Coffee with Scott Adams is the highlight of human civilization, and you ve never had a better time listening to it. Today, he talks about a new study that suggests exercise is better than resistance training for depression, and the WNBA bets on the color of a fourth dildo thrown onto a basketball court.
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00:01:36.740Dope beans at the end of the day. The thing that makes everything better, it's called the
00:01:40.800simultaneous sip. And it happens. Right. Yeah, exactly. Happens now. Go.
00:01:47.520Oh, all right. That was your unparalleled pleasure, exactly.
00:02:02.280Well, I wonder if there are any studies that could have been skipped. Hmm. Oh, here's one.
00:02:10.440A new meta-analysis, a study of studies, found that aerobic and resistance training significantly
00:02:21.480reduced symptoms of depression and anxiety. Huh. I wonder if there's any way they could have
00:02:28.580skipped the meta-analysis and found out the same answer. Yes, there is. They should have
00:02:36.880just asked me. Ask Scott. But they believe they found out that aerobic exercise is a little
00:02:45.240bit better for depression, while resistance training is a little bit better for anxiety.
00:02:52.160But guess what? They're both good for you in a variety of ways for your mind and your body.
00:02:59.760surprise, just like every other time. And in what I call summer news, because in the summer,
00:03:11.320there's just less real news. So it gets filled in with weird stuff. A fourth dildo has been
00:03:19.900tossed onto a WNBA basketball court during a game. Now, apparently the betting line is on what color
00:03:32.760the next one will be. It's not even whether or not there is one. It's what color it will be. So the
00:03:39.180first three were green. Why? I don't know. Why not? But the new one was purple. So the reason you
00:03:50.980watch me is for the hard-hitting, important news. And now you know the quantity and the color of the
00:03:58.340dildos that have been thrown on basketball courts. Now you know. But did you know CBS News,
00:04:08.840tells us that Americans get 55% of their calories from ultra-processed foods, according to the CDC?
00:04:18.000Would you know the difference between a processed food and an ultra-processed food? Do you know what
00:04:26.100the difference is? I'll wait for your answers. What is the difference between a processed food and an
00:04:35.420ultra-processed food? Well, I don't know exactly, but I would imagine an ultra-processed food would wear
00:04:43.660some kind of a cape, you know, some kind of a superhero outfit sort of thing. I am no longer
00:04:51.460ordinary processed foods. I was bitten by a spider. And now it was a radioactive spider. And now I am
00:05:02.020ultra-processed foods. Sounds awesome. Avoid those ultras, whatever they are.
00:05:09.220Well, Newsmax tells us that Obamacare premiums might spike 18%. Holy hell. How in the world can
00:05:22.960this one area of healthcare just always go up by a lot every year? It never goes down? Are you telling
00:05:33.560me that with all of these medical breakthroughs that not a single one of them has lowered anybody's
00:05:39.980costs? Instead, the entire medical community has turned into a scam? The scam goes like this.
00:05:50.520We could cure this thing, but it would make a lot more sense if we didn't. Or
00:05:56.620we could sell the supplies to you cheaply, or we could sell you the machine cheaply and make the
00:06:07.020supplies really, really expensive forever. So my brief experience in the healthcare medical device
00:06:17.080area, I have a little bit, is that it's pretty much people who don't want you to get better.
00:06:26.620And they definitely don't want you to stop using their medical devices.
00:06:32.400Well, but what about your veterinarian? Sure. Human medicine is probably one big scam.
00:06:40.920But what about veterinarians? Well, it turns out that private equity firms are buying up all the
00:06:47.120veterinarian practices. Did you know that? So they currently own up to half of all veterinary
00:06:54.060clinics and 75% of emergency hospitals. And guess what they do when they buy a local veterinary
00:07:03.040practice? They substantially increase the prices. And that's why your veterinarian bill,
00:07:11.300veterinary bill, is through the roof. There's a reason. Because those big entities are buying them
00:07:17.520and jacking up the price. Well, what is the update in those Texas Democrats who, rather than stay in town
00:07:27.000and do their job, decided that they would stage a theatrical skit? Because it's what they do. Democrats,
00:07:39.780Democrats, we have another crisis. The oligarch is trying to be an authoritarian. So what do you do?
00:07:48.500Oh, oh, oh. Run around in circles with our hair on fire? Oh, oh. Well, that's the start. And then what do you do?
00:07:57.980Do we learn to swear more like Orange Man? Yes, exactly. Oh, damn it. Oh, damn. S word, F word.
00:08:06.140Well, and then most importantly, you must stage some kind of a theatrical event. A play. It could be a
00:08:16.120one-man show like Cory Booker. But it needs to be, you know, put on a show. So the Texas Democrats,
00:08:25.780they put on a show with the help of their financial backers. They ran away to Illinois and other places.
00:08:32.860And then the governor of Texas, not one to, you know, back down from a fight, decided that he would
00:08:42.140send the FBI after them. And there might be some arrests. I don't know exactly what law they're
00:08:52.740breaking, but I'm sure somebody will find a law. So yeah. So Robert Reich, Reich, Robert Reich is
00:09:01.280pointing out that this is what fascism looks like. So what fascism looks like is your Democrat leaders
00:09:09.880leave town so they don't have to do their job. And then the governor of that state says,
00:09:15.500can the FBI round these people up so they can do their job? That's what fascism looks like.
00:09:22.060No, it's exactly like that. Stop doubting me. That's exactly what fascism looks like.
00:09:27.760You know what else it looks like? Looks like an oligarch who's authoritarian. Yeah, that's it.
00:09:38.040That's what it looks like. So beware of all that. So Project Veritas has a scoop with a whistleblower
00:09:51.700that says that ex-U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr was a part of some kind of secret plan
00:10:00.360to prosecute Trump and get him out of office. But I would wait to see if we have other sources
00:10:07.140for that. I saw some people say that they weren't quite sure that the case had been made,
00:10:14.860but they do have some kind of evidence for that. So I'd wait. Bill Barr may have something
00:10:20.540to say about that, too. Well, yesterday, the House Oversight Committee,
00:10:28.640they talked to Anita Dunn, who was one of Biden's close advisors. And they said,
00:10:35.940Anita Dunn, can you tell us about Biden's brain and was anybody aware of it and keeping that secret
00:10:44.460from the rest of it from the rest of us? And so it was a case of Anita Dunn and the president who is
00:10:51.360now Dunn. And he's got a Dunner. So it was sort of a Dunn and Dunner situation. But Anita was kind of
00:11:02.480smart. Instead of taking the fifth, she did Biden a favor and said that he interacted as much as he
00:11:10.140needed to. And basically, he was fine. He didn't notice the problem. So I don't know that that's
00:11:18.300true. But there's no way to disprove it. Oh, there's a cat in my background. That means you're probably
00:11:27.100going to watch the cat instead of me. But that's okay. Because the news is boring today. And the cat
00:11:32.940always exciting. So what Anita Dunn said about Biden was, quote, while I observed that President
00:11:42.340Biden aged physically during his time in office, which is something that happens to every president,
00:11:48.220he remained throughout my interactions with him fully engaged. Now, isn't that an interesting choice
00:11:55.040of words? Engaged? He was fully engaged. Huh. Is fully engaged the same thing as being completely
00:12:05.980mentally competent? Because I've seen videos of crazy people with machetes trying to kill people on the
00:12:13.060street. And one thing I would say about all of those people, they look fully engaged. So it looks like
00:12:22.740I got a visitor here. So this is Gary the cat who's doing a walkthrough. Unlike President Biden during his
00:12:32.320last debate, according to Jake Tapper, Biden refused to do a walkthrough of the debate stage before the
00:12:42.820event, which is a big mistake for a public speaker. So Denmark is urging Israel to reverse their Gaza
00:12:56.180decision. I guess the Gaza decision is where Israel, I don't know if it's a done deal. They might need some
00:13:04.500more approvals. But they plan to occupy and basically just own Gaza and never give it back. And
00:13:11.660but they would like, Israel says, they would like eventually for some Arab country to take control of that
00:13:22.600area. But still, Israel would do the security, which raises an interesting question. If your country is
00:13:33.800doing all the security for a place, can you really say that someone else is running it?
00:13:41.660Because it feels like whoever has the guns is going to get anything they want out of that population.
00:13:48.580So we'll see how that works out. But the one thing I'm still waiting for is, and this will sound like
00:13:58.300I'm supporting Israel and all their plans, but I'm not. I am commenting on it. And you can hear my
00:14:07.000comment and say, oh, that's reasonable or that's not. But it's just a comment. Same thing you can say.
00:14:15.000Have you noticed that people don't offer an alternative to whatever Israel is planning to do in Gaza?
00:14:22.760Now, I think everybody has the same feeling, which is too many people are getting killed. And wouldn't it be good if everybody got fed? And wouldn't it be good if everybody could live in harmony next to each other? So we all agree on the obvious basic stuff. But what is the alternative to Gaza completely being dominated forever by Israel? Is there really some plan where they'll all just change?
00:14:52.740change their minds and decide that everything's fine? I'm pretending that there's not a cat putting its face in my face right now? No, it's not even happening. I don't really see it. All right. Moving on.
00:15:08.360And I'll pretend that another cat didn't fall off
00:15:14.440something in my house. Getting noisy in here.
00:15:21.060Well, apparently Germany is not happy with Israel either. And I didn't know this, but
00:15:26.680Germany is the source of 30 to 47 percent of Israel's imported
00:23:55.380And they want maybe tax social media advertising and corporate head tax.
00:24:00.440And, oh, they got some taxing ideas there.
00:24:02.540Apparently, Energy Secretary Chris Wright is indicating that the government is looking at all the climate reports that the government, you know, backs, the ones they endorse.
00:24:20.180And they've temporarily taken them off their website and they're looking at them to see which ones they think are honest and useful.
00:24:37.020What I think will happen is that when a government that was in charge and really wanted to, you know, move a lot of money around for climate change, they found studies that really said it was an emergency and existential threat.
00:24:52.480Does that work into their, you know, their entire philosophy?
00:24:57.400And then when we have our current government that doesn't really think that climate change is a risk and that it's mostly a hoax, do you imagine that they're going to look at the science and decide that they found new and better science that suggests it's not that much of a problem?
00:25:16.840And might they find that the old science that the Democrats were using had flaws in the data or the methodology and could not be believed?
00:25:27.920So, now that in your mind you have agreed with me and I can feel your agreeance from a distance, uh-huh, uh-huh, all right, we're on the same page.
00:25:38.200If we agree that the science of climate change is going to conform to what was in the best interest of the political party who happened to have been elected, what does that tell you about science?
00:25:56.600Have we learned anything about science by watching the fact that the scientific consensus will completely change based on who got elected, who was not a scientist at all?
00:26:27.720So, I don't know what data will be real and what will be fake, but I believe in general that all of our economic data for the country is questionable and all of our temperature and climate change data and models are questionable.
00:26:55.420And that data is probably just at least 50% bullshit, no matter even if some of it's true.
00:27:04.620Well, but at least our crime data is reliable, right?
00:27:10.580You know, if a place says, oh, our crime level is going down, well, you could trust that, right?
00:27:21.640Because just because all of our economic data looks like it's warped and all of our climate data looks undependable, that doesn't mean that our crime data is going to be, wait, what?
00:28:25.260It might be true that all of our economic data is fake and all of our climate data is fake or not to be trusted, but also our crime data is probably just made-up bullshit.
00:28:41.180But don't you worry, because the election, I'm not even going to go there.
00:29:15.660All 50 states are holding elections with no real problems to speak of.
00:29:22.900And despite the overwhelming complexity of trying to run a national election and the, you know, through-the-roof incentive to cheat, if you could find a way to do it, we're so lucky.
00:29:37.040It's the one thing that is just always accurate and never really has a problem.
00:30:18.660Well, have you heard the story today that Florida is trying to do a doge project on all of its cities?
00:30:26.680You know, sending in a team to look where they could cut expenses and looking for fraud and stuff.
00:30:32.460And apparently the local governments across the state of Florida have been telling their staff to delete, alter, or fabricate information before a Florida doge visits.
00:30:50.820Well, maybe the local governments in this country are all criminal organizations because they have lots of money flowing through it and, you know, lots of complexity and nobody's paying attention.
00:31:06.640Well, at least our elections are pristine.
00:31:15.740Well, you probably thought to yourself, thank goodness I lived long enough to see the country come to the understanding that the Russiagate hoax was a hoax.
00:31:28.480And that there was indeed a RICO-like criminal enterprise that involved the Clinton campaign and the FBI and the Department of Justice and probably the White House.
00:31:41.740And now we know, really with certainty, because the reporting is pristine, that that all happened.
00:31:53.060We also know that the mainstream media was clearly in on the hoax, and they were in it hard, and they really were the gatekeepers that, you know, concealed the whole thing from the rest of the public.
00:32:09.440But thank God that's over, and we're all on the same page that that terrible criminal operation happened, and that something must be done to get justice for the country.
00:32:24.960Oh, wait, nothing like that's happening.
00:32:27.860Molly Hemingway is pointing out that the Atlantic, which is one of the Democrat media that pretends it's something else.
00:32:39.440And Applebaum and others are, as Molly Hemingway says, clinging bitterly to the lie that they pushed against the American people.
00:32:49.980In other words, they're trying to argue that the Russia collusion story was based on solid reporting and solid data, and that, yeah, I mean, there was definitely something there.
00:33:03.400And I'm sure Mueller actually said so, and, you know, there were things and indications, and they had a good reason to believe.
00:33:13.560So, no, history, history is corrupt and being rewritten as you watch.
00:33:20.000So, let's see, our economic data is bad, our climate data is bad, our crime data is bad, our local governments are corrupt.
00:33:27.220And the press is erasing history, because the history includes the press's own bad behavior, so they're just going to erase it.
00:34:16.580Well, President Trump has directed some of his federal assets to do a little policing in D.C., so he's not moving to federalize, per se, not exactly.
00:34:33.820So, he's not federalizing the city, and this is in response to the absurd rate of crime in Washington, D.C.
00:34:41.340But he is putting the U.S. Park Police into action.
00:34:47.100So, after midnight, I guess, they'll have a presence in some of the touristy areas of the city.
00:34:55.980And I think some other entities might be part of this, too.
00:35:01.720So, the Metropolitan Police Department, Capitol Police, Metro Transit.
00:35:07.200So, he's going to bring some federal assets to just make it safer to walk the streets and touristy parts.
00:35:59.060I kind of like, one of the things I like the most about the Trump administration is that he's made it a sexy thing to reduce regulations.
00:36:09.600And it's very clear that if you want to curry favor with the boss, the boss being Trump, that if you could come up with a story about the domain that you manage, getting rid of some regulations to make it easier to do business in the United States, you know that Trump is going to love to hear that.
00:36:50.720You know, under the Biden administration, do you remember any story, any story about, oh, this department figured out a way to cut their expenses 10%?
00:37:06.720But given that you know that Trump would give you attention and your career could benefit if you did some cost-cutting, now it's almost a competitive sport.
00:37:19.280Everybody's looking for a way to get in on this.
00:37:26.940I would love to see if there is a model for federalizing a city, maybe temporarily, maybe not, that would work.
00:37:40.980Because, in my view, the thing that breaks every city is that you have people who get elected who are willing to steal money with one of the many ways that you can do that when you're in charge.
00:37:55.560Usually, it means steering business in one direction versus another.
00:38:01.840And, you know, it's easy to hide that you're getting paid, you know, directly or indirectly.
00:38:06.980There's always a lot of money involved.
00:38:09.460Everybody's got a friend who works in that domain.
00:38:11.920It's like, oh, you want the garbage contract.
00:38:14.720Well, you know, if you made a donation to my wife's charity, you might get that contract.
00:38:22.240So, one way to fix the cities is to not allow any of the elected officials to decide where money goes.
00:38:34.400Like, it's almost like you need some independent entity to make money decisions, at least in terms of awarding contracts.
00:38:42.240But I would love to see if you could do a government in a box where a city just says, all right, we give up.
00:38:52.240You know, we can't fix it because we don't have the right people here.
00:38:57.760And so, some government in a box, ideally American entity, comes in and just says, all right, this person will be your mayor for the next year.
00:39:11.000And we'll just make a bunch of fast decisions and change everything really quickly.
00:39:15.880And then when they're done, they can run it for a year or more or not.
00:39:21.000You know, the voters would still have control and they could adopt the new techniques or not.
00:39:28.140But the government in a box would kind of rapidly be able to just change everything.
00:39:34.340Well, according to Harry Enten, the data expert for CNN, J.D. Vance has a lock on being the next nominee for president, and then nobody's even close.
00:39:54.560So, apparently Vance had something like a 40% support, and the next best one was like DeSantis has six.
00:40:09.060And I would argue that he's earned that, wouldn't you?
00:40:14.180Because Vance is definitely a consequential vice president, maybe one of the top two or three, certainly the top three of consequential vice presidents.
00:40:27.760And I think people like him, and he's sort of proven his ability to, you know, deal with the press especially.
00:40:36.640But the other thing that you cannot discount is that he's funny, and that even South Park recently, you know, included him in their commentary.
00:40:49.940And it was just funny, and he liked it.
00:40:52.340And if you have a charismatic, funny person who's now got this vice presidential experience and would have, presumably would have Trump's strongest support, it's going to be tough to beat.
00:41:13.400I've got my little co-worker here, for those of you watching the video.
00:41:17.400So, all right, apparently there's some, I don't know the full story here, but I saw Mike Cernovich post that apparently there's some documents we can see now that Mueller, when he was doing his investigation,
00:41:35.740he unlawfully investigated Mike Cernovich for his journalism about H.R. McMaster and about his assistant, Eric Ciaramella.
00:41:51.440Now, I won't get into the whole drama of why McMaster and Ciaramella were the subject of some Cernovich reporting,
00:42:00.440but I would recommend that you Google those things if you want to find out, just because it's a long, sort of older story.
00:42:09.620But how would you like to find out that your name was in government documents, and they were researching you over something that you did that was entirely legitimate?
00:42:20.080Yeah, his reporting is held up, and he says, in his post, he says,
00:42:27.680I request that the case file on me be unsealed.
00:42:36.760Well, Pam Bondi announced that our government is offering a $50 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Nicolas Maduro, the head of Venezuela.
00:42:51.980Now, have we ever done that before, where we offer a reward for information that would lead to the arrest of a president who's in our part of the world?
00:43:10.860But apparently, the alleged crime, or crimes, is that Maduro is not just the head of Venezuela, but that he is the head of, or deeply embedded with, the cartels, the drug cartels.
00:43:26.420And that he's basically one of, if not the biggest drug dealer in the entire world.
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00:52:32.640CBS News reports that a company figured out how to make butter out of carbon dioxide so they can suck the CO2 out of the air and add some chemicals and turn it into a butter substitute.
00:52:50.200You know what I like to make my butter out of?
00:52:57.540I like to make it out of pollution and shit that was flying around in the sky.