Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 1, 2026
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other level. Oh yeah, it's possible. Seems impossible but it's possible. And all you need for that is a coffee mug or a glass, a tankard, chalice or stein, that canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure. It's the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's c

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alled the simultaneous sip and it happens now.

Well, got some breaking news. There's some news coming in that Michael Avenatti is consulting with Stormy Daniels on how to prepare his ass for jail. Okay, I just stole that joke from somebody on Locals. I'm not sure if you want to give him credit for that joke. Not my joke. I stole that joke. For like two minutes before we went live I've been laughing for like five minutes.

All right. Well, yeah, Michael Avenatti is the poor man's Kojak.

Oh, let's talk about all the important things. Number one, I reached 800,000 Twitter followers today. So how about that?

As you know, power is determined by two

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things. Do you know the equation for power? It's your powers of influence, like how good you are as a persuader, multiplied times your reach. So if you're the greatest persuader in the world but you never talk to anybody but your five friends, you don't have any power. And if you had an audience of a hundred million but you didn't know how to persuade anybody, also you wouldn't have any power. But…

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