Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
Scott Adams Philosophy Archive
Search ideas
Episodes Episode #2969 Segments
NewsReaction Media & Fake News

Back to episode — Episode 2969 CWSA 09/25/25

Context —

t for a second. I don't know where they came up with these. I mean, one of them is famous, but he's better if he's wearing a full costume so you can't see his face. I hate to say it, but yeah, the Fantastic Four is poor effects, terrible casting, and absolutely unwatchable. Completely. Yeah, it looked like they made it in a basement or something. It looked terrible. Well, I'd like to give you a l…

← Previous segment →

hese. I just have one of them. And so if anything happened to one of these, well, I wouldn't be very happy about that.

And then I had a cat. This is what's left of the Alice character. I found her head in my shoe, which I believe was not a random act. I believe it was a planned terrorist act. That's right. My cat is a terrorist. And if that's not a warning, I don't know what is. You know what this warning says? Don't bring a woman into this house to compete with us. We are the stars of the house. Message received.

All right. Well, there's a new study that didn't need to be done in which they found that rising gun violence in movies might be increasing youth firearm homicides. According to the New York Post, Eric Nolan is writing about this. Now, how many of you would have already known that the more firearms that there are in movies and games, the more likely young people are going to use firearms for bad purposes? Is there anybody who didn't know that? That's obvious.

Now, I'm not in favor of censoring that stuff. But where do you think people get the idea to use a gun? If they'd never heard of a gun, like literally never heard of one, do you think that they would go buy one? No. You have to at least know they exist. You have to know kind of what it looks like to use one. And then you have to have that idea just pounded into

Context —

your head day after day after day after day until you get mad at something or somebody. And what's the first thing you think of? Oh, gun. So it's not one-to-one. If you watch a movie about guns, you're going to go shoot something. It's not that. But if you have enough people and you just fill them with gun content, yes, absolutely, 100%. No doubt about it. Speaking as a hypnotist, the repetition…

Next segment → →