Episode 568 Scott Adams: Amazing Erik Finman, Gaslighting, Harvard Hypocrites, Trump Heights

Date: 2019-06-17 | Duration: 54:18

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Brainwashing IS real, gaslighting is NOT real Guest: Erik Finman, self-made teenage Bitcoin millionaire…now age 20 “I was bored and wanted to launch a satellite…” The future of Bitcoin, what to expect Visit Erik’s website: https://coinbitsapp.com Harvard and a despicable rat…screwed Kyle Kashuv in the 11th hour They’ve pinned the needle on the disgusting, immorality scale Israel just named a town after President Trump, “Trump Heights” Is ANYONE still worried President Trump might be anti-semitic? Systems versus Goals…A system for every part of your life AOC and President Trump are tweeting to each other What AOC is doing…is working, she’s hit the big time Her persuasive powers are the real deal Andrew Yang has agreed to be interviewed here…soon Like President Trump and AOC…he’s fascinating

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I’m pumpin pumpin pumpin pumpin pum pum pum pum pum hey everybody come on in here it’s time for coffee with Scott Adams I’m Scott Adams and if you’re prepared and if you knew this was coming and if you have some kind of a cup or a glass or a mug you could have a stylish Elvis or a tankard you might have a thermos or possibly a flask but what you should do is fill it with your favorite liquid so that you can enjoy the unparalleled pleasure of the simultaneous sip yeah your dopamine is about to take a ride to Mars join me now for the simultaneous imp dopamine everywhere all right good stuff in several minutes we’re going to have a special guest you’re gonna enjoy it Erik Finland will be I see he’s already

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Erik Finland will be I see he’s already joined so in a bit we’ll I’ll invite him on so Erik hold tight well we build up our audience here I going to talk about a few other things number one at the same time that the National Review I think it was Kevin Williamson was writing that brainwashing is not real so so one publication is writing a story that says brainwashing is not real the other part of the news is writing a story about a cult called an XIV M now I understand there were a pretty effective cult but they really need help with branding because if you get a name your cult and XIV M and that’s not even trying they need a little help on the the naming stuff anyway the cult is in trouble because the leader Renier is accused of brainwashing all of his

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accused of brainwashing all of his members in the cult it turns out that not only did he brainwash them to become sex slaves but he also got him got them to agree to be branded branded with a hot poker like a cow he convinced a whole bunch of women to hold still while a hot poker branded them and when they were done they said hey this is great I’m glad I did that now do you believe that brainwashing isn’t real i all think so I don’t think so but at the same time the people are saying brainwashing is not real there’s yet another article in The Washington Post saying that Sarah Sanders was part of the quote gaslighting she’s doing it she did a bunch of gas lighting gas lighting is not real gas lighting is the thing that happened once in a movie it didn’t even happen more than once in

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didn’t even happen more than once in movies in the entire universe of reality and then within reality there’s this smaller universe of let’s say entertainment it’s never happened in the larger reality gas lighting has never happened and in the smaller reality of entertainment it’s only happened once in one movie one time that’s it it doesn’t exist anywhere in the real world and almost doesn’t exist anywhere in the entertainment world just once one movie one time and then in the Washington Post writes it like it’s news it’s like well every you could say it I look at all this gas lighting did you see that gas lighting over there there’s a whole pile look at you what do you mean you can’t see it there’s a whole pile of it right over there look at that a giant pile of gas lighting you can’t see it you can’t see anything there because I’m pretty sure I see it let me remind you of my filter on reality for trying to decide what is real and what is not real filter

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what is real and what is not real filter number one is it reported the same on the two opposing sides meaning does Fox News say it’s true and real at the same time the CNN and MSNBC say that it’s real No because you’re not going to find a lot of people on Fox News telling you that the president was engaged in something called gas lighting only one only one side reports in that filter almost certainly guarantee is it’s not real if both of them don’t report it it’s not real all right if you have a hurricane Fox reports it see then reports it it’s real really had a hurricane if one of them reports that somebody was engaged in a secret plot the gas light which by the way the definition is someone trying to make you think you’re crazy and thus drive you crazy in other words gas lighting is not just lying gas lighting is not telling something that’s

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lighting is not telling something that’s not true gas lighting specifically just to drive the person crazy and make them down all of their senses never happened nobody’s doing it nobody’s tried to do it it isn’t a thing Sarah Sanders hasn’t done it so here’s here’s the other filter prediction if your view of the world predicts well you probably have a pretty good view of the world or at least one that predicts well that’s as well as you can do sometimes hmm sorry and what predicts weather what is a better prediction I say brainwashing is real and so my prediction would be that you should see lots of examples of it and sure enough there’s a headline about it this cult I just mentioned this NX IBM is literally brainwashing like wise you would expect that people would believe ridiculous untruths if if brainwash E is real there would be people who had been brainwashed to believe ridiculous things for example

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to believe ridiculous things for example I’ll give you one on both sides for example people believe that the president called neo Nazis fine people in public while he was president now that only doesn’t didn’t happen but it’s so easy to prove it didn’t happen you just read the transcript look at the video so my belief my worldview says that brainwash E is real and you should see lots of example of it there’s an example you can verify yourself here people who say that he said this thing here’s the actual quote you can see it’s not real truth here’s another one when when the people on the right I won’t name names we’re saying that Hillary Clinton was giving away all of our valuable uranium resources I said well that doesn’t sound real to me it’s not being reported on the other network is true and the the idea was there are two parts of that uranium one story that

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two parts of that uranium one story that I’m referring to one is that maybe the Clintons enriched themselves by being part of that approval process I’m not talking about that part I’m talking about the claim that we had given away 20% of our valuable national resources that had some kind of important strategic value the plutonium turns out today we learn that we’ve got a hundred years of plutonium and if we start putting generation for nuclear power online that a hundred years of plutonium might go to thousands of years so we have so much plutonium we don’t know what to do with it right so it was never true that the Hillary Clinton was giving away 20% of our important asset that somehow we couldn’t replace or we need it just was never true so that was brainwashing and my prediction is that people would believe it and they did now how about gas lighting if gas lighting is real you would expect you

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lighting is real you would expect you know both networks to say it which they don’t but you would also expect to find somebody somewhere someday who said that they were engaged in it maybe not right away but you would predict okay maybe in a few years there’ll be some pollster or some experts some some adviser to the president who said yeah we sat in a room and we decided we’re gonna make people actually doubt their sanity we’re gonna say things so untrue that people will think they’re actually crazy and that’s not part of our strategy you’re never gonna see that nobody’s ever gonna write to tell the tell-all book and you know they’re going to be tell-all books so private conversations is everything you’re never gonna see the tell-all book where somebody said yeah somebody said yeah we were gas lighting that’s what we plan to do that’s what we tried to execute Michael Wolfe doesn’t say that all right um let me bring in let’s see if Eric is ready Eric I don’t see you

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if Eric is ready Eric I don’t see you signed up as a guest yet so Eric you must be on a mobile device it won’t work and a laptop or a desktop you must be on a mobile device to join this guest and look for the little icons that look like smiley faces at the bottom and when you’ve done that there you are I’m gonna bring you on now Eric Finland will be coming with us at a moment should his Wi-Fi be working looks like it’s cranking a little bit there so let’s we might have to retry this if it doesn’t come in Eric if you could hear me I can see the progress indicator going crazy but nothing’s happening so all right that didn’t work let’s try again Eric went off and kick got back on and now let’s see if this works a second time there we go Eric can

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works a second time there we go Eric can you hear me yay I have so much so many things I want to talk about with you so I’m gonna just jump in okay absolutely sounds wonderful all right so for those of you who don’t know Eric number one you should he’s a great follow on Instagram and Twitter so you should do that I’ll give you information on that in a bit but Eric how old are you now Eric I’m an old man I just turned 20 recently my god he’s 20 years old and your story involved not wanting to finish school can you give us give us the quick version of high school Eric and what happened in terms of your educational quest can you give us that give us a little background on that absolutely so yeah I mean I grew up in in Idaho in the middle of nowhere and I went to I always I kind of tried going to schools but I never really fit in in any schools so I kind of I went to

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any schools so I kind of I went to pretty much every school in North Idaho and then eventually yeah I went I mean myself to kind of just the local public high school and it kind of wasn’t a good experience I didn’t really get good grades I think my GPA was like a 2.1 and then they and then I had one teacher you know and just kind of said I should just drop out and work for McDonald’s because that’s all ever amount to one in life I’m seeing that in the comments people are asking you to speak a little louder because sometimes the gas come in the guests come in a little lower volume so you were in Idaho tell what what are your what did your parents do and what do they still do um yeah so sweet on my family they they do a couple things they’re very very eccentric so on my parents they simultaneously they run a business where we’re on every Humvee in the US military they have this amplifier on it which jams people from remotely blowing up mines under Humvees and I don’t know kind of another technology which allows you to you know fly kind of

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which allows you to you know fly kind of a a communications drone from San Francisco in the Middle East and then they also run a llama farm so pretty so pretty much your father is Tony Stark and your mother is mrs. Tony Stark they’re both I guess they’re both Tony Stark’s aren’t they they’re both scientists or both our jobs yeah they’re both they got they met getting their PhDs at Stanford very right so you got these super smart successful inventor type parents and you didn’t like school and there’s there’s a point where you took another path so give us that quick story absolutely so I did take that one teachers advice to drop out but I skipped the McDonald’s part um yeah I dropped out when I was fifteen and at the time I got into Bitcoin when I in 2011 when I was about 12 years old with with the help of my brother so when I was fifteen I kind of amassed you know one Bitcoin is worth next to nothing I’m asked about a hundred thousand dollars worth by the time I was fifteen so I dropped out you know and I I

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so I dropped out you know and I I decided to drop out and then I took my money and moved to Silicon Valley to Palo Alto and then I it was my dream to start a startup and that’s why I wanted to get I actually tried to get good grades in school I tried really hard but my kind of creativity and my brain wouldn’t allow me to is I wasn’t going so how old were you when you went to Silicon Valley with your $100,000 you made with Bitcoin 15 years old 15 years old and you went without a parent no no yeah my mom was very worried but but it was cool I mean I kind of roll with it you know all right so let me tell the audience what what I know that they don’t know yet so I know Eric we’ve we’ve had lunch few times we’ve talked a bunch of times and the strangest thing about Eric so this is something you’re gonna hear for the first time Eric is that you can’t imagine how many people ask me to have lunch you know people are always saying hey let’s get together to lunch it’sit’s an everyday thing if you’re successful or you’re in the

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you’re successful or you’re in the public eye happens all the time and of course I say no to basically everybody because I just don’t have time to go to lunch with strangers Eric says do you want to go to lunch and I said okay and I still don’t know why like I actually think about that all the time I think why did I say yes to go to lunch I think had something to do with the fact that you’re young and doing things I thought it was going to be a good story but the other thing they don’t know is that you’re tall how tall are you I’m 62 yeah so he’s six - and you were and you were tall even as a teenager right I mean you’re barely just not a teenager and so so Eric walks in into their room and he just physically you’re like an adult and I and there’s something about your mannerism or persona where people like to hang out with you you’re just you’re just really fun to hang out with and and I’ve

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fun to hang out with and and I’ve noticed this in your story there’s a part where you met the reddit co-founder is that true yeah I did actually my dream was to go to Stanford and start a startup when I graduated but when I was 15 when I was down there I ended up speaking at Stanford with him to stand for students on how to start a business right so so one of Eric’s magic powers is that you’ve met an astonishing number of famous and rich people by the age of 20 and you were you were doing that as a teenager you were you were just calling up people who were famous but what was the most famous person that you’ve just contact and said hey let’s get together and then he got together um I don’t know I mean Casey nice that was one of them like I remember all the youtubers like Logan apology call Casey Neistat you know I emailed the CEO of FedEx so we did the satellite project and they were actually shipping it using FedEx and then it had to get there by we’re like shipping it like a week before but FedEx lost her package and

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before but FedEx lost her package and when we emailed the FedEx CEO just out of the blue like I was because I just have such luck with like cold messaging people and yeah he he said an exact task force to find my satellite and then he dictated a personal plane to fly my satellites Colin Cowie I have this theory that there are some people who were magnets for other famous people and you were clearly in that category all right but we’ve we fast-forwards over a couple of good things so you you’re first tell us about your first startup boat angle yeah so um you know I created it when I was I was 15 and it was an education startup boat angle and then I it was a wave where you could type in any subject you wanted to learn and then find someone to teach you over video chat you know you’re familiar with that concept Scott yes and then and then yeah and then I I did that because I wanted to solve my own problem you know when I was 15 I had all these

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know when I was 15 I had all these teachers that hated me said I’d be a failure and then you know I found actually I was using this my own sites to solve my own problems and I I kind of I you know I was learning rather than learning Spanish from somebody in North Idaho probably the whitest state in the Union um I was learning Spanish and you know from somebody in Ecuador just using my own site no rather than you know learning kind of math from again somebody in North Idaho I was learning math from somebody that was a grad student at Oxford now that’s that experience with that startup is no doubt at least informed part part of why you made a recommendation for the when the cryptocurrency that my startup does because we have the product that lets you talk to an expert so it was similar enough to why you were done that you you recognized some value there so so for those of you came recognizes game so so in full disclosure you own some wend which are the cryptocurrency from my

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which are the cryptocurrency from my startup and we do know each other so just so the audience knows full disclosure now you sold that and then you used your you you accepted for selling boat angle you accepted Bitcoin right yes yes I sold my company for Bitcoin at the time so this Bitcoin is working out pretty pretty well for you wouldn’t you say alright so then I want you answer this this trivia question that you’ll be the only one who can answer who is the the cartoon character that is the highest up in space right now oh yes Dilbert Dilbert is correct so why don’t you tell people why the Dilbert character is higher up in space than any other cartoon character right now and your role in that tell us about that absolutely so you know I was bored and and I wanted to launch a satellite so I

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and I wanted to launch a satellite so I got a really good group of really good group kind of an Avengers team of teenagers together and all that and and then we kind of pitched to do this educational mission called Alanna which NASA NASA did educational launch of something satellites or something so anyways we we pitched for that satellite and we won kind of this whole NASA thing where they would cover completely the costs of all the multi-million dollar launch costs of the satellite and everything so it was amazing and one of the things you know we did many things on it we you know we put a camera on there where we wanted to do the first video game in space another thing that we want to do on there or did is is do a time capsule so I email I wanted to message I wanted to really represent kind of the world this is like a 21st century Carl Sagan golden record if you’re familiar where where we wanted to kind of use now that everybody has a call and everybody has planes like back when that was launched it was in the 70s we wanted to kind of create something where we get all the

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create something where we get all the artists all the leaders all the all the leaders of culture all the leaders of politics all the algae’s leaders and then also normal people get one video from at least almost every country in the world and we did that and kind of put this all into one time capsule and launch it into space so you know you’re one of you know a huge political influencer and then and you know you’re you’re very culturally relevant like Dilbert is is you know one of the big cultural content the most famous comic you know cultural comic newspaper comic today so yeah I got people like that you know we got people like Eric Trump to contribute to the time capsule so I went to Trump Tower legado made make space quick in that I got Taylor Swift which was really cool she sent us a message and her favorite music and then we got Scott Adams alright so does so they’ve launched a satellite and you have a new startup which I’m very interested in tell us about your new startup absolutely so you know I got into Bitcoin you know really young and and in really early and by the

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young and and in really early and by the time I was 18 I became that quote-unquote you know youngest Bitcoin millionaire in the world and then so I wanted to create something that kind of allowed other people to get into Bitcoin that was super easy because to me I think that was the biggest hurdle for people how many billions of dollars were lost because of people that had heard about Bitcoin but just didn’t know how to get into it or if they did know a site to get into it it was just too hard so that’s why be launched on kalinda Scott Quinn that’s ascom a couple weeks ago which basically you just sign up connect your payment information and then your invest in with Bitcoin is just that easy so you just connect it to your bank and it it it’s what does it do it rounds up how does it absolutely say you connect here so kind of the tagline we have for it is big quite investing on autopilot we didn’t want you checking in every day we wanted it so you could just connect your car which is what we did and then every time you swipe it rounds up to the nearest dollar and invest that much in Bitcoin for you so if you buy a buck 75 on french fries it rounds up 25 cents and those really kind of things add up

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and those really kind of things add up every time you use your card now let’s talk about the word invest on my on my periscopes I never used that word what I’m talking about cryptocurrency because I don’t want to make it look like I’m recommending any kind of investment and crypto is hard to call it an investment but bitcoin is sort of unique in the sense that it’s obviously the you know the the leader among the cryptos and do you see it as an investment as a diversification vehicle primarily like you would buy gold or silver or do you see it as something that’s a growth vehicle how do you describe it so that you stay on the right side of the law with investment yeah I mean I’d say it’s the I to me I think of it as the digital gold so I think it’s kind of however you feel about gold I think there’s a good way to feel about the point digital gold alright I like that and you’ve been right about Bitcoin so far and what is your prediction about the future of Bitcoin absolutely so I

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the future of Bitcoin absolutely so I think we’re gonna reach $20,000 by the end of the year and I made that prediction when it was about 7,000 something so what does it know it went up to 90 300 yesterday 90 300 yesterday so it has been climbing pretty substantially and say the name of the the app again so people can find it yeah the app is coin bits app com so that’s that actually kind of one of the things that we’re going to be doing like we really we really want to kind of really promote Bitcoin and promote it within the community and promote it outside of the community and one of the things that were we’re going to be doing is you know Bitcoin it’s all about freedom to centralization very anti Wall Street and and all that so we’re actually doing a a march on Wall Street which will be really really cool so a martin a march Wall Street - to accomplish what bringing bringing attention to Bitcoin or to your app yeah the goal is to you know Wall Street people they make fun of Bitcoin and make fun make fun of blockchain when in reality we’re going

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blockchain when in reality we’re going to be replacing their jobs and many ways you know they’re gonna be the first that are going to get their jobs replaced by automation right and all that so yeah we’re kind of making it like we’re here and and you know you’re calling a scammers and fraudsters that’s the most hypocritical thing coming from Wall Street people and we’re here we’re we’re here to send a signal we’re here that we’re not going away Bitcoin and cryptocurrency and watching is here to stay could you could you spell the name of the app people are asking so for some clarification here absolutely so the app is on coin bits app com it’s spelled C oh I M as in coin bits vit s and then cool I’m sorry app a PP com so coin bits app comics just basically like coins reversed all right great and did you hear the story about Kyle Kasia of having his acceptance Tarver reversed that it’s a brand new a

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reversed that it’s a brand new a headline degree Wow yeah so thinking about your your listen on standard approach to education which has worked out great for you he took the standard route did everything right got accepted at Harvard and then they said we found something you said when you were 16 years old privately on a chat privately on a chat and we’re rescinding your your acceptance at Harvard he just found that out how it three months ago they accepted him he changed his whole life getting ready to go to Harvard and Harvard decided to ruin his life basically based on their decision so you’re you’re non-standard process looks better and better because you you essentially took control and you didn’t have a boss and you didn’t have anybody telling you what you could or could not do and that allowed your creativity to go wherever needed to go and here you are so I’m not

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needed to go and here you are so I’m not going to say that everybody should drop out of school you wouldn’t say that either would you would Eric would you say that people should should finish school or is it just sort of a personal situation it looks like we lost your audio Eric are you there okay well we’ve lost audio with Eric but I was I was getting ready to wind down so I think we’ve said that the main things we wanted to say so you should do Google Eric find his find his social media accounts Eric Finland you can see his name up there on the screen just do a search for him and it will pop right up Eric if you’re trying to talk I can’t hear you oh yeah the audio isn’t quite good enough to go so I’m gonna Eric’s gone but so thank you Eric that’s all we wanted to talk about and

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that’s all we wanted to talk about and so keep an eye on him he’s he’s the real deal so I wanted so I was talking about Kyle Keshav he was one of these survivors of the parklands shooting and apparently because of what he said when he was 16 and somebody somebody sent it to Harvard and said hey look at this the first thing I have to say is whoever sent that stuff to Harvard so we should you know somebody needs to find what college they got accepted at and maybe try to reverse that wouldn’t that be fair wouldn’t it be fair they whoever sent that information to Harvard if we know who those people are and they were also accepted to some other college I would think that other college would like to know about that I mean if that’s what we’re doing if you know if that’s fair fair is fair and on my personal ranking of horribleness I

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my personal ranking of horribleness I would say that saying something horrible in a private conversation is pretty low on my list of things to care about getting somebody kicked out of Harvard after they’ve been accepted based on ratting out their conversations when they’re 16 that pins the frickin needle on my immorality level if you want to see immoral that’s the people who ratted this kid out that is the height of horrible horrible immoral unethical disreputable disgusting disgusting behavior whoever you are and probably more than one person whoever you are I freaking hate you let me let me be as clear about that as possible I hate you you are bad people really just horrible people Kyle is somebody who did some stuff that he wishes he hadn’t done as

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stuff that he wishes he hadn’t done as 16 they were words the context and by the way I haven’t Levin looked at the actual words I don’t think it matters but the context as I understand it was some people trying to be as outrageous ly bad as they could be in a private conversation let me make a confession right here now I have said things in private conversations I’m gonna confess right now I have said things in private conversations to be funny to be funny you have to keep this part you know don’t lose this part of the the point to be funny I’ve said the worst things that a human being can say in private to you know one other person sometimes more than one but in private to people who understand that I’m being funny and I’m saying things that would be beyond shocking if you heard them in any public situation things that people say in private that

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things that people say in private that are horrible should not be judged outside of that context because if you do like Harvard did they judge why he said in private which was meant to be sort of dark humor they judged it by the standard of a public statement and that’s why they they got rid of him that is such a bad lesson it’s immoral it’s unethical it’s just it’s disgusting I’m talking about Harvard now so between Harvard which is just disgusting on this I mean I mean literally it makes my skin crawl to think what they did to this kid but whoever ratted him out is a little bit worse in my opinion there are people who they really need to get their act together so whoever ratted him out has a life that they need to repair because it’s broken I don’t know about Kyle cashew he says he’s grown quite a bit

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cashew he says he’s grown quite a bit and he wishes that he could be accepted for having grown from you know this bad behavior which he admits to to a better person I am always down for that if somebody says I did this I wish I hadn’t here’s what I’m gonna do in the future I’ve grown I’m a different person I accept that every time right the sooner it happens the better but I think he’s soon enough I mean his reaction seemed soon enough Harvard however has a lot to explain and for me their reputation will never recover from this Harvard will never be the same University it was because of this it’s so horribly horribly wrong that I almost can’t express how much just distaste I have for Harvard right now let’s talk about something else so remember I told you that one of the ways to determine reality is whether your

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to determine reality is whether your predictions can can come true so if your version of reality predicts well what’s going to happen next you probably have a pretty good version of reality my version of reality is that President Trump is not a gigantic racist and that I predict that there will be lots of evidence of that being true so you saw the for example you saw the prison reform which seemed didn’t make sense if you imagined he was a giant racist you saw the the latest thing where they’re trying to what’s the name of it where they’re trying to create jobs for the people who have been released from prison so it’s like phase to a prison reform does that make sense if you were the big ol racist would that makes sense it doesn’t but it’s completely compatible with my worldview that he’s not that person and he would love to fix things for all Americans including African Americans of course

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including African Americans of course and yeah here’s the funniest part Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu has announced a new settlement in the Golan Heights named after a quote his great friend Donald Trump I believe it’s called Trump Heights Israel just named a town after him now if your worldview is hey I think he backed the neo-nazis who were chanting anti-semitic things in Charles Hill if you think that actually happened how does that predict the Israel didn’t notice any of that somehow was like the biggest story in the world because the biggest story in the United States tends to be the biggest story in the world I’m a little I’m a little biased there but are you telling me that Israel didn’t notice that they’re pretty good at noticing anti-semitism I would I would say Israel might be the very best country and noticing anti-semitism in

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country and noticing anti-semitism in fact if you were to put Israel up against oh let’s say you know Hungary or Austria or any other country and you say let’s have a contest let’s see which one of you guys can spot anti-semitism the best well I’m gonna bet on Israel every time all day Israel has a really good sensor for spotting anti-semitism and they don’t see it not only did they not see it in President Trump specifically I’m talking about they don’t see it they even named a town after him you don’t do that if you think there’s even a little bit even a little bit of anti-semitism so who could have predicted that well I didn’t specifically predict that Israel would name a city after your settlement so that would been hard to predict but I did predict that you would see evidence that he’s not any of these things that his his enemies are saying now what’s interesting about this is that the

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interesting about this is that the people who believe in gaslighting are essentially rehab heisting themselves and brainwashing themselves it’s this whole worldview that is completely at odds with observation all of our observations are violating everything they believe while being completely consistently true with everything that probably most of you and what I believe so watch that watch the consistency of predictions let’s talk about goals versus systems I’m gonna give you an example when my book came out I had failed almost everything and still win big the big this was 2013 and the big theme in it was about using systems instead of goals that idea has changed really a lot because I don’t know how often you’ve noticed other articles and other books and other experts talking about systems being better than goals

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about systems being better than goals and and and that and also that your enthusiasm might not be as important as your talent stack so those are the ideas I introduced in this book you’ve seen other authors pretend that they had those ideas I’m not going to name names there’s one there’s one famous author who’s written a best-selling book that’s just copying my idea hello name names but I imagine when I wrote this in 2013 that it would have two lives the first life is when it comes out and because this is a new book so it gets attention and people would buy it but I figured that there would be a second life there would happen several years after the first life and the second life would happen when people realized that that this book had changed their lives and they would start talking about it and that’s the phase were in now if you see on Twitter almost every day now somebody will tweet at me and say you know I bought this book in 2013 and it changed my life I got rich I got a promotion

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I got rich I got a promotion I built my talent stack where I lost weight and the most amazing the most amazing part is the weight loss this is not a weight loss book it’s not a weight loss book it has a little chapter in it on how to eat right as a system really it’s in the context of how to make a system for every part of your life system 4 exercises system for eating etc so one chapter in here is changing people’s lives so today on the internet there’s a great little tweet and a blog post from keto Kelly so Kelly tells us she lost a hundred pounds she lost a hundred pounds after a lifetime of not really succeeding in the goal of losing weight she read my book had a failed almost everything and still win big you can just google my name it will pop up on Amazon and she reports and wrote a blog post about how she

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and wrote a blog post about how she figured out how to turn it into a system you know it turns out that the keto diet diet must have been the one that worked for her but the the point is not that this diet works the point is that she developed a system to to churn through the options until she found something that worked for her so it wasn’t about the specific system it was about her churning through all the alternatives until she found her system a hundred pounds she’s lost a hundred pounds reading a book that’s not a diet book how many people have told me that they’ve lost let’s say over 50 pounds a lot I get a lot of email from people who say you know and messages on social media I lost 100 pounds I’m gonna give you a another example of a system over a goal you can see in the comments somebody’s saying Angela and Misha is saying totally life-changing that’s great oh they’re

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life-changing that’s great oh they’re talking about my story not their own story all right yeah you see a lot of people in the comments who are developed systems let me tell you about one of my funny systems 29 years ago I joined a gym gym locally and I moved a few times but I never far enough away that I didn’t that I didn’t keep the same gym and they gave us these little cards that are our gym membership cards 29 years ago I said to myself I’m gonna lose this thing and it’s gonna be real annoying so I don’t want to lose my gym card so I need a system and here’s the system the system is this for 29 years I said to myself my gym card can only be in a few different places it can be in my wallet it can be in my gym bag or it can be on top of my dresser but it can never be anywhere else so if I find it somewhere you know if I let’s say walk into a room and I don’t want it in my pocket I will not take it out of my pocket and put it on

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take it out of my pocket and put it on some place that it doesn’t belong 29 years without losing my card how long is that let me cover my little number here I want you to look at what I look like when I started this system that looked like me today there it is a little bit different when you say a little bit different I had something called hair back then it was awesome I didn’t have a lot of it but I had hair 29 years without losing this little piece of plastic because I had a system that works every time phone how many of you have broken your phone screen I’ve had a phone for a long time do you know how many phones I’ve broken zero zero phones I have never broken a phone oh I have a

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I have never broken a phone oh I have a little crack on my phone but that’s the crack in the screen so I have a detectives screen this cracked do you know how many phones I’ve lost because I dropped them in water zero zero phones I have never lost the phone because I dropped it in water do you know why I have a system this phone will never be over water that’s my system I have used my phone in a hot tub well unlike people who have lost their phones many times if you use your phone in a hot tub don’t do this I’m sitting in a hot tub and directly below me is a bunch of water I will never do that if I use it in a hot tub I leave it sitting flat down like this on the on the dry edge and I type on it while it’s sitting flat on the dry edge I will never pick up this phone over water I will never walk through shallow water holding it I will never stand in the

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holding it I will never stand in the water with it in my hand I will never get near water when it’s in my pocket that’s my system so it was zero problems now I have been responsible for a pain for lots of phones so stepkids etc how many phones do step children lose a lot luckily I insure them so that doesn’t cost that much but everybody who doesn’t use my system they have lost multiple phones the average person has probably lost five phones and let me ask let me ask you this tell me in the comments how many phones you’ve cracked or ruined with water in your whole life so cracked or ruined with water and your whole life tell me just give me your number in the comments so some of you none so those of you say none probably have a similar set of everybody saying zero here is it only

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of everybody saying zero here is it only the people I know who are about it seriously all of you are at zero there’s not one person who’s ever had a cracked phone only one person so far all right this story is just all falling apart now I thought most of you were going to say I’ve lost at least one phone alright so all the smart people have a good system so I guess that that story didn’t turn out as well as I hoped it would I thought I thought everybody here was gonna say well I lost two phones all right also the very first thing I do when I get a phone is I put a cover on it even if I don’t like the cover here’s what dumb people do well I’m not gonna say dumb well I’ll be nice about that how many people have you seen buy a brand-new phone and then they look at the the protective cases that are in the phone store and they say now the ones in the phone store are not as good as what I want I want to shop around a little bit and get a good protective case when I see that my head starts to explode because don’t you know that the

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explode because don’t you know that the odds of you breaking your phone before you get to the car just went to about a thousand percent because if you put off buying the case you’re gonna break your phone all right I mean not every time but it’s certainly the simulation will make it happen here’s what I do I buy a phone I walk over to the phone case and I buy a case and I put it on before I walk out of the store I don’t even like that case if I need a new case later I’ll get one but I’m never gonna walk out of a store without a case and a protective screen on my phone ever and if you do you’re not playing this the odds right all right I was amused to see that aoc tweeted at Trump something about impeachment and she says mr. president you’re from Queens you may fool the rest of us blah blah blah and just some stuff that a battery should be impeached but the funny part of the story is that Trump tweeted back and neither of these tweets are especially interesting what’s what’s interesting is

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interesting what’s what’s interesting is that they’re having an AOC to Trump conversation I think it’s the first time now when I say conversation I mean they’re addressing just each other I think it’s the first time and Trump said I think we have a very real risk of losing always quoting a or C saying that that Trump might win the re-election yeah it doesn’t matter what he said all right so what ye thir of them said is immaterial to my point and not very interesting but it’s it’s another confirmation that whatever AOC is doing is number one working because who else is having a conversation with the President of the United States kind of rare all right I mean he does he engages a lot of people but AOC just got promoted to the Big Show and and the president has apparently identified her

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president has apparently identified her as important enough to be worthy of a specific response just to her so remember what I predicted when she first burst on the scene when a OC first came on the scene I said I’m going to predict that she’s the real deal I’m going to predict that her persuasive power is something that’s going to endure now I see the little puking emojis here in the comments and stuff I’m not telling you you need to like her I’m not telling you you need to yeah somebody says game those game I was just gonna say that but but you beat me to it so yes my my belief without doing any mind-reading so this is just speculation on my part I would bet that if you had a private conversation with President Trump he would admire IOC that’s what I think now

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would admire IOC that’s what I think now I’m not saying he likes her policies you know doesn’t like her politics of course I know that but I’ll bet I’ll bet those two if nobody if nobody were watching and you could never have this situation but if a obviously and president Truong hung out together like they just hung out together and had a coffee or something I think they’d be friends I really do all right here’s the most fun thing that’s coming up I sent a message on Twitter to a democrat candidate andrew yang and i thought to myself what are the odds that a democratic president andrew yang would answer my message on twitter and i asked him to come on my periscope and i thought well if anybody would if anybody were going to come on this periscope he’d be sort of the perfect one he responded to me i think within the hour

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responded to me i think within the hour pretty quickly and he said sure and he referred me to i think his brother to set up the appointment so i’ve got a message in to set up an appointment so andrew yang presidential candidate will be appearing on this periscope sometime soon if we can schedule it i assume it’s going to happen we’ll be able to schedule it that will be probably the most interesting conversation one of the most interesting conversations you’re ever going to see between now and Election Day I guarantee you this is gonna be fun in a good way it’s fun you’re gonna learn something let me tell you what I like about Andrew yang I don’t know all of his policies so I’m not gonna say I love or just like specific policies here’s what I liked number one somehow he came from nowhere and we’re talking about him how’d that happen did you ever ask yourself how in the

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did you ever ask yourself how in the world are we talking about Andrew yang like what what happened like how’s that even possible he doesn’t have you know government experience he’s a young guy I don’t know anything about his background nothing I’m still talking about him what did he do to make that happen because that was Talent all right I’m gonna say that until we confirm what he did you know if if I found out he’s got a famous relative or something I might change my mind but as far as I know it’s just Talent so that makes them interesting the second the second thing is that whenever he tweets even if you don’t just even if you don’t agree with is whatever point it’s always kind of interesting he doesn’t know how to turn off interesting like he can’t be uninteresting if he tried compare him to Kamala Harris try reading calmly Harris’s tweet from beginning to end

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Harris’s tweet from beginning to end without feeling sleepy is it it’s like it’s a soporific that’s a new word I learned soporific makes you tired I think that’s what that means somebody needs to fact check me on that vocabulary but I I’m actually amazed when I read a camel Harris Tweed I almost can’t get to the last word and they’re just little tweets and I’m I’m so bored by the time I get to the end of it I’m like yeah let’s see what camel hair Stan sighs you know the presidents of Bickle impeachment we’ve got to do better thank you handsome are and then you read you read a Andrew yang tweet or a OC tweet or a president Trump tweet and and it stays with you all day long I mean all three of those people can give you a tweet routinely you know not just once in a while just their everyday

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once in a while just their everyday language sticks with you all day long it’s a big difference all right so I think Andrew yang is a valuable contributor to the conversation because he’s bringing in ideas that maybe would not have been introduced his ubi idea which most of you hate is way smarter than you think it is I’m not gonna say I I think it’s a good idea yet we’ll hear him argue before it well I think you’re in for a surprise that that universal basic income idea is way better than you think on first on first exposure it’s way better maybe not good enough that you want to do it but it’s way better than you think now we’re also going to ask him about nuclear and green new deal and some other things so we’ll get to some good stuff anyway whenever you whenever we schedule an election navall disagrees with him I think new Vols take on that is that a universal

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Vols take on that is that a universal basic income would be better if it was expressed in goods and services so in other words if you’re poor you can have access to less expensive stuff under some certain conditions enough to give you some you know basic quality of life while you try to try to improve so I think navall has a good twist on that that makes sense but it’s still ubi it’s just a different form in my opinion all right why not make the poor rich sure why not okay is there anything else anybody wants to ask me see what time it is up time to end I think we’ve done enough for now maybe maybe more than enough and I will talk to you later