Chapter 1: What humorous tech issues does Scott Adams face at the start?
everybody. I've got to fix my lighting. I look like a head that's just sort of drifting. By the way, if anybody can tell me how on my Apple laptop to turn off the screensaver so it doesn't turn off in the middle of my live stream, boy, would I appreciate it. I can search for screen. I can look for display. I can look for power. I can look for auto-off.
I can search all over that damn computer, but I will not find the simplest command. How do I turn the screensaver off? So if anybody knows how to do that, please let me know. All right, we've got a show to do. And let's see. Let me jump in here and look at what you're looking at. Well, apparently that's not an option either. I think everything in my computer world failed today at the same time.
My printer wasn't connected. My computer was random. Really? No, this isn't working either. The simplest thing. There we go. The simplest thing is working now. All right, that's enough of me complaining. You want to show and you shall not. Lock screen. So you think lock. I'll search for lock next time. 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 elevating this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a copper mugger glass, a tanker Chelsea Stein, a kempton jugger 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 here today that makes everything better. Sculpt the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Fantastic. Best sip I've ever had. Well, we'll get back to that. Would you like to start with a reframe? From my book, Reframe Your Brain. full of over 200 frames, reframes. Any one of them could change your life. You never know. All right.
Here's one. Oh, here's the deathbed reframe. This one's kind of useful. Do you ever have this big old problem? You're like, oh, this problem is plaguing me. I can't get it out of my mind.
All you do, if you've got a problem you can't get any ahead, is instead of saying that my stress and anxiety are being caused by the things in my life, ask yourself how many of those things you'll be thinking about on your deathbed. And the answer is none of them.
Once you realize that you won't care about any of them on your deathbed, it turns out it makes it easier to not worry about them today. So this is one you just have to try. You literally just imagine yourself at the end of your life and your loved ones are around and they're like, hey, Scott, what about that printer that wasn't working that day? I think it was November 11th in 2025.
Do you remember? Do you remember how mad you were the printer wasn't working? How do you feel about it now? I'm dying. I can't even think about the printer. Exactly. Exactly. It wasn't important then, and it's not important now. The deathbed reframe. If it's not going to matter on your deathbed, it probably doesn't matter that much. I mean, you might have to fix it, whatever the problem is.
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Chapter 2: How does Scott Adams reframe stress and anxiety using a deathbed perspective?
And what I loved was she was so confident about the outcome. I thought, yeah, you're putting yourself out there a little bit. I agreed with her, by the way. I thought that she was probably right. But I thought, that's pretty confident to put that out there. And 100% right. Nailed it. So good for you. She wasn't the only one. I think Greg was predicting the same.
There were other people who predicted it, but I just liked her confidence. And, you know, she has the experience to know what she's talking about. All right. Let's talk. We still have a few more days, if not weeks, of enjoying the Democrats' bad reaction to the shutdown negotiations being over. If you haven't seen yet Jon Stewart's Monday Night Show, it really is sort of a masterpiece.
He's not happy. He's not happy with Chuck Schumer getting a nothing. So we got this life or death situation, they told us, that, you know, babies are starving and planes are falling out of the air. And yet they just, after telling us for weeks that babies will die and planes will fall out of the sky, if they agree with the Republicans on anything, they just sort of cave in and
But here's what Jon Stewart couldn't believe, and he made this hilarious. Now, what's funny about it is he really doesn't look like he's taking sides. Well, maybe he does. But he's hitting his own team hard. He's hitting his own team harder than he's hitting the Republicans, by far. He's hitting his own side.
So that gives him a little credibility because when his own side has a bad day, he goes after his own side. You have to have that. or nobody's gonna really take you too seriously. Because John Stewart says, where in the art of war does it say, never press your advantage?
And this is the funniest line, that Chuck Schumer sold out, he sold out on what he wanted in return for a promise to negotiate later and then later not get what he wanted. He traded what he wanted for a promise to not get what he wanted later. That's exactly what happened. A promise to not get what you want later. That's a funny line. Oh, Jon Stewart, you're so funny.
So even Jon Stewart, here's how I interpret this. By mocking Schumer... by taking out The Art of War. He took out the actual book, The Art of War, by Sun Tzu. I think what he's trying to tell them is that they're not dealing on a strategic level. How many times have I said that? That the Republicans, and Trump in particular, they seem to deal entirely on a strategic level.
I mean, there's a moral and ethical frame to it, but they're very strategic. The Democrats just seem to be acting out. It doesn't seem strategic at all, does it? It just feels like they're mad at something. Their whole approach to the shutdown was fight, fight, fight. That's not even the right context for that. Fight, fight, fight. The right context is you just got your ear shot.
The wrong context is the way they were using it, like just being tougher in the way they talk is going to make it all work. They didn't have any strategy. They were just trying to blame Republicans and see if something would work. Anyway, you really have to see the Jon Stewart video. Van Jones tries to save as much as he can from this situation.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of the Dilbert calendar announcement?
Stop it, Scott. This is not funny. If the press, let's say they found a family where little Billy was starving... And they did a story from, let's say, the family's living room. And they're like, there's little Billy, little Billy over on the couch. He won't be eating today. He didn't eat yesterday. He'll probably be gone by noon.
And then it would be the fault of the reporter for not feeding little Billy because, you know, you probably have a few extra bucks. Maybe you could spare a little bit for Billy before he falls over on the couch during your life. It's only funny because I just realized you can't do a story about it.
Because the moment you do a story about a starving anything in the United States, people send food. And they stop starving immediately. All right. Well, we do have a good country in the sense that nobody's going to look at somebody starving and let them starve. We just don't live in that country. If you see somebody starving, we're going to feed them.
Let me, if I have any neighbors within walking distance who are starving, just knock on my door. Just knock on my door. You have to be within walking distance. I can't feed the world. But if any of my walking distance neighbors are literally unable to eat, I'll give you a sandwich. Stop by. All right.
So what I liked about Van Jones's approach is in some ways he's sort of an indicator of testing some of the narratives because he's good at it. So I think they let him go first sometimes just to see how it works. But listen to every Democrat trick he tried. Let's see. Was there a mind reading? How many times have I told you that
Democrats, they pretend they can read the minds of Republicans, but what they see in there is not America first, and we like the Constitution, and we like our God, and we like families. They don't see the things that they're actually thinking. What they see is things that are created by the squirrels running around in their skulls, and then they imagine that they can read minds.
That's here, right? They're imagining that they're looking into Republican minds and that they don't mind if planes fall out of the sky and children starve. How about a character attack? Have you noticed? Now, obviously, Trump does character attacks, but he's a special case.
But in terms of Republicans versus Democrats in general, I think Republicans are a little more likely to talk about the policy. Whereas Democrats are a little more likely to talk about, oh, bad character. Did Van do that? Did he treat the Republicans as if they have bad character? Yes. He treated them like they don't care if babies die. How about imaginary problems?
Have you heard me talk about that a million times? that Democrats come up with imaginary problems? Well, this was completely self-created, and it was an imaginary problem in the sense that they could solve it without doing any real work. It was 100% solvable just by going, eh, eh. Would you like to see that again? Watch me solve the starving children and planes falling out of the air. Eh? Eh?
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Chapter 4: How do Democrats react to the recent government shutdown?
We did open up. So it was this whole set of imaginary things that could happen, but didn't, as usual. Yeah. So the one that's missing is where the Democrats say a problem doesn't really exist, like they do with Antifa. That didn't apply to this one because everybody agrees that if you're not funding SNAP, people are going to have more trouble getting food. So at least they agreed on the problem.
But could you see how stunningly consistent it is that Van, who's a totally reasonable, smart guy, He's following the Democrat plan that looks like mental problems more than it looks like the art of war, if you know what I mean. There was a, I think it was a fake truth social that was hilarious. I wish it hadn't been true.
But it purported to show that Trump was saying that fat people would not be allowed in the United States. And then it ended with saying that Rosie O'Donnell will never come back, which would be a comment on her weight. That did not happen as far as Grok can tell. So Grok said that was not real. I made the mistake of reposting that this morning before I said to myself, I better check this one.
This one's a little bit too on the nose. And sure enough, Grok said, nope. But here's the fun part. It's actually based on something real. It is real that the State Department is going to ban overweight people from entering the U.S. on a visa, but it would be based on general health requirements. So we're not talking about somebody who's got a few extra pounds because that would be everybody.
We're talking about people who are clearly not as healthy as they could be and clearly will be a burden on the health care situation in the U.S. Under those conditions, I guess the State Department says no visa for you, which isn't not a terrible decision. I can see that. Well, the Supreme Court's still thinking about tariffs, and Trump says that they understand tariffs, which is no big surprise.
He says that they've been given the wrong numbers on unwinding the tariffs, because one of the questions that the Supremes asked was, what would it cost if we ruled to unwind the tariffs that have already happened? And Trump points out that the tariffs are not unconnected, to the deals about bringing capital into the US.
He says that there are $3 trillion that also has to be unwound because part of the tariff agreements were that people would be investing in the US. So is it possible that the Supreme Court is going to be off in their calculation by $3 trillion, and then they're going to make a decision that we're all bound by? while being off on the assumptions by $3 trillion. And it might be.
They might be off by $3 trillion and then make a decision based on that bad assumption. Now, because Trump has said, and who knows about the $3 trillion, I don't know if the $3 trillion tracks exactly, but it is correct that you can't separate all this stuff. Logically, you can't separate it. Trump says it will have over 20 trillion coming into our economy. I think that was on Laura Ingraham.
She did a very illuminating interview with Trump. But here's my take. All data is fake. All data is fake. If you simply went by what the Republicans are claiming, you'd find out later it wasn't exactly right. If you go by what the Supreme Court is believing, that's not right. If you tried to do the math yourself and add it up on your own, you wouldn't get the right answer.
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Chapter 5: How is AI perceived in terms of bias and data interpretation?
Does that sound reasonable? Are we all going to, most of us anyway, except for a Massey and a Rand maybe, are we all going to be on the same page? Yes. That's a pretty good system. Then you talk to the Democrats. They're like, we've got to fight you, fight you. And we've got to swear more and fight you. Well, now Jeffries is claiming some kind of success because he fought.
So they accomplished their goal. They fought. Maybe you should have a different goal. Or maybe you should have, I mean, they would say the goal was to open the government. But they seem happy that they did the fight. So it makes it look different. Speaking of Jasmine Crockett, I love this story. She's demanding that all 50 states abolish Dominion voting machines.
Now, I don't know how many states actually use them, But because Dominion is now owned by some entity that has conservative connections, she thinks that it's a sure thing that they will be used to rig the election.
So now we went from Democrats swearing there could never be a way to rig an election to a top Democrat, at least in terms of attention, a top Democrat saying, oh, my God, these elections are so unsecure, we're going to have to change this right away. That's called winning, winning.
I've been telling you for a while that one of the big turning points in the American mind will be when we realize there was never a way to know who won. I don't know who won because I didn't count the votes and I don't trust anybody who does. But if you don't realize there never was a way to know who won, there never was because you could never know what happened that you don't know about.
What if somebody cheated in a clever way and got away with it? How would you know? Getting away with it is what that means, that they didn't get caught. You think nobody's ever cheated in an election and didn't get caught? It must happen all the time. So the fact that the Democrats made it so you couldn't get a job or couldn't go to college if you believed that the election was even questionable,
That's a pretty bold play right there. But now we have Jasmine saying what in my mind is actually a completely reasonable complaint. The reasonable complaint is that you can't know for sure or you can't be confident. You can't be confident that you know for sure the election was... fair when machines are involved and you don't know if anybody had access to the machines.
And maybe you're not sure that you could find out if anybody had access to the machines. So it's completely reasonable. And it actually matches a lot of conservative thought, including my own. So what should Trump do about that? Now, this is a joke, but not really.
Wouldn't it be funny if he invited her to the White House so that other people could hear her complaints about the machines and about the unreliability of the voting system? What would she do? What would she do if Trump not only agreed with her, but asked if he could boost her signal? Yeah, you know, you make a good point there. I don't know about the voting machines.
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Chapter 6: What insights does Jon Stewart provide regarding political negotiations?
It would make more chips than other people because he'll need more. And if he makes his own chips, he's going to have, he's going to own every AI market he wants because he's the only one who'll have enough chips. So if you were a soft bank,
and you had $5.8 billion in one AI chip company, and Elon Musk just said in public, you know, I think I might compete with that and beat it with a 90% cheaper product. Even if, even if NVIDIA was so nimble that they could match that, it would still take 90% off their profit, right? I mean, roughly speaking. So, I don't give financial advice. As you know, this is not financial advice.
If you had followed my financial advice and sold NVIDIA when I did, you would have lost a lot of money compared to holding it until now. So keep in mind, I'm not good at investing. I'll tell you that as often as you need to hear it, because I know it's kind of tempting. If you like my opinions on some political thing, you'll think, then maybe he's also good at investing. Nobody's good at it.
Nobody's good at investing. Nobody is. A lot of his luck and insider trading. All right. Apparently there was some kind of, Jim Hoft Gateway Fund says there was some kind of leaked phone call that showed that the State Department is backing their color revolution with global partners.
I can't tell if this is the same thing that Mike Benz was talking about or not, but apparently there's newly surfaced recordings shared by Data Republican, an account on X. Former USAID employees openly discussed moving internal groups off federal systems into encrypted signal chats ahead of the presidential inauguration. That would have been Trump in January.
and then linking up with international partners to mobilize against authoritarianism. So when you hear that these big networks are mobilizing against authoritarianism, that should be thought of as a color revolution. How many Democrats do you think know what a color revolution is? I'll bet most of my audience does. Certainly all of Mike Benz's audience does.
But how many Democrats would even know what that is? A color revolution. That's when the United States overthrows other countries. But apparently the same tools have been used internally, which is very illegal and inappropriate. All right. Here's a story that I wouldn't mention except I like Rand Paul, so I'm going to give him a little boost on his messaging. Apparently there's some kind of
legislation cooking that would ruin the totally legal hemp production in his state, Kentucky. So apparently all of the hemp people would be put out of business by whatever change this is. I don't know what the change is, but there's no reason the hemp business should be crippled. That would be not understanding what hemp is. You can't get high smoking hemp.
You know, it's related to cannabis, but it doesn't get you high. That's why it's legal. Why in the world would they do something to take out an entire industry in 23 states? So I don't know the details there, but I'm going to trust Rand Paul and I'll give him a little boost because I think he's one of the good guys. He doesn't always agree with me.
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