Back to episode — Episode 1822 Scott Adams - Most Of The News Today Is Fake And Kind Of Funny
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sound good but you hope it won't hurt you too much. Disney made a gigantic mistake but they didn't do it intentionally. They did not intentionally destroy their business or degrade it by doing something like that. I don't think they quite saw the DeSantis pushback coming. So to imagine that it's similar, that somebody accidentally hurts their business by saying things they think wouldn't hurt but…
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And you should always be clever and provocative and ideally say something that's not quite true. If you say something that's provocative and sort of almost true but not quite you're going to get more energy because people want to argue about how true it is. Yeah. All right, let's how about less about me. Maybe let's talk less about me for a while.
All right, talk about Trump's misspelled tweets. I think the misspelled tweets are not intentional but I think he leaves them intentionally which is different. You know there's been a number of times that I've had a typo in a tweet and I've decided to leave it because it was getting attention. So I think that's all that's happening. Is Japan safe? Probably. Give us the women's version of the men's secret lesson. I don't know if I could. I think coffee was probably just a pocket dial. No hints.
All right, what was your inspiration for writing God's Debris? If you don't know I wrote a book called God's Debris. Dilbert came out about the same time the Twin Towers were falling I think. But these many years later my book God's Debris is still the thing that people talk about the most when I'm out in public. These days though they're more often mention Coffee with Scott Adams. But God's Debris has really made a big impact on people. And the answer of how I came up with it is I was in the shower and one day all of the things I'd been thinking about for decades I realized were all connected. And that if I put it in a book it would blow your mind because it was blowing my mind when I thought about it. So I thought well if it's blowing my mind maybe it'll blow somebody else's mind. So I put it in a book. And when you find out how all these things come together you might enjoy it. Yeah, blew your mind. Good, good. It is designed to blow your mind. And the context of that is that I used hypnosis technique in the writing. If you use hypnosis technique in the writing you can get some powerful results. So that's what I did.
That's my balcony. That's not a fence. All right, 2001: A Space Odyssey, terrible movie. 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the all-time worst movies. I would like to reenact a scene from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Now don't get bored. Don't get bored. This is pretty interesting so far isn't it? Don't you like how the plot is moving forward? Wow, look at that ship. Still. Is anybody gonna talk in this movie? When do we stop looking at this thing? We've looked at the same thing now for 10 minutes. That's my description of 2001. Literally one of the worst movies ever made. The other worst movie was Titanic. If you recommend somebody watch Titanic you're an idiot because no matter how much you like Titanic it's way too long and it doesn't have a good ending. And not only does it not have a good ending it has an ending that will give you PTSD. Why are you going to spend three hours to give yourself a lifetime of PTSD? Dumb. Don't do it. Titanic, terrible idea for a movie.
You know what's worse? Schindler's List. Oh my god, Schindler's List. There's a specific scene in there and I'm not going to mention it that traumatized me for years and still. I was actually traumatized. Now I get that we should all know how bad it was. You know you should know the Holocaust was bad and making it emotional and bringing you into it definitely has some utility. But don't watch that for entertainment. If you want to give yourself brain damage watch that movie. I got brain damage. That's not a joke. Actual brain damage. Because it created something in my mind that was unpleasant and didn't go away. If somebody put something in your mind that stays there, it stays unpleasant and it never goes away. That's brain damage. I had a brain that didn't have that and now it does. It's brain damage. That movie gave me brain damage and that's not hyperbole. Literal brain damage. And people like giving it an award. Why do you give an award to something that gives you brain damage? Come on. I mean well I know why but yeah.
Serenity is excellent, I agree. What about Stephen King? The only thing I can say about Stephen King is that when you see him tweet you wonder how he could write a book. Anybody else have that feeling? He tweets like he's somebody who used to know how to write a book but something terrible has happened in the meantime. Like maybe drugs, some kind of mental decline of some type. Because if he's always been like this, is that smart enough to write a book? I don't know. It looks like, see the problem is that even his criticisms don't seem smart. There are lots of people I disagree with but they don't look actually stupid. They look like just people, you know, maybe they're confused or whatever but they don't look stupid. You know if Jake Tapper says something I don't like he never sounds stupid because he's not. But Stephen King actually sounds stupid when he tweets. Maybe he's just a
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bad tweeter but it's hard for me to reconcile the tweeting with the fact that he wrote all these popular books. Maybe Joshua Lisec could explain it to us because I already know the answer but maybe Joshua could explain that to you. But why is it he's writing all these good books still and yet he seems like he could be capable of that? What could possibly be the explanation of that? That's one expl…
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