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Back to episode — Episode 678 Scott Adams - Taking Guest Calls on Any Topic. Critics Welcome

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ow trivial information to support it. So given that distinction there you'd have to know the perpetrator was in the room at the time of the crime and connected to it. Go ahead go ahead do you so that's fine but if you're aware the amount of people that are actually put to death by the state that are actually found innocent afterwards so even the people that are being released even today can read a…

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o in if I can. The first one is a personal thing. I was really intrigued by your description of coffee after you've got your sense of smell back and I've wondered about in particular what it was like to get your head shaved by Christina after you had your sense of smell back or if there was any other incident that was particularly interesting.

Yeah so when I got my sense of smell back after a decade or so of not having smell or taste that happened recently. If anybody's just joining us it was at first overwhelming and I'm not sure that my sense of smell came back in let's say as a whole or if it kind of came back in parts or something because for the first several days everything smelled flowery and perfumey to the point where it was grotesque. Yeah like there was just so much smell. And then it started to settle down a little bit which is what I expected. I expected that my brain had not been used to filtering these new inputs and it took a while to take the avalanche of smells that were coming at me and my brain presumably, this is just an assumption, needs to know how to filter it to keep it from intruding on my thoughts all the time. You know it's sort of just filters it down until I'm just smelling things that I care about or that are different or something that might be dangerous I suppose.

So I'm achieving, I'm a little closer to that but my sense of smell is crazy now. You know I'm like my ability to pick up a smell when I enter the room. I can enter a big room and go and I can see a like a little bottle or something in the corner and I know exactly what's in it. It's like it's crazy. No I don't know this is the last. Yeah what was the second question?

Well the second one was I saw an article from American Thinker about Hillary. Did you see that one?

I did not.

Oh well it was kind of interesting because it was talking about how she seems like she's getting back into her fighting sort of image and that she seems like she might try to get back in the race once Biden gets booted out. So it's just I didn't put a lot of stake in it but I just thought it was interesting to think about.

Yeah there's one new way that she would find her way back in. No I think that the odds of Hillary getting in are zero. But Hillary being smart and Hillary apparently lik

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ing the limelight and she apparently enjoys the speaking and the writing of the books and the attention and the interviews and stuff. I assume she wouldn't be doing it unless she liked it. There's something in it for her. So it's sort of a perfect situation. Do you remember in the last election when Mark Cuban sort of publicly flirted with the idea of running for president? Yeah I said at the tim…

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