Scott 4 Years Ago Today

This episode streamed exactly 4 years ago on January 29, 2022.

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1. Welcome and Mind-Bending Introduction

[00:00] Good morning everybody. Welcome to the most amazing hour you're likely to ever spend in your entire life.

[00:09] It's called Coffee with Scott Adams and normally it's tremendous. On an average day, it's better than anything you've ever experienced.

[00:20] But today, even the normal coffee with Scott Adams experience is going to go to a new level. It will. Yeah. And if you'd like to get us started off right.

[00:34] And by the way, you might need a little swaddling for your brain. Find a nice warm blanket, unless you're exercising.

[00:43] If you're running on the beach right now.

[00:48] And you hear me laughing in your ear as you're running in the beach, and you're saying, damn it, he's making me laugh when I'm running on the beach. I think he's talking about me.

[00:59] And I am. So keep running on the beach. But the rest of you, get a nice warm blanket, because you're going to need to swallow your brain. Swaddle.

[01:10] But first, how about a simultaneous sip and all you need is a cup of mug or a glass, a tank or chalcastine, canteen, jug, a flask, vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. A beverage, some would say.

[01:22] And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine the other day, the thing that makes everything better. And I mean everything in every reality better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go. Well, um, would you like to see the matrix?

2. Reality as a Resource-Limited Simulation

[01:52] You know, some people think that we live in a simulation, and if this were a simulation, it would be subject to resource constraints, wouldn't it? If we were any kind of computer simulation.

[02:06] The one thing you could be reasonably sure of is it would have some kind of limits, because everything has to have a limit, just like And so, um, could we ever spot the limits of our own simulation as evidence that that's what we're in?

[02:24] And here's the frame that I'm going to give you for today's entire episode. And it goes like that.

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3. Roganization and Simplified Simulation Themes

[04:54] So, watch if you will the predictive power of the simulation hypothesis. Do I tell you that the simulation is the true way to see the world? Never.

[05:08] The only thing I can tell you is that some ways of looking at things might be more predictive than others. And that's probably the closest you can get to something that's real, if anything.

[05:20] So my prediction is this. There can never be a major story.

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4. Spotify Exodus: Fact vs. Fiction

[07:12] It's a big simplification if you were going to program a simulation. So here's what else is happening. Um the story is that the following four people, and before you fact check me, I'm gonna fact check myself when I'm done.

[07:24] uh that the following four people have said they don't want to be on Spotify, this streaming service, if that Joe Rogan is on there with his misinformation about health-related things.

[07:38] So it started with Neil Young, um um, but now uh then we heard that Barry Manilo joined, and then we heard that uh Peter Frampton was on board and then Joni Mitchell. How much of that story is true?

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5. My Spotify 'Boycott' Over Barry Manilow

[10:02] Wait a minute, I'm on Spotify, aren't I?

[10:07] I'm on Spotify, am I not? Can somebody confirm that? I think I am, right? Yeah, I mean w we I just published the podcast wherever, and I think so, I think it's on the 哇

[10:22] Why the hell did nobody ask me if I am willing to be on Spotify with my highly valuable podcast, which probably gets r roughly as many listens as

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6. Joe Rogan: Context and Criticism

[12:10] Very successful.

[12:12] But you you gotta draw the line somewhere. Um Edward uh Snowden uh had a funny tweet. He said uh nobody has a stronger opinion about Joe Nobody has stronger opinions about Joe Rogan than people who have never listened to Joe Rogan.

[12:26] And I thought, you know, I'll bet that's exactly true.

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7. Subjective Reality and Collective Manifestation

[16:05] Well, um those of you who have uh experienced doing mushrooms, you know that

[16:12] You have a much better understanding of our reality as being a subjective reality. So even if you discard this simulation hypothesis.

[16:21] You probably would agree that we are living in our own subjective reality in lots of different ways. And we'll talk about some of those.

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8. Fauci Blame and Diversion Narratives

[21:45] Um here's a bombshell that's gonna scramble your brain. Uh the Australian I saw this on a tweet by a Twitter user called Lot.

[21:55] Bombshell reports from Australia. Australia media places the blame for the pandemic on Fauci.

[22:02] In other words, the United States.

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9. Rogue Experts: Breakthroughs and Failure

[26:07] Let's talk about some more as we go.

[26:11] But uh here's something that I've I've said a number of times and I just want to explain my thinking on it better.

[26:17] Because often I'm talking about a topic in the news and then we we all get diverted about the topic, but really I'm trying to say something about the way we think about things.

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10. Zelensky: A Kremlin Puppet Narrative?

[29:55] Jack Bisavic has another uh tweet and maybe uh maybe a a scoop, I don't know.

[30:03] But uh he tweets that uh Biden chief of staff, Ron Klain, is planning to start leaking and pushing a narrative. A narrative.

[30:12] What kind of a narrative? That President Zelensky of Ukraine is a Kremlin compromised. This is according to a White House staffer. And again, Jack's got good sources. So

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11. Military Financial Reframe: Ukraine's Role

[32:34] Mind-breaking whiteboard for today. The thing you've all been waiting for, but you didn't even know it.

[32:42] I call it the military financial reframe, and it goes like this.

[32:49] That if you look at the arc of time, that power used to be really a military thing, which of course was highly correlated with wealth. You know, wealth could get you a better military, but not necessarily.

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12. US-Born President Rule: Racist or Nationalistic?

[38:06] Um and I'll start with this priming of your brain. Are all of you aware there's a generally accepted parenting practice that if you're a stepparent, you don't do the dissolving.

[38:21] Are you all familiar with that rule?

[38:24] It's generally a universally acknowledged rule. Now the thinking behind it is fairly solid.

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13. Soros's Influence: Presidential Eligibility vs. Funding

[43:14] So we're happy about it there, but here's the provocative question: Why do we allow that same person that we would not trust as a president?

[43:25] To donate so much money to activist organizations that they effectively control our government on those issues.

[43:34] Well, is that okay?

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14. California Living: Weather vs. Problems

[46:02] Yeah, here's the answer to the question why I stay in California, because people always ask.

[46:07] And I'm gonna read, I'm just gonna read this headline from Twitter. The nor'easter storm will bring a major snowstorm at potential blizzard stretching from South Carolina to New England.

[46:20] The storm is predicted to

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15. Depopulation, Obesity, and Sexual Dysfunction

[47:35] Um, did you know there's a depopulation time bomb facing the West?

[47:42] And one wonders, is there a reason we're talking about a depopulation time bomb that we've known about for a long time? Now some of it may be it's just reaching that, you know, critical point where everybody notices. Might be because Elon Musk has brought it up.

[47:57] Um but the West is hitting a uh this problem. China's gonna get it first because of that one one baby problem that or policy they had for over thirty five years or something.

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16. Political Opportunity: Addressing Public Health

[51:09] This is a big deal. And again.

[51:13] This is this gigantic path for somebody like a DeSantis to walk right through. How many people would like to see an American president? And the reason I say DeSantis is he makes every right move.

[51:26] Like he reads the room better than anybody's ever read the room and well Trump read read the room pretty well too. But uh the other thing DeSantis does is he responds to it, but he also takes free money.

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17. Feminized Men and Declining Testosterone

[53:30] Sean Penn got in trouble for saying that uh men in America are becoming, quote, quite feminized.

[53:42] And, uh, any sad?

[53:45] Quote, uh there are a lot of, I think, cowardly jeans that lead to people surrendering their their jeans, meaning the jeans that they're wearing, and putting on a skirt. Now he's talking about some famous celebrities, I guess.

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18. Demand for Masculinity: Audience Poll

[59:38] So I do think that this uh testosterone thing is real. Um all right, now I've got a question just for the men.

[59:48] Just for the man.

[59:51] All right, women, you have to ride this one out, okay.

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19. Political Movements: Scams or Real?

[01:01:00] All right, here's my next question.

[01:01:03] And maybe my last for today. Um do you remember Black Lives Matter? And do you remember uh Antifa? And do you remember uh um Occupy Wall Street?

[01:01:16] And one thing they all had in common is that they were really, really big and then they just sort of went away.

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20. Poll Results Reinforce Simulation Theory

[01:06:47] All right, I give up. This story might be exactly what it looks like.

[01:06:53] It might be.

[01:06:58] All right, so I asked this poll on Twitter. Uh I said on Twitter today, a little poll, I said, were Antifa, BLM, and Occupy Wall Streets real movements that suddenly evaporated, or were they always Democrat scam?

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[01:08:22] So every future story, even if it doesn't line up perfectly with Democrat and Republican, should branch into multiple versions because it has to be.

[01:08:34] That, ladies and gentlemen, is the reframe of the day. I believe I have delivered on my promise that this is the best live stream of all time. Bar none.

[01:08:55] And I will talk to you tomorrow.

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