no one seems to realize that the head of bioethics at NIH, National Institute of Health,
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the person who is supposed to make sure that Fauci behaves ethically,
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Now, how many of you who didn't know that like me until today?
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How many of you also didn't know that until today?
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I heard Elon Musk say the other day on some podcast or something.
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He said that every conspiracy theory about Twitter turned out to be true.
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And he laughed because he couldn't think of any conspiracy theories about Twitter
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Now, I don't think it necessarily made any difference.
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Like, I'm not going to say that, you know, if that had been different,
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you know, we would have seen Fauci in a different light.
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But just the fact that that person, his wife, was in that job,
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I don't know how many times I've been saying this lately.
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I'll just look at something that's definitely true,
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and I'll just say, how could that possibly be true?
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How could it possibly be true that the number one person
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who's being questions on ethics, his wife is in charge of his ethics?
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Like, you know, there are seven, what, eight billion people in the world?
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But maybe they were high, you know, given the way things work out.
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he's directly accusing Fauci of gain-of-function research,
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And then he notes that Fauci authored the 2012 paper
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and that, now this is all what Musk is tweeting.
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I'm just going to say Musk is tweeting it, right?
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And Musk said that Obama wisely put this on pause,
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Like, I think Fauci would argue it's not, yeah,
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there's some indirect thing, but not a direct thing.
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And despite these glaring issues, Twitter, nonetheless,
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so at Twitter, there was an internal Slack channel
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where they communicate with each other on this little channel,
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So within Twitter, there was, quote, a Fauci Fan Club,
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And Elon Musk just basically thinks it's funny.
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He just laughs at his own company that he bought.
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In fact, I don't know if this is the favorite story of the day,
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Didn't work at two prestigious places that he said he did.
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So basically, he just totally lied and got elected anyway.
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And even though the Democrats are full of liars,
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should they say, no, we cannot have a liar in our midst,
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and everybody's a liar, so, you know, what's the difference?
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And I have to admit, I was sort of going back and forth
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this morning, trying to decide which one made sense.
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So, like, I was thinking, well, I do like making a point of it,
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because it would be a good way to establish Republicans
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But on the other hand, I can certainly see the raw power argument,
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So, you know, playing within the rules, everybody lies, he lied, no big deal.
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But here's how I decided I made my final decision on this.
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I think he should keep his job, as opposed to resigning,
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argue that they just can't have a liar in their midst?
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saying we have to get rid of the liars in Congress.
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I would personally find that very entertaining,
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that are almost always out of context or untrue.