Where can the full February 22, 2023 Real Coffee with Scott Adams YouTube livestream be accessed or archived?
Executive summary
The contested February 22, 2023 Real Coffee with Scott Adams installment was broadcast as a YouTube livestream and is the specific program that triggered widespread fallout for Adams; major news outlets cite his on-air remarks from that livestream (YouTube) as the source of the controversy [1] [2] [3]. Reporting provided here identifies the platforms where Adams regularly posted full shows or republished content — YouTube, his Locals subscription site, and third-party video hosts like Rumble — but none of the supplied sources includes a direct, verifiable archive link to the complete February 22, 2023 video file itself, which limits confirmation of an accessible full copy in these sources [4] [5] [6].
1. Where it originally aired: the YouTube livestream that precipitated the fallout
Contemporary accounts and biographical summaries point explicitly to a February 22, 2023 YouTube livestream of Real Coffee with Scott Adams as the moment when Adams made the comments that led newspapers and his distributor to sever ties (the livestream is the primary source quoted by The Guardian, NPR and Wikipedia summaries) [1] [3] [2]. Those outlets cite that Adams reacted on that livestream to a poll about the phrase “It’s OK to be white,” and they use the YouTube broadcast as their factual reference for what he said [1] [3].
2. Where full episodes were typically hosted or republished
Adams ran Real Coffee across multiple platforms: his Locals site hosted daily livestreams and additional “extra” content behind a subscription paywall (ScottAdams.Locals is presented as the hub for livestreams and bonus material) [4] [6]. He also distributed audio and show segments through podcast aggregators — Apple Podcasts and Spotify are listed as hosts of Real Coffee’s audio feed — which means some episodes or clips could exist in audio form on those services [6] [7] [8]. Finally, Rumble is documented as a repository where Real Coffee videos were uploaded, indicating re-uploads or mirrored copies could have been placed there [5].
3. What contemporary news reporting and archives captured
Major news reports and obituaries cite and summarize the February 22 livestream content rather than embedding a complete archive file, and they use those descriptions to explain the career consequences Adams faced when Dilbert was dropped by newspapers and his syndicator severed ties [3] [1] [2]. These stories reliably identify the livestream as the source of the remarks but do not, in the supplied material, include a direct link to a preserved full-length video of that specific February 22 broadcast [3] [1].
4. Practical next steps and the reporting limitation
Because the documents provided here confirm where Adams published full shows (YouTube originally, Locals subscription content, and republished copies on sites like Rumble) but do not themselves contain a verified URL or archived copy of the February 22, 2023 livestream, the most direct path to locate a full version would be to check: the Real Coffee with Scott Adams YouTube channel (the origin point cited by multiple outlets) and his Locals archive for subscribers (both platforms are documented hosts of his shows) and to search Rumble for mirrored uploads [1] [4] [5]. News outlets summarized or excerpted the broadcast for reporting, but the supplied sources do not establish a publicly archived, full-length link to the February 22 program; that absence should be treated as a limitation of the provided reporting rather than evidence that no archive exists [3] [1] [2].