Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 1, 2026
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will make you stop and really, really think, or it won't make any sense at all. So one of those two things is going to happen to you in a moment. You're either going to have a really profound moment, or for most of you, maybe 80 percent, you're going to say, I don't even know what that meant. It goes like this. Listen carefully. Twenty percent of you are going to have a profound moment. Eighty pe…

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. Eighty percent of you just went, I don't even know what that's supposed to mean. So that was just for the twenty percent of you.

All right, let's talk about some other things. Kim Jong-un apparently has been photographed at the opening of a fertilizer plant. Now, I had jokingly said that when the news came out that he attended the opening of a fertilizer plant, I said on Twitter, but we don't know if he attended as a guest or as the fertilizer, because it seemed like both possibilities were open at the time.

But we have been provided with photographs, yes, actual photographs of something that may or may not be a fertilizer plant and which Kim Jong-un is cutting a ribbon at some place that may or may not be North Korea and may or may not have been in the last ten years. So in other words, we can't really tell from the photographs. They don't tell you as much as they... oh no, we do know he wasn't walking with a cane. And unless he got a miracle cure, do you think he went away for a week and got a miracle cure and now he doesn't need a cane? Maybe. Maybe it was such a good hospital trip that he left looking younger. Yeah, it was such a good hospital trip that they fixed him up and now he's thinner and younger and he doesn't walk with a cane. Glad we got those photographs, huh?

All right, I'm going to go on record. Here's my prediction: fake photographs. Fake photographs. Here's why. If you are going to produce real photographs, the point of which is to show that your leader is alive, they would be a little more unambiguous. You know, you don't publish ambiguous photos to prove something. No, you prove something with unambiguous photos, perhaps something called video. Even North Korea has heard of video. It's a thing with movement. Wouldn't be hard to demonstrate that Kim Jong-un was alive. Wouldn't be hard at all. In fact, it would be quite easy. But instead they went with grainy photos of a young-looking Kim. I don't know. I don't know.

So I heard the news today, and I don't know. I think I was vaguely aware of this, but when you read a story about it, it reminds you of something that you couldn't believe, which is that reportedly Kim Jong-un has, assuming he's still alive, sex slaves. Literally sex slaves who apparently will accompany him on trips to his multiple resort compounds on his train and whatnot to dance and sing and the other stuff for him and his elites. Sex slaves for Kim Jong-un.

So here's the news as best we know it. And thank goodness we have intelligence agencies, because if we didn't have intelligence agencies and a free press, we wouldn't be able to narrow it down. So we don't know exactly what Kim Jong-un is doing this week, but thanks to our press and our intelligence agencies, we have narrowed it down. It's either he's dead or he's partying at his seaside resort with two thousand sex slaves.

I've come to understand that he doesn't spend much time in between those two extremes, because think about it. You're Kim Jong-un. You have two thousand sex slaves. What else are you going to spend your time on? And so I present to you a one-act play which features Kim Jong-un's advisors talking to him about the schedule for the day.

I'll start in the role of the adviser to Kim Jong-un. You can tell who the advisor is because the advisers always have notepads. So that's ho

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w you know. "Dear Leader, we're planning your day and we have very, very important budget meetings. Can I put you down for the budget meeting at 2:00 p.m.?" Kim Jong-un: "Uh-huh. Budget meeting. Yeah, yeah, I could attend the budget meeting. That's one possibility. Or I could go to my seaside resort party with my two thousand sex slaves, and maybe you could attend that meeting for me. And if I h…

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