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Back to episode — Episode 3043 ChatWSA 12/15/25

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Hey everybody, just checking in with you. What is today? The 15th. I guess it's Monday. Is it Monday? We've got 36 people. Let's see how many people we get in here. 540. All right. Now that I know you can see me, I'm going to make sure I can see your comments. Where's all the comments? There we are. Good morning, Andrew and Boot and Michelle. Good to see you. So we'll talk a little bit about the…

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s. I have a little bit of feeling but I can't move my muscles.

Yeah, lots of patricide going on. Is there confirmation yet of the son being the murderer? Because as of a few minutes ago that was not yet confirmed. I don't know. It seems weird that they can't confirm that because the son, if he's alive, would be saying that wasn't me. I was over here. And he would be on TV and he would be saying he was sad.

But the news is trying to paint him as the drugged-out insane son. I don't know if the son was arrested for murder. Is that brand new? Because it seems like just a few minutes ago that was not the case. But maybe TMZ has it. Yeah, TMZ seems to be ahead of everybody.

So I've got the worst itch. I think I'll just keep this here. Yeah, that's good. They announced she's in custody. Well, that would make sense.

Insanity. So I wonder if that assumes that they didn't find him at the site. He was transitioning? No way. You're not serious, are you? That can't be true. That he was transitioning. I do not believe that. He's in custody but not charged yet. Huh. Well, it seems like he would be covered with DNA.

So the first thing that happened was I saw some conservative types say that at least the conservatives would not be evil and say bad things about Rob Reiner even though they didn't like him, because we're not evil. And I thought to myself, that's not going to happen. People are going to say terrible things about him because they don't like him. And sure enough, it took about five seconds for somebody to post online that Meathead was dead meat. Like, okay, that took like one minute.

No, right now I'm still in the hospital room. The radiation appointment is a little bit later today. Yeah. Rob Reiner and his wife were stabbed to death in their Brentwood home last night.

Medicine starting to work? No, no, I'm in worse shape than I've been in a long time, but who knows?

Meathead was the nickname they had for his character on the TV show *All in the Family* from the '70s. *All in the Family* was from the '70s, right? And that's where he first got famous.

I saw somebody else say that the father and the mother are responsible for the kid being mentally ill and being a drug addict. I feel like you could only have that belief if you never had close experience with anybody who was a drug addict or mentally ill. These are not manageable conditions. You can't use tough love to cure a drug addict. That's not a thing. You can't use tough love to cure somebody who has mental illness. That's not a thing.

There's a fake statement from Trump on Rob Reiner. The one I saw seemed hard to believe, so I guess I'm not surprised if that's fake.

I would caution you not to blame the victim because it looks like you're not well informed. If you were well informed, you would know that these are not manageable conditions. If you had the bad luck to have a drug-addicted kid, as I did—one of my stepkids was an addict since he was, I don't know, who knows when he started, 12 or 14, because you never know when they start. It's not like they do it in front of you.

It's not fake. It's on his Truth account. There might be a fake one too. But maybe the real one's shocking enough.

I would say that everyone who has the direct experience of knowing an addict knows that you can't really do anything about it. And I would argue, I think he got sent—there was a report that he went to rehab 17 times. The son. That should tell you all you need to know, because that means they were putting the maximum amount of money and resources into it. Because it's not like they're going to have the bad rehab place. But rehab largely is fake. Did you know that? Did you know that rehab is largely fake and it basically doesn't work? And it's sort of a scam, mostly a scam. And they're not really looking to cure you. They're just looking to run you through it.

First rehab stint at 15. So when he was 15. And if they grew up in Hollywood, it certainly didn't get any easier. You cannot buy your way out of being addicted. That's true.

And then I saw somebody smart say it's different when somebody says something bad about Charlie Kirk because Charlie Kirk was all about goodness and love, whereas this person believed that Rob Reiner was about hate and a bad influence on the world. So that it was different. You could say bad things about bad people, but it would be bad to say bad things about good people like Charlie Kirk.

To which I thought, that's just purely an opinion. The people who are Rob Reiner fans think he was the one who was on the side of the good and the light and that Trump is the devil and Charlie Kirk is the devil too. So they would have a reverse feeling about who was the good one in this situation.

It is true that the people who liked one will say that it's fair to say bad things about the other. Good and evil aren't arbitrary. They're subjective.

Rehab is a money thing. That's all it is. You directed *The Princess Bride*. Yes. I tell you, when you hear Rob Reiner's filmography, it's pretty damn impressive.

How about the mom? What about the mom? I think the mom was as much of an anti-Trumper as Rob Reiner was. Maybe even more.

Your enemies want you to live up to a standard they don't even hold themselves to. Well, that's the thing though. Everybody thinks that they're holding themselves to the good standard and the other side is not.

Saying good and evil are subjective might be your worst take ever. No, I didn't say that. It's not that good and evil are subjective. It's that our opinion of what is good and evil is based on subjectivity. So there's a difference between your subjective experience and what the base reality is. I'm not saying those are the same thing.

*All in the Family* was in the '70s. Is that true? Maybe the early '70s.

Son has been arrested and held on $4 million bail.

I would be afraid of anybody who believed that their subjective opinion of good and evil was matched to the objective opinion of good and evil. That you would be a very scary person to be around. Because that's not how anything works. Perception is its own thing and reality is its own thing. And if they happen to overlap, we wouldn't even know because everybody thinks it does. Even if you have opposite opinions, you both think that your opinion of good and evil matches reality.

It looks to me that we don't have comments from Locals or Rumble, and comments are going by so slowly today.

What are the odds that Rob Reiner cut off the funds for his drugs? Very possible.

Locals wasn't working for you. Damn it. It's not streaming. Damn it. Damn it. Dam

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n it. Yeah, there's comments from Rumble, but there's not comments from Locals. I was punching that button to make that work, but I could not. There should be an all option on the live. Yeah, it's on all. It's on all for live chats. Damn it. Well, I tried hard to select the Locals button and I punched it many times, but it did not look like it was registering. So yeah. Damn it. A drug addict wou…

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