Episode 2807 CWSA 04⧸12⧸25
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 4 minutes
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137.76822
Summary
This week, Scott Adams talks about the new Simultaneous sip, the new ChatGPT upgrade, and the results of Trump's medical exam. Plus, a comic about a robot and a sex doll who read the news.
Transcript
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Coffee with Scott Adams, you've never had a better time, but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass or a tank or chalice or a canteen jug or a flask or a vessel of any kind.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
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It's called the Simultaneous Sip, and it's going to happen now.
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Today after the show, because it's Saturday, there will be an after party.
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Owen Gregorian will be hosting that on Spaces, the audio-only service on the X platform.
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So just look for Owen Gregorian, or you can look for my X account, and it has a repost there.
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But make sure you watch it, the after party, right after the show.
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So I wonder if there's any science that could have been skipped if they had just asked me instead.
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According to SciPost, agnostics are more indecisive, neurotic, and prone to maximizing choices.
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So agnostics are less decisive than atheists and Christians.
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You know how they could have come to that same conclusion, spending a lot less money and taking a lot less time?
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Just ask me, hey, do you think agnostics are as certain as atheists and Christians?
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Do you think they can rapidly order at the Cheesecake Factory?
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ChatGPT has a very big upgrade, which is scary, but oh so useful.
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Samuel Laxon, that now ChatGPT will be able to remember, if you set it to do that, you have the option of turning it off.
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It will remember all of your prior conversations.
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So if you were asking ChatGPT about a certain topic months ago, and then you wanted to follow up, you wouldn't have to re-explain everything again.
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You would already know, oh, this person already asked me these questions, so I don't need to answer the same stuff again.
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I'll just add this new thing that they asked me about.
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So how much more useful that will become is a lot.
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I can't, it's hard to imagine they can store all that, but they got a lot of data centers.
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But I did a comic yesterday called Robots Read News.
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And Robots Read News is literally a robot and a sex doll who do the news.
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And I'm going to compare what Trump said himself about the results, the results of his medical exam.
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And then I'm going to compare it to the joke version that I wrote before Trump spoke about it.
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And I want you to see if I captured the vibe of it approximately correct.
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But Trump said, overall, I felt I was in very good shape.
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It looks like your soul is doing great, Mr. President.
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He's the only human being who would have said he went to a medical examination.
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And he had a good heart and a good soul, a very good soul.
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And then he says, I took, I wanted to be a little different than Biden.
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I don't know what to tell you other than I got every answer right.
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Now, here's what the comic version said when the robot in my comic strip, Robots Read News, was reporting on the same event.
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So the robot reading the news, he was quoting the doctor.
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The doctor hasn't actually spoken yet, but it's a fake quote of the doctor.
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Quote, the son that Trump is essentially immortal and slightly smarter than Einstein.
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His testicles are like bowling balls and his ear grew back better.
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There's no way you can report his medical examination straightforward.
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It just has to be funny because you know the real one's going to be hilarious.
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Whatever it is the doctor says is going to be, you know, it's going to have to be approved by Trump.
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I guess he's going to end federal funding for sanctuary cities.
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So if you're a sanctuary city, basically you're shit out of luck for federal funding.
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And he is serious about this whole, about closing the border and shipping people back.
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So sanctuary cities, you could have a little trouble.
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That would include Seattle, Chicago, Denver, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and others.
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Meanwhile, if you didn't think that was tough enough, according to the Gateway Pundit,
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do you remember Alina Haber, who was one of Trump's attorneys?
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Well, she's now the U.S. attorney of New Jersey.
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So she's a U.S. attorney there, and she's opening a criminal probe into the governor of New Jersey
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So apparently the governor said they wouldn't cooperate with ICE trying to deport people.
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So that would be obstruction with the federal government's law enforcement.
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So Alina Haber is going to do a criminal probe into the governor.
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Meanwhile, Doge has inserted itself so that there's some kind of federal grant website I've never heard of.
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But apparently this website is sort of the central clearing place for $500 billion a year in awards for, let's see,
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So I guess there's a lot of different grants for a lot of different things.
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But Doge is going to make sure that any of those grants get looked at by Doge.
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So all the crazy stuff, like a million dollars to find clothing for squirrels.
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I made that one up, but it could have been real.
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I made that one up too, but they sound kind of real, don't they?
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CNN, I was watching CNN yesterday after the market closed.
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And it was hilarious because it looked like they wrote their entire opening monologue, the host,
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So what they had already written was the market is full of volatility and uncertainty,
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and there's chaos and volatility and the volatility and the uncertainty.
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But what had actually happened was that the market closed up.
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The actual news should have been, well, it looks like the market has adjusted to
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or it looks like the market understands now what Trump's trying to accomplish
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and can see that, you know, there would be a light at the end of the tunnel.
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But instead, they had already readied this whole, there's so much uncertainty.
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So they had to not mention the actual close of the market
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And I'm thinking to myself, if the market goes up,
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like a nice little, it was a nice little gain, actually, at the end of the week.
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I don't think you can sell the uncertainty message as well.
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So, here's a little lesson on public communication.
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If you're ever a financial expert and somebody asks you, you know,
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and you want to sound like you're an expert so that you really said something,
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So, he was asked about the, you know, the economy.
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And he's like one of the top money guys in the whole country, in the world, really.
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So, I mean, he's somebody who should really know.
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I mean, if you listen to Larry Fink, he should know,
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I said we were very close to it, and then here we are, sure enough.
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But if we don't have a recession, you can later say,
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It's a completely unverifiable claim that we're very close.
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And the fact that he added very to close, you don't need the very.
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That's just like acting like you know something.
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So, if anybody asks you how the economy is going to go,
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And then later, when somebody checks on you, you go,
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Well, according to the Financial Times, they've got some data.
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that the Europeans have canceled a ton of travel to the United States.
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So, let's see if you can find out what's wrong with this story.
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There was a thread on it with graphs and stuff.
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So, the thread said that the number of people traveling from Europe to the U.S.
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in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%.
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And travelers have canceled plans in response to Trump's policies and rhetoric and horror stories from the border.
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Remember I taught you that if somebody gives you the percentage without the raw numbers,
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or they give you the raw numbers without the percentages,
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And would there normally be an uptick in travel from Europe around Easter?
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because they might want to celebrate Easter at home?
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I also wonder, has travel from the U.S. to Europe gone down?
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And then I wonder, how many people are involved?
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For example, how many people were coming from Austria to the United States?
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Because I've lived in the United States my entire life.
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I've never met an Austrian who was on vacation.
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I have never met anybody from Denmark who was on vacation.
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Now, I have met Germans and people from the U.K.
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But all these little countries that I've never even met a single person
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Here's the story they're trying to tell, the bad guys,
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is that Trump has ruined the United States brand for a generation.
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The minute people are happy with the United States,
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There's no such thing as judging another country by its brand.
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At the moment, I wouldn't go near Great Britain.
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You know, if the conditions that make Europe seem unpalatable at the moment,
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But I would note that the big complaint that Democrats have about Trump and about Musk
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If you were Trump and you owned hotels around the world,
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do you think that you would be happy that you would decrease European tourism?
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So, can we dispense with the Trump's only in it for the money?
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I don't think he would be tariffing and pissing off the people who are probably,
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you know, maybe 20% or a third of all of his customers at his hotels
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If he were in it for the money, he wouldn't tariff anybody.
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He'd just try to be friends with everybody like everybody else does.
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So, clearly, Trump is in it to fix actual problems in the real world.
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So, I keep telling you that the complaints about Trump and about Musk are imaginary,
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but it's really hilarious when you see them all together.
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So, the Republicans' biggest things they're working on
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The border's a real thing, and it was really open,
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which no matter what you think about his strategy for the tariffs,
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Chaos is a word designed to scare senior citizens.
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Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.
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and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.
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in which one of the members asked this question.
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as nearly everybody working for the government.