Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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well this is the story. The only reason I mention this is because we spend so much time criticizing law enforcement. And when you see law enforcement do something that to me looked exactly right, the Nashville police taking out the school shooter, and I have to admit when you see the body cam it restores your faith in the police. You know, because you see a bunch of anecdotal stories about somebod…

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ots and very effective. The moment they made contact they ended the threat. I don't know what to say about this except it was perfect. So congratulations to the Nashville police for making law enforcement in general look good, I think.

Well here's an interesting story. New York Post. There are a bunch of researchers in Australia who designed a nasal spray that's like Viagra. So I think it's different chemistry but it's a nasal spray instead of a pill. And the thing that makes it work well, microphone's fine, the thing that makes it work well is that because it's a nasal spray it doesn't have to go through your bloodstream. It gives you full results in five minutes. It's like spray, boom, you're ready to go.

Now if that were the only story in the news I'd say well that's an improvement. They've done something good here. But there's another story that seems totally unrelated but maybe not. The FDA approved Narcan for over-the-counter sales. Now Narcan is what you get if you have a fentanyl overdose. If somebody has an overdose they stick it in your nose and it's like a nasal spray. Spray it up your nose and apparently it works so well it can just take you back from almost the dead.

So one of the problems, of course as you can see these two stories intersect, is that what if you get those two confused? Yeah, you don't want to grab your erectile dysfunction spray when you wanted the Narcan. And if the bottles are not labeled appropriately there is a way to tell. So if you give somebody the Narcan spray and the only change five minutes later is a raging erection, go look for the other bottle, right? So what you don't want is somebody to die with a raging hard-on. Because my understanding is that that's embarrassing if it's an open casket. You know what I mean? If i

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t's an open casket you're like, what are we going to do about that? Because I think the rigor mortis sets in about the same time as the erectile dysfunction. So you could die with a wall saluting and then they probably just have to make some adjustments. Now depending on your size I guess they'd make some adjustments to the casket top, make one a little extra deep sort of thing. I don't know. I'm…

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