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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of today's podcast?
So, it's a good day in the stock market. I hope you have some. Well, let me get ready for the show. Looking at your comments. Looking good. There must be a lot of good news today. What do you think? 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 take a chance, I'm making this experience even better than you could ever even imagine with your tiny, shiny brain. All you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice, a sign, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel. What kind? Any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. That's good stuff. Well, let's start with the ridiculous and get to the sublime. From the ridiculous to the sublime. According to News Nation, UFO hit a U.S. fighter jet.
Chapter 2: What did Scott Adams say about UFO sightings?
Pilots flying over Arizona said they saw swarms, swarms I say, of weird flying objects, and one of them was smashed into a F-16. I guess the pilot's okay. But the FAA confirmed it, and former Pentagon UFO guy says Arizona's been buzzing with sightings near the border. But some people say it's just the cartel's drones. I'm going to go with cartel drones. That would be my guess.
I do not think the aliens are at the border. Why would the aliens even be there, of all places, for them to be? Well, according to Eric Dolan in SciPost, Did you know that left-wing authoritarians are less likely to support physically strong men as their leaders? So if you're a left-wing person, you don't like leaders that are physically strong.
But if you're a right-wing person, you like them strong. How many people are surprised by that? Not. You know, I really think that politics is just a difference in testosterone sometimes. At least the male version of politics. I can't judge for women, but for men, it's kind of testosterone. The Republicans are high testosterone. The Democrats are low testosterone.
Chapter 3: What is the relationship between politics and testosterone?
And everything else is just rationalization. That's what I think. Well, did you know that the weight loss drugs liraglutide and somaglutide make a huge difference in reducing your alcohol consumption without any extra effort. So the patients say it doesn't take any effort, they just don't want as much alcohol. So that's good. This is more evidence that willpower is fake and imaginary.
That's the hypnotist frame. If you're an hypnotist, you learn that people make decisions based on whatever hormonal soup is bubbling up in their bodies. And then after they made the decision, they layered over it with a rationalization. Oh, yeah, the reason I did that was this. But it's really just chemical reaction.
So once you learn that willpower is fake and that just some people like things more than others, how hard is it for me to avoid alcohol? It's easy because I didn't like it that much. How hard is it, or was it, when I was more active, how hard was it for me to exercise every day? Not hard at all, because I liked it. If I didn't like it, it probably would have been nearly impossible.
Chapter 4: How are weight loss drugs affecting alcohol consumption?
So no, willpower doesn't exist. There's just stuff you like and stuff you don't like, and that's usually just chemical and cause and effect and the structure of your brain, and it has nothing to do with anything else. Here's some good news. And wow, I was worried about this for a while. But it turns out that the new Pope, Pope Leo, he's calling for peace in Gaza and Ukraine. Yes.
I was so worried that the Pope would be pro-war. But no. Turns out we got lucky again. It's like, I don't know how many Popes in a row, but our luck is really holding. They all seem to be anti-war. And every time they announce it, I say to myself, boy, that could have gone either way. But it turns out that the Pope has a brother. Have you all checked out the news about the Pope's brother?
This is the problem with having an American Pope. He's got an American brother. And the American brother is super mega. And I guess he's so MAGA, the Gateway Pundits reporting, that he not too long ago shared on X, I guess he shared a video calling Nancy Pelosi a drunk C-word. So a drunken C-word. And he mocks the, quote, crying libs with Trump derangement syndrome.
So he's not just a little bit MAGA, but he's He's like way MAGA. Now, if you don't think this is going to be fun, I immediately looked for his X account, but I couldn't find it. So is he posting somewhere else? Maybe not on X, but I want to follow him so badly. Well, I was also interested to see if he followed me because it'd be fun if the Pope's brother followed you on X.
But I did not see his account. So if anybody knows what his actual account is, I saw three that looked fake. They were too small for that. But if somebody knows which one is his, can you alert me to it? I'd love to follow him.
Well, let's talk about the great cocaine hoax some of you saw a video of French President McCrone and British Prime Minister Starmer and German Chancellor Merz they were all together on the table. It looked like it was on a train maybe or on a maybe some kind of a jet
But they were sitting at a table and the photographers came in, the videographers, I guess, and you saw McCrone grab this little rolled up tissue and sort of take it, you know, surreptitiously away. And then you saw Murs grab some little thing that people were calling a Coke spoon and, you know, kind of hiding it from the cameras. Now,
Why in the world would you think a balled-up tissue is where somebody was holding their cocaine? It didn't look like cocaine to me. And that little thing that they call the cocaine spoon, you really couldn't tell what it was. I mean, it could have been a Could have been, I don't know, a straw that he was playing with or something.
But it looked to me like they were just making the table look less messy. And they were just preparing for the photo shoot, I guess. So I would say that's fake news. No, I'm not saying that they're not all coked up. That might be true. I don't know. Maybe. But it didn't look like a cocaine anything to me. So I'm going to say that's most likely hoax.
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Chapter 5: What news did Scott Adams share about the new Pope?
And there does seem to be some indication that they're part of the problem of the higher prices. Now, you might say, well, they're a middleman, so they're supposed to take their cut. which is true, but you can't really monitor whether their cut makes sense or it's too high because if you try to ask them questions, you would get nothing. It's just a big black hole.
Now, this is where Mark Cuban becomes a valuable example So you might know that Mark Cuban has his own discount pharma drug company that he's been promoting lately. I think it's Cost Plus, Cost Plus Drugs. I hope I have the name right. And he weighed in on this, and he had a lot to say about the PBMs, these middlemen.
Now, I won't read you his whole explanation of how bad they are, but if any of what he said about them is true, and I think it is, they're pretty bad. And so there's some kind of fix that will be needed for these PBMs if we just let, well, I guess it's a free market so they can do what they want. But you should see what Mark Cuban says about them.
Because if you're trying to understand the whole pharmaceutical, why are prices so high? He's got a lot that contributes to that. So I think you should really pay attention to him on this topic because it's one that he knows a lot about. Well, so that's going to make the prices come down.
So, in other news, Futurism is reporting that the FDA is going to start using AI to speed up the approval of drugs. Now, you might say to yourself, but wait, AI hallucinates. Is AI going to say my drug is safe when it isn't? Well, They're still going to have to check the work of the AI to make sure it's not hallucinating.
But apparently you can speed through the analysis and do in minutes what would take days for a human to do. So I don't know if they have a lot of wrinkles they have to iron out of this, but they seem to be very optimistic about it. It does seem to me that it's the perfect application for AI because it's wildly complicated every time there's a new trial and a new drug and all the rest.
So, yeah, AI to accelerate the FDA approvals. Probably there's going to be some problems, you know, because it's such a big change. But I feel like we have to get there. I mean, it seems like that's exactly the place AI should make a difference. Breitbart is reporting that...
Trump signed four bills on Friday where he was rolling back some Biden regulations on appliances like water heaters and refrigerators and walk-in coolers and some other household appliances. Now, the Biden regulations were, of course, to reduce energy consumption, I believe. And so Trump's rolling that back. So that would lower the cost of those devices.
So now we've got Trump lowering the cost of big pharma, lowering the cost of household appliances, lowering the cost of eggs, gas. and a lot of other things, and energy, I guess. So it's going to be hard to ignore that. So Trump is having the week of all weeks. I mean, I'm just still going. The list gets longer.
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Chapter 6: What did Scott Adams think about the Macron cocaine controversy?
It's not a terrible argument, but it's going to look like they cut Medicaid. So can Republicans survive that? an obvious trick to cut Medicaid, because you know those people aren't all going to work. What are they going to do? Go to the hospital and still get medical care and have the hospital cover it? So there's that.
And then apparently the bill, and again, this is just first draft, so it doesn't mean it's real. It would require some beneficiaries to pay more for their care. I guess that would be income-based. And there were some other clever tricks in there. All of it just looks like pure weasel theatrics bullshit. I am completely... disappointed in the Republicans. Just completely disappointed.
To me, the most important thing we had to get right was cutting the budget. And it looks like nothing like that's going to happen. Because I don't think that Trump's going to sign off on something that definitely looks like cutting Medicaid. You know, you could argue all day, well, we have reasons. And no, no, no, we're not cutting it because anybody can get it.
They just have to do some public service. But you know, the bottom line will be the Democrats will accurately say he's cutting Medicaid for some people. It'll be a lot of people, be millions. I don't have a better idea, by the way, but it's their job to do the budget, not mine. So I think we're all going to be disappointed with whatever the Republicans have. I'm not even sure that they're going to
have no tax on tips and no tax on Social Security and all those other things Trump wanted. I don't think he'll get any of that. I think that they're just going to say no on all of that. We'll see. Well, Apple is apparently, according to the Wall Street Journal, thinking about raising the price of their iPhones, but without blaming tariffs.
Apple is kind of a clever company in terms of how they cover their public relations. They've always been good at it. But they don't want to blame China because that would be trouble. And they don't want to blame Trump because that would be trouble. So they want to raise their prices because of tariffs, but they want to make it look like it's not because of tariffs.
So the only way to do that would be if you somehow added some extra features. And you go, oh, yeah, these extra features are worth, I don't know, a few hundred dollars more. So we'll see what they do. But my big question would be, what would Steve Jobs do in this situation? Would Steve Jobs be handling this completely differently in some out-of-the-box way that we can't imagine?
I feel like he would. But, of course, I can't guess what he would have done because that's what made him Steve Jobs and we're not Steve Jobs. But I feel like he would have handled this whole tariff China stuff differently. I just don't know how. Well, Democrats are continuing their lame approach to politics. Now they've added to their oligarchs that they want to keep habeas corpus.
Now, if you were to do a survey of people on the street and say, are you a Democrat? Yes. What's an oligarch? Well, I don't know. What's habeas corpus? I never heard of it. So they're betting. on words that their base doesn't even know what they mean. So I love this. Let's do more oligarch and habeas corpus. If you can get them to talk about that all day long, and then look at Trump.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of Trump's executive order on pharmaceutical prices?
And if it's like everything else, nobody's going to go to jail. But it's going to be yet another bad news cycle for Democrats because there's nothing good that can come out of that story except for Republicans. According to the Rasmussen poll, Trump's overall approval rating is 50% with likely voters. But here are some subcategories on that poll that are mind-blowing.
He's got, according to Rasmussen, Hispanic supporters at 62% and black at 39%. If those numbers are real, And I'm kind of skeptical about that. That would be just mind-blowing. It could be real. But do you think Hispanic support for Trump is 62%? Now, this would be likely voters, so it wouldn't count in any immigrant communities. Could be.
You know, I've been telling you for a while that if you didn't think that the Hispanics would back Trump, then you haven't been involved or you haven't had exposure to the Hispanic community. If you have exposure to the Hispanic community, no surprise at all. It's totally non-surprising if you've had any conversations with that group.
Well, speaking of Tesla, Tesla's RoboTaxi, which is where a Tesla with full self-driving can become a taxi, I guess it's called Project Alicorn. And this feature will quietly appear on Tesla's mobile app code. And so... They're looking at a June rollout. So listen to this. That your car, if you had a Tesla and you wanted to have it double as a taxi, you could come home from work.
If your car is charged up, I guess. And just activate the app and park your car on the street. And it would act like a robo-taxi. So it would just take off from its parking space, go pick somebody up, deliver them to their location, and I guess go back and park where it was. And you can make $10,000 to $30,000 a year just while your car is working for you.
now apparently the initial fleet will launch in austin with 10 to 20 cars but it's going to scale up really fast and here's some of the i saw this was on a mario nuffle post i guess the source was a user called the g filch now i can't i can't uh vouch for these numbers But here's what one person estimated. So here's the math of it.
If you look at Waymo, the competitor, they've got 1,500 robo-taxis, and they already generate $250 million in revenue. I guess that's per year. But that's not enough for Waymo to make money. I guess they have higher costs. And now, if you were to look at Tesla...
If they can get up to 100,000 robo-taxis, based on the likely charge that there would be for a ride, etc., they would make $2.9 billion in pure profit annually. And that's just the start. So the number of billions of dollars that these robo-taxis could make, it's a big number. Because you can easily get to millions. So you're looking at, you know, $20, $50 billion a year just for the robo-taxis.
Amazing. We'll see if that happens. Meanwhile, as you know, Trump's going to the Middle East to talk to a bunch of countries. But as the news is reporting, the Trump family has a number of business deals over in the Middle East. Trump thinks he'll come back with a trillion dollars in commitments to invest in the United States from the Middle East. If he does, That's going to be pretty impressive.
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Chapter 8: How are Republicans planning to change Medicaid?
And there's something about the UAE and the Royal Family Fund and something about Trump-related crypto stablecoins that I don't understand, but it looks like something to worry about, something to keep an eye on. And then on top of that, The Qataris have offered to, I won't say give, yeah, I guess it's a gift, a gift to the United States of a plane that would replace Air Force One.
Now, you might say to yourself, why do you need to do that? Well, the Air Force Ones that we have, I think there might be two of them, but they're like 35 to 40 years old. And Trump has had an order in for a new one for a long time, but it looks like it'll be seven to 10 years before the new ones get built. So you'd never be able to see the benefits.
But the Qataris have a plane that apparently they're willing to part with, a new one. And they said, why don't we give it to the Air Force? So it's not Trump's gift exactly. It would be given to the Air Force. And then somehow later it would be donated to the Trump Library for his use. So that seems a little sketchy. So it feels a little like you'd be getting a free airplane.
And so you got that going on. So I'm going to say the same thing about all these Trump deals. They all make me uncomfortable. The Qatari plane definitely makes me uncomfortable. And on top of that, as you know, Jared Kushner is doing his own investing and he's gotten some co-investors from three of the Middle East countries. Three states.
I guess three states have committed more than $3.5 billion to his private equity fund. So that makes me uncomfortable. But it's all transparent. It's all completely legal. It just makes me uncomfortable. And then... It's sort of semi-related things.
There are some investments that would be good for Elon Musk, such as the Saudi prince, Al-Waleed bin Talley, Al Saud, who's a nephew of the king, is an investor in XAI, which is Elon Musk's AI company. But that's normal. He's just a gigantic investor who does a lot of investing in American companies. So again, completely transparent, but makes me uncomfortable.
Now, the only thing I can say that would be softening all these deals is that Trump is the one person who can take your money and then screw you if he needs to. So if he were anyone but Trump, you would have to worry more that they just bought his cooperation. But I think Trump could take their money and still throw them under the bus if they did something that required that.
But you can't guarantee it. So in terms of buying influence, I do think they're buying influence. But there are also countries that we have a lot of influence on as well. So, I don't know. I'll just say that any Democrat criticism on this domain probably makes sense. But there's no smoking gun or anything that he's done wrong or there's nothing that looks illegal.
And it's all completely transparent and it's business as usual for the most part. It's stuff that they would be doing as normal business, you know, licensing the Trump name, et cetera. But like I said, they probably get more offers because he's president. That's not a coincidence. So we're going to hear a lot more about this Qatari plane. I think Congress says they have to approve it.
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