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Back to episode — Episode 2732 CWSA 01/27/25

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ape. Luckily I'm not dead, but I know the worst thing that you could ever hear is somebody describing their health problems. But mine were kind of funny, so I just have to tell you anyway. About a few weeks ago I had this problem where I had some kind of stomach flu, not sure what it was, and at the same time, by terrible luck, I had this severe injury that I didn't know where it came from that a…

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ay. But I'm like, so I go back to DoorDash. I go, all right, and I try to order bananas and then something went wrong because my brain wasn't working again. But I successfully put in the order and I have to wait a few hours. I'm like, oh, if only that banana would come, everything would start getting better. If I could get the banana. I just need one banana. That's all I need.

Finally DoorDash comes. He delivers my bananas, except apparently I had somehow ordered one banana. That's right. Now I know the difference between a bunch and a single banana, and I was pretty sure I hit the bunch, but apparently I hit the single banana. So I got one banana, which would have been enough except it was green. So that's like no banana.

So I said, damn it, I am not going to be beaten. So I suffer through trying to figure out how to order properly again. Second DoorDash right after the first one. And finally I'm happy to report that after all that banana business I finally got a nice bunch of bananas. They were all green, so I still had no bananas. So that was my third attempted banana delivery, all failures. But I had some other fruit that was along with it. Got back in it.

So I thought to myself, if I could just wait this out like the other time that one of my legs was in screaming pain and I had flu-like symptoms, you know, I knew I waited it out. It's just really painful. Just wait it out and then I went to sleep. Sleep through one of my many naps, probably 10 naps that day. And I woke up and I had reinjured my other leg. That's right. Now I had two legs that gave me screaming pain anytime I tried to walk. Basically totally disabled. Couldn't stand up, couldn't walk. Ow. So it just got worse anyway. But at least I could look at my screens and entertain myself. No, there's something about the weird flu thing that makes it impossible to look at a screen. Like I tried, but every time I did it's like, oh, headache. Oh. So it was about the worst two days you could ever have. But I'm back. I can barely walk, but it'll be fine. We're 80% better.

Let's talk about Ben and Jerry's. Ben and Jerry, who are no longer directly associated with Ben and Jerry's, it's owned by Unilever I believe, but Ben and Jerry themselves have gone full woke and maybe the company too. So they just dropped a DEI-themed ad declaring they'll never stop fighting to dismantle white supremacy and end the climate crisis.

Now are you all having this Trump time distortion thing that I am, where it seems like Trump must have been presiden

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t this time for already a year because he's done so much? Like time doesn't make sense anymore. But here's another one. Doesn't it sound like this didn't come from this era when you hear that somebody wants to dismantle white supremacy? Which two months ago was sort of normal, but now it just feels like, what? What are you, from the past? Am I the only one having that feeling that somehow just eve…

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