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Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2122 Scott Adams: Too-On-The-Nose Rule For Spotting Fake News Would Have Changed Everything

Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Scott Adams

News, News Commentary

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

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Content:

  • Too-on-the-nose rule
  • Media mind control
  • My Derek Chauvin closing arguments
  • Our robber baron history
  • Equinox discrimination lawsuit

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Transcript

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0:00.0

dude dude dude dude dude dude dude dude

0:04.8

wake up sleepy heads. I know it's a Sunday and you like to sleep in but how in the

0:11.0

world are you going to watch this live if you're asleep? Well if you'd like to

0:15.8

take this experience which is the best thing that's ever happened to you up to

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0:24.0

a tanker, a chalice-stine, a cantine-jogger flask, a vessel of any kind.

0:31.0

And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine is one of the day, the thing

0:34.0

that makes everything better, it's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen

0:39.0

now, go.

0:48.5

We all feel better now.

0:52.5

Well, I'd like to introduce the theme for today's show.

0:57.5

The theme is you have to learn the two on the nose filter for identifying fake news.

1:05.5

Now I talk about this all the time, but I'm going to put the current stories into that

1:10.5

filter and see what it tells us.

1:13.5

Now the two on the nose filter works like this.

1:16.5

You hear a story in the news and you say to yourself,

1:19.5

oh my god, my hair is on fire because that thing in the news.

1:25.5

If your first reaction is, that is exactly what I thought the other side was doing.

1:35.5

It's almost certainly not true because in the real world things are messy.

1:41.5

The things are, well, it's a little bit like this, but a little bit like that and a little bit like the third thing.

1:47.5

Rarely ever does the news serve up a perfect story that just fits the narrative.

1:54.5

If it fits the narrative, and there's no rough edges, that's called two on the nose,

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