Scott Adams: Chris and Matt Go to Hell

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, has since written self-help books like 'Win Bigly' & 'Loserthink' and now hosts his own podcast "Coffee with Scott Adams".

In mild-mannered, folksy, and avuncular style, he has a 'simultaneous sip' of coffee, a little chuckle with his listeners, and then they chat about the events of the day and how democracy is a farce and maybe a benevolent dictatorship would be preferable.

Scott's fatherly advice is geared towards one thing: undermining your belief that there is any truth or justice in world - or that these things are even possible. You can trust literally nobody. All systems are corrupt, and the world works through the exercise of naked power and the manipulation of gullible rubes like you.

It doesn't even matter if the libs stole the election. Trump should just go ahead and take it, if he can.

Scott Adams considers himself a Master Persuader and he uses every rhetorical trick in the book to persuade you that America is so corrupt to try and get you to agree that a benevolent dictator would probably be preferable at this point.

Think of the kind of 'helpful advice' that Wormtongue used to demoralise Théoden in Lord of the Rings.

It's really horrible...

So, if this sounds like fun to you, join Chris and Matt as they go to hell and become increasingly depressed throughout the episode!

Links

Coffee with Scott Adams Episode 1197: Odds of rigging an election and getting away with it (Part 1 & Part 2)
Coffee with Scott Adams Episode 1206: Watch Me Monetize My Dumbest Critics While Discussing the Election Allegations. Thank You, Critics! (Part 1 & Part 2)

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0:00.0	You're going to be. Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guru's. It's the podcast where us to academics listen to content from the online world and we try to
0:26.5	decode them figure out what they're talking about. So I'm Matt Brown a professor
0:32.1	in an Australian University and with me is Chris. Hi Chris.
0:36.2	Hello Matt. Hello I just thought I'd break up the intro by getting you involved and you are he is also an academic in Japan. So we are going to do our usual thing and
0:49.3	decode guru so we've been given some shit about our accents Chris. Some people say nice things about it, but also in a kind of backhanded kind of way.
0:58.0	Apparently you just ramble on an unintelligible brogue and I go yeah mate yeah my vegumite good on you
1:05.8	That's not what I heard I I heard that it was you who were unintelligible and I have a lilting Irish accent that made anyone who hear it swoon for miles around.
1:19.0	Yes, this is the ideological blinkering we hear so much about. This is what you've got going on.
1:26.0	I also heard a conspiracy theory that we are in fact the same person just putting on different voices?
1:34.0	That would be impressive if somebody could actually manage that,
1:38.0	you know, to sort of have your kind of dark energy and my laid back
1:41.0	that was a gosy charm at the same person that would be weird and it would be
1:46.2	super matter if it was true and we were actually doing it and having this conversation
1:50.3	about it. Okay so let's get into it today so we're going to be looking at Scott
1:56.1	Adams who I didn't know much about before he but he absolutely is a guru he does he
2:01.1	definitely does have deep deep takes on a lot of things. He's a bit conspiratorial and he writes self-help books. So yeah, he definitely hits all of the guru buttons.
2:12.8	Yeah, I think I'll issue a spoiler up front that we've looked at people.
2:18.6	Some of them are like extremely irritating.
2:21.0	Like a J.P. Sears springs to mind and in other cases the rhetorical techniques are a little bit frustrating at times to delve into.
2:35.0	So I think it is some achievement that Scott Adams is by far the person that I have disliked the most that we've covered and I'm really going to struggle to say anything nice about him because he's such an asshole.
2:55.0	I'm sorry. I know this is the ad hominem sin up front but I'm just gonna say he's an
3:01.6	asshole. I'm sorry I'm just going to say he's an asshole I'm sorry I'm sorry Mark that's okay that's okay look I'm with you on this one like I think one of the things I'm proud of that is that people do say that we are kind of even-handed and talk about the positives and the negatives.
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