Episode 856 Scott Adams: Making You Feel Better Before Bed
Date: 2020-03-18 | Duration: 26:44
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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Making You Feel Better Before Bed
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um hey everybody hey Chris we're gonna have a like crew tonight you got lots to do at night and you're not addicted to watching me at nights yet yet well I thought I would do a little bonus periscope because it's an emergency you know what you don't get enough of entertainment when you're locked up into your house it's a rainy day here but I still got my working it workout in I just put in any very large order of food for my local restaurant and I'm watching my map as the as the car is approaching well I'll have to get off when they get here even brought a little extra I bought a whole entree that may or may not even eat but it's a local restaurant and I'm just sending my money their way gonna spread it around hope you're all doing the same now the side benefit of that of having them deliver hot food is you know aside from not having to cook
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you know aside from not having to cook it is that you get to keep the food that's already in your house so my supply of you know whatever excess I have for an emergency well it's untouched I'll just door - and support the local businesses now I don't think I'll say this a billion times I don't think we have a food problem take for example nobody is hoarding broccoli nobody nobody's hoarding broccoli because broccoli doesn't last very long so it you know as long as you're willing to have your food delivered or send somebody who was invulnerable to go get it for you you got plenty of food there's not really any chance that the vegetables are gonna run out you know we're worried about it when the vegetables run out but it looks like there's not even any slight risk of that
all the businesses are responding in I don't know if you can feel it yet can
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don't know if you can feel it yet can you feel it and the zeitgeist you know the the zeitgeist is a German word because there's no word in English that has that same meaning and it's it's basically that that general feeling in the air well who knew who knew that the coronavirus would be the thing that brought us together but it's happening I have never seen less political partisanship than this week I mean at least not they arrived Trump am i right you know there's still some people were doing their political thing but as somebody mentioned in the comments and this is worth calling out I don't know if you noticed that Dana Bash CNN one of them one of their more prominent personalities I don't know I she would be she would be like you know frequent guest or something and Dana Bash said on
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guest or something and Dana Bash said on CNN with without reservation that the president's communication style is is now right where it needs to be and that's the leader that we've been waiting for and I think she's right now nobody's been tougher on the president's communication than I have and and I gotta tell you it's been painful because I don't want to be the one who criticizes him this is just way less fun than talking about the things he does right but he wasn't crushing it the public spoke the media spoke I'm sure his advisers spoke but here's the good news he adjusted and boy did he adjust and I was trying to figure out why what what changed you know some of it is you know maybe is thinking about it you know may have changed but it occurred to me that when he was struggling on his messaging was when he had to give us bad news and it was the kind of bad news the
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news and it was the kind of bad news the kind of really would hope didn't necessarily come true so imagine Trump's perpetual optimistic personality and he has the hardest job in the world which is to tell the public there's a big really bad thing coming and there's not a whole lot we can do to completely stop it you know we're gonna do the best we can he wasn't really his personality wasn't suited for that he has a lifetime of optimism and the the leadership of the moment called for him to be brutally honest and sort of pessimistic you know pessimistic babies too far but he had to be brutally honest about bad news I don't think that's his sweet spot but we're no longer in that phase we have passed him to war this is war we're a war with a entity this virus that we're trying to divide and conquer we're
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trying to divide and conquer we're trying to beat it we're using every tool in the Arsenal and we're making new ones but it's a war and it turns out the Trump's good at war because as soon as the message was were under attack we're gonna beat this thing suddenly he was fixed because optimism works when you're in the war it as long as it's not crazy optimism you know not not the salesmen stuff stuff but the you know we're gonna beat this we're gonna get this you know stick together that sort of thing that works when you're in the war it wasn't right you you can't use that optimism when the troubles coming and that's a big difference so I think one of the things I've often said about the president is that he is an extremely nimble learner meaning that he you know became a you know real estate tycoon he
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became a you know real estate tycoon he learned that that he learned how to use the the media he learned how to build golf courses he learned licensing he learned these businesses he learned how to be a television star and then he learned how to be a president he's sort of an autodidact of of you know of people in the sense that if people are involved you can learn how to do this stuff really quickly so two things happened the situation changed to be more compatible with his aggressive personality you know aggressive is what he does well it's honestly it's why a lot of us you know supportive in the first place is that he's more aggressive than other people honestly that that's the biggest part of his appeal one of the biggest parts is that you'll simply go where others won't go and sometimes you need that maybe you don't need it every year maybe you don't need it every decade every now and then you need somebody who will come in and just do the stuff that you wish had gotten done but it's just too hard and
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gotten done but it's just too hard and nobody's going to be that aggressive and that's him so I think we've were close to turning a corner on ingenuity not turning a corner on the problem they'll still be you know more cases tomorrow and maybe the day after but are you are you feeling the amount of human energy that's going into this are you feeling the smartest people in the world just self-organizing into this you know mind-blowing power that we've never seen before at least focused on a single issue I just saw a list I don't remember everything on it but it was all a good news list so you know where you expected to see a long list of good news now its preliminary good news but it turns out that China has essentially written up their experience and when you read it it gives you kind of a playbook
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read it it gives you kind of a playbook because China tried a lot of stuff they try too fast they try too hard and they learned and they learned and they a/b tested and they learned because they had to they had a lot of people there you know I hate to say experiment on because that's not the mindset but they had a lot of experiences by which they could see what worked in what didn't and they wrote them up and you look at the document and it's almost a recipe for beating this thing yeah in terms the the medicines that they used to treat and again apparently this this malaria drug that's been around for a long time hydroxy claw will or whatever the otherwise totally works apparently the question about whether it's effective feels kind of answered even though anecdotally there were so many anecdotal experiences and they were so consistent kind of looks like it works so there's that somebody saying
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works so there's that somebody saying black Plaquenil I think that's the that's the manufacturers name for it versus the generic name oh thank you in the comments there's the word chloroquine chloroquine and then there's one that's apparently even better that's you hydroxychloroquine or something so there's that then there's also a number of other drugs that I recognize that the Chinese tried and got good results with and then also we saw he and on Twitter suggested the idea of taking the blood from people who had recovered and therefore had antibodies and I guess there's a process where you can take the good stuff out of the blood and give it to other people and get some immunity and you know and you have just floated this idea was it this morning I think it was early as this morning or yesterday I guess and then the Chinese report came out I just
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then the Chinese report came out I just thought today and one of the things that they tried was that and apparently has some promise I don't know that full outcome but it was worth trying and and and it was worth it for them to mention it as something that others should try so and apparently they've done it again so there are a whole bunch of drugs for treating and then there's news coming out of various places about vaccines I think that'll take longer but the effectiveness of the drugs that are at least preliminarily it's still too early to say we have a drug that will fix this you're all good your good that's that's not what I'm saying I'm saying that the indication is so strong there was there were there were ready to turn the corner who haven't turned the corner but that we're prepping to turn the corner you can almost feel it that's in the air now and
you you're seeing people being so amazingly creative and and and just
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amazingly creative and and and just self-motivated you know self-organizing self-motivated so on the treatment front it's looking really good now the other thing that of course all of us you know we observers who are not experts and we think we're experts because we you know we watched the entity for 15 minutes or something but you know we're all crying for more test kits and we're you know where's our testing give me my test kit blah blah blah I'm just watching my door - or approach here excuse me gotta get that back on the map and here's the thing I don't know well I I know I it seems to me that the the regular news business became kind of hollow because it turned into just talking about what Trump did today which you don't need any base reporting for so the only base reporting that we're seeing is coming in of just a few outlets you don't see much of it on TV
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of it on TV Joe Pollock's done some for Breitbart yeah I think the Washington Post this doesn't sound probably the New York Times but yeah I imagine the Wall Street Journal but there's not as much investigating and the question that I have is what's up with the test kits what is up with the test kits my guess is that there's a whole lot of activity going on to prepare to make them and maybe they're already starting to crank them out and in volume it's not it's not that making it it's the volume part my guess is that by sometime next week we're going to have god-awful number of tests because that's the sort of who we are we're a country that could manufacture stuff and we can retrofit stuff and we can figure stuff out or we can solve problems and the best of us are focusing on the biggest problems the best of us
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so I would take a lot of comfort from the fact that we've now had enough time that the smartest people in the world no doubt are starting to spin up factories to turn out the test kits that's probably if you have the treatment and the test kits and you have them let's say in the next 30 days you know widely available that might be optimistic but America can American do that in 30 days in 30 days do you think America could get these drugs into our pharmacies by the way I checked my pharmacy and I can't get that you know drug I just forget every time I mention it so the drug that's working and widely available for malaria is not in my local pharmacy I don't know if it's because my doctor was a little unclear about why it could be because we don't need it not a lot of malaria here maybe maybe that's why more likely the government has already confiscated it maybe because there can't
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confiscated it maybe because there can't be that much of it that was sort of already in shelves with the big medical in this case it was Kaiser and it makes me wonder if the government didn't just say you know give it all to us and we'll control guess it because it's gonna be like gold maybe I mean just guessing it could be that they just don't keep it on stock so I don't really know but how hard would it be to get it how hard would it be to crack it and I don't think there's any chance that the that whatever manufacturing the company makes us I don't think there's any chance they aren't cranking it down right now you know it all likelihood the the manufacturing is operating at no you know 200 percent already we'll see if they can get enough somebody's had 47 percent false positive results is that the tests you know I'm told that the tests don't have to be a hundred percent accurate to be a hundred percent useful
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accurate to be a hundred percent useful you know it's better if they're accurate but if you can catch most people you really you know you can you can knock down the the viral effect enough that maybe you can get a handle of it so you don't have to beat it into complete submission you just were wounded and the testing might be able to do that
chloroquine right chloroquine that's the name of it seventeen percent or asymptomatic yeah the only thing I know because we're we're all armchair experts here right the only thing we know for sure oops looks like my foods delivered it's a it's a no-contact delivery so I'm looking at the security camera and I should get a text at the moment because the the new protocol is that you leave an instruction to just leave it at the front door and then they text me when it's there there it is so they're just
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it's there there it is so they're just acts to be able to say that they have delivered it to their front door perfect it's a really good system you know if you're not hooked on the home delivery of restaurant cooked food again and again it's a luxury not everybody can afford it even even I don't do it often under normal conditions but man it's a good product you know if you don't mind paying a little extra the you know the just the the app and deliver either they're really good it's one of the best products going anyway so there's that um so I think you're going to see testing coming online and you can hear good news about that probably in a week I'm I hope I can give you some good news about some stuff I know about that you don't know about but there are Patriots who are trying to get some masks built and some other necessities and they're working you know working overtime on that and it's happening now I want to give you another piece of optimism i I saw a
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another piece of optimism i I saw a tweet from from the head of the FCC and let me see if I can find that there boom hold it so uh I hope I can pronounce his name right Taj eat pie Pai so chairman of the FCC and saw a tweet and I thought you know he'd be a good person to ask about this you know doctors practicing across state lines so I thought one of the odds and one of the odds that the chairman of the FCC follows me on Twitter yeah I think it was very high but I check and sure enough the chairman of the FCC follows me on Twitter so I followed it back you know I wasn't even following him and deemed him and said you know because I think his tweet was about telemedicine and I said when do we see the executive order for something across
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the executive order for something across state lines now keep in mind this is just me sitting in my desk in California and I sent a message to the head of the FCC in the middle of an emergency productively I mean this is this is not kids business it was a productive suggestion and he gets back to me like right away I I got a direct message to you know a central figure in our government with an important input you know that we need that exception for practicing across state lines just you know reminding they got a lot of interplay you know they get a hundred things going but sometimes it helps just you know move move the important ones up to the front make sure they're there so he gets back to me and basically total agreement and said you know they're working on it hard and hopefully we'll get some movement on it now you know that that's far from the detail that would make me completely have
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would make me completely have because I really would like to know where this is going and then I then I just messaged back and I said who needs their mind change to get a temporary federal order I can help because I can help because of you so you know we've seen that the the public is just part of this process now we're not spectators anymore so if I can find out the name of somebody who's resisting is there anybody resisting because I have a hard time believing there's anybody on the other side of the question which is partly why I suggested this it should be a no-brainer and you know obviously the states have their licensing boards and they're a problem but they're also not relevant because emergency if the federal government if you know if if the president says here's my executive order you can practice across state lines and the state bar says no who cares who cares if the if
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says no who cares who cares if the if the federal government says yeah it's temporary but you can do it and the state says no I don't know I think there must be some way that the the feds could immunize so to speak doctors against any kind of harm so so so part of why I wanted to talk about this is that you know they there's gonna be a lot of criticism right of who did why did he do it in time you know was it the right thing blah blah blah and that's just natural because we're in the middle of something that we've never seen before nobody's ever seen this nobody knew what to do there was no there was no game plan we do what we always do you've heard the famous saying about war you know everybody's got a strategy until the first bullet is fired some some version of that the idea is that you can have a strategy but as soon as you get into the battle you gotta improvise it's the improvising that's the thing
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it's the improvising that's the thing it's not the strategy because the strategies go on after the first bullet and I think that was the case here certainly we could have had exactly the right strategy from the the first moment but I'm really skeptical anybody was as smart you know not not the greatest experts and certainly not the people they were advising our politicians so I don't think it was reasonable that we would hit a homerun on the first pitch and I think at the moment people are doing a pretty good job of focusing on the ball you know focusing forward and not not you know chewing ourselves to death with that stuff I just let me do this and then I gotta go excuse me house is full today with all the people who live here died by us so I just wanted to tell you that little
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so I just wanted to tell you that little story of incredible government efficiency that you know an idea can get to the right person and I've been watching it all week there is no friction between a good idea and the person who needs to hear there's no friction I've never seen this before I have a lot of as you know corporate experience business experience it's very rare that a good idea can get to the person who needs to hear it without any friction that's that's just now nothing else is happening but that and the degree to which people are working together on this is is amazing it's just amazing you know I tweeted the other day that you're gonna see some some surges of human ingenuity that would just be mind-boggling I'm I'm already right on the edge of mind boggled but I don't think you've seen anything yet I feel like we're on the beginning we rather
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like we're on the beginning we rather we're in the elbow you know that you know I told you from the start that what this is going to look like is nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing from our side you know the humans know fight back no weapons no nothing da da da da just getting worse just even worse until it isn't when the weapons are you know when the atomic bomb is assembled look out virus and we're getting close we're not there we're not there hold on for another two weeks and I think things are gonna turn around the president's messaging is on track the experts are on track they know exactly what to do China thank you the President thanked the people of China and President Xi for the great work of not only you know getting it under control over there but for also being transparent at this point I think the president's being sincere about the transparency and telling us what they did and what worked and what didn't because that's the thing that will protect us so do you love it or
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will protect us so do you love it or hate it that the president is being so generous to China now he was also calling it the Chinese virus as recently as yesterday in my opinion that was a mistake because it's just it's just the wrong time to be political it just is but when he says to China this is also political but I think in the context of a pandemic it's the right play in the context of a pandemic praising the work of the other countries is just where you want to be even if you're not sincere about it that's where you want to be so get on the right side pull together unless you're single and then you'll have to pull by yourself and then I got a recommendation for some entertainment I just watched the Ford versus Ferrari movie that's now available on pay-per-view and I kind of say for a guy
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pay-per-view and I kind of say for a guy who says on a regular basis there are no good movies anymore pretty good movie pretty good movie you will not be disappointed by that movie it's really well done and well done in I would say a more classic American film way like it reminded me of older films that I liked but it was still a modern film it tells the real story about a you know a racing team for trying to be Ferrari but that doesn't give you the the real flavor of it that's the backdrop you know Ford tried to be Ferrari but it's way more interesting that characters are great the actors are great plot is great that every part of it is actually it's a great movie I can't find one weakness in it so watch that if you like stuff like that it'll make you feel good about America and I'll talk to you later