Episode 2839 CWSA 05/14/25

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams 1h 10m 2 speakers 6 chapters transcribed
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What financial insights does Scott Adams share?

Scott Adams 0:00
Thank you, my stocks. And I've made more money from Elon Musk in the past year than from anything else. If you count stock appreciation and stuff I do on X, like the subscription to Dilbert, et cetera. So stocks are up a little bit, but not all of them. The S&P 500 is down a little bit. A little bit. You'll hardly even notice. Let's get the comments going. There we go.

What is the significance of the simultaneous sip?

Scott Adams 0:37
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of Human civilization. It's called coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tankard, chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens right now. Go. Sublime. Well, I wonder if there's any sketchy science that says that coffee is good for you. Oh, yeah, there is.
Scott Adams 1:48
Thanks to the Daily Coffee News, who I suspect is an organ of Big Coffee, so you can trust them totally. A diet rich in foods containing polyphenols, of which there's a lot in coffee. can dramatically reduce the risk of metabolic syndrome, which is a major risk factor for heart disease. So if that sip of coffee made your heart feel better in a variety of ways, that's not an imagination. Yeah. Enjoying the simultaneous sip can make your heart feel better. Well, it's a scientific fact according to Big Coffee. Did you know that egg prices have plummeted 12.7% this month, according to the Gateway Pundit? I'm glad somebody's watching the price of eggs. You know what's the best part about the price of eggs going down? Is it the economic benefit? Is it that you can buy more eggs?
Scott Adams 2:58
No, it's so Democrats can shut the fuck up about eggs. I've never been so happy about eggs. So they're not mentioning eggs? Oh, thank God. Thank God. Because it was the one thing they understood. Eggs are up. Eggs are up. What about those eggs? What has Trump done about the eggs? Now that the eggs are down, they just sort of go quiet about the eggs. But they do have new words. And we'll talk about that in a little bit. So here's something surprising and awesome. According to interesting engineering, a U.S. company has made a drone battery, so a battery for their drone, that can last three hours, and it doesn't use any of the minerals that we get from China. So it doesn't have... There's no nickel... manganese, cobalt, or graphite. And it can go 86 miles an hour.
Scott Adams 4:11
It's a San Jose-based company called Lyten, L-Y-T-E-N. Remember, I keep asking. Are there any American companies making drones? And I think that maybe the reason we didn't have them before is because drones were more of a personal hobby kind of a product, and it wasn't in the market for our higher costs of manufacturing, which I assume. So it didn't make sense to go into the drone-making business because you couldn't really meet the quality and the price of the Chinese drones. But as soon as it becomes a critical military need, we're talking about more expensive drones. And suddenly, you could get really, really rich making drones. So I'll bet you there are quite a few drone startup companies. I don't know.
Scott Adams 5:08
But their battery is lithium sulfur. And apparently it's ready to go. It's not hypothetical. It's here and it's ready to go. So this suggests an interesting possibility. We kind of assume that the way we get some, let's say, economic and security comfort with the fact that China has all these critical things we need,

How are battery innovations changing the drone industry?

Scott Adams 5:41
It could be that instead of mining our own critical things, we will innovate so we don't need them. So what if we just stop needing these critical minerals? I mean, obviously we still need them for phones and other electronics, but would it be impossible to innovate so that we just don't need those mines at all? Maybe. What about pharmaceuticals?

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