Episode 2853 CWSA 05⧸28⧸25
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 1 minute
Words per Minute
120.296524
Summary
Scott Adams talks about sex before bed, Tesla's new kid-sitting feature, and stretchable metals, and the future of energy storage and refrigeration, and much, much more. Coffee with Scott Adams is produced by Scott Adams and edited by Alex Blumberg.
Transcript
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So let's check on our comments, make sure I can see what you're saying.
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I have to warn you that today my mental capacity is about 50% normal.
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So if I sound like a host on MSNBC, it's not your imagination.
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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And I'm pretty sure you've never had a better time.
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But if you'd like to take a chance on rising, let's say lifting, lifting your experience to new levels,
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all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of tank or gels for Stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
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It's called, that's right, the simultaneous sip.
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I wonder if there are any scientific studies that they didn't need to do because they could just ask me.
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There's a new study that says that sexual activity before bed improves objective sleep quality.
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So, did anybody besides me know that sex before bed allows you to get to sleep better?
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Apparently, it works whether you have a partner or not.
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That might be the most well-known fact in all of human history.
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You could look for the rest of your life trying to find somebody who didn't know that.
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And you would never find anybody who didn't know it.
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Well, the Starship launch was either successful or unsuccessful, depending on how you define success.
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If you're a business insider, you'd say it was unsuccessful because you don't like Elon Musk.
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But if you were more science and technology oriented, you'd say it got further than ever before.
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In other words, it was a failure that taught them a bunch of things, which is why they do it.
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Because they're trying to learn a bunch of things so that the next time they do it, it gets a little bit further.
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So let's call it a success because they learned a bunch of things and they got further than they've been before.
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Speaking of Elon Musk, it makes me think of Tesla, which makes me think of this new feature.
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Apparently, your Tesla will soon be able to identify if you left a child in your car.
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So if you leave a child unattended in your car, which I know you all like to do,
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the car will flash and the lights will play and there'll be some kind of alert
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and a notification will be sent to your Tesla app if the unattended child is detected.
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Kind of makes you wonder, how old does the kid have to be?
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You could just drive it home and unlock the door or roll down the windows.
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Don't you think it can roll down the window a little bit?
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Well, here's the nerdiest sounding thing that might be a really big deal.
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According to Interesting Engineering, there's a new stretchable metal.
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When you decided to watch this podcast, you said to yourself,
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I wonder if there's any new stretchable metals.
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And there's a stretchable metal that delivers, believe it or not,
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90% of the Carnot efficiency for heating and cooling.
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And it's 20 times better than traditional alloys.
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So the bottom line is that there's a new technology that seems practical
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that would just gigantically change your ability to do heating and cooling
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and make a heat pump that works with, you know, regular electricity.
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But it's way, way, way, way, way more efficient.
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Now, imagine what would happen to our energy needs if we could cool things and heat things
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way, way, way, way, way better than we ever have before.
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So you remember how L.A. Mayor Karen Bass was bragging that things were going well
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in the Palisades and the rebuilding and the issuing of permits?
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Well, she caught a little bit of heat for that, according to the New York Post.
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First, if you want to put things in perspective, there have been 68 building permits that have been issued
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Well, that's not so good if you consider there are 6,800 properties.
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So Karen Bass is up there standing in front of one of the very few homes that is being built
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But at least we're going to get the Golden Dome that will protect us from incoming missiles.
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And according to Trump, he told Canada, who wants to get in on this,
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that if they become part of the USA, that Canada will pay nothing to be part of the Dome.
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But if Canada wants to stay an independent nation, they will pay $61 billion for their part of the Dome.
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And according to Trump, Canada is considering his offer of becoming part of the United States
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Do you believe that he had a conversation with anybody in Canada who said,
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wait a minute, are you telling me I can get a big discount on the Golden Dome if I give up my sovereignty?
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Maybe we will give up our sovereignty after all.
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I didn't realize I could make so much money by giving up my sovereignty.
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I'm going to say that might be a little bit of a salesman talk there.
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Well, RFK Jr. and his cohorts in the health part of the government, I guess,
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they're taking COVID shots off the vaccine schedule for healthy kids and pregnant women.
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And I'm going to assume, without looking into it, that some science was involved.
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Because his critics act like he just makes shit up.
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But I'm pretty sure they looked at the science and didn't see a reason to give healthy kids the COVID shots or pregnant women.
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So here's one of the things that always amuses me about any of the controversy about the COVID shots.
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So you're either trusting the official experts, or you're trusting the experts that say the official experts got it wrong.
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But isn't there always an expert on both sides?
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And if you're not listening to either of the experts, and I'm not saying you should, because it's a weird world,
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Did you do some tests yourself in the backyard?
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Well, it's hard not to rely on an expert, isn't it?
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Because there's always somebody who said, well, according to me,
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here's a little experiment I want you to try at home.
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So probably my audience would say that the spike protein stays in your body, right?
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If you go to Grok, it'll say the spike protein just leaves your body quickly.
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And then do the same test with everything you believe to be true.
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I'm just saying that it's going to blow your freaking mind when you test every assumption that you believe is true about COVID and the COVID shots.
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Almost nothing you think is true will be backed up by the Grok summary of what is true.
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Now, I'm not saying Grok is true, but I'm also not saying I know what is true.
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But how do you write history when there's just no agreement on history at all?
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Anyway, so I did that exercise the other day, and it just blew my freaking mind that the common assumptions that Grok will tell you with great confidence are absolutely opposite of what I would say almost everybody watching believes to be true.
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Anyway, NPR is suing President Trump over his order to cut their funding.
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What exactly gives them the right to sue somebody over the privilege of being funded by the government?
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And first of all, it's not like they get all their funding from the government.
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But President Trump is suing the state of North Carolina for refusing to wipe ineligible voters off their voting rolls.
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Have we reached the point where all action is just lawsuits?
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And it doesn't matter what you do or what your reason is or what your authority is or what the Constitution says or what the law says, somebody's going to sue your ass for absolutely everything you do.
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So I don't know who's going to win, but how in the world is North Carolina refusing to wipe ineligible voters off their rolls?
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Like what would be their argument for, you want us to get rid of the ineligible voters?
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What exactly is the argument for keeping ineligible voters on the rolls?
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Well, according to the Rasmussen poll, the polling company Rasmussen, there's a Trump effect that for the first time ever since they've been tracking this,
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that the majority of the public, 50%, just barely majority, believes that the country is on the right track.
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So for 20 years, Rasmussen's been tracking it, and this is the first time ever that the country thought it was on the right track.
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No, it's not true, because we're heading toward a deficit cliff.
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We're on a track toward certain doom for the first time in my life.
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I've never been in a situation, well, that I can remember.
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Like, we always had a risk that maybe the Soviet Union would nuke us, but probably not, right?
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And we had risks that, I don't know, the communists would take over the country or something, but probably not.
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But at the moment, we have a budget situation in which we know we're heading right toward the cliff,
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and it doesn't seem that we have any ability to stop it.
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So it's the first time in my life where I could say unambiguously we're on the wrong track,
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because we can't stop the one thing that would take us out.
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So I'm glad everybody else is happy, or at least 50% of the country.
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But it is impressive that Trump convinced the most people ever that we're on the right track.
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At the same time, a separate poll by The Economist slash YouGov
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says that Republicans' favorability is better than the Democrats'.
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So the GOP has a net favorability rating of negative 11%.
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So Democrats have a net favorability rating of negative 21%.
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it amazes me that everybody's picking the least terrible party.
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Like, huh, well, I could go with the party that's negative 21% favorability,
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so I'm going to go with the one that's only negative 11%.
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Have you noticed that the Democrats seem to be unleashed to dump on other Democrats
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and the Republicans are getting everything wrong,
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and then Democrats are also complaining about Democrats.
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It's the first time the Democrats have just a free pass
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you know, looks like Democrats did everything wrong
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and it doesn't look like we figured out how to fix it yet.
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he said, Kamala Harris, for whatever you say about her,
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Anyway, he said that she did connect with people culturally.
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Do you think that if they had an economic vision
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but they were on the 20 side of every 80-20 policy,
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do you think that they would have ridden into victory
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an economic vision for working-class Americans?
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If they had an economic vision for working-class Americans,
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Some consultant came up with a $20 million proposition,