Dalton Trigg (Dalbert) and Scott Adams (The New York Times) have a debate about sex and why you should have sex during the podcast. Also, a new study says that having a growth mindset doesn t help your academic performance.
00:01:40.200Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
00:01:51.280It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.
00:01:55.820But if you'd like to take a chance on elevating your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains,
00:02:04.820All you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tanker chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:04:10.480Because if you did, I mean, imagine that.
00:04:14.220You remember on Seinfeld when George tried to combine his favorite things and tried to eat a sandwich while he was having sex because he liked those two things really well?
00:04:24.400Well, if you combine this podcast with wild sex, oh, my God, it might be just so good you can't even stand it.
00:04:40.660There's a new study, according to Psychology Today, that says that having a growth mindset or the intervention trying to teach people to have a growth mindset doesn't help their academic performance.
00:04:54.300Now, I'll tell you what, well, let me explain what a growth mindset is.
00:05:01.360The growth mindset is if they work hard and do the right things, they will do better in school so that they can raise their grades through a growth mindset.
00:05:14.220But I'll tell you what will make you seemingly smarter, a skill stack, which I talk about too much.
00:05:22.300If you intelligently combine a little bit of knowledge in the right kind of fields where that knowledge fits together really well, you will be effectively smarter.
00:05:33.520It's not really going to help you with your spelling and your math and your school stuff.
00:05:38.000But in the real world, if you knew AI plus you knew whatever it was that was your job, obviously you're going to be smarter just in the sense that you know more stuff that's useful than other people.
00:05:58.400Apparently, Marcus Zuckerberg was yesterday, tried to do a presentation of the new metaglasses where you've got all kinds of capabilities, but they come in glasses.
00:06:12.840And I guess the rollout was kind of awkward and didn't work too well and had long outages.
00:06:32.760When you do a demo, everything breaks.
00:06:35.540I got to say, I'm a little bit more curious about these metaglasses than I have been about other things.
00:06:45.080So, if I can get a pair that are per subscription, I know, now you're just looking at the cat that's over my shoulder that's looking at my book.
00:07:36.920But there's, according to Nature, not Nature the phenomenon, but Nature the publication, AI is going to maybe help animals speak or at least help us understand what they're saying.
00:07:53.860So, but there's a story about these Bonobo monkeys deep in the jungle who were discovered to be putting, I'll say words together in the sentences.
00:08:06.940But usually it was just like a grunt and a squeak or something like that.
00:08:10.920But if you put them together differently, apparently the other monkeys knew what you're talking about.
00:08:16.320So, I think you have the same feeling about this that I do.
00:19:28.780Trump is going to apparently dedicate $500 million to historically black colleges.
00:19:36.380And the source of that, he says, would be from cutting the Department of Education funds.
00:19:44.420So, in other words, Trump has decided to do something super racist.
00:19:49.400Now, he's done that funding before for the historically black colleges.
00:19:54.200And I would say this, I would agree that historically, having historically black colleges where black students have a place they can go that, you know, is really comfortable and makes sense, right?
00:20:21.840Otherwise, it turns into the opposite of its thing.
00:20:25.340The original thing was, wait a minute, white people have everything.
00:20:29.520Let's make sure that black people are, you know, getting a real serious, you know, bite out of the big apple, if so do you will.
00:20:36.920And so, you create a way that, at least, the best and the brightest, which makes the biggest difference, because they're the ones who could be hiring and educating the next generation and everything else.
00:21:42.560So, once the historical reason for it dissipates over time, and it will, yeah, it's just racist.
00:21:53.780But, you know, you could argue that we're on the border of that right now.
00:21:57.140Well, Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk's old organization, had, what, 2,100, what were they called, chapters.
00:22:12.600And, now they have, as of today, I think 62,000 requests from high school and college students nationwide to start a chapter or get involved.
00:22:45.040If that's a real number, and people don't lose interest and they follow through and stuff, that should be the biggest change in the country politically.
00:23:43.360You were nice enough to correct me from a mistake I made yesterday in which I saw somebody else characterizing what he said,
00:23:52.740and I used their characterization of it, and it was just wrong.
00:23:56.000I mistakenly believed that he did not directly say that MAGA was, that the shooter was MAGA.
00:24:05.980I thought, incorrectly, that he'd said something more along the lines of it, you know, anything's possible or it could be or something like that, but he said it directly.
00:24:16.100And it didn't appear to be anything like a joke.
00:24:20.560It looked like just a statement of what he believed is true.
00:24:29.380Because that's something that people on the left believed was true at about that time.
00:24:36.800Now, I would agree he would have been one of the last to figure out that that had been debunked, but you don't think that there's a strong enough bubble of just not having access to any alternative views.
00:24:51.820You don't think the bubble was strong enough that by the time Kimmel walked out there, he thought that was true.
00:24:58.620Now, I believe he would have been going off the fact that the family was very conservative, so that certainly would ramp up the odds that the children were conservative.
00:25:08.560It's probably, I don't know, I'd guess 80% likelihood that if the entire family and the entire community is strongly conservative, that would be a real strong indication that anybody who came out of that environment was, but 20% chance he wasn't.
00:25:27.280And, of course, there's plenty of evidence now that he was left-leaning.
00:25:31.920But he came from that family, and there were some early reports, which I believe have been debunked, you can tell me, that some of the writings alleged, writing on the shell casings, were somehow evocative of Groyper stuff.
00:25:53.640That would be Nick Fuente's followers are called Groypers.
00:25:56.860Now, if any of those things were true, that would look sort of MAGA-leading.
00:26:04.400But now we know that there's more evidence that he was part of a far-left, trans-related, gay, furry situation, like literally gay, furry video game culture and stuff like that.
00:26:19.100So I don't think there's really my own view, and, of course, we can be fooled by anything at this point.
00:26:51.980Because I don't think that Kimmel would have imagined he had some advantage in walking out there and saying something that was so debunked that he would just be mocked for it in 24 hours.
00:27:55.120Or would he go out there and act like he was sure it was true what he said the first time?
00:28:01.780Well, we don't know exactly, but I feel like by then he would be well informed, you know, people would make sure that he followed up on the details and that he would have been right.
00:28:15.380He would still, you know, have the same anti-Trump, maybe anti-Kirk stuff.
00:28:20.980But anyway, that doesn't help the fact that, you know, what he did was widely disliked by a lot of the country.
00:28:33.900Apparently, by the way, we'll talk about Jimmy, but did you know that the FCC, when it grants these licenses to the big networks so that they can have a portion of the airwaves, the ABC, NBC, CBS, they have to agree to something called equal access in a political sense.
00:28:57.000So if, let's say, The View led a bunch of only Democrats on the show for a year and no Republicans, that would be violating the terms of their license because they're not allowed to just, you know, bias everything in one direction.
00:29:15.120That is the opposite of a public good because it's a limited good.
00:29:20.140Now, I think some of these rules are on the border of obsolescence because now that you have the Internet, you know, I don't even know how people get their news from the airwaves, but the airwaves are not what they used to be.
00:29:34.560I mean, when there were really only three of them and they controlled all the news, you really, really had to make sure that they let people from both sides on the air.
00:29:43.760But what happens when it's just a minor part of how people get news and they have other options on cable, so if they want to watch Fox, they can, and if they want to watch ABC, they can.
00:31:08.500That will tell you where ABC's mind is at.
00:31:12.940Maybe we should just skip the most interesting, biggest story in the whole country, even though our whole thing is talking about the big stuff in the country.
00:31:25.480But Brendan Carr's sort of implied or more than implied threat is that you would look into The View.
00:31:33.440And if you're ABC and you hear that the FCC is thinking about looking into you for this, first thing you're going to do is change how you act, just in case that's enough.
00:31:44.340Like, okay, we'd rather they don't dig back into the last several years to see what we're doing.
00:31:49.900How about we just start acting nice now?
00:32:26.460I don't know that they've gotten rid of anything.
00:32:28.880I'm pretty sure they're still paying them and probably still paying everybody else because I don't think that they've decided that they'll get rid of them.
00:34:10.580He says, sorry, but the FCC was established by FDR to impose public standards on broadcasters and used by JFK to pressure station managers into dropping right-wing radio programs.
00:34:26.960The shoe has been on the other foot for almost 100 years.
00:34:44.500The only way to get a good equilibrium, meaning between the left and the right, is an effective strategy of tit for tat, strategic tit for tat.
00:34:55.520So, Christopher Rufo thinks that, you know, softening up would be a mistake, if I'm characterizing him correctly.
00:35:03.100And that, you know, once the Republicans have this power, they should use it.
00:35:10.460Because if the other side had the power, they would use it.
00:35:37.900So, Trump has weighed in and said his opinion is the FCC probably should do something about Jimmy Kimmel.
00:35:51.100But he says, you know, the FCC makes their own decisions.
00:35:54.820And sure enough, on paper, the FCC is an independent group.
00:35:59.780So, if the FCC puts pressure, does that mean that Trump put pressure?
00:36:08.520Suppose the FCC has no conversations with the White House, but they know exactly what the White House would want.
00:36:17.320And by majority and also their leader, they're a Republican entity at the moment.
00:36:22.980Because the president gets to appoint, and I think Trump has appointed to make sure that there's a Republican majority and Republican leadership.
00:36:34.280Do you think that they need to check with the White House?
00:43:43.720If it's a gray area about free speech, I always go with free speech.
00:43:51.360I don't recognize gray areas on free speech.
00:43:55.320If there's something that's impinging on free speech, it might, we think it is, it could, there's an argument that it did, anything like that.
00:44:05.840If that's a gray area, I'm biased toward allowing the speech.
00:44:12.000So there are a lot of things going on here at the same time.
00:44:16.660So I don't recognize the, it was just business argument.
00:44:40.400Did you know that Brendan Carr of the FCC, the only thing he asked was for an apology?
00:44:47.620But the, I think it was Sinclair Group, so they would be the local affiliates.
00:44:52.740I believe they're conservative by nature, and they said, hell no.
00:44:59.180You know, our conservative-owned, you can give me a fact check of this, but I think they're conservative-owned.
00:45:05.660I think they just said, no, we're a conservative-owned entity, and we're not going to put that a-hole on the air after what he said in the hottest part of the Charlie Kirk disaster.
00:45:16.780They have that right, and that would not be government or political or anything else that, well, it would be political in a way.
00:45:26.620But at that point, ABC pretty much had to yank him, because they can't put it on the show if the affiliates don't run it.
00:46:02.480I believe most of you can back me up on this, but when I grew up, when people lied about stuff on TV,
00:46:12.120it didn't usually make that much difference to my life.
00:46:15.700It was just people on TV lying about stuff, and politics was all lying, and we all understood that, et cetera.
00:46:23.860But in today's world, the anti-Trumpers have created a situation where something like half of the country
00:46:32.720is losing family members, like sons and daughters and parents, like the close ones.
00:46:40.440I'm not talking about losing your cousin.
00:46:42.320I'm talking about having your mother won't talk to you, or you won't talk to your father, or you don't talk to your siblings.
00:46:52.920This is not the same, and this is caused almost entirely by hoaxes that the Democrats, in an organized fashion, run on the country continuously.
00:47:06.640It's, you know, I don't have to mention them all, you know, the fine people hoax, the drinking bleach hoax, the Russia hoax, you know, the suckers and losers hoax.
00:47:18.880I mean, it's just one hoax after another, nonstop.
00:49:10.880Two Wire, I think is the name of his podcast.
00:49:13.800And I don't know why it took me so long to see this, but he put together all the pieces, and I will try to do the same for you,
00:49:23.300but this is Mark Halperin's realization.
00:49:26.140That we're just sort of assuming that the left has all the media control, and that the right is just scrambling and scratching and trying to get its little attention.
00:49:40.360Of course, it's got his Fox News and his Breitbart's, and it's got several entities, but it doesn't compete with the big networks and the main structure of the media.
00:49:51.240But you might not be paying attention to how quickly things are changing.
00:49:58.380Oh, Two Way. I'm sorry. It's not Two Wire. This podcast is Two Way.
00:50:03.980It's very good, by the way. I watch it.
00:50:06.560I probably watch an hour of his content every single day, you know, with little, just little clips at a time.