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Back to episode — Episode 664 Scott Adams - Join Me With Dr. Shiva Now to Talk About Vaccinations

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. As I said, I'm going to invite Dr. Shiva to join us, and he's already available. I'm going to put him right on. Dr. Shiva, coming at you. Dr. Shiva, can you hear me? I can hear you. Good morning. I'm amazing, and thank you so much for joining us. So I'm going to give, for those few people watching this who don't already know you—most of my audience already knows you—but let me give you just a…

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farewell tour. So I was like I'll never get to see him again. It's a farewell tour. And you know, big fan. And he plays the piano so it's a little extra interesting because of the piano. And it was in the new facility in the Chase Center so I wanted to see the new facility anyway, which is amazing. The new place the Warriors are going to play. Really well done.

So I went and we got these—somebody dropped out, didn't either take it—so we got these amazing seats in the fifth row on the floor. So I'm looking at Elton John like he's just on the other side of the living room. It was insane to be that close to him with no security or anything. Like we're just standing there and there was Elton John right there. So that part was cool.

Now the part that I tweeted about and I complained about is that—and I left this out of the tweet so here's the key part. I was complaining because there was a woman in the seat in front of me who stood most of the show. Now everybody who saw that tweet said old man, don't you know it's a rock concert, people stand. What did you expect? Get off your can. It's for dancing. You should stand. Blah blah.

Here's the part I left out. The people standing weren't dancing for the most part. The little video I showed you was mostly this is what they were doing. They were taking pictures of like minute after minute of the live act. They were standing in front of me and blocking my view with their cameras as well as their bodies. For the first 15 minutes it was just a couple of large guys who stood up in the front right in front of us and decided to film the live act.

Now here's the thing. If you're filming a live act in the first few minutes I totally get taking a little clip. I did it too. So certainly no complaints about somebody using their phone, taking a little video clip. And almost everybody did that. Nearly a hundred percent of people at some point. I took a clip. But if you're standing in front of me with your phone up, not dancing, just so you can get a better picture, and all you're doing is making everybody behind you not be able to see, and you don't once in 15 minutes turn around to acknowledge somebody's saying yell to sit down. It was like 10 people. There were at least 10 people in my sort of zone in front of me who thought it was perfectly okay to stand, not dance, stand and become cameraman and block the entire view of the people who spent outrageous amounts of money to have those seats.

Now here's my point. Yes I know I didn't have to go to the concert. I get it. Yes I know people stand up at concerts. Of course I expected that. Yes people should stand up to enjoy it and dance in the parts that are called for and of course I did. All right. So you don't need to explain to me how standing works versus sitting. You don't need to explain to me how concerts work. I get that. All right. That's not the complaint. That would all be fine if they hadn't had their phones out. I think I would have been okay. Or if they hadn't filmed. The

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re was a big guy in front of me who stood for about a third of the concert filming it with his phone. Now who the hell is going to watch that video? Do you think there's one person in the world who's going to say hey wow you got Elton John on a tiny little screen with bad sound system. Can I watch 15 minutes of that? Nobody. The guy who took the video is not going to watch it again. You might watc…

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