Episode 1417 Scott Adams: Join Me Today For Something That Feels Better Than Warm Socks From the Dryer on a Winter Day
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Biden's insurrection inconsistency
Rudy Giuliani losing law license?
Governor DeSantis, campus diversity of thought
VP Harris going to border
AOC rips Infrastructure bill
Fed judge rules Joe Biden racist?
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I'm going to solve a problem that, well, you've seen me struggle with, and a number of people have also struggled with it, and I'll walk you through it today.
But first, what would you like to do first?
Could it be the simultaneous sip?
Because if it is, all you need is...
A cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice of stein, a canteen drink or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
Fill it with your favorite liquid.
I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes, yeah, everything better.
It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.
So as you know, live streaming is a big deal now, and Zoom conference calls are a big deal.
And a lot of people say, what is the best way to get good audio on your live stream or YouTube or Zoom call?
And I've been doing years of research, and I can walk you through it.
Now, what you want to have is a nice, substantial microphone...
The kind that will look good on camera.
You don't want a little weird looking thing.
You want something nice and substantial.
You want it to have a stand that is flexible and gives you the right height.
And you want to be able to plug that directly into the most common devices you would use.
Your laptop or perhaps an iPad or a phone.
So that's the things you want.
Now, nobody makes a product anything like that.
So I'll tell you what your options are.
And we'll start with the microphone stand.
There are a number of microphone stands you can buy, and I'll just walk you through the options.
You'll see this one.
It's a broken microphone stand.
Now, usually you don't buy these pre-broken.
You have to use it for five, ten minutes before it breaks, and then you've got a what's called a broken microphone stand.
I've owned maybe 10 to 15 of these over the years, and they're quite reliable.
Five, ten minutes in, bam, piece falls off, and then you've got yourself a microphone stand that doesn't really do anything.
So this is actually one of the most Popular types of microphone stands, and I think you'll see a lot of those around.
Now, another popular kind is this.
And you can see that this is really probably the kind you see the most, I think.
It's called a stand That's all loose and doesn't really work together, and things fall off.
And if you try to tighten them, they don't really tighten.
And there's always one part that you can't actually screw in.
So this kind of stand is what's called a completely useless stand.
It's like a drunk trying to juggle.
So this one will simply make you very, very angry.
But you'll see this a lot.
It's a very common kind of a stand.
Here's another one. And just so you know, I've used almost every kind of microphone stand over the years.
This one is called the microphone stand that doesn't actually hold the microphone.
It's basically, if you put anything in there, it's not really going to work.
So this is very popular.
The kind of microphone stand that isn't strong enough to hold any kind of a microphone still.
You can get those.
Very popular.
Here's one of my favorites, and also very popular.
This one is called the microphone stand that is designed to make you hate yourself, all microphones, live streaming, and much of the creative world.
And it's built so that the slightest touch will knock it over.
Because when you're building a device to hold something valuable because these can be expensive.
You want it to be the sort of thing that just the slightest touch will knock it over.
Such as somebody trying to relocate their laptop and it moves just a little bit and falls over.
So this microphone was not pre-broken.
I had to use it for five minutes before I did that.
So this is very popular.
Another kind is the microphone stand that You can never figure out quite how to get the microphone and the little thing here working.
And if you did, it would fall over or something.
And it never works twice the same way.
But in any case, these are only meant to hold microphones that you wouldn't want to be seen with.
So let's compare two microphones.
Here's a Look at this one.
Nice studio quality.
Solid looking microphone.
You'd be proud to have something like this in front of your face.
So wouldn't it be great if you could find some kind of a stand that you could put this on or an articulated arm or something that actually worked two or three times in a row.
But instead you have something that looks like maybe your children should be using it and you wouldn't want that anywhere near you.
Now Here's a microphone that comes with various settings.
These settings are very important because some microphones don't have any settings.
This gives you three ways to be wrong for every one way that you might have the right setting.
Also, you wouldn't want to look at this for very long.
Here's a beautiful microphone, a Sennheiser.
And this has very unique features.
One of the features is it takes a battery.
So not only do you have all the usual ways for things not to work, but now you have a battery that could also not be charged.
So that adds to your failure possibility.
But you say to yourself, well, that's not a problem.
Because you just look at the indicator to know how much charge you need.
And the indicator light comes on.
You'll see that. Well, then it goes right off.
But when you turn it on, you can see there's an indicator light so that you know that the battery is still good because the...
Okay, you can't tell if there's any battery life in it.
So you're just sort of guessing before you do your live stream.
But very popular.
And it's also got some more settings that you can have on the wrong place.
It's very good. Now, if you're worried about compatibility, there are a number of adapters.
For example, you could get this thing, that I don't know what it does exactly, but it's some kind of an adapter.
You could also get one of these, which you stick something into it, and then something comes out the other side, and then it does something.
It doesn't say what.
It's an adapter, a multi-track, Something about the latency, maybe phantom power, something like that.
We don't know which microphones need that, but then also you want to get one of these, which is a cloud microphone cloud lifter, because lots of times your sound will need sort of a cloud lift to it.
So if your sound feels like you don't have enough cloud liftiness to it, you can put it through one of these.
And then come out the other side, and it'll be very cloud-lifted.
Then you can phantom power it, run it through your Saramonic, and I think that'll get you pretty good sound, but not unless you run it through your adapter that goes to the other adapter.
And then you might need one of these things.
I mean, I don't know what it is, but you might need one.
And then there are these other adapters, too.
Now, if you get a microphone stand like this, you'll have a number of different adjustments.
This one, I think, has three or four different things that could adjust, which means that two out of three would actually work, and then the third one would be something that doesn't close far enough to actually hold your microphone.
So, if none of those work, then you've got something like this, which is a little mixing board, a Rodecaster, and look at all the holes.
There's like all kinds of things that you could be sticking in there if you knew what to stick in there.
Alright, well, probably take a little work.
So, as you can see, a lot of people would be intimidated by the complexity of this, but don't be intimidated by it.
It's as simple as it looks.
So if you wanted to have a great-looking microphone on a nice, dependable, solid base that's simply plugged into your laptop or your iPad, that feels like something somebody should invent because it doesn't exist in any form whatsoever.
But I'll be...
Doing a little more experimenting with this today, and I'll let you know how it goes.
Let's talk about Joe Biden.
Oh, don't tell me it is invented.
Don't tell me that, because I know what you're going to do.
You're going to say, it's totally invented.
Here it is. Here it is, Scott.
Here it is. It's totally invented.
This just very easily attaches to one of these, and then if you weren't an idiot, you would just attach this to one of those, run it through the phantom power, through the...
Yeah, it's all invented.
It's not fucking invented.
Nobody makes a product that does this.
I've got years of research into this.
Trust me, nobody makes this product.
Don't tell me they do.
All right. Slow Joe Biden said the following, and I'm going to try to say it the way Joe Biden said it.
Those who say the blood of liberty, the blood of patriots, you know, and all this stuff about how we're going to have to move against the government.
Well, the tree of liberty is not watered with the blood of patriots.
What's happened is that there's never been, if you wanna, think you need weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s, maybe some nuclear weapons.
The point is, there's always been the ability to limit, rationally, limit the types of weapons that can be owned and who can own it.
So here, Joe Biden is telling us that for somebody to have any hope of moving against the government, They would need heavy weapons, like F-15s and nuclear weapons.
At the same time, Joe Biden would have us believe that a man in a Viking hat almost conquered the United States by briefly wandering through one of its buildings.
So, I feel as if there's an inconsistency.
Either you do need F-15s and nuclear weapons to overtake a country, Or you can do it with selfies and whatever you can carry, like a club and some bear spray.
One of those two things is more true than the other, but we're not here to solve that today.
In other news, LA County's sheriff, I read this in Breitbart, Joel Pollack wrote about this.
LA County Sheriff Alex Villanova calls for a state of emergency on the homeless crisis.
I guess there are 80,000 homeless.
I think that's just a California number, actually.
80,000? And I guess calling for a state of emergency is something that Dr.
Drew had called for back in 2019.
So maybe this idea is finally working its way through the system.
But I think you're going to need that state of emergency to actually...
Force people to do whatever they need to do to get better.
Unfortunately, it's going to be treating 80,000 people like Britney Spears.
Essentially. Basically.
Too far? Was that too far?
Connected? Connected to the wrong things?
But basically, it's 80,000 Britney Spears.
People who we think are not really making the right decisions and maybe need a little help.
And as much as we'd like these people to all have their complete freedom, maybe they're not ready.
Maybe they don't have what it takes.
Rudy Giuliani lost his...
I guess he's going to lose his license to practice law.
Or already has.
And he's accused of lying too much and too often about the election.
And I ask myself...
Have lawyers never lied in public before?
Are you telling me that if a lawyer intentionally lies in public, they can have their license yanked?
Have you ever watched CNN? CNN is an entire network devoted almost entirely to lawyers lying intentionally.
They're commenting on the news usually, but All you have to do is turn on the television, and it's nothing but lying lawyers.
And you're telling me that Rudy Giuliani is the one who lied more?
How much exactly is the right amount of lying that you stay under the bar of everybody noticing?
The bar, huh? And how much is too much lying?
Who gets to decide that Rudy Giuliani's lies are a little bit worse than whatever the hell you're hearing every day on CNN? Aren't they lawyers too?
Half of them? They've at least gone to law school, a lot of them.
Anyway, you may notice that I'm not talking about the horrific building collapse in Florida.
And it's only because I don't have anything to add to it.
The tragedy, unfortunately, speaks for itself.
And since I don't have anything to add to it, I'm not going to drag you through it, because you're going to see plenty of it today on all the networks, and I don't feel that...
It needs any extra for me.
It's a tragedy and we're going to think about the victims, but we'll leave that to the other networks.
Have I told you, too often, that you can do a poll about any topic and 25% of the people who answer the poll will just be whacked?
It doesn't matter the topic.
Here's another one. Rasmussen finds that 56% of American adults think it is, quote, unfair to make women compete against transgender athletes.
I hasten to note that these are not my words.
Because I'm pretty sure the way you're supposed to say this is that people think it's unfair for transgender athletes to compete on women's teams.
Does that sound better? Because then you're allowing that they're all women.
So that would be the correct way to say that, I believe.
All right. But 25% think that such competition is fair.
Now, no matter whether you think it should happen or not happen, Is fairness really a standard that we can apply to this?
Because the entire idea of sports is unfairness, right?
Every team has people of wildly different abilities.
Michael Jordan on any team is going to be wildly different.
So, who thinks it's fair?
And what does fair mean in this context?
So I think you can get 25% of any of the people to say anything is unfair in general.
So you just assume that's always going to be the case.
Now, I ask you this.
Does it matter that a solid majority of American adults don't think transgender athletes should be able to play on women's teams?
What do you think of that?
Should majority rule?
In a case where the main question is bigotry, right?
So the real question is, are people being treated equally under the law and morally and ethically and all that?
And that's the one situation where majority shouldn't really make a difference.
On a lot of things, I would say, well, if the majority want it, that's fine.
But the one thing you shouldn't let that happen with is anything that's in the realm of bigotry, right?
That is the one situation in which maybe the minority should make the decision, if they're making the decision for more equal treatment of people.
Now, I know it's more than that.
It's more than a question of bigotry.
It's also what's fair, what's access, what's fair to women.
Blah, blah, blah. So I'm not going to make an argument about it, except to say you can get 24% of people to agree to say anything, basically.
Ron DeSantis continues to be the smartest Republican politician.
And he's making it look easy, isn't he?
So here's another one.
And when I say he's being smart, I mean if he plans to run for president and if he wants to get nominated by his party, he just keeps doing all the right stuff to get nominated.
Independent of whether you think these are good things to do, to get nominated, these are just golden, every one of them.
Here's a new one. He's signing a bill requiring the Florida campuses...
to do these periodic surveys on people's opinions and, I guess, political points of view?
Just different points of view.
So he's making sure that they have diversity of thought in the campuses and schools in Florida.
Now, that is so perfectly exactly what Republicans and conservatives talk about.
Hey, the real diversity should be diversity of thought.
So here, DeSantis finds an actual practical way to measure diversity of thought.
Now, I guess we don't know what he's going to do with it, you know, once they can know if that diversity of thought is there or not, but presumably he's protecting conservative thought and teachings.
And I don't know if this is a good idea, right?
It feels like maybe it's got as many problems as it has upsides.
So even if you're sort of in favor of diversity of thought, and most of us would be, I think, even if you're in favor of that, it's not clear that this gets it to you.
Maybe it's just a little more bureaucracy we don't need.
But politically, if you're just talking politically, The people who support him, Republicans and conservatives, they like this idea, and he's doing something about it.
If it works, that's great.
If it doesn't work, well, maybe you try something else.
But at least he's doing something.
This is one of the things that Trump was good at.
At least he'd do something, even if you didn't think it was going to work.
Doing nothing wasn't a good idea.
So just do something.
If it doesn't work, we'll try something else.
So on that level, he's definitely doing the right thing, because he's trying something.
I'm not so sure it'll work, or we'll see.
So I guess Kamala Harris is finally going to the border, and the Republicans have set her up perfectly, because they've been mocking her for so long and tracking how many days since she had not visited the border...
Since she got the job of being in charge of the, at least the, I think she's more in charge of the other countries besides Mexico sending people our way.
So she's trying to stop it at the source.
But of course it's a border-related thing, so she's finally going to go there and Of course, the Republicans will claim the only reason she's going is because they put pressure on her.
Now, maybe that's true.
Of course, they'll deny it.
But it does sort of look like the only reason she's going is because they put pressure on her.
I don't know if that's true, but it looks exactly like it.
It's one of the main things that's in the news.
And maybe they just said, well, let's just make that go away.
We'll visit finally.
All right. And she had only recently dismissed visiting the border as, quote, a grand gesture.
So it's a grand gesture, meaning she mocked it, but she's going to go do a grand gesture because I guess she has to.
Did you see the news that apparently there's an infrastructure bipartisan bill compromise and Biden says he'll sign it?
So we're all done, right?
We finally got that...
Compromise infrastructure bill.
Well, it still has to pass, right?
And AOC has already ripped it apart.
You know, I told you yesterday, before it was announced that there was this big breakthrough compromise, I told you there wasn't going to be a deal.
Now, I hope I'm wrong, and it would be great if something like this compromise deal or some version of it gets through, but I feel like it's not going to.
I feel like it's going to die in Congress.
It just won't get the votes.
So let's track my prediction that the Congress will be too incompetent to pass something that has bipartisan and presidential support.
I don't think they're going to be able to do it because the AOCs of the world will say it's not enough and maybe they'll just have to give up on this version.
So Nobody in the world is terribly concerned about being consistent.
Have you noticed that? There's something about famous people that makes them just completely abandon trying to be consistent with any opinion.
They'll take whatever side at the moment makes sense.
Here's a perfect example of this.
ESPN's Jalen Rose He said that the inclusion of Kevin Love, who you need to know is a white basketball player, on the U.S. Olympic team is a case of tokenism, because Kevin Love didn't have a good year, and including him just looks like they're including him because he'd be the only white guy.
And so this is how Jalen Rose put it.
He said, I'm disappointed in Team USA for not having the courage to send an all-black team to the Olympics.
What? What?
Haven't we just spent the last, I don't know, few hundred years agreeing that we should have diversity everywhere?
I thought that was sort of a big important message, but apparently when it comes down to a basketball team, we don't need that diversity.
Now, I'm not taking a side, by the way.
I'm just pointing out How can it be that we need diversity except when one of the teams is all black?
I feel like you need to let that one go, right?
Now, my personal opinion is you send the best players.
And it looks like, you know, I think Jalen Rose is making a, sounds like a reasonable point, That based on statistics and anything else, they're not sending the best players.
But if you're okay with it in this context, you probably need to be okay with it in other contexts.
Or not be okay with it in this context.
You sort of have to pick, right?
Am I wrong? Could you ever be consistent in saying, well, everything else needs to be diverse, but not this thing?
Would that be, is there any way to justify that opinion?
I don't know. So, a federal judge has ruled that Joe Biden is a racist.
Did you see that headline?
I'll bet you didn't.
Yeah, it's true.
A federal judge has ruled that Joe Biden is a racist.
Now, they don't use those words.
I'm interpreting.
But let me tell you what the interpretation is.
So federal judge Marcia Morales Howard.
So she has a preliminary injunction against Joe Biden's plan.
So it's Joe Biden's plan.
So if Joe Biden's plan is racist, then I am justified in saying that a federal judge found him to be racist.
A plan to offer loan forgiveness to black and other minority farmers, but not to indebted white farmers.
And I guess the judge said it was an attempt to address discrimination while practicing discrimination.
And therefore, a federal judge ruled that Joe Biden is a racist.
Too far? Am I overinterpreting it?
Because the federal judge did say it would be an attempt...
To address discrimination while practicing discrimination.
And it's Joe Biden's plan, and the federal judge said that it would practice discrimination, which is racist in this context, because the discrimination would be racial.
Right? So, while it is true that no court has found massive, widespread election abuse, or cheating, or fraud, And therefore we can claim that it does not exist, because no court has found it to be true.
But if federal court has ruled that Joe Biden is a racist, this is not a stretch, is it?
Am I saying something that is not technically, and as well as technically, commonsensically, literally true?
That a federal judge just found Joe Biden to be a racist?
What's it mean to be racist?
It means that you want different rules for people of different color.
That's what it means.
The judge just ruled.
That's what you're doing. It's not even my opinion now.
It's just the court has ruled on it.
So can't we just say he's a racist because the court ruled on it?
And am I the first person to...
I haven't seen anybody on social media point this out.
It feels like a big deal to me.
That a federal court has ruled that a president is a racist.
Now, I wonder if that probably happened to Trump as well, didn't it?
I think it did happen to Trump as well.
But at least we'd be consistent if we cheat in the same way.
So the building disaster that's falling down in Florida is sucking up a lot of the headlines, as it should.
It's a pretty big deal.
But it's also taking a lot of the politics out of the news.
And are you amazed at how many big problems don't seem to be in the news anymore?
Let me ask you this.
Is climate change solved?
Have we solved it because Biden likes the Paris Accords or whatever?
So is climate solved?
Because it feels to me as if climate stuff was like the number one headline for like a long time under Trump, but as soon as Biden and Harris are in charge, I'm not seeing a lot of articles about the planet getting warmer.
Is that my imagination?
Does it seem to you that there are far fewer climate-related stories now?
Now, we had a little bit about the heat wave, but they didn't really, you know, grind that into the ground like you might expect they would have.
All right. Everything the left talks about is just a club to beat the right with.
Yeah, it looks like that's the world we live in.
All right, I don't have much more today, and...
We will have to depend on the news business giving us a lot more stuff.
Later today, I'm going to be testing the live streaming feature on the Locals platform, subscription platform, where I put a lot more of my content.
And the first test was really good, but I'm going to go test it from a browser today to see how that works.
