Episode 3029 CWSA 11/25/25

couple of tries.

The technology was giving me a tough time.

Yeah.

If I told you what my last I don't know 12 hours have been like, you would not even believe me.

It's been the worst the worst freaking 12 hours.

And it's just every problem you could imagine.

But at the moment, I feel pretty good.

and I'm just happy to see you all.

So, all the bad news is over.

All right, we're gonna get us a show going here because that's exactly what you deserve.

Everybody up for that.

Let me tell you, I have no idea what's going to happen today.

Today might be a weird little day.

Could be.

Come on in.

Take a seat.

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 on elevating this experience up to levels that no human can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains.

All you need for that is referring to my notes a cup or a mug or a glass of tanker gels or stain a canine jugger flask a vessel of any kind.

Fill it with your favorite liquid.

I like coffee.

And join me now for the unparallel pleasure.

The dopamine hit of the day.

The thing that makes everything better.

It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens right now.

Go.

Oh, Paul.

Thank you.

just what I needed to see.

Well, I'm going to warn you that the news is a little slow and so am I.

And uh I have no idea what's going to happen this morning, but we might enjoy it.

I mean, we usually enjoy being together this time of day, right?

How many of you are now completely habit addicted to being up and listening to me at this exact time of day?

It's kind of addictive, isn't it?

E, even if the quality isn't very good, if you do it every day, it's Well, let's check a few stories to see what's new.

Uh, here's a fun one.

Apparently, if you use the gene editing technology crisper on some wheat wheat, I say according to the University of California, Davis, they can they figured out how to make this genetically enhanced wheat that can make its own fertilizer.

What?

How does wheat make its own fertilizer?

Well, it doesn't make it out of itself.

it uh it encourages soil bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen into plant usable fertilizer.

So basically your wheat will be growing and at the same time.

And now that's the non-scientist way of looking at it.

It's growing and and then it's growing in its own fertilizer or something like that.

I don't know.

Do any of you really care?

How many of you woke up this morning and said, "I wonder I wonder if there's a way to make the wheat shed its own fertilizer." Yes.

Yes.

No, it doesn't do that.

It just interacts with the soil.

I wonder if there's any science or any studies that have been done recently in the Lancet that uh didn't need to be done because you could have just asked me h yes it turns out there is a story just like that.

Uh you won't believe this and by the way there's nothing funny about this except that they made a story out of it.

Uh that that they made they made a scientific study out of it.

Would you believe that according to the study, psychological distress in Gaza has tripled over the past five years?

Now, has anything happened in the last 5 years in Gaza that would cause the residents to have more psychological distress?

Uh, has the weather been good?

Has anything happened in Gaza in the last 5 years that would make people stressed?

I don't know.

We're going to have to say this is a mystery.

Can you believe that was an actual thing?

This is an actual article.

I didn't make that up.

Somebody actually studied to see if Gaza Gazen residents are stressed out lately.

Uh, I'm pretty sure they are.

Next time, just ask Scott.

Uh, what if there's any other studies that didn't need to be done?

The Euro News says that Tik Tok scrolling can cause what they call brain rot.

Uh, what do you think I would have said if they had asked me, Scott, were going to spend some money on a study to find out if Tik Tok scrolling causes brain rot?

And I'd say, oh, hold on, hold on.

Sit right back down.

You don't need to study that.

Just ask Scott.

Yes.

Yes, it does.

All right.

Well, apparently President Trump signed an order that's being compared to the Manhattan Project.

Why is it being compared to the Manhattan Project?

Well, because that's what we do.

It's either going to be worse than Watergate.

It's going to be as big as the Manhattan Project.

It's going to be worse than the Holocaust, uh, or it's going to be bigger than Neptune.

I don't know.

There's probably a big planet out there.

But uh this Manhattan project now it'll be uh connecting our I guess the US technology for AI will try to be um emphasized across a variety of industries and domains and the idea is to connect 40,000 USA scientists and engineers in some kind of a massive uh all country effort to be the leaders in AI.

So, we'll try as hard as we can to replace ourselves.

We don't need humans.

We got this uh Manhattan project.

Now, what do you think about that?

I've got dual feelings about that.

Number one, when I think of a Manhattan project, I think of accomplishing one very specific thing at a time.

Don't you?

as in uh is there a way to build this bomb?

Very specific.

But if you wanted to do a Manhattan project for 40,000 scientists and uh hold on a second.

I need some oxygen.

Put on my oxygen.

Oh, that's better.

Oh, much better.

Yes, I am on oxygen.

Uh, but I'm just talking too excitedly.

That's the reason.

All right.

It seems like that's too many people to coordinate, but we'll find out.

Uh, Ukraine has allegedly agreed to a peace deal.

Does that mean anything?

I don't think it does.

I might have to quit in a moment because I'm going to pass out.

I was putting a little too too much energy into the uh show here for a moment.

Let's see.

What shall we do?

If you don't mind just hanging a little bit.

We'll just hang a bit and see if I can go on.

I'm perfectly healthy.

You don't have to call You don't have to call 911.

Don't worry.

Take a break.

Everybody, if you have a banana at home, make sure you have one.

We're good.

Potassium.

All right.

I was What was happening there was I was trying too hard.

I was trying too hard to show energy on a day when maybe I didn't have much.

But I will mumble through the rest of it.

By the way, did any of you try to find the uh the Dilbert calendar on Amazon?

And did it say that it's sold out?

It's not really sold out as far as I know.

We're looking into it today, but uh Amazon says it's sold out.

Now, I did tell you that if you don't if you don't get it early and it's the only place to get it, you can't get it anywhere else.

I did tell you that if you don't get it early, it might be sold out.

But there is apparently a second potential problem, which is that it's not sold out.

Sold out, but they just show it sold out, which by the way is a it's not the first time it's happened with my books.

It happened as well, I think.

So, we think it's just a system error and we're trying to get that fixed.

There should be more of them.

Anyway, what else is in the news?

So, how about this?

Instead of me presenting the news today like a proper podcast, we're just going to have a conversation.

Everybody okay with that?

We're just going to hang.

We're going to eat bananas and drink coffee and see what's what.

Okay.

Um, apparently Ukraine agreed to a US peace deal.

Does that mean anything?

Because doesn't Russia have to agree with it?

And if Ukraine agrees, doesn't that mean Russia won't agree?

So, that would be a lot like nothing happened at all.

So, that's how I'm going to treat that.

I'm going to treat that like nothing happened.

Uh, President Trump said he had a very good phone call with President Xi of China.

I wonder what that feels like to have a good phone call with the president.

She and do you think that they agreed on anything?

Well, I think they agreed they want to get together.

They agreed that we need to be good friends.

Basically, nothing happened.

So, you got Ukraine, nothing happened.

You got China, a phone call happened.

This is the worst news ever.

All right.

How about this?

Uh, did you know that Sacramento, the utilities in Sacramento would give information to the local police so the police could find the pot farmers so that they'd look for stuff like water usage and electricity usage?

And if it was higher than residential places usually have, they'd send the police.

Can Can you imagine getting busted because your water usage?

They're like, "Well, we got you." Nobody uses that much water.

And then I thought about how long a showers I take.

I'm thinking, "Wait a minute.

If I take a long shower, am I going to get arrested for being a pot dealer?" Maybe.

Anyway, that was uh struck down now.

Now you're not allowed to do that.

You cannot be a utility and give the police information unless there's suspicion of a crime.

Then you can Well, Lara Logan um interviewed a former CIA person who claims to know how our elections are being stolen in America.

How many times have you seen that story?

Have you all seen that story more than once?

I've got a scoop.

Um how many how many times has Laura Logan had this story?

with not these particular people, but with other entities.

I'm not sure we should believe any story that says, "Here's a guy that participated in the the theft of elections.

He's telling you exactly how he did it because the other news isn't even covering it.

So, what's going on?

Is it possible that Laura Logan is the only person who got this scoop and knows exactly how our elections have been thrown for years?

Is that possible and nobody else is talking about it?

Just one person, Laura Logan.

Well, this this has a category problem.

That's what I call a category problem.

It's in the category of things that are just never true.

It just won't check out.

So, I feel like I don't know where these stories come from, but there's a a neverending like line of, "Well, here's another person who claims to know how our elections have been stolen." I don't know.

I don't believe any of it yet.

So, James Comey and uh Leticia James are out of the out of legal trouble temporarily because their judge decided that their the uh apparently the the prosecutor was not uh properly appointed.

Yeah.

Lindseay Heligan, who led the prosecution, wasn't properly appointed, and therefore Comey and Leticia James get off, but I believe they can come back around and try it again, can they?

So, that doesn't mean that they won't come back at them.

There's a government appeal process.

It was just a technical ruling.

It did not rule on the merits of anything.

And on the merits, I think they got trouble.

Uh Trump signed an executive order to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations.

To which I say that wasn't already done.

That feels like exactly the sort of thing they should have already done.

All right.

Well, that looks good.

Uh apparently Trump was um Just a moment.

Time for a time for a sip.

just what we needed.

Well, apparently uh Trump was going to unveil his healthc care plan yesterday and that didn't happen and we don't know why and we don't know what the Republicans have in mind, but we'll find out.

Uh let's see what else is happening.

Character AI, a chatbot company, decided that they're not going to allow children, uh, miners anyway, to use their product anymore.

And the teenagers are crying because they're losing their digital boyfriends and girlfriends.

So, sounds like they made the right decision to to to make that unavailable.

Can you imagine being a teenager and falling in love with a digital character?

Well, I can.

I totally can.

Uh, let's see.

Something about steel tariffs.

Boring.

Remember the Vinman's?

The Vinman twins?

Well, they're in legal trouble apparently, according to Headline USA.

Uh they're being accused of doing some work for Ukrainian oligarchs um to get them some business without I don't know properly registering or something.

And it's sort of a boring story.

I don't know if they I mean it's just a technical problem.

It's not the worst problem in the world.

Um but don't you wonder about the identical twin defense?

Suppose they had good evidence, the Department of Justice, that the twins had done something bad, but you never knew which twin was it, which meeting.

Would that be a defense?

Could you just say, "Well, yeah, one of them was at the meeting.

Can you prove which one it was?" And if you can't, well, there you go.

Well, Seattle is going to stop giving people free crack pipes.

That didn't work out.

Surprise.

And Democrats are after Republicans because they think they after Trump because they think the ballroom is just a bribery a bribery uh mechanism.

But it'd be a terrible bribery mechanism because the money wouldn't go to any place but the ballroom.

What kind of bribery is that?

And uh the sedicious six are still trying to explain themselves but doing a bad job of it.

All right, people.

I think today is going to be a ultra short show.

Um I need to take a nap.

I had a really tough night and a tough morning.

I thought I could get through it this morning, but I can't.

So, I'm going to I'm going to say uh good day and I'll be fine.

By the way, you don't have to call 911.

I just need to rest and I will talk to you tomorrow.

Same time, same place.

And we'll last a little bit longer next time.

Bye for now.

couple of tries.

The technology was giving me a tough

time.

Yeah. If I told you what my last I don't

know 12 hours have been like,

you would not even believe me.

[laughter]

It's been the worst the worst freaking

12 hours. And it's just every

problem you could imagine. But at the

moment, I feel pretty good.

and I'm just happy to see you all.

So,

all the bad news is over. All right,

we're gonna

get us a show going here

because that's exactly what you deserve.

Everybody up for that.

Let me tell you, I have no idea what's

going to happen today. Today might be a

weird little day. Could be. Come on in.

Take a seat.

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 on elevating

this experience up to levels that no

human can even understand with their

tiny shiny human brains. All you need

for that is

referring to my notes a cup or a mug or

a glass of tanker gels or stain a canine

jugger flask a vessel of any kind. Fill

it with your favorite liquid. I like

coffee. And join me now for the

unparallel pleasure. The dopamine hit of

the day. The thing that makes everything

better. It's called the simultaneous sip

and it happens right now. Go.

Oh, Paul. Thank you.

just what I needed to see. Well, I'm

going to warn you that the news is a

little slow and so am I. And uh I have

no idea what's going to happen this

morning, but we might enjoy it. I mean,

we usually enjoy being together this

time of day, right? How many of you are

now completely habit addicted to being

up and listening to me at this exact

time of day? It's kind of addictive,

isn't it? E, even if the quality isn't

very good, if you do it every day, it's

Well, let's check a few stories to see

what's new. Uh, here's a fun one.

Apparently, if you use the gene editing

technology crisper on some wheat wheat,

I say according to the University of

California, Davis, they can they figured

out how to make this genetically

enhanced wheat that can make its own

fertilizer.

What? [laughter] How does wheat make its

own fertilizer? Well, it doesn't make it

out of itself. it uh it encourages soil

bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen

into plant usable fertilizer. So

basically your wheat will be growing and

at the same time. And now

that's the non-scientist way of looking

at it. It's growing and and

then it's growing in its own fertilizer

or something like that. I don't know. Do

any of you really care? How many of you

woke up this morning and said, "I wonder

I wonder if there's a way to make the

wheat shed its own fertilizer." Yes.

Yes. No, it doesn't do that. It just

interacts with the soil.

I wonder if there's any science or any

studies that have been done recently in

the Lancet that uh didn't need to be

done because you could have just asked

me h

yes it turns out there is a story just

like that. Uh you won't believe this and

by the way there's nothing funny about

this except that they made a story out

of it. Uh that that they made they made

a scientific study out of it. Would you

believe that according to the study,

psychological distress in Gaza has

tripled over the past five years?

Now, has anything happened in the last 5

years in Gaza that would cause the

residents to have more psychological

distress?

Uh, has the weather been good?

Has anything happened in Gaza in the

last 5 years that would make people

stressed? I don't know. We're going to

have to say this is a mystery.

Can you believe that was an actual

thing? This is an actual article. I

didn't make that up. Somebody actually

studied to see if Gaza Gazen residents

are stressed out lately.

Uh, I'm pretty sure they are. Next time,

just ask Scott. Uh, what if there's any

other studies that didn't need to be

done? The Euro News says that Tik Tok

scrolling can cause what they call brain

rot.

Uh, what do you think I would have said

if they had asked me, Scott, were going

to spend some money on a study to find

out if Tik Tok scrolling causes brain

rot? And I'd say, oh, hold on, hold on.

Sit right back down. You don't need to

study that. Just ask Scott. Yes. Yes, it

does.

All right. Well, apparently President

Trump signed an order that's being

compared to the Manhattan Project. Why

is it being compared to the Manhattan

Project? Well, because that's what we

do. It's either going to be worse than

Watergate. It's going to be as big as

the Manhattan Project. It's going to be

worse than the Holocaust,

uh, or it's going to be bigger than

Neptune. I don't know. There's probably

a big planet out there. But uh this

Manhattan project now it'll be uh

connecting our I guess the US technology

for AI will try to be um emphasized

across a variety of industries and

domains and the idea is to connect

40,000 USA scientists and engineers in

some kind of a massive

uh all country effort to be the leaders

in AI.

So, we'll try as hard as we can to

replace ourselves.

We don't need humans. We got this uh

Manhattan project.

Now, what do you think about that?

I've got dual feelings about that.

Number one, when I think of a Manhattan

project, I think of accomplishing one

very specific thing at a time.

Don't you? [laughter]

as in uh is there a way to build this

bomb? Very specific.

But if you wanted to do a Manhattan

project for 40,000 scientists

and uh

hold on a second. I need some oxygen.

Put on my oxygen. Oh, that's better.

Oh, much better.

Yes, I am on oxygen.

Uh, but I'm just talking too excitedly.

That's the reason.

All right. It seems like that's too many

people to coordinate, but we'll find

out.

Uh, Ukraine has allegedly agreed to a

peace deal.

Does that mean anything?

I don't think it does. I might have to

quit in a moment because I'm going to

pass out.

I was putting a little too too much

energy into the uh show here for a

moment.

Let's see.

What shall we do?

If you don't mind just hanging a little

bit.

We'll just hang a bit and see if I can

go on.

I'm perfectly healthy. You don't have to

call You don't have to call 911. Don't

worry.

[clears throat]

Take a break.

Everybody, if you have a banana at home,

make sure you have one.

We're good. Potassium.

All right. I was What was happening

there was I was trying too hard. I was

trying too hard to show energy

on a day when maybe I didn't have much.

But I will mumble through the rest of

it.

By the way, did any of you try to find

the uh the Dilbert calendar

on Amazon? And did it say that it's sold

out?

It's not really sold out

as far as I know. We're looking into it

today, but uh Amazon says it's sold out.

Now, I did tell you that if you don't if

you don't get it early and it's the only

place to get it, you can't get it

anywhere else.

I did tell you that if you don't get it

early, it might be sold out. But there

is apparently a second potential

problem,

which is that it's not sold out. Sold

out, but they just show it sold out,

which by the way is a it's not the first

time it's happened with my books. It

happened as well, I think.

So, we think it's just a system error

and we're trying to get that fixed.

There should be more of them.

Anyway, what else is in the news?

So, how about this? Instead of me

presenting the news today like a proper

podcast, we're just going to have a

conversation.

Everybody okay with that? We're just

going to hang. We're going to eat

bananas and drink coffee and see what's

what. Okay.

Um, apparently Ukraine agreed to a US

peace deal.

Does that mean anything?

Because doesn't Russia have to agree

with it? And if Ukraine agrees, doesn't

that mean Russia won't agree?

So, that would be a lot like nothing

happened at all. So, that's how I'm

going to treat that. I'm [clears throat]

going to treat that like nothing

happened.

Uh, President Trump said he had a very

good phone call with President Xi of

China.

I wonder what that feels like to have a

good phone call with the president. She

and do you think that they agreed on

anything? Well, I think they agreed they

want to get together. They agreed that

we need to be good friends.

Basically, nothing happened.

So, you got Ukraine, nothing happened.

You got China, a phone call happened.

This is the worst news ever.

All right. How about this? Uh, did you

know that Sacramento, the utilities in

Sacramento

would give information to the local

police

so the police could find the pot farmers

so that they'd look for stuff like water

usage and electricity usage? And if it

was higher than residential places

usually have, they'd send the police.

Can Can you imagine getting busted

because your water usage? They're like,

"Well, we got you." Nobody uses that

much water.

And then I thought about how long a

showers I take. I'm thinking, "Wait a

minute. If I take a long shower,

am I going to get arrested for being a

pot dealer?" Maybe. Anyway, that was uh

struck down now. Now you're not allowed

to do that. You cannot be a utility and

give the police information unless

there's suspicion of a crime. Then you

can

Well, Lara Logan

um interviewed a former CIA person

who claims to know how our elections are

being stolen in America.

How many times have you seen that story?

Have you all seen that story more than

once? I've got a scoop. Um how many how

many times has Laura Logan had this

story?

with not these particular people, but

with other entities.

I'm not sure we should believe any story

that says, "Here's a guy that

participated in the the theft of

elections. He's telling you exactly how

he did it

because the other news isn't even

covering it. So, what's going on?

Is it possible that Laura Logan

is the only person who got this scoop

and knows exactly how our elections have

been thrown for years? Is that possible

and nobody else is talking about it?

Just one person, Laura Logan.

Well,

this this has a category problem. That's

what I call a category problem. It's in

the category of things that are just

never true.

It just won't check out. So, I feel like

I don't know where these stories come

from, but there's a a neverending

like line of, "Well, here's another

person who claims to know how our

elections have been stolen."

I don't know. I don't believe any of it

yet.

So, James Comey and uh Leticia James are

out of the out of legal trouble

temporarily

because their judge decided that their

the uh apparently the the prosecutor

was not uh properly appointed.

Yeah. Lindseay Heligan, who led the

prosecution, wasn't properly appointed,

and therefore Comey and Leticia James

get off,

but I believe they can come back around

and try it again, can they? So, that

doesn't mean that they won't come back

at them. There's a government appeal

process. It was just a technical ruling.

It did not rule on the merits of

anything. And on the merits, I think

they got trouble.

Uh Trump signed an executive order to

designate the Muslim Brotherhood as

foreign terrorist organizations.

To which I say that wasn't already done.

That feels like exactly the sort of

thing they should have already done.

All right. Well, that looks good. Uh

apparently Trump was um

Just a moment. Time for a time for a

sip.

just what we needed.

Well, apparently uh Trump was going to

unveil his healthc care plan yesterday

and that didn't happen and we don't know

why and we don't know what the

Republicans have in mind,

but we'll find out. Uh let's see what

else is happening.

Character AI,

a chatbot company, decided that they're

not going to allow children,

uh, miners anyway, to use their product

anymore.

And the teenagers are crying because

they're losing their digital boyfriends

and girlfriends.

So, sounds like they made the right

decision to to to [clears throat]

make that unavailable.

Can you imagine being a teenager and

falling in love with a digital

character?

Well, I can.

I totally can.

Uh, let's see. Something about steel

tariffs. Boring.

Remember the Vinman's?

The Vinman twins?

Well, they're in legal trouble

apparently, according to Headline USA.

Uh they're being accused of

doing some work for Ukrainian oligarchs

um to get them some business without I

don't know properly registering or

something. And it's sort of a boring

story. I don't know if they I mean it's

just a technical problem. It's not the

worst problem in the world. Um

but don't you wonder about the identical

twin defense?

Suppose they had good evidence, the

Department of Justice, that the twins

had done something bad,

but you never knew which twin was it,

which meeting.

Would that be a defense?

Could you just say, "Well, yeah, one of

them was at the meeting.

Can you prove which one it was?" And if

you can't, well, there you go.

Well, Seattle is going to stop giving

people free crack pipes. That didn't

work out. Surprise.

And Democrats are after Republicans

because they think they

after Trump because they think the

ballroom is just a bribery a bribery uh

mechanism.

But it'd be a terrible bribery mechanism

because the money wouldn't go to any

place but the ballroom. What kind of

bribery is that?

And uh the sedicious six are still

trying to explain themselves but doing a

bad job of it. All right, people.

I think today is going to be a ultra

short show.

Um I need to take a nap.

I had a really tough night and a tough

morning. I thought I could get through

it this morning, but I can't.

So, I'm going to I'm going to say uh

good day and I'll be fine. By the way,

you don't have to call 911. I just need

to rest and I will talk to you tomorrow.

Same time, same place. And we'll last a

little bit longer next time.

Bye for now.