Chapter 1: What challenges does Scott Adams face with the podcast interface?
It took me a few minutes to find the cursor. I literally couldn't find the cursor to go live. I was complaining before the show when I was talking to the locals people separately. and private load. I was complaining about somebody designing a black interface, which is what the Rumble Studio is. It's like a black interface. The background is mostly black. And the cursor is black.
So the whole time I'm like, where's that freaking cursor? Where's that freaking cursor? It's time for my show. I need a cursor. So if you're listening, rumble. People with old eyes cannot tell the difference between the cursor color and the background color, which makes the interface really hard to use if you're over a certain age. I think it's age. I don't know what else it would be. All right.
Comments are working. We've got everything now. 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 a chance of lifting this situation to the highest elevation, something that humans can't even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, well, if you want that, all you need for that is a copper mug or a glass of tanker chalice or a steiner canteen jug or a flask. a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of dopamine here today. The thing that makes everything better is called the simultaneous sip and happens now. Go. Ah, very good. Very good. Well, I don't know about you, but all morning I've been sitting here thinking, what is today's date?
If only I had some kind of a calendar device that I could keep on my desk at all times and entertain me and also tell me valuable information about what today is. It's called the Dilbert Calendar. It's available now only on Amazon. You got to be in America. I'm sorry if you're in Kazakhstan, you cannot buy this. You'd want it. Oh, man, you'd want it, but you can't buy it.
No, you cannot go to Amazon Kazakhstan and buy this. Only America. It's made in America, too, and has a comic on both sides this year. The Dilbert Reborn, the spicy ones are on the back, so you don't alarm your coworkers. And then also... We're going to start out, as tradition requires, with a reframe from my book, Reframe Your Brain, the best, most important book in your whole life.
Here's one of the best reframes for me. I just love this one. All right. The usual frame is that whatever you think of as your ego is you. You are not your ego. Because if you're protecting your ego, you're actually protecting your enemy. Your ego is your enemy. Elon Musk said this recently in a podcast. He basically said ego is the enemy. Your ego is the enemy.
If you won't do a thing because you think, oh, that's beneath me, but it needs to get done, well, that's not a good strategy. So if you can learn to eliminate your ego, you can hire people who are better at a job than you are. Have you ever worked with somebody who refused to hire somebody who was smarter than them? I have.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the Dilbert Calendar mentioned?
I mean, just take a guess. How did that work out? Yeah, exactly like you think. So get rid of your ego first, whatever that takes. I recommend things like the Dale Carnegie course or anything that gets you in an embarrassing situation. So embarrassment is not something you should avoid. It's something you should practice. I learned that from Dale Carnegie.
Let me say that again because that's the key point. You ready? Your ego is something you should look to destroy. And you should look to embarrass yourself as often as possible because that's how you build that superpower. The more you embarrass yourself, the more you get used to it until you realize, whoa, I didn't. I didn't die any of those times. All right.
After the show today, Owen Gregorian will be hosting his after party on Spaces. All you need to do to find that is go to Owen Gregorian. Just do a search on his name and you'll see the link. So it will be on Spaces. That's the audio only feature on X. I wonder if there's any science that they didn't need to do because they could have just asked Scott. Oh, here's some.
Eric Nolan writing for the SciPost. I love Eric. I wonder if anybody has ever told Eric Nolan that I mentioned him almost every live stream. I do like his content, but it's just funny that he's always on the list of things you could have asked me. All right, here's the latest. There's a study that says that higher fluid intelligence is associated with more structured cognitive maps.
Let me explain what that means. In nerd talk, fluid intelligence and cognitive maps are two kind of things that are important to your brain function and how smart you are. I can simplify this. You want a simplification? Smart people are smart. No, really. If you find somebody who's really smart in one domain, the odds of them being dumb in the other domains, rather low.
Now, it's possible that you could be a genius in, I don't know, math, but bad at something else. It could happen. But generally speaking, if you're just looking for the averages, yeah, generally speaking, smart people are smart in general. All right, here's another one. This is also from SciPost. Vladimir Hedra is writing that women, this has been tested now, women can read age more
adiposity and testosterone levels from a man's face. Now, adiposity is fat, basically. They can tell if you're overweight by your face. Did you know that you could tell somebody who's overweight by looking at their face? Yes, you did. You didn't even have to ask Scott. Did you know that women can identify more testosterone?
Maybe they don't think of it as more testosterone, but when asked to identify it, that they're way above average. Yes, you knew that because the men with high testosterone look like me, don't they? I have the classic high testosterone chin. If you want to know what it looks like, it's that. Now, I also have the high testosterone male pattern baldness.
So basically, I have every sign you could have. I have sort of an angular face. It's all obviously testosterone. Now, at the moment, I have no testosterone at all because I'm on the testosterone blockers. But I had already been fully formed by then. So yes, anybody, women or men, we can all tell who has the most testosterone. The government of Denmark...
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Chapter 3: How does ego impact personal and professional growth?
It's going to take a year to fix it. Whatever the problem is, you think that the government could get it fixed in less than a year? So my take on this is all he's offering is what was going to happen anyway, no matter what anybody wanted to happen. In the real world, this takes a year. Am I wrong? So really what he's offering is what was going to happen anyway.
Hey, this is going to take longer than you thought. Why don't we do it right instead of slapping it together? Now, if your take is, no, I'm not going to spend one more dime, you were going to spend the dime anyway. You just didn't know it. If I could prevent you from having to spend one more dime on Obamacare, I'd help you. I'd do it. But there's no path to that.
There's definitely a path to spending more than we want to spend for one more year, but getting serious about fixing it. I don't even know how you would lower the cost, but smarter people would be involved than me. So I'm looking at your comments because I'm actually very interested. Sorry, I'm in such pain in my one arm. Nope, I'm on the wrong page here.
I thought I was looking at your comments, but they were the old ones. Here we go. Now we're going. Damn it. Just looking at your comments. What is the next crisis? Bring us to the next crisis. Your geek bar just kicked in. You do two years. One year is reasonable. Makes us look bad at midterms. when we once again say no to subsidies? Does it?
Do you think there's a clever midterm play that the Democrats are doing? I don't know. The COVID subsidies, which don't apply, All right. All right. Well, so my my current take is that the Democrats are finding trying to find a ego free. We didn't really lose weight to get past the government closure. This looks reasonable to me. It looks reasonable.
You know, if Trump negotiated it down to nine months or six months or something, also reasonable. But we now have entered the. what I would call the common sense zone, where what the Democrats are offering sounds like, but there's a lot of nuance in all this stuff. I could be wrong about where the details are going. It sounds like they're at least creeping into something that would be reasonable.
Giving somebody a little extra time to do something that's really complicated, that's just a reasonable ask. I don't know how you argue against that, but we will. Apparently 30 subpoenas have gone out in Florida to some of the people who were involved in the Russia gate hoax. People such as Adam Schiff and John Brennan and Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, and I guess 20 some other people.
Do you think any of those subpoenas are going to turn into anything like jail time? How many of you believe that based on everything you've lived through, everything you've seen, everything you know about the government,
that the logical end state here is that these people who clearly were doing something inappropriate, I don't know what's legal and what's not legal, I'm not good at that, but clearly something monstrously inappropriate, just monstrously, overthrowing the government. That's pretty bad. But do you think they'll be, I just don't feel like they're going to be punished.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Denmark's social media ban for youth?
So I don't know that most of you would have spotted that, would you? Would you have known that on the surface level, flattery is what they're getting, what they're giving him, and it works. But as soon as you get to the next level of falling into the larger frames like immigration and crime, Because you notice a lot of foreign leaders are falling into his immigration crime, NATO.
NATO is another one. Rare earth minerals. You could just go right down the line and you'd find things that Trump created the frame and then the foreign leaders fell into it. You see it everywhere. And it starts with the small stuff that other people think is flattery.
You probably saw, because I made a lot of news, not very important, but everybody's talking about it, is that Ben Shapiro and Megyn Kelly got into it a little bit on some event. They're on stage. And I don't know what's true here. I can tell you that Grok had one version, and I've heard now two different versions of what's true. But the basic idea is,
is that Ben Shapiro claimed that Candace Owens is implicating Charlie Kirk's widow in his assassination. And Megyn Kelly said, what? I never heard of that. That Candace is blaming Charlie Kirk's widow for being part of a murder plot. And so Ben basically sort of suggested that she's not up to date. I was not aware of that. I was not aware that there's a claim of that. I don't think it's true.
Obviously, I don't think it's true. So I'm starting with, obviously, there's nothing to it. And I don't think that TPUSA had anything to do with anything. I think this is Candice's content. She's very good at connecting dots, even when the dots shouldn't be connected. It's a Bible code problem. Yeah.
So the first thing I would say is, Ben Shapiro, why do you think that the rest of us would be so invested in that conversation that we would know that? And then secondly, I look to see if it's true, and I don't even know if it's true. It doesn't seem true that Candice directly accused her of murder, right? I think it's more like, hmm, I have questions.
This thing happened at the same time as this thing. Why did this thing happen right after that thing? Now, I find that interesting content. It gets a little creepy when it involves somebody who died recently, so that's a separate thing. But I do like hearing the conspiracy theories. I do like when somebody can back it up with some details, even if I don't think it's true. It's kind of fun.
So as of this morning, I still don't know what is true. I don't believe that I would ever find a quote where Candace was directly accusing either TPUSA or or Erica, for being part of the murder. But Ben Shapiro thinks that that's an indisputable fact, and he's smarter than me, and he's paying attention to this more than I am, so I don't know what's going on here. Do you? But
But the main thing I wanted to tell you, actually, it's the only thing I want to say is I didn't know it. So I'm in the same business as Megyn Kelly. I just don't do it as well. I'm in the same business. I wake up every morning and I read all the political gossip and everything. I didn't know this. Why would I know it?
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Chapter 5: Why is Starbucks facing backlash over their new bear cup?
I don't need to go after either one of them. Well, it's Saturday, so that means that yesterday was Bill Maher becoming more of a Republican every day. Every Friday he becomes a little bit more Republican, but not really. He's not going to become a Republican. But here's the latest. He's weighing in on the Trump ballroom.
So Bill Maher said, when he first mentioned it, it was all about, oh, my God, he's desecrating the White House. And then I finally read, oh, well, they've done this shit to the White House before. It's just a building, I think. And then Maher is pointing out, we don't have a place where they have state dinners. They're doing it in a tent. This is America.
So do I give a shit that he's doing this to the White House? I really don't. And it's private money. Save your ire for things that matter. There you go. Now, what would you call that? Is that a Republican opinion, a Democrat opinion, or a common sense opinion? That's a common sense opinion. Every time somebody goes into the common sense zone, they're sort of in the mega zone.
Not entirely, but you got one foot in there if you're arguing common sense, and you're arguing it well, as he is. Then also, Bill Maher was in favor of Trump's Golden Dome, the missile protection system that we're trying to build. Marr said, I have a problem. He's responding to one of his guests. He goes, I have a problem if we don't build it. Just because Trump thought of it, I'm not against it.
Something that would stop the increasing number of rogue missiles in this world from maybe coming over here and incinerating me. Yeah, mark me down as pro for that. I'm pro-having. Now, can we do it? I don't know. He says it'll take three years and $180 billion. And they, the Democrats, say, well, that's BS.
that's to be a worthy investment yeah maybe it'll have cost overruns he went on to say but that's everything everything has a cost overrun now is this opinion democrat or republican or just common sense it's just common sense so doesn't it feel to you as if he's got that one foot in mega he's not going to have the religious foot
Don't ever expect him to pick up his Bible and say, finally, I've decided. No, but in the common sense domain, he's completely in. And he actually, I say this condescendingly, but he knows what common sense looks like. And he's willing to call it out despite what trouble it brings him. I like that.
Well, there are two court decisions, the Supreme Court, and I'm going to confess that these are so boring that I didn't want to look into them, and they're going to change 10 times before tomorrow.
But the Supreme Court, apparently, temporary pause snap payments, which is denying the pause of the denial of the pause of the pause from the lower court's pause of the snap of the payments of the pause. All these stories are so filled with a Negatives that you don't know exactly what got paused. Wait, you pause the blocking of it. Okay.
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Chapter 6: What are the latest developments in U.S. government funding negotiations?
Steve Hilton seems to, you know, I believe he would have a set of policies that at least the right would like a lot. I don't know anything about Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, but it's nice that we got options, isn't it? All right, ladies and gentlemen, if you're just joining late,
You probably didn't hear that today is November 8th, a very special day for reasons that you don't know, but I do. And if you don't have your Dilbert calendar for 2026 now, I would rush because we really didn't print enough. Somebody's going to be really mad at me in December.
Hey, I went to order my calendar and you're all sold out, which we might be because we did intentionally go low on the printing because it's expensive. So we'll see. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to say a few words privately to the local subscribers, as awesome as they are. And the rest of you, I hope to see tomorrow, same time, same place.
And right after the show, make sure you check in with Owen Gregorian on his Spaces event, where he'll talk about this sort of stuff maybe and some other stuff too, which will be fun. And so just search for Owen Gregorian, and you'll see a link to his... is a spaceless event that'll happen not very long from now. You'll fire it up afterward. All right. Let's see. Oh. Oh, God, that hurts.
I can't lift one arm. I've got half an arm. My hand doesn't work on this one, but my arm doesn't work on the other one. And then the cursor is disappeared. All right. Cursor. Fuck me. I can't find the cursor again. All right. We're going to have to move the computer to another space so that I can mess around with it in less pain. Okay, that doesn't hurt. All right, cursor, there you are.
Found you.
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