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Real Coffee with Scott Adams

Episode 2840 CWSA 05/15/25

Thu, 15 May 2025

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Chapter 1: What are the current stock market trends?

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The stocks are not looking good, so don't look at them. Don't look. Don't look at your stocks. Just let it happen. All right. As soon as I've got my comments working here. There we go. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Do, do, do, do, do, do. Do, do, do, do, do. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization, like you've never seen before.

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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody's even seen 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, a stye, a canteen jug, or 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 of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Ah, perfection. Or as Trump says, perfecto, perfecto. Well, I wonder if there are any scientific studies that didn't need to happen because they could have just asked me. Oh yeah, here's one.

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According to the AP, there's a study that shows that people who make good decisions have an unfair advantage. Thank you, Omar, for bringing that to my attention. And he said an X that they should have asked Scott. Yeah, I think I'm going to guess that one right off the top. Who has an unfair advantage? People who make Bad decisions or people who make good decisions? I don't know.

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Let me think about that. All right, I'm going to go with people who make good decisions. All right, I've got a question for you. What the hell happened to the Fort Knox audit of the gold? Do you think if Fort Knox actually had the gold that we wouldn't have seen it yet? Are you telling me that Trump doesn't want to stand next to a giant pile of gold and have his picture taken?

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There's probably nothing that he would like better than that, except standing next to a pile of gold. So, I'm not sure we have any gold. Well, according to Bindu Reddy, we're three to four years away from having a household robot that can cook and clean and fix things. What else could that robot do? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? Wink, wink, wink.

Chapter 2: How can a household robot change our lives?

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If it can cook and clean and fix things, well... Well, just maybe. Maybe it's a full-service robot. You don't know. Maybe. But doesn't three to four years away feel like not exactly what we've been told? Because I thought when Elon Musk was talking about Optimus, he was saying that it can dance and it can walk around and it can interact.

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But what he didn't say is you could give it instructions on something he had never done before and it could go do it, you know, like wash the dishes or something like that. I don't think they can do it. So I'm still waiting for the robot demonstration where they have it do things that, you know, are just generic things like, can you put these dishes in the dishwasher?

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All right, now iron this shirt. I don't think we're even close. So three to four years sort of sounds like nuclear fusion. You know, it's always 10 years away. I've got a feeling the robots that can really do things for you, maybe they'll always be three years away. I don't know. I'm a little bit skeptical. According to the Washington Times, overdose deaths fell 27% last year. Is that new news?

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Because I feel like we heard that before. But they don't know exactly why, but my guess is it has to do with more access to the Narcan. That's the thing that you give somebody who's having an overdose. Probably the Narcan. I can't think of anything else. It's not like there's a supply is limited or anything like that. So probably that.

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Well, OMB director Russ Vogt says they intend to take the Doge agenda and the cuts and the momentum and the initiative and turn them into permanent savings. Really? How many of you think that's going to happen? Do you think the Doge savings are just going to be turned into permanent savings? Maybe. But doesn't it just seem to you that they'll just treat it like it's money they can spend?

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Well, we saved $150 billion on Doge, so I guess we have another $150 billion, coincidentally, to spend on the military and the border. I don't believe anything about... Here's what I do believe. I do believe that Doge was directionally correct and found real savings, and that they were all dedicated professionals who were really trying to do the real thing.

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I don't believe that our government can translate that into permanent savings. I think they'll just spend it. Now, that was my original prediction. that we wouldn't be able to translate it into the political part of the world.

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As soon as they reach the political part, somebody would say, you know, we could probably get away with spending the same thing we spent last year, even though it's moving us closer to doom. Because, you know, people are just used to it. They're used to the fact that we're going to spend maybe a little bit more this year than last year.

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So I think they were just going to take the Doge savings and say, free money, buy some more tanks. I think that's what's going to happen. Anyway, surprisingly, not. The U.S. Treasury is increasing the borrowing it needs to $514 billion, which somebody says is a 320% jump from previous forecasts. Oh, surprise.

Chapter 3: What challenges do Malibu fire victims face?

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And it's got a little guest seat in there. It's called the Polaris Studios. And they're 25% bigger than the current fancy seats. But basically, it's a cubicle. I wouldn't mind at all. I could probably fly a great distance if I were in a cubicle that had all the bells and whistles I needed.

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Well, Adam Carolla made a video talking about the problems the Malibu people who lost their homes in that Palisades fire, how hard it's going to be for them to rebuild. So it turns out that all of those old homes that were there, they've been there forever, they had septic systems. But they had septic systems before there were a bunch of environmental rules about septic systems.

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So if they want to build back, they're going to have to remove the ones they have. build retaining walls underground, that's what Adam Carolla says, and meet the new standards for septic systems. Do you know what that's going to cost per home? Per home, according to Adam Carolla, just the septic system. So this is not building the home. This is just the septic system. $3 to $5 million.

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I'm laughing because it's just so bad. So those people who had homes in Malibu, unless they're just outrageously rich, it's not economically possible to even build back. And how many years would it take for them to get approval for their septic systems?

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So the people who were saying it looks like there's going to be some kind of land grab or, you know, somebody is going to try to get everything cheap and build a hotel there or something. Well, I.

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wasn't gonna build you know buy into the conspiracy theory but I don't know what else you could do with this land because how many people are gonna spend three to five million dollars getting their septic system just right before they even build the house I mean how rich would you have to be pretty rich

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Well, according to that new Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson book, that sound, Kamala Harris had to be trained for a social event. So they actually did a practice dinner so that Kamala Harris could learn how to not embarrass herself eating dinner with important people. Does that sound real to you? I don't know how real any of this is. but they called it a mock soiree.

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And part of what they said was, and this is per the New York Post, read the book, I guess, and said that Harris Advisors had made it a, quote, dry run, opting not to serve wine to see if she could practice with a glass or two. Now, I don't understand that sentence. You know, I just copied this from X.

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But what does it mean to opt not to serve wine, but then also to practice with a glass or two at the same time? Those are opposites. Are they empty glasses? Could you be a little less specific? You know what this suggests to me? It kind of suggests to me that she can't do these social events unless she's got a glass or two of wine. And then she probably gets cackly and stupid.

Chapter 4: How is Kamala Harris being prepared for social events?

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let's say, nation-build in other countries, didn't understand the culture of those other countries, and just basically ruined the countries instead of helping them. But where the countries did their own work, such as Saudi Arabia, nobody tried to turn it into something else, Saudi Arabia did great because they just used their own, they did it their way, basically. But it's so good.

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I want to just read you the central part of this speech because it didn't get a lot of play on TV. So this was Trump talking to the Saudis in the world, I guess. He said, it's crucial for the wider world to know this great transformation has not come from Western interventionists or flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs.

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In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built, and the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves.

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No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation builders, neocons, or liberal nonprofits like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing to develop Baghdad and so many other cities. Instead, the birth of modern Middle East has been brought by the people of the region themselves.

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The people that are right here, the people that have lived here all their lives, developing their own sovereign countries, pursuing their own unique visions, and charting your own destinies in your own way. They told you how to do it, but they had no idea how to do it themselves. Peace, prosperity, and progress ultimately

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came not from radical rejection of your heritage, but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you love so dearly. You achieved a modern miracle the Arabian way. So what he was doing is just giving Saudi Arabia and the other countries he visited a huge respect.

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and saying that when the Americans, mostly, were interfering in the Middle East, they just ruined shit. And that's a pretty radical thing to say after all the years of Americans and Europeans going over there and ruining shit. He just says it never worked and never made sense.

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And the people who went over there didn't really understand the place and didn't really have a chance of fixing anything or making anything better. But when people were left alone, at least in many cases, they came up with a wonderful society. So I do like how he's handling that. I do like how he's basically a non-interventionist, and he's giving them their due. So that's a good job.

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Megyn Kelly said recently in related news, She said, quote, I feel like when I was on Fox News, all we did was cheerlead these wars and kind of dismiss or express disdain for people who had serious questions about them. With the benefit of all this hindsight, that was wrong. Now, I appreciate the fact that she just says right out, you know, all right, that was wrong.

Chapter 5: What is Gavin Newsom's new approach to California's health benefits?

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The big effect is what it will do to the other countries. So people are going to start thinking, oh my God, we have to treat him like he's more like a god coming into our country or a king or something. We can't treat him like the way we normally do. It looks like he's the special visitor and he's going to need the ultra treatment.

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So I think it could have this big lasting ripple effect where wherever he goes, he's treated with a better greeting than anybody's ever been treated. And then they'll all convince themselves that they're being clever. Yeah, we're going to influence him. We're definitely going to influence him by this greeting. But it will just make him look like a king, like a god king to the rest of the world.

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which is all to his benefit because then he can just get more stuff done because they're going to think, well, nobody can solve this problem except Trump. He's almost there now, but any backup for that would make it even better. Just think about it. Don't you think that there are countries in the world who are thinking exactly this thought?

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Nobody but Trump could solve whatever problem they're thinking about. I think so, because he's creating that aura, that image that will just follow him around. Even if it's not true, the way they treat him is going to create this aura that will actually make him able to get things done that nobody could get done. So the flattery is definitely working.

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Well, the problem with Qatar, as you know, is that they have some history of supporting terrorists. And at the same time, they have a long history of being good to the United States. So we've got a base there that they've invested in the U.S., and I think they invested some more. And so on one hand, they're really good to the United States,

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But on the other hand, they seem to be really good to the terrorists that the United States really would like to be dead. So how does any of that work? Don't you think that would be awkward if the Qataris had to explain that? Well, I think it was Brett Baer who was asking one of the representatives. It wasn't the emir, but somebody who was pretty good at answering questions.

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And I was impressed at the way he went about it. Now, I got to be careful here, because I know you're going to mishear me. So 10% of you are going to hear not what I say, but what you imagine I'm saying. I'm not saying, I'm not saying that the Qataris are good people who are not doing anything that we don't like. I'm not saying that. I'm saying that the way he answers the question...

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was pretty damn good from a persuasion perspective. So when asked about how he could be like an ally of the United States, at the same time they're supporting Hamas, the representative said that it's a national... I forget the exact word, but sort of a national belief or priority that they can mediate all conflicts. And I thought to myself, damn, you actually pulled that off.

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You actually came up with a reframe that makes sense that you could talk to Hitler and non-Hitler at the same time. Because if it's true, and again, remember, I'm not being fooled by what's true or what's not true. So we're not talking about what's real. I'm just talking about his communication and persuasion capabilities.

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