Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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All right, so did you see the list of priorities being tweeted around? I think I talked about this before. Of the country's priorities, and climate change isn't even on the top 36. There was another poll of 18 priorities, and climate change came in 17th out of 18. What happened to climate change? Why did climate change go from the biggest issue in the world literally to not an issue? Give me your…

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All right, yeah, I need an Erica. I got to get some stuff done. So let me ask you this question and then I'll go. My book publisher has asked me for another book, a follow-up to "Win Bigly." It would be my third and sort of a series that are along these lines. Yeah, the first one was "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big." And the concept I'm working on is teaching you how to escape your mental prison. And I had to help other people escape, but mostly I had to escape my own mental prison and to find the golden age. An optimistic book with actual useful technique. Would that be of interest?

Call it "Shake the Box." That's not bad. Well, that's interesting. More than one person — was that the same person? I can't tell. I think more than one person may have suggested a book title called "Shake the Box." That is not bad as a book title. I will take that under advisement.

The working title is "The Golden Age" and "How to Think Your Way Into It." That's the working title: "Golden Age" and how to think your way into it. It's unlikely that will be the final title. Yeah, "Escape From Your Mental Prison." And throw in a chapter on how to get a Christina. That would take a whole new book.

I think the biggest surprise anybody has about Christina and me is that we've been together two years now and that it's actually a real relationship. I don't think anybody believed that for at least a year. And it's just a real, normal relationship just like every other relationship.

Yeah, "Shake the Box," that's a pretty good book title. I like that suggestion. I'll definitely think about that.

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All right, I've said enough. So props to Rand Paul for his extraordinarily clever broadside on John Brennan, who may be the inspiration for almost getting Rand Paul killed twice in one year. Did that look like a gang symbol? I didn't mean that. No gang symbols here. All right, I'll talk to you later.

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