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persuasion. It's the one time you don't all hate me. I don't think I'm going to say anything today that will offend any of you. In fact, you'll probably like the whole thing. I don't know, but we'll find out.

But I want to show you something to start off with, the sweetest thing I've ever seen. Now I hate to be a big old softy, but I just have to give a shout-out to this. Most of you know conservative Matt Walsh, right? Matt Walsh. And you may know that if you follow his Twitter account, he had some twins recently. So congratulations on that. And he reports that wife and babies were finally discharged from the hospital. This gets better, by the way. This gets to something you're going to like. Hold on.

So it just sounds like somebody's baby, but he gets these twins. And what I learned from his tweet today is he already had twins. So two sets of twins. But here's what he tweets: "Wife and babies were finally discharged from the hospital today." I assume there was some concern that they stayed a little extra. And he says the older twins haven't left their brother's side since they came home. My daughter explained that someone needs to be sitting and watching over them even while they nap. And here's a picture of his older twins, who aren't that old. I can't tell, maybe ten years old or something. And they decided on their own that these siblings could not be alone. So they're sitting there reading, it looks like, and making sure that the babies are never alone even when they're sleeping.

Now here's the thing. I've had this discussion before in which, let's say Matt Walsh is the poster child for traditional marriage, wouldn't you say? If there's anybody who's the person you think of when you talk about traditional marriage, I think of him. And I always say traditional marriage is absolutely the best way to go for about 25 percent of people. The trouble is, you know, if one of you is an addict or crazy or something, nothing works. But for about 25 percent, and I know you would argue it's higher, it's maybe 75 percent, but today I'm not going to have that argument. I think it's 25, you think it's 75, but you know it's not 100 and it's not zero.

But talk about winning. Oh my God, how many of you heard this story and just said, if I could have that life, that looks pretty good, doesn't it? You can already fast-forward yourself into the future where they're having big family events and all the twins are there and stuff. That sounds like so much fun. I'm just going to call it out because it's the best. It's just the best little anecdote of why people like traditional families. It looks pretty strong. So congratulations, Matt Walsh.

I'll just add this one thing: no matter how winning other people seem to be, remember th

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e basket case theory. Basket case theory. I've told you this before. What you know about other people is a very small amount of who they are, right? So if you imagine that the Walsh family has solved all of their problems, I'm sure that's wrong. I'm sure they have some challenges like everyone. But on the surface, this is a pretty amazing story and I just like it. Elizabeth Warren tweets, apparen…

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