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Chapter 1: What makes this episode the best ever?
We're going to have the best show ever. Might not be obvious why, but it's because everything's awesome. And you're going to have a good time. Just wait. You just wait. All right, almost ready. Do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and darn it, you've never had a better time. But if you'd like 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 mug or a glass, tankard, chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day. It makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Delicious. By the way, if you're listening later on Spotify, where this gets uploaded after I'm done, I hear the commercials are insanely loud compared to the content. I don't think that happens on the other platforms.
So you can always listen on a different platform because the studio I'm using only sends one audio signal to all the different platforms. Oh, it doesn't send it to Spotify, though, does it? I guess Spotify is adding the commercials on the platform. So I'm not sure how to fix that, but I'll look into it.
Chapter 2: How does coffee influence memory?
Well, you would not be surprised, according to SciPost, that whole coffee cherry extract supplement might improve working memory. Now, you might say to me, what is a coffee cherry? And how do you take the cherry from the coffee? And the answer is the cherry is the coating to the coffee bean, I guess. And normally when you drink coffee, they remove that part. But the part they remove,
It's awesome. It's awesome. So apparently if you were to eat the part they remove, you'd have a good working memory. Now, I don't take a chance. So what I do is I grow a coffee tree in my backyard. And then every morning I just go out and I lick the bark. You know, the leaves. And I definitely eat all the cherries. So that's what I do.
This would be a good time to remind you not to take any medical... Advice from me. Not once. By the way, if you notice behind me, where you can almost read it, there are the five best things you can buy as a gift. I can promise you that if you know somebody who likes reading books, at least one of these books is going to work for everybody. You can hit every person.
If it's somebody who doesn't know anything about me and doesn't know anything about Dilbert, you want to go for the Reframe Your Brain. That just works for everybody. And How to Fail Almost Everything and Still Win Big. Those are guaranteed to make them happy. If they're political and they like stuff like How to Learn Persuasion, Win Bigly is the book.
And if they're philosophical and they like to think about the nature of reality itself... then God's Debris of Complete Works would be the way to go. And if they are Dilbert fans, but they don't care about the politics or the persuasion, then get the 2025 Dilbert calendar. Now, the important thing is that the calendar is only available at a link you can find at Dilbert.com.
The books are on Amazon. So if you want the book, just search Amazon. They'll all pop up. But the calendar, I would get that right away. because I can't guarantee that if you get it a week before Christmas, it's going to show up, right? So I wouldn't wait on the calendar. We're making those as we get orders, so sooner is better.
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Chapter 3: What are the best books for holiday gifts?
Anyway, scientists, according to Noridge, have made magic polymers that can pull water from the thin air with less energy. So there's all kinds of scientific breakthroughs in creating water out of the air. But it all takes energy, and this one takes way less energy. So it's not going to power your city, but it might help you in an emergency.
Well, there's the first asthma treatment breakthrough in half a century, according to Kent Live News. It's a game changer, they say. Some kind of vaccination, they say, will substantially decrease your asthma attacks. I don't know. It might take a couple of years before that works its way through the system. We'll see. I'm skeptical of everything.
There's a prebiotic supplement of something called inulin and, of course, fructoolagalocasaccharide. Pretty sure I pronounced that exactly right. And it boosts brain function in old people. Huh. But here's the interesting part. What it does is it changes your gut chemistry. And here's an actual sentence from the article. See if this sounds familiar to you.
Quote, evidence for the close relationship between the gut and the brain is growing year after year. Now watch this part. See if this sounds like me. Some experts are now so convinced by the results they refer to the gut as the body's second brain. What do I tell you almost every day? Almost every day I tell you that your body is your brain. There's no such thing as the brain in its own little
closed off area, and then your body is your body. No, your body is your brain. If you don't have all that chemistry right in your body, your brain isn't working, period. So your brain and your body are one tool. All right, reportedly Elon Musk is going to use his AI called XAI and do a little standalone app. So right now it only exists in X as Grok, but they're going to make their own standalone.
As far as I can tell, it seems way behind ChapGPT. because Grok, so far, doesn't have images and it doesn't have ability to talk to it. There's a lot it doesn't do. I don't know if it's going to catch up. I keep seeing stories that say that Elon Musk's version is going to catch up to chat GPT, but it doesn't look like it's happening.
So, I mean, it could happen quickly if they make some big change, I suppose. But I don't know. Meanwhile, the oceans cool the planet more than we thought. Also, according to no ridge. So it turns out that the ocean gives off some kind of sulfur gas. And that hadn't been totally understood. And that sulfur gas cools the climate more than previously thought.
So what they're doing is they're going back to all their climate models. And now they're using this new knowledge about the sulfur that's coming out of the ocean and how it cools things to modify their models. Now, here's an interesting question. Why do they need to modify the models?
I've been told quite reliably that 98% of all scientists say the models are telling us enough of what we need to know. I mean, nothing's perfect. But they're telling us enough of what we need to know that we can put trillions and trillions of dollars into it. So why do we need to fix the models? I thought you told me the models already worked because you asked me for trillions of dollars.
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Chapter 4: How are climate models being adjusted?
So Putin says he wants to have a talk without preconditions as long as we're taking all the preconditions into consideration. The preconditions would be Ukraine decides not to be part of NATO and that basically Putin keeps the four areas that he already conquered and he already owns, basically. So that sounds like exactly the deal we all know is going to happen. So that's interesting.
Putin also said that he thinks Trump's life is in danger. was in danger and is now. And even the cabinet members are at risk. You know that Tom Holman and at least someone else who was a cabinet pick got some death threats over the weekend. So things are looking dangerous and Putin is warning that there's a genuine threat to Trump. So here's what I want to know.
Do you think that Putin's intelligence, in other words, his intel departments, do you think that they know enough about the American government that they know that the Democrats are planning or somebody is planning to try to kill Trump? Because there's no way we would know whether he is just saying that for a fact or if he actually has information.
because he wouldn't want to give away that he has information, because that would give away his sources and methods, right? So the thing I wonder is, does Putin know more than we do about the threat? Now, here again, I compliment Putin for his psychology game without being a supporter of him, because he's a terrible, terrible murderer of people.
It's really smart for him to talk about the risk to Trump. Because if nothing happens to Trump, then he's sort of a good guy who showed some empathy for Trump and warned him. And if something does happen to Trump, he's the guy who warned him. So warning Trump about the danger is just a smart play. It's good no matter what happens. It's good for Putin. It's not good for us.
And Putin legalized crypto in Russia, and he slashed taxes on mining, mining from crypto, I guess. I think that's what that means. And trading income will be taxed at 13%, and blah, blah, blah, more if it's more. So basically, he's big on crypto. What do you think of that? Well, you know, Trump is pro-crypto compared to any prior president.
And I've heard some people say that crypto is the only way the U.S. ends up financially okay. And what I mean by that is that if you own some crypto, let's say Bitcoin specifically, its odds of going up in value, the smart people say, it's almost guaranteed. Now, the counter-argument would be there's something that we find out that we didn't know about, and that's a pretty big risk.
For example, finding out that there's some way to hack or process steal your crypto wallet that nobody could have seen coming and know how to fix it. Now, I haven't seen that, but you could sort of imagine that something that's a technology where there might be some vulnerability that you haven't seen yet.
But if that doesn't happen, that alleged hypothetical vulnerability that nobody has quite seen yet, in all of the... All of the signals say that crypto will just keep going up basically forever. So if you had, for example, a bunch of cash investments and you had a little bit of crypto, your situation should be that your cash will inflate away to zero.
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Chapter 5: What is the impact of DEI programs at universities?
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Nobody's getting paid back. We're going to inflate it away. And people will wish they didn't own it, basically. So it could be that the only way out is crypto. If the government owns some, as well as all the citizens, then we could pay our taxes in it, etc.,
So then if you take that context and then you look at Putin legalizing crypto and trying to get ahead of crypto, could it be that Putin knows, because he's a pretty smart player, that Russia also has to have crypto or else they're doomed? Or maybe he needs to own crypto to have some kind of leverage over the West. So when I see Putin going hard at crypto...
it makes me think that he might be thinking a few moves ahead of us. So having Trump in office, surrounded by smart people who are pro-crypto, it feels good. I'm glad that the Trump administration, not Trump specifically, he's no crypto expert, but he's certainly surrounded by people who are going to advise him well on that, I think.
Meanwhile, France has announced that NetYahoo is entitled to immunity from the International Criminal Court because they're not a party to the court. Now, why did it take me until today to realize that? So the International Criminal Court has a bunch of countries that signed up, but it does not include the United States.
And it does not include Israel for, I suppose, obvious reasons, because basically we'd be the only ones taken to court. But France is saying, we're not going to arrest somebody who never signed that treaty. To which I say, oh, why did it never occur to me that you wouldn't arrest somebody who wasn't part of the treaty so they couldn't have broken it? Makes sense.
Now, obviously, that was just a workaround because France doesn't want to be enemies with Israel. But it's just funny that I didn't see that obvious play, that you can't arrest somebody who didn't sign up for it. It's worth a shot. Eric Weinstein agrees with me on physics. The difference between us is that he is deeply...
Let's say deeply invested and educated and experienced in the domain of physics and has his own well-educated, smart thoughts about string theory. And his well-educated thoughts match my own thoughts for the past 20 years. For at least 20 years, I've been saying, you know this string theory thing? It sure has every signal for being bullshit.
Now, obviously, I have no science background whatsoever, but everything that I kept hearing about it, every time I heard something about it, I thought, you know, I don't think that even looks real. It just doesn't even look real. And Eric Weinstein says that string theory has sort of been the dominant thing people were trying to look at for the theory of everything to tie everything together.
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Chapter 6: What are the current opinions on political parties?
And then there are a few other examples like that where there are people who are sort of here legally, etc. So It's possible that Holman won't be able to find big busloads of people to send anywhere.
So maybe what you're worried about where where you're seeing the military round up giant groups of people and keep them in detention centers until the military transport could get there and take them back. It's a terrible visual that you don't want to live in the country. where you're seeing your military carrying anybody away, like for anything. It's just a terrible look.
I'm pro-deportation, for the criminals especially. But it's a bad look. So I don't think we're going to have that look. I think there might be like an anecdotal here or there. You know, there might be a bus full of people or a detention center that's there temporarily. But my current feeling...
is if we stop the new immigrants, the new illegal immigrants, if we stop that pretty well, and I think Trump will do that, that the gigantic migration, immigration, even if we try as hard as we can, it's just hard. And I think it'll be half bustles, and it just won't be that much of a visual problem. That's my guess. So my prediction is,
You'll see a few anecdotal reports, so there will be some reports of too much deportation, but they'll be so limited and so just temporary that it's not really going to change the public view of things too much. That's what I think. There is also the claim that immigrants do less crime than Americans. And that's offered as the argument that you should not deport.
So does that argument work with you? That the average immigrant, let's do two takes on this. All right, so here what we're going to do is just work through the thinking. So we're only talking about how to think about it. Should you say, hey, let's have more immigration because on average they lower our average crime rate. Does that make sense? Let's lower our average by having more immigrations.
Because apparently the more immigrants you have, the lower your crime rate is. Because they have a lower crime rate. Do you buy that? Let's say it's true, just for a moment. Let's say they do have a lower crime rate. There are also 29,000 felons who are convicted of homicide or sexual assault. That's 29,000 people who would be alive if we didn't have illegal immigrations.
29,000 people would be alive or not raped. Doesn't that feel like a lot? I mean, I know it's a big country, and the 29,000 would be over multiple years, but doesn't your government and your citizens, do not your citizens have the right to say, I don't care that they have a better rate, I want them to kill zero people? If somebody comes into your house and slaughters your family,
And the police say, whoa, turns out that the odds of somebody coming into your house and slaughtering your family are way low, so stop worrying about it. And you'll be like, but they slaughtered my family. I know, but as a percentage of all the crime, it's very low. But my family's dead. I think you need to be a little less racist about this. Yes, they did get slaughtered by somebody, but
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Chapter 7: Why did Joe Rogan decline an interview with Zelensky?
Are you ready for this? This is not going to make you happy. I'm going to give you a reason. Now, this is just one person's speculation, but it sounded so good, I'm going to embrace it as my own. There is a reason that recent immigrants are more likely... or less likely to do a crime? You're not going to like it. Here's a reason that recent immigrants are less likely to do crime. You ready for it?
Because they're more likely to be employed, married with children, and in good health. Oh, no. No. No. No. No. No, no. Is that true? Is it true recent immigrants are more likely to be employed, married with children, and in good health? Because those things are very predictive that you're not going to do a crime. I think these are true. Anecdotally, it's true.
Every time I think of somebody in my own life, who was born in another country. They're married. They're employed. They have children. And they go to church. Damn it. Damn it. They're Republicans. Let me say it the fast way. Yes, the reason that recent immigrants do not commit as many crimes is because they're Republicans. They don't know they're Republicans. They just act like it.
get a job, get married, have kids, go to church. Republicans. So if I said to you immigrants tend to be Republicans with all that comes with it, getting jobs and getting married and staying out in jail, that's easy to accept, isn't it? If I tell you that immigrants don't have a high crime rate, your first reaction is, ah, it's not the rate I'm looking at.
I'm looking at 29,000 people in jail for murder and rape. But if I told you we brought in a million people who are basically Republicans, and I say, whoa, whoa, whoa, a million people? What about all the crime? And I say, yes, there's definitely crime because any group of people would have extra crime. But they're essentially the same rate of crime as Republicans. And then what do I do?
What do I do then? Because let's say I'm a Republican and I like Republicans and I agree that they don't do a lot of crime. Anyway, so as I often say, if somebody tells you the raw number of something and doesn't tell you the percentage, they are a propagandist. That's brainwashing and they're not trying to tell you something useful.
Likewise, if they tell you the percentage but not the raw number, They're propagandists. They're trying to brainwash you. They're not trying to have an honest conversation. You need to look at both every time or you don't know anything. And I think it can be 100% true that on average, we're bringing in a pretty high class of people, at least in terms of cultural compatibility with America.
At the same time, we're bringing in a whole bunch of criminals. They can both be true. We simply have to do a better job of everything that we're already doing, and I think everybody agrees with that.
Meanwhile, Tom Holman, who's going to be the head of the border stuff, he was challenged by, I guess, a Denver mayor, Mike Johnston, because Mike Johnston said he's not going to let the citizens of his city...
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Chapter 8: How is Putin leveraging cryptocurrency?
Do you think any one of those could be a capable Republican? And I can name, I don't know, probably 10 Republicans who could be any one of these people. Am I wrong about that? Am I wrong that there have to be at least 10 prominent Republicans that could be everyone on this list? These are not competitive Republicans.
I don't think Democrats have any understanding of what would even make their side competitive. And the entertainment which I'm getting in watching them not understand anything, they don't understand anything. It's really amazing. And I'm looking at some of your comments. Those are weird. Fetterman, you know what? I don't think the Democrats would push Fetterman to the front of the line.
He may be a little bit of a problem because he doesn't obey the Democrats enough. But if Fetterman wanted to take a run at it, he would be the one I'd worry about. I don't want to give advice to the Democrats, but if I heard that Fetterman was running for president in the next cycle, I would say that's a problem. Now AOC has been mentioned. I know that doesn't seem serious to me.
I can't imagine she would even win the primary. But Fetterman? Fetterman could really fool everybody because he does have he has the common touch and he doesn't seem to be willing to lie when everybody else is. And I hate to say That's a really attractive combination. He is smart. I mean, it was hard to tell when he had his stroke. But he's an unusually smart person.
And he clearly cares about the country and clearly cares about people. And he clearly is smarter than the average Democrat. And he sees that there are some things that Republicans see that he says, that makes sense. You can perfectly understand why the Republicans would feel this way. So he's the only one who seems to have anything close to an understanding of what's happening.
I think Fetterman knows exactly what's wrong. That the Democrats act like woke idiots. The Republicans acted like problem solvers. And we were not in a place where acting like a woke idiot was a luxury we could afford. It was once. At one point, it was a luxury we could afford. Not anymore. Now you just need the solution to the problems.
To me, it never seemed like they were a close competition, even though the vote was closer than I thought it should be. What if RFK goes back to the Democrat Party? I don't think RFK... Junior has a chance in a race like that. He's got so many points of attack that I think he's serious about having one mission left. He has this one mission, fix the food, and I have high hopes that he will.
I see you got a copy of Loser Think. Thank you. I don't know how you got it. It's no longer for sale. It was one of my canceled books, so you must have one of the used copies. But maybe at some point I'll reissue that. Democrats do not allow an independent thinker. Yeah. True that. All right.
So I'll tell you again, if you don't have your Dilbert calendar ordered, just go to Dilbert.com, and that's the only place you'll find the link to order it. You will not find that link anywhere else. It's not on Amazon. It's not on bookstores. Not in Walmart. But the books are. My books make excellent gifts. They change lives. Yeah, the first two...
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