Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3027 CWSA 11⧸23⧸25

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00:01:45.360 all right well let's jump into the news it'll be so good uh did you know

00:01:53.340 so this is so trump trump's going to his helicopter i think he was and one of the reporters asked him

00:02:00.980 if you would reconcile with representative marjorie taylor green you know the same way he did with

00:02:07.180 elon musk what do you think he said well he said uh sure why not i get along with everybody

00:02:14.660 is that the perfect answer i get along with everybody because you want to argue with them

00:02:22.040 right you're like you don't get along with everybody what about what about oh okay well

00:02:27.180 i guess you do kind of get along with them but what about what about so first of all it makes your hair

00:02:32.180 catch on fire if you don't think it's factually true but it's close enough to be factually true

00:02:38.800 that you know i i will allow it but i love the fact that he has created this persona for himself

00:02:46.440 where he can absolutely maul somebody in public verbally and then five minutes later he can say

00:02:53.700 yeah why don't you go on over we'll have dinner we'll be best friends and that everybody goes oh

00:03:00.560 okay i get it it's part of the show it's just part of the show once you realize it's part of the show

00:03:07.100 you can just lean back and enjoy it the way it was meant to be so yes do we want trump to dislike

00:03:14.980 marjorie taylor green no we want her to be a productive part of society a patriot uh would you

00:03:24.120 not want her on your team think about it now i get that she disagrees with you on some policy

00:03:30.440 stuff right or maybe she doesn't but you wouldn't want her on your team 0.87

00:03:36.020 think about it if you were picking teams for anything you wouldn't want her on your team

00:03:43.420 yeah of course you would so would he so he plays it just right in the way that trump can

00:03:49.840 um so hurricane season is winding down and axios is reminding us that there have been uh how many

00:03:59.520 named hurricanes have made made uh landfall in the u.s in the mainland anyway how many hurricanes this

00:04:07.560 year do you know the number the answer is zero now there usually aren't that many you know like a

00:04:15.500 normal normal year might be two but we're talking about two major storms that would you know cost

00:04:22.780 billions of dollars this year none do you think that all the news is talking about is how climate

00:04:30.300 crisis has been avoided and maybe it was never real in the first place no that's not going to happen

00:04:36.380 right away but we're heading in that direction uh i will tell you again how to run the entire country

00:04:45.400 you ready if you wanted to take charge of the whole country and you didn't have a elected position

00:04:53.280 you're not a billionaire you just want to figure out some clever way where you and i mean you like

00:04:59.660 specifically you could take over the whole country there is a way to do that and uh this hurricane

00:05:07.560 situation reminded me of it i've talked about this before in the corporate world the way we think of things

00:05:16.840 is that there's a line of executives and somebody reports to somebody reports to somebody so if you see

00:05:23.920 one of those executives giving a uh a powerpoint slideshow to maybe that executive's boss you think to

00:05:32.160 yourself well that executive giving the presentation is in charge of that domain and uh is giving a

00:05:40.460 presentation to someone who's in charge of him you know because he's got to get approval or something

00:05:44.780 so it looks to you like the normal corporate structure is working the way you think however having worked in

00:05:53.900 the corporate world and having put together quite a number of slides for other executives

00:05:59.900 or just executives uh here's something i learned that everyone who's been in that same position probably

00:06:07.740 learned the same way whoever comes up with the best slide or you could replace slide with idea

00:06:15.260 or framework or reframe or way to look at something or relevant data this will all be the same for my

00:06:25.020 purpose that person's actually in charge but let me plump this out a little bit and you'll see what i'm

00:06:33.340 talking about if i wanted to run the world and wasn't already i'll just let that sit there for a while

00:06:42.700 if i weren't already the way i'd do it is i would try to figure out what the top 10

00:06:49.020 climate variables are that people would agree all right if that's changing

00:06:54.620 there must be a problem with climate and and humans behind it and i would get the top 10 and

00:07:00.540 then i would create an ongoing uh what do you call it a dashboard a dashboard so that's sort of a

00:07:08.860 corporate talk a dashboard would be usually one page on a screen that very quickly tells you some

00:07:19.020 set of information that makes sense together so i would say all right let's figure out the 10 things

00:07:25.500 you should look at for climate change and hurricanes would be one of them but you'd also have the

00:07:31.820 temperatures you'd have the uh the the water level at certain places so i don't even know if they're

00:07:38.460 10 maybe they're five but i think they're at least 10. so you'd have so you would be the one who pulls

00:07:45.660 together this dashboard and then you just put it on x what would happen if you did a good job what would

00:07:54.620 happen people would pass it around and they would say well i'm smarter now because i know that these 10

00:08:00.700 things are important i know the order in which they're important because you would also rank them

00:08:05.980 from which one's the most predictive right maybe which one is the most you know dangerous but most

00:08:14.460 predictive as well and then if you did a good job people would want to bookmark it and they would ask

00:08:23.740 you to update it when there's new information and it would take on a life of its own almost immediately

00:08:30.380 do you know why you could totally disrupt this mature science area without actually having any science

00:08:38.220 background do you know why that would be so easy because no one else is trying there's no one even

00:08:44.460 trying do you know of anybody who put together the uh are really easy to read everybody agrees yeah these

00:08:52.060 these 10 things are the things we should be watching no and part of the reason that nobody's doing it is

00:08:58.060 that the people who have access to it the information that would make that dashboard are probably not

00:09:03.900 getting the the results that they wanted to get so if they were a little bit more let's say capable

00:09:12.700 at describing what's actually happening in the world their capability would destroy their own

00:09:19.740 their own industry because they would end up proving that maybe you didn't have to worry so much about

00:09:24.860 this stuff but since i'm not a climate scientist i would not be bound by that i could just tell you

00:09:33.420 what you need to know as best i can do it so i'd just start publishing it then what happened when it

00:09:40.620 started working what what happens when people start recognizing all right uh we need an update on this

00:09:47.340 climate story uh no matter what no matter what the story is wouldn't it make sense to have the

00:09:54.860 climate dashboard referenced as just part of the story could be a story about the coral reefs but also

00:10:02.380 let me show you the dashboard could be a story about the hurricanes but you know proper context let me show

00:10:09.260 you you know the console so once you did this for climate you don't think people would ask for it for

00:10:19.340 crime you don't think people would ask for it for other big topics they would and if you were the one

00:10:26.460 who could do it best and have a reputation for you know being a straight share pretty soon you would be the

00:10:34.460 one who decides what information is relevant to this domain and what isn't you might be right you might

00:10:40.860 be wrong but it's not objective there would be a lot of subjectivity in deciding what's even on the list

00:10:47.900 and then there'd be a lot of subjectivity in deciding how to measure it properly etc and that would be enough

00:10:55.660 subjectivity i say that it would put you essentially in control of the entire domain nobody would

00:11:04.300 necessarily know it they would just think that you were a useful person who had something to say

00:11:11.100 about the data but you would actually be running the whole show because you would determine what data

00:11:17.340 anybody saw and if you became credible they kind of have to reference your data every single time

00:11:25.740 they did anything important in that domain so that's how you do it people you become the

00:11:31.340 the the powerpoint slide expert and if you become known as the only person who can describe this

00:11:39.180 complicated thing in a very transportable viral way you're gonna run the whole show there you go

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00:12:20.460 canada cambridge university press found that uh there's a study that watching less tv could cut your

00:12:28.460 depression risk by up to 43 percent does that make sense to you sort of yeah you you could see how

00:12:38.220 watching less tv would oh no you don't no it's backwards what do you do when you're depressed you watch more tv

00:12:48.220 do you know why well part of being depressed is you didn't have an awesome thing to be doing instead

00:12:54.780 would you be depressed if let's say uh i don't know the president invited you to the oval office no you'd

00:13:02.140 be all excited you'd be excited watching tv is sort of the default uh i got nothing going on in my life

00:13:09.100 i might as well turn on the tv see if there's a game no so it might also be true that watching tv

00:13:18.860 makes you a little more depressed but i guarantee you that being depressed is going to make you reach

00:13:24.060 for that clicker faster than not being depressed all right um i can't remember how much or if i talked

00:13:34.460 about this before but i'm sure i did so this is a from a story back in april and the new york post uh i

00:13:42.780 saw i saw the new york post talking about it today um and it was bill maher who was talking about way

00:13:50.620 back in april when uh his friend and uh i guess hollywood uh hollywood partner uh larry david not partner but

00:14:00.220 you know another person who works in the entertainment industry so larry david was not

00:14:05.740 happy when bill maher went to dinner with trump and so larry david wrote a humorous piece an op-ed

00:14:14.300 about uh my dinner with adolf so he did a funny piece mocking essentially mocking bill maher for

00:14:25.740 imagining that there was a you know good reason to ever have dinner with hitler meaning that he was

00:14:32.380 you know calling trump hitler what did bill maher say about this now that he's had several months to

00:14:38.140 marinate on this situation he said that uh larry david was being dumb and unhelpful

00:14:46.060 dumb and unhelpful and uh then bill maher went on um

00:14:51.900 um to do what he's been doing lately which is uh explain that you should always talk to people

00:14:58.700 and what trump does and i the example with marjorie taylor green is a perfect example

00:15:05.500 what uh trump does is that he's willing to talk to everybody and bill maher is now a complete uh complete

00:15:14.380 convert maybe he always was uh to you can talk to anybody you want and we're better off if we talk

00:15:20.540 than if we don't talk now you can imagine i'm 100 in agreement with bill maher however there was a

00:15:29.180 specific quote that apparently bill maher used when he talked to pierce morgan at about the same time as

00:15:36.300 the you know he was talking about the 20 the uh dinner with trump listen to this quote quote but i think

00:15:44.860 the minute you play the hitler card you've lost the argument now he was talking about um the op-ed by larry

00:15:52.540 david i think the minute you play the hitler card you've lost the argument what does that sound like

00:16:01.660 how many of you remember my debate but it wasn't really a debate with sam harris at around 2016

00:16:09.100 that became super viral and probably just about every one of you heard it right did you hear me say

00:16:16.700 that at the beginning of the debate because i think it was like 60 seconds into my uh talking to sam

00:16:24.700 harris probably a minute you know of course i'm remembering it so i may be remembering it wrong um he

00:16:32.300 brought up hitler compared trump to hitler and and i said ah we're done here i said some version of

00:16:38.860 basically you know that's the end of the debate whoever brings up hitler you just lost and then

00:16:47.340 years go by because that was probably back in 2016 or so now remember i keep telling you that

00:16:53.900 what defines not defines but a difference between republicans and democrats is that democrats try to

00:17:02.540 tell you what to think you know this is moral this is immoral this is right this is wrong and republicans

00:17:09.020 try to tell you how to think which one is bill maher doing in this example where he says the minute you

00:17:16.860 play the hitler card you've lost the argument that's telling you how to think that's not telling you

00:17:23.580 what to think so you can see the transition right and when he looks at larry david larry david is just

00:17:32.140 hitler no hitler hitler no hitler doesn't that just seem stupid i mean that's basically what

00:17:39.660 what bill maher was saying it just looks stupid um yeah so um 0.69

00:17:46.300 uh so this is also what uh bill maher said on the same topic and he said and also i must say you

00:17:56.380 know come on man hill or nazis nobody nobody has been harder about and on and more prescient i must

00:18:04.460 say about donald trump than me bill maher says i don't need to be lectured on who donald trump is

00:18:09.980 just the fact that i met him in person didn't change that and the fact that i reported honestly

00:18:16.540 is not a sin either so what is it when he says met him in person and reported honestly on it

00:18:23.420 that's process again he's totally right on process so watching bill maher try to navigate this situation

00:18:33.660 and try to get a foot in both worlds it was really fascinating and i give him a lot of credit

00:18:41.420 because um it's a pretty rocky road you know having been down that road in a more extreme version myself

00:18:52.140 and finding out what happens when you say anything positive about the way trump does business

00:18:56.620 uh i know how tough that is and he's going through he's taking on some water i guarantee it this is not

00:19:05.980 easy so i'm gonna uh in the past you've seen me sometimes say some good things about bill and

00:19:13.820 sometimes be critical today i'm going to be completely supportive not of his opinions he's

00:19:21.580 allowed to have different opinions but of his uh apparent focus and how he's essentially training

00:19:30.460 his audience the way i'm trying to train mine into how to approach a problem and not so much what the

00:19:37.900 answer is the answer is up to you but how to approach it well you want to do that right right

00:19:45.820 all right well along those lines that i've often said this is sort of a related topic

00:19:51.260 that having elon musk on what i would call the common sense uh side of things i wouldn't call him

00:20:00.380 you know republican or anything like that but he's squarely on the common sense side of things

00:20:05.260 and i was thinking today how many things elon musk has changed and how in the process of that

00:20:13.100 he's also teaching us how to think and how to act he's kind of teaching us how to be engineers

00:20:19.660 not the actual skill of engineering but how an engineer would approach a problem

00:20:25.100 have any of you noticed that that if you simply watch how elon musk approaches any problem

00:20:31.900 and i would argue that maybe the all in pod guys they do the same thing if you simply observe

00:20:38.300 them over time you learn how to approach problems and you would say to yourself oh that's

00:20:45.100 that's that's like that time you know chamath did this or that or it's like the time that elon did

00:20:51.340 this or that and then you can take that model and and build it you know put it into your own world

00:20:56.860 tremendously valuable but on top of that um i saw that uh rfk jr was saying at some event that he believes

00:21:06.380 that elon musk rescued free speech by buying uh what was twitter would you agree with that statement

00:21:14.940 that he rescued free speech by buying twitter i i think so i think that's completely fair that would

00:21:23.420 put him if you buy that as a true statement and i do that would put elon in the founding fathers category

00:21:30.780 like with without you know the the time of course is different but that would put him squarely right

00:21:37.500 in the middle of saving the republic and i and i think he gets complete credit for that but back to my

00:21:44.620 overarching theme he didn't just say free speech is good hey everybody why don't you practice some free

00:21:52.780 speech nope he showed you how to get it he showed you how to get there sometimes you got to buy the

00:22:00.540 company now he could do it you couldn't but he showed it he showed you how to rescue free speech

00:22:07.580 and in this case he did it through a i guess i called a free market approach and so you can learn

00:22:15.100 that if you if you use the free market appropriately you can get to where you want to get which is free

00:22:21.820 speech in a way that teaches people how to think hey the only way you're going to have real free speech

00:22:29.260 speech is if there's a free market platform that lets you say what you need to say without getting

00:22:35.980 canceled and then he proved it by building that platform you know modifying a platform then and

00:22:44.620 that's just the beginning just he was talking today about his chip design that tesla will be the biggest

00:22:49.980 chip designer in the world in a fairly short period of time he's also taught you how to start companies

00:22:56.860 as some kind of record speed that we've never seen before uh and now he's decided that tesla has to

00:23:03.180 be the big uh hey let's get rid of a counterbalance counterbalance you're going to disappear from uh i think

00:23:12.540 you're on the youtube platform but that's that's the second time i've seen that comment so you're going to

00:23:18.860 disappear now um maybe today but we're going to get you um then so so this is just you know a little

00:23:30.220 one small part of what musk and tesla are doing but he'll probably teach you that america can build

00:23:37.580 chips so so you're going to learn a whole bunch about manufacturing and chip design and all that just

00:23:45.260 because he's doing it and he's transparent about how he's doing it then there's the uh i saw a clip

00:23:51.980 i think he was on joe rogan talking about the economics of homelessness and a lot of people

00:23:58.380 don't understand the homelessness isn't so much just about giving people homes they wouldn't want to live

00:24:04.700 in those homes if you gave them to them because they're mentally insane or they're on drugs or whatever

00:24:09.980 whatever whatever else um and he also pointed out i didn't know this that the economics of

00:24:16.780 homelessness in california is that there's this whole industry of people get paid to take care of

00:24:23.740 the homeless as long as they don't solve their problem if they solve their problem and these people

00:24:29.820 were no longer homeless which is sort of undoable uh then they wouldn't get there collectively a million

00:24:36.460 dollars a year to keep the people alive but homeless so if you followed the money you would

00:24:44.540 completely understand why there's so much homelessness and that would be a way to think about it wouldn't it

00:24:51.740 it's not the answer it's a way to think about it so if you change from hey if only we give these

00:24:57.980 people homes you know then they would be on their way they could do the rest that way of thinking

00:25:06.460 is a complete failure because it doesn't recognize that the whole industry is propped up by people

00:25:12.780 trying to steal your taxpayer money and give you nothing in return once elon explains that we're trapped in

00:25:20.540 this little system where the people who are running it are making a lot of money as long as they don't solve

00:25:26.940 the problem then everything makes sense doesn't it now that doesn't mean that we immediately have a

00:25:33.020 solution but at least you'd be solving the right problem right that's a big difference uh when you

00:25:41.340 see the problem clearly as elon you know explains it to us um then i saw elon talking about how the only

00:25:50.540 only the interesting simulations because you know he believes that we're part of a simulation

00:25:55.180 as do i that reality is a simulation um he points out that only the interesting simulations would survive

00:26:06.220 uh and and then he gives the reason because if we had a boring simulation uh we'd stop doing it

00:26:13.900 because it wouldn't be doing anything for us just boring us so the interesting ones are the only ones that

00:26:19.580 can survive and therefore it's logical to assume that they're the only ones that do and i've got a

00:26:27.900 version of this uh so this this is part of his explanation of why the world seems so interesting i

00:26:34.540 think or why you could predict something based on how interesting it is i do it i have a version of that

00:26:40.860 but it's different which is i believe that reality follows the three the three act movie form now

00:26:49.500 that's something i've been saying since 2015 i think uh and here's why i think it follows a three

00:26:56.940 act movie form it's because we've all been trained in the three act form if we had not been trained in

00:27:04.620 that i don't know that it would happen but you take a bunch of human beings and you put them in a

00:27:09.980 situation let's say trump is nearly jailed and impeached that would be a classic movie third act

00:27:19.900 where okay there's no way he can get away from that and then if i said but what would it look like if it

00:27:25.500 were a movie and we would all have the same answer which is well he would somehow not go to jail

00:27:33.180 somehow the impeachment wouldn't take hold and somehow he would win re-election because that

00:27:41.340 would be the most satisfying movie sure enough sure enough that's what happened now i think

00:27:49.100 that we live in a simulation and our expectations collapse reality and so if enough of us are simply

00:27:56.940 expecting things to go a certain way that it actually collapses reality in that direction

00:28:03.180 now i i wouldn't bet my life on it that my interpretation is correct but just so you know

00:28:11.260 so um also i've noted that uh you know how we all understand ngos now we didn't know what an ngo was

00:28:20.700 a couple years ago and that's because of elon musk and it's because of doge and doge even exists only

00:28:28.860 because of musk uh the the concept of doge which has taken root in the government um so if you look

00:28:37.020 at all the things that just elon has done there's the one i've mentioned and of course mike benz is

00:28:43.740 you know a champion of the ngo explainer class but uh i don't know if you'd even know about it without

00:28:51.180 elon musk but uh let's see he's i think that elon musk is the most important person in the climate

00:28:58.700 crisis conversation because he can basically describe a world where you use solar power to get

00:29:07.500 everything you want they might be solar panels in space but he already told you how to do it we have

00:29:13.340 all the technology we need to put solar panels in space and have all the energy we want and he can

00:29:18.140 show you how uh he's got the neural lengthy interplanetary travel he's figured out how to

00:29:24.540 uh get around our energy shortage he talks about how the robots will be free doctors so he's solving

00:29:31.580 health care uh he's giving america dominance in the most important industries right you want to live in the

00:29:39.740 country that is dominant in the most important industries well he gives us that we're dominant in the

00:29:47.260 most important industries half of that is him uh you get the star link and then that but i think that

00:29:54.780 all of these have one thing in common that can't be underestimated if you if you look at the collective

00:30:02.540 work that must does and how he's good at explaining to us what why he's doing it why it's good for the world

00:30:11.020 how he does it he's teaching us how to think now how many of you have felt that like you actually feel

00:30:18.380 that oh he's not just teaching us about his company although he's doing that too he's teaching us how to

00:30:25.900 think about these situations and then apply some kind of an engineering framework to it which usually ends up

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00:31:41.740 jumping to a new topic we might pop back to that uh i think it was uh hakeem jeffries who said that

00:31:48.300 obamacare will be unaffordable to a great number of people by the end of the year how did it ever

00:31:54.860 where where does all the money go have you ever wondered that like it seems to me that the health

00:32:03.420 care situation must necessarily be a gigantic fraud environment because if you told me that um

00:32:14.460 health care costs would go up 10 because of this or that uh i would say some version of well i guess

00:32:21.100 the price of everything goes up inflation's bad you know i wish i didn't go up 10 but when you start

00:32:27.180 talking about doubling all right we're talking about like doubling and stuff for some people

00:32:33.740 isn't that always fraud that's just too much like your in your instinct says i'm pretty sure that the

00:32:41.180 entire problem is fraud now i'm going to give you a little update yesterday i had to

00:32:46.300 uh i had to uh get a uh catheter removed because it was infected and blah blah blah so i ended up in

00:32:54.780 the emergency room most of yesterday i probably came in contact with 20 people and maybe one of them did

00:33:05.420 something that i needed an unbelievable um amount of i don't know if all you did was look at the number

00:33:16.700 of people who asked me my name and my birthday once you get into the emergency room unbelievably

00:33:25.020 uh inefficient and i'm not mocking my specific health care provider this just looks like what we've

00:33:31.420 we've we've we've sort of evolved into and insanely insanely over um over something like i can't believe

00:33:42.220 that if you started from scratch you would build anything like that now fortunately i spend a great

00:33:49.100 amount of money every month so that when it's friday night i can talk to a doctor how do you think that

00:33:57.180 went do you think i can find a doctor to talk to on a friday night no and if you find that doctor to

00:34:05.660 talk to uh within my healthcare system what will that doctor tell me to do and it almost doesn't

00:34:11.900 matter what the problem is they'll tell you to go to the emergency room because there's nothing the

00:34:16.780 doctor can do for you so i have this weird healthcare situation where for reasons i don't understand i only get

00:34:25.980 really bad problems on weekends do you have that too you only get really sick or hurt on weekends

00:34:33.100 and then there's nobody whose job it is to take care of you you have to go to the emergency room

00:34:37.980 so it's an hour to the emergency room it's three hours waiting to see somebody

00:34:43.100 uh then maybe uh i think they lost us twice lost us twice so i probably spent an extra i don't know

00:34:51.740 half an hour at the start and an extra hour at the end because they literally didn't know what room we

00:34:57.340 were in so uh i did get everything taken care of so instead of being in screaming pain every day

00:35:07.100 which i had been for a month um i've got a new catheter in and it doesn't hurt it's much better

00:35:14.700 so anyway if you spend any time in our health care system you would say to yourself uh this is not a

00:35:20.620 problem of reducing costs by 10 this entire thing has to be rethought and i would like an ai doctor

00:35:30.860 who just followed me around and did the stuff that my health care provider wouldn't do

00:35:35.260 and then by the way there there's always a there's always a variety of things which you know need to be

00:35:41.580 done but whoever you're talking to isn't allowed to do it it's like yeah i know you need that

00:35:49.020 but i can't do that you're gonna have to talk to a doctor and you talk to a doctor and the doctor says

00:35:56.380 yeah you probably do need that but i can't do that you have to talk to a specialist

00:36:02.780 right that that's health care in america 2025 yeah anyway um i will tell you that uh keiser's

00:36:12.860 doing it they're trying very hard to make sure i don't die because that would be bad for business

00:36:19.180 that'd be very bad for business uh

00:36:25.020 what is that about wow um apparently uh according to newsmax meta the company meta

00:36:32.940 several years ago they did a study in 2020 to find out if uh using the using their product using

00:36:40.300 facebook and instagram if that uh caused a harm to people and guess what they found yes yes it does

00:36:50.060 apparently using their products causes a lot of harm um and that if you deactivated facebook and

00:36:57.660 instagram you would be mentally healthier what do you think they did when they found out that their

00:37:03.420 product was injuring the country did they say oh no we're gonna have to discontinue this product

00:37:12.220 no they discontinued the study you already knew where that was going they discontinued the study

00:37:19.020 so medic called off further work

00:37:25.180 on that so apparently they've been busted for that uh newsmax has that story

00:37:34.380 are you watching are you following the uh the story about uh attorney general letitia james

00:37:40.860 and uh so now she's she's the one who law fared trump but now she's being law fared and essentially

00:37:48.540 exactly the same way um so people would argue whether it's the same way but it's the same way

00:37:55.020 uh how much are you enjoying that i'm having a little problem that i'm enjoying it too much

00:38:02.940 because i've never seen anybody deserve what they're getting as much as she deserves what she's getting

00:38:10.140 because it's so precise um the fact that it's you know if it were some just random bad thing happening

00:38:17.020 to her i don't think i'd be feeling the same it's the fact that she's being she's being charged with the

00:38:24.060 same crime that typically nobody would be charged with but she went after trump with it man if you go after

00:38:31.100 my guy if you go after my guy and it doesn't work out for you he's gonna come for you that's one of the

00:38:40.540 reasons he's my guy you know what i mean yeah he's gonna come for you and he's coming uh

00:38:50.460 and and if you if you also feel like this is too heavy-handed you know for the president to be coming

00:38:57.580 after letitia james a mere attorney general just think about this i'm going to give you something

00:39:04.300 to think about that will make you happy that her life is not going well at the moment it goes like

00:39:11.020 this for how many months did melania and baron have to wonder if they'd be visiting their husband

00:39:22.380 father in prison for the rest of his life imagine waking up with that in your head like if you're

00:39:31.660 just watching it on the news you don't quite appreciate uh how awful this must have been now the trumps

00:39:38.700 are unusually good at being stoic and and kind of acting like you know i'll get through this you know

00:39:46.860 this is my problem don't worry about it i got this so they're really good at that and they're really

00:39:53.100 good at in this case that the fact that we didn't hear uh any of them complaining about the fact they

00:39:59.420 had to live in a world they had to live in a reality where they're the key person in their family might be

00:40:06.060 in jail any time now that must have been awful like just imagining it every time you woke up it's like

00:40:15.420 a year from now am i gonna have to get up and put it on my makeup and drive to a prison is that

00:40:21.180 actually going to happen to me and it almost did it almost did and now uh now that fate has been

00:40:29.740 returned to letitia james who probably has to wake up every day and wonder what things look like a year

00:40:37.340 from now if she gets convicted now probably there's no jail but the conviction is going to be plenty bad

00:40:43.100 if she gets it well according to the center square andrew rice is writing that california

00:40:51.260 loses one taxpayer per minute and florida gains a taxpayer every two minutes does that sound true

00:41:00.620 do you believe that california is losing a taxpayer every minute while florida is gaining two

00:41:05.980 well let me tell you something also from my perspective as the guy who used to make the

00:41:13.100 powerpoint slides as i said earlier this is not the sort of thing anybody can really measure

00:41:20.380 i i would not believe the accuracy of these numbers at all now could it be true yeah it could be

00:41:27.900 it could totally be true do you think that any of us could really measure that in a way that you'd

00:41:34.060 feel comfortable you'd measured it correctly no no this is a classic uh i'm going to make a story

00:41:42.380 nobody's gonna ask too many questions sounds right and since it sounds right people will assume it is

00:41:47.820 right but i'm here to tell you that's not the sort of thing that anybody can actually accurately measure

00:41:53.500 um apparently the texas governor abbott according to center square also um he wants to issues and

00:42:06.140 directives to make uh i think he's trying to make uh to do to do what do you call that sharia law illegal

00:42:14.140 in in texas what do you think do you think sharia law the islamic version of a justice system do you

00:42:21.980 think that that should be made illegal or is it good enough that we live in a system where that's

00:42:27.100 not your system well i like the instinct to make it illegal because you don't want to play with you

00:42:35.340 know you've got two systems uh you know they're about equally good why don't we use this this one

00:42:41.900 sometimes and this one another time no no you you gotta you gotta nip that in the bud you gotta get that

00:42:50.060 early you you cannot allow that to progress to oh we got two systems well why do we always have to

00:42:57.820 use the one we how many people do we have in the state that would like that other system well look at

00:43:03.500 that look at all those people who would be happy to use that other system we'll just use it a little

00:43:08.620 bit we won't use the whole thing we'll just take a bite out of it no how about no hard no no no no

00:43:18.380 none you you you can't start mixing those systems it doesn't mix you you gotta commit

00:43:28.780 um so i think texas has the right instinct there at desjardins we speak business we speak startup

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00:44:03.900 um i saw an article that didn't seem like it would be relevant to the united states but

00:44:08.780 now i'm thinking maybe it is so apparently poland which is doing well sort of in general it's one of

00:44:17.500 those countries that has not been let's say too impacted by immigration because they've been tough on

00:44:25.340 migrants but even they are running out of money so apparently they're trying to give 100 million dollars

00:44:33.020 to ukraine to zelensky but at the same time they don't have enough money for some i don't know 100

00:44:39.100 billion dollar polish hospital somebody's complaining um and their budget is is under uh

00:44:47.820 it's under duress as well and i'm thinking to myself is every large everything fraud

00:44:55.100 because i'm starting to think it is you know when you look at the 37 trillion dollar deficit i think

00:45:04.620 it's 38 now how in the world do you get to 38 trillion unless you're stealing this as fast as you can

00:45:12.300 does that look like somebody just ran the numbers wrong it's like oh uh here's the budget all right

00:45:19.100 great uh how close are we to balancing uh wait what we're off by three trillion in one year we're off

00:45:32.780 by three trillion can you even tell me how you could spend three trillion dollars above the baseline now

00:45:40.620 i'm exaggerating a little bit but not a lot we are talking about trillions trillions of dollars that

00:45:47.420 somehow we accidentally overspent i don't believe it i just believe that everything big that's got

00:45:55.820 that 100 million dollars or more maybe 10 million dollars more i think it's all fraud and i think it's

00:46:01.980 all fraud for the same reason across all the domains do you know what the reason is you can get away

00:46:09.180 with it we somehow have a political and financial system where whoever gets to you know allocate the

00:46:17.260 funds and whoever gets to be the mayor and you know whoever gets to be in charge or whatever they can

00:46:23.740 apparently really easily hide a trillion dollars and just keep it or launder it or something but

00:46:35.580 it's very much looking to me like a hundred percent of our system is corrupt and all for the same reason

00:46:42.700 because we don't have any transparency and the people in charge over time you get people in charge who

00:46:49.900 are willing to steal it because it's stealable and they just notice and so they do um on the same point

00:46:59.100 remix is writing that almost every german city is now on the verge of bankruptcy

00:47:04.300 almost every german city do you think that germans don't know how to do a spreadsheet

00:47:15.260 do you how in the world could all the germans miss the budget all the germans have you heard of germany

00:47:26.220 have you heard of germans you know by pure chance a few germans would would hit the budget yeah do you

00:47:37.020 think that germans want to have a balanced budget yeah yeah they do i'll bet the germans want to have

00:47:45.740 a balanced budget more than just about anybody except maybe japan you know and i'm talking culturally

00:47:53.660 do you think germans do you think germans want to be overspending their budget i don't think so

00:48:00.220 and yet every single every single one almost everyone did in fact do it how do you explain that except

00:48:08.540 corruption and fraud i don't have a way to do it i i think it's literally just corruption and fraud

00:48:17.180 that's what i think anyway there's uh some whispers the daily express u.s is writing about this that the

00:48:27.580 u.s is preparing or getting closer to every moment some kind of a military operation in venezuela

00:48:35.100 i don't know if it'll be a quote all-out invasion or maybe a head fake we don't know but uh we're

00:48:42.940 definitely moving continuing to move resources there what do you think we should do um do you

00:48:53.100 think that we're simply putting pressure on the powers that be and uh it's just one of a variety

00:49:01.020 ways we're negotiating by essentially suggesting that if they don't give us what we want

00:49:07.580 uh there'll be a military invasion we don't really have to say it we just have to prepare for it and

00:49:14.620 then you don't have to say it but do you do you notice that there's something missing in this whole

00:49:21.980 venezuela story what what is the dog not barking what's the thing that's missing the thing you would

00:49:29.340 always have but at the moment it's missing i would say the thing that's missing is

00:49:35.180 who are we negotiating with and what are we asking for do any of you know my because i'm a little

00:49:44.140 worried it appears my country is is getting ready to attack a sovereign country and i don't even know

00:49:52.700 who they're talking to i don't know what they've asked for what would it take for them not to do it

00:49:58.460 is there a specific ask because it doesn't look like it to me how do you get this far and if i

00:50:07.980 were to stop you on the street and say are you american yes uh you familiar with the the venezuela

00:50:13.660 situation yes who are we talking to because i don't think it's madura i don't think we're talking to

00:50:19.980 that guy who are we talking to and what are we asking for and and what are they saying about giving

00:50:27.740 it to us you know part of the reason i wonder is i wonder if they've already offered to give us what

00:50:32.860 we've asked for you ever wonder about that because didn't we hear early on i didn't believe it so maybe

00:50:41.020 it's the believing it part that's missing but doesn't it seem like we made some threats and then venezuela

00:50:48.940 said some version of okay let's talk didn't that happen i don't believe there's been a phase

00:50:56.860 where they said let's talk and then we talked and then we asked for some stuff and then they said oh

00:51:03.500 no we can never give you that did that ever happen so i i feel like we're on some kind of weird autopilot

00:51:13.180 where we know what it looks like when when the uh the fake news starts moving the country toward war

00:51:20.700 doesn't it feel like we're just you know we residents of the country we're just part of the machine

00:51:26.940 and we're just moving along oh i guess we're moving toward a war does anybody know why

00:51:32.860 no you don't know why i mean i could i could tell the story of why i mean i could say we don't want

00:51:39.020 these drugs coming in but but what would happen if venezuela said all right you got it we will

00:51:47.260 totally shut down the drug trade but just don't attack us what would we do would we say all right

00:51:54.540 you got to prove it but that's the deal or would we keep pushing i don't know do you i kind of want to

00:52:04.220 know then then apparently according to fox news and and other news um president trump says the the

00:52:12.780 residents of chicago are chanting bring in trump do you think that's happening do you think that anywhere

00:52:20.380 in chicago there's a group of residents who are chanting we want trump we watch i think it's

00:52:28.700 hilarious that it doesn't matter if they're doing that the fact that trump says they are makes you want

00:52:34.700 to argue about it well show me that video right you really believe that they're chanting that no they

00:52:42.060 might be chanting something negative against trump show me that video i think you're making this up

00:52:47.420 and of course it's just a throwaway line that you know that they're chanting now that's just funny

00:52:53.820 isn't it if you're looking at trump in the proper frame of mind this is just funny that he would put

00:53:01.900 it in those terms when he knows how how that would upset some people all right good job there

00:53:10.140 you can see how many people were injured in chicago uh there was there was some downtown riot

00:53:18.220 that left eight people shot and one dead geez um now you you might say to yourself you might say to

00:53:26.540 yourself scott there is nothing funny about that there's nothing funny about people getting shot let's

00:53:34.540 agree to that uh at least that's what i thought until i got the end of the story which says the riot

00:53:41.180 which followed a christmas tree lighting ceremony come on i'm trying to act like a good citizen and not

00:53:51.100 laugh at violence but but if chicago had a riot over a christmas tree lighting uh i have some advice

00:53:59.660 about traveling to chicago don't do it don't do it stay away

00:54:08.940 yep don't get near that christmas tree lighting that sounds dangerous meanwhile trump uh called the

00:54:15.820 mayor of chicago brandon a low iq leader he says they got a bunch of low iq leaders and uh but he also

00:54:25.180 insults uh governor pritzker for being overweight so he's going hard at chicago anyway um let me ask you

00:54:35.420 this

00:54:35.740 why is it that the democrats are not making more hay is that a thing uh or why are they not making a

00:54:46.300 bigger deal uh the fact that trump has now labeled a number of black leaders low iq

00:54:53.100 has he labeled any white leaders low iq because if he hasn't i would recommend you throw a few on the

00:55:02.780 list you got to get at least you know at least one or two white leaders that are low iq you must have 0.53

00:55:09.180 that in portland portland maybe it's got to be something but uh i i wonder if he's feeling so free

00:55:17.820 at this point in terms of what he can get away with and what he can say that he doesn't care

00:55:23.660 about making it you know dei friendly and that if he thinks somebody's stupid he's just going to say

00:55:29.340 it and it has nothing to do with anything except that's what he was thinking he was just thinking

00:55:33.820 ah you're stupid i'll say it i don't know i think he'd be a little bit safer 0.93

00:55:39.100 throw some crackers on that list you know what i mean all right uh rinse takes your laundry and

00:55:48.860 hand delivers it to your door expertly cleaned and folded so you could take the time once spent

00:55:53.660 folding and sorting and waiting to finally pursue a whole new version of you like tea time you

00:55:59.180 mm or this tea time you or even this tea time you said you hear about dave or even tea time tea time

00:56:08.780 tea time you mm so update on dave it's up to you we'll take the laundry rinse it's time to be great

00:56:18.140 here's the reframe that you need and you'll find that this fits with what i said earlier today and

00:56:24.940 you'll be amazed how it it all fits together so as you know there's a 20 point trump administration

00:56:33.100 peace plan for ukraine but um nobody was born yesterday and so we don't think that we're just

00:56:41.980 going to spray this plan out there and zelensky is going to say oh that's a great idea why did we do this

00:56:48.460 before and that putin is going to say well thanks for the good work this is perfect we sign up nobody

00:56:54.300 thinks people are just going to sign up for it it's a starting point and as i posted earlier today

00:57:02.220 that uh let me tell you what marco rubio said and then i'm going to put it in my words

00:57:07.820 because i think he could have gone uh to one extra step that would have been really useful

00:57:12.780 and maybe he will uh so marco said marco rubio uh said ending a complex and deadly war such as the

00:57:21.100 one in ukraine requires an extensive exchange of serious and realistic ideas you know 28 points

00:57:27.340 that would be extensive and achieving a durable peace will require both sides to agree to difficult

00:57:33.180 but necessary concessions of course that is why we are and will continue to develop a list listen to

00:57:39.900 this we are and will continue to develop a list of potential ideas for ending this war based on input

00:57:48.220 from both sides of the conflict oh that is perfect once again marco rubio is telling us how to think

00:57:58.700 not what to think now there is a list of 20 things that you know we want or we think would be good but

00:58:06.300 when he describes it as a list of literally potential ideas from both sides that's really moving forward

00:58:16.620 now i'm going to put this in my own words and then when i put it in my words to see how it hits you okay

00:58:22.700 i'm going to say the same thing just my words i'm going to say that packetizing packetizing

00:58:28.860 taking things and putting them in little packages which are the 28 points each of the 28 points is like

00:58:34.780 a little packet that once you've packetized it what can you do with it well packetizing all the

00:58:42.460 ideas into units that can be traded compared and easily communicated is the most important thing

00:58:54.220 that needs to be done at this phase we're not talking about any final agreements we're talking

00:59:00.220 about some way to take this complicated situation and turn it into little packets where you can say all

00:59:07.020 right there's a there's a donbass packet there's a crimea packet you could still you can still play

00:59:13.660 with the packets but but you have to agree that there are packets uh and you can call it something

00:59:20.380 else just 28 points or whatever but until you do that you cannot really negotiate because there's nothing

00:59:27.580 to give away and there's nothing to get you need to put them in discrete easy to communicate packets

00:59:35.740 and when i see marco using his own words speaking in those terms pretty much what i said but just

00:59:43.500 you know his own way to say it that gives me a lot of confidence i gotta admit that gives me a lot of

00:59:50.380 confidence because if i just heard we want 28 things or uh there are five things we have to have

00:59:58.860 i wouldn't necessarily think we've made any progress but as soon as you tell me that the goal

01:00:05.820 is to get 28 packets and we can still argue about what the packets are excellent that to me

01:00:14.620 looks like adults trying to figure out a really complicated problem i don't know where

01:00:20.700 this approach came from or if it's really closer to a normal approach than i'm giving it credit for

01:00:25.740 is this closer to normal than i think it is it doesn't look normal uh it looks like a whole

01:00:33.420 better way of doing it i don't know we'll see ladies and gentlemen what you really want

01:00:41.820 is a reframe to wrap things up would you like a reframe from my book

01:00:47.740 uh my book is called reframe your i'm sorry i accidentally picked up the 2026 dilbert calendar

01:00:56.540 which you can only get on amazon and it's available now it's the best thing that ever happened to in

01:01:00.700 your whole life and there are comics on both sides i didn't mean to pick that up that was an accident

01:01:07.740 we'll put that over there but my book reframe your brain i'm going to give you an absolutely free

01:01:14.620 reframe wow um i sure hope i put that where i wanted it damn it i seem to have put my

01:01:28.140 my bookmark in the middle of the book randomly that didn't help me all right here's where i need to be

01:01:36.220 uh we'll go into the uh social life reframes i need i know you need that all right um

01:01:48.700 how many of you think that marriage is about finding a soulmate

01:01:55.740 i feel like you know tvs and movies and our sense of romantic entitlement

01:02:01.980 uh kind of ruins our potential for happiness because we're we're sort of imagining that we

01:02:09.500 can have that that kind of situation that they have in the movies but uh if you think that marriage 1.00

01:02:15.900 is about finding your soulmate you're gonna have a little problem because at some point you're gonna

01:02:22.860 say how do i know that's my soulmate and why does my co-worker act like my soulmate all the time

01:02:29.260 what's going on here so the old frame or the usual frame is that marriage is about finding your soulmate here's a reframe

01:02:37.100 uh marriage is about finding love with someone who values promises promises

01:02:46.780 yeah that's one you have to think about but i'll give you another one

01:02:49.340 how about how about if you you break up with somebody or maybe there's a tragic death in here

01:03:05.420 in your life and you think to yourself i've lost my soulmate oh no i've lost my soulmate well

01:03:14.140 maybe you lost your soulmate but here's another way to look at it you have a million soulmates and

01:03:19.020 you haven't you haven't met them all i mean do you really think do you really think there's seven

01:03:24.460 billion people and you've got exactly one soulmate really really do you really believe that there's

01:03:32.620 just one just one soulmate no there are probably a million different people that you could come to

01:03:39.820 see as your soulmate and probably a million different people that you could come to trust with your life

01:03:45.740 if you could find somebody you could trust with your life and they do what they promise to do over the

01:03:52.780 entire course of your relationship and you're willing to turn them into your soulmate even if they weren't

01:04:01.420 naturally that way just by being honest and uh let's say moral and ethical that would be an excellent

01:04:09.740 situation so i would worry a lot less about the magic of finding your soulmate and i would worry a lot

01:04:17.500 more about how to turn any good person into somebody that you see as your soulmate um just by the fact

01:04:26.380 that you treat each other really well and that's your agreement so i've always thought that relationships

01:04:33.740 that are based on uh decision are more powerful than relationships that are based on um let's say

01:04:43.740 some internal feeling right if your relationship is based on a feeling it could change it could change

01:04:52.620 all right people that's what i got for you today um i'm going to talk to the locals people my beloved

01:05:02.300 locals people uh i hope there's something you got on today that was useful um you you could probably

01:05:11.660 notice me trying to change the uh the direction of the country

01:05:19.900 i think i've i think i'm doing a good job so far

01:05:22.940 how many of you see my influence in other public figures

01:05:31.980 i'll ask you a more specific question how many of you think you've seen

01:05:37.980 the other public figures are thinking the way i'm thinking or using the tools that i use and you think

01:05:45.260 to yourself where'd they get that did that come from scott or somebody that somebody who got it from him

01:05:53.580 that got it from someone else i don't know

01:05:59.180 i'm looking at your comments now yeah so a lot of a lot of you can see it

01:06:05.100 it's not imaginary i remember back in 2016 and i would suggest that maybe people were listening to me

01:06:11.900 and people would say uh scott put your ego away

01:06:18.940 and i don't think i put my ego away but the point is um as i've said often including today

01:06:26.700 the person with the best idea is always in charge so if i can teach you how to think about a topic

01:06:33.260 better than you were thinking about it and maybe you share that with somebody else and they share it

01:06:38.380 with somebody else then the way to think about a topic becomes the dominant force it's not even

01:06:44.860 the personality it's not the person whose job it is to be in charge it's just the fact that

01:06:50.620 there's something about the way somebody framed it that's so compelling that you could predict

01:06:55.820 where it's going from that point on and that's what i shoot for

01:06:59.580 um sometimes i hit it and sometimes i don't all right locals coming at you coming at you

01:07:17.420 all right we'll be on locals in 30 seconds

01:07:29.580 um

01:07:38.220 uh

01:07:40.860 um

01:07:42.540 uh

01:07:48.540 um

01:07:53.020 okay

01:07:53.100 you

01:07:54.060 Thank you.

01:08:24.060 Thank you.

01:08:54.060 Thank you.

01:09:24.060 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 23, 2025

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