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Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2818 CWSA 04/23/25

Wed, 23 Apr 2025

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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of today's show?

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Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. 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.

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But if you'd like to take this experience to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup, a mug, or a glass, a tank, a chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens. That's right. Right now. Go. Looks like everything's working. It's all working today. Well, here's an important story. According to science, Walnuts can curb inflammation that may reduce colon cancer.

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Chapter 2: How can walnuts reduce colon cancer risk?

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So if you're at risk of colon cancer, walnuts could be your answer. Now, I'm no doctor, but I have a recommendation. Don't make the mistake I made. The walnuts are to be eaten. Yeah, you take them orally. You're thinking you want to take them the other way because it's reducing your colon cancer risk, but no. You should remove the shells and take them orally. Don't make the mistake I made.

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Well, here's a little scientific thing that might be a big deal. According to No Ridge... There's a drug that already exists for people who take too much Tylenol and you want to save them from too much Tylenol, I guess. And what it does is it's called N-acetylcysteine. And what it does is it can prevent heart attacks, apparently, because it can prevent clots from forming.

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Now, I didn't know this, but apparently if you have a drug that prevents clots from forming, it might make you bleed too much, so there's a downside. But this doesn't do that. So you might be able to take this drug, which already is approved for other purposes and seems pretty safe. And it could basically eliminate millions of heart attacks and strokes. Now, it sounds a little too good.

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Chapter 3: Are gene-edited super soldiers a reality?

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Well, you know, the baby aspirin and the other things, they have some downside. But as far as I know, There's no specific downside from this particular drug. Already exists. They know about it pretty well. So that's kind of cool. Over in China, there's a report in Interesting Engineering that the Chinese are looking to gene edit super soldiers.

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So they're going to make super soldiers with gene editing and maybe give them AI power. So they're basically making cyborgs that are gene-edited. Do you think that they have any yet? Do you suppose there are any gene-edited babies that are just being raised as super soldiers? I don't know.

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But I don't know how well these super soldiers are going to do against a wave of drones that are destroying them from above. But watch out for those super soldiers coming to a war near you. I'm not sure I believe any of that story. Do you believe that China is making gene-edited super soldiers? You know, I suppose anything is possible. But I'm going to say I don't believe it. Okay.

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Apparently, Trump says he's going to talk to AG Attorney General Bondi about what's holding up the Epstein files. How many of you believe the Epstein files were really going to come out? Now, let me ask you this. When I say Epstein files, do you say to yourself, oh, just the text messages and the documents? Wouldn't the Epstein files be the video that we know must have been there on the island?

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No video? Are we really going to get the Epstein files and somebody's going to tell us, yes, we've released everything and there won't be a single video in there? Is that going to happen? I think it is. Do we even know who has the video? Do you think the U.S. government... knows who has the video from the island? Maybe. Maybe they do, maybe they don't. But I'll tell you one thing for sure.

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Somebody has those videos. I don't think they got destroyed. So maybe Israel has them. Maybe the FBI has them. Maybe Russia has them. I don't think Russia. But we're not going to see anything good from the Epstein files. I think the odds of us seeing the good stuff, probably zero. But we'll see. So you remember Klaus Schwab, the head of the World Economic Forum?

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And remember how people like me kept saying, why does he seem like an evil supervillain? Like he talked and looked exactly like some kind of evil villain that you would cast in a movie. And it turns out there's a whistleblower who's got some complaints about Klaus alleging financial and ethical misconduct. And he resigned from the World Economic Forum.

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We don't know if it's because of this, but the reporting is after it. So maybe it's because, but we don't know. Allegedly used forum cash for hotel massages. ATM runs by junior staff and holiday travel disguised as business. And he says he's going to sue whoever is accusing him of this.

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And his wife allegedly ran their, this is according to the Wall Street Journal, allegedly ran their 50 million lakeside villa like a private spa. So while Davos was talking about austerity, Schwab was apparently having a good time with his full-time spa. Now, I know what you're thinking. Happy endings. Well, you're probably right.

Chapter 4: What are the allegations against Klaus Schwab?

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How is that even possible? How is it even possible that a judge... can tell the government that they can't fire people and they can't close down a government entity. And I think the argument has something to do with they're an independent federal agency. But how independent are you if you depend on funding from the government? That feels like the opposite of independent.

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Maybe the post office is a similar situation. It gets government funding, but it's independent. I can't even believe that. Do you think that would have happened if we had a Democrat as a president? Or do you think it's just all these district judges are just ruling anything that Trump does is wrong, has to be reversed? Because it's starting to look like it's just automatic.

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You know, they just shop for the right judge and then they get somebody to say, whatever Trump wants, we're going to say no. So here's a question that I've been noodling on. If you've been watching Mike Benz or watching the Doge project, you know that there were a number of organizations, both domestically and internationally, that were in the censorship business.

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Now, they wouldn't say they were in the censorship business. They would all say that they were in the getting rid of disinformation business. But the disinformation would always be on one side. They would never get rid of the disinformation on the left. They would only get rid of what they would call the disinformation on the right.

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Now, do you think they were accurate in knowing what the disinformation was? I don't even think that was the goal. I think it was just pure censorship of one side. But Elon Musk said on X, several more censorship organizations will be deleted. And my question is this, how many were there?

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Every time I listen to Mike Benz talk about some new disinformation organization that was international or domestic, I say to myself, Have I heard this story before? It just feels like the letters changed. You know, it's a GEC or a CISA or there was a new one recently. And I'm really wondering, were there hundreds? Were there dozens?

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And then that's not even counting the FBI that we know was trying to influence the social media platforms. How many entities... were involved in trying to take away my freedom of speech. A lot. And how many entities were involved in trying to reduce the advertising revenue to any platform they didn't like? A lot. It turns out that there was enormous

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um not only you know dollar wise but the number of entities that were involved in this evil plot to take away your your freedom of speech in the united states i i don't even know if if several more censorship organizations get deleted how many are left you know several doesn't tell me anything you know i always say a number within a percentage is useless

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but a percentage without a number is useless. Here's a number, several, but without the percentage, I can't tell if that matters. If it's only 1% of all the disinformation organizations, it doesn't mean anything. If it's 80%, maybe it does. So I'd like to know how many there are out there. There's some AI expert I was seeing on a clip on X, Jeffrey Hinton.

Chapter 5: How is low testosterone affecting politics?

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He says that the more we understand AI and how the brain actually works, the less human thinking looks like logic. I saw this on a Vitrupo account on X. And he says, we're not reasoning machines. We're analogy machines. We think by resonance, not deduction. were much less rational than we thought. Who does that sound like? It sounds like me. It sounds like my book that's behind you.

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I forget which one. But where I talk about Loser Think is the book. And I write about how analogy thinking is not real thinking. If all you're doing is being reminded of something else, that's not thinking. Now, How many smart people do you think would be analogy thinkers as opposed to people who reason from, you know, from base facts and then reason their way to a conclusion?

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Well, let's look at the news. According to The Hill, a Trump critic named Lawrence Tribe, you know Lawrence Tribe? Very, very famous lawyer type person who's anti-Trump. He says that Trump's attempted Harvard takeover mirrors Hitler, Orban, and Erdogan. And then later he was on some TV show where he said, Trump's Harvard tactics are like the mafia's and Hitler's.

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Is that reasoning or is that analogy? It's analogy. It's analogy. Now, one of the things that I've predicted since the beginning of the AI big wave was that AI would teach us that we're not reasonable creatures. Because as we learn to understand how AI thinks, we're going to realize that's how we think too. And it's not based on reasoning from first principles.

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It's sort of just pattern recognition. It's just analogies. So I don't know what percentage of human beings can use reasoning, but it's not a lot. And if you were ever to say to yourself, the world is a simulation and some of us are NPCs, you know, non-player characters, I'm pretty sure the NPCs would be the analogy thinkers. And the few people who were players in that model...

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would be able to reason from first principles, I guess. So ask yourself, which one are you? So let's talk about Ukraine and Russia. So according to the Wall Street Journal, Zelensky says he'll never agree to peace. without the surrender of Crimea. Now, Russia, under no circumstance, will ever give up their biggest, I guess, naval base.

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And there's no way they're gonna give up Crimea, much less the other properties that they own right now. So does that look to you like anybody who's serious about even trying to get a peace deal? It doesn't to me. And it makes me think there's something we don't understand about what's going on. Now, as you know, I have never been to Ukraine.

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So therefore, that makes me not an expert who is worthy to talk about it. So I'll just talk about it as an observer who is confused. So I won't talk about it as an expert. I'll talk about it as somebody who's watching the news and saying, what? What? Why does this news make sense?

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So apparently Rubio has canceled some high-level meeting because it doesn't look like Ukraine and Russia are serious about a peace deal. And they've downgraded the... They haven't cut off contact, but they've downgraded the negotiations, it's called. And so instead of Rubio being there or Trump being there, it's going to be Ukraine envoy General Keith Kellogg. General Kellogg. Kellogg.

Chapter 6: What are micro dramas and why are they popular?

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He eliminated all kinds of redundancy. And as a result, the people at Fannie and Freddie tell us they're very happy with us. Now, here's my standard for you haven't done a good job of putting your paperwork together. If I'm filling out paperwork for anything, let's say a commercial loan, How many times do I have to write my name and address?

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If I have to write my name and address more than once on a bunch of documents that are all aimed at doing the same thing, it's just there are lots of parts to it, I'm not gonna be happy. So I don't know what it means to reduce redundancy, but I'm betting that Polte is doing a great job on that. And that could be huge just in terms of making it easier to be a citizen of the United States.

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At the same time, the State Department is going to be pared back. So listen to this. 132 agency offices, so that's State Department agency offices, are going to be closed, according to the Free Press. But now the question you ask is, 132 agency offices? And if how many? How many do you think the State Department has, if they can close 132 of them? The answer is 734. They have 734 offices?

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Are you kidding me? Where? Doing what? So they're going to close them and reduce it to only about 600. It's only a 17% reduction. Can you even imagine closing 132 offices and it's only 17% of your offices? oh my God, the amount of waste which must exist in the State Department. But what this tells me is that the State Department was the animal wagging the tail. It's the wrong analogy.

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But the State Department must have been insanely powerful that nobody could prune them back until the Trump administration. So You have to think that prior administrations have thought, hey, we have too much stuff and our budget is too big and we should cut this back a little bit. But probably they couldn't because the State Department was sort of so deep state that nobody could touch them.

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But apparently we can now, but only 17%. Anyway, but that's a move in the right direction. So you may have seen the video of Tim Pool. He was at the White House briefing room. And when he was asked to ask his question, he mentioned that the people in the room... Oh, hello. I'm seeing in the comments... Breaking. New York Attorney General Letitia James is now suspected of insurance fraud.

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And this is not associated with previous allegations. Insurance fraud. All right. She's in trouble. She is in trouble. Anyway, what was I saying? So Tim Pool was in the room and he calls out the, I guess, the traditional media that's in the room and noted how they seem to be in lockstep on the hoaxes. And he mentioned the very fine people hoax.

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And I love the fact that he made the traditional media who have been promoting the fine people hoax for years, he made them sit there on television Well, he called them out for that being a hoax. And he had two other examples. But the fine people hoax was the one that, of course, interests me the most since I worked hard to get that debunked. So that's good. I love that. All right.

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So I've got a little theme for the next part of the show. It's a theme. It's called Calming Economic Uncertainty. All right. So here are all the things that, as I mentioned at the beginning of the show, the stock market is up strongly today. And it's not a coincidence. There are things happening.

Chapter 7: What is the role of the State Department in censorship?

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There's never been a time the economy was predictable. Now, somebody said to me, but the S&P, the stock market has been predictable if you look at the long term. But we weren't looking at the long term recently. We were looking at relatively short term. And the stock market has gone down over 20% quite a few times. And 20% is considered really bad. So we've never had a predictable economy.

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And we never will. It's not even a thing. But to imagine that what Trump did was turn a predictable economy into an unpredictable one, that's not true. That's not true at all. He made us uncomfortable, and he shook the box pretty hard, but it was always thoroughly unpredictable, and it still is. People feel like it's not. And how they feel is what drives the economy.

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Well, over in the UK, according to the inside paper, they're doing new experiments. I can't even believe this is real. Experiments to dim sunlight to fight global warming. So I guess that means they'll be spraying something in the air to dim the sunlight. Now, I'm no expert on...

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on the uk but i can't think of anything you could do with the uk to make it less appealing to go there than to have less sunlight the biggest problem with the uk is not enough sunlight it's the last place on earth i'd be looking to reduce the sunlight it's like where did they come up with that idea Do they want no tourism whatsoever? Do they want everybody to move out who can afford it?

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Yeah, let's have less sunlight in the UK to try to fight global warming. So I guess those three days of sunlight are going to go to two. Well, speaking of Europe, I guess Apple and Meta both got these gigantic hundreds of millions of dollar fines by the European Union. And the problem is that they're not complying with a 2022 law that was passed in the European Union, the Digital Markets Act.

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And I guess the Digital Markets Act was designed to make it easier for smaller companies to compete with these big platforms. Or allegedly that's what it was. But I wonder if that's really what it was. Both Apple and Meta are going to appeal. I guess there's an appeals process.

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But it's hundreds of millions of dollars that are being fined by the European Union for being anti-competitive in ways that are technical and not worth mentioning. And whatever it is, it's not illegal in the United States. So how do we put up with this? I realize that these big companies have to conform to local laws, otherwise nothing's going to work.

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But it feels like the European Union is just trying to mess with the United States in every way that it can. It just doesn't feel like they really mean it. It's like they looked for something that was bad for the United States and then they implemented it. I don't know. Looks sketchy to me.

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Apparently, when Trump is talking to the European Union with his trade negotiations, which apparently will happen soon, that might be one of the topics. So it could be that they were doing it for negotiating leverage. And they could say, well, maybe we could lower our tariffs a little bit, but... Maybe you could get rid of these fines on our American companies and let them prosper overseas.

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