Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
Scott Adams Philosophy Archive
Search ideas
Episodes Episode #2982 Segments
MainContent Health & Biohacking

Back to episode — Episode 2982 CWSA 10/08/25

Context —

e major problems if Trump ran for a third term. Now, if I may defend Tim Miller and Bill, well, Tim Miller mostly, if I may defend him, probably somebody sent him the clip. Probably somebody sent him the clip. I doubt he watched the entire clip and then decided to leave out the most critical part. Why? Because he used to be a Republican. And like I said, he presents himself as a rational person. E…

← Previous segment →

him. It's really not about him.

All right. I finally decided to follow a little bit this story about the eight senators whose phone records were monitored, not their conversations, but the actual who they called and when and how long they talked as part of Jack Smith's so-called Arctic Frost investigation. So I guess when January 6 was still buzzing, Jack Smith was trying to figure out if Trump had planned the insurrection and was he talking to anybody that they could further investigate to find out if there had been conversations about an actual insurrection? There had not. Do you think that by now that if there had been any evidence that an insurrection had been planned on January 6, do you think we wouldn't have heard that by now? Seriously, none. Not a single conversation by anybody who mattered that they were planning an insurrection. None. Not a single one. And it is still. And how many people were charged with the crime of insurrection? None. None. Nobody. Nobody was even indicted. You know how you can get the Supreme Court to indict a ham sandwich, right? Nobody was even indicted. Nobody's admitted it. There's been no document. There's been no whistleblower. There's not even been a conversation with any normal person who attended January 6 to say, "Hey, do you have a minute? Could you tell me what your intention was?" How many of them said, "Oh, our intention is to overthrow the election and put in Trump illegally." Not a single person had that intention. Well, you know, it's a big crowd. There might have been some crazies there, but the general crowd believed that the election had just been stolen right in front of them and were there to make sure there was time to check out their suspicions. That's it.

But anyway, during the time back in the day, Jack Smith was trying to figure out if Trump had been talking to anybody that they should find out more information about. And that included people like Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley, and Ron Johnson, and some others that you'd be less familiar with. But let me tell you this. If what you're doing, Democrats, is pissing off Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley, and Ron Johnson, you got some trouble coming. You got trouble coming. Those three guys don't take it. You know, maybe the other ones too. I just don't I'm less familiar with the other one, but those three guys, no, they don't take any. So the blowback's going to be pretty fierce. And so far Lindsey Graham has let them have it in public and we only just found this out. Now legal experts are defending it because they legally got subpoenas and they stayed within the bounds of the law. Is that enough? I don't know. But eventually the case was dropped but only because Trump became president. So I'm going to say that maybe that's not a technical violation of law, but boy does it sound bad.

All right, let's talk about healthcare. Wall Street Journal is writing a story about Don Jr. being recently put on the board I think in February of a company that's trying to sell pharmaceutical meds mostly but focusing on generics directly to customers and Don Jr. and others are going to be meeting with big pharma people sometime soon and trying to get that. All right. So it's called Blink RX and they would be competing with Mark Cuban's company that does a similar but there are some differences called Cost Plus Drugs.

Now, I went to Grok. I spent a lot of time on Grok today because all the stories needed more context than I could find in the news. But I wanted to ask you what's the difference between this Cost Plus Drugs that Mark Cuban's already rolled out and Blink RX that is in some state of being rolled out. I don't know how much Wall Street Journal is writing about that. In both cases you, depending on the drug, it's not every drug, but both of them have an emphasis on generics because those are places you can save some money. But apparently you can save money on even some drugs that have insured co-pays. So in the case of Mark Cuban's company, Cost Plus Drugs, they can sometimes even beat the co-pay, not just the cost of the drug, but if you have insurance and there's a copay, they can sometimes beat the entire cost of the copay. I don't know how often that happens, but that'd be damn impressive.

Anyway, so my point is that they both seem to be in the market for cutting out the middleman so that big pharma doesn't have to go through these middleman entities that have big markups etc.

So want some good news. So here's some good news. The good news is these are serious companies. You know, one has the clout to bring in all the big pharma CEOs and the other one is Mark Cuban who has all the clout in the world and they're going to be it looks like competing against each other. Now I don't know enough about either company to know what the competitive matchup would be and but I would encourage you to look into it. And it turns out that there's a tool for allowing you to find the low cost way to get your drug. And I believ

Context —

e that tool would include both Mark Cuban's company Cost Plus Drugs as well as this Blink RX that Don Jr. is getting involved with. So the tool is called and there are other ones like it. I don't know what they are but GoodRx. So it's all one word GoodRx. So Google that if you're looking for a cheaper place to get your drugs, especially the generics. So the good news is very capable people are co…

Next segment → →