Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Come on in. Grab a seat. There's room up front. We won't mention your stocks today. Not a good day for the stock market, but on the other hand, it always goes up and down. No big deal, right? All right. Let's see. I believe I needed this. Everybody, stream on in here. You don't want to miss the good stuff. 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 experiment, trying to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen, a jug or a flask, A vessel of any kind.
All right, how many would like me to say that again, but in old-timey voice? Old-timey voice, okay? Same thing, but old-timey voice. Ah, there's a cup and a mug and a glass, and there's a tanker, a chalice, a stand. We had a canteen, a jug, a flask, but a vessel of any kind. You'd fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called... A simultaneous sip from the 40s. And it happens now. Did you ever wonder why everybody talked like that? I've never figured that out. Like, did they all get together and say, hey, Bob, the way you're talking, that's very cool. I think I'll copy it now.
I don't know if he can. It's just the way I talk. Just watch me. See, I'm doing it too. And then, you know, somebody else hears something like, what are you guys doing? You talking old timey? How do you know it's old timey? It's still the present day. I don't know. I just feel it will be old timey someday. Next thing you know, everybody's talking that. That's how it happens. All right.
You're wondering, where's your refrain for the day that will change your life? Make everything better, better, better. I just happen to have one for you. It's all queued up. Do you ever have a situation where there's something you know you need to do, but you can't get yourself motivated to do it because it's hard or it's unpleasant or it's going to hurt? Everybody, right?
So we all have these procrastination situations, not because we're procrastinators per se, But because the thing is just sort of unpleasant, so you just keep putting it off. But you know you have to do it. Like a dental appointment or something, you know you have to do it. So here's the reframe.
Instead of I'm afraid to do the thing I know I should do, it's usually fear that keeps you from doing it. Instead of that, you say life is short. Now you might say to me, Scott, that doesn't really seem to line up with the original frame. Is that really the answer to I'm afraid to do the things I know I should do? Is the answer that life is short? And the answer is yes.
Because once you set your brain to the idea that you don't have infinite time, then everything seems more important, including that thing you have to do. So as long as you say life is short, and then you just sort of think that way for a moment, watch how easy it is to do unpleasant things. because you'll think, you know what? Life is short.
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Chapter 2: What humorous anecdotes does Scott Adams share about Carl the Fly?
Do you think there's any chance in the world they're gonna ban insider trading? But here's what I'd love, and I'll bet you'll never see it. Do you think you're gonna see the argument in favor of insider trading? How many of you think that somebody's going to stand up in Congress, somebody elected to be a member of Congress, and give an argument in favor of insider trading, but only for them?
Do you think that's going to happen? Because that's what's being called for, right? The entire point of having the hearing is that we hear the argument on both sides. Well, the argument against it is moronically simple. I don't even need to repeat it. Every single person understands the argument against it. What exactly is the argument for it? Now, I've actually heard somebody support it.
I won't mention who. But the support was, we don't make enough money unless we do this. From an actual member of the government. We don't make enough money to essentially support living here and having a house in our district. plus all the other things that don't get reimbursed. We just don't have a way to survive unless we're doing insider trading legally. What do you think of that argument?
I don't think they can say that out loud because it just doesn't sound good even if that's what you're thinking. So if you were going to compromise, I would offer the following. You know that there's at least one entity. There might be more by now. that are tracking the insider trading of at least Nancy Pelosi when she was doing it.
And then they would give you an option of buying what they bought. Would you be happy if it was way more easy and everybody understood that they too could get the benefit of insider trading by doing a fast follow, maybe even automated of the insiders? Oh, Andy, you're too smart. What do you think of that?
Because there's no way that they're going to get rid of it, because it's just too profitable. And there's no way that the issue will go away, so we'll keep complaining about it. If you were going to try to find the middle ground, something we could all live with, I would be semi-okay. It's not ideal, but I'd be okay if I could just fast-follow and say, 12 seconds after your trade goes in.
Mine just follows. I put some limit on it, so it's not a lot of money. But it would just be some fund of money that roughly matches what you're doing. Well, that's the best idea I have. Probably nothing happened. Can you believe that a Soros-backed group called Indivisible... Soros backs a lot of groups, but that's one of his... big ones that we hear about.
Indivisible is trying to get rid of Chuck Schumer. New York Post is reporting. And as you know, Republicans are not a big fan of Schumer. So how would you like to meet Chuck Schumer? And you can't make either Trump or Soros happy about what you're doing, and they both want to get rid of you. Actually, I don't even know if Trump wants to get rid of him.
Trump might be happy having him because he's such a weak competitor. But nobody loves him. But finally, the good news is that Chuck Schumer has found a way to unite us. Is there even one topic in the entire country where a severe leftist and I would completely agree? You can imagine the situation, right?
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Chapter 3: How does Elon Musk plan to revolutionize information with Encyclopedia Galactica?
to the big bucket in the sky. So unless you're thinking of healthcare so radically that you're completely just redoing it and ripping it out, the way Elon approaches something. By the way, have you heard Elon Musk talk about the biggest problem that engineers make? Boy, does this apply in this case. He says the biggest problem the engineers make on any domain is
is that they try to optimize something that shouldn't have existed. Now, healthcare should exist, but should we be optimizing human healthcare in hospitals? You have to ask that question. Is that the thing we should be optimizing? Well, a little bit, because they exist and you don't want them to fall apart and stuff.
But shouldn't we be looking at something that's completely different, built from the bottom up? There's only one person I know in the United States who could pull that off and he's kind of busy at the moment. And I don't even know if it'd be profitable. So I don't, you know, you need it to be profitable. But I would say that here's what we need.
We need some way to at least tell a story that we can move from what we have to something like an AI driven, robot driven, somebody will come to your house, You'll always be one call away from some advanced intelligence that knows what you need. So it seems to me that without that level of deep, deep re-engineering, we don't have a chance. We don't have a chance. At the very least,
I would love to hear what, let's say, Mark Cuban, Elon Musk, I'll throw in Bill Gates. I know what you think about that. Why are not our smartest people already telling us how to do this? Is it because they can't figure it out either? It might be. It might be they can't figure it out either. But I would love to see the most aggressive. And by the way, all of this can be tested small.
So you don't have to turn the entire United States into a different system and hope he got lucky. You could say, all right, we're going to test this in this one county. It's not even that populated. And we'll do a bunch of things. But in another county, maybe we'll try a few other things. And then in a year, we'll look at it. I would be happy.
if somebody said, we don't have any way to reduce the cost today, so we're just going to fund it. But in five years, you're definitely going to have an AI doctor, or some people will, not everybody. And then you draw your budget such that it goes down because you're getting rid of the people. Getting rid of the people is not the goal, but you're reducing costs over time by bringing the AI in.
So I also wonder what percentage of all our healthcare costs are administrative and bullshit and government regulations and paperwork. If it turns out that that's like 40% of the cost, and it might be, right? If you had to guess how much of the healthcare costs is the paperwork and bullshit, would you say 40%?
without knowing too much about the industry, which I don't, it seems like everything's at least that much. So could you cut that in half? Probably, if you just had a smarter way to administer it. All right, moving on. You know, Michael Wolff, he's the slash author. He's the one who is the advisor slash friend of Epstein. It turns out that we know now he tried to blackmail Trump.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the new anti-hemp legislation?
Not that I know of. Well, that means it's time for breakfast, everybody. Another shiny object. Okay. All right, ladies and gentlemen, thanks for joining. I'm going to talk to the beloved local subscribers next. That will be private. So the rest of you... I will be seeing you tomorrow, I hope, same time, same place. You're always a treat.