Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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The day thing makes everything better. It's called that's right. Simultaneous. It happens now. Uh, I'm sipping like a Trump. Well, let's see what else is happening today. After we do a reframe from my book, reframe your brain, which is changing lives all over the place. You can get it on Amazon. And only Amazon, as it turns out. Probably. All right. Here's one of my favorites.
You could call it the shelf space reframe, or you could give it another name. But the usual frame is that if you have some negative thoughts, you want to stop thinking about them, right? Some of you, I've completely changed your life with this reframe. Some of you have heard it before. It just makes sense, right?
If you have negative thoughts, the obvious solution for negative thoughts is think fewer negative thoughts. But it turns out that your brain doesn't work that way. If you try to think fewer negative thoughts, you're probably going to think more of them, not less of them, because then you're obsessing on it. So here's the other way to approach it. This is the reframe.
Instead of trying to stop thinking about negative thoughts... You can't subtract negative thoughts, but you can crowd them out. That's what the shelf space is all about. If I told you, hey, I'm going to make you think about your favorite thing all day. You're going to think about petting cats and eating delicious food and having great intimate relationships with people you love.
And let's just say I got right into your business and just made you think about all those things. There are only so many hours in a day. If I make you use some of the hours to think about things you love, there'll be fewer hours left for negative stuff. So don't try to unthink. You can't do it. Don't try to think less of a thing. You can't do it. Try to think more of things. You can do that.
Think more of things that are positive, more of things that you want, more of things you've enjoyed, more of things that inspire you, more of things that you just love. and you will crowd out that time you wasted with negative thoughts. That's your reframe for the day. All right, let's talk about the news. You might have heard that the government has reopened. So what the hell was that? Hold on.
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Chapter 2: What insights does Scott Adams share about reframing negative thoughts?
X changed this user interface today. So it was quite an interesting morning. All right, here's another one. Another persuasion lesson. You ready for this? There's a clip of me talking about this. Jason Cohen did a clip on this. And it's a clip in where I'm talking about how it's a mistake for the Democrats to say that they need a fighter. Do you know why? Compare these three things.
Make America great again. Make America healthy again. Or we need a fighter. We've got to fight, fight, fight, fight. Which one of those are useful? Here's the reframe. This one's actually really important. If you get this and incorporate it into your future life, you're going to be way better. These slogans like make America great again and make America healthy again and fight, fight, fight.
If it's the Democrats doing the fight thing, what are they gonna get? Their affirmation is fighting. So if you focus on something and repeat it over and over, what's that called? It's an affirmation. An affirmation is concentrating on something and really focusing on it because there is something that's semi-magic about that. Now, I don't know that it's real magic.
I just think that you get better results when you're super focused on what you want. But just think what the two sides are focused on. So Trump focuses on make America great again, and then you watch and you say, oh, our borders are better, and there are a number of things you could put into that category. Make America healthy again? That's a good affirmation, isn't it?
That's just like one of the best affirmations you could ever have. But what about fight? OK, this fly is just eating me alive right now. He just will not stay off me. It's going to be me versus the fly in a minute. So here's your lesson. Don't accidentally do an affirmation.
Affirmations are pretty powerful, even if their only effect is not magic, but rather the psychology effect that it has on the person who's doing it. So if you're doing the right affirmation, make America healthy, make America great, there's a better chance you'll get that thing or at least move toward it. If you pick the wrong affirmation, you're going to still get the thing you affirmed, a fight.
The Democrats are actually asking for fighting. Do you think they'll get it? Yes, yes, they actually get fights. And when we look at the protests, somebody said there's another Tesla protest coming. I don't know about that, but if there is, I'm sure there'll be a fight, right? So there's your lesson. Don't do accidental affirmations. And that's what, the Democrats' messaging is so broken
that they're accidentally asking for the worst thing that anybody could ask for, a fight. If they had been asking for a victory, I might be all in. Oh, victory, but a fight? Who asks for the fight? Democrats. Don't do that.
Well, Kash Patel has excitedly announced, and he's way too excited about this for what I think is reality, that China has agreed to turn off the pipeline of fentanyl precursors because Mexico and their cartels, they can't make fentanyl unless they have the raw ingredients. I guess there are about 13 potential raw ingredients. And they've been coming from... Hold on, hold on.
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Chapter 3: What happened with the government reopening and its implications?
Oh, well, I'm so sad now. I'm a sad troll. I like to hear that it's an autocracy. Don't say it's a democracy. That makes me sad. It made me happy. But then Couric said, but would you concede that some of the things that he is doing, talking about Trump, are clearly anti-democratic and also are potentially even unconstitutional?
And Fetterman said, we happen to have a different view of these things. I don't call people fascists or Nazis or compare people to Hitler. Boom. Boom. Do you know what that's called? That's what we call the high ground maneuver. Oh, there's a name for it. There's a name for it. And if you can pull off a high ground maneuver in any context,
work or politics or your private life, if you can do this, what he just did, you're going to win almost everything. Because the high ground approach is unassailable by definition. It's the one that you can't get higher than. It's the high ground. So what would be a higher high ground than refusing to debate whether someone is Hiller. That's pretty good. And he's inclusive.
He goes, I don't call people fascists, Nazis, or compare people to Hiller. Now, in a sense, what he did was he compared himself to Katie Couric. He didn't compare Trump to Hiller. But he did compare Katie Couric to some kind of weird troll who would compare other people to Hiller. Right? So that happened. So Fetterman for the win.
It's weird that Fetterman walks into that conversation as the one that we should be mocking as looking like, I don't know, Shrek or something. But he's done such a good job of redeeming himself that to me he doesn't look like Shrek anymore. Like that just went away. Now I just see a guy who looks like he's trying to help. It looks like he's just trying to make the country better.
So again, I'm no idiot. I know that he's not who I want for my next president. I know that his policies would not match up with what my first choices would be, but that doesn't take away from him the skill that he brings to the game. So there are some people I talk about because of their skill level and other people I talk about because I like their policies. So he's a skill level guy.
I'm not going to say he doesn't have skill. I refuse to act as if one of the most skilled people in the game is not there. So I'm going to talk about him. All right. Apparently, I didn't know about this, but the Trump administration is cracking down on, oh, by the way, we'll get to the Epstein stuff. Don't worry. We'll get to it. Trump administration is cracking down on tunnels.
I guess there are quite a few tunnels under the border. No surprise. But what I didn't know, this is new, is that there's some technology referred to as the Persistent Surveillance and Detection System, the PDS. Persistent Surveillance. Persistent meaning it's just always on. And apparently there's a way to upgrade it. So we have some cool technology for identifying tunnels. That's kind of cool.
I didn't know how much we already had, but apparently we're in good shape on tunnels, technology wise, but we're gonna do even more. Joe Rogan just had a show. His guest was Jeff Dye, comedian Jeff Dye. And I thought Rogan had one of the best observations or insights. that I've seen in a long time. So just sort of revel in how smart this is.
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Chapter 4: How does Kash Patel's announcement about fentanyl precursors impact US-China relations?
Probably is. Probably is a coincidence. Here's another persuasion lesson. Mom Donnie. the new mayor of New York City. He says that he does plan, if he can do it, he wants to speak to President Trump. And he says, calling his relationship with Trump, quote, critical to the success of the city. OAN is reporting on this. Lake Wolf, different wolf. A lot of wolves in the news today.
Anyway, so he does, so Mamdani plans to speak with Trump. And the way he worded it was, quote, if President Trump wants to speak about lowering the cost of living or delivering cheaper groceries, like he ran on in 2024, I'm there to have that conversation. Now, do you ever hear Republicans use that phrase? I'm here to have that conversation. Remember what I said about fight, fight, fight?
If what you're affirming is fight, you get a fight. If what you're affirming is health, you get health. If what you're affirming is greatness, you get greatness. But he's affirming a conversation. Like, why would you affirm a conversation? It's like the lowest level of accomplishment. I'll tell you. I worked all year on this and I got myself a conversation. I know, I know.
A lot of people would never be able to have a conversation. But I got myself a conversation. Carl just won't leave me alone this morning. So never use the word conversation if you're trying to be a person who gets stuff done. He started really well, which is Mamdami's secret sauce, that he's a good communicator.
So he started out by talking about lowering the cost of living, delivering cheaper groceries, and pointing out that Trump had asked about those same things. But then he falls into Democrat talk, which is we have to have a conversation about this. That's a nothing. That's a nothing. So we'll see. Good luck, mom dummy. I'm sure that'll be a great conversation with Trump.
I saw this story today from the history of behavioral sciences.
so you all know what cognitive dissonance is right so cognitive dissonance most you know totally well documented psychological phenomenon and it happens when somebody is in a situation where they do something that's sort of counter to who they know they are and if you do something that's opposite of who you are let's say you're a nice person but you do something cruel you don't say to yourself oh i guess i was wrong i guess i'm cruel
Cognitive dissonance would cause you to redefine that situation in some way that's good for you so that your ego is not damaged. So you'd imagine, oh, that's not what's happening. It's really complicated. So cognitive dissonance is when you concoct or your brain sort of automatically concocts a story that makes you look good, even if the reality is you shouldn't look good in this story.
But here's the background. Apparently there was a that the whole concept of cognitive dissonance was brought about because there was this cult. So years ago, there was this cult, and I guess they said that the world was going to end at a certain time, and it didn't, 1954. There was no apocalyptic flood.
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