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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of Coffee with Scott Adams?
I won't settle for less. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'll bet you've never had a better time in your whole stinking life.
But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their shiny, tiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein, the canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everybody Body happy. It's called the simultaneous sip. Happens right now. Go. I don't think your life stinks. What are you talking about? Has anybody picked up a Dilbert 2025 calendar? You better hurry.
I would say in the next week or so, if you order them, you're pretty safe to get them before Christmas. Every week that goes by, a little less safe to get it before Christmas, but still worth doing. And you can only get them at the link that you'll find at Dilbert.com. You cannot find it anywhere else in the world. No bookstores. No other online source.
Just go to Dilbert.com and you'll see the link to the sales page right there. And that is all the commercials that I need to give you right now. Your girlfriend got you one for Christmas? Now that girlfriend is a keeper. In fact, that would go so far as to say, if your loved one does not give you a Dilbert calendar for a holiday, maybe rethink the whole relationship. All right.
Well, so there's news today that another study that says that statins might be more bad for you than good. And that cholesterol might be more good for you than bad. Now, I'm not going to make a claim that any of these claims or counterclaims are true. I will make a claim that I'm not so sure anything in healthcare is real. Is anybody having the same crisis that I am? That
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Chapter 2: What are the latest findings on statins?
I'm not sure anything's real in healthcare. And here's my problem. Anytime that the treatment depends on somebody did a big study and there was a lot of data and there was a lot of variables and a lot of assumptions, and when they were done, they found a good solid 30% improvement if you took the drug. I'm not sure any of those are real. But if you do the test and people who take the drug
you know, live and the other ones don't. And, you know, it's a cure. I do believe cures because I think it would be hard to hide a cure, but I'm not sure we can really measure a 30% improvement in anything. It feels like the people doing the study could always find a way to make it 30% or look like it's 30% better in some way. So I just don't believe anything that says, well, we'll give you a,
You know, 26% improvement. But again, I tell you, do not believe anything that cartoonists tell you about healthcare. So, you know, talk to your doctor. I don't want to talk you out of or into any kind of drug. But I'm just telling you that as a consumer of such things, I really do not know what to believe anymore when it comes to healthcare.
Well, here's a story that New York Post seems to have... managed to get wrong, in my opinion, but we'll see. So there's an Emmy-winning TV reporter, Rachel Yankunis. Now, she was abruptly fired, according to the New York Post, because her bosses were shortchanging her, she claims, that male colleagues were getting all kinds of support and camera crews were being sent out.
So the males were getting lots of support, But she was not. And so she's, I don't know, suing them or something. Now, here's a tiny little thing that was also in the article. She was on a performance improvement plan. Have you ever heard of that? It's called a PIP in corporate America, a PIP, performance improvement plan.
Is there anybody here who has ever been a manager and put anybody on a performance improvement plan? Do you know what that means? It means you're one of the lowest performers in the department. That's why you're on it. Basically, the performance improvement plan says you're going to be fired if you continue the way you've been going. A PIP is literally a performance improvement plan.
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Chapter 3: What is a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)?
If you don't raise your level, it's basically a one-year, it's like getting a one-year warning that they're going to fire you. They're not really expecting you to improve your performance.
What they're expecting is to have covered their ass, that they gave you a nice long warning and told you exactly what the problem was, and then a year later they can say, all right, nothing changed, goodbye, and then they're covered.
So if you see a story about somebody who says she was fired or at least mistreated because of sexism, and in the very same story it says she was on a performance improvement plan, I'm not so sure the sexism is the real story here. Can't rule it out. I mean, I wasn't there. And it's certainly possible that you could be on a performance improvement plan and win an Emmy.
you could definitely do that because, yeah, I'm using OBS, and you could definitely be on a performance improvement plan, and also there's real sexism. So I'm not sure there's real sexism, but if you don't call out the part about the performance improvement plan, I'm not sure that the reader is getting served here. I would like to know that they're
that they're on an identifiable path to being fired. Oh, and then there's a lot of sexism in the office that you need to sue over. Okay. And again, there might actually be legitimately all the sexism that is part of the complaint. It might be, but it kind of looks like a coin toss to me. All right, here's a study according to SciPost. There was a study done in Scandinavia
where they tried to see if women were more or less willing to engage with a man who was stronger versus weaker based on how much darkness there was. And what they found out is if it's in a darkened environment, women felt safer talking to men who didn't look dangerous. And if they were in a darkened environment, they were a little reluctant to talk to anybody who was big and dangerous looking.
So they spent money doing that test to find out if you're more afraid of big people in the dark. You know what they could have done? I'll just suggest. They could have saved a lot of money by just asking me, Scott, do you think women would be more afraid of a big person in the dark or more afraid of a chihuahua in the dark? Huh, let's see. More afraid of the bear or the chihuahua?
Which would it be? All right. Just ask me next time. Just ask. Well, according to climate change dispatch, there's a new study poking holes in the whole CO2-induced climate change catastrophe. I'd like to tell you the details of the study, but I don't understand any of it. But it's yet another scientific attack against the idea that we can even know what's happening with our climate models.
So I don't believe science, and I don't believe climate models, and I don't believe anything that is a prediction of what's going to happen in a complicated environment. So don't believe any financial prediction about a company, for example. Don't believe a health prediction. Don't believe a science prediction that has lots of variables into the future.
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Chapter 4: How does the Trump effect influence Latino voters?
So just this morning, this is how many reasons that I've read that people have speculated as to why the Democrats lost. They didn't have a good podcaster influence network. They insulted men. They were too smug and insulting to men. The Latino community drifted right. Did they drift? Did they drift? Or were they always there? The smug superiority... I think that was... Yeah, smug superiority.
They blew it on immigration. That's what Democrats were saying about themselves. They just blew it on immigration. Anybody could have seen it coming. They treated immigration... They treated... like it was going to be a bigger button than immigration, and they guessed wrong. It turns out immigration was a much bigger button than abortion, and they had that backwards. 2.7 million already. Wow.
I'm on my post. Let's see. Other reasons they got it wrong. They had no message for the working class voters. They had a bad candidate. They had terrible advisors, and they wasted all their campaign funds. There's so many reasons why. that the Democrats failed. They didn't do a single thing right. Nothing. The most remarkable thing is that the election was as close as it was.
If you made a checklist of all the things you should do right in a campaign, every one of those would be Trump, check, check, check, yeah, yeah, check, good, yeah, good communication, yep, very clear policies, yep, they love them. did you campaign in all the right places? Yes, yes, yes.
And you would go right down the line, and it would be a solid black block of, and I'm going to say it again, I think this recent campaign by Trump will be seen as the best campaign in history. I think. I think it would be the best campaign in history.
But if you do everything right and then you only barely beat the person who did literally everything wrong, that does tell you that the system maybe needs a little work. I can't remember if I gave you my hypothesis. It might be something I only said in the man cave that I do separately. Did I give you my hypothesis of why the Democrats are so crazy? I mean, after the election.
I'll say it again fast in case I may have already done this. But in a normal election, you've got two liars competing against each other. And everybody knows it's two liars. They know their own candidate is exaggerating, but they don't mind because they like where it's heading. But the other one's lying and vice versa. So then when somebody wins, everybody says, well, okay, it wasn't what I wanted.
It wasn't what I wanted, but at least the process was transparent, etc. But I don't think that's what happened this time. I think Trump was doing his usual salesman-like hyperbole, and he was directionally correct on everything. But he plays fast and loose with some of the details and the statistics, like every politician does.
But what the Democrats were doing was they built an entire reality system that didn't have any basis of any, any common sense whatsoever. It was just, just batshit crazy stuff. And it just got, it kept solidifying into a harder structure when it didn't have a basis. There was no foundation to it. It just didn't make any sense. So the next thing, you know, it was just one crazy thing after another.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Kash Patel's nomination?
A network of podcasters emerged organically because Republicans weren't getting the job done. Republicans didn't do anything. The podcasters were self-organized around common sense. What do Joe Rogan and me have in common? That's a good question. What do Joe Rogan and me, besides both having a podcast of sorts, what do we have in common? Common sense.
We have all kinds of different preferences of lifestyle, You know, very different lives and stuff and backgrounds. But we're... And bald. Yeah, bald. Don't have hair. But we're both very organized around what is just common sense. So I don't even see things as political. I know, hard to believe. But I generally don't see things as political. I see them as, would that work? If it would work...
I'm in favor of it. If it wouldn't work, I'm not in favor of it. I think that's exactly where Joe Rogan is. Now, I can't read his mind, right? You can't get in other people's minds. That's always unfair.
But if you watch him long enough, it looks like he wants the country to do well, and he's in favor of things that are kind of obviously good ideas and against things that are obviously batshit crazy. That's me. We have that in common. What does Jordan Peterson want? Same stuff. He wants the country to do well, well, the world, Canada too. So here's the problem.
So let me restate it and then you'll see the problem. The Republican, what they call the Republican network of podcasters, it grew up because there were a bunch of adults I used to say dads, but I'll de-sexify it and call it adults. Megyn Kelly's just killing it, for example, in the podcasting space.
Well, let me do it for Megyn Kelly and for Roseanne and for the many women who are doing a great job in the podcasting space. So I'll modify from internet dads to internet parents. And
i think that all of them grew grew into that space and became what they were and are because there was a need there was need there was a gigantic hole that just wasn't being filled by republicans saying what they thought needed to be said and so they filled the hole but they filled it with common sense if you turn on megan kelly Is it going to be batshit crazy stuff? No.
It's all going to be, this is the law, this makes sense, right? And you could go right down the line. The conservative right-leaning podcasters, some of them are Democrats. They just like common sense, so they look like Republicans. Now, here's the fun part. The part where it says Democrats want to replicate that situation? Okay. How would that work?
So the right-leaning podcasters are organized around common sense. Would you agree with that statement, first of all? That that's the organizing principle is, hey, the country's in trouble. We're not following common sense. Let's go back to what we know works. Democrats can't do that. The Democrats were literally the batshit crazy stuff. They were the opposite of common sense on every topic.
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