In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we talk about the dopamine hit of the day: the thing that makes everything better. Plus, some science updates that will make you think twice before you drink your morning cup of joe.
00:00:10.160Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called
00:00:22.000Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm pretty sure you've never had a better time. But if you'd
00:00:29.020like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their
00:00:33.520tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass or a tank or
00:00:37.700a chalice or a stein, a canteen, a jug or a flask or a vessel of any kind. Fill it with
00:00:41.680your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the
00:00:46.500dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous
00:00:50.960sip of that. Wait, what is that? What am I seeing? Oh, no. Damn it. A UAP landed in my
00:01:06.120coffee. No, really. Just because you didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen. No,
00:01:12.360seriously, there's a UAP in here. Advanced civilization is doing things that are defying
00:01:17.960physics. I swear, just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not happening. Oh,
00:01:24.580I could show it to you, but there are reasons. Totally.
00:01:33.440All right. Let's get serious. Now, here's some science updates. You're not going to believe
00:01:41.500it. This is unbelievable. Did you know that physically fit people tend to be more creative?
00:01:47.960That's right. Turns out that, I don't know if I've ever told you this before, but have you ever
00:01:56.920heard that your body and your brain are the same thing? Yes, your body is your brain. If you do your
00:02:04.460exercise and do your physical fitness, yes, you'll be more creative. Yes, you'll have less
00:02:09.580dementia. Yes, you'll be have a higher IQ. Stop doing studies. We all know it's true now.
00:02:17.860Well, there's another study from Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
00:02:23.920They say that people who have a positive attitude, you know, a mindset that things will work out,
00:02:29.540are built differently. And that a positive attitude, what the researchers call the growth mindset,
00:02:37.080or belief in growth, it's associated with both higher willpower and passion. Huh? So let's see if
00:02:45.980I understand the science. So if you have a growth mindset that's associated with being an optimist,
00:02:55.640here's another way to interpret that. A growth mindset is an optimist. It's not associated with it.
00:03:05.920It's what it is. There's no difference between optimism and a growth mindset, is there? The only
00:03:16.940reason you would have a growth mindset is you thought it would work. Do any of you have plans
00:03:22.760that you know won't work? No. You make plans based on what you think will work. So optimism is a growth
00:03:31.220mindset. Because your optimism isn't going to be about other people. It's going to be about yourself.
00:03:36.020Of course you're optimistic if you have a growth mindset. One doesn't cause the other. They're just
00:03:41.880the same freaking thing. All right, science. Science. I spit on science. No, I love science. I'm kidding.
00:03:52.140Now, you won't believe this. There's another study, according to SciPost, that physical activity
00:03:59.640boosts IQ in kids and teens. We know. We know. Physical activity. Your brain, your body. It's all the
00:04:06.840same thing. Take care of your body. Your brain will be better. Yes. Here's another one from SciPost.
00:04:13.800Religious service attendance linked to lower dementia risk in black older adults.
00:04:18.320Oh, my. Why? Why must I be the one who speaks out against science? Science. Do you think that
00:04:32.580this is a causation? Do you think if you say, hey, people, if you go to church more, you're going to
00:04:38.920get less dementia? No. How about people who are high-functioning do all the high-functioning
00:04:47.300things that people with high-functioning do? And in the United States, that includes going to church
00:04:52.880because you can wake up in the morning. You're disciplined enough. Your life is together enough
00:04:59.260that you can make it to church. No, it's just association. It's not causation. Sorry,
00:05:07.640backward science. Meanwhile, according to Tom Perkins and The Guardian, China just invented
00:05:14.020something that will suck up almost 100% of microplastics, and it's cheap and scalable.
00:05:20.860So they've got some kind of sponge made of cotton and squid bone.
00:05:28.280You know how I always say the scientists, they could have come to me. They didn't need to spend the
00:05:34.640money. Well, here's an exception, because if they had come to me and they said, Scott, we've got a lot of
00:05:40.760microplastics. We're looking for some way to absorb them. What are the odds I would have said,
00:05:46.560okay, okay, what have you tried so far? Have you tried squid bone and cotton? I probably wouldn't
00:05:54.740have said that. So this would be an example of science that was worth doing. You didn't need to
00:05:59.980just ask me. But yes, if you've got access to squid bones, which I assume are squished up and mixed with
00:06:10.420the cotton, it'll absorb 99.9% of microplastics and water samples. My God. Imagine if that worked,
00:06:19.280and apparently it's reusable and scalable and all that. But how scalable could it be? How many squid
00:06:26.000bones do you have? If you tried to get all the microplastics out of the ocean, wouldn't you run
00:06:32.840out of squids really fast? Seems like he'd be squidless before long. Yep. All right. Reuters did a fact
00:06:44.780check, some valuable fact check. Now, Reuters, as you know, unlike some of these fake news organizations,
00:06:51.440you've heard of them, fake news. Well, Reuters is real news. So when Reuters does a story,
00:06:59.680you can pretty much bank on it being right down the middle and logical and well-researched.
00:07:07.800That's Reuters. Good reputation. Let's see what Reuters is up to today.
00:07:11.560Oh, Reuters did a fact check. There was a story that looked like it was a CNN headline, but Reuters says
00:07:20.420it's fake. And the fake story said that Elon Musk had melted down the Statue of Liberty.
00:07:29.660But Reuters wants you to know that that didn't happen. Or did it? Because Elon Musk responded
00:07:37.520on an ex post. He said, no, I definitely melted it down 1,000%. So now I don't know. Did he?
00:07:46.440I don't know. We got the CNN headline that says he did melt it down. And then Reuters says he didn't.
00:07:55.940So that's a tie. But then Elon says he totally melted it down. So that's two to one that says he melted
00:08:02.380it down. I don't know. I'm going to go with the Statue of Liberty no longer exists. And it was melted
00:08:08.900down. But that's not all. Reuters also fact checked a well-known news site called the Babylonians.
00:08:16.420Babylon Bee. That had a story that said that Alua Akbar has replaced Cheerio mate as UK greeting.
00:08:26.680And Reuters wants you to know that didn't happen. They did not replace Cheerio mate with Alua Akbar.
00:08:35.660That did not happen. That was fake news. Yeah. And so it turns out the Babylon Bee
00:08:40.420doesn't get every story completely accurate. I don't know. I'm going to keep an eye on those guys
00:08:48.020because I want to make sure they're, you know, playing ball the way they should. So we'll keep
00:08:55.120an eye on them. Speaking of Babylon Bee, it makes me think of The Onion, which makes me think of their
00:09:01.380effort to buy InfoWars. So there was some group backing the publication, The Onion, which I didn't
00:09:11.180even know existed anymore. It's under new management, I guess. And they made an offer to buy InfoWars
00:09:18.480because of the bankruptcy judgments. And that got turned down by the judge. I guess the reason was
00:09:26.700the people who organized the auction for it didn't do enough work and maybe they left some money on the
00:09:34.000table. So the judge said, go back and try harder to get more money for the InfoWars assets.
00:09:39.760Now, did you know how much that was going for? I was trying to guess, how much are you going to pay
00:09:48.200for InfoWars? And what exactly do you get? Do you get to take over the rent for the studio?
00:09:55.480Like, what exactly do you get? Do you get the cameras and the lighting equipment and a desk?
00:10:01.640If you don't get Alex Jones, what is InfoWars? Is it just the studio and the names of my P? I don't know.
00:10:09.760So the price for InfoWars was somewhere between roughly $1 to $4 million. So the bid that
00:10:25.140The Onion made was on the low end. They think they could get closer to the $3 million plus.
00:10:32.480But it occurred to me that I could buy InfoWars. I didn't know it was affordable.
00:10:39.760I had no idea. But technically, I mean, I could afford it. So should I buy InfoWars?
00:10:47.700What would I do with it? Is there anything you can do with it?
00:10:51.740If I bought it and just said, hey, Alex, go do your thing. Is there any way I could make my money back?
00:11:02.740So could I buy it and then just hire Alex as my employee and just keep some of it?
00:11:10.240I don't know. I probably don't have enough energy to pull off that transaction. But if there's anybody out there and you wondered what would it cost to own InfoWars?
00:11:22.520Because, you know, if you're a billionaire and you just want to mess with the powers that be, because the powers that be wanted Alex Jones to be out of business, it would be just a wonderful FU if you had a billion dollars.
00:11:37.500You know, I'm not a billionaire. But I mean, for me, it would be serious money. So it's not like that's not pocket change.
00:11:44.780I'm doing OK, but that's not pocket change. Anyway, so make an offer through three million, four million. You might own it.
00:11:59.860You remember Act Blue? So Act Blue is that big organization that allegedly is accumulating small donations for the Democrat Party.
00:12:09.640But they were they were they were accused of taking money from foreign entities that were trying to influence the elections and using them as a essentially a money laundering operation for their foreign influence.
00:12:22.520That's the charge. John Solomon of Just the News is reporting on that.
00:12:27.340But apparently the new news about that is that the platform did not block foreign gift cards until this fall.
00:12:34.700So apparently you could donate using a foreign gift card so that nobody would know who the real donator is, I guess.
00:12:46.180And it would sort of conceal what's going on. And you could have a lot of foreign influence that way.
00:12:52.260So apparently they've fixed this so that it can't do that anymore. But it was.
00:12:58.000So foreign money laundering appears to be confirmed.
00:13:04.700It appears to be confirmed because if they ever had the ability, which they do confirm, to accept these foreign prepaid gift cards and we know they were doing it.
00:13:18.380We don't know how much influence it was because we don't have a dollar amount for the cumulative total, but it can't be it can't be nothing.
00:13:29.520So the story is kind of empty without knowing what dollar amount they think could have been this foreign money laundering.
00:13:35.140But if I ever hear that number, I'll tell you if it makes a difference.
00:13:37.760Meanwhile, over at Reclaim the Net, the reporting on Meta is tweaking their program for censorship.
00:13:48.520I'll call it censorship, but really it's getting rid of people who violated the terms of service.
00:13:53.700And instead of being kind of one strike your round, there's going to be some kind of a probation period where Meta tries to educate you on why you were temporarily banned.
00:14:09.540And then you can work your way back into their good graces.
00:16:38.860So I don't want to watch, you know, 30 minutes of terrible things.
00:16:42.320Oh, my family was wiped out by the bad guys or whatever.
00:16:45.120And then at the end of the movie, massive people are getting killed, including the favored, you know, like the co-star who you really love.
00:16:55.320But I guess they didn't make it to the end of the movie.
00:16:58.100And then and then I hate movies where thousands of people have been killed, including, you know, a dozen people that are very close to the hero.
00:17:09.060And then the hero is still happy at the end.
00:17:12.140How can you be happy after like 12 of your friends just got wiped out, you know, even though you won?
00:17:16.320Like, so everything about movies is sad and archaic and doesn't fit in the modern world.
00:17:23.120So maybe these new short episodes would work.
00:17:27.460It made me think, I wonder if I could do one.
00:17:32.420But it seems to me it wouldn't be that hard to get some friends together and create a drama that's one to two minutes where all you do is agree what you're going to act out for a minute.
00:17:45.140And then you just sort of do it with your friends.
00:17:47.740But you make it look like, you know, something bigger has happened.
00:18:16.660So he's he's connected now with some other young, beautiful woman.
00:18:21.920And I feel like there must have been a lot of interesting negotiations behind this.
00:18:31.160The first thing I would note is that the breakup didn't happen, I think, until after it was obvious that Newsom would not be the candidate.
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00:22:32.500And he says the simple reason is that the elites, because they're a smaller group and they're smaller and powerful and capable, that the elites tend to be good at organizing so that they can keep their power.
00:22:45.580Whereas the masses are bad at organizing.
00:22:48.540Because the elites might have more in common, which is, you're rich, I'm rich, let's try to keep this going.
00:22:55.260So as long as the elites want to stay in power and stay rich, they can more easily organize.
00:23:00.720Whereas the masses are like, hey, you're black and I'm a lesbian.
00:23:11.000And I would agree with that, that every government, in reality, is an oligarch.
00:23:17.500But I would add a little wrinkle to that.
00:23:19.680So this is one of the smartest reframes that I ever heard in terms of the United States, is that we're more like Game of Thrones, meaning that the oligarchs are not all on the same side.
00:23:35.480So there's an oligarch group over here that has a lot of interest in one topic.
00:23:41.740There's another oligarch group over here that really cares about another topic, but still oligarchs.
00:23:48.260It's just that our oligarchs tend to be divided into smaller teams that care about things more than other things.
00:23:59.200But I would add to the idea that every government becomes an oligarchy, I would add my thing, which is every government becomes a brainwasher.
00:24:11.420Every government becomes a brainwasher because they have to.
00:24:39.160And then there would be somebody who became the powerful news person, and they would effectively run the country.
00:24:45.280So if you're in a government, it doesn't matter what kind of government, how you got there, dictator or actually a fair vote, once you get there, you can't let the news run the country.
00:24:58.620Because what if the news said, let's say you get elected tomorrow, totally legal election, you're completely legitimate.
00:25:06.360But the news decides they want to get their own person in there, you know, somebody who's important in the news business.
00:25:11.580So they just start some fake news and say that you're on a Russia collusion or something.
00:25:18.220And the next thing you know, people vote you out.
00:25:23.180So if you're in any kind of a democratic republic or even dictator, if you don't control your news so that the news is a reflection of what the people in charge want it to be, you will not be in charge.
00:25:41.520Because otherwise you would agree that the news tells people what to think, and if the news tells people to think that the government is bad and everything isn't working, the government will fall.
00:26:06.360So let's talk about the health care hitman, they call him.
00:26:14.580So they caught him, as you know, at a McDonald's.
00:26:18.900And one of the mysteries is why did he seem like he was such a law-abiding, nice kid with a great future, and then he turned into some kind of domestic terrorist?
00:27:24.440And then he had the actual face mask that he wore during the crime, or one that looked like it, at least.
00:27:30.520And you think to yourself, what the heck's going on here?
00:27:34.260All right, so, yeah, I'm seeing in the comments that there's an old video of the now deceased CEO saying that they had good connections with Nancy Pelosi,
00:27:50.480so that their business was at least connected to the powers that be, so they were in good shape for that.
00:27:57.000I don't know if that was as big a conspiracy as you think.
00:28:00.400He was just saying that he's got friends in the government that's going to help him.
00:28:46.300It could be that when you're in pain, everything looks different, and maybe he had a death wish, and he didn't care if he got killed.
00:28:52.560Maybe he realized that his life wasn't going to be him becoming president and having a good life, so he needed to be important to make a difference in the world.
00:29:04.600So, he picked this cause, thought he could get people on board, and he was right, because no matter what you think about this shooter, the shooter's stated objectives were met.
00:29:20.700The stated objectives is to put attention on the fact that some of these capitalist enterprises are more bad than good.
00:29:30.460That would be his point of view, not mine.
00:29:32.920Now, I would say that he's got that message across.
00:29:36.900If you look at the way people are reacting and the way people are often showing no sympathy whatsoever for the CEO, it feels like he read the room correctly, not the entire room, but he wasn't that far off base from where a lot of people's minds already were starting to drift, which is, I'm not sure if these people have our best interests in mind.
00:30:04.860So, anyway, I still think he's weirdly rational, meaning that his views about capitalism are not off base.
00:30:18.400I mean, I don't have a better idea than capitalism, but it's certainly true that there are a lot of big company executives who are doing terrible things to the public while making lots of money.
00:30:29.500That part's true, and if he makes people think about that more...
00:30:34.860He may have actually done something that he wanted to do, and maybe he thinks it's good for the world.
00:30:54.160It seems like a weak thing to say, unless it's true, because he doesn't feel like the guy who wants to claim that he was innocent.
00:31:04.540Is he really going to tell us he's innocent?
00:31:08.360But that it would make more sense, it would make more sense that they planted the objects on him than that this guy who was that smart had all those objects on him.
00:32:21.780It wasn't long ago, maybe during the first Trump administration, that if he had pulled this, calling Canada a state and joking with Trudeau that he's just a governor,
00:32:36.300don't you think people would have gone nuts and said, oh, my God, he's embarrassing us on the world stage.
00:33:07.400Trump has transformed from that bad boy who couldn't stop doing all the wrong things, according to you, into what I call a character.
00:33:19.900As a character, he has the freedom to act within that character.
00:33:26.460And somehow we've just given it to him, because as long as he's in character, we kind of get what's going on.
00:33:32.540So what's in character for Trump is this, bullying his peers, trying to get a little psychological advantage on them, sometimes joking with them because it gets you to a better negotiation at some point.
00:33:47.600I feel like Trump has now cemented his place as the person who acts this way, and it's okay, meaning that we all survived his first term, and he was this way.
00:34:03.060But now, since you know you survived it, and nothing bad happened because he talks this way, now he's just a character.
00:34:10.580And as a character, he can be funnier.
00:34:13.240I think I've taught you that the reason AI can't be funny is that it doesn't have a personality.
00:34:19.400You have to have a personality in order to fit the humor to your personality, and it's the two of those things that work.
00:34:27.960If you take the personality away and you just do the joke, there's nothing there.
00:34:31.800It's the personality plus the joke that gets you the humor.
00:34:38.040He's got the personality plus the jokes.
00:34:42.620Trump can read a room better than anybody in politics, and I think Trump is reading the Canadian room as well as the American one.
00:34:51.600I think Trump wants Trudeau to be replaced, and he's mocking him in public so that the Canadians say some version of, oh, did we just send our leader to the United States, and did he just get mocked and sent home?
00:35:31.320Imagine some president of the United States who's not Trump, just some other regular president.
00:35:37.100Say we send our regular president to some other world power, and after done, the world power literally mocks him as not worthy of being a president.
00:35:47.900You can't even hold that in your head, can you?
00:35:54.240We'd be like, oh, no, we have to get rid of our president so we don't send somebody over who gets mocked that way, or we need to invade the country that did it or something.
00:36:04.340But having Trump even gently mocking him, I would think just takes his legs out from being a credible politician in the future.
00:36:19.480So I would expect to see the end of Trudeau as a political actor really soon.
00:36:26.500I think this might have been the last push.
00:50:24.380Here's a woman who clearly has not had to apply for a job in a long time.
00:50:29.780Does Melinda French not know that if a man and a woman go into the same interview and they have similar or even anywhere in the same ballpark credentials,