Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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say "it's reported" because "it's reported" is true. What you don't know is that the thing actually happened. The only thing that's true is it's reported. But then as Greenwald points out it's a common trick that her father used, which was to leak a story to the press and then talk about the story in the press as if it's public information now and it must be true because it's in the press. So you…

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hips. Am I wrong about that? And now we barely are in the business or something. I don't know how many we make but it's mostly overseas. So it does seem like we should have chips and 5G and some other stuff here.

Yeah, we make junk food over here. That's our specialty in America, making food that will kill us.

Hey Zach, thank you. You know I appreciate the offer. So maybe I'll just say this here. A lot of people say they'd like to grab a cup of coffee or something when they're in the area and I always appreciate it because it means people are enjoying what I do. But I pretty much never say yes to that. So I have barely enough time to do the things I need to do and really I don't have enough time to do them. So I don't really ever just sort of take a coffee. I just don't do it. But thank you for offering.

Why shouldn't it be done by private companies? I don't know what you mean.

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