Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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Everybody, welcome to the highlight of not only your life and my life but civilization itself. Something like 13.9 billion years have passed since the Big Bang, and all of that has led to this moment. Think about it. If things had been just a little bit different, you wouldn't even be here, and then I would be talking to I don't know what, a dinosaur. Anything cou

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ld have happened.

But if we want to take it up to a less absurd level today, and probably do, all you need is a copper mug or glass, tankard, chalice or stein, a canteen, jug, or 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 everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip.

Has anybody ever done it before? Anybody? Anybody? Yes, of course you have. It's the best thing that's ever happened to you. Oh, I tried to get all of my senses involved. You got the touch, the smell, the taste. I sort of listened to myself slurping a little bit there. I looked at it. Yeah, everything. That's

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what you call a full-body experience, and I think we just had it together. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Now I have a question for you. How do you plan a vacation in the current environment? Is anybody having that problem? You think to yourself, you know, a few weeks from now or whatever, a few months, I think I'll book myself a plane trip and I'll take myself a trip. You don't know…

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