Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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ite a bit better than all the other shirts I've ever worn before. I think it looks good. All right. How many of you were worried about me yesterday? Because the internet seems to think I was having a meltdown. I was contacted by some people who care to say, are you okay, everything okay? And how many other people were having the same experience? Did anybody see me interacting on Twitter and say s…

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hat's how I get the energy.

All right. I've discovered that I have bifurcated into two complete people in the mind of the public, which is kind of fun and weird. So I always talk about the two movies on one screen, right? We're all watching the same screen, but some people are seeing the union is ending and other people are seeing the golden age. And we don't agree on anything. But I think I finally realized why the Twitter users and the livestream users have completely different impressions of me.

So I livestream. I have enough time to do the full context. So on livestream if I say, you know, I'm on the same side as this argument, but I think the argument that's on my side is a little weak, so I want you to know I'm on the same side but I'd like to see a stronger argument on my side. So that's what I would say on a livestream. On Twitter I would just say what's wrong with the argument, and then I turn into the opposite person. So on Locals, YouTube, and Rumble, I'm Scott Adams, the reasonable voice that looks at all sides and tries to consider them fairly. And on Twitter I'm Clod Adams, the guy who's indistinguishable from Dr. Fauci. That's what idiot attorney Barnes tweeted the other day. Or yesterday he tweeted that I was basically Fauci.

Now in the other movie, in the other movie, people know that I'm the first person, the first public figure, to call Fauci a liar in public. I'm the first one. And I never changed my mind. Once he lied in public, I was like, oh, he's a guy who lies in public. So that was the last time I trusted him for anything. So it's like a whole different, you know, Clod Adams apparently trusts him, but livestream Adams, Scott Adams, never trusted him from the first time he opened his mouth. Yeah, I'm not sure that Robert Barnes has an opinion. Wouldn't that just be uninformed flailing? Is it really an opinion if it's based on obviously wrong data? I guess it's still an opinion. It's just an uninformed opinion.

All right. I would like to tell you the weirdest thing that happened to me yesterday. I told you yesterday was an awesome day for me. This was the coolest thing that happened. Back around 2005 or six, some of you know my life story enough to know that I lost my ability to speak. So there's a rare disorder called spasmodic dysphonia, and I lost the ability to speak for about three and a half years. I could make noise, but my vocal cords were clenching so that you couldn't understand what I was saying. So for those three and a half years I used affirmations. And the affirmation that I did when I was driving, I would do it out loud, but it didn't sound like real talk. I don't know what it sounded like, but my mouth was moving and my brain was thinking of the words, but I don't know what was coming out. But what I was thinking was this: I, Scott Adams, will speak perfectly. Yeah, you remember, will speak perfectly.

Now is there anything wrong with that affirmation? Yes. It's literally impossible by definition. Nobody can speak perfectly. No human being can do that. So I literally had an affirmation which was not just a little bit impossible but actually completely impossible. And I think you would agree that although my current voice has a, you know, it's good enough for a commercial application,

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which is what I'm doing now, so it's good enough for commercial use, but I'm still nasally and I still clear my throat and I'm blowing my nose on camera and every other damn thing. So I'm nowhere near perfect voice. And then yesterday, something happened. And I tweeted it around. Now I think this is a real story. I'm not sure, but I think it's a real story. As you know, I've offered my personalit…

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