Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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at uses AI to pull the best parts of your podcast out of your video and it automatically makes a clip that you can share on social media. Does that blow your mind? So in theory I can run this program against this podcast. Somehow it can look maybe on YouTube or something. Somehow it can tell where people care the most or they're commenting the most, and it assumes that must be the good part. And i…

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t want to do a bunch of clips because they're kind of time-consuming, but if I can do them automatically, kind of cool.

Well, good news. WNBA player Brittney Griner was released from a Russian penal colony in exchange for a Russian arms dealer. And I think Russia also got the first draft pick. So not only did Russia get their arms dealer back, but they get the first-round pick for the next arms dealer. So the next arms dealer draft, first pick. That should be good for their performance in the coming wars.

I'm waiting for this to happen, but it doesn't seem to have happened yet. Is there going to be a point where Black America turns Brittney Griner into a hero? Has that happened? Is Brittney Griner seen as a hero to Black Americans? Because you know there's sort of a trend that's suboptimal, and the trend is, can we please have some role models who did not just break a law? Now, I don't think she should have been in the pena

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l colony. You know, what happened to her was obviously a tragedy and completely unfair. But we've got to be careful. Let's maybe elevate heroes who haven't recently broken any laws. That would be cool. That would be cool. Okay, I think I said this before, but sometimes when I like things I just say them twice. I keep thinking back about the meltdown of the crypto exchange FTX and how many people…

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