Episode 853 Scott Adams - Simultaneous Sipping, #Coronavirus, The Nursing Home Pillow Fight

bum bum bum bum bum hey everybody come on in it's time for a coffee with Scott Adams and I hope that although your normal schedule is probably altered a little bit I hope that you have made time for this most important important critical really almost emergency simultaneous up and it's gonna happen now because I think you need it I think we all need it there's nothing we need but a little bit of normal behavior um amid all the craziness and all you need to enjoy the simultaneous sip as a cup or a mug or a class of tanker chalice or Stein a canteen geography Oscar vessel live I think kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day thing that will make everything better including the coronavirus we're gonna get this thing oh yeah we're gonna get it and when I say get it I mean beat it not necessarily get it although you might get it and that you'll beat it too because if you've enjoyed the simultaneous up you're stronger than most people you know it sip now well I continue on my system you know I talk about systems being better than goals my goal is to stay alive my goal is not just to stay alive for myself but to not be a burden on the healthcare system and if I can take myself out of that well there's one more one more ventilator for somebody else it's in my system there's a nice long walk every day mild exercise light weights eat right really clean you know I just took sugar completely out of my diet I'm eating clean clean clean I'm sleeping right and I'm taking time off from social media now I do because it's important to stay connected I'm not taking an entire day off anytime but I find and you might find this too that there are periods in the day where I just have to not look at anything for an hour I just I just have to exist in my space without the outside world intruding on my thoughts just for an hour few times a day keep your keep your stress down I'm helping doing it right now w feel more relaxed listening to me you know you do do you think it's intentional of course it is I do this intentionally to make you more relaxed and I guarantee that most of you are a little bit more relaxed when you listen to me it's not an accident there is technique everywhere in the world and sometimes you don't recognize it alright the stock market is doing a stock market thing of trying to scare us because it always does that I'm not worried whatsoever about a generally falling stock market do you know what really really bothers me when the stock market is going up and I'm not in it really bothers me when the entire stock market goes down my my share of the world if you will stays about the same and when it goes back my share of the world will go up with the share of the world because I'm broadly diversified yeah the world has to do well for me to do well there's no exception to that so I'm not worried at all about the stock market and if you're in the stock market and you think you'll you know be alive for more than two years I think most do you will you should not be too afraid either because the big companies are not going to go out of business and that's mostly where your money should be in the top 500 companies or at least widely distributed so don't worry about the stock market the stock market will do its thing and it will be back I got lots more good news coming and my good news is sort of the good news that's common as opposed to the good news is here because this will be a tough day tomorrow will be tough somebody says I'm starting to lose it I even woke up angry exercise if you're physically angry and you know that it's something you need to get into control go wear yourself out just and get outside ideally outside being in the house when you're stressed is not help and get out take a long walk that's what I say to you all right let's talk about the food supply I tweeted an article from Joel Pollak who looked into the food supply pipeline because if you see empty shelves on your grocery store how do you feel ah you know society is collapsing exactly the opposite exactly the opposite Society is doing anything but collapsing it's evolving and it hurts but you know sometimes the growth does right sometimes it's hard to do the thing you need to do but society is not collapsing society is evolving and is hardening and it's getting smarter and it's getting more connected what you don't notice is that you don't notice that but I'll talk about that so first of all your food supplies the last thing you should worry about and here's why there's no risk to it the the hoarding is a super short-term thing because I had no effect on the supply the total supply of farms and farm goods and products exactly the same well no that's that's lie is not exactly the same as way more right now our pipeline according to all information we have you know there we're not hearing any stories of a farm closed or a or you know a trucking company can't ship the goods we're not hearing any stories like that which by the way if we can't cross state lines I don't know how that's gonna work but probably there will be exceptions for food and so the point is when you look at the scary shelves just understand that the entire weight of the civilizations you know successes that the entire capability of the United States is still just as strong for producing and delivering it to you the harder part will be if people can keep their incomes up and I think you'll probably see something like a universal basic income something like that now restaurants poor little restaurants are gonna get whacked but I think this might be another situation where we're evolving more than collapsing because for every server you know every every hostess every server at a restaurant surely we need another delivery person right so here's what I'm doing for my local restaurants so I'm I'm door dashing now yes yes yes yes I get it it's a rich person thing now all of you can't all afford to door - I get that it adds a cost on top of a cost on top of a cost but I can and you know even though my income will get whacked as you know percentage-wise as much as the rest of you maybe more I'll still have enough to the door - so during these times when it makes more sense to try to think of all of your actions in terms of how they affect other people you know this is a time to think about that I'm gonna adore - the hell out of my area so that my local restaurants are getting at least at least that much business and here's the other advantage let's say you and again this is only for people who have the wherewithal to do it I'm not recommending you know if money's tight I don't recommend this at all but one way that I can protect your food supply is by door - so you know if you've got some extra food and you're saying oh I hope this is enough well one of the way I can help make it be an office I'll get my food directly from the restaurant who apparently have plenty of supply that's partly what Joel Pollock found out his article in Breitbart you can find that Breitbart or you can find it at my Twitter feed so food don't worry about it and I would say the same with paper goods and stuff we there's just some temporary craziness but the pipeline has plenty of paper you know nobody stopped cutting down trees as far as the mill you should be aware that in this time of you know great uncertainty etc and when the news is you know we're in this continuous fog of our situation you should expect a lot of disinformation some of it will be just dumb people saying dumb stuff that's bad enough but you should expect that countries which do not love us are going to be spreading some disinformation and there's there's reason to believe we've already seen it so there's a rumor going around that the government has already talked about or decided to do some kind of martial law situation with a total lockdown where you can't leave your house I've that's not true but is apparently people are getting texts string you know strings of text messages about it so here's my suggestion don't believe anything you hear from an anonymous source during this situation it's true all the time you should never believe it in front of a source but just know that we're in a situation where we're perceived to be vulnerable by our enemies and if they're on their game they should be seeding us with bad terror stories so that our civilization will be destroyed so just don't believe anything on its face value that looks like it's coming from some unknown source about somebody who talked to somebody so that's that's a caution which is really important I saw some photos that Disneyland was packed this weekend is that real because again fake news is going to be so prevalent now that you just have to distrust every photograph every tweet I'm also seeing tweets from what appeared to be individuals or doctors at hospitals talking about how bad things are at their Hospital I've seen at least one from Italy I've seen one from Seattle there's reason to believe if those are not real now we do think the Italy's in bad shape but if you see anything that looks like I'm a doctor here's my thread of how bad things are in my specific Hospital we're piling bodies in the street it might not be true and indeed what that happened recently there was a Seattle doctor who had one of those threads about about it was and when people check in on on the hospital they said it's bad but not like that so we know that those can be either misleading or outright false so watch out for those so any individual that doesn't have a second source you know such as a news source that says oh my god yes you know this we're seeing the same thing just don't believe it yet or at all here's a question for you what are you doing about playdates so talk to dr.

drew yesterday online under the asked dr.

drew livestream and you know kids are gonna be a real problem but here's here's a potential way to go if you're wondering what to do about it it's it's almost cruel and unusual to lock up a kid in a house for three months adults maybe we can handle it it's going to be tough for a kid it's gonna be really tough and what I suggest is that maybe they find one special friend with a family that you know is doing good German you know good virus protection stuff as well talk parent to parent make sure you've got a similarly strict situation in both households you know wash your hands when you come in that sort of thing parents staying home from work whatever and then say all right you can play with you know your friend Timmy as much as you want but that's it you know you you know or you know maybe a few houses like that but one at a time because if you if you you can get a kid to agree to one friend but getting them to agree to not seeing a friend for three months it's going to be nothing but a terror in your own household so you've got enough of a external threat you don't want to turn your own children into an internal threat because you know they're gonna they're kind of they're gonna get out of your nerves too and you don't want your nerves to be broken in this situation so stay strong all right here's the situation on ventilators there's still a little bit of lack of clarity here and here's the situation and again Joel Pollak reported on this the us and ventilator manufacturers at least one of them have got had received a lot of inquiries but not a lot of orders and I wasn't sure what was going on with that like why would it make sense that there are not a lot of orders for new ventilators especially since all the parts apparently are available in the United States and one of the answers but I think it's an incomplete answer is that as dr.

drew explained yesterday on his show the hospital is actually in the United States we can flex better than other places and in particular apparently every operating room has a ventilator that they use for the operations and if you know given that will probably be postponing a lot of elective surgery we can repurpose them so first of all there's a bunch of unused ones that will just be sitting there that we can put into production pretty quickly secondly apparently the military has a lot of them and they could temporarily be used for this purpose because we're not at a major war except against the virus so that would give us you know little flexibility that other countries clearly don't have I mean there's no other country I would imagine who has any kind of military gear that military healthcare gear that's anything close to what the United States would have but I also hear and I don't have confirmation on that that the United States might be look to put some orders in for ventilators now I don't know who does the math on this stuff and says well how much is enough and how much is not enough uh ventilators but I think we're in a do everything and do it hard at the situation I don't think we're in a situation where we should be saying you know we might have enough ventilators or we probably have enough or we're almost certain we have enough ventilators that's not the place we're in we're in the place if you if there's any chance we need ventilators any at all guess and ventilators so I hope the government is looking to do that I have a question I'm going to put out here publicly um I think I can find the right person in the government but I've been asked and it's weird how this world works you know every citizen is sort of entering the fight if they can you know so I'm in the fight with with all of you and people have asked me one person in particular who shall be temporarily not named but probably later asked who when the government can make the decision to buy more masks more gloves more more equipment because an individual is actually just spontaneously organized with others to look at some factories to convert them like a wartime footing to emergency produce masks and gloves and other euros I don't know sanitizers other things that one might need so here we have you know American individuals who have were starting to build factories without the government's help oh my god the the the capability in this country is is just incredible but here's my question to you so you can you can join in if you know how to help who in our government can say yes to writing a check for more mass more equipment more anything is there anybody in the government who's the emergency budget person who gets to say okay that's in the budget that's not in the budget we got we got million dollars that's in that's out so well somebody says Congress but I didn't name I need a you know I need a name and phone number basically so if he DM that to be if somebody has some contacts just said in my way most of you know how to contact me I'm pretty easy to contact go to Linked.

In if all else fails alright so in Italy here's an inspirational story Italy was running short on ventilators but they had three ventilators that were missing a part I think it was the same part it might not have been but it was missing a part it's pretty hard to get apart these days for a ventilator I would guess so they brought in a local company with a 3d printer and the local company looked at the bar engineered it and 3d printed it right there oh my god humans you know it's like watching I you know I hate to say it because there's you know so much death and misery but it's like watching a sporting event where individual players are making great plays and you know bringing the 3d printer people to make you an emergency part for your ventilator that's like that's like curry passing behind the back you know under the legs of the opponent for the layup these are serious people doing serious things and I'm amazed and impressed so and of course Google is stepped up to do the coronavirus website you know we can complain about whether it is or is not on time or what the president said but it's people doing the things they need to do at least 35 companies and academic institutions are rushing to create a vaccine at least four have tested it on animals already this is amazing we've never seen anything like this and it'll say Moderne moderna biotech company in Massachusetts has already shipped the first batches for testing I guess and you know here's my take human engineer ingenuity I'll say this I'll say this a thousand times until you until you all have this picture in your head we all know the virus has this you know this curve where it's gonna start slow and like we're not worried and then oh my god it's a panic and that's you know we're sort of in that and that dangerous part of the curve but human ingenuity looks just like that just like that and our curve will be faster than the virus because of the things we're doing and I heard somebody smarter say we're not we're not self-quarantine and shutting everything down because it's a crisis it's a it is a crisis it's not because of the virus it's because we want to avoid the virus it's sort of the positive way to look at it the reason we're doing the shutdowns is because we're gonna avoid the problem not because we have the problem I know it's a small small change but I like it better that way and you're seeing human ingenuity at at the L maybe I'd call it the elbow you know our curve is going like this - we're gathering and gathering information we're a/b testing we're testing we're testing we're building labs we're building factories we're testing building factories we're trying stuff we're right in the elbow we're right we're right in that little u-shaped part where we've been flat for three months because you know we've known about the virus three months four months however long we've known about it but so little information and it's wrong information and you're not sure and China is not telling us stuff but now the information is coming in the fog is starting to clear human capability is being put on this thing like nobody's business somebody passed around a quote attributed to me but it's not really my quote I quote was somebody else but I don't know who said it first so I am mistakenly credited for this quote but I'm only a fan of it and and it goes like this if you want something find out the price and then pay it now as basic as that sounds we so often don't do that that it sounds startling to hear that that's a way to success this coronavirus is is presenting people all over the world with this proposition what do you want I want to be I want to get rid of this coronavirus from the world you really is that what you want do you really want it yeah yeah before I was a little ambiguous little ambivalent let's say but right now 100 percent that's what I want once you know what you want and you're not wondering anymore and that's where we're all at at this point that's a decision it's one thing to want the virus to go away we have past wanting it to go away we are in deciding to make it go away and that's different because once you decide you'll do anything and you see that happening people will do anything we're watching our healthcare professionals some of them getting infected I guess there are two emergency doctors just reported were badly infected and having some problems pretty bad ones and when you see our medical professionals run toward danger these people are better than us you know there they are your standard you should look at the doctors who are doing this stuff the nurses too and they know they're not completely protected they know their risk and they're doing it anyway they are the they are our best heroes right now by far so use that as your standard for what - for what what to do as a citizen because you might be asked to do something that hard you know maybe you already are but not that hard you will be asked to make that kind of a tough decision just remember we're not we're not at wanting wanting was before we're at deciding get yourself out of wanting and get into deciding because it's easier it's more effective let's decide to kill it the virus that is one way or another all right here's an ugly truth that I tweeted and this this gets to this is related to human ingenuity but it's also related to deciding versus wanting what I'm going to describe is possible in any other world you would never even consider this alright so what I'm going to suggest right now is ugly and you don't want it but we're past the wanting phase we're now at decision phase imagine if you could imagine if the government demanded that anyone who sold a ticket to any large event for this weekend had to give the government their data we want to know the names of anybody who was let's say unwise enough to take themselves into a crowded situation now some places don't have tickets let's say a crowded bar but there probably are credit-card receipts because we're a credit card kind of a world it wouldn't get everybody some people are cash some people don't buy drinks but the credit cards will get a lot now let's say you you compare those a lists of names of people who clearly were in large groups recently if you add to that facial recognition something like the Clear View app somebody says absolutely not we're just talking here so you know I don't I don't have a decision on any of this so you don't need to complain to me I'm just telling you what we could do all right what we could do yes is have an app in every citizen's hand by the end of the week it's possible in which you could just take a picture of your kids your kids friend you or they come over the house you said you're you say to your kid who's the friend that you you want to hang out with today just one-on-one and this adds my friend Timmy show me a picture of Timmy Boop Timmy's family just came back from Disneyland nope sorry Timmy should have told you that but Timmy did not Timmy's a kid you didn't know to tell you that so you know I don't even have to look at the comments to hear you say no no big brother were past that you want privacy we're past that we're past wanting were in to deciding if we decide to get rid of the virus we have tools their grotesque tools their expensive tools their tools we may have trouble getting back in the you know the toothpaste back in the tube I guess it's a tube of toothpaste but we have tools so just know that all right um so a poll that said who do you think would be the best pick for Vice President and it was an emerson poll and Harris got the most votes 20% second most votes was yang Oh so Andrew yang of course very capable person did exceeded expectations in the race but dropped out but he was learning apparently with the rest of us that his penis disqualifies him for public office and how would you like to be Andrew yang he joined a team team Democrat you fought for months and months you lost sleep you worked hard you fought and fought for your team and then your team said thank you very much Andrew yang thanks for being part of the process now we're going to pick a vice president but we're only going to choose from among people who do not have a penis like you do Andrew yang so the yang Wang I call it hashtag yang Wang has disqualified him for for a potential but you know thank goodness if he can't be vice president because he has a penis at least he can you know be nominated for the Supreme Court okay he can't be nominated for the Supreme Court because he has a penis and he's not black because that's what Joe Biden said you said it's gonna be a woman it's gonna be a black one now I applaud him the you know the attitude I applaud the attitude that you know we should have a Supreme Court that looks like the country that's not a bad that's not a bad thing in fact it's a good thing but how was he under yang feel about that you know the the thing about being liberal is that it's a great idea until somebody comes for your stuff until somebody comes for your stuff it's easy to be liberal because you're giving away other people's stuff but Andrew yang and they just came for your stuff how does it feel and while I don't think you're ready to be a Republican the Democrats did throw you under a bus ran over you and then backed up over here to make sure the job was done because it's not enough that you have a penis you also have the wrong ethnicity for your own party sorry let's see now what else we got going on here I want I watched much of the debate last night and I'm wondering if you had the same response that I did which is I don't care because the coronavirus is so big in terms of other the mental you know load that it puts on me that my normal high level of interest in presidential politics was maybe I know 25% of normal I couldn't get interested now part of it is I don't think either of them can be Trump so I'm not sure that it matters I don't know if it matters what they say but did you also have the same experience that that it didn't it didn't draw you in didn't feel like didn't feel like it was important anymore which is weird now I hope that we get back to a point where that feels like it's important but here are some of the comments I saw online and I plan to keep my my gallows humor through the coronavirus so I'm just telling you right now sooner or later you know somebody's going to try to come at me with the pitchforks and torches because I made a joke and that's an emergency and you made a joke but I'm telling you right now I'm not going to lose my sense of humor during the coronavirus so if you don't like it this would be not the place to be but I here are some things that people said about the debate last night this one maybe laugh out loud that somebody just said dentures were flying dentures were flying that's such a that's such a clean and crisp visual that captures so much of the situation yep dentures were flying somebody else said I think Donnell ER I forgot was that the first one but Donnell are on Twitter said final score the aneurysms and dementia 9 heart attack 8 which is funny because the candidates were starting to see them by their medical conditions right if you look at Trump what do you think of well it's a haircut yeah billionaire I think it is your personality or whatever but when you see Burt and Biden together debating don't you guide to think about their health especially during the coronavirus so we got two candidates who were being defined by their health problems running against the most capable politician you know in our time with that said I have to be honest about this because we're in an emergency situation I've created the president's messaging on this you know being muddled and getting some facts wrong and stuff so it wasn't building confidence he has the wrong personality for this situation he's a he's a just a natural salesperson and politician and all that but just doesn't fit the problem and I'd been hoping to see him adjust because everybody's adjusting right you know that's what we do well as a species we adjust were really good adjusters and the president appear apparently has adjusted apparently he has he has adjusted and III didn't see it but I understood the president okay yesterday's event where they were just updating the public I think he just sort of made some introductory comments and then let the experts talk exactly what I wanted to see it's exactly what I wanted to say so the country needs to know that the government is you know hearing it and then it's responding in real-time I think that gut I think the country spoke as one you know of course there were some hardcore Republicans who were just you know in the president's camp but those of us were just trying to be helpful I think we we spoke as one and said all right mr.

president with all due respect your messaging on this is just not a good fit you know maybe maybe you could let let the people who are you know the experts of this be more of the messaging and it appears he's done that right it appears he has done that so do you feel more confident when your public has a concern your government hears it you can see a response in real-time this to be the right as a response you should feel good about that and and I'm gonna remind you over and over and over again that the normal ways civilization creeps forward is by making mistakes in quickly correcting them in an emergency you should see more mistakes because you know for all the right reasons you know the timing is compressed etc you should see an enormous amount of mistakes in the beginning but you need to see fast correction are we seeing fast correction from our government yeah we are we're seeing it really well I would say so you know you can always argue something should it be been faster and I wrote about that in my book looser think that you'll just always can say that there's nothing that's good that you can't say should it happen faster so if you hear the people saying here's my career to saya criticism something should have happened faster they're not legitimate players that's not a legitimate comment could be true could be true because everything could be done faster but it's not a legitimate criticism because it's a universal truth that everything could be done sooner so let's let's representing fast correcting their problems shout out to representative Gilliam who went into alcohol rehab I have a little rule it goes like this roughly speaking if somebody does you know batter embarrassing behavior in public I'm not above having a good time with it and thinking well you know it's their own damn fault and in a political world of course you know we're more likely to make fun of the side that that you're not supporting but when somebody goes into alcohol rehab and I think this is legitimate I I'd be surprised very surprised if this is some kind of an act in which he's pretending to be an alcoholic or something but when I see somebody make that move he did it publicly and and by the way I don't believe any of his story about what happened I don't believe any of that but I also don't care do I care I mean that's between him and his his family I care about his family then but I don't care about it personally it doesn't affect me but he wanted to tell alcohol rehab and here's my rule I always praise people who would make that step no exceptions doesn't matter what you did before that if you can make that step and and you're willing to you know take the you know take the heat of admitting it in public especially although in this case it probably helps them I just say congratulations and and thank you congratulations and thank you it would work now that's all I want to say about Indra Gilliam and now he needs to go work on himself but I want him to know at least from one person that at this moment I'm in that decision I'm completely supportive and I appreciate it and I have full respect for that how many people have died how many doctors have died from past flus now as we're trying to figure out how much is the right amount of being worried and how much we should not be worried one of the questions I have is is this typical that in the past we were having doctors were dying from treating just regular flu because they had to be happening somewhere right because the regular flu can't also take people out and some doctors would be older you know over 60 etc is but I think these are actually younger doctors but is this a reporting phenomenon in other words is it is it true that every year there are you know we lose a few doctors actually dying to the flu does that happen every year and we just don't we don't report it because it seems more like the baseline and are we over reporting some specific things that are certainly worrisome and you know it doesn't mean we should treat the the the situation any less seriously but I'm just wondering if the when we're about the doctors who are dying if if any of this is because it hasn't there's more reporting about it it's just a question but the seriousness of course should not be underestimated and the reason that matters the reason it matters to us is that I would like to know the odds of dying if I get it and the only way I would know that this is know how many infected people are not having problems so if you tell me Scott it is very normal for doctors to be dying during the flu season from catching the flu it's just you know it's low percentage we don't report it it's just sort of baseline the badness if I knew that and I knew that what I was seeing about these doctors dying was just more of that then that would give me a little more comfort than if I get it I'm not going to die so it has to do with our national state of mind which is important because this is you know in a way what we're having is an information in psychology problem and you know you have to treat it that way as well as a health and physical problem but I'd like to know if more doctors more young doctors especially are dying from this flu than from last flus because that would that would give me some information you know should I contract it from that point on and what are my odds that would give me some information all right what about what about maybe I've already talked about this one let's talk about Bernie and Biden you know again I you just watched to happen in real time I'm so uninterested in Biden and Bernie Sanders that I just forgot to talk about it was like the big news that wasn't the virus last night the biggest news and literally just forgot to talk about here but I'll go back to it what I saw you know I refer to it as a pillow fight in the nursing home and the reason I called it that is that there was a lot of activity you know they were they were loudly passionately talking about his stuff but it felt like two old men just go ah ha and they were punching as hard as they could but it was sort of like a pillow fight punch it felt to me that there were no no real blows landed now if you were a partisan you would look at and say oh yeah there was that time that Bernie cornered him on that and that lie yeah nobody cares and that was a time Biden you know did that good thing and he really he really showed his presidential mm-hmm yeah maybe nobody cares here's my here's my summary of it that my summary is that because Biden didn't lose he won Biden looked better than I've seen him I have to admit but I didn't looked healthier than I've seen him wasn't third I missed the first part but somebody said he coughed did that happen because he didn't go off for the rest of the the event but I was waiting to see if there was a video of it I saw that hashtag Biden cough was trending and then I looked for it but I haven't seen the video yet so can anybody tell me in the comments did that cough look like it was a problem golf or did it look like you know just a dry throat I've been talking all day kind of cough which we all have so I don't know so I would say Biden won because Bernie probably wasn't trying to win it look that way Bernie was pretty clear that if he didn't get it he would help Joe Biden and that's a lot easier because Joe Biden apparently is stealing Bernie's platform which was a good play if apparently you know so Biden wants to do some kind of free college for some kinds of people situation and he's basically just stealing one of Bernie's biggest biggest things now here's an interesting thought I just want to put this in your I was a cleared throat cough or a coughed off camera I said I heard some throat clearing coughing off-camera but I thought it was Bernie because I think it happened to one Biden was talking so that's just an open question I don't think there's a reason to think there's a specific risk because of that but we should watch that so does it seem interesting to you that Elizabeth Warren is out of the race she has not endorsed anybody and bited him just picked up her major one of her major signature pieces which is the student debt forgiveness is there any possibility that Elizabeth Warren will be the vice presidential pick for Biden because it feels like he's at least considering it because if you were going to negotiate with Elizabeth Warren to be your vice president could you bring her on the ticket if you had nothing that she wanted probably not it could be the Biden is prepping the nation for bringing word on his vice president that's possible now I think it's a losing ticket if he asked me I think that that would cost him too much of the black vote I think yeah I think she's you know unlikable in a number of ways she's too old to be a vice president in my opinion I don't think we should be picking vice presidents that are gonna be in their 70s that makes no sense at all and especially in the you know in the middle of a situation where a virus is killing older people can you really have a vice president who's going to be in her 70s really is that how you protect the country by having a vice president it was 70 years old I think she's 69 now and so I don't see it you know I don't see it as a good strategy but the fact that Biden took Warren's you know one of Warren's signature things it could be he was just trying to decapitate earth I'm sorry kneecap birdie but give something to Bernie's supporters which would also explain it but Elizabeth Warren is suspiciously silent lately so can't rule it out I'm still going to say common law Harris Coble Harris has always been my first prediction but all and I'll stay with it all right anything else happened for those of you who stayed to the end I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you a story I've never told before and the reason I've never told it is because it couldn't be told there's a category of stories that can never be told until the situation is just right and this is it and I wouldn't tell this story unless I thought it would help some people so I'm gonna tell this story with the the advanced knowledge that maybe 80% of you are going to say Oh Scott are you losing it a little bit I am not buying any of that I'm not even sure that's true Scott did you just make up that story so 80% of you are not going to have the experience that I'm trying to give the 20% know that in advance but it won't worry you you know you're you're not going to be worse off for it and you will be interested 20% of you don't operate on a strictly rational logical basis that's what we're going to talk to 20% if you live in more of a let's say if it were your own words you'd probably say it was a spiritual world you know where all things are possible maybe there's a new age part of you to speak to you the people who still allow some mystery about how things work those of you who think we live in the mechanical cause-and-effect world and you've you've got a good grasp of all of that this won't this won't be good for you this is for the other 20% and it goes like this the only thing I'll promise you and then we're gonna look right in the camera and promise you this I'm not making up any of this I could be wrong I mean I could have some facts wrong and could have some false memory but I promise you none of this is made up at least at least consciously you know for most of my life I've seen my future in advance right 80% of you just said oh god I don't like where this is going I don't know why I don't have a theory on it it's just an experience I'll give you an example in my early early youth I saw myself as a famous cartoonist now I became one what are the odds of becoming a famous cartoonist well the odds of being a successful cartoonist are pretty low the odds of being a famous one are really low oh how many famous cartoonists can you name right maybe 20 and and and the other 19 of them probably started way before I did you know they're already sort of just famous people from the past in many cases so to become a famous current cartoonist what are the odds now if that were if this were the only part of my story I would say okay Scott Scott that's easy to explain it's the thing you wanted you had the capability you work for it you got it you know and and if you had not succeeded we wouldn't be listening to you so there's there's also a survivor bias thing built into there but it's not the only part of my story I also had a vision of a house I would live him years in the future and that I did I lived in the house there was for all practical purposes the exact house I imagined for years and and the like most of my dreams I don't remember I can't tell you I remember much in terms of any dream I've ever had I don't think I have but these visions I call them were not dreams they were a solid almost like a memory of the future that's how I experienced them and of course I always thought to myself that doesn't mean they're real I might have this thing that feels like a memory but of the future that doesn't mean it's real and I wouldn't expect 80% of you to even you know most of you are probably checking out before I get to the good part there's a good part coming in college in my freshman year was it freshman I don't know what year it was but in college one day I was sound asleep and I woke up in bed set sat up in bed wide awake and I saw myself living in San Francisco now I had no connection to San Francisco I was in college and the East Coast yet had never traveled here never been to California and didn't didn't even know any people I didn't know a person who lived in San Francisco and I saw again like it was a future memory a vivid picture of me and San Francisco a few years later I landed in San Francisco having sold my car for a one-way ticket to San Francisco and actually to California and then I drove up to San Francisco and I lived there for years and built my life here I had another vision at around the same time again it was a future of memory meaning not like a dream because I don't really remember my dreams and I don't put any importance in them but the other vision was me standing in front of a large audience a physical audience and and talking to them and somehow I was a celebrity now this was weird because at the time I was having that vision slash hallucination whatever you want to call him it was my experience I'm not saying it's true false I'm not putting any meaning on it I'm just describing it I saw myself standing in front of large crowds and they were listening just to me and I didn't know what I was saying or why I was there years later when the Dilbert thing happened I embarked on a speaking career and I would finally find myself quite frequently standing on stage alone doing essentially stand-up comedy to a group of a thousand or five thousand I think 5,000 was the biggest now there was nothing absolutely nothing in my early life that would suggest that my personality and my ambitions anything would put me on stage as a celebrity in front of a giant crowd of people and it happened it happened I have one other premonition that I've had since I was very young it's my strongest one now these other ones were all good news all right good news I have become a famous cartoonist that's great news good news that I would be able to live in this you know cool house that I imagined and then I did but not the house I'm in I built this one and I'm it was cool news that I would stand in front of big groups and and entertain them or something and it was good news that I'd moved to San Francisco because it's a nice place where I used to be but there was one premonition really really strong and it has weighed on me like one of the worst parts of my life it was my hardest premonition my worst one and it has waited on me for decades and it went like this in my early 60s which is now there would be a national disaster that people didn't see come I never in my in the vision I never knew the nature of it and in that world I would become important in a different way different than cartooning different than that and that I would know my role when it happened and I think it's this because as much as this is a health problem it's a psychological problem and somehow by complete accident meaning I didn't plan it I have studied my whole life for this this moment all of my skills all of my talent all of my celebrity you know let's say capital you sort of coming together at this moment exactly exactly as I have expected for decades it's my clearest cleanest scariest vision of the future and it's this but here's the good news it works out because in this vision we get through it and we get through it by sticking together and we get through it because we can because we're Americans because we're humans ninety nine speech ninety nine percent of the species on earth have gone extinct not us not us ninety nine percent of the species of the planet Earth have already gone extinct not us that virus doesn't know what's coming for it human ingenuity is starting to kick in hold on two weeks two weeks in two weeks you're gonna see news coming from your fellow citizens the best among us that is better than anything you've ever seen in your life it's going to be breathtaking it's going to be hard this next year is gonna be hard it's gonna be very hard but for the 20% of you who live in a world where cause of the fact isn't everything maybe we're maybe maybe we're not a mechanical world maybe there's something mysterious something spiritual something extra maybe we're a simulation maybe God has a plan any of those things but if it helps you if it helps you even a little bit these visions of mine have not been wrong yet I'm not making this up we are where we were going to be if these visions mean anything but we're in a good place that looks like a bad place we're gonna beat this and we're gonna beat it hard and we're gonna be fine and I hope I can be part of that and I will talk to you maybe tomorrow probably this afternoon give you a little little extra free entertainment because our sports are gone and that's all for today

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it's time for a coffee with Scott Adams

and I hope that although your normal

schedule is probably altered a little

bit I hope that you have made time for

this most important important critical

really almost emergency simultaneous up

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think you need it I think we all need it

there's nothing we need but a little bit

of normal behavior

um amid all the craziness and all you

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the dopamine hit of the day thing that

will make everything better

including the coronavirus we're gonna

get this thing oh yeah we're gonna get

it and when I say get it I mean beat it

not necessarily get it although you

might get it and that you'll beat it too

because if you've enjoyed the

simultaneous up you're stronger than

most people you know it sip now

well I continue on my system you know I

talk about systems being better than

goals my goal is to stay alive my goal

is not just to stay alive for myself but

to not be a burden on the healthcare

system and if I can take myself out of

that well there's one more one more

ventilator for somebody else

it's in my system there's a nice long

walk every day mild exercise light

weights eat right really clean you know

I just took sugar completely out of my

diet I'm eating clean clean clean I'm

sleeping right and I'm taking time off

from social media

now I do because it's important to stay

connected

I'm not taking an entire day off anytime

but I find and you might find this too

that there are periods in the day where

I just have to not look at anything for

an hour I just I just have to exist in

my space without the outside world

intruding on my thoughts just for an

hour

few times a day keep your keep your

stress down

I'm helping doing it right now

w feel more relaxed listening to me you

know you do do you think it's

intentional of course it is I do this

intentionally to make you more relaxed

and I guarantee that most of you are a

little bit more relaxed when you listen

to me it's not an accident

there is technique everywhere in the

world and sometimes you don't recognize

it alright the stock market is doing a

stock market thing of trying to scare us

because it always does that I'm not

worried

whatsoever about a generally falling

stock market do you know what really

really bothers me when the stock market

is going up and I'm not in it really

bothers me when the entire stock market

goes down my my share of the world if

you will

stays about the same and when it goes

back my share of the world will go up

with the share of the world because I'm

broadly diversified yeah the world has

to do well for me to do well there's no

exception to that so I'm not worried at

all about the stock market and if you're

in the stock market and you think you'll

you know be alive for more than two

years I think most do you will you

should not be too afraid either because

the big companies are not going to go

out of business and that's mostly where

your money should be in the top 500

companies or at least widely distributed

so don't worry about the stock market

the stock market will do its thing and

it will be back I got lots more good

news coming and my good news is sort of

the good news that's common

as opposed to the good news is here

because this will be a tough day

tomorrow will be tough somebody says I'm

starting to lose it I even woke up angry

exercise if you're physically angry and

you know that it's something you need to

get into control go wear yourself out

just and get outside ideally outside

being in the house when you're stressed

is not help and get out take a long walk

that's what I say to you all right

let's talk about the food supply I

tweeted an article from Joel Pollak who

looked into the food supply pipeline

because if you see empty shelves on your

grocery store how do you feel ah you

know society is collapsing exactly the

opposite exactly the opposite Society is

doing anything but collapsing it's

evolving

and it hurts but you know sometimes the

growth does right sometimes it's hard to

do the thing you need to do but society

is not collapsing society is evolving

and is hardening and it's getting

smarter and it's getting more connected

what you don't notice is that you don't

notice that but I'll talk about that so

first of all your food supplies the last

thing you should worry about and here's

why there's no risk to it the the

hoarding is a super short-term thing

because I had no effect on the supply

the total supply of farms and farm goods

and products exactly the same well no

that's that's lie is not exactly the

same as way more right now our pipeline

according to all information we have you

know there we're not hearing any stories

of a farm closed or a or you know a

trucking company can't ship the goods

we're not hearing any stories like that

which by the way if we can't cross state

lines I don't know how that's gonna work

but probably there will be exceptions

for food

and so the point is when you look at the

scary shelves just understand that the

entire weight of the civilizations

you know successes that the entire

capability of the United States is still

just as strong for producing and

delivering it to you

the harder part will be if people can

keep their incomes up and I think you'll

probably see something like a universal

basic income something like that now

restaurants poor little restaurants are

gonna get whacked but I think this might

be another situation where we're

evolving more than collapsing because

for every server you know every every

hostess every server at a restaurant

surely we need another delivery person

right so here's what I'm doing for my

local restaurants so I'm I'm door

dashing now yes yes yes yes I get it

it's a rich person thing now all of you

can't all afford to door - I get that it

adds a cost on top of a cost on top of a

cost but I can and you know even though

my income will get whacked as you know

percentage-wise as much as the rest of

you maybe more I'll still have enough to

the door - so during these times when it

makes more sense to try to think of all

of your actions in terms of how they

affect other people you know this is a

time to think about that I'm gonna adore

- the hell out of my area so that my

local restaurants are getting at least

at least that much business and here's

the other advantage let's say you and

again this is only for people who have

the wherewithal to do it I'm not

recommending you know if money's tight I

don't recommend this at all

but one way that I can protect your food

supply is by door - so you know if

you've got some extra food and you're

saying oh I hope this is enough well one

of the way I can help make it be an

office I'll get my food directly from

the restaurant who apparently have

plenty of supply that's partly what Joel

Pollock found out

his article in Breitbart you can find

that Breitbart or you can find it at my

Twitter feed so food don't worry about

it and I would say the same with paper

goods and stuff we there's just some

temporary craziness but the pipeline has

plenty of paper you know nobody stopped

cutting down trees as far as the mill

you should be aware that in this time of

you know great uncertainty etc and when

the news is you know we're in this

continuous fog of our situation

you should expect a lot of

disinformation some of it will be just

dumb people saying dumb stuff that's bad

enough but you should expect that

countries which do not love us are going

to be spreading some disinformation and

there's there's reason to believe we've

already seen it so there's a rumor going

around that the government has already

talked about or decided to do some kind

of martial law situation with a total

lockdown where you can't leave your

house I've that's not true but is

apparently people are getting texts

string you know strings of text messages

about it so here's my suggestion don't

believe anything you hear from an

anonymous source during this situation

it's true all the time you should never

believe it in front of a source but just

know that we're in a situation where

we're perceived to be vulnerable by our

enemies and if they're on their game

they should be seeding us with bad

terror stories so that our civilization

will be destroyed so just don't believe

anything on its face value that looks

like it's coming from some unknown

source about somebody who talked to

somebody so that's that's a caution

which is really important I saw some

photos that Disneyland was packed this

weekend is that real because again fake

news is going to be so prevalent now

that you just have to distrust every

photograph every tweet I'm also seeing

tweets from what appeared to be

individuals or doctors at hospitals

talking about how bad things are at

their Hospital I've seen at least one

from Italy I've seen one from Seattle

there's reason to believe if those are

not real now we do think the Italy's in

bad shape

but if you see anything that looks like

I'm a doctor here's my thread of how bad

things are in my specific Hospital we're

piling bodies in the street it might not

be true and indeed what that happened

recently there was a Seattle doctor who

had one of those threads about about it

was and when people check in on on the

hospital they said it's bad but not like

that

so we know that those can be either

misleading or outright false so watch

out for those so any individual that

doesn't have a second source you know

such as a news source that says oh my

god yes you know this we're seeing the

same thing just don't believe it yet or

at all here's a question for you what

are you doing about playdates so talk to

dr. drew yesterday online under the

asked dr. drew livestream and you know

kids are gonna be a real problem but

here's here's a potential way to go if

you're wondering what to do about it

it's it's almost cruel and unusual to

lock up a kid in a house for three

months adults maybe we can handle it

it's going to be tough for a kid it's

gonna be really tough and what I suggest

is that maybe they find one special

friend with a family that you know is

doing good German you know good virus

protection stuff as well talk parent to

parent make sure you've got a similarly

strict situation in both households you

know wash your hands when you come in

that sort of thing

parents staying home from work whatever

and then say all right you can play with

you know your friend Timmy as much as

you want but that's it you know you you

know or you know maybe a few houses like

that but one at a time

because if you if you you can get a kid

to agree to one friend but getting them

to agree to not seeing a friend for

three months it's going to be nothing

but a terror in your own household so

you've got enough of a external threat

you don't want to turn your own children

into an internal threat because you know

they're gonna they're kind of they're

gonna get out of your nerves too and you

don't want your nerves to be broken in

this situation so stay strong all right

here's the situation on ventilators

there's still a little bit of lack of

clarity here and here's the situation

and again Joel Pollak reported on this

the us and ventilator manufacturers at

least one of them have got had received

a lot of inquiries but not a lot of

orders and I wasn't sure what was going

on with that like why would it make

sense that there are not a lot of orders

for new ventilators especially since all

the parts apparently are available in

the United States and one of the answers

but I think it's an incomplete answer is

that as dr. drew explained yesterday on

his show the hospital is actually in the

United States we can flex better than

other places and in particular

apparently every operating room has a

ventilator that they use for the

operations and if you know given that

will probably be postponing a lot of

elective surgery we can repurpose them

so first of all there's a bunch of

unused ones that will just be sitting

there that we can put into production

pretty quickly secondly apparently the

military has a lot of them and they

could temporarily be used for this

purpose because we're not at a major war

except against the virus so that would

give us you know little flexibility that

other countries clearly don't have I

mean there's no other country I would

imagine who has any kind of military

gear that military healthcare gear

that's anything close to what the United

States would have but I also hear and I

don't have confirmation on that that the

United States might be look

to put some orders in for ventilators

now I don't know who does the math on

this stuff and says well how much is

enough and how much is not enough uh

ventilators but I think we're in a do

everything and do it hard at the

situation I don't think we're in a

situation where we should be saying you

know we might have enough ventilators or

we probably have enough or we're almost

certain we have enough ventilators

that's not the place we're in we're in

the place if you if there's any chance

we need ventilators any at all guess and

ventilators so I hope the government is

looking to do that I have a question I'm

going to put out here publicly um I

think I can find the right person in the

government but I've been asked and it's

weird how this world works you know

every citizen is sort of entering the

fight if they can you know so I'm in the

fight with with all of you and people

have asked me one person in particular

who shall be temporarily not named but

probably later asked who when the

government can make the decision to buy

more masks more gloves more more

equipment because an individual is

actually just spontaneously organized

with others to look at some factories to

convert them like a wartime footing to

emergency produce masks and gloves and

other euros

I don't know sanitizers other things

that one might need so here we have you

know American individuals who have were

starting to build factories without the

government's help oh my god the the the

capability in this country is is just

incredible

but here's my question to you so you can

you can join in if you know how to help

who in our government can say yes to

writing a check for more mass more

equipment more anything is there anybody

in the government who's the emergency

budget person who gets to say okay

that's in the budget that's not in the

budget we got we got

million dollars that's in that's out so

well somebody says Congress but I didn't

name

I need a you know I need a name and

phone number basically so if he DM that

to be if somebody has some contacts just

said in my way most of you know how to

contact me I'm pretty easy to contact go

to LinkedIn if all else fails alright so

in Italy here's an inspirational story

Italy was running short on ventilators

but they had three ventilators that were

missing a part I think it was the same

part it might not have been but it was

missing a part it's pretty hard to get

apart these days for a ventilator I

would guess so they brought in a local

company with a 3d printer and the local

company looked at the bar engineered it

and 3d printed it right there oh my god

humans you know it's like watching I you

know I hate to say it because there's

you know so much death and misery but

it's like watching a sporting event

where individual players are making

great plays and you know bringing the 3d

printer people to make you an emergency

part for your ventilator that's like

that's like curry passing behind the

back you know under the legs of the

opponent for the layup these are serious

people doing serious things and I'm

amazed and impressed so and of course

Google is stepped up to do the

coronavirus website you know we can

complain about whether it is or is not

on time or what the president said but

it's people doing the things they need

to do at least 35 companies and academic

institutions are rushing to create a

vaccine at least four have tested it on

animals already this is amazing

we've never seen anything like this and

it'll say Moderne moderna biotech

company in Massachusetts has already

shipped the first batches

for testing I guess and you know here's

my take

human engineer ingenuity I'll say this

I'll say this a thousand times until you

until you all have this picture in your

head we all know the virus has this you

know this curve where it's gonna start

slow and like we're not worried and then

oh my god it's a panic and that's you

know we're sort of in that and that

dangerous part of the curve but human

ingenuity looks just like that just like

that and our curve will be faster than

the virus because of the things we're

doing and I heard somebody smarter say

we're not we're not self-quarantine and

shutting everything down because it's a

crisis it's a it is a crisis it's not

because of the virus it's because we

want to avoid the virus it's sort of the

positive way to look at it the reason

we're doing the shutdowns is because

we're gonna avoid the problem not

because we have the problem I know it's

a small small change but I like it

better that way and you're seeing human

ingenuity at at the L maybe I'd call it

the elbow

you know our curve is going like this -

we're gathering and gathering

information we're a/b testing we're

testing we're testing we're building

labs we're building factories we're

testing building factories we're trying

stuff we're right in the elbow we're

right we're right in that little

u-shaped part where we've been flat for

three months because you know we've

known about the virus three months four

months however long we've known about it

but so little information and it's wrong

information and you're not sure and

China is not telling us stuff but now

the information is coming in the fog is

starting to clear human capability is

being put on this thing like nobody's

business somebody passed around a quote

attributed to me but it's not really my

quote I quote was somebody else but I

don't know who said it first

so I am mistakenly credited for this

quote but I'm only a fan of it and and

it goes like this if you want something

find out the price and then pay it now

as basic as that sounds we so often

don't do that that it sounds startling

to hear that that's a way to success

this coronavirus is is presenting people

all over the world with this proposition

what do you want I want to be I want to

get rid of this coronavirus from the

world you really is that what you want

do you really want it yeah yeah before I

was a little ambiguous little ambivalent

let's say but right now 100 percent

that's what I want once you know what

you want and you're not wondering

anymore

and that's where we're all at at this

point that's a decision it's one thing

to want the virus to go away we have

past wanting it to go away we are in

deciding to make it go away

and that's different because once you

decide you'll do anything and you see

that happening

people will do anything we're watching

our healthcare professionals some of

them getting infected I guess there are

two emergency doctors just reported were

badly infected and having some problems

pretty bad ones and when you see our

medical professionals run toward danger

these people are better than us you know

there they are your standard you should

look at the doctors who are doing this

stuff the nurses too and they know

they're not completely protected they

know their risk and they're doing it

anyway they are the they are our best

heroes right now by far so use that as

your standard for what - for what what

to do as a citizen because you might be

asked to do something that hard you know

maybe you already are but not that hard

you will be asked to make that kind of a

tough decision just remember we're not

we're not at wanting wanting was before

we're at deciding

get yourself out of wanting and get into

deciding because it's easier it's more

effective let's decide to kill it the

virus that is one way or another all

right

here's an ugly truth that I tweeted and

this this gets to this is related to

human ingenuity but it's also related to

deciding versus wanting what I'm going

to describe is possible in any other

world you would never even consider this

alright so what I'm going to suggest

right now is ugly and you don't want it

but we're past the wanting phase we're

now at decision phase imagine if you

could imagine if the government demanded

that anyone who sold a ticket to any

large event for this weekend had to give

the government their data we want to

know the names of anybody who was let's

say unwise enough to take themselves

into a crowded situation now some places

don't have tickets let's say a crowded

bar but there probably are credit-card

receipts because we're a credit card

kind of a world it wouldn't get

everybody some people are cash some

people don't buy drinks but the credit

cards will get a lot now let's say you

you compare those a lists of names of

people who clearly were in large groups

recently if you add to that facial

recognition something like the Clear

View app somebody says absolutely not

we're just talking here so you know I

don't I don't have a decision on any of

this so you don't need to complain to me

I'm just telling you what we could do

all right what we could do yes is have

an app in every citizen's hand by the

end of the week it's possible in which

you could just take a picture of your

kids your kids friend you

or they come over the house you said

you're you say to your kid who's the

friend that you you want to hang out

with today just one-on-one and this adds

my friend Timmy show me a picture of

Timmy Boop

Timmy's family just came back from

Disneyland nope sorry Timmy should have

told you that but Timmy did not Timmy's

a kid you didn't know to tell you that

so you know I don't even have to look at

the comments to hear you say no no big

brother were past that you want privacy

we're past that we're past wanting were

in to deciding if we decide to get rid

of the virus we have tools their

grotesque tools their expensive tools

their tools we may have trouble getting

back in the you know the toothpaste back

in the tube I guess it's a tube of

toothpaste but we have tools so just

know that all right um so a poll that

said who do you think would be the best

pick for Vice President and it was an

emerson poll and Harris got the most

votes

20% second most votes was yang Oh

so Andrew yang of course very capable

person did exceeded expectations in the

race but dropped out but he was learning

apparently with the rest of us that his

penis disqualifies him for public office

and how would you like to be Andrew yang

he joined a team team Democrat you

fought for months and months you lost

sleep you worked hard you fought and

fought for your team and then your team

said thank you very much Andrew yang

thanks for being part of the process now

we're going to pick a vice president but

we're only going to choose from among

people who do not have a penis like you

do Andrew yang

so the yang Wang I call it hashtag yang

Wang has disqualified him for for a

potential but you know thank goodness if

he can't be vice president because he

has a penis at least he can you know be

nominated for the Supreme Court okay he

can't be nominated for the Supreme Court

because he has a penis and he's not

black because that's what Joe Biden said

you said it's gonna be a woman it's

gonna be a black one now I applaud him

the you know the attitude I applaud the

attitude that you know we should have a

Supreme Court that looks like the

country that's not a bad that's not a

bad thing in fact it's a good thing but

how was he under yang feel about that

you know the the thing about being

liberal is that it's a great idea until

somebody comes for your stuff until

somebody comes for your stuff it's easy

to be liberal because you're giving away

other people's stuff but Andrew yang and

they just came for your stuff how does

it feel and while I don't think you're

ready to be a Republican the Democrats

did throw you under a bus ran over you

and then backed up over here to make

sure the job was done because it's not

enough that you have a penis you also

have the wrong ethnicity for your own

party sorry let's see now

what else we got going on here I want I

watched much of the debate last night

and I'm wondering if you had the same

response that I did which is I don't

care because the coronavirus is so big

in terms of other the mental you know

load that it puts on me

that my normal high level of interest in

presidential politics was maybe I know

25% of normal

I couldn't get interested now part of it

is I don't think either of them can be

Trump so I'm not sure that it matters I

don't know if it matters what they say

but did you also have the same

experience that that it didn't it didn't

draw you in didn't feel like didn't feel

like it was important anymore which is

weird

now I hope that we get back to a point

where that feels like it's important but

here are some of the comments I saw

online and I plan to keep my my gallows

humor through the coronavirus so I'm

just telling you right now sooner or

later you know somebody's going to try

to come at me with the pitchforks and

torches because I made a joke and that's

an emergency and you made a joke but I'm

telling you right now I'm not going to

lose my sense of humor during the

coronavirus so if you don't like it this

would be not the place to be but I here

are some things that people said about

the debate last night this one maybe

laugh out loud that somebody just said

dentures were flying dentures were

flying that's such a that's such a clean

and crisp visual that captures so much

of the situation yep dentures were

flying somebody else said I think

Donnell ER I forgot was that the first

one but Donnell are on Twitter said

final score the aneurysms and dementia 9

heart attack 8 which is funny because

the candidates were starting to see them

by their medical conditions right if you

look at Trump what do you think of well

it's a haircut

yeah billionaire I think it is your

personality or whatever but when you see

Burt

and Biden together debating don't you

guide to think about their health

especially during the coronavirus so we

got two candidates who were being

defined by their health problems running

against the most capable politician you

know in our time with that said I have

to be honest about this because we're in

an emergency situation I've created the

president's messaging on this you know

being muddled and getting some facts

wrong and stuff so it wasn't building

confidence he has the wrong personality

for this situation he's a he's a just a

natural salesperson and politician and

all that but just doesn't fit the

problem and I'd been hoping to see him

adjust because everybody's adjusting

right you know that's what we do well as

a species we adjust were really good

adjusters and the president appear

apparently has adjusted apparently he

has he has adjusted and III didn't see

it but I understood the president okay

yesterday's event where they were just

updating the public I think he just sort

of made some introductory comments and

then let the experts talk exactly what I

wanted to see it's exactly what I wanted

to say so the country needs to know that

the government is you know hearing it

and then it's responding in real-time

I think that gut I think the country

spoke as one you know of course there

were some hardcore Republicans who were

just you know in the president's camp

but those of us were just trying to be

helpful I think we we spoke as one and

said all right mr. president with all

due respect your messaging on this is

just not a good fit you know maybe maybe

you could let let the people who are you

know the experts of this be more of the

messaging and it appears he's done that

right it appears he has done that so do

you feel more confident when your public

has a concern your government hears it

you can see a response in real-time this

to be the right as a response you should

feel good about that and and I'm gonna

remind you over and over and over again

that the normal ways civilization creeps

forward is by making mistakes in quickly

correcting them in an emergency you

should see more mistakes because you

know for all the right reasons you know

the timing is compressed etc you should

see an enormous amount of mistakes in

the beginning but you need to see fast

correction are we seeing fast correction

from our government yeah

we are we're seeing it really well I

would say so you know you can always

argue something should it be been faster

and I wrote about that in my book looser

think that you'll just always can say

that there's nothing that's good that

you can't say should it happen faster so

if you hear the people saying here's my

career to saya criticism something

should have happened faster they're not

legitimate players that's not a

legitimate comment could be true could

be true because everything could be done

faster but it's not a legitimate

criticism because it's a universal truth

that everything could be done sooner so

let's let's representing fast correcting

their problems

shout out to representative Gilliam who

went into alcohol rehab I have a little

rule it goes like this roughly speaking

if somebody does you know batter

embarrassing behavior in public I'm not

above having a good time with it and

thinking well you know it's their own

damn fault

and in a political world of course you

know we're more likely to make fun of

the side that that you're not supporting

but when somebody goes into alcohol

rehab and I think this is legitimate I

I'd be surprised very surprised if this

is some kind of an act in which he's

pretending to be an alcoholic or

something but when I see somebody make

that move he did it publicly and and by

the way I don't believe any of his story

about what happened I don't believe any

of that but I also don't care do I care

I mean that's between him and his

his family I care about his family then

but I don't care about it personally it

doesn't affect me but he wanted to tell

alcohol rehab and here's my rule

I always praise people who would make

that step no exceptions

doesn't matter what you did before that

if you can make that step and and you're

willing to you know take the you know

take the heat of admitting it in public

especially although in this case it

probably helps them I just say

congratulations and and thank you

congratulations and thank you it would

work

now that's all I want to say about Indra

Gilliam and now he needs to go work on

himself but I want him to know at least

from one person that at this moment I'm

in that decision I'm completely

supportive and I appreciate it and I

have full respect for that how many

people have died how many doctors have

died from past flus now as we're trying

to figure out how much is the right

amount of being worried and how much we

should not be worried one of the

questions I have is is this typical that

in the past we were having doctors were

dying from treating just regular flu

because they had to be happening

somewhere right because the regular flu

can't also take people out and some

doctors would be older you know over 60

etc is but I think these are actually

younger doctors but is this a reporting

phenomenon in other words is it is it

true that every year there are you know

we lose a few doctors actually dying to

the flu does that happen every year and

we just don't we don't report it because

it seems more like the baseline and are

we over reporting some specific things

that are certainly worrisome and you

know it doesn't mean we should treat the

the the situation any less seriously but

I'm just wondering if the when we're

about the doctors who are dying if if

any of this is

because it hasn't there's more reporting

about it it's just a question

but the seriousness of course should not

be underestimated and the reason that

matters the reason it matters to us is

that I would like to know the odds of

dying if I get it and the only way I

would know that this is know how many

infected people are not having problems

so if you tell me Scott it is very

normal for doctors to be dying during

the flu season from catching the flu

it's just you know it's low percentage

we don't report it it's just sort of

baseline the badness if I knew that and

I knew that what I was seeing about

these doctors dying was just more of

that then that would give me a little

more comfort than if I get it I'm not

going to die so it has to do with our

national state of mind which is

important because this is you know in a

way what we're having is an information

in psychology problem and you know you

have to treat it that way as well as a

health and physical problem but I'd like

to know if more doctors more young

doctors especially are dying from this

flu than from last flus because that

would that would give me some

information you know should I contract

it from that point on and what are my

odds that would give me some information

all right what about what about maybe

I've already talked about this one let's

talk about Bernie and Biden you know

again I you just watched to happen in

real time I'm so uninterested in Biden

and Bernie Sanders that I just forgot to

talk about it was like the big news that

wasn't the virus last night the biggest

news and literally just forgot to talk

about here but I'll go back to it what I

saw

you know I refer to it as a pillow fight

in the nursing home and the reason I

called it that is that there was a lot

of activity you know they were they were

loudly passionately talking about his

stuff but it felt like two old men just

go ah ha and they were punching as hard

as they could but it was sort of like a

pillow fight punch it felt to me that

there were no no real blows landed now

if you were a partisan you would look at

and say oh yeah

there was that time that Bernie cornered

him on that and that lie yeah nobody

cares and that was a time Biden you know

did that good thing and he really he

really showed his presidential mm-hmm

yeah maybe nobody cares here's my here's

my summary of it that my summary is that

because Biden didn't lose he won Biden

looked better than I've seen him I have

to admit but I didn't looked healthier

than I've seen him wasn't third I missed

the first part but somebody said he

coughed did that happen because he

didn't go off for the rest of the the

event but I was waiting to see if there

was a video of it I saw that hashtag

Biden cough was trending and then I

looked for it but I haven't seen the

video yet so can anybody tell me in the

comments did that cough look like it was

a problem golf or did it look like you

know just a dry throat I've been talking

all day kind of cough which we all have

so I don't know so I would say Biden won

because Bernie probably wasn't trying to

win it look that way Bernie was pretty

clear that if he didn't get it he would

help Joe Biden and that's a lot easier

because Joe Biden apparently is stealing

Bernie's platform

which was a good play if apparently you

know so Biden wants to do some kind of

free college for some kinds of people

situation and he's basically just

stealing one of Bernie's biggest biggest

things now here's an interesting thought

I just want to put this in your I was a

cleared throat cough or a coughed off

camera I said I heard some throat

clearing coughing off-camera but I

thought it was Bernie because I think it

happened to one Biden was talking so

that's just an open question I don't

think there's a reason to think there's

a specific risk because of that but we

should watch that so does it seem

interesting to you that Elizabeth Warren

is out of the race she has not endorsed

anybody and bited him just picked up her

major one of her major signature pieces

which is the student debt forgiveness is

there any possibility that Elizabeth

Warren will be the vice presidential

pick for Biden because it feels like

he's at least considering it because if

you were going to negotiate with

Elizabeth Warren to be your vice

president could you bring her on the

ticket if you had nothing that she

wanted probably not it could be the

Biden is prepping the nation for

bringing word on his vice president

that's possible now I think it's a

losing ticket if he asked me I think

that that would cost him too much of the

black vote I think yeah I think she's

you know unlikable in a number of ways

she's too old to be a vice president in

my opinion I don't think we should be

picking vice presidents that are gonna

be in their 70s that makes no sense at

all and especially in the you know in

the middle of a situation where a virus

is killing older people can you really

have a vice president who's going to be

in her 70s really is that how you

protect the country by having a vice

president

it was 70 years old I think she's 69 now

and so I don't see it you know I don't

see it as a good strategy but the fact

that Biden took Warren's you know one of

Warren's signature things it could be he

was just trying to decapitate earth I'm

sorry kneecap birdie but give something

to Bernie's supporters which would also

explain it but Elizabeth Warren is

suspiciously silent lately so can't rule

it out I'm still going to say common law

Harris

Coble Harris has always been my first

prediction but all and I'll stay with it

all right anything else happened for

those of you who stayed to the end I'm

gonna I'm gonna tell you a story I've

never told before and the reason I've

never told it is because it couldn't be

told there's a category of stories that

can never be told until the situation is

just right and this is it and I wouldn't

tell this story unless I thought it

would help

some people so I'm gonna tell this story

with the the advanced knowledge that

maybe 80% of you are going to say Oh

Scott

are you losing it a little bit I am not

buying any of that I'm not even sure

that's true Scott did you just make up

that story so 80% of you are not going

to have the experience that I'm trying

to give the 20% know that in advance but

it won't worry you you know you're

you're not going to be worse off for it

and you will be interested 20% of you

don't operate on a strictly rational

logical basis that's what we're going to

talk to 20% if you live in more of a

let's say if it were your own words

you'd probably say it was a spiritual

world you know where all things are

possible maybe there's a new age part of

you

to speak to you the people who still

allow some mystery about how things work

those of you who think we live in the

mechanical cause-and-effect world and

you've you've got a good grasp of all of

that this won't this won't be good for

you this is for the other 20% and it

goes like this the only thing I'll

promise you and then we're gonna look

right in the camera and promise you this

I'm not making up any of this I could be

wrong I mean I could have some facts

wrong and could have some false memory

but I promise you none of this is made

up at least at least consciously you

know for most of my life I've seen my

future in advance right 80% of you just

said oh god I don't like where this is

going I don't know why I don't have a

theory on it it's just an experience

I'll give you an example in my early

early youth I saw myself as a famous

cartoonist now I became one what are the

odds of becoming a famous cartoonist

well the odds of being a successful

cartoonist are pretty low the odds of

being a famous one are really low oh how

many famous cartoonists can you name

right maybe 20 and and and the other 19

of them probably started way before I

did you know they're already sort of

just famous people from the past in many

cases so to become a famous current

cartoonist what are the odds now if that

were if this were the only part of my

story I would say okay Scott Scott

that's easy to explain it's the thing

you wanted you had the capability you

work for it you got it you know and and

if you had not succeeded we wouldn't be

listening to you so there's there's also

a survivor bias thing built into there

but it's not the only part of my story I

also had a vision

of a house I would live him years in the

future and that I did I lived in the

house there was for all practical

purposes the exact house I imagined for

years and and the like most of my dreams

I don't remember I can't tell you I

remember much in terms of any dream I've

ever had I don't think I have

but these visions I call them were not

dreams they were a solid almost like a

memory of the future that's how I

experienced them and of course I always

thought to myself that doesn't mean

they're real I might have this thing

that feels like a memory but of the

future that doesn't mean it's real and I

wouldn't expect 80% of you to even you

know most of you are probably checking

out before I get to the good part

there's a good part coming in college in

my freshman year was it freshman I don't

know what year it was but in college one

day I was sound asleep and I woke up in

bed set sat up in bed wide awake and I

saw myself living in San Francisco now I

had no connection to San Francisco I was

in college and the East Coast yet had

never traveled here never been to

California and didn't didn't even know

any people I didn't know a person who

lived in San Francisco and I saw again

like it was a future memory a vivid

picture of me and San Francisco a few

years later I landed in San Francisco

having sold my car for a one-way ticket

to San Francisco and actually to

California and then I drove up to San

Francisco and I lived there for years

and built my life here I had another

vision at around the same time again it

was a future of memory meaning not like

a dream because I don't really remember

my dreams and I don't put any importance

in them but the other vision was me

standing in front of a large audience a

physical audience and

and talking to them and somehow I was a

celebrity now this was weird because at

the time I was having that vision slash

hallucination

whatever you want to call him it was my

experience I'm not saying it's true

false I'm not putting any meaning on it

I'm just describing it

I saw myself standing in front of large

crowds and they were listening just to

me and I didn't know what I was saying

or why I was there years later when the

Dilbert thing happened I embarked on a

speaking career and I would finally find

myself quite frequently standing on

stage alone doing essentially stand-up

comedy to a group of a thousand or five

thousand I think 5,000 was the biggest

now there was nothing absolutely nothing

in my early life that would suggest that

my personality and my ambitions anything

would put me on stage as a celebrity in

front of a giant crowd of people and it

happened it happened I have one other

premonition that I've had since I was

very young

it's my strongest one now these other

ones were all good news all right good

news I have become a famous cartoonist

that's great news good news that I would

be able to live in this you know cool

house that I imagined and then I did but

not the house I'm in I built this one

and I'm it was cool news that I would

stand in front of big groups and and

entertain them or something and it was

good news that I'd moved to San

Francisco because it's a nice place

where I used to be but there was one

premonition really really strong and it

has weighed on me like one of the worst

parts of my life it was my hardest

premonition my worst one and it has

waited on me for decades and it went

like this

in my early 60s which is now there would

be a national disaster that people

didn't see come I never in my in the

vision I never knew the nature of it and

in that world I would become important

in a different way different than

cartooning different than that and that

I would know my role when it happened

and I think it's this because as much as

this is a health problem it's a

psychological problem and somehow by

complete accident meaning I didn't plan

it

I have studied my whole life for this

this moment all of my skills all of my

talent all of my celebrity you know

let's say capital you sort of coming

together at this moment exactly exactly

as I have expected for decades

it's my clearest cleanest scariest

vision of the future and it's this but

here's the good news

it works out because in this vision we

get through it and we get through it by

sticking together and we get through it

because we can because we're Americans

because we're humans ninety nine speech

ninety nine percent of the species on

earth have gone extinct not us not us

ninety nine percent of the species of

the planet Earth

have already gone extinct not us that

virus doesn't know what's coming

for it human ingenuity is starting to

kick in

hold on two weeks two weeks in two weeks

you're gonna see news coming from your

fellow citizens the best among us that

is better than anything you've ever seen

in your life it's going to be

breathtaking it's going to be hard

this next year is gonna be hard it's

gonna be very hard but for the 20% of

you who live in a world where cause of

the fact isn't everything

maybe we're maybe maybe we're not a

mechanical world

maybe there's something mysterious

something spiritual something extra

maybe we're a simulation maybe God has a

plan any of those things but if it helps

you if it helps you even a little bit

these visions of mine have not been

wrong yet I'm not making this up we are

where we were going to be if these

visions mean anything but we're in a

good place that looks like a bad place

we're gonna beat this and we're gonna

beat it hard and we're gonna be fine and

I hope I can be part of that and I will

talk to you maybe tomorrow probably this

afternoon give you a little little extra

free entertainment because our sports

are gone and that's all for today