Episode 684 Scott Adams: Biden, Pillaging, Pelosi’s Boss, Failed Whataboutism

Date: 2019-10-05 | Duration: 54:12

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My new book LOSERTHINK goes on sale 11/5. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2NRammu Michael R. Gordon’s observation about President Trump rings true Biden families “pillaging” of other countries Unqualified board members…is that normal? A tell for lying…depersonalization What it means and how to spot it Bernie’s health episode is a “cat’s on the roof” situation Bernie’s VP choice is extra important His heart attack eliminates second term likelihood CNN’s weak whataboutism…Trump’s kids? Warren dumps campaign aid for inappropriate behavior Biden worried President Trump… …MIGHT do something bad in the future? President Trump paints Pelosi as a puppet of AOC + three Masterful persuasion techniques President Trump’s proclamation Aliens must show they can afford their own healthcare Loserthink helps you spot bad thinking yourself and others

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bum-bum-bum bum-bum-bum bum-bum-bum good to see you Jackie come on in here grab a seat do you have your coffee good to see you birthday Andrew James what a delight to have you all here again what a day what a day it's an incredible day because we're all alive well most of you are alive a couple of zombies in there but most of us are alive what a great day and we're going to enjoy something called this simultaneous ship and all you need to enjoy it there's a cover of our glasses time the chalice a tankard a thermos of Lysa you can see the Grail the goblet the vessel shell it with your favorite liquid I am partial to coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine the end of the day the best part of your day that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous set go oh I

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it's called the simultaneous set go oh I don't think it's hyperbole to say that's the best sip of the day am i right think I'm right well let me summarize all of the news are you ready here now my summary of all of the news everything that's in the neighbors Ukraine Ukraine Ukrainian Ukrainian Ukraine Trump Biden trumpeting trumpeting Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine Trump Biden and seen alright let's give him some interesting details I was reading a article by Mike Goodwin he was writing about the president I guess he spent the day hanging out with the president and wrote an article about him and one of the most interesting parts of the article is that Trump is enjoying all of us when I say all of this I mean all the the drama the

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this I mean all the the drama the fighting the rumors the scandals the Ukrainians mr. that the re-election Trump is just sort of having fun because he likes the fight and he admitted that he was quoted as saying that it must be a personality defect so that's Trump talking about himself you say you must have a personality defect because he's enjoying himself I thought that's like just the best way to put it because as we observe his life it's easy to say man I don't know if I'd like any of that he's getting he's taking fire from everywhere all the time but on the other hand he is the most important person in the world so that balances it down a little bit but I wanted to contrast that so you've got Trump fighting for reelection and from what we can see it honestly looks like he loves it when when I visited him a

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he loves it when when I visited him a year ago in the Oval Office I got to chat with the president for a little bit my my largest overall impression was that he was enjoying himself that would that was actually my personal takeaway was I think he's enjoying us it looks like he was completely comfortable and just looked like he was exactly where he wanted to be President of the United States so contrast that to Joe Biden does Joe Biden look like he wants to be running for president think about it he looks like he hates it if you saw the interview with him I think it was yesterday where he was lashing out as the news says he's lashing out well melting down depending on which which network you're watching Biden was either laughing out at Trump or he was melting down it was all the same thing but you know you're too booby situation but look at look at Biden the next time he's giving an interview and ask

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he's giving an interview and ask yourself if he wants to be there he so doesn't want to be there now of course I can't read his mind so you know be careful about anybody interpreting other people's thoughts because we can't know his thoughts but he sure acts like he doesn't want to be there Trump acts like he could do this forever like it's his favorite day every time he wakes up when you see Trump talking to the press before he gets up the helicopter tell me he doesn't look like he's having a good time he looks like he's having fun and don't think that doesn't matter because when you're running for re-election do you want to vote for the guy who doesn't want to be there it's harder it makes a difference
tethers that let's talk a little bit more about to Joe Biden so Trump is starting to use the word pillaging he says the Biden's are pillaging other comes they're pillaging

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pillaging other comes they're pillaging other countries I thought to myself when do you ever get to use the word pillage in an actual political conversation has anybody ever used that before might be the first time anybody's ever said pillaged and what's funny is you hear the word as it's such a non-standard word for you know ordinary political conversation it's such a non-standard word and then you hear it pillage and you think well that's not too far off right yeah given that the average I think the average annual income in Ukraine is like or monthly is like three hundred dollars a month so the average income in Ukraine is three hundred dollars a month and hunter Biden was taking fifty thousand dollars a month from this oil company and I don't think it mmm that's a little pillow G a little bit just a little bit pillow G all right here I'm gonna tell you something

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here I'm gonna tell you something this give it you're gonna hate it I'm gonna tell you something that's obvious and invisible at the same time that's what's fun about it all right so when I tell you this you can say oh that's true and it's obvious but only after you told me it's something you already know but you're acting like you don't know it hey ready what's what's the biggest objection to Hunter Biden taking a role on the board of directors of an oil company the biggest objection besides the fact that there's a conflict of interest the biggest objection is that he's not qualified right people on the Left say it people on the right say it they say he has no prior experience in the oil industry so why is he on the board of directors alright that's the part you know here's the part of you also now but for some reason it is temporarily invisible to your brain you ready

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your brain you ready that just described most board members of most companies a complete lack of experience in the company that you're on the board of that's normal that's a normal situation see what it's doing to your head right now because you know that you've seen you see the million boards of directors you know that people are put on from completely different industries completely different experience right now how do you feel about the fact that for weeks you've been told that this is an unusual situation both sides both sides said this is an unusual situation it's the most usual situation that somebody would know experienced in that specific industry as a board member in fact you're gonna hate this that's sometimes why they do it sometimes why you do it just to put somebody with a different level kind of experience you know onto

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level kind of experience you know onto the board because they might bring something else they might have some related experience that could have some you know impact maybe they know people now suppose it's hunter Biden and you say to yourself hey I think the only reason they put them on the board is because he might have good contacts to which I say that's normal if you're a startup in Silicon Valley and you want to add somebody to your board do you do you number one make sure that some who has expertise in your industry no no you don't do that if that person has contacts that you think could be useful in the future like cats going crazy over there if you think a person has contacts that will be useful could be for funding could be for marketing could be for some important other corporate contact you you would certainly want them on your board yeah and somebody saying diversity that's another reason you it is not

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that's another reason you it is not unusual to add diversity to a board so what we're talking about hunter Biden let's say you're over in the Ukraine and you think you might want to have contacts in the United States who would be a good choice to be on your board who would have contacts of the United States entre Biden apparently he has lots of contacts in the United States so here's the thing when you hear the news reporting that it's crazy because he doesn't have any expertise in the industry that my friends there's an example of loser think now let me this is my new book that will is available now for pre-order it's drop in a few weeks and November 5th you can order it now let me define loser think loser think does not say that the person who's doing the thinking is a loser

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is a loser alright so loser think is not about the person it's about a style of thinking that's not productive and specifically it's because you may not have experience across different areas so in this specific example if you had experience in business and you heard that somebody was put on a board of directors got a lot of money and did not have experience in that industry what would you say if you have my experience I've been in a lot of companies I've looked for boards of directors so I've had that I've had to get board Board of Directors and advisers and stuff people like me say oh that's not that unusual people who don't have that experience are often in the news business so the news business is people don't necessarily have business experience and would it seem unusual to them there's somebody with no experience is on a board it might because that's the way they're reporting so the point of

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way they're reporting so the point of loser think is that if you haven't been at least a little bit exposed you don't have to be an expert but if you haven't seen a little bit about how economists think and historians think how psychologist thinks etc you would be ill-equipped to analyze the world and so I fill in some of those gaps with some of the main thematic elements from the various fields so you can tell where your blind spot is the thing that keeps you in a little bubble is usually you've got some blind spots there's just some things that you can't see because you don't have the kind of experience that would give you visibility just like this board number thing you wouldn't have the visibility now let me say I'm not defending hunter Biden I'm just saying that the fact that he has no experience should be viewed as completely normal for a board member but you know if he has contacts in the United States that's

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has contacts in the United States that's actually a good reason that was the perfectly good reason to add somebody to a board hey we need better contacts in the United States who do you got how about the vice president son he knows a lot of people don't that said is it ethical well that's another question isn't it certainly it gives the impression of conflict of interest but let me go to another topic here which is Joe Biden defending himself I I think it was yesterday maybe it was a day before he was interviewed and about you know whatever Trump is accusing him of and the Ukraine situation here are the exact quotes from Joe Biden defending himself from accusations of pillaging quote there's no indication of any conflict of interest what there's no indication of any conflicts of interest while you were vice president and

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while you were vice president and Ukraine was part of your portfolio your son took a very high-paid position connected to oligarchs that's the very definition of the appearance of conflict of interest which is different from actually acting in a way that's you know bad for the country or something but the indication of any conflict of interest I don't think that could be more obvious that's actually something everybody agrees on that we're all looking at the same thing he was vice president his son took a job with the country how do you not call that at least an indication of conflict of interest here's what people who are not guilty say there's a more like there was no conflict of interest we never acted it in any way that would that would be concerning if you're innocent you say nothing happened if you

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innocent you say nothing happened if you are guilty you're more likely to say there's no indication of any conflict of interest you D personalize it here's a little trick for identifying liars somebody telling the truth will say I didn't do a damn thing you won't you know there's nothing I did that is even close to being conflict of interest that's what an honest person says somebody lying to you will say there's no indication of conflict of interest they de personalize it and they say here's another thing this is an actual quote from Joe Biden also on the same day within like a minute or so of the other comment he said there's not a shred of evidence anything has been done wrong I've actually taught you literally if you've followed my periscopes that when somebody says I didn't do it they might be telling the truth they might be lying but they might be telling the truth so I

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but they might be telling the truth so I didn't do it that did not happen that sounds like an honest person here's what a liar sounds like consistently you'll see this type of answer from the liar what kind of evidence do you have what do you know I haven't seen any evidence of it nobody has seen any evidence that I've done anything you can't prove that I you can't prove that I did something wrong that's how all guilty people talk now let me back up there I I said that's how all guilty people talk this is not the kind of rule that you want to you know send somebody to the the gas chamber for like I can't claim that this is a hundred percent accurate but I can claim I've never seen it be inaccurate and so there's a little bit of an anecdotal though there's a lot of anecdotal flavor to what I just said but over my entire life in the situations that I've monitored in which

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situations that I've monitored in which somebody has talked like this the evidence seems insufficient when you do find out for sure what was the truth the people who talk about the evidence are almost always lying the people who say damn it I didn't do a thing those people might be telling you the truth they might be just better Liars but that's what you're looking for if if somebody if somebody makes an appeal to the lack of evidence that's not a good sign so and then Biden also did the you know meltdown got angry etc and and honestly there's just no way to there's no way to soften us he doesn't look mentally competent even when he was answering the questions everybody can see it at this point I think am I wrong don't you think Democrats can see it you know you have to be careful because your

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know you have to be careful because your our perceptions are being filtered through our own biases now to most of the people who would and time on this periscope you're probably probably saying to yourself yeah it's totally obvious but it's not remember it's not gonna be as obvious to the people who are his supporters those people are bias toward not seeing it and don't because he obviously has lots of support in the polls my guess this is just a guess that the Biden support is probably now almost entirely people who aren't paying attention because remember he's got he still got the name recognition and he's got the Obama connection etc I feel as though Joe Biden doesn't have any support any from people who have seen his recent news clips because if you've seen him talking recently you know he's not the one you want in charge I think you'd know that

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want in charge I think you'd know that no but again regardless of policy regardless of what you think of President Trump those would be independent questions anybody who sees Joe Biden talking in public recently they couldn't possibly think that that looks like he's got his full faculties as he did when he was younger there's just no way you could see it that way so I really think that Biden's support is consistent with the number of people who don't pay attention and if he just called somebody who wasn't paying attention said I got sixteen names three of them you've heard of one of them's Biden and you know maybe one of them's Biden and one of them's Bernie and maybe you like Biden better and that's probably the whole thing I don't think I don't think there's any real support as in people who have been paying attention for Biden but Trump is taking amount so effectively that I don't think you have to worry about Biden getting nominated let's talk about Bernie so remember I

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let's talk about Bernie so remember I told you the cat's on the roof joke you know if there's a job I will tell you the whole joke but the joke is that somebody's cat died but you don't want to break it to them right away so the first day say your cat's on the roof and you say you're trying to get it down and next day you say oh the cat got injured when we tried to get it down and and then that later say the cat died uh-huh and the reason is you sort of you get people softened up for the idea so that they're ready for it when it comes you don't want to just abruptly say oh you can't died your cat died too shocking so then we're watching this Bernie goes into the hospital and the first thing we hear is I always got a little you know you didn't feel good so he went in and they gave him a couple of steps it's a simple operation he'll be back in the trail tomorrow and I thought to myself huh got a couple of stents simple operation be back at his feet in a couple days that doesn't sound so bad

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couple days that doesn't sound so bad today the campaign said well was a heart attack there's a little heart attack he'll be back in a couple days yeah I got a couple of steps there's just a little bit of a heart attack he'll be right back to work good to go cats on the roof let me ask you this how would you feel yes if Bernie had been elected let's say he had been gotten the nomination over Clinton and got elected he would be the sitting president right now with a heart attack who's his vice president it batters doesn't it who's Bernie's vice president in the hypothetical scenario they he'd won the last election because he's president right now right Bernie's president right now for three days somebody else was president maybe more right because while he was semi incapacitated presumably the

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he was semi incapacitated presumably the vice president would have stepped in who was it we don't know because he never got to pick one but that's who would have been your president for three days maybe longer because we don't know what else Bernie's got going on right he's at that age where things can sneak up on you kind of suddenly so if you're Bernie and you're running for president now after a heart attack can you run for president without telling us who your vice presidential pick is gonna be I have a time now it's traditionally they wait right they always wait Bernie can't do that anymore because if you're voting for Bernie you're kind of also voting for a vice president who has a higher than normal chance of being the president during Bernie's term you know and what if and if you talk about a second term now here's the other thing do you want to elect a president who you would not want

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elect a president who you would not want to elect for a second term and you know that when you elect them the first time do we do that do you want a president who can't make it to terms if they're doing well that's that's uh why would you do that because it seems like there's so much advantage of having an incumbent who's learned the job to just do a second term if they've done a good job in the first term you're happy enough that's a good situation the second term president it can be can be a good situation but with Bernie do you get even the option of a second term not now because I think the heart attack closes down in your mind the options of a second term yes possible I mean anything's possible but in your mind you're sort of ruling that out so would you ever vote for a candidate who's not really a two-term possibility not really probably not all right so I think Bernie

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probably not all right so I think Bernie is done with the campaign but we hope he goes on to live a long and healthy life and again I have great respect for Bernie on a whole bunch of levels not policies not a big fan of his specific policies but you gotta like Bernie on a lot of different levels right he's got a lot of character fight I don't spunkiness I think he wants what's best for the country in his opinion I like the diversity of thought I like the fact that you know his views are so different I like the fact that he moved the Democrats I like the fact that he changed the conversation I've said for a long time that I think a huge mistake that the Republicans make is to not adopt Bernie's goal of complete health care because if you're a Republican you can adopt the goal at the same time you can say we don't know how to get there

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can say we don't know how to get there right away I think that would be fair you say we too would like everybody to have good health care and good health care insurance and I have to pay as a Republican you should be able to say that out loud and often and just say but we're trying to get there you know it's just it's not easy we're doing it our way by improving the economy getting people working where they can get health care and there were some announcement the president made a tweeted I think I'd wait for a fact check on this one but he said that Medicare Advantage I think that's where the Medicare folks can buy little extra insurance for the little extra care the price actually came down for the first time in 13 years I think I have that fact right now I would check that fact because maybe somebody else is going to come in and say that there's something wrong with the fact but he's reporting so the Republicans do have a

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reporting so the Republicans do have a way to inch their way towards something like full coverage I think they should adopt Bernie's goal one everybody covered the president has said that but I just think you wish you you shouldn't be embarrassed and wanting to take care of everybody the fact that you don't know how that's just the fact you're working on it don't know how to get there quickly all right see you then did the worst case of what about ISM that you'll ever see all right so the news is all about Biden and entre Biden and that you know their alleged conflict of interest over in Ukraine so CNN tries to run a what about what about Trump's kids story and here's the best they came up with this is their best what about ISM well the Trump

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best what about ISM well the Trump children mostly I think Eric and Don jr. are running the Trump Organization and the Trump organizations making international deals what how are those the same those don't those don't even sounds like slightly similar one is a multinational corporation that's been operating for decades and they took over and they're just doing what they do operating an international corporation that obviously has you know deals in different places goes somebody says it's worse to you jerk goodbye so and they didn't I thought it was gonna go into some kind of detail I thought it was gonna be and you know and one of them signed this deal or that deal with

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them signed this deal or that deal with kim jeong-hoon or something I thought it was gonna be some wild specific story and it turned out to be a generic story that it turns out that Eric and Don jr. have jobs that's about it yeah and those Trump children they work hard and they have jobs for an international corporation I don't know that wasn't the best what about ISM I've seen yeah I'm kind of a me and then there was also the you know this stuff about Ivanka had a deal or something but there's some kind of a shoe deal and so I forget which pundit was laughing about it and saying Ivanka know shoes you know that's sort of like you know a sort of a perfect fit you know fashion shoes clothing so but I think I thought Ivanka was closing down some part of her

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Ivanka was closing down some part of her outside business so I don't know the deal is there but it seems obvious to me that whatever the Trump kids are doing I call them kids they're all obviously not children but all the all the Trump kids seem to be doing just doing a good job doing their jobs because otherwise we'd know about it I think there's no chance we wouldn't know about it if there was some problem there interesting little story Elizabeth Warren had to get rid of a top campaign ad for quote inappropriate behavior and so I read the article trying to find out what that inappropriate behavior was and couldn't find it well apparently all kinds of inappropriate behavior from a male a member of Elizabeth Warren staff all kinds of inappropriate behavior so she got rid of them so let me recap let me

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got rid of them so let me recap let me recap the the news of the week news of the week President Trump uh gets a three point five percent unemployment rate the best in 50 years okay so that was the president Trump news Joe Biden has a meltdown and he's pillaging Ukraine that's that was the Biden news the birdie news is he had a heart attack while he was campaigning and the Elizabeth Warren news and this is like the only news this week is she had to fire a top campaign ad for inappropriate behavior and it's sort of better that you don't know what it is because if it was just me to stuff I feel like they would just say that wouldn't they say there was some harassment claim or something so they're not saying that which is hilarious because it allows you to then to imagine whatever the inappropriate behavior was and sure you mind will go to whatever's the word thing I won't tell you where mine my

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thing I won't tell you where mine my mind went because I'll let you have your own but we're all we're all imagining this whole this whole portfolio of bad behavior and we're ascribing it to this Warren you know high level a Don the campaign and we don't even know what he did but it sounds extra terrible because they won't tell us inappropriate behavior I think he actually ain't a baby he might be the first Democrat to actually eat a baby to save us from climate change alright
this is what this was Biden's big concern when he got all he got a little meltdown he when he was talking about Trump they were asking questions about Ukraine and Biden said he was concerned his main concern about Trump is that Trump would do something stupid before he leaves office and and that he's unhinged so if all the things that Biden

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unhinged so if all the things that Biden could say about Trump the best thing he could come up with in in a press conference was that Trump might do something stupid before he leaves office do you know who else might do something stupid
everybody everybody what kind of what kind of a complaint is that then he might do something stupid he's been there three years you don't have that one thing to complain about Joe Biden the president has been the president three years the only thing you have to complain about is that he might in some unspecified way do something bad in the future are you kidding me are you kidding me that's the best you got you've been practicing to run for president you're running for president it's your full-time job and you can't come up with anything that the President did for the last three years that you want to criticize the best you could do

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want to criticize the best you could do is he might do something bad in the future are you kidding me that was that is hilariously incompetent the president enjoying his making trouble for the Democrats I don't think there's anything more fun for Trump than having multiple Democrats as enemies because he he can pick them out individually and go after Biden for example you know he can pick them off because there's so many Democrats he's fighting against at the same time so you know for everything from already elected people like Pelosi to people running for office some of them already elected to but running for president so he's got all these targets like he wakes up every morning is like oh look at this target list man I'm gonna have fun today Bing nickname Bing Bing Bing Bing he goes down the list but my favorite one was he's he's creating the frame that Pelosi is just a puppet of a oversee and

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Pelosi is just a puppet of a oversee and that also the squad is sort of just tagging along with a oversee so he calls the squad a oversee plus 3 because he's minimizing the other three and basically saying well they're just the plus three it's really a Oh see now and then he also says he referred in the tweet he said along with Pelosi and her boss AOC so so Trump is calling a OC Pelosi is boss now he's doing at the same time that a or C had this embarrassing situation with the troll who was complaining about we need to eat babies you know all about that one so I love the president promoting AOC above the other Democrats now I have to tell you there's a there's a risk with the strategy it's very clever because it gets you arguing about whether a or C or Pelosi is in charge presumably it gets

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Pelosi is in charge presumably it gets under Pelosi skin which of course is the point of it Pelosi does a good job of getting under Trump's skin you know in in the give-and-take ways so Pelosi does a good she gives as good as she gets I have to say she's very well respected in terms of being an operator and a strategist but watching the president put a UC and Parc and Pelosi against each other in public it's and then he calls policies that do nothing Democrat and he puts it in quote leader eople leader in quotes leader with a receiver boss he's so good at this of just getting in their heads all right so while you were all distracted by Ukraine the President issued a proclamation now I don't even know what that means to you what the hell is a proclamation the

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what the hell is a proclamation the President issued a proclamation is that like an executive order what the hell is a proclamation I don't know is it binding is a is there such a thing as a binding presidential proclamation I don't mean no does anybody know but he ordered he issued a proclamation maybe he's just making this stuff up as he goes suspending entry into the US of I hate this word aliens do you hate that word as much as I do calling people who want to you know come to this country aliens I freaking hate that word why aren't we a whole country of immigrants you know in in some sense passed or or a current you know immigrant at least is somewhat descriptive it's like you you were someplace and you went someplace else so you're an immigrant I don't love that word but I don't hate it but alien

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word but I don't hate it but alien that's do you have the same do you have the same response that that calling somebody who wants to come and be an American in most cases you know sometimes they just want to work here and enjoy the country sometimes they want to be the country they want to be Americans and to call somebody an alien I just hate the word just the word but anyway you said he so the proclamation says that aliens have to financially show that they can financially take care of their own health care so they have 30 days to prove that they can afford health care and they'll take care of it and I thought the president is really chipping away at a lot of different things he's just taking a little little piece here little piece there and you say to yourself well okay that little piece is not the hill I'm gonna die on even if you're on the other side of that issue you might say to yourself well alright

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you might say to yourself well alright you know I'm a favor of immigration but it does make sense that people you know should pay their own way for health care because why would I pay for it so you can imagine that there are enough Democrats who look at that and go there is the president again oh that's that's not that's not terrible because I would think this would apply to you know every ethnicity and religion this this doesn't seem to be discriminating except by income which we accept as being fairly standard you know the world discriminates by income all the time because poor people can't buy the same things as rich people so it's a very discriminatory world on incomes and so the president is discriminating a little bit more on essentially income by requiring that you'd be able to afford your own health care insurance if you come to this country under a visa so

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come to this country under a visa so that's like a win right for the president you might not like the like that or you do but in terms of what he's trying to do for his supporters that looks like a wimp you had a good week all right I believe that brings me to the end of my prepared statements I will remind you again as my publisher reminds me every day that you should know about my book loser thing now let me tell you what this book will do for the conversation I talk about a lot of the techniques you're going to see on social media and in the news in other words the bad arguments that people make the the arguments have blind spots and and they're missing they're just missing something so I talked about those and those and the technique for getting people out of their little bubble so you

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people out of their little bubble so you can get yourself out of your bubble if you're in one and most of us are and if it can help you get other people out of your bubble I will say in the interest of full humility there are no ideas of this book in terms of how to think better that I have not done wrong myself and continues to do wrong so it's not a book where I tell you how to be smart it's a book where I confess that I've made all of these mistakes and I hope you that you will learn from my experience as well so bye loser think it's the best book in the world I just saw that the business and humor category has I think four four books on it they have something to do with me what oh by the way new Dilbert book is them to book of Dilbert comics in case you missed anything it's all here xxx believe it or not thirty years so

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xxx believe it or not thirty years so you got all that going on all right
Washington Post op-ed said we're looking at the wrong movie yeah have you seen how often the two movies thing is is being discussed everywhere
seekers are visitors to our country well they are visitors that is true unless they overstay so there's a lot of people overstay so the the visa people somebody is correcting me here the visa people are not people who are coming here to live forever but they might be coming here to to work and live as Americans do but on a visa what am i doing the periscope with Christina so that won't be that'll be a separate thing it won't be the morning set but Christine and I are preparing for it we have a couple of little elements we're pulling together

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little elements we're pulling together and then we're going to do something fun and separately somebody says describe my gym workout well if you have read my book out of failed almost everything and still would big you'll know that I use a system for fitness not some specific set of steps and by a system I mean that I concentrate primarily on my mind because if you get your mind right your fitness will take care of itself and the way I get my mind right is that I make sure I enjoy working out on a regular basis or at least being active even if I don't work out that day and so I make sure that I enjoy it it's fun I give myself a protein shake in a little downtime afterwards I go to the I go to a nice gym because I like the ambience and I have more energy if other people are working out so all I do for my fitness is make sure that what I'm done

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is make sure that what I'm done exercising that day that I make sure that I've done something fun enough or enjoyable enough that I'm gonna want to do it again now sometimes the exercise itself puts you in a good frame of mind and that's enough but I don't over exercise and then hurt myself and then not want to do it the next day the whole game is to want to do it tomorrow if you get that right all of the details of your workouts you'll just figure that on overtime you'll you'll add diversity to your workout because you get bored you'll learn tips because you see other people at the gym you start talking about it people say hey if you try this so the specifics of it you want to build up over time you know building technique you know and find out what works for you etcetera because what works for you is gonna be different than what other people do alright so just some specifics because people asked I always do weights so weights are always part of my exercise not every day but I try to do

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exercise not every day but I try to do it several times a week and then some cardio that's not too bad for my joints basically I usually like the stair machines the automatic stair machines but everybody's different you should not take my model as your model except that you probably should add weight and resistant trade training and some cardio into your routine so that's all you need to know well everything I do weights wise is adjusted for age so there are things I would have done at 20 that I'm not going to do in my current age so somebody was talking about pull-ups and push-ups not at my age you know at at 25 you know you wouldn't want to be in a you know pull-up competition with me because I probably would win but at my current age I try to make sure I'm not hurting myself so I put a very high premium on avoiding injury because at my

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premium on avoiding injury because at my age if you vote if you have an injury you lose two weeks of exercise you can really you can imagine you'd get to the point where you just say yeah I'm done with exercising I'll just write out my rest of my time on this world and I think a lot of people do that I think people get to the point where they overlap I think I'm done with exercising I just reached that age I don't think you should ever do that system if I keep looking for a new job won't I look bad to future employers with job hopping nope no you will not I would not worry about job hopping for even one second why because the unemployment rate is 3.5% I'm assuming this question is coming from somebody working here in America if your job if the employment rate is 3.5% use your power your power is that employers want you more than you need

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employers want you more than you need that at the moment so assume depending on what your skill set is that's probably true so know there was a time in the past and the old days that I think job hopping would look bad but if you job hop to a better job it's because you have more qualifications if you're an employer and you're holding it against somebody who's rising to the level of their skill what's wrong with you don't work for that guy or woman if your boss isn't actively hoping you you get a better job or a better situation even if you leave get another boss in my brief time when I was a boss in the corporate world I had a small group I was managing one of my principles I had two principles one of them was I had more than that but to that I'm going to talk about one of them was that everybody had to be learning something

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everybody had to be learning something all the time so I would tell my people I don't care what you're learning it doesn't have to even be relevant to this specific job but as a lifetime practice you should be learning something all the time and ideally something useful but you should always be learning because when we're learning were we're sort of optimized as as humans a learning human is the perfect human we're really optimized to learn and if you're not learning you're gonna feel incomplete in a way that you can't quite identify so I would tell them I will support you in whatever way to be learning I'll teach you something I'll help you get into a class all you know whatever it takes but you all have to be learning something I don't care what it is the and then the next thing was I would tell them that my my personal ambition as a manager was to promote them out of my department or to

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promote them out of my department or to get them a better job and I would tell them that I'd say as long as you work for me I'm trying to get rid of in a good way I want you to take whatever you're learning here and take it somewhere else better you know your job is to go somewhere better your job is to leave me get some skills get some confidence get some experience be some people I'll give you a recommendation I'll train you your job is to leave because here's why I would simply take people's personal ambitions and say I'm not going to pretend they don't approach I'm not going to pretend that you're not here for your own good like I don't want to live in the artificial world where I'm trying to you know trick you into staying here for my benefit you're not working for my benefit you're working for yourself and I can train so now it happened to be the types of jobs were wouldn't have been that hard to train

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wouldn't have been that hard to train somebody new coming in so I had that advantage you know I didn't I didn't need to keep some highly trained specialists in place and I'm baby I would have acted differently if I needed them for the business to succeed you know don't leave don't leave but for normal jobs especially these were closer to entry-level jobs my job was to get rid of them now I didn't say that I wouldn't say I want to get rid of you but what do you think happened as a result of telling people I wanted them to learn everyday and I was trying to get them better jobs what do you think the result was nobody wanted to leave I was like the best boss ever who wants to leave that what do you want to leave that boss the boss was literally trying to improve your skills until you can leave and go get a better job somewhere else who leaves that boss you know so work is sort of worked opposite of how you might expect because

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opposite of how you might expect because people just enjoyed their situation and so I I will state unambiguously I'm not a good boss meaning that I'm not good for the stockholders because I I just can't abuse the employees the way the stockholders need me to you know depending on the situation so I will never be a great boss because I can't be mean enough when the situation calls for it but I can certainly be a helpful boss you wouldn't mind working for me if you were an employee that's for sure all right that's about all I got
all right somebody else agree somebody else saying they they want to optimize every employee I didn't manage up yeah
how was your drumming thanks for asking so a few years ago I sent myself I guess

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so a few years ago I sent myself I guess a I always say a goal because I didn't have a specific goal but I tried to learn the drums and it was more about keeping a different part of my brain active and learning into his skill and it was fun and you know Kristina's gifted musician so it gave us something more to talk about so yesterday Christina and I were out my dream I in my garage I ended up with two electronic drum sets one is mine one I inherited from my stepson who's deceased a year ago so I ended up with two electronic drum sets and so the two of us Christine and I my girlfriend were in the garage having a drum off because she's such a good musician she she could learn the drums sort of it in ten minutes it's sort it's really humiliating because she's really smart but also very experienced with music and she's very coordinated too you know she just has musical coordination so she

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just has musical coordination so she yeah I've been practicing for months and months and months and she just sits down to the drums and she says I showed me what to do and I'm like watch this see if you can do all this but I'll do a thing and she'll look at me and she'd go and I'll say okay that was a little too easy so yeah she has the she has the gift anyway it's a lot of fun I'm not good and never will be don't care but it's a lot of fun there's the name hunter evidence of the simulation certainly makes me wonder he was a he was more of a gatherer than a hunter wouldn't you say do I still play tennis and golf now I quit tennis because I didn't like being sore every day and I was if you play tennis often you're kind of sore every day golf I haven't played I don't think I've

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I haven't played I don't think I've played since my stepson died I only learned golf to play with him you have something to bond over and it doesn't feel the same anymore I think you understand but that's all for now
every considered running a marathon I've considered it but I'm pretty sure that my body is not optimized for that sort of a thing I think some people are just built for distance some people are built for speed I'm sort of built for speed I'm not built for distance alright that's all for now I'll talk to you later