Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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ggest a theme for today's live stream. Do you like it when I have a theme, when all the news coincidentally seems to fit a theme? And here it is. We'll put it together as we go. But first I would like to do a demonstration of the wisdom of my audience, the smartest audience in the history of the world. Don't answer. Don't answer the question before I ask it. Stop it. Stop it. They're answering th…

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ing everything you're doing. No problem with that whatsoever.

So pat yourself on the back if you got that one right. I'm going to keep quizzing you until you get one wrong. Yeah, I'm just going to keep asking questions until I can find anything you guys don't know. It's amazing.

All right. Have I ever told you that all news about public figures is fake? Have I ever mentioned that? Like maybe a lot of times, like maybe almost every day? Yeah. So I'm going to tell you a bunch of news about public figures. How much of it should you believe? The answer is that 25? No, the answer is zero. It might be that all of the facts are accurate. So I might be telling you all accurate facts based on the news. But how often are all the accurate facts that you hear in the news a complete and accurate picture of what was going on? Basically never. It's just not even a thing.

And I'm saying this based on my own experience. I've been a public figure and the subject of news for 30 years. It's never true. They'll get maybe your birthday right, and even that's a 50-50.

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right, so let's talk about some famous people. Saw a tweet from Tristan Tate, one of the Tate brothers. And I guess they got brought back into court in Romania and things are getting really sketchy over there. The news is just so incomplete. But would you agree that whatever we're hearing about Romania and the Tate brothers is probably inaccurate? Would you agree? Do you think we know anything abo…

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