Back to episode — Episode 853 Scott Adams - Simultaneous Sipping, #Coronavirus, The Nursing Home Pillow Fight
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u season from catching the flu, it's just low percentage, we don't report it, it's just sort of baseline 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 that 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 in a way what we're…
← Previous segment →rest of 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 cough or did it look like 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 looked 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. 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 things.
Now here's an interesting thought I just want to put this in. I heard some throat clearing, coughing off camera but I thought it was Bernie because I think it happened when 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 Biden just picked up 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 that Biden is prepping the nation for bringing Warren on as 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 she's 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 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 that is 70 years old? I think she's 69 now. And so I don't see it as a good strategy. But the fact that Biden took one of Warren's signature things, it could be he was just trying to kneecap Bernie 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 Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris has always been my first prediction but I'll stay with it.
All right, anything else happened? For those of you who stayed to the end 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 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'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 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 got a good grasp of all of that, 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 consciously.
For most of my life I've seen my future in advance. 80% of you just said oh God I don't like where this is going. I don't have a theory on it. It's ju
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st an experience. I'll give you an example. In my 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. How many famous cartoonists can you name? Right, maybe 20. And the other 19 of them probably started way before I did. The…
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