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Back to episode — Episode 2587 CWSA 09/04/24

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formation for anything, it's just pretty close to a guess these days. Science and guessing are largely the same thing. You know, the Venn diagram between I don't know, I'll flip a coin, it's either dangerous or it's not, flip a coin, looks like it's not, about the same odds as science. All right, there's a report. Fox News had it and a bunch of other people on social media, that if you asked your…

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ock in CNN I'd be selling it pretty fast. Because, and I'm not saying that there's some problem with Brian Stelter, I'm saying what exactly is the management theory behind this? I've never, it's hard for me to think of any example where somebody was let go because they weren't getting it done and then just time went by and they just said well come on back. Like what is behind that? If I had to guess with no information whatsoever, maybe there was some kind of management change. Somebody who hated him left, somebody who loved him took the job. It might be something like that. Could be as simple as that.

Anyway, actor George Clooney wants us to know that Joe Biden is selfless for ending his re-election bid. And really not just selfless, maybe in the manner of George Washington, the greatest American of all time. So when you think of the greatest American you think of George Washington and then very, very closely but really in the same category would be Joe Biden with dementia.

You know I'm kind of glad that George Washington isn't here to hear that because could you imagine if he was listening? You know George Washington has a few hundred years of being number one. It's like yeah, number one. And then, oh wait, you've got a little competition. Well, little competition for the person who created the United States with my bravery and my wisdom. And who's that? His name is Joe Biden. Really? Can I see a video of him talking? I'd like to be impressed with who is now in my category of greatness. And then he watches the debate with Trump and he says I hate all of you people. Why did I even create you a country? You've ruined everything. That's what George Washington would say, exactly like that.

There's a study about what generations of Americans are having how much sex, just so you can compare your own performance. So Millennials and Gen X, they reported slightly higher figures. So both groups having sex five times in the last month. Boomers, they had only three times in the last month. And Gen Z and Boomers had almost identical. So the youngest people and the oldest people are having the least amount of sex per month. But the Millennials and the Gen X are just killing it with five per month.

Now I would like to give you my opinion of this survey. I'm pretty sure that you should not take an average of the people having no sex and then combine it with the people who had sex. In my experience of life there are people who are having sex and they're having plenty of it, and then there's mostly people having no sex. Or you know there was that one old girlfriend who was in town that one day but basically no sex. I think they should only measure the people who are having sex. I would not average in the people having no sex because whatever is going on with them is not exactly the same as the people who are only getting laid five times a month.

And by the way, what is the amount that would make men happy? The amount that would make men happy is not five times per month. That's on the high end by the way according to the survey. No it would be a lot more than that. What would make women happy? Well it depends because people are individuals, all over the place. But my guess would be about five times a month. Yeah, once a week, five times a month. So basically marriage and relationships are a situation in which the woman is getting her needs met and the man is not. And that's the ordinary way of life.

I've sometimes thought that, having been through a few relationships that didn't work out famously as many of you are aware, here's something that maybe you didn't know about my approach to relationships. My assumption about a relationship is that the point of it is to give my stuff away. Because I had a lot of stuff and I had more stuff than I needed for my daily happiness. And I said to myself you know it would be great if I had somebody to share this with, basically to give it away. So you would find people that you have some deep connection to and then you would enjoy giving it away. But I never saw being married as the thing that would make me happy. I thought the point of it was to make somebody else happy and that you would get your fulfillment from making them happy.

Now the part I didn't know is that you can't make women happy. So it took me a few runs before I realized, wait a minute, I think this looks like a trick. Why is it that whenever they get what they want they just get unhappy about a new thing? I feel like I'm being tricked. So I'm not sure that it has nothing to do with the individuals I had relationships with. I'm pretty sure that the model is that if the man has the stuff and either a child or a spouse doesn't have stuff then it becomes their job to get stuff. And there's nothing wrong with that as long as everybody knows what the deal is. That seems fair to me. So I never minded that a relationship was primarily a transfer of assets because that's why I signed up for it. I had too many assets literally. I just wanted to give some stuff away but I didn't want to randomly give it away to strangers. I wanted

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it to be meaningful and actually make a difference in somebody's life. And it did. Even after I'm no longer married there's still some benefits that trickle on. So anyway I don't know why I'm babbling on about that. It could be because it's a slow news day. It's a slow news day. Well there's more information about the attempted assassination in Butler, PA where the local police offered the Secre…

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