Episode 714 Scott Adams: A Simultaneous Sip in the Wrong Time Zone

Date: 2019-11-04 | Duration: 8:51

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My new book LOSERTHINK goes on sale 11/5. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2NRammu My complaint about the framing of the Ukraine call

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[0:12]

hey everybody I know I know it's not my regular time but I'm traveling and I've got meetings and that's stuff to do I'm on my official book tour for the release of a loser think it's already tearing up the charts tearing up the charts I say if you don't get a copy everybody's going to be talking about it then you'll be left out I was sad well I wanted to get here early so that I could at least have this available for replay for those people who are looking for me at my normal time and ya know I'm not an early bird I'm on the East Coast I'm in New York City you can you can hear the sounds of garbage outside my room yes the actual sounds of garbage turns out my room is directly above a gigantic pile of garbage it gets picked up I got awful times in the day while I listen to garbage sounds but anyway that's not important what's important what's

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important what's important what's important it's a simultaneous set and you know it doesn't take much to participate cup glub-glub what the hell is a glove a cup or a mug stein chalice any anything canteen doesn't matter what you have get it ready because it's time for the travel version of the simultaneous up are you ready go
good stuff all right so I have to I have to tell you what happened to me so when you do these book doers your publisher put you up at the hotel now I don't know how to tell this story without sounding like a gigantic douche so I'm just gonna go ahead and sound like a gigantic douche bag the quality of the hotel that your

[2:16]

bag the quality of the hotel that your publisher is willing to pay for it's a little bit different from the quality of hotel I may have become accustomed to but this morning took the cake I've got so that the the whole room is the size of a shoebox and the the bathrooms about the size of a phone booth and the shower has a half a half wall of glass so that there's no doorway into the shower and I look in and I think to myself ah it's a really narrow shower and the only way you can get to the controls is to go into the shower into the narrow shower and stand right in front of the water as it comes on you and I think to myself well that's no good because I don't want to turn on my shower and get all this cold water before it gets before it gets warm so I'm clever this is what I do I say
say I'll move the showerhead so it's you

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I'll move the showerhead so it's you know pointing the wall away from me and then I'll be able to turn it on with all of my clothes on and still be able to get out and dry and then I'll take my clothes off and it'll be nice and warm when I get it and a good plan right good plan here's how that plan went turns out that the controls are a little confusing and while I thought I was turning on the shower head which I had cleverly faced the wall what I was actually doing was turning on the little hand held shower device which was pointing out the door completely out of the shower so in other words I had an angle that it could go right out the door and onto the whole wall outside in the main bathroom I realized this after I turned it on so now I'm standing here fully clothed and when I say fully clothed I mean I had long johns on

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clothed I mean I had long johns on because I would have to get some coffee this morning oh by the way I called room service this morning they said we don't have it this morning because our cook didn't come in no room service in New York City of all things so the water is spraying into the main hallway and there's quite a bit of it it's like running on the floor and I'm literally flooding my my thing and I say to myself there's only one way I can stop this I have to go into the shower right now fully clothed with long johns so I say to myself I think I can block the stream with a towel so I grab a towel I hold it in front of me like a shield and I run in and I turn turn off the little handheld thing good plan right block it with the towel turn it off well that was what I intended to do what I actually

[5:16]

what I intended to do what I actually did was turn the control all the way to the left which activated the showerhead now I had tried to turn the showerhead as I said toward the wall but it really only went a little millimeter so what are your standing fully clothed in a narrow little shower and you turn on the showerhead turns out you get very wet let me let me show you hold up
I don't know if you can see but this this that this is the dry part and all of this is completely wet I'm not sure if you hear that because I had the microphone off anyway I was completely soaked top to bottom after having walked you know to get coffee because they didn't have any and so the bottom line

[6:20]

didn't have any and so the bottom line is I'll be checking out of this hotel right after my meetings today ah that didn't work out so well at all last night literally I'm right next to a garbage operation that's operating through the night at at midnight and stuff anyway that's not why you're here you're here to talk about the events of the day I did something very clever this morning on Twitter if I do say so myself and I'm gonna have to read it to you so my complaint with the whole Ukraine and Pietschmann thing is that the Republicans have allowed the Democrats to frame it and the way they framed it is that it's a case of Trump quote digging up dirt on arrival with a foreign country now of course that's no good right if that's how you frame it then the conversations already over so the Republicans have failed just

[7:20]

the Republicans have failed just measurably and I would say that the president is not having his best game on this either because they allow that framing and what did the Republicans say when the Democrats say you're digging up dirt on an opponent with a foreign country they don't push back on that instead they say well I don't think the quid pro quo was there and or it doesn't right rise the level of it all wrong it's all wrong you got it you have to attack the frame the frame and and here's an example so here are my two tweets now what's funny about the tweets is you have to look at the comments from the people who weighed in who were sure that their side really had a good argue and you'll see that they're completely triggered into cognitive dissonance I mean seriously you have to you have to look at them they they've almost completely given up on even counter argument so let me tell you what I said and you'll see why it was so

[8:21]

and you'll see why it was so devastatingly effective so I had two tweets here's one what we was there were two potential outcomes of the requested Ukrainian investigation on Biden either they would find nothing or they would find behavior that voters in the United States need to know so those are the two electoral comes right either the investigation if you created it they would either find nothing