Real Coffe - Scott Adams - Episode 312 Scott Adams: Enjoying Thanksgiving Coffee With You
Aired: 2018-11-22
Duration: 04:36


=== Air Quality Improvement (01:22) ===

[00:00:00]  Ba dum bum bum, bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum Joanne, you're always on time.
[00:00:10]  Stefan, Mabdeb, whatever that means, come on in here.
[00:00:16]  Happy Thanksgiving to all of you.
[00:00:20]  While you're coming in, I'm going to start with my first thing I'm thankful for by turning my camera around.
[00:00:29]  If you look out that window, you're going to see something that you haven't seen before, which is the air around me is breathable.
[00:00:40]  Ta-da! It's good news.
[00:00:44]  It's been over a week since we've been allowed, I mean in a healthy sense.
[00:00:52]  What is the air quality?
[00:00:55]  Let's ask my phone.
[00:00:57]  The air quality is good, at 19 right now.
[00:01:00]  Boom! So, 19.
[00:01:04]  I guess that's a measure of how many particles per whatever in the air.
[00:01:08]  So, it's 19 now.
[00:01:11]  It was over 200 a few days ago.
[00:01:15]  And over 200, you know, you don't even let the dog go outside to take a poop.
[00:01:20]  That's some dangerous stuff.

=== Simultaneous Sip Thanksgiving (03:13) ===

[00:01:22]  Although I did, but it was dangerous.
[00:01:25]  Yes, the rain.
[00:01:27]  The rain helped us.
[00:01:29]  So, let us drink.
[00:01:32]  To the rain. And let us have the simultaneous sip Thanksgiving version.
[00:01:40]  Join me, will you? I'll give everybody a minute.
[00:01:43]  Some of you are with your relatives.
[00:01:45]  Tell the relatives to gather around and watch what you've been watching all year, except this is the bad version because it's the holiday version.
[00:01:53]  And then your relatives will look at it and they'll say, um, I don't get why you watch this.
[00:01:58]  He's just drinking coffee and babbling.
[00:02:01]  It's going to be a mystery to them, but maybe a few of them will become hooked on the simultaneous sip.
[00:02:08]  Join me now.
[00:02:09]  Grab your cup, your mug, your glass, your vessel, your stein, your chalice.
[00:02:15]  Get it ready. Fill it with your favorite beverage.
[00:02:17]  I like coffee. And join me for the simultaneous sip.
[00:02:25]  I would like to say, to start off, I am thankful to all of you, all of my regular and irregular viewers of these periscopes.
[00:02:39]  I have to tell you that there are many days in which the time I spend doing this with all of you is some of my best minutes of the day.
[00:02:52]  It's something I enjoy the most.
[00:02:55]  I look forward to it every time I do it.
[00:02:59]  And I think this is really one of the things that's different about the whole Periscope thing is somehow I figured out how to get rid of all the bad parts.
[00:03:13]  Of presenting yourself to a big audience.
[00:03:16]  So here are all the bad parts.
[00:03:18]  The bad parts about presenting to big audiences are travel, arrangements, you know, showing up on time.
[00:03:26]  I don't even do this at the same time every day.
[00:03:29]  If I want to throw one in in the afternoon or skip a day, I just do it.
[00:03:34]  But most of the time, it's around 7 a.m.
[00:03:36]  Pacific. So I've gotten rid of all the planning.
[00:03:41]  Then I don't worry about what I'm wearing.
[00:03:43]  I literally do this in whatever clothes I have on.
[00:03:47]  So most days you see me in whatever I slept in the night before.
[00:03:51]  So when you see me in my t-shirts, it's usually I just woke up in that t-shirt.
[00:03:59]  So I've gotten rid of the travel, the clothing, the timeliness, and I also got rid of most of the preparation.
[00:04:10]  Because what I do is I talk about what's new, and I usually have an opinion as soon as I hear the news, so I don't really have to prepare.
[00:04:19]  You know, I usually take some notes before I do these, but they're just, you know, bullet points of what my topics are so I don't forget the topic.
[00:04:26]  So, I got that going for me.
[00:04:29]  Then, have you ever tried to watch any other periscopes?
[00:04:35]  You probably have, right?