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Back to episode — Episode 2943 CWSA 08/30/25

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're ready, I'm ready. Whoa. Hold on. I'm looking at a comment. Nope. Don't need to look at that. Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, sometimes with Gary the Engineer. And if you'd like to take your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup o…

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aking of that, I watched two-thirds of the new movie F1. I'll finish the rest of it, but if the rest of it is as good as the first two-thirds, it's a really good movie. I'm pretty sure I'm going to recommend it when I'm done, but I'll finish it sometime this week and I'll tell you.

After the show today, Owen Gregorian will be hosting, as he usually does on Saturdays, a spaces event on the X platform if you've got X. So just look for Owen Gregorian or go to my X feed and you'll find the link to it right after the show.

According to PsyPost and Eric Dolan, it turns out that there's a correlation between children who have terrible physical problems and their mental health. Evidence shows that children with chronic physical illness, which is not funny, such as asthma, diabetes, and epilepsy, are at increased risk for developing mental illness. They could have saved a little bit of time and a little bit of money by just asking me. They would have said, "Scott, do you believe that people who have a lifelong physical problem that will make them different from other people and be very inconvenient in their social life and the rest of their life, do you think that that would have an impact on how they feel about things as in their brain?" Yes. Yes. I'll bet you if you gave anybody a disease that would affect them the entire rest of their life, yeah, it probably might affect their mental health.

And by the way, as I often say, your body is your brain. So if you've got a physical problem in your body, you do have a physical problem in your brain because your brain is your body. It all works as one device.

Here's another one. Let's see if you can get this one before I do. PsyPost also, Vladimir Hedri is writing that students whose parents, so young people basically, students whose parents were warmer toward them tend to have better socioemotional skills. So if your parents were warm toward you, you're more likely to be a warm person with good social skills. Did they really need to study that? I don't know. But it does seem likely that if you have the genetic material

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of two people who were warm, in other words they were warm parents, what are the odds that you picked up that gene? Well, pretty good. And then what are the odds that you would imitate adults who are your parents in figuring out how to navigate social situations? Well, 100 percent. So between the genetic likelihood that you would just inherit that ability to feel warmth around other people, becau…

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