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ld black people. It's not senior citizens. It's not toddlers. So it's not even about black Americans. It's about youngish black males for whatever reason. And I'm no longer interested in finding out. It's a dangerous situation. You should just stay away. But if any individual young black man comes and asks for a job, should be fully considered with no bias if you can manage it. So yeah, don't dis…

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e-way competition. Go ahead, do it. You know you want to.

Anyway, so yeah, Trump would get 52 percent in the primary, 28 would say Haley, and 24 would say DeSantis. Did you see that coming? Now that I assume that's because the Trump votes and the DeSantis votes are a little bit fungible. Like those are the ones that can go either way more easily, whereas the Nikki Haley votes are probably an anti-Trump vote. Does that make sense? So under that dynamic you can see how Haley would be slightly more than DeSantis if it were a three-way. It doesn't mean it would be that if it were a two-way. If it were a two-way between Nikki Haley and DeSantis, I think the Trump votes would go mostly to DeSantis. I think it would be two to one, probably two to one DeSantis. But I don't know, because I was actually surprised by this result. And it's also super early. You know, you can't make too much of the polls at this point.

All right. But more interestingly, if Nikki Haley went up against Joe Biden head to head in a hypothetical matchup, according to Rasmussen, 45 percent of likely U.S. voters would vote for Haley and 41 for Biden. What do you think of that? Does that sound legitimate? Because I wonder if Nikki Haley would pick up some of the person of color or woman vote just automatically because that's how it works, right? No matter what you are, you sort of pick up that group, at least some of them automatically. And we don't typically have Republicans running for office who can sort of automatically get any Democrat votes just by being who they are. It doesn't work that way. So it would be interesting to have a person of color running as a Republican. Speaking of which, we'll talk about Ramaswamy in a bit.

All right. I could not be more amused or interested in the latest Joe Rogan conversation with Eric Weinstein. How many of you saw that? Talking about UFOs. That was one of the most interesting conversations. It was super interesting. Well, I'll give you the part that I loved. So according to Eric, there is some governmental group, top secret governmental group, who as long ago as three years ago, I believe, started offering to Eric and also to Sam Harris that they could personally be taken to a secret government facility to see what Eric supposes might be something in the UFO domain. But the actual topic of what the government wants to show them is not disclosed. So there's an assumption happening here that it's about aliens, but I think that's just short of being confirmed.

Now here's the funny part. Apparently there have been a number of back and forths in which the offer was made. Hey, we'll take you to see this top secret stuff. And then it would fall apart. And then they'd come back. Oh, we mean it this time. We're really going to show you this stuff. And then they say yes and they'd be planning to do it. And then something would change and they'd delay it. For three years they've never seen anything, but for three years they've been teased.

Now here's the funny part. Sam Harris bowed out after the third one. So after the third time they said they were going to do it, they changed their minds or they delayed. Sam Harris said, I think he just called BS on it. Yeah. Now Eric is still interested. And I don't know. It would be hard not to be interested because if they ever come through and actually show them something, it'd be interesting.

But here's my question to you. Just on the surface, you don't know anything about the situation except what I tell you. And here's what I'm going to tell you. Of all the people on the planet Earth that the top secret organization wanted to show their UFOs, they chose Sam Harris and Eric Weinstein. Can you explain that? How is that not funny just on the surface? Just. And by the way, I'm not making fun of the two individuals. The two individuals I like a lot, right? I like Sam Harris. I like Eric Weinstein even if I don't agree with them on different things. They're both very serious American patriotic good citizens. They're good people, very smart. Meanwhile, yeah, I have only positive thoughts about both of them. But I think it's hilarious that the two of them entertained the concept that they would be allowed the secret peek at the UFOs.

Well, let me tell you this. Do you know how a prank, like the best prank, is organized? Do you know how to do that? Let me tell you. I think I've explained this before. The best kind of prank is the one that wouldn't be believed by anybody except the subject of the prank, the target. So let me give you an example. Let's say you had a friend who believed he or she to be quite beautiful, but the rest of you, not so much. You were thinking, well, maybe you think you're beautiful and it's good that you have a good high opinion of yourself, but maybe not. Now if there were a person in your life like that who believed they were beautiful but objectively didn't seem like it, a prank on that person would be a model agency is calling you because although you do not have standard beauty, you have exactly the kind of beauty that's in vogue and we want to make a major magazine pictorial of you.

Now what would make this a funny prank is that nobody in the world would believe it's true except the one who got pranked. They're the only one who thinks that's plausible. Now take this back to Sam Harris and Eric Weinstein. And by the way, this prank would have worked on me so easily, right? I'm glad it didn't happen to me, but imagine coming to me. It's the same problem, right? It's an ego problem. Imagine coming to me, some government agency, and they say, Scott, you're the only person in the country we trust to show you our UFOs. And I'd say, why? Why would I be that person? And they'd say, well, we've been listening to you on social media and you say such smart and unbiased things that we think you're the best messenger to tell the world about it. What would I do in that situation if that were a prank? What would I do? Oh, I would fall for that so hard. I would fall through the floor for that prank. Why? Because it's right on the nose of what I would want to believe, right? Yes, sir. It's sort of like it makes me look good. So of course I want to believe it. Well, that makes perfect sense. Of all the people in the United States, they've been watching me on Twitter. Yes, yes. That's got to be it. And all of my wise tweets have finally put me in a position where I alone can see the secrets of the UFOs. When do I buy my plane ticket? When do I buy my plane ticket? I want to go now.

Now if it turns out that we have captured alien spaceships or dead aliens or maybe even alive in cages and it turns out that Eric sees them and takes some pictures and tells the world about them, then I'm wrong about everything. However, this has all the hallmarks of a very good prank. I don't know. I don't know. But if I had to choose between we have a UFO in custody and the two people that the government wanted to see it first were Sam and Eric, I think I'm going to go with prank as being a little bit more likely.

There is, however, one other possibility. And I can't tell you the details, but I will tell you that years ago a person in a sensitive government department, I guess you call it, oh I'll be vague, I'll call it a department in the area of the government, asked if I wanted to have a preview of the government's most secret knowledge about a topic that I won't mention. All right, so I won't mention the topic. But I was asked if I wanted to see the biggest secrets of the government, the things that you would love to know. Trust me, you would love to know. And I did say yes and I did

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go look. And it was all, in my opinion, now that the person who was in charge of it did not think it was, the person in charge believed that they had found something of value. And I listened to it and I listened to the evidence and I said to myself. So the other possibility is that it's not a prank on Sam Harris and Eric Weinstein. It's possible that the government has something and they don't kno…

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