Back to episode — Episode 849 Scott Adams - Biden's Addled Brain, Chinese Bots, Loserthink, Ventilators, #WuhanFlu
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ies. So you might have a problem where you need a different set of supplies and they're going to be limited because nobody expected the emergency. So maybe there's a world where 3D printers become the emergency plan. Democrats apparently are handicapping these emergency congressional legislation things that are trying to you know settle the markets and handle the epidemic etc. And the Democrats a…
← Previous segment →if I had to choose I would interact more with people. I'm just a natural social creature in some contexts. I'm more of a, you know I need a lot of alone time too. But I'm very happy to interact with people not during my alone time. But have you noticed that the less you deal with people the less stress you have because stress comes, almost 90 percent of stress comes from other people. So I've decreased my exposure to other people in person and I feel like it's less stressful even if those people are good people. They're not trying to create problems. It's just normal people create stress and other people. We can't turn that off exactly. Just being normal creates stress. So that's the irony is that I've never felt better. Now I am getting a little bit addicted to the feeling. It actually feels so good it's like being on drugs. I heard somebody tell me this similar story some time ago and I scoffed at it. It was like hmm I don't know. You know I don't think being super healthy and well rested and stuff feels as good as drugs. And then I got healthy and well rested. It actually feels as good as drugs. Like actually literally it literally feels as good as being like a little buzzed on a drug just because my health is just peak. It couldn't possibly be better at the moment.
All right I'm off the prednisone by the way. I think I've been off it long enough that it's not having too much effect on me. Yeah I am a hermit. Somebody saying in the comments I can be a hermit but not indefinitely. I need people. So I'm an introvert but I still need a healthy dose of social interaction like most people.
Let me tell you the funniest thing that I heard yesterday. I won't tell you who said it because that person may or may not be watching this video right now. But it was a conversation about running out of toilet paper and somebody who shall remain nameless said he's training himself to scoot across his front lawn like a dog just in case the toilet paper runs out. Aren't you glad you waited for the end of the Periscope for that? And my immediate feeling was oh that's a terrible plan. What kind of dumb plan is it that if you run out of toilet paper you're gonna train yourself like a dog to just scoot across your front lawn instead? And I said that's the dumbest plan I've ever heard. Don't your neighbors have lawns? Don't they? You know aren't they ever asleep? Why would you do it to your own lawn? Now the lawn part, the dog scooting part, perfect sense. But why would you do it on your own lawn? Your neighbors sleep. Go next door. Yeah that's all I'm saying.
All right, just joking. If we can't have fun during the coronavirus we're dead inside. And if you're dead inside it doesn't matter if you're dead on the outside. So let's not lose our sense of humor entirely. Not entirely. It's a serious deal but we're still human. Can't lose our humanity.
Oh by the way somebody mentioned to AOC and me there's a funny video of AOC saying you shouldn't touch your face and then they do a quick cut of all the times she's touching her face while telling you not to touch your face. So that's funny but not meaningful in any way. But here's what is meaningful. AOC did a prime time, I think it was a prime time interview with Bret Baier on Fox News. That's right. AOC went into the lion's den and did an interview on Fox News. Now why this is important is that Democrats in general are very reluctant to appear on Fox News because it feels like the enemy. They probably don't think they'll get a fair shake and all that stuff. But AOC, she broke the seal.
Now what do I tell you about master persuaders? People who are good at it, they take fre
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e money. If there's a pile of money on the table everybody will walk by it except the people who are good at this. The people who are good at it will walk by and they'll say, a lot of big pile of money on the table. Can I have it? Does this belong to anybody? No it doesn't. And that's what AOC did by appearing on Fox News when other Democrats did not. She raised her national profile in a very subs…
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