Episode 555 Scott Adams: MAGA Hats, How to Get RICH From News Bubbles, Digital Babies, Insult News
Date: 2019-06-05 | Duration: 56:05
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I’m pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom what a day what a day it’s a beautiful beautiful pre summer day and I know I’m in a good mood I’ll bet you are and there’s so much to talk about so much to talk about most of it’s good news I’d say at least 80% of it it’s all good news that’s why you come here you come here for the dopamine and the good news my my goal for the coming year is to increase your dopamine as well as your knowledge but to do that first we must do something far more important we must enjoy a simultaneous sip and it doesn’t matter if you’ve got a cup or a mug or a glass it doesn’t matter if you’ve got a chalice a Steiner tankard you could have a thermos you could have a flask you could have a vessel but if you have one of those things fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee
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with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that I call the simultaneous cent Oh sublime alright first of all if you have not seen Joe Rogan’s podcast it’s a new one with navall rava can’t stop everything you’re doing and put that on your list and I don’t say that about a lot of things but this is one of those things where you should just trust me put it on your list don’t not watch it I refer to Nepal as the smartest person in the world now you could argue there might be people in the world who have higher IQs I wouldn’t know but what is interesting about invol is a he has used his vast intelligence to think about stuff and research stuff and learn things and make connections that you haven’t yet made and he has the added
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haven’t yet made and he has the added advantage that he can explain it to you in the simplest form so that you can you can acquire the benefits of his vast intellectual pursuits very easily so he’s the smartest person in the world because he’s accessible it doesn’t help to be the smartest person in the world and not be able to tell anybody anything nobody can understand what you’re talking about compared for example to Nassim Taleb probably very smart I wouldn’t know because I don’t understand that anything he says so is he smart well I’m willing to believe that Nassim Taleb is a brilliant guy because I don’t understand a thing he says he’s not an accessible intellectual so he’s got his knowledge whatever it is is sort of stranded it his head he you know there’s no bridge to my brain I can’t get any of that didn’t he but wouldn’t have all talks it goes directly in he’s got that gift and
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goes directly in he’s got that gift and you don’t want to miss that so just look for a Joe Joe Rogan’s latest podcast I have tweeted as well let’s talk about the Rieger in China this is a really this is a really tough topic the we Gers are the muslim minority who are i guess they’re not ethnically Chinese is that true I don’t know what they are ethnically but they’re but they have allegedly and I think the evidence is pretty strong that it’s true they’ve been rounded up and put in concentration camps to the tune of 2 million of them almost I think entirely I’m saying almost but I think entirely because of their religious beliefs now none of us can be happy about that but there’s something there’s something that has to be said about this the Chinese are treating Islam like a
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the Chinese are treating Islam like a health problem if you think about it they’re literally using a quarantine to try to eradicate an idea you know the idea of their religion as if it’s a virus and I’ve said before that you know music for example I call a drug because it goes into your head and it operates on your brain and it changes your mood and even can change your actions so to think that music is not a drug I think is that there’s a mistake you should think of it that way in addition to all the other ways you think of it but you should always think of music as a drug because it’s reprogramming your mind religion too is like a drug because it goes into somebody’s minds and it actually forms their thoughts and determines their actions so like music and like video games like a lot of other things it’s something that enters your body like a virus like a drug and once it’s in your
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virus like a drug and once it’s in your body it sort of takes over over your thinking to some degree sort of like you’ve been taken over by some kind of alien virus now if you say well the virus that I got is the virus of let’s say Buddhism chances are if you have that buddhism virus another here I’m calling the virus just the idea of Buddhism the way people think you probably would not be dangerous would you agree now I’m not saying that’s a universal truth but if you got the Buddhists mental virus and you became the Buddhists you probably wouldn’t be very dangerous to a country to anybody else if you got the Christian virus would you be dangerous maybe depends where you are what period of time how radical your your variety of
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time how radical your your variety of Christianity is but you know 99% of it were or some vast majority of it would not be dangerous so most of the modern you know 2019 Christian idea virus is benign it might be good for the person who has it it won’t necessarily catch on to other people unless it happens to be a strain of the virus that people are actively promoting it and trying to convert other people in which case it would catch on but the new people who got it would not necessarily be dangerous so they would be catching an idea like a virus they would change them but not necessarily in a way that would affect the country the tribe the family now take Islam 90 whatever a percent of Islamic ideas can enter people and they don’t make any difference at all they just become good
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difference at all they just become good citizens they’re good Muslims they love their God they love their neighbors they love their families they fit in in their community so most people are would be let’s say immune to any any bad effects from the virus but Islam is not one thing there’s the the peaceful form of it which everybody says I think pretty much everybody would agree that’s great let’s have more of that peaceful form of Muslims or or if Islam it’s all good but there’s another strain in which if you try to leave the religion you’re killed actually killed for just changing your mind about the religion that’s pretty dangerous and there’s another you know pocket of Islam in which they want to conquer the world and dominate and turn people who are not Islamic into sex slaves and that sort of thing behead the infidels whatever now China is taking a
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infidels whatever now China is taking a very inhumane cold-hearted there’s no way you can defend it approach to the Uighur community it seems that what they’re doing is treating it like a health problem meaning that their quarantine in it and they’re literally trying to eradicate it in the host you meaning the people they’re trying to re-educate them you know the reports of torture and every other kind of bad thing that happens at a concentration camp and they’re treating it like it’s a virus outbreak that they don’t want to spread to the rest of China now here’s the problem it’s just if there are a lot of problems with this first of all it reminds us of course of the Holocaust but I try to I try to say this every time the Holocaust comes comes up if you’re comparing something to the Holocaust you probably shouldn’t there are some
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you probably shouldn’t there are some things that just don’t compare exactly to anything the Holocaust doesn’t really compare to anything it’s its own thing right American slavery doesn’t really compare to anything else it’s sort of its own thing so using those analogies tend to derail any any conversation but we are certainly reminded of those things by looking at these concentration camps now what’s fundamentally different but most people would say not that much less evil is that it assumes that the intention of the Chinese concentration camps has more to do with trying to protect the country from what they say is this idea virus of Islam and that doesn’t make it better it just makes it different so let’s let’s forget the Holocaust because it’s just different we can’t learn too much from it except that
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can’t learn too much from it except that people are evil and they could do horrible things more than you could even imagine they can do so China can’t be listen you can’t be forgiving but they are taking approach which has to be acknowledged is not like anything you’ve ever seen before I don’t know that there’s any analogy to try to quarantine and then eliminate an idea virus which is what they would call it you know if your Islamic you would just call it your religion and that would be a fair thing to call it but from the Chinese point of view they actually have sort of a health outbreak that could cause people to be radicalized in ways that would be damaging to China apparently with the we Gers on for for them live in a their land their territory has strategic value that’s very very high if they didn’t live in a place with high strategic value probably
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place with high strategic value probably they wouldn’t have nearly as much problem now the other thing you have to keep in mind is that China is an atheist country and I believe that they try to deprogram every other kind of religion is that not true I’ll need a fact check out that in is modern China in 2009 can you be a man of the closet practicing Catholic is that is that something you can do could you be a member of any cult any religion probably not so the first question you have to ask yourself is are the we Gers being treated in a way that the every other Chinese person is not being treated and the answer is I don’t know I don’t know because if the average Chinese person who was ethnically Chinese and not a weigert if they tried to form a church and go to church and
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to form a church and go to church and and and teach the Bible what would happen to him I think they would be immediately stopped but I need somebody to validate that that’s that’s true now if that’s true you have to use that frame to look at what’s happening to the weekers under that frame as horrible as this is they would be treated exactly the way every other Chinese person who would be treated every other Chinese person was saying I’m going to stay away from this religion because it’s going to get me some big problems in my daily life the weavers are apparently saying I’m gonna keep my religion no matter how bad this is for me but I don’t know that they’re being treated differently that doesn’t make it right I’m not I’m not certainly not forgiving anything China does and and I think you could make the argument that because of the Uighur situation we shouldn’t train at all you could make a pretty
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at all you could make a pretty compelling moral ethical and even practical argument that we should shut down try China entirely not cause a war not to cause trouble just say you you are so we dis eval you so strongly that how can we trade with you it’s so bad that we can’t even do business with you there is such a thing you could be so bad that you can’t do business with somebody and are we there are we at that point where we just can’t do business with them it’s easy that’s an important question I understand the State Department just issued a strong statement which is what’s making me bring this up so the administration just issued a statement condemning in very strong language very directly the Chinese treatment of the we groups and so let’s keep an eye on that let’s keep an eye on that alright Joe Biden’s
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keep an eye on that alright Joe Biden’s energy plan apparently he had some plagiarism in it so apparently he borrowed from some nonprofits who talked about what to do with climate change and energy and all that the bar apparently they lifted approximately some language and put it in this now of course this brings up Joe Biden’s plagiarism from ladder know however many decades ago where he had a speech where he plagiarized some other famous person but I’m gonna say if that’s the if that’s the biggest problem you have with Biden is that a staff member borrowed some language from something that they agreed with that’s the smallest smallest problem in the world so I’m gonna say that it’s of no importance but I’ve noticed that as people talk about Biden’s plan the most important story is that he’s he seems to the full throated about nuclear he’s calling out nuclear and especially he seems to be referring
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and especially he seems to be referring to the smaller plants the generation four that needs some extra development he seems to be calling it actly the right plan as far as I can tell he’s right on point but it also agrees very much with the president’s plan so the the Biden’s you know breakthrough you know climate change green energy plan I’d like to see it compared to president Trump’s plan which is non-existent in the sense that he hasn’t packaged up anything that looks like a climate or energy plan there are plenty of things the Energy Department is doing that are great they’re doing a lot of things to promote nuclear to promote development to make it easier to generate so the administration is doing great things in this energy field but they haven’t packaged it up in anything like a plan the way Biden has and so I I felt Trump’s administration for that all
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felt Trump’s administration for that all right I was stopped in the grocery store yesterday I was I was just at my local supermarket picking up some groceries with Cristina and a young gentleman came over and asked if I was Scott Adams I said yes I am and he was a he said he was a fan of the podcast so worthy whatever this is the periscopes and youtubes and he recognized me from that and the Estes you could have my autograph on his mega hat which he had in the car so he asked me if he could go to the car and get his mega hat and come in and get my get my autograph what do you think I said no no and now I would have no problem signing anything for anybody if it’s just a signature but I’m not gonna stand in public especially where I live in cyan a make America great again hat
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in cyan a make America great again hat in front of other people now keep in mind that my neighborhood is quite diverse so that you know that the staff and the shoppers in my store you know what it was the full melting pot and the last thing in the world I’m gonna do is stand in public and sign up a cat like I’m not going to do that so I hope I was polite I hope he took it in a polite way because I was I was I was I loved the fact that he asked for the autograph I’ll never be tired of that because you know I don’t do anything I do in my career to not be noticed and not be appreciated so I love the fact that he yes words but I wish I could have complied now this brings me to my next point when 2020 comes along is the Maggi hats still going to be the same thing it was for 2016 here’s my suggestion I don’t think you should be I think the best
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think you should be I think the best thing that that Trump supporters could do would be to lose the Hat or to replace it with a 2020 version that’s invulnerable I would like to suggest a slogan for a 2020 Trump supporting hat that’s a replacement an improvement are you ready for it it’s one word jobs that’s it jobs here’s the beauty of it you have the entire anti-trump world all stirred up to hate whatever Trump supporters do especially if they’re wearing a hat if you’re wearing a hat that says jobs you’re first of all calling attention to the most powerful thing that the president did but it’s better than that it’s directly and specifically and intentionally good for people at the low end of the economic you know situation it is
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economic you know situation it is specifically good for the very people who think the Hat is a sign of evil it would change the focus from something that sounds hey make America great again are you telling me you want to bring it back to some white supremacist sort of thing to it if you can’t that is unsolvable in 2020 you cannot fix Magga in 2020 it has been hugely successful to get Trump elected I would say it’s I think you could argue that make America great again the way Trump did it with the hats and everything else probably one of the all-time greatest branding jobs in history you know maybe Nike just do it is up there but really maybe Trump’s is better so it did its work make America great again did its work it’s time to retire it Jobs is unambiguously positive everybody likes
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unambiguously positive everybody likes jobs jobs are unambiguously good for the lower end of the the economic class specifically good for people who were you know every ethnic group been women every gender it’s just good now what else does jobs have for it well it reminds you of Steve Jobs which makes you think of Apple and people like Apple so that the word has the most positive connotation you’ve ever seen it’s got a religious connotation you know job and here’s the best part Jobs is one half of two of my favorite two of my favorite things if you if you add another word in front of that you get all kinds of fun activities I’m not going to mention so it’s one of those words that makes you ever think of everything from money to sex to religion to Apple Computer it makes you think of
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to Apple Computer it makes you think of all good things and it does fit Trump Trump has been saying jobs shout shout shout shout shout just put it on a hat it’s an accomplishment as well as an ambition because there’s no such thing as being done with jobs jobs is something you keep you can improve forever no somebody’s suggesting jobs not mobs that made sense when there were more mobs because there definitely was a mob period in last you know a year ago there were some mobs if we don’t see more mobs then I would just go with jobs because the mobs kind of went away why did the mobs go away jobs the reason there aren’t as many mobs is because there are more jobs all right and so that’s my suggestion I am nowhere nearly as good at this sort of thing as your president is so I would expect that whenever he
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is so I would expect that whenever he comes up with for his new 2020 slogan will be as good as that or stronger so look for that but I definitely definitely and I’m very confident about this next statement don’t use mega again in 2020 complete mistake so if you’re paying attention for those of you who would like to see me make a prediction and or criticize the president if the president uses make America great again and the same hats for 2020 I’m gonna say that’s a stone-cold mistake that’s just a flat-out unforced error if he retires it as in like you retire at Jersey you know how sports teams when one of their great players retires they retired the number in the Jersey I think the president needs to retire the slogan it worked you gotta be lected it made it made I think great things happen let’s honor it
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think great things happen let’s honor it all right something else happening if you haven’t seen the perpetual Dimond illusion you gotta see it it’s another one of those things it’s a visual illusion but it’s one of those things that reminds you that you don’t have any idea what reality really is because you can see reality changing right in front of you but reality is not changing that’s what makes it a good illusion you feel like it’s moving but it’s not if you haven’t seen it you can see in my Twitter feed or just I think if you google perpetual diamond illusion it will pop right up were see there’s a funny Trump campaign ad not from Trump somebody else made it I don’t know who made it but it’s where he’s walking across scenery and the scenery keeps changing - of all these good things he’s done it’s really really well done so I tweeted it this morning take a look at that yeah that’s a real good example of making you feel something with them all
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making you feel something with them all the critical thinking it makes you feel something all the way through and never gets boring even though you know it’s it’s a few minutes long it’s really well done next topic it seems that Netflix is doing a mini-series on the Central Park five situation there’s a coincidence right total coincidence that Netflix who’s doing a deal with Obama and I forget who Hilary is doing a deal with but so Netflix obviously loves Obama and ah what a coincidence literally the worst thing that could come up during an election year just happens to be coincidentally the miniseries that that Netflix wants to focus on now do you think they hired Susan Rice Netflix did somebody who’s saying in the comments now do you think it’s a complete coincidence that this new hoax the essential part 5 hoax which
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new hoax the essential part 5 hoax which by the way it’s all a hoax when somebody says what about that bad Trump who said the Central Park five should be executed when they were when they were innocent he’d never mentioned race he mentioned crime he said that exactly what he says now if if you kill people maybe you should be executed it’s no different but of course we’ll be couched as it’s a big ol racist thing when in fact that’s all hoax now this comes on top of the Chernobyl thing what was the one thing that could make the whole climate change advantage that the people on the Left had what’s the one thing that could make their entire advantage go away focusing on nuclear because nuclear is the only path whether you believe climate change is a problem or if you don’t it’s exactly the same path you should do the new technologies that of nuclear that have been proven very safe and you should do them as fast
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very safe and you should do them as fast as possible either way because you need the energy even if you don’t need to clean up the environment but you don’t even need to decide we don’t have to settle who’s right about these climate predictions no decision needed it’s the same path that you should do it just as hard either way now Biden of course has now endorsed that so the people on the Left if they want to protect their idea that climate change has to be solved a certain way what is the very best way they could do it make a documentary and scare the pants off people talk about Chernobyl too much so when you look at the Central Park five mini-series on Netflix that leans left and you look at HBO which leans left there sure Chernobyl special should you see any of this as coincidence maybe I mean maybe they’ve been planned for 10 years I wouldn’t rule it out but they also got green lighted at a very interesting time
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green lighted at a very interesting time so it might be not necessarily the creators that decided to do it it could be whoever gave it the green light it’s like whoa I didn’t like this before but this is a pretty good project for 2020 so we don’t know the details but I think we’re entering a period where the way elections will be may be influenced is by art it seems to me that art is starting to replace political discussion because it’s so influential I’m not going to watch you know because I don’t want it to influence me do you get that I mean there’s a reason I don’t vote because I don’t want to be influenced to join a team I also it will intentionally not watch Chernobyl because it’s meant to scare me and I want to make decisions without that influence I will probably not probably I’m sure I will intentionally not watch the central 5 miniseries unless I have
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the central 5 miniseries unless I have to watch it to debunk it and I think I’d probably have to so I take that back I’ll probably watch it just to debunk it so that’s different I’ve noticed this CNN has there they seem to be pioneering a new form of journalism which I will tentatively label the triumph the insult dog news if you read if you read CNN they you know that opinion pieces and their opinion pieces often will be so reason free that you can read them for a long time and and see a lot of insults before you get there anything like a fact or a reason let me let me read one sentence from one of their articles up there that is a triumph the insult dog type of news has nothing to do with the actual triumph the insult dog I’m just using that as some acknowledgement so this is this is from an actual argument our actual article on CNN quote just how
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our actual article on CNN quote just how ignorant middling and a moral is Kushner the Axios interview offers some startling clues among them is that he manages to spin his utter incompetence as a good thing where are the reasons that’s just a whole bunch of insults with no facts I mean it must be referring to something they’re thinking about but you can read the entire argument the article and it’s nothing but triumph the insult dog until the end and you get to the end it you’re like what are the reasons the reasons are blah blah he’s done that’s not a reason give me give me something he did this down but yes oh he’s ignorant middling an amoral so show me the evidence that would support a moral middling or ignorant I don’t see it and it’s not offered but cNN has just turned into insult porn it’s like if if the insults feel good
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it’s like if if the insults feel good because they’re insulting somebody you don’t like well it’s a little bit of a a little bit of a buzz you get from that all right here’s another topic our babies as necessary in the digital age are they necessary now when I say our babies necessary why is the reason anybody has has a child now if you ask somebody why do you have a child they’ll give you reasons but wouldn’t you agree it’s a biological imperative in other words whatever reason we give for having babies is probably subsidiary to the fact that we would have babies no matter what we are human beings we have an impulse to reproduce because we evolved to be reproducers if we didn’t reproduce there wouldn’t be more of us but why do you but what is the basis of the biological need to reproduce and I have a hypothesis that I would like to share with you that the biological basis for
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with you that the biological basis for reproduction is our ego the sense that we are important why why do hypothetically I don’t have any genetic children but hypothetically if I wanted to have a baby of my own with my own DNA why why would that be preferred over adopting or over just paying my taxes so other people’s babies can be supportive why well I think it’s because we humans believe there’s something special about us that needs to extend past our lifetime in other words we feel there’s something that has to be of us that needs to go on so that we don’t feel that we die that our ego or importance our self can carry on the way to do that in the past historically is been by putting your DNA which is essentially a database your DNA is a little database and you put that little
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little database and you put that little database in your children and then they go forward and have children and the database changes over time but your it’s still something that sprang from you it’s important now fast forward to 22 2000 2009 teen fast forward today do you need to create a database of your DNA so that you will live on well I don’t because I have a digital record I have I have books and comics and I have podcasts and periscopes I’ve got photos I’ve got every form of me is captured there is a full and permanent digital database of Who I am that will kind of live forever you and it will live both in the impacts I have on other people as well as it will be stored and people can watch it a thousand ears from now so you have may have noticed that in civilized countries where there’s a lot of Technology the reproduction rate is way
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Technology the reproduction rate is way down so it’s becoming a problem the civilized countries are having fewer babies now there are lots of reasons for it some of them are well a lot of them are economic but I would like to suggest that whenever somebody gives a logical reason for why people either have are having babies or not having babies that these are rationalizations they can be true like true facts and they may be the way that we’re internalizing them as in hey the economy is bad I can’t afford to move out I can’t get out of my apartment I’m living at home I’m certainly not going to have a baby maybe that’s all it is perhaps that’s all it is but I would suggest that people are not that rational and that there may be something more basic that is keeping us from reproducing and that answer is social media if you have social media you’re creating the record that is your database of you that will live forever ish
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ish and maybe your biological need to reproduce is being suppressed by the fact that you are reproducing your you’re sending your ego out in the world just something to think about I wouldn’t die by that hypothesis you know I wouldn’t bet my life on it some think about I’ve noticed that there’s a big change going on I wonder if you noticed it when I got my smartphone it was great they did a bunch of things but it was slow and the Wi-Fi never worked and the screen was small but as the smartphone simply evolved it reached the part where it is now and that place it is that if I have my phone which is an amazing device that can reach all kinds of places and people and I have my battery that can give me you know hours of time and I never worry about running and battery time and I’ve got unlimited usage which I do on my plan and I’ve got
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usage which I do on my plan and I’ve got a super fast Wi-Fi in my house which I do that television has become unnecessary especially if I’m wearing my ear pods or or headphones have you felt the same thing that when you have those things headphones smartphone battery backup or at least you’re not too far from from power and unlimited usage isn’t it true that television is unnecessary in fact television is so unnecessary that if I were to build a home today from scratch I might not put a television group in there when I built my house 10 years ago I I thought hey I’m going to do what rich people do I’m good for little home theater in my house do you know what is the least used room in my house the theater nobody in 2019 wants to sit in a row of seats and watch one screen that’s the same screen that everybody else is
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the same screen that everybody else is watching at the same time sitting in a room and he can’t leave the room nobody wants to do that do you know what I want to do I want to put on an episode of you know the five or tucker carlson or or you know joe rogan or something i want to put that on put my phone in my pocket put my headphones on and go for a walk go for a walk because i’m walking and watching television and i’m watching exactly what i want and nobody’s bothering me etc so I’m thinking that television as a thing is is going to shrink quickly so as people catch up to where the you know the the people with money are I mean the reason that I can do these things is that I have money you know I can I can buy it following I can buy a really good battery I can get unlimited usage I’ve got a good Wi-Fi but those things will become accessible to more and more people over time and I think television I think television is on his way out
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I think television is on his way out somebody said I should get a real drum kit I have real drum kits I have a makuu stick drum kit in the house and I’ve got electronic in the in the garage let’s talk about here’s a yourself that I’ve thought about you know the the problem of not having fathers you hear it about hear about it a lot now I’ve pushed back on that because I think that it’s it it unfairly says that a single mom you’re somehow missing something because there’s not a father and I think that on average father adding fathers to it is probably a good thing but that a single mom with resources can do a great job with a kid and I don’t think that we should we should poopoo that but given that there are so many people who haven’t had fathers for various reasons they’re broken families the father left or the father just wasn’t good at being a father it feels
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wasn’t good at being a father it feels to me that there is there are a number of people who are finding father’s online and you know where I’m having this when you watch as I mentioned earlier navall Roth account if you watch him on Joe Rogan’s podcast what you’re seeing are two fathers and I think to a large extent that’s at least half of the appeal there are people who never had a father talking to them the way a father teaches a son especially and one of the things that Joe Rogan said that was fascinating is that over 90% of his audiences mail they’ve all said the same thing he started a podcast and over 90% of it was male my periscopes are over I think over 90% male so my content also is 90% male Jordan Peterson as people
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is 90% male Jordan Peterson as people are prompting me here he was I was gonna mention him next Jordan Peterson is the father you didn’t have he’s sort of the father you wish you had ad Latin as again you’re way ahead of me I was he’s on my list ed Latimer Jordan Peterson Navarre rava Conte and to some extent me because I was looking at my stats for my youtube usage of people watching me on youtube and I was surprised to find that I have a very strong demographic in the 20s and 30s all men a very strong following in the 20s and 30s which is unusual for my age generally people watch things that are sort of youngish and close to who they are you know you expect old people are going to watch older people doing stuff young people are gonna watch younger people doing stuff but there’s a very clear trend of younger men who were
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very clear trend of younger men who were absorbing this content from online fathers and I think that’s kind of what’s happening here that their men have been lost feeling that there’s something missing in their experience what I grew up my father was a I would say a week a week male he was didn’t much didn’t have much ambition he just sort of went to work and worked hard and had two jobs now I asked myself watching my father being a very dedicated you know family guy who worked so hard he had two jobs and just took care of business didn’t complain much did that have any effect on me well probably I mean there’s a genetic aspect but I think by example I learned hard work so to me having two jobs or three jobs which is exactly what I have now I mean I’m a cartoonist I’m writing books and doing these things and a lot of other things
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these things and a lot of other things so there are things you absorbed from a father if you’re male that you’re just not going to absorb in the same way or with the same impact or quite as compatibly if you’re watching even the best female role modeling world because a female role model is going to have some of the things you need but maybe not the same things that a male role model would give you so I think you’re seeing the outsourcing of fatherhood and I quite intentionally took this role because my book had a feelin almost everything and still win big was written for my 14 year old stepson I wrote it with him in mind it’s always a good idea to write a book with a specific audience in mind and I like to think of a specific person so when I’m writing the book I’ll think okay who is this for you know and I’ll think of a person who represents the class of people I want to go to because I know that one person it’s often a family member and our so I
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it’s often a family member and our so I write to my brother sense of humor and I was writing that book to my stepson now unfortunately my stepson passed away this year from fentanyl fentanyl overdose so he did not get the benefit of this book he had just reached the age where he was asking about it and starting to read it which crushes me but there are people who were doing this sort of thing Jordan Peterson being the most obvious case of it so think about that think that there is a virtual fatherhood digital presence that’s happening and and I think it’s important because there if you look at say the inner city for example there’s you know just tons of people who don’t have any kind of a father but now if they have a phone they can find one so a lot of people are finding a father figure and a lot of
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finding a father figure and a lot of people have told me that in in so many words that I’m filling that place for them alright I want to talk about how do you how do compensate for social media bias and then I’m gonna tell you how to get rich off of it okay ready for this so first how to compensate for any social media bias and then I’m gonna tell you how to get rich off it because you can get rich whenever there’s some kind of imperfection or imbalance in the world and there’s an imbalance in our world right now I’ll tell you how to exploit it which will be good for me by the way so what I’m going to tell you is good for me but it could be good for you too suppose suppose you had a piece of software this sits above your various social media platforms and you add to them the alternates so you’ve got your social media platforms your Twitter’s and your youtubes and your Facebook’s
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and your youtubes and your Facebook’s your instagrams etc but then there are the new ones such as parlor and gab and mines and who knows how successful they’ll be able let’s let’s add them to the list right now then imagine you have a piece of software this is on top of them and is the only thing that posts to them so you’ve set this piece of software up so it has the permissions so you can post once and it will post to whichever platforms you want from that moment you could post as much quantity to the alternate platforms as you do to the primary platforms somebody’s saying it exists but not in the form that’s usable and and and easy-to-use well that’s the same thing but imagine it also has this so you’re so the first thing is you would create diversification so you would create a a diversified portfolio of social media platforms such that if you get kicked off a one you have the others
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get kicked off a one you have the others that’s what diversification gives you so the first thing I would recommend to all of you is to diversify you should diversify your platforms even if you don’t use the lesser platforms putting the count on it do some posts see if you can gather some some people because if you get kicked off of one you want to have the other one on the hot standby hot standby takes is important right then you want to have your your software that sits above those platforms monitoring them for follows and unfollowers under the same names so in other words you want to use your same screen name that you use for Twitter if you get on an alternate platform so I am Scott Adam says on Twitter I’ll try if I had thought of this earlier I would have been in Scott Adam says on all my platforms I haven’t I didn’t do that but I should have then here’s the thing you want to be able to track anything that
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want to be able to track anything that doesn’t make sense across platforms because this would be your test for the algorithms biased against you so for example if you started to build up enough of an audience on the alternate platforms you could post to Twitter and the alternate Twitter whether it’s parlor or gab or whatever else to do it both and then see what happens what happens if it takes off on one platform and goes down on the other then you would notice it you wouldn’t necessarily notice it if you were using one platform because if you only use one platform you just know what happened you don’t know why but if you’ve got two platforms and one goes up and goes viral and the other one doesn’t that’s a red flag the next thing you could do is track your unfollowers what happens if people were using the same names or a lot of not everybody has to use the same name on every platform you’d only need enough of them so that if you found that your
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of them so that if you found that your your software above saw that you’ve got unfollowed by somebody on Twitter you could go over to parlor and see if that same person has unfollowed you because if they haven’t why not because if your unfollowing somebody on one platform wouldn’t you unfollow them on the other well of course you might be lazy or you might not be using the other platform so there could be a reason you just didn’t get around to it it’s just an extra step you didn’t want to do it but if everybody was using the top-level software then if you wanted to unfollow somebody you could unfollow them from all the platforms at the same time so if you get enough people using the high-level posting and monitoring software because it’s not just the posting it’s the checking it’s the checking against platforms so anything that looks mischievous on one can be detected because it’s not happening on the others
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because it’s not happening on the others that’s the magic sauce now the only way to get their check up somebody’s calling it maybe so now the only way to get there is if people take the concept of diversification seriously if you were if you’re investing diversification is good in most of life diversification is a smart thing we don’t do it in social media and we see the cost of it so I would say you should go out of your way to keep alive these startups that are potential competitors to the big platforms so whether it’s parlor or gap or mines whatever it is and other ones will come along you don’t necessarily have to move all your action there Twitter does what these others can’t do and maybe will never do so I’m not going to move my traffic wall to Twitter it’s still going to be my dominant platform but I’m gonna make sure I’ve got a YouTube channel and I opened a parlor account so I’ve got some place to go
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account so I’ve got some place to go fairly quickly if things turn sour and one of my platforms so that’s why I suggest now I’m gonna tell you how to get rich taking advantage of the news silos so you have a situation here where half of the country here’s one kind of news on the left the other country here’s the other half and then there’s no there’s not much crosstalk how could you get rich taking advantage of that imperfection in the way people process stuff I’m gonna suggest something that is a hundred percent self-serving all right so if you can’t get past that you probably want to sign off now this is good for me but it’s good for a lot of people and that is if you understand how crypto currencies work you know that what makes them go up in value is simply that a lot of people want to buy them so if a lot of people want any crypto currency it will go up in value whether it’s Bitcoin or anything else I start up
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it’s Bitcoin or anything else I start up to when hub has a cryptocurrency that has a utility meaning that it could go up for two reasons one reason it goes up is just a lot of people buy it that that’s all it would take just supply and demand because there’s a limited number the other way is if people use the one hub product because that creates an internal demand which also makes the value go up now what is it that you people know that everybody on the Left doesn’t know they don’t know what one help is they’ve never heard it I’ll bet there are very few people on the Left who have ever heard that it exists because they don’t listen to me and they have no idea but people on the right because you’ve been listening to me are very aware of it or at least people have seen my content whoever owns these cryptocurrencies first gets in on the bottom if enough of you do it you can bid it up until everybody notices it so if the value of the wind went up from
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if the value of the wind went up from it’s yeah it’s trading under five cents bouncing around between two and five cents right now which is typical for cryptocurrency but the volume is starting to build there’s there’s far more trading in it on hot bit uh-oh that’s an exchange so there are two places you could get it one is go to when hub comm and all you need is a credit card and you can just buy it right on the site second way you can get it is to go to an exchange I would recommend hottub it dot IO and you can but on there you’d need to you know have some Bitcoin or so these are two to trade so if you’re experienced with crypto you’d go to an exchange that’s the cheaper way together if you’re not experienced you just want to and some you can still get a cheap at one table come by it it is a self self-fulfilling investment so you can actually control how well it does by your actions and whether you buy it so if people following this bought a lot of
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if people following this bought a lot of it it would become noticeable to everyone and as soon as it became noticeable to everyone and it had some momentum behind it then you would see people on the Left buying it just because it’s going up people buy stuff because it’s getting action and it’s going up that would allow you to get rich by taking advantage of the silo of news because you can get in before they get in by the time they get in you’ve already made your money you’ve doubled or tripled your money now you should never take advice on anything financial from cartoonists the probable outcome of any purchase of any crypto asset bitcoin or anything else is zero you probably will not make money on any crypto investment the when is probably safer than 98% of crypto just because it’s a utility token and it has a real product beyond it but otherwise crypto it is a
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beyond it but otherwise crypto it is a very very risky thing don’t do it because I said so the only time you should ever buy any crypto stuff is if you can afford it you can afford to lose all of it so that this is the best way to thank you if you would be very sad like it would really bother you to lose a hundred percent of your money don’t do it so but if you would say well I’m investing in a lot of different things I’m diversifying like where this is going I could put x-small dollars into it and if I lost it well you know that’s no big deal somebody says it all sound shady the entire cryptocurrency market is is more fraud than real there’s some of it that people are doing and legitimately we are we’re all lawyered up it’s a real product it’s a real company it’s a it’s a it’s a solid offering but be careful with anything like that let’s talk about one of the things CBS has introducing some concept stores with what they call
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some concept stores with what they call health hubs I don’t know exactly what that is but I like it so CBS which has locations everywhere put some kind of a health care you know facilities in their stores that’s a real big deal and it’s one of you know part of the tapestry of things that will lower health care costs and make it more available in the future I think I’ve talked about everything I want to talk about today just look at my list if you want to see this on YouTube as a playback just Google real real coffee with Scott Adams it’ll pop right up and if you watch it on YouTube I would be very happy and I want to thank you for joining me and I’ll talk to you later