Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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he simultaneous sip. And it happens now. Go. Which of the F-word substitutes do you like best? Fudge, friggin, freaking or fracking? We can throw a little fracking in there. Well, you've got lots of opinions on this one. Wow. Looks like it's all over the place. The Battlestar Galactica fracking seems

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to be doing well. All right, well maybe I'll try some of those. I'll take some of those for a spin today.

Okay, well the first freaking story... no, no, I'll work on that. All right. I have a media recommendation. Have you all been wondering, Scott, can you please tell us what you would personally like to watch on the television set and then maybe I would like to watch it too? Don't laugh. Don't laugh. Glass Onion on Netflix. So I guess it's a movie. Glass Onion.

Now here's why I recommend it. I've been railing for years about everything that's wrong with movies. This one didn't do anything wrong. No, hold on. I've only watched the first third of it. I've only watched the first third. Already I recommend it, right? I'll watch the rest of it sometime. But here's why I recommend it.

Number one, probably is not really the best show for the younger set. I think maybe this would appeal to people who are used to a certain kind of movie. Here's what I liked about it. They took what was good about movies in the past and then they just made one of those. And I thought to myself, nobody thought of that before. Just take all the things that were good about movies when we grew up and just make one of those.

So here's what they don't do. Nobody is tied to a chair to be tortured. Nobody. I know, is that weird? I don't believe there's going to be a chase scene. I've only seen a third of it. I don't believe there'll be a chase scene. The entire first part of the movie, where usually the first third of a movie is where something terrible happens to the hero, you know, the hero gets divorced or his family is wiped out or there's a hurricane or something, but this was just fun. And there's some mystery because it's about a little murder mystery and it's just fun and it's about characters and actors that you've seen. And a lot of the actors are ones you're familiar with, so it's just sort of fun to see them all in the same place and stuff. And it's sort of the perfect empty calories.

Now here's what will never be true. It's not going to win any awards. No awards will be won. All they did was make it incredibly

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consumer right. They made something for the customer, so therefore it cannot win any awards because the awards are won by people who make movies for other people in the movie industry. So people could say, my God, your acting in that role made me feel terrible the entire time I watched the movie, but wow did you act well. You acted so well that I have a stomachache when I left. I felt so bad for y…

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