Episode 1758 Scott Adams - Today We Will Sip A Beverage And Look On Brighter Side Of Life. Join Me

and welcome to coffee with scott adams the highlight of civilization and today we're going to put the positive spin on all the terrible things does that mean we're bad people well some of us are frankly but no not necessarily not necessarily you could take a day off from the tragedies you can unless you're personally involved but if you'd like to just take a little mental oh let's say uh floss this would be the place to come and all you need to kick it off right is a copper mug or a glass a tanker chelsea stein a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure it's the dopamine of the day the thing that's already giving you a little bit of a tingle admit it a little bit of a tingle go all right i have a provocative thought what if the supreme court never rules on roe versus wade after all you know we saw the we saw the leak but we also know that the leak could be in the form of a document that was passed around to see if people would support it or you know what the best argument would look like but what if what if instead of just waiting for the right time to release it because apparently these big decisions they wait for a certain time of the year which is not now so somebody can fact check me on this but is it at the end of the session or something sometime in the summer is it august i forget august october whatever it is so there's a time when they do the releasing of the big decisions and this is not yet the time so it could be that we haven't seen it because it's just not the right time on the other hand what if they floated this thing just to see what the public reaction would be what if oh somebody says june no i think really june oh about june 30 at the end of june somebody's saying okay well i'm sure you're smarter than i am about supreme court stuff so let's say end of june well let's say that that's right just because i read it in a comment and how could that be wrong so maybe they floated it and they thought no it will tear the country apart so let's back off do you think there's any chance that that's going to happen or that the decision is substantially rewritten i don't think that's going to happen but do you think there's any chance any chance that you just won't see it and there'll never be an explanation why very very low chance very very low but not zero not zero it could actually happen and it could be that the public opinion is something they factor in now here's why i think the supreme court should factor in public opinion because they're the last credible institution and and they're under assault their credibility if you lose the supreme court your whole system is in a lot of trouble right so could could have a cascading effect so i do think that the supreme court would take the health of the republic and the credibility of the court itself as a higher priority than the technical rightness of a decision what do you think let me let me forget about this question you know just forget about roe versus wait for a moment do you think in general this statement holds that the supreme court justices would favor the integrity and credibility of the court in the system over any specific ruling i'd say yes and can you think of anything that would be more of a shock to the system than the roe vs wade um ruling let's say let's say that the majority court are republican-leaning or conservative do you think that the justices who would who would be presumably the ones overruling it do you think those justices would be happy to have a democrat elected president again or do you think that they would prefer getting a republican president because think about think about the human beings who have to sign that thing on one hand it would be you know a feather in their cap i guess forever something maybe they've always wanted to do they'd be at the center of history there'd be lots of reasons to do it from their perspective but there'd also be a good reason not to do it if they thought it was going to rip the system apart because as the justices have pointed out the states will just make their own rules anyway so whatever happens is going to be at least more localized it's not like the biggest deal in the world in some sense right it'll take a while for state laws to become whatever they were going to become but they don't really have to rule on this do they they they could just punt they could just kick that can down the road forever so if i were to predict i will predict that it'll be exactly what it looks like i'll predict that there will be a ruling and it looks just like the draft but today is uh let's say good news day i know some of you want it to be overturned but the good news would be that it protects the system that's what i think it protects the system so you might argue that you'd rather uh put the system at risk to save that many of what you think are babies that wouldn't be a ridiculous opinion yeah the one thing about the whole abortion debate is that am i the only one i'm sure i'm not right i would imagine this is closer to universal that you have some respect for the other side would you say maybe far more than other topics i would say that's true no matter which side you come down on you have to respect the other side i i think in this topic you have to respect it especially if they show their work i'll tell you who i don't respect someone who won't show their work you know this is why i believe it i know it has some costs here are the benefits i prefer these benefits to these costs you know if you can say it outright then i'm going to respect that opinion even if i disagree with it but as i've often said i have a penis for those of you who are not aware of that and i don't think that my opinion on abortion should be in any way persuasive so it's better if i don't give it to you just stay out of it and whatever women want to decide or the public in general who wants to get involved i will back it you know whatever gets decided i'm okay with it all right um because that means the majority yeah i'm gonna go with the majority on this one because when you have a question that just can't be settled um do i think the outrage was enough to pressure a change that's a good question i don't believe that the risk of violence in the streets would prompt the change because i don't think there's that much risk of that i mean there would be some but it wouldn't be out of control i think that the supreme court would know that making this ruling would be interfering in a presidential election because it could change the result of the presidential election do you think they might wait until after the presidential election think about it now somebody who's smart give me a give me a historical ruling on this can the supreme court or do they as a as a president do they take into consideration that what they're doing might affect how people vote especially in a presidential election do they take that into account because i would i would think that the supreme court would time any decisions to have the smallest impact on politics which would suggest that they would make this kind of a decision right after an election cycle not right before a two-year cycle with both a congressional race and a presidential race right so events always change elections but not something this big and not directly coming from the supreme court i think i think that might matter we'll see so i went to watch top gun last night how many of you have seen the movie top gun it's the first time i've been excited to see a movie in i don't know years and so here's my review totally delivered it totally delivered if you say to me scott there were many cliches in that movie i will say to you yes there were but they did all the good ones those are the ones you go to movies for it's not that there are cliches they all have cliches it's just that some are good ones like the you know the noble person who sacrifices well that's a good cliche i'll watch that all day long you know the person who was uh afraid but then they became brave i'll watch that all day long yeah it makes me happy i don't like it when somebody's tied to a chair to be tortured that's just bad writing really you can't get through an entire movie script without somebody tied to a chair like every other movie top gun nobody's tied to a chair and top gun now i think that tom cruise is the one who gets the credit for the quality of his movies he's obviously working with the best producers and writers and everything so you know his staff is you know super talented but i feel like he must be looking at the script and saying you know take out this tied to a chair apart unless he has those mission impossible maybe he has some of those i don't know but i feel like because he's has so much control over his movies he's the one who's getting rid of the bad cliches and keeping the good ones that are the reason you pay for the movie in the first place it was a good thing i would i would have said half an hour shorter it was a little too long now i have to tell you this since i've been uninterested in movies and i don't really go to music festivals and stuff like that that this i think this is the first time that i can remember since the beginning of the pandemic and even longer that i was in a crowd an unmasked crowd and i didn't realize how long it had been and i have to admit there was some part of me that thought uh oh am i going to get covered from being in an unmasked crowd for the first time in two and a half years or whatever it turns out i did not have to worry about that now the other people had to worry about it because it turns out i have covert but i didn't know that at the time and so as i was watching the movie and toward the end of the movie i was thinking why does my body hurt so much why does every muscle in my body hurt while i'm just sitting here watching the movie and then it started to grow it was like i think my fingernails hurt i don't have much hair but what i have is hurting why does everything hurt and a little bit of a dry cough starting to form so i immediately went home and tested and yep i got the covet so the irony is i did not have to worry about catching covet at the movie theater but the people next to me they should be worried so if you happen to be next to me if you have to happen to be watching the 3 45 345 showing in dublin on the imax theater and you're sort of toward the right and the middle now i i feel really bad about this but the people that sat you know directly to the left were masked oh maybe you're saving them who knows so let me tell you what last night was like because you're going to ask i did have the initial to the initial to vaccinations so i'm not boosted because i thought well i'll just get that pfizer pill or whatever it is if anything comes up so i go home last night and i'm thinking man i got to get me that pfizer pill or whatever it is the one you get and you know so first of all you're on the phone for an hour to get your health care provider and then they say they'll book something so i've got to have a zoom call with a doctor after i'm done with this and and then i'll get a prescription then i don't know how to i'm going to get it because i'm basically quarantined not basically i'm quarantined so so this is giant pain in the ass now wouldn't you think that at this point i should make a phone call and say i just tested positive and and some of that pfizer pill would just show up on my doorstep is there a reason there isn't somebody literally driving that to my house because i gotta wait 24 hours to get the pill that you need to take right away what what really i have to wait all that time to get a pill that they're definitely going to give me you know it's not like they're going to say what you have this certain condition you can't have this pill there's nothing like that right i mean i don't have any weird conditions that would fit into that so i would say the system's kind of broken if it takes you a day to get the thing that you need to get right away now last night i would say that i was uh the best phrase would be writhing in pain so if you're wondering what it's like to get omicron after you've had a couple of vaccinations writhing in pain for i don't know 10 hours or so um my temperature was dysregulated so i had the the chills so hard that it hurts your muscles like you're chattering and then you immediately sweat and then you immediately go to chills so i couldn't have a blanket on because it'd be too hot and i couldn't take it off because it was too cold and there are only two conditions black and on blank it off so all that all night long i would take it on take it off take it off now and i don't think i slept more than a couple hours last night so it was a horrible horrible night uh however it turns out that uh four bonds and two cups of coffee largely cured largely you know i'm still quarantined so i'm gonna take it easy but i feel fine so you know i'm not um i'm not exaggerating what i said i was really sick last night like i was really sick i you know stomach head throbbing everything ah next day i'm fine so that happened gavin newsom has covered he's more vaccinated than i am so maybe he'll do better or maybe not maybe not all right here's some economic optimism does anybody want some economic optimism anybody economic optimism number one employment rates still very good and this will be the ultimate test of the adams economic theory that i'm naming at the moment that as long as your employment rate is good you can kind of figure out everything else you know it won't be comfortable but you're not going to be you know in desperate starvation streets as long as everybody is working for the most part and that's our current condition but we have unprecedented kinds of you know inflation and supply chain problems and maybe nuclear wars energy shocks and you name it there is reason to be optimistic today number one the shanghai china lockdowns they're starting to ease them which is good news if they ease them more than china gets back online so that that puts the supply chain at least that part of the supply chain a little bit stronger basis um there seems to be a slowdown in the housing market for the purchase of new homes which apparently is what the fed wanted so they raised interest rates to slow down that market and doesn't get too head too far ahead of itself too bubbly it's pretty bubbly so that's good news i mean it sounds on paper if you don't study economics on paper that sounds like bad news it's like wait the value of my house will be less or something but in the current situation you don't want any big bubbles right you want things to be predictable so it's better that the housing market cools off that's all positive very positive so now we've got the supply chains which haven't starved us yet seem to be kicking into place now there is there is we get warning noises about uh beef might have less beef etc but don't you think that the alternative protein markets are going nuts right now if you're in the business of making any kind of alternative protein i'll bet you're doing okay so i think there's going to be a whole resurgence in how we eat the whole thing has it ever bugged you how many times food has to change hands before it goes into your mouth like you get that the farmer has to grow it right but then it you know gets washed and puts in containers and it's shipped and it puts on a shelf and then you take it off the shelf and you put it in a cart you take it out of your cart you put it on a conveyor you take it out of the conveyor you put in a bag you put it in the bag you put it in your thing you take your thing you put it in the car you create the car but now you put it on the counter take it out of the bag put it in the and then then you got to take it out of the container when you eat it that is all that that is also inefficient something tells me that we're going to figure out how to make food local maybe 3d printers maybe yeah maybe everybody will just get a big pile of protein and carbs and put it in their printer and have a perfect meal every time maybe who knows now you might say to yourself scott's got scott i will never eat a food that comes out of a printer to which i say how's that different than soup it's no different than soup it's just a bunch of stuff put in a bowl that tastes good so just put it in a printer and it just spits out the food a different way so yes you can you can make a 3d printed food extraordinarily tasty so that's the good news are you are you thinking what i'm thinking that the supply chain is getting solved we just don't know about it or is it getting worse and worse and there's going to be some gigantic catastrophe because i feel like the news likes to report impending disasters so i've got a feeling that reporters are looking into the impending disasters and not finding them or or do they have some kind of orders from the government to not report on it because it would cause a run on certain things and it's better if you didn't know don't you wonder why there's no reporting on on the cataclysmic supply chain effects that are right ahead of us because these should be these alleged cataclysmic things should be happening over the summer maybe by the winter it's pretty soon so doesn't it make you think that we've already figured out workarounds or am i wrong maybe we're just getting by with fewer choices and it didn't really make much difference at all just some companies can't deliver their product but others deliver more so you're fine i don't know so i've got a feeling that the supply chain thing maybe isn't that big a problem you know in the end we'll see and not that it isn't a big problem but that we're so good at making adjustments in a in a trillion different ways and everywhere in the system i think we'll just get past it all right does everybody like the optimism yet so um i've been talking about these small homes that you can put up for thirty forty thousand dollars you know a little home that's got a bathroom and a kitchen and a bedroom and you could just ship it to the site and assemble it well one of them is called boxable and uh dave rubin was informing me by tweet today that elon musk has an investment in boxable so he's one of the investors so even elon musk is in this this growing field of the homes that you can just slap together from kits basically so you know i've been telling you that this is this is going to be the big thing they won't look exactly like these version 1.0 you know in the same way that your automobile today does not look like a model t but but when you see how popular these are poorly made now when i say poorly made i only mean compared to what what they will will evolve to they're not poorly made for you know today's technology and stuff but what they will evolve too will be amazing they'll be way better than what you're living in now if i haven't mentioned this before there's a planned community a neighborhood that's built to be free from cars so you can walk everywhere so if they design it so that all the stuff you need is in walking distance and they have like i guess electric scooters and electric bikes and stuff you can you can just grab and go free public transportation um so it's cul-de-sac tempe tempe arizona and the the organization is called cul-de-sac.com so they're actually designing communities to make them more livable car free but is that enough i mean that's i love the fact that it's a car free community sort of like college that was kind of a car free community but i feel like that's just one variable like what about making us less lonely what about making us safer i mean it might do those too but they don't talk about that stuff because those are all the things that make you know what about being cheaper you know what about being affordable what about being you know more green it sounds like it's pretty green so we'll give them that anyway i think these are the big trends um on axios writer erica pandy tells us that one in three americans adults don't get enough sleep and enough sleep is defined as seven or more hours a night is there anybody who gets more than seven hours a night of sleep in the comments how many of you get seven or more hours per night wow wow a lot of you do i'll be darned i don't even know it was possible i mean like by the time you wake up at 7 00 am you know i've already worked on two careers so i don't know what you guys you're missing a lot but on the other hand apparently you will live longer than i will and you'll be happier and healthier so good for you so keep up that sleep um but apparently americans are getting less and less here was a tip that i've seen before but this is so useful i thought i'd share it with you here's a simple tip to improve your sleeping that's one interesting characteristic well two it's super easy to do and number two you're not gonna do it you're not gonna do it neither am i here's that good advice stop looking at your screens 30 minutes before you try to go to sleep really you think i'm gonna not look at my phone 30 minutes before i get hit the bed what kind of little house on the prairie world do you live in that you can go more than 30 minutes without looking at a screen a book get away from me with your paper books yeah i guess listening to music's okay but the way i do it i usually have to look at a screen to select the music so there's your tip of the day turn off your screens now you won't do it let me ask you this are mass shootings a big problem or a small problem here's here's why i ask the news business needs to put faces and names on stories because you wouldn't you would not read a story about a concept you would only read a story about oh this farmer you know lost their farm because of this or this person was the victim of this that so the news needs to put names and faces on stories and what what is the predictable effect of having to put names and faces on all your stories well the predictable effect is that the more easily you can put a sympathetic name on it the more attention it will get what what would you know what wouldn't you know excite our senses in the worst possible way uh more than murder of children nothing right that's like that's it that's that's the highest one so given that you know they will have names and faces which is already happening um it's inevitable that we would look at things with names and faces as the important things but are they now let me be clear if you or somebody you knew were a victim of some tragedy this one or any other that's the most important thing in your world for sure but but the world is full of tragedies do we not get to rank them so that we know which ones we should focus on because right now the news is ranking them by how easily you can put a face on it that's it the stories you see are based on how easily you can put a face on it do you know how many times um given that i'm in this business do you know how many times i've uh been asked to put a face on something or a name it's just the most common thing that people in this business ask for okay but i need a face in the name to make this story so if there are a whole bunch of victims in the story there's going to be lots of faces and names but if you were to measure the size of this problem gun gun murders versus the size of our other problems where would it be now remember 20 kids if you were to multiply it by the number of you know years each of them has left left on average that's robbing the most human spark i guess so that would be worse than you know 20 senior citizens in terms of number of you know living years that were lost so it makes sense that you know anything with kids is a tragedy nothing affects us more emotionally but i'm trying to put it in context and i'm not sure i can because as much as i value you know i like to think i can rationalize things and try to take my emotion out of it i don't know if i can because how do you rank like death of children compared to anything i mean it's just always going to be worse even if it's just one it just will feel that way so be be aware that you are being let's say unknowingly manipulated to care most about topics of the most faces and once you realize that you can say to yourself okay is this something to really we need to get on this and change it or is it not that big of a deal i don't know it'll help you figure that out and i don't really know i uh so if you look at even the stories on gun control they've got to put ted cruz's name on it right his name and face got to put trump's name and face on it so everything's got to be a name in the face um i was challenged yesterday well actually a number of times for not knowing enough about klaus schwab of the world economic forum in davos and so i said to myself well i i've got some idea what he's about but i'll go to wikipedia and see if there's anything like big that i'm not aware of and i have to think that when somebody else is being described that the third party doesn't always do a good job but if the way he's being described in wikipedia is accurate in terms of his ideas that would be interesting let me we'll tell you what it is in a minute uh so he argues that governments are no longer the overwhelmingly dominant actors on the world stage and that quote the time has come for a new stakeholder paradigm of international governance okay so he's for some new way that the governments will operate and it's something beyond governance so there'd be governments plus something else i guess you'll describe it here and he says the time has come for a new stakeholder paradigm of international governance so international meaning across borders so there'd be some kind of governing entity that wouldn't be limited to your country red alert red alert all right and then the vision includes a public private un in which certain specialized units would operate under joint and non-state governance systems so in other words the private enterprise would be part of government so you say yourself wait a minute what what what part of private enterprise like a company should be making government decisions like how do you decide what company you trust enough to make decisions like a government and he has an answer to that here's how you choose them they would be self-selected what what a self-selected coalition of multinational corporations and governments through the un system and they would select a civil society organization so basically he's saying that uh big companies they would self-select they would have to volunteer to be this uh would work with the governments such as they are which would be weakened across across country lines to create some kind of separate organizations that run everything and according to this wikipedia article which i can't believe is true i can't believe this is true honestly it looks like something is left out doesn't it yeah i think there's something like majorly left out of the story because i can't believe anybody would say with a straight face that we want to get rid of the democratic systems and replace them with private corporations multinational corporations so not not just corporations in one country but multinational corporations that would self-select so they decide they wanted to be in charge and then they'd put themselves in charge how in the world could that be serious how in the world could that be serious what am i missing is there a whole part of the story that they just don't mention here on wikipedia because this doesn't even look a little bit like it's going to happen why would you even worry about this is it because a lot of people go to davos so therefore it looks like it might actually happen i don't see any uh i don't say the scenario in which the united states gives up control to corporations that self-select they want to be in control i you're saying is serious i've got a real question about it i feel as if there's something more to the explanation that if you heard it would not sound so bad crazy because remember klaus schwab is he's not only an engineer he's an economist so do you think somebody who's an engineer and an economist would come up with an idea that's so obviously bad i feel like there's something left out unless it really is just totally crazy talk maybe aoc is not an economist i wouldn't say that she just studied economics well maybe okay if you want to say somebody who studied economics as an economist all right his father was a full-blown nazi somebody says yeah you know i'm not i'm not gonna judge any uh germans by what their parents did in world war ii is that fair but let's yeah can we can we let go of that if somebody's parents did something in world war ii i'm gonna let go of that it's time time to let go all right what else is going on um and there's uh some hoax updates so this one not only i think even the hoax update might be a hoax i don't know but there's some lesser publication lesser known publication i don't know if they're lesser quality but they're a lesser known publication saying that fbi documents reveal the us may have funded charlottesville riders through ukrainian neo-nazi groups documents show the ties between the azov battalion and the u.s rioters now i don't doubt that there's some connection between peoples but i've got a feeling that nobody i don't think the fbi or anybody was knowingly funding that but i ask you this provocative question where are they now where are all those people who marched without masks in the age of facial recognition all those people marched without masks and we never really hear from them do we i feel i feel like you would expect that the news would have you know found a few a few few years later and say you participated in that march how do you feel about it but i don't think you can find them i don't think you can find them i'm not so sure they were all totally organic i mean i'm not denying the existence of people just like that in the united states but the events specifically might had might had a little bit of theater involved that we don't know about not to say that we're not real racists there clearly they were which we disavow um a few more hoax updates there was a rupaur edit of biden snubbing modi you know india's prime minister modi but apparently that's just a misleading edit so if you see a video that looks like biden is snubbing moti that didn't happen uh here's another one let's see oh there's two fake stories so cnn is debunking fake stories about ted cruz and governor abbott of texas that feels like something because i feel like they would have just ignored it before but fairly prominently they debunked two claims against cruz and abbott and so it doesn't matter what they are i think they're just well it matters one is uh alleges to show that ted cruz always says the same thing after every mass shooting but that's fake so simply just you know fake some tweets uh and the other one showing uh abbott did something bad that didn't really happen now here's some more good news um it turns out that if the russians have to compete with the iranians to sell illegal oil because there are sanctions on iran and russia this is really bad news for iran so iran at least had an ability to sell to sketchy markets you know they could sell to china but they could sell to you know sketchier countries but as soon as russia can only also sell to those same sketchy countries including china it makes the price of iranian oil go way down because apparently the iranian oil is just crap compared to the russian oil if you had a choice you want the russian oil it's easier to refine so apparently the iranian revenue from oil is down like 25 already since the sanctions on russia and iran was not that doing that well so there's actually a thought that weirdly the war in ukraine might lead to a tightening of the economic woes in iran which would lead them to be flexible to negotiate something with a nuclear deal that made sense so maybe maybe the war in ukraine is going to cause iran to make a peace deal in the middle east maybe could happen so that is the good news for the day yeah and of course china wins because they're getting cheap oil all right did i leave anything out um somebody just got here so i'd like to repeat uh blah that's all you missed not much oh your gas is up to 549 a gallon in chicago oh boohoo it's over seven dollars here i pay seven dollars for a gallon of gas all right um oh iran is moving closer to russia i choose to live in california you know strangely enough i'm not sure i did choose um at least pleasanton chose me long story there all right voting for schillenberger um holy 875 a gallon of vancouver but that's that's canadian money which is pretty close right canadian dollar us dollar kind of close at the moment 414 where do you live all right uh by crypto not gas you say electric bikes are going to be everywhere all right well i'm going to go get ready to uh talk to my doctor and get some covered pills and i will uh be back in the real world in nine and a half days so i might do some extra uh live streams because i'll be locked in so i might need some like social outlet so that's on you you're gonna have to put up with me a little bit extra i think all right but the good news is if that's the worst that omicron has to to throw at me it was a really really bad night but at the moment zero pain no discomfort at all and i will talk to you tomorrow

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and today we're going to put the

positive spin on all the terrible things

does that mean we're bad people

well some of us are

frankly but

no not necessarily not necessarily

you could take a day off from the

tragedies

you can unless you're

personally involved but if you'd like to

just take a little mental oh let's say

uh floss

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all right i have a provocative

thought what if the supreme court never

rules on roe versus wade after all

you know we saw the

we saw the leak

but we also know that the leak

could be in the form of a document that

was passed around to see if people would

support it or

you know what the best argument would

look like

but what if

what if

instead of just waiting for the right

time to release it because apparently

these big decisions

they wait for a certain time of the year

which is not now

so somebody can fact check me on this

but is it at the end of the session or

something

sometime in the summer is it august i

forget august october whatever it is so

there's a time when they do the

releasing of the big decisions and this

is not yet the time

so it could be that we haven't seen it

because it's just not the right time

on the other hand

what if they floated this thing just to

see what the public reaction would be

what if

oh somebody says june

no i think

really june

oh about june 30 at the end of june

somebody's saying okay well i'm sure

you're smarter than i am about supreme

court stuff

so let's say end of june

well let's say that that's right just

because i read it in a comment and

how could that be wrong

so

maybe

they floated it and they thought no it

will tear the country apart so let's

back off

do you think there's any chance

that that's going to happen

or that the decision is substantially

rewritten

i don't think that's going to happen but

do you think there's any chance any

chance that you just won't see it and

there'll never be an explanation why

very very low chance

very very low but not zero

not

zero it could actually happen

and it could be that the public opinion

is something they factor in now here's

why i think the supreme court should

factor in public opinion

because they're the last credible

institution and

and they're under assault

their credibility

if you lose the supreme court

your whole system is in

a lot of trouble right

so could could have a cascading effect

so i do think that the supreme court

would take the health of the republic

and the credibility of the court itself

as a higher priority

than the technical rightness of a

decision

what do you think

let me let me forget about this question

you know just forget about roe versus

wait for a moment

do you think in general this statement

holds

that the supreme court justices

would favor the integrity and

credibility of the court in the system

over any specific

ruling

i'd say yes

and can you think of anything that would

be more of a shock to the system

than the roe vs wade

um ruling

let's say

let's say that the majority court are

republican-leaning

or conservative

do you think that the justices who would

who would be presumably the ones

overruling it

do you think those justices

would be happy to have a democrat

elected president again or do you think

that they would prefer

getting a republican president

because think about think about the

human beings who have to

sign that thing on one hand it would be

you know

a feather in their cap i guess forever

something maybe they've always wanted to

do

they'd be at the center of history

there'd be lots of reasons to do it

from their perspective

but

there'd also be a good reason not to do

it

if they thought it was going to rip the

system apart

because as the justices have pointed out

the states will just make their own

rules anyway

so whatever happens is going to be at

least more localized it's not like the

biggest deal in the world

in some sense right it'll take a while

for state laws to

become whatever they were going to

become but they don't really have to

rule on this do they

they they could just punt

they could just kick that can down the

road forever

so

if i were to predict i will predict that

it'll be exactly what it looks like

i'll predict that there will be a ruling

and it looks just like the draft

but today is

uh

let's say good news day i know some of

you want it to be overturned but the

good news would be that it protects the

system

that's what i think

it protects the system so

you might argue that you'd rather uh put

the system at risk to save that many of

what you think are babies

that wouldn't be a ridiculous opinion

yeah the one thing about

the whole abortion debate

is that am i the only one i'm sure i'm

not

right i would imagine this is closer to

universal

that you have some respect for the other

side

would you say maybe far more than other

topics

i would say that's true no matter which

side you come down on you have to

respect the other side i i think in this

topic

you have to respect it

especially if they show their work i'll

tell you who i don't respect

someone who won't show their work

you know this is why i believe it

i know it has some costs

here are the benefits i prefer these

benefits to these costs

you know if you can say it outright

then i'm going to respect that opinion

even if i disagree with it but as i've

often said

i have a penis

for those of you who are not aware of

that

and

i don't think that my opinion on

abortion should be in any way persuasive

so it's better if i don't give it to you

just stay out of it and whatever women

want to decide

or the public in general who wants to

get involved i will back it

you know whatever gets decided i'm okay

with it

all right um because that means the

majority yeah i'm gonna go with the

majority on this one because when you

have a question that just can't be

settled

um

do i think the outrage was enough to

pressure a change that's a good question

i don't believe

that the risk of violence in the streets

would prompt the change

because i don't think there's that much

risk of that i mean there would be some

but it wouldn't be out of control

i think that the supreme court would

know that making this ruling would be

interfering in a presidential election

because it could change the result of

the presidential election

do you think they might wait until

after the presidential election

think about it now

somebody who's smart give me a

give me a historical

ruling on this

can the supreme court

or do they

as a

as a president do they take into

consideration that what they're doing

might affect how people vote

especially in a presidential election

do they take that into account

because i would i would think

that the supreme court would time any

decisions

to have the smallest impact on politics

which would suggest that they would make

this kind of a decision

right after an election cycle not right

before

a two-year cycle with both a

congressional race and a presidential

race

right

so events always change elections but

not something this big and not directly

coming from the supreme court i think i

think that might matter we'll see

so i went to watch top gun last night

how many of you have seen the movie top

gun

it's the first time i've been excited to

see a movie

in i don't know years

and so here's my review

totally delivered

it totally delivered

if you say to me scott there were many

cliches

in that movie i will say to you

yes there were

but

they did all the good ones

those are the ones you go to movies for

it's not that there are cliches

they all have cliches

it's just that some are good ones

like the you know the noble person who

sacrifices well that's a good cliche

i'll watch that all day long you know

the person who was uh afraid but then

they became brave i'll watch that all

day long yeah it makes me happy

i don't like it when somebody's tied to

a chair to be tortured

that's just bad writing

really you can't get through an entire

movie script without somebody tied to a

chair

like every other movie

top gun

nobody's tied to a chair and top gun

now

i think that tom cruise is the one who

gets the credit for the quality of his

movies he's obviously working with the

best producers and writers and

everything so you know his staff is you

know super talented

but i feel like he must be looking at

the script and saying you know take out

this tied to a chair apart

unless he has those

mission impossible maybe he has some of

those i don't know

but i feel like

because he's has so much control over

his movies he's the one who's getting

rid of the bad cliches and keeping the

good ones that are the reason you pay

for the movie in the first place

it was a good thing i would i would have

said half an hour shorter

it was a little too long

now i have to tell you this since i've

been uninterested in movies and i don't

really go to music festivals and stuff

like that

that this i think this is the first time

that i can remember

since the beginning of the pandemic and

even longer

that i was in a crowd

an unmasked crowd

and i didn't realize how long it had

been

and i have to admit

there was some part of me that thought

uh oh

am i going to get covered

from being in an unmasked crowd for the

first time in

two and a half years or whatever

it turns out i did not have to worry

about that

now the other people had to worry about

it because it turns out i have covert

but i didn't know that at the time

and so as i was watching the movie and

toward the end of the movie i was

thinking

why does my body hurt so much

why does every muscle in my body

hurt while i'm just sitting here

watching the movie

and then it started to grow it was like

i think my fingernails hurt

i don't have much hair but

what i have is hurting

why does everything hurt

and a little bit of a dry cough starting

to form

so i immediately went home and tested

and yep

i got the covet

so the irony is i did not have to worry

about catching covet at the movie

theater but the people next to me they

should be worried so

if you happen to be next to me

if you have to happen to be watching the

3 45 345 showing

in dublin

on the imax theater

and you're sort of toward the right and

the middle

now i

i feel really bad about this but the

people that sat you know directly to the

left

were masked

oh maybe you're saving them who knows

so let me tell you what last night was

like

because you're going to ask i did have

the initial to

the initial to vaccinations so i'm not

boosted

because i thought well i'll just get

that pfizer pill or whatever it is if

anything comes up

so i go home last night and i'm thinking

man i got to get me that pfizer pill

or whatever it is the one you get

and you know so first of all you're on

the phone for an hour to get your health

care provider

and then they say they'll book something

so i've got to have a

zoom call with a doctor after i'm done

with this

and

and then i'll get a prescription then i

don't know how to i'm going to get it

because i'm basically quarantined not

basically i'm quarantined

so

so this is giant pain in the ass now

wouldn't you think

that at this point

i should make a phone call and say

i just tested positive

and and some of that pfizer pill

would just show up on my doorstep

is there a reason there isn't somebody

literally driving that to my house

because i gotta wait 24 hours to get the

pill that you need to take right away

what

what

really i have to wait all that time

to get a pill that they're definitely

going to give me you know it's not like

they're going to say what you have this

certain condition you can't have this

pill

there's nothing like that right i mean i

don't have any weird conditions that

would fit into that

so i would say the system's kind of

broken

if it takes you a day to get the thing

that you need to get right away

now last night i would say that i was uh

the best phrase would be writhing in

pain

so if you're wondering what it's like to

get omicron

after you've had a couple of

vaccinations

writhing in pain for

i don't know 10 hours or so

um

my temperature was dysregulated so i had

the the chills so hard that it hurts

your muscles like you're chattering and

then you immediately sweat

and then you immediately go to chills

so i couldn't have a blanket on because

it'd be too hot

and i couldn't take it off because it

was too cold

and there are only two conditions black

and on blank it off so all that all

night long i would take it on take it

off take it off now

and i don't think i

slept more than a couple hours last

night

so it was a horrible horrible night

uh however

it turns out that uh four bonds and two

cups of coffee

largely cured

largely

you know i'm still quarantined so i'm

gonna take it easy but i feel fine

so

you know i'm not

um

i'm not exaggerating what i said i was

really sick last night

like i was really sick i you know

stomach head

throbbing everything

ah next day

i'm fine

so

that happened

gavin newsom has covered he's more

vaccinated than i am so maybe he'll do

better

or maybe not maybe not

all right here's some economic optimism

does anybody want some economic optimism

anybody

economic optimism number one

employment rates

still very good

and this will be the ultimate test

of the adams economic theory

that i'm naming at the moment that as

long as your employment rate is good

you can kind of figure out everything

else

you know it won't be comfortable

but you're not going to be

you know in desperate starvation streets

as long as everybody is working for the

most part and that's our current

condition

but we have unprecedented kinds of

you know inflation and

supply chain problems and maybe nuclear

wars energy shocks and you name it

there is reason to be optimistic today

number one the

shanghai china lockdowns they're

starting to ease them

which is good news if they ease them

more than china gets back online so that

that puts the

supply chain at least that part of the

supply chain a little bit stronger basis

um

there seems to be a slowdown in the

housing market

for the purchase of new homes which

apparently is what the fed wanted so

they raised interest rates to slow down

that market and doesn't get too head too

far ahead of itself too bubbly it's

pretty bubbly

so that's good news i mean it sounds on

paper if you don't study economics on

paper that sounds like bad news it's

like wait the value of my house will be

less or something

but

in the current situation you don't want

any big bubbles

right you want things to be predictable

so it's better that the housing market

cools off that's all positive

very positive

so now we've got the supply chains which

haven't starved us yet seem to be

kicking into place now there is

there is we get warning noises about

uh beef might have less beef

etc

but don't you think that the alternative

protein markets are going nuts right now

if you're in the business of making any

kind of alternative protein

i'll bet you're doing okay

so i think there's going to be a whole

resurgence in how we eat

the whole thing has it ever bugged you

how many times

food has to change hands before it goes

into your mouth

like you get that the farmer has to grow

it right

but then it you know gets washed and

puts in containers and it's shipped and

it puts on a shelf and then you take it

off the shelf and you put it in a cart

you take it out of your cart you put it

on a conveyor you take it out of the

conveyor you put in a bag you put it in

the bag you put it in your thing you

take your thing you put it in the car

you create the car but now you put it on

the counter take it out of the bag put

it in the

and then then you got to take it out of

the container when you eat it that is

all

that

that is also inefficient

something tells me that we're going to

figure out how to make food local

maybe 3d printers

maybe

yeah maybe everybody will just get a big

pile of protein and carbs and put it in

their printer and have a perfect meal

every time maybe who knows now you might

say to yourself scott's got scott

i will never eat a food that comes out

of a printer

to which i say

how's that different than soup

it's no different than soup it's just a

bunch of stuff put in a bowl that tastes

good so just put it in a printer and it

just spits out the food a different way

so yes you can you can make

a 3d printed food

extraordinarily

tasty

so

that's the good news

are you

are you thinking what i'm thinking that

the supply chain is getting solved we

just don't know about it

or is it getting worse and worse and

there's going to be some gigantic

catastrophe because i feel like the news

likes to report

impending disasters

so i've got a feeling that reporters are

looking into the impending disasters and

not finding them

or

or

do they have some kind of orders from

the government to not report on it

because it would cause a run on certain

things and it's better if you didn't

know

don't you wonder why there's no

reporting on on the cataclysmic supply

chain effects that are right ahead of us

because these should be

these alleged cataclysmic things should

be happening

over the summer maybe by the winter it's

pretty soon

so doesn't it make you think that we've

already figured out workarounds

or am i wrong

maybe we're just getting by with fewer

choices and it didn't really make much

difference at all just some companies

can't deliver their product but others

deliver more so you're fine

i don't know

so i've got a feeling that the supply

chain thing

maybe isn't that big a problem

you know in the end we'll see and not

that it isn't a big problem but that

we're so good at making adjustments

in a in a trillion different ways and

everywhere in the system i think we'll

just get past it

all right

does everybody like the optimism yet

so um

i've been talking about these small

homes that you can put up for thirty

forty thousand dollars you know a little

home that's got a bathroom and a kitchen

and a bedroom and you could just ship it

to the site and assemble it

well one of them is called boxable and

uh dave rubin

was informing me by tweet today that

elon musk has an investment in boxable

so he's one of the investors so even

elon musk is in this

this growing field

of the

homes that you can just slap together

from kits basically

so you know i've been telling you that

this is this is going to be the big

thing

they won't look exactly like these

version 1.0 you know in the same way

that your automobile today does not look

like a model t

but

but when you see how popular these are

poorly made now when i say poorly made

i only mean compared to what what they

will will evolve to

they're not poorly made for you know

today's technology and stuff but what

they will evolve too will be amazing

they'll be way better than what you're

living in now

if i haven't mentioned this before

there's a

planned community a neighborhood that's

built to be free from

cars so you can walk everywhere so if

they design it so that all the stuff you

need is in walking distance and they

have like

i guess electric scooters and electric

bikes and stuff you can you can just

grab and go

free public transportation

um

so it's cul-de-sac tempe tempe arizona

and the the organization is called

cul-de-sac.com

so they're actually designing

communities to make them more livable

car free

but is that enough

i mean that's i love the fact that it's

a car free community sort of like

college that was kind of a car free

community

but

i feel like that's just one variable

like what about making us less lonely

what about making us safer i mean it

might do those too but they don't talk

about that stuff because those are all

the things that make you know what about

being cheaper

you know what about being affordable

what about being you know more green it

sounds like it's pretty green so we'll

give them that

anyway i think these are the big trends

um

on axios

writer erica pandy

tells us that one in three americans

adults don't get enough sleep

and enough sleep is defined as seven or

more hours a night

is there anybody who gets more than

seven hours a night of sleep

in the comments how many of you get

seven or more hours per night

wow

wow

a lot of you do

i'll be darned i don't even know it was

possible

i mean

like

by the time you wake up at 7 00 am

you know i've already worked on two

careers

so i don't know what you guys you're

missing a lot

but on the other hand

apparently you will live longer than i

will

and you'll be happier and healthier

so good for you so keep up that sleep

um but apparently americans are getting

less and less here was a tip that i've

seen before but this is so useful

i thought i'd share it with you

here's a simple tip to improve your

sleeping that's one interesting

characteristic

well two

it's super easy to do and number two

you're not gonna do it

you're not gonna do it neither am i

here's that good advice

stop looking at your screens 30 minutes

before you try to go to sleep

really you think i'm gonna not look at

my phone 30 minutes before i get hit the

bed

what kind of

little house on the prairie world do you

live in that you can go more than 30

minutes without looking at a screen

a book

get away from me with your paper books

yeah

i guess listening to music's okay but

the way i do it i usually have to look

at a screen to select the music

so

there's your tip of the day turn off

your screens now you won't do it

let me ask you this

are mass shootings a big problem or a

small problem

here's here's why i ask

the news business

needs to put

faces and names on stories

because you wouldn't you would not read

a story about a concept

you would only read a story about oh

this farmer

you know lost their farm because of this

or this person was the victim of this

that

so the news

needs to

put names and faces on stories

and what what is the predictable effect

of having to put names and faces on all

your stories

well the predictable effect

is that the more easily you can put a

sympathetic

name on it the more attention it will

get

what what would

you know what wouldn't you know excite

our senses in the worst possible way

uh more than

murder of children

nothing right that's like that's it

that's that's the highest one

so given that you know they will have

names and faces which is already

happening

um it's inevitable

that we would look at things with names

and faces as the important things

but are they

now let me be clear

if you or somebody you knew were a

victim of some tragedy this one or any

other that's the most important thing in

your world for sure but

but

the world is full of tragedies

do we not get to rank them

so that we know which ones we should

focus on because right now the news is

ranking them by how easily you can put a

face on it

that's it

the stories you see are based on how

easily you can put a face on it

do you know how many times um given that

i'm in this business

do you know how many times i've uh

been asked to put a face on something or

a name

it's just the most common thing that

people in this business ask for okay but

i need a face in the name to make this

story

so

if there are

a whole bunch of victims

in the story there's going to be lots of

faces and names

but if you were to measure the size of

this problem

gun gun murders

versus the size of our other problems

where would it be

now remember

20 kids

if you were to multiply it by the number

of you know years each of them has left

left on average

that's robbing the most

human spark i guess

so that would be worse than you know 20

senior citizens in terms of number of

you know living years that were lost

so

it makes sense that you know anything

with kids is a tragedy

nothing affects us more emotionally

but

i'm trying to put it in context and i'm

not sure i can

because as much as i value you know i

like to think i can rationalize things

and try to take my emotion out of it i

don't know if i can

because

how do you rank like

death of children

compared to anything i mean it's just

always going to be worse even if it's

just one

it just will feel that way so be

be aware that you are being let's say

unknowingly manipulated

to care most about topics of the most

faces

and once you realize that

you can say to yourself okay is this

something to really

we need to get on this and change it

or is it not that big of a deal i don't

know it'll help you figure that out

and i don't really know i

uh

so if you look at even the stories on

gun control they've got to put ted

cruz's name on it right his name and

face got to put trump's name and face on

it so everything's got to be a name in

the face

um i was challenged

yesterday well actually a number of

times for not knowing enough about klaus

schwab

of the world economic forum in davos

and so i said to myself well i i've got

some idea what he's about

but i'll go to wikipedia

and see if there's anything

like

big that i'm not aware of

and

i have to think that when somebody else

is being described

that the third party doesn't always do a

good job

but

if the way he's being described in

wikipedia is accurate in terms of his

ideas

that would be interesting let me we'll

tell you what it is in a minute

uh

so

he argues that governments are no longer

the overwhelmingly dominant actors on

the world stage

and that quote the time has come for a

new stakeholder paradigm of

international governance okay

so he's for some new way

that

the governments will operate

and it's something beyond governance so

there'd be governments plus something

else i guess you'll describe it here

and he says the time has come for a new

stakeholder paradigm of international

governance so international meaning

across borders

so there'd be some kind of governing

entity

that wouldn't be limited to your country

red alert red alert all right

and then the

vision includes a public private un

in which certain specialized units would

operate under joint

and non-state

governance systems

so in other words the private enterprise

would be

part of government so you say yourself

wait a minute what what what part of

private enterprise like a company

should be making government decisions

like how do you decide

what company you trust enough to make

decisions like a government

and he has an answer to that here's how

you choose them

they would be self-selected

[Laughter]

what

what

a self-selected coalition of

multinational corporations

and governments through the un system

and they would select a civil society

organization so basically he's saying

that uh big companies they would

self-select they would have to volunteer

to be this

uh would work with

the governments

such as they are which would be weakened

across

across country lines

to create some kind of separate

organizations

that run everything

and

according to this wikipedia article

which i can't believe is true

i can't believe this is true

honestly it looks like something is left

out doesn't it

yeah

i think there's something like

majorly left out of the story

because i can't believe anybody would

say with a straight face

that we want to get rid of the

democratic systems and replace them with

private corporations

multinational corporations so not not

just

corporations in one country but

multinational corporations

that would self-select

so they decide they wanted to be in

charge and then they'd put themselves in

charge

how in the world

could that be serious

how in the world could that be serious

what am i missing

is there a whole part of the story that

they just don't mention here on

wikipedia

because this doesn't even look a little

bit like it's going to happen

why would you even worry about this

is it because a lot of people go to

davos so therefore it looks like it

might actually happen

i don't see any uh i don't say the

scenario in which the united states

gives up control to corporations that

self-select they want to be in control

i

you're saying is serious

i've got a real question about it

i feel as if there's something more to

the explanation

that if you heard it would not sound so

bad crazy

because remember klaus schwab

is

he's not only an engineer he's an

economist

so do you think somebody who's an

engineer and an economist

would come up with an idea that's so

obviously bad

i feel like there's something left out

unless it really is just totally crazy

talk

maybe

aoc is not an economist i wouldn't say

that

she just studied economics well maybe

okay if you want to say somebody who

studied economics as an economist

all right his father was a full-blown

nazi somebody says

yeah you know i'm not i'm not gonna

judge any

uh

germans by what their parents did in

world war ii is that fair

but let's

yeah can we can we let go of that

if somebody's parents did something in

world war ii

i'm gonna let go of that

it's time time to let go

all right

what else is going on

um and there's uh some hoax updates

so this one not only i think even the

hoax update might be a hoax i don't know

but there's some lesser publication

lesser known publication i don't know if

they're lesser quality but they're a

lesser known publication

saying that fbi documents reveal the us

may have funded charlottesville riders

through ukrainian neo-nazi groups

documents show the ties between the azov

battalion and the u.s rioters

now i don't doubt that there's some

connection

between peoples

but i've got a feeling that nobody

i don't think the fbi or anybody was

knowingly

funding that but i ask you this

provocative question

where are they now

where are all those people who marched

without masks

in the age of facial recognition

all those people marched without masks

and we never really hear from them do we

i feel i feel like

you would expect that the news would

have

you know found a few a few few years

later and say you participated in that

march how do you feel about it

but

i don't think you can find them

i don't think you can find them

i'm not so sure

they were all totally organic i mean i'm

not denying the existence of people just

like that in the united states but the

events specifically might had

might had a little bit of theater

involved that we don't know about

not to say that we're not real racists

there clearly they were which we disavow

um

a few more hoax updates there was a

rupaur edit of biden snubbing modi

you know india's prime minister modi but

apparently that's just a

misleading edit

so if you see a video that looks like

biden is snubbing moti

that didn't happen

uh here's another one

let's see oh there's two fake stories so

cnn is debunking fake stories about

ted cruz and governor abbott of texas

that feels like something

because i feel like they would have just

ignored it before

but fairly prominently

they debunked

two claims against cruz and abbott

and so it doesn't matter what they are i

think they're just

well

it matters

one is uh alleges to show that ted cruz

always says the same thing after every

mass shooting

but that's fake

so simply just you know fake some tweets

uh and the other one

showing uh abbott

did something bad that didn't really

happen

now

here's some more good news

um it turns out that if the russians

have to compete with the iranians to

sell illegal oil

because there are sanctions on iran and

russia

this is really bad news for iran

so iran at least had an ability to sell

to sketchy markets you know they could

sell to china but they could sell to you

know sketchier countries

but as soon as russia can only also sell

to those same sketchy countries

including china

it makes the price of iranian oil go way

down

because apparently the iranian oil is

just crap compared to the russian oil if

you had a choice you want the russian

oil it's easier to refine so

apparently the

iranian

revenue from oil is down like 25 already

since the sanctions on russia

and iran was not that

doing that well

so there's actually a thought

that weirdly

the war in ukraine

might lead to a tightening of the

economic

woes in iran which would lead them to be

flexible to negotiate something with a

nuclear deal that made sense

so maybe

maybe

the war in ukraine

is going to cause

iran to make a peace deal

in the middle east

maybe

could happen

so that

is the good news for the day

yeah and of course china wins because

they're getting

cheap oil

all right

did i leave anything out

um somebody just got here so i'd like to

repeat

uh blah

that's all you missed not much

oh your gas is up to 549 a gallon in

chicago oh boohoo

it's over seven dollars here i pay seven

dollars for a gallon of gas

all right

um

oh iran is moving closer to russia

i choose to live in california you know

strangely enough i'm not sure i did

choose

um

at least pleasanton chose me

long story there

all right

voting for schillenberger

um

holy 875 a gallon of vancouver but

that's that's canadian money

which is pretty close right canadian

dollar us dollar kind of close at the

moment

414 where do you live

all right

uh by crypto not gas you say

electric bikes

are going to be everywhere

all right well i'm going to go

get ready to uh

talk to my doctor and

get some covered pills and

i will uh

be back

in the real world in

nine and a half

days so

i might do some extra uh live streams

because i'll be locked in

so i might need some like social outlet

so that's on you

you're gonna have to put up with me a

little bit extra i think

all right but the good news is

if that's the worst that omicron has to

to throw at me it was a really really

bad night but at the moment zero pain

no discomfort at all

and i will talk to you

tomorrow