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Back to episode — Episode 2899 CWSA 07/16/25

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We got a show. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take a chance of elevating this experience up to levels that no one can understand with their tiny shiny human brains, all you need for that is a copper mug or a glass or a tanker or a thermos or a canteen, jug or…

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es everything better. It's called, that's right, the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go.

Ah, so good. But how good is it? Hm. Let's see. Well, according to Eric Dolan, who's writing in PsyPost, caffeine may help prevent stress-induced depression. That's right. Drinking coffee can reduce your stress-induced depression. Do you know what else it can do? It can reduce all of your other depression too.

How many times have I felt in the afternoon and said to myself, life is crappy and there's nothing good in the world and I don't have any energy and I start to feel a little depressed, and then I have a cup of coffee and suddenly all my depression is gone? So you should have just asked me, Scott, would caffeine make me feel less depressed? Yes.

But Scott, is it true that if you feel sick that having soup could help? Well, it turns out that there's a study, a meta study, that says that there's a good chance that having soup, which they call eating soup, is that what you call it? When you have soup, do you eat it or do you drink it? I don't know. I just say I have it. I would not say I eat soup and I would not say I drink it. I would say I had some soup for lunch.

But according to an article by Sandra Lucas in The Conversation, you don't have to have chicken

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soup, but soup in general seems to be mildly indicated for helping you recover from things faster. One study found that people who ate soup recovered up to two and a half days faster from normal respiratory problems than people who didn't. It was just one study. So get your soup. Well, you didn't know that the Department of Homeland Security, when they're not keeping your country safe, are also v…

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