Episode 584 Scott Adams: AOC Theater, Nike, Democrat Polls, Kim’s Health

Date: 2019-07-02 | Duration: 47:06

Topics

Comparing President Trump’s style to President Obama’s style AOC’s strong visual persuasion talent YouTube is routinely demonetizing my videos…why? Selective edit creates OPPOSITE opinion of what full video shows? Ability to reverse appearance of what happened is scary Bill Pulte giving money away to help change society FB border control group postings “filled” with derogatory things Tucker Carlson noted that Chairman Kim was wheezing at DMZ President Trump made a point of mentioning he’s healthy Designing a perfect house…How they SHOULD be built, but aren’t

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Hey look what time it is yeah that's right you're right it's time for a coffee with Scott Adams almost everyone have you got the right answer to that question as you're slowing in here to watch no no pushing no shoving take seat hello Martin hello Missy Donna Boris good to see you guys well if you're here early you're probably prepared and that means you've got a glass or a mug or a cup I've got my dainty travel travel what is this a cup with me right now because I'm on the road but you could have a tanker jurist I nor a chalice you might have a thermos you might have a flask fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the simultaneous up dopamine

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pleasure of the simultaneous up dopamine it's good stuff all right well we've got a lot of lot of stuff to talk about today number one did you see the latest CNN poll of the Democratic candidates and did you compare the latest poll to what I predicted the polls would be after the debates scary isn't it if you recall I told you that Biden and Sanders would take a hit mostly Biden and I told you that Harris and Warren would rise what happened exactly that exactly that so the CNN poll has Biden down 10 points after the poll to 22% Harris is now in number 217 who told you a year ago the Harris would be the nominee me who told

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Harris would be the nominee me who told you before that I don't know if anybody did I think I might have been the first over a year ago and since I don't see Biden having a path to the nomination in the long run I would say that whoever's in second place at this point has a pretty good pretty good position Warren of course also looks as strong as she could surprise but I'm gonna still go with Harris as the the stronger candidate and I think ultimately the Dems will pick a stronger candidate one of the keys to winning I think is if it turns out to be that they not make the same lengths that Hillary made Hillary made one of the just one of the worst political mistakes you could ever make she bent a few of them but the the biggest one was running as an advantage let's say she she sold her gender as an

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let's say she she sold her gender as an advantage he can't really do that you you can't be the party that's running for everybody's equal at the same time you're saying women are superior because she essentially said that she said that being a woman was an advantage that the women are better listeners she literally had specifics of why women are are better candidates and I think that I heard her no I haven't heard a Harris say anything about her gender yet and if she if she could make it all the way to the election without even bringing it up that would be a really strong play so we'll see if she does that that's I've often said that was Obama's smartest political move was to not make it not make ethnicity part of the equation let people think about it their own way but don't put it in their face all right um brian Stelter is all giddy because yes

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brian Stelter is all giddy because yes he says i think he used the phrase that hypocrisy burns which made me laugh he was talking about how the Fox News hosts were all upset that Obama might talk to some dictators but when Trump does it they say well that's brilliant only Trump could do it and so according to brian Stelter that's hypocrisy because they said it was bad if obama does it but it's good when Trump does it but of course Obama is not Trump how in the world how in the world do you compare those two personalities and say that they should be doing the same thing at the very least they should have their own strategy which is compatible with you know their their brand if you want to say that compatible with what people expect of them at all that Trump is playing directly to his strengths his strengths are that he can

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strengths his strengths are that he can talk to anybody you can make anybody you'd like him apparently you know one-on-one anyway he doesn't half the country hate something from a distance but one-on-one it's hard to have any impression of him other than liking him now I speak from experience because I did get to to meet him the president and I got to chat with him in the Oval Office like last year for a little bit and I can tell you his personality is hard to resist in person he gives you his full attention and you feel like you're the only person in the room and the complements you cuz you know if he likes you he always compliments you and you walk out thinking ooh feeling pretty good what a great guy he complimented me it must be a genius so and I don't know if did did Obama have the same talent he might have because he has you know he has enormous charisma as well but I don't know if he had that same talent did he did did

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had that same talent did he did did Obama have the one-on-one touch because I I don't I don't remember thinking that somebody in the comments is saying Clinton did as well you were correct Bill Clinton apparently had that same touch so I would not say that there's anything similar likewise President Trump I think did more credible job of looking scary before he looked friendly so you can't compare those two strategies Obama acted friendly and then said hey let's talk that looks weak Trump said fire and fury will reduce your country to rubble but it also be willing to talk those are not the same those are not even close to being the same let's be friends versus I will destroy your country and a ball of fire if you keep it up but I'm also willing to talk anytime you want they're

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willing to talk anytime you want they're not they're not even a little bit close to each other those are completely different strategies except they both involved talking at some point all right um the political play of the week goes once again I hate to tell you this but the political play of the week goes to AOC again again now I'm not saying play of the week means I agree with it it doesn't mean she's telling the truth it doesn't mean she's even persuading in a positive way you can make your own decisions about that but she she visits this border secure this border detention facility where the illegal immigrants are being kept and she comes back with probably just one of the all-time great persuasive probably not true but persuasive statements that the the

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persuasive statements that the the detainees are being made to drink out of the toilet because they don't have water now if I had to make a bet somebody says she has you fooled Scott fooled about what and my fooled that I'm talking about her and that she's a headline again am I am i imagining that am i imagining that she gets a lot of attention and what part of my fault about that's the only claim I've made she's really good at getting attention and being persuasive this is as clear as day from this latest play I'm not saying she's right I'm saying that she gets the tension and she's very persuasive now one of the tricks she uses is this visual persuasion she can put a picture in your head she can make a quote that you can't forget about and she can sell a narrative like nobody's business and this whole thing about being forced

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and this whole thing about being forced to drink out of the toilet if I had to bet I would take very long odds that is just not true now there might have been something that suggested it you know it would be easy to imagine that there was this one time somebody asked for water and the guard said you know I'll be you know I've got to I've got to take care of this thing but I'll get you your water right after and then you can imagine the person saying well what am I supposed to do in the meantime drink out of the toilet and you can imagine the guard being frustrated and saying you know do whatever you want to do and then going to do his thing and then getting water later nothing that's what happened I'm saying it's very easy to imagine some kind of a conversation that happened once between two people that may have had some passing resemblance to her ultimate to comment about drinking out of the toilet but she's still smart forming that image

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she's still smart forming that image because you can't get it out of your head it's youth I hate to say this because so gross but you can see it and you can taste it I didn't want to say that right because it's so awful but it's persuasion you can taste and you don't get stronger than that so I think it's very effective but probably not very true however as I often say directionally directionally it's kind of true you don't want to hear that right but directionally it's kind of true in the sense that people are in conditions which nobody would want to be in themselves right so the conditions are not good I think we'd all agree with that and it has nothing to do with anybody's intentions it's that the system is overwhelmed so we got that the

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system is overwhelmed so we got that the other story is Kaepernick apparently contacted Nike and got them to change their plans for a sneaker that had a little American flag on the back but the flag was the early 13 Stars colony flag I guess the the reported reason and of course this is yet again one of those stories where you can't necessarily believe every detail that you hear but the reported story is that because it was the early flag of the colonies it was associated with slavery and Nike decided to change their minds to which I say yeah now now somebody on social media said to me well Scott you say there's no slippery slope how can you say that now because now they're even banning early versions of the American flag how is that not a slippery slope to

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flag how is that not a slippery slope to whatever a bad thing to which I say what would be wrong with this country de-emphasizing slave owners now that would mean it would mean de-emphasizing George Washington it would mean the emphasizing Thomas Jefferson but how would you be harmed by that would you be harmed it's one of those things where we have this deep emotional connection to our founders but that's not shared by all of your fellow citizens who also count and my take on this is that I don't think my life would be any different if if we change Jews out of our money for example I just don't think it would be any different but it might make people feel better in the future it might make a statement might make make for a better situation so I think that there will arise some counter force if things go too far maybe this is it

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things go too far maybe this is it maybe this is too far maybe it's the next move after that that's too far maybe it's after they take the the slave owners who were also founders off of currency which I'd be fine with I would be fine with taking slave owners off of currency I saw somebody defending Betsy Ross as a founding mother and I thought to myself what did she do except sew a flag because I'm not sure all the founders had exactly the same level of contribution I mean she made a good flag I'm not saying she didn't could do a good job but somebody wrote a constitution that has lasted hundreds of years and changed the world other people led armies of insurgents fighting against the strongest army on the planet and one Betsy Ross she made a flag just not all equal was what I'm saying anyway I'm sure that'll

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what I'm saying anyway I'm sure that'll get me demonetised speaking of that pretty much the majority of my videos that I make here originally on periscope and then I put them immediately on YouTube YouTube is routinely D monetizing them now it's not about the money necessarily because as you know I don't need the money but when something is demonetized it's also not part of the recommended videos because of course YouTube wants to recommend things that are that are monetized so d monetizing has the effect of throttling back how many people look at it by a great deal now upon appeal because you can do it you can ask for an appeal all but one of them I think has been Ramana ties but by the time they Ramana ties it most of the viewers have already seen it because I do content that's coming from the headlines and so ty it matters if people don't watch it the first day they're less like far less

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first day they're less like far less likely to watch it the second day because I also have a new video the next day so the effect of temporarily D monetizing it probably reduces the viewership by I don't know 40% by half it's a big deal now I of course asks the question how can I believe this is legitimate if you've been watching me lately you know that I've largely stopped using bad words intentionally so it's not about language it might be about content but I don't do any controversial content I look at things from a different angle but I don't do anything that would get me let's say fired from a job or boycotted or anything like that I stay away from that quite intentionally because I would like my content to have a wider audience and the year the edge year I am the smaller my audience would be and I choose to have a larger audience so here's the

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have a larger audience so here's the interesting part it's impossible to tell what is the impact of some kind of decision to throttle things and what is just the algorithm doing this thing and it has nothing to do with anybody now that could be just as bad because if the algorithm is doing its thing and humans don't know exactly how it's all playing out there there's no human being who knows what it's doing that's bad because it means the algorithm is making important decisions that may not be the same once a humans would be that kind of puts the machines in charge accidentally but I got a I saw a tweet from David Pakman who said that YouTube is doing the same thing to him now if you don't know David Pakman p-a-k-i man he is an anti-trump err he probably wouldn't call himself that but he would be far more associated with the progressive left I think would be the the right way to say

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think would be the the right way to say I hope I'm not mischaracterizing David's position but he's he's left of the middle so if he's having the same deep monetization issue and I only know from the one tweet then that would be interesting wouldn't it because I would consider him a comparable comparable in the same in the way that when you're when you're looking for real estate in order to know if a house is worth worth the price you look at the other houses in the neighborhoods that are comparable so it's your comparison to know if you're going to pay too much about and I think that Pakman is a good comparable for me because it's probably the same content I mean meaning the same topics but he puts his you know left-of-centre spin on it most of my audience is Trump supporters so my spin is there so if we were both treated exactly the same way by the algorithm I would say well you have an you have an issue with the

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have an you have an issue with the business model because it's under under monetizing but it's not a bias problem if that's true so if it's true that that pac-man's deep monetization and mine are essentially equivalent I would say that would be important to know it's also I'll get back to my suggestion I made before in order to spot social media bias given that each of the tech companies is operating somewhat independently meaning that they're their internal decisions about what to do with their algorithms are not checked with the other companies you would expect that you would be able to identify when bias has been injected into any of the platforms by seeing if you get the same impacts in the same time on the other platforms so if he had several platforms running your content it was all uploaded at the same time roughly speaking and that applies to me

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roughly speaking and that applies to me if that was true and I saw that let's say I I got to throttled on Facebook but not on Twitter and not on YouTube well that would tell me something would tell me that YouTube their Facebook is doing something so I think there's some kind of
of Mehta program that could be created that just tracks comparables so you know people from the left people from the right you can see if any if there's any big difference that happens suddenly and and you're also looking at comparables of your own material not only in the past but currently out there so I think that's needed the president was doing a interview with Tucker Carlson after the after the trip or during the trip in Asia and the president suggested that maybe the Department of Justice was looking at the tech companies but he couldn't say meaning they didn't want to

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couldn't say meaning they didn't want to say so it seems to me that in all likelihood there's some activity going ahead and to find out what's going on with the tech companies and that's all good all right um did you see I tweeted this Mike sort of edge tweeted around a video of a traffic stop in which it looked like a I'm guessing a white police officer was stopping a young african-american man and you really have to see the two versions of the video one is selectively edited to to a smaller piece of the interaction and one is the the full video the the full video and the selected one tell completely opposite stories so I'm not even gonna I won't even give you an opinion about the event and I'm not going to give you an opinion about who is right or who was wrong I'm going to make this point

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wrong I'm going to make this point because it's the important point the Selective edit gives you an opposite opinion of who's wrong from the full video it completely reverses your opinion of what happened so it's worth watching just for that because the more examples you see if I was selective at it can literally reverse some things meaning because you wouldn't think that right your common sense tells you that a selective edit would be maybe not complete as the full video but common sense tells you that the Selective edit would at least be in the same direction as the phone you would think that if the edited showed somebody doing something bad that the full one might show them doing something bad as well but you could actually reverse the meaning from good to bad to from criminal to not criminal completely reverse it just by editing it down to a smaller version it's it's scary to see how effective

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it's it's scary to see how effective that is he had the Covington situation is the perfect example that the more the more examples you see that the more the more prepared you will be number of people ask me to why I don't use bit shoot instead of YouTube because bit shoot is a competitor and they don't I guess they don't have the censorship or the deep monetization problem shoot contacted me about five minutes before I turned out in this periscope and offered to show me some tools to make it easy to take my YouTube content directly over there so I guess they they were smart and they have some mode where if you're gonna stay out in YouTube they'll just sort of mirror your content unfit shoot and I thought to myself I will look into that as time allows and I don't think that issue will have the same kind of monetization but it would

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same kind of monetization but it would be good to diversify it would be good to diversify then you can watch it wherever you want all right I saw some speculation in the news did you see this speculation that President Trump might replace pence for when he's running for re-election and one of the names that came up as a potential replacement for pence was Tucker Carlson and I'd love to know what you think about that let me give you my take on this
yeah my take is that I don't see the slightest chance that dr. Carlson would take that job now I don't have an opinion about whether he'd be good at it because I don't know if his experience is exactly translatable into the into the political world it's hard to know body's very smart he's compatible with the president's views on most stuff he

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the president's views on most stuff he explains things better than just about anybody so you say you could imagine you could imagine why the president might have at least thought about it I don't know how much he's thought about it and I don't know how true the rumor is but I would say there's no chance that somebody takes that big of a pay cut at that age and if he does I'd be very surprised because Tucker Carlson has probably not probably could we say he has the best job on television would you say because he's on the the highest-rated Network I believe he has the highest-rated show it is time zone four for cable news and I would imagine he's well compensated so I can't imagine him wanting to go from a stable situation that's I assume is friendly with his you know home life and family situation and gives him time to see the kids and all that good stuff

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kids and all that good stuff I can't imagine he'd want to throw all that away to have the most thankless job in the world of being vice president so it would be an irrational decision unless he had ambitions that we don't know about and baby he does who knows anyway I would call that just interesting I don't think there's a chance in the world that Tucker would go for a VP job but I'm not a mind-reader are you watching what Bill Polti is doing with he's doing the experiment well it's not an experiment because he's really doing it I guess I guess it's an experiment in the sense that we don't know how it all turned out but that's that's part of the fun so bill pulled a pul tea and you should be following him by the way at at Ponte at BU LTE so in addition to working on cleaning up blight in our inner cities and you're gonna hear more about that there's some stuff coming on that you're you're gonna be very

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that you're you're gonna be very interested in I'll just give you that preview there's something coming on blight removal that you're gonna find very interesting so just wait for that but in the meantime bill Polti is doing an experiment in which he's literally just giving away money his own money on Twitter to people who make a good case that they needed so I believe he's given $1,000 away twice and he's currently offered to give 10,000 away to somebody who makes the best case I just tweeted that if you want to see the details of that device it's as easy as just there's the this as easy as just responding to his tweets so and I saw a video of a woman who was a recipient of a thousand dollars from him and she was she was very touched because it made a gigantic difference in her life so the bigger the

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difference in her life so the bigger the bigger issue is whether this idea that he's testing out of let's say Twitter philanthropy of just offering to give money just doing a tweet and saying hey if somebody has a good a good use of the money I'll give it to you I love what he's doing with this because who knows if this who knows if it becomes a bigger thing if if it evolves into something else it's going to be terrific but no matter what happens a whole bunch of people who desperately needed a little extra money probably gonna get some so it's all good the the worst case scenario is still amazing the best-case scenario is changes the whole world so if your this is a good lesson so what Bill is doing the worst case scenario the worst that could happen is a bunch of people who really needed some money got stuck for money that's the worst that could

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for money that's the worst that could happen the best that could happen is it could change society like it could introduce a model of giving that connects people with money with people who need it in a way that nobody could quite predict and might be transformative it might be you might give people a lift up when they need it most it could be the difference between you know finishing school and being able to have childcare or to get that job I mean these could these could be big differences in people's lives so that's one of the smartest bets you'll ever see the worst case is good the best case who knows could change the world all right this is story today which is very ugly about apparently there's a Facebook group of border control people immigration and border control people who apparently the reporting is that it's quote filled with derogatory posts now what does it mean for a Facebook

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now what does it mean for a Facebook group to be filled with derogatory posts well if it's like social media everywhere else it means that there are some percentage of people commenting who are terrible people and somebody in the comments just said normal that's right this is fake news by changing context so it looks like my guess is is that it's a large group of people and like every large group of people you're gonna have you know if you have thousands of people doing anything you're gonna have a hundred people who are terrible people you can't put you can't put 10,000 Americans together and now I have a hundred of them or just totally bad people it's guaranteed because we're humans so if you have a hundred people who are doing horribly racist evil awful

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who are doing horribly racist evil awful thoughts and at some group of thousands and thousands that would be described as normal life but because they have a professional responsibility that is you know in some ways let's say I just say that that matters a lot in this case because of the political feeling we have about it because there are lives involves because it feels like punching down you could come up with ten more reasons it sounds racist whatever so the fact that their border security makes what would what would look like ordinary bad behavior from the large crowd looks way worse alright so I'm not going to defend it I'm just gonna say you're probably hearing it out of context and if you did hear it in context you're more likely to say yeah if you get thousands of people together you're gonna have some racists they're gonna they're gonna post some terrible things that's guaranteed but it's unacceptable unacceptable at

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but it's unacceptable unacceptable at any level because of their jobs if they didn't have those jobs I'd say well Charles patrols but because of their jobs they they do need to be held to a higher higher standard I think that's fair one of the things tucker carlson was noting and i haven't seen it reported anywhere else is he noted when kim janggun met the president at the dmz tucker was right up close he was just a few feet away from the event and away from kim and he reported that Kim was wheezing and having trouble breathing just walking that short distance to meet the president and according to Tucker it was noticeable enough that it was worth calling out and making a big point about it in other words you wouldn't have to be a doctor to understand there's something going on here yeah he's a smoker he's got some weight problems who

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smoker he's got some weight problems who does what else and Trump tweeted that Kim was healthy somebody's saying in the comments I don't know about that but yeah we do have to worry about this don't we because imagine we get a good we get some kind of a good agreement with Kim and maybe he only lasts five or ten more years if you're looking at the the timeline of you know international events five or ten years is kind of a short time you know if you're not sure he's gonna make the make it to his older age that might influence how you deal with it so I'm not a doctor so I'm not going to make any assumptions about Kim I have also not heard him in person there's a great story about Amazon is now allowing you to build or buy homes online for under $20,000 so for under

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online for under $20,000 so for under $20,000 you can buy a kit to make your own little home now that of course does not include the land it doesn't include the prep these homes don't have insulation I'm not sure that they have bathrooms you still need somebody to use I don't know the plumbing and the electrical and of course your town would never allow them to be built because the building codes and now people are saying just like the Sears catalog okay homes I think that these kits are all wrong I think what they are they look to be something like a traditional home there's just smaller and they've they've added some conveniences and some some cost advantages but I think the kits need to be something more like Legos I think the kits need to be a lot easier and and also give you the flexibility to

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and and also give you the flexibility to build a number of different things that I think you want you know buy as many buy as many you know bricks as you want do it at your own leisure etc so I think that what we're seeing is just very beginning sort of like the the first personal computer it seems to me that the future is that the cost of housing will go way down because of these kits because these modular things now I'm going to tell you how to design a perfect house and you're gonna say to yourself that's not the way they already do it and the answer is what I'm going to describe is going to make perfect sense and it's not the way it's done right if you were given to design a perfect home here's the right way to do it the right way to do it is to say okay what functions do I need and then for those functions what would that furniture look like so you'd say okay one of the functions is watching television say so you'd say okay how far

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television say so you'd say okay how far from the television should the seats be how many of them should there be in what configuration once you had the function whether it's the kitchen function the garage function or whatever you would have here your your components and your and your furniture around that and then you'd say okay if this is the furniture you know this this must be the size of the room because the furniture wants to fit in the room and not be you know in the middle of the big room it'd not be too small so then you have your perfect room but you so you'd have a perfect bedroom you'd have a perfect kitchen etc then you should take those perfect rooms and put them together but you would first notice that they don't fit together that well because each of them was designed to independently so you'd need to next figure out okay where would the doors be and you hope that the doors don't ruin everything you've done so far once you've got the doors and you've put them together then you know what the outside looks like etc and then then

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outside looks like etc and then then you've got your house built that is not the way homes are built today the way homes are built is backwards and I you know I built a home so I saw the whole process and I was I was blown away at how backwards the process is the way it starts is a builder will say okay I could have subdivide this this land that I got I could start with this much land and I'm gonna say okay I need a little room for a backyard so the house will be sort of on this footprint and then they say all right I've got something weirdly shaped because that's what the land is shaped like and I needed to put a garage here etc and then I'm gonna try to shove all the rooms in there so they draw the rooms and then the last thing they do is put furniture in so they're actually designed backwards so that when you're done have you ever gone into a model home and you're walking through the model home and you say to yourself why is this room all wrong it has furniture in it but it looks like

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it has furniture in it but it looks like it wasn't even designed with the intention of furniture because it doesn't doesn't really fit nothing's facing the right way that sort of thing and you see this in every model home there's no exception they're all designed backwards why there's no reason there isn't a single reason let me give you the best example I so my current home was built ten years ago but I don't think things have changed that much the the house was designed by the architect with you know a lot of my input and once it was built it's handed off to the Builder the Builder then frames it and starts building it up and then here's the part that's going to blow your mind after it's framed after it's framed the Builder calls in the the air conditioning guy and says can he put in some air conditioning and the air conditioning guy has to figure out how to run duct work through the framing that already exists there are

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framing that already exists there are two spots in my house where it didn't work because it wasn't designed for ductwork though I I had to actually put in a duplicate a/c in one room because there wasn't physically a way to get a duct from from where the equipment was to that room I had to duplicate it and to get to another room I had to run ductwork and this will blow your mind outdoors so my air conditioning duct work at one part runs under an outdoor lanai meaning an unconditioned space where the ductwork with cool energy has to go through a very hot place to get back to a cool place now if I told you that was the process what would you say you'd say well you must have got a bad builder or something my builder was like every builder that's actually the way it's done it's called engineering in the field they do that part of the engineering after it's framed

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after it's framed ridiculous likewise with the you know the electrical and stuff people come in after the fact and put in their electrical and when they put in the electrical outlets it's done without regard to the furniture think about that the electrical outlets are put in without regard to where the first R is I mean they take it into account when it's obvious but not really so everything about a home is designed backwards here's the way you should do it you should build a bunch of rooms they're like perfect bedrooms for different sizes perfect living room a few different sizes then you run people through them and you say well how does it feel how's the Fung Shui how does it feel to you mentally and that dad do you feel about how close didn't you are how do you feel about the light as I feel and then F you've tested a bunch of rooms you've got perfect bedrooms perfect kitchen ages duplicate you should be able to take a design completely and of the expense flow by

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completely and of the expense flow by designing a few a set of homes that gives you all the basic functions and they're the perfect ones you can change the colors of the of the walls and stuff if you want to make it special anyway so my basic point is the homes are designed completely wrong and the primary reason is do you know how homes are all built wrong yeah the you're gonna hate this but the reason that all homes are designed wrong is because the people who go into those businesses are not really engineers they're not like the engineers who are designing computers there there can be building engineers different kind but even the building engineers don't see it until after it's designed your engineer actually gets the plans after it's designed and the engineer says yes this will keep the roof up that it'll be safe that's sort of all they do make sure it's safe whereas an Apple engineer is not just

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whereas an Apple engineer is not just making sure the computer is safe that's part of it but they're making sure that it's designed right from the from the bottom up there's nobody doing that for houses let me tell you what your architect and your landscaper will design to uni you're not gonna like this but your architect designs for the architects portfolio in other words the architect doesn't have to live in your house so if the architect doesn't give you enough storage area doesn't matter to the architect what does matter to the architect is when it's done and the architect takes pictures of the work it looks really good in a photograph now I would love to tell you that's not how they designed but it is your architect designs for the photograph and the photograph looks better if they don't have a garage that's a bad example your photograph looks better if it isn't a

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photograph looks better if it isn't a very efficient space it doesn't matter if the light is too bright in the afternoon because you don't take the photograph then here's my my perfect example when I was doing my landscaping around my house I had a landscape architect you know somebody who was an expert at making it look good and that person designed this great looking thing and and I looked at the price and the price was unbelievably high and I asked about the trees and I said are these the kind of trees that you're putting in here that lose their leaves in the winter because I live in California and there are plenty of trees that don't leave that lose their leaves and and my landscape architect goes oh yeah these these ones all will lose their leaves and I said well why would you give me suggestions of trees that are gonna lose their leaves so the half of the year I'm looking at a leafless tree why would you even why would he even show me that and

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even why would he even show me that and he says because it looks so good when it has leaves in other words that's when he's going to take the he was designing my landscaped for his portfolio because the ones that lose the leaves can be more interesting looking but he just won't take the picture in the winter because it will look like hell six months out of the year but that's my problem it's not the designers problem somebody's saying they had the exact same comment to their landscape designer yeah and when I tell you that they're all designed this way backwards and for the benefit of the photograph you realize what's going on if we designed homes the way Silicon Valley designs everything else the cost of the home would drop like crazy and the livability would go through the roof because even small spaces can be amazing if you design them right nobody's even trying alright let's see what else we got

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alright let's see what else we got coming in going on here all right those are my primary points for today so that's what's going on I would just like to harken back to my prediction of who would be the Democratic candidate and ask you this is there anybody in the country who made a more accurate prediction so far we don't know how it ends but have you seen anybody in the country and he pundit who made a more accurate prediction of what the Democratic field would end up looking like because it seems to me most people were saying well it's Biden Biden Biden Biden don't count him out he's gonna win and I've been telling you from the start totally not Biden probably Harris starting to look starting to look pretty realistic all right yeah so you should

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realistic all right yeah so you should feel special because I think my audience for these videos is if you count the original periscope and then plus podcasts plus by the way you can hear these videos on toons the it turns into a podcast the same day so I've got maybe 50,000 or so watch the average video but you're the only ones who hear these predictions and didn't you feel like you were hearing the future if you hadn't if you didn't feel like that before you should start to feel like that because you do you do hear the future when you watch this this periscope alright that's all I got now and I'm going to talk to you later