Episode 708 Scott Adams: Latest Examples of Loserthink From Pundits, Bernie’s Empty Shelves

Date: 2019-10-29 | Duration: 56:53

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My new book LOSERTHINK goes on sale 11/5. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2NRammu Wounded hero dog Socialist Bernie speaking in front of EMPTY store shelves Critics of President Trump obsessing, whimpering and crying SPIN TRICKS…”concerned”, “might have”, “problematic”, “if true” Repetition and passage of time = persuasion Nancy’s new move, impeachment theater Yang’s Karaoke, bad but fearless Kamala goes full Hillary to explain her bad poll numbers China says they will ease rules restricting foreign investments Does anyone believe that? US should create a comprehensive investment grade for countries Update: Tesla Powerwall for power during outages Comparing to Generac solution Cost and the evaluation process

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oh hey everybody come on in it's time for coffee with Scott Adams the best time of the day until the other best times but it's the best time so far and you don't need much if you want to join I think you know you need a cup or a mug or a glass a snifter stein chalice tankard thermos flask canteen Grail goblet vessel of any kind so with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the best part of the day the thing that makes everything better the simultaneous it go temperature perfect flavor exceptional one of the best one of the best so we got lots of fun things in the news was it was it yesterday I'm losing track of time was it yesterday that I said I wanted to try to get Matt Gaetz to be a guest on my periscopes and I said I you should all follow him on

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said I you should all follow him on Twitter and maybe if he gets 10,000 new followers in a day that would get his attention and he would say hey okay I'll be on your periscope for 15 minutes so what happened in 24 hours you amazing sexy and brilliant people gave Matt Gaetz 10,000 new followers I swear to god sometimes I think I'm writing this simulation I had I asked for 12,000 what had been 12,000 I don't know I said let's get him 10,000 followers of the next day I checked it's like it's about 10,000 new followers not exactly but somewhere in that neighborhood and since then Matt Gaetz has said yes and we are scheduled for tomorrow so tomorrow congressman maggots will appear on this periscope assuming the technology works

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periscope assuming the technology works it'll be the first time he's used periscope as a guest so I don't know if it'll work on the first try but that's the plan all right I love the fact that Trump not only released the photo of the hero dog but he pinned it it's pin dot is on his Twitter feed he decided that that was the most important thing to pin to his Twitter feed the picture of this adorable dog now somebody asked me about that in terms of persuasion I don't think I have to tell you people like dogs we love dogs there's only one thing that the public likes better than dogs it's not people I think you'd agree right I think we all like not you know there are few people don't like dogs but in general people like dogs more than they even like people we certainly like dogs more than we like politicians generally speaking

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we like politicians generally speaking so having this dog as the sort of the face of the operation was pretty good but there is one thing there is one thing we like better than dogs what is it
it hero dogs that's right there's nothing better and a hero dog oh wait wait I'm getting a message in my ear no there's one thing we like better than hero dogs wounded Purple Heart hero dogs BAM most popular thing in the world so Trump is quite cleverly putting that dog forward and it has the secondary value of putting putting Isis in its place what is Isis is Isis that brutal but effective organization that is capturing territory and threatening the entire civilization of the world oh ho

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entire civilization of the world oh ho that's so last year well so last administration really today Isis is the organization whose leader was beaten by dog literally not only did the dog get there first but the dog caused him to murder his own children before taking his own life well actually at the same time I think the dog gets the kill because there's no report that there was a human at least pointing a got that and at the time that happened so good for the dog now compare the way Trump is managing this whole situation - let's say that somebody who is allegedly at the same level and should be able to persuade just as well let's take Bernie Sanders for example what's the latest photo of Bernie Sanders flashes of video

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photo of Bernie Sanders flashes of video the video of Bernie Sanders talking to the public he's standing with a representative to Labe and the two of them I'm not even making this up this sounds like a joke I swear to god this is true he did a video standing in front of empty store shelves the Socialists did a video in which they stood in front of empty store shelves now what was Bernie talking about in his video hell if I know I even watched a little bit of the video and I don't know what he was talking about I I mean I probably knew when I watched it completely uninterested in what he had to say but the visual oh my god could you come up with the worst visual if you're running to be a socialist and empty store shelf now let me ask you

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empty store shelf now let me ask you this try to imagine this this is almost impossible to imagine which is the reason I'm asking you to do it imagine Trump here's the hard part imagine he was running as a socialist it's hard to it's impossible really to imagine that but just imagine it can you imagine Trump agreeing to stand in front of empty shelves while doing a video while running to be a socialist president you cannot it's literally unimaginable do you think that Trump when he's asked to be on a video of any kind you know if let's say he has some control over the video do you think that he doesn't look what's behind him he does well I'm not I'm not reading his mind I'm just saying that if you have a certain skill set for a persuasion you don't not look what's behind you that's sort of persuasion 101

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behind you that's sort of persuasion 101 contacts to Elsa's in it what's the camera angle how's my lighting how's my makeup how's my hair am I wearing a good suit is it well pressed is my necktie straight do you think Trump lets any of that go no way there isn't the slightest possibility the Trump would have made an enormous enormous mistake like that standing in front of empty shelves to do a video that he knows the world is going to look at incredible all right
there's there's a lot of a bickering on TV about whether or not president Trump's description of the final moments of al-baghdadi is accurate or not was he actually whimpering and crying in his final moments are you kidding me let me remind you of something do you know who

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remind you of something do you know who writes history I'll wait yeah who writes history is it beg daddy no no he can't write in history because he's resting in pieces no bag daddy will not be writing in the history how about the other people in Isis who are dead will they be writing any history no no now the dead people don't write history how about the people are still alive in Isis but they're hiding will they write history no no they don't get to write history do you know who gets write history the dog because the dogs the winner the dog is who beat al Baghdady the dog gets to write history but but you're probably ahead of me here dogs can't talk right well maybe this one can I wouldn't be surprised if the military

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wouldn't be surprised if the military had a talking dog I don't think so but you know there are always a few years added in their technology President Trump won the war he killed Baghdady who gets to write history I don't make the rules I didn't make the rules President Trump wrote us some history and the history he wrote as al-baghdadi was whimpering and crying until the end that's it that's your history is it true is it true do I care do you what's the best history doesn't matter what's the best one it's the one you're the only one you're gonna get is the one that's written by the winners now here's my advice to the critics of

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now here's my advice to the critics of the president find something else to criticize because really it's a target-rich environment right I'm pretty sure you can find something you can make something up about Russia you could make something up about Ukraine and it's phone call maybe you could call it less than perfect but can we just agree as a country that we won this round and that we get the right we got the right thing Esther II and I don't mind if the president does the first draft so let him write a history is it exactly accurate is any of your history accurate think about it is any of your history accurate I think the names and dates are accurate but is the motivation the details the variables you know who did what and why and what should have happened what could have happened who made the decision is any of

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happened who made the decision is any of that accurate probably not probably not not in any country because the winners write the history not the objective observers objective observers don't get the opportunity it's not their job you know they could try to fix things in biographies later but good luck with that all right so here's the worst take from the pundits on that whole Baghdadi daddy thing I saw some pundits speculate that perhaps we have some video in the tunnel maybe it was on a dog or a drone or whatever I'm guessing dog and somebody suggested that maybe we had a video camera on the dog but not what do you know what it's 2019 do you think there's anybody who said let's design a camera for a dog and the dog is supposed to sort of go into

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the dog is supposed to sort of go into danger first so we can see what's happening before we send humans in there let's put a video on the dog and then some engineer says an audio of course right do you think there was anybody in the room who said no audio no audio I don't think so I think that's sort of automatic now here's here's a perfect example of loser think loser think as I define it is not being dumb per se rather it's simply not being exposed to certain domains and ways of thinking that would be more productive here's what these pundits have we are not exposed to technology if you worked in the technology field and you heard that the dog had a video camera is there any doubt in your mind if you have any background or knowledge and technology is there any doubt in your mind that it also had an audio of course

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mind that it also had an audio of course not
not of course I had audio you would only know you need to know this much about the world about how economics and how the law works I'll explain that in a second and how technology works you know that the audio portion of the technology is so trivially cheap especially if you're already streaming the video for god sakes it's probably in the same signal you would know it's there I think maybe people at a blind spot because a lot of our security cameras have no video why do the security cameras that you see in public everywhere and have no video I'm sorry they have video but why do they have no audio because that's the law the law says you can't have these public security cameras that also have audio because you don't want it picking up private conversations that's the law it's not the technology I'm pretty sure they could put audio on any video camera

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they could put audio on any video camera they want it's 2019 for God's sakes all right the other thing that I would like to remind people this is the perfect time to do it is that our military including the civilian leadership our military does not have an obligation to give truth to the American public you're okay with that right because I'm okay with that I'll say it again our military has no obligations no obligation not even a little bit to tell the American public or anybody else the truth because there you can imagine a lot of situations in which the truth works against the objective and they have one objective you know keeps the country safe that's sort of it and if the best way to do that is with a little bit of stretching the truth may be you leave out some of your secretary secret techniques maybe you tell the story in the way that

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maybe you tell the story in the way that prevents the problems from reoccurring in the future so as we're listening to our military which we have complete respect for I think I think you most of you on this periscope would agree our respect for our military in United States is unparalleled probably nobody has that level of respect probably definitely when you say definitely nobody has more respect in the United States that our military still they may be telling us some sometimes I'm gonna trust them because they they've earned that level of respect and Trust I'm going to trust them that when they lie to us because they will it's for a good reason and that I'd be better off with the lie than the truth so just keep that in mind as information comes out for example is it this is a perfect example is it true that within 24 hours we gave a burial at

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that within 24 hours we gave a burial at sea to the remains of Baghdad it might be true it could be I'm guessing now how many how many pieces of Baghdad II did we even find I mean what was left of them was that a priority was it a priority for anybody to get this guy buried in an appropriate way no not at all it was nobody's priority it wasn't the slightest priority but it could be a good play to say we did because by saying we did it it creates a you know an image of our people who are respectful to you know let's say the civilian population who have a set of beliefs we'd like to show respect to that because otherwise it just causes problems and and why not you know I think we have genuine respect for people's beliefs that parts without faking it we generally do as long as

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faking it we generally do as long as they're not Remus beliefs so I would say our military may have lied to us about the efficiency and the details of that burial sa good for them if they did lie good job that's exactly what you should have done and my respect for you as the military goes up if you told us that lie and it's like a really really productive one I accept it I incorporate it as my fake history written by the winners and I thank you thank you for your service and thank you for that lie if it was I don't know if it was could be true it's possible but keep that straight you don't need the truth from your military if you trust and we do all right so yeah the other stuff that's happening today

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the other stuff that's happening today is that somebody named Zinman he said that he registered his objections on the Ukrainian phone call when the president was talking to the president of Ukraine and he said that he registered his his objections because he was quote concerned he was concerned that it would affect relations with Ukraine it would make things too political and therefore it would be damaging to relations now remember I told you that there are all these words that the anti-trump errs are using to trauma critics they're using words in replace of facts as substitutes so they tend to talk about what might have happened or what could happen short of anything bad actually happening so instead of saying he did something bad they say well something bad might happen

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they say well something bad might happen and and we register the something bad might happen has almost as powerful as if something happened so it's a good trick to replace facts of things that are happening with words that make it just as scary without those things actually happening here's another one of those words he was concerned and do you know who I'm concerned about all of you I'm concerned about all of you something you might commit a crime today some of you may might make bad decisions do you I'm concerned about everybody like literally concerned I I'm interested if there's anybody in my circle my friends etc I'm always concerned I hope they make the right choices and and if they made the wrong choices I would be sad so watch for these little clever words that are substitutes for actual information this

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substitutes for actual information this guy was concerned how how concerned should you be about somebody else who was concerned here's another word that people use instead of facts I thought the phone call with the Ukrainian president was problematic okay can you be a little less specific than that problematic right I'm concerned it's problematic if it's true it's big somebody might tell us something that's bad now when I talk about persuasion I'm often saying what the president did right and the Democrats get wrong as as I already have with Bernie on this very call and with the president about the dog so you're very you're very used to be saying the president's getting everything right persuasion wise the other side is blowing it more or

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the other side is blowing it more or less but let me tell you the the side that's pushing impeachment they're doing a really good job they're doing a really good job there's something happening that because you're focused on the details you're missing Democrats managed to start with talking about impeachment on day one of his presidency and on day one what did you think about impeachment wild crazy political ridiculous sort of ignore it right that was day one day two kind of the same day three pretty much the same few months later now you're thinking I sure I'm hearing a lot about impeachment and just because of repetition and time the Democrats have taken this concept which seemed just stupid yeah it literally just seems stupid and trivial and barely worth thinking about

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trivial and barely worth thinking about it was like Tom Styer and his dumb old commercials but we just keep hearing more about it and there's a new alleged fact which never really turns into something concrete and the whole Russia collusion thing and yeah Muller debunked it all but still there's details and we hear the word impeachment impeachment impeachment and now Nancy's doing this new move where she's she's doing something that makes it seem and as well as all the interviews with the witnesses as the whistleblowers etc they're going through this sort of impeachment theater which is having the diabolically clever effect of making the American public start with impeachment it's just silly it's just stuff people are saying to actually believing it's likely and do you know what do you know what impeachable offenses have happened between the time that the president was

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between the time that the president was sworn into office and now none none now if you if you're watching the other channels will say well fifty and things it's obvious mom all these impeachable things but if you were to look at any one thing on the list just pick one what's your best thing on the list it just sort of disappears when you start digging into it just sort of disappears likewise the Ukrainian phone call huh I don't think there's a slightest chance he could get impeached for the frickin phone call I mean I I've given you my if I were the defense lawyers for that I mean I would tear that apart in a heartbeat I'm not even a lawyer I mean I can do it I'm pretty sure you could do it I mean we all do it but the difference is even though the evidence is just here something be bumped here's something debunked here's something debunked

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debunked here's something debunked here's this Ukrainian thing it will be the month or at least it will seem unimportant in history unless the impeaches have moved the minds of the public from stop wasting our time with this it's stupid through repetition alone just repetition people are starting to think hmm I think this is gonna happen this looks like a legitimate thing that's happening so you really miss that because it happened so slowly it's like a three-year progression the evidence for impeachment is probably worse than it's ever been I would argue it's probably the weakest it's ever been because in the beginning people were saying a he's a racist the things he's doing they're clearly racist but now some time goes by and it doesn't look like that as much even to the critics it probably doesn't look so much like that for example banning the so called the

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for example banning the so called the Muslim ban it passed the Supreme Court which makes it look a lot less racist doesn't it if something passes the Supreme Court can't be that racist and then years go by three years go by and nobody who got in through that immigration process the the the group that were banned nobody from that banned group has done any terrorist acts in this country so it feels like it sort of worked no matter how you felt about it on day one and I could go through the examples there's the prison reform there's support for that historically black colleges the president you know saying almost every day that what he's done for african-american employment yeah I could go down the list you don't know the list so the things that people thought were big deals he's gonna nuke us he's gonna destroy the economy he's gonna put gay people in prison camps all the all the

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people in prison camps all the all the crazy stuff has been proven by time and experience and observation not be what anybody thought they might have been in the beginning but does it matter that they've debunked one thing after another for three years it doesn't your collective feeling is that impeachment is more likely even though the evidence for it has decreased because I think the Ukraine thing is there's nothing but vapors there's there's no chance of impeachment with any of that but I think the president also reached a point yeah through trial and error eventually he was going to do something that even some Republicans would say hey even we Republicans need to disavow that or you know it seems politically incorrect or whatever so sooner or later you were gonna get some Republicans to say at least on this minor topic we don't agree with the president but there we are

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with the president but there we are let's talk about what some more persuasion there's a video of yang doing karaoke at one of his events I don't have to tell you well I guess I do have to tell you he's now such a great karaoke singer but I loved watching it because here's the thing yang is apparently fearless and people really respond to that people respond to a lack of fear it's one of the strongest ways you can bond people to you as a leader so watching yang go out there and doing something that's clearly he had to know is not his sweet spot of skill just went out in public and just he seemed to be give a completely uninhibited bad version of karaoke to which I said number one that's some bad karaoke I'm hearing and number two I thought I liked

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hearing and number two I thought I liked him better I could actually feel it I could feel myself liking him more because he was uninhibited it's a very attractive quality in a human being just to be uninhibited you know you've heard the old saying dance like nobody's watching he sang karaoke like nobody was watching like like he hadn't like nothing could embarrass him I love that quality in people and so and most of us did we when we recognized a lack of fear in people and by the way Trump has this like crazy have you ever seen Trump look actually worried about anything he actually seems fearless and it's a strong quality for a leader so yang has that so he did a good job on that let's talk about Kamala so Kamala decided to go full Hillary Clinton and I don't mean that in a good way
way in which he in an interview she blamed race and sexism discrimination for low

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race and sexism discrimination for low poll numbers are you freaking kidding me Kamala Harris in 2019 is asking whether a woman or a piece of a person of color can become president in these racist base to which I say we're a Tibetan for the last eight to ten years you know we elected somebody named Barack Hussein Obama twice you did notice the Hillary won the popular vote by three million votes and in my view she shattered the glass ceiling what I mean by that is even though she didn't get the job that was for electoral college reasons etc but she the Hillary Clinton certainly proved that a woman can get elected beyond that I believe that the experts are saying that a female candidate actually has a voting

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candidate actually has a voting advantage meaning that people will line up to vote female president and prefer it there's a slight preference for a female candidate overall and I think to myself Coble is doing the most basic mistakes anybody could ever make you know I've given some periscope talks at detail about how what makes what made Barack Obama so good persuasion wise is that when he ran for president he didn't make a big deal about being black he kind of left that as a something for other people to talk about exactly brilliantly right it was it was reading perfectly what the non black population needed to hear you know I think people were I can speak for myself here and probably lots of other people I think people wanted a black president just as sort of say we could

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president just as sort of say we could you know get past it and when one came along who seemed to have the qualifications and this is important was not telling us every day that he's a black president black candidate made people were not black saying I like that he's leading with capability I can get behind that let's let's not talk about the race stuff I'm bored with it I think it's overdone I'll just vote for this guy he seems to have some capabilities that I like and people liked him so much they voted him in again so Kawa could not be playing this worse it's the biggest mistakes in my view well Hillary made quite a few mistakes but one of the biggest mistakes was pressing the the sexism gender thing when if she had just shut up about it a lot more people would have said I like that she's running for president she is a woman but she's not talking about that that's exactly what men wanted to hear

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that's exactly what men wanted to hear and she didn't give it to us I mean she could have gotten a lot more men just by saying don't fall for him don't vote for me because I'm a woman you know we should be past that just fo for me because you like my policies what had Hillary done that I would feel a lot better about her but she actually went all the way to saying that women have that there's there's an advantage to a woman because they have more empathy or they listen better or something she actually said that in public Hilary did huge mistakes huge all right so I'll say again that I've I don't think I've seen a worse campaigner than Kamala Harris to the point where I got a really wonder who the hell is advising her I mean she's making you know she has like 10 choices every day and she's picking the worst one every time like every time you couldn't do worse than this the only

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couldn't do worse than this the only thing she could do worse is say she's the anti dog this week you know he cuz here come out and say I'm anti dog I hate dogs just when we're talking about the hero dog all right China allegedly says they're going to I felt like this was old news but it got recycled today there's something new about it I don't know what it is but China said they were to ease foreign investments I use the kerbs on foreign investments in other words people want to invest in China or remove production there they said they would get rid of some of the rules such as forcing technology transfers and Senator do you believe that they have a an unbroken record of violating every agreement we've ever had including the WTO basically everything why would we believe China on anything now there's something I've said before but I've got

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something I've said before but I've got a little more information on it and I'm gonna suggest it again I'm gonna combine two concepts remember I told you the other day that the most important thing you will ever know about management you don't have to get an MBA you don't have to be an experienced manager to know one of the most important things about management it's easy and it's this the things you measure are the only things you'll manage - if you can't measure whether the things you're doing are working or not there's almost no chance you're even going to work on it because you don't even know if the things you do are working now there could be exceptions to that but as a good general rule if you don't have a measurement nothing's going to happen the things you can measure are the things that get acted upon that's the basic rule of management and if you violate that you can't even be a manager I mean you that's so basic you couldn't possibly do your job if you're not

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possibly do your job if you're not measuring your performance in a variety of ways but with this trade deal stuff we have we have some things that I suppose if they cheated we could say it's heated but it's not a measurement we could say you made an agreement but you didn't keep it but that's not really a measurement all right that's a little different so they seem to be willing to break any agreement right in front of you and I would recommend the following I've said this before and then I did some googling to see if it already existed because I'm the I'm the king of making suggestions that have already been done so I may be doing that again what I was looking for is some kind of a country grade or ranking ranking by country for how whether they are investment grade meaning is does the country have a set of rules and laws and

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country have a set of rules and laws and practices that are good for business or bad for instance now there are a number I so I googled this and I didn't have too much time I was doing it just before I went live so there are a number of different websites they have a variety of different approaches to ranking countries you know according to their worthiness you know basic worthiness but I noticed that they were all kind of specific there were some that dealt with just certain elements of being easy to work with and some that dealt with other elements and I felt that they were sort of diverse and maybe diluted they didn't have much impact because you don't even know they existed I mean I had to google it to even find out if it existed so here's what I'm suggesting I'm suggesting that the United States start or at least guess somebody else to do it some kind of investment grading a comprehensive investment grade for

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comprehensive investment grade for countries I would expect that the United States you know maybe Switzerland or something would have better scores for reliability and keeping your promises and all that and that China would be low but here's the magic part so one part of the magic is that if you have a very public standard and it's a measurement and you can actually raise your score or lower your score by your actions that's very powerful you don't even have to tell China that they need to conform you don't have to force them to do anything you just keep just keep publishing the grade and Viet Nam's moving up the list hey India India we love you looks like you're doing better you're moving up the list you're much better to work with India Oh China you're not keeping up so sad well that's your business yeah we're not gonna force you to do anything China you do you do anything you want but Viet Nam's ratings goings up and China's rating is going up and Honduras rating

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rating is going up and Honduras rating is going up Oh too bad nobody wants to do business with you because your grade is too low now the beauty of this is if you have an actual ranking a grade a website you can go to a poll something that's got substance then you've got something that the president and politicians can refer to and they can say look as long as China has a an investment grade of F in India has just hypothetically I don't know if this is true and India has an investment grade of let's say C - because you know they've got some corruption issues - they got some things to work on but where are you gonna build your Factory in the F or the C - there's no question about it you're always gonna go for the C minus is way better than an F so simply naming it having a dependable measurable grading system would be

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measurable grading system would be immensely powerful especially if I put China in direct competition with India so we should try to do more to make sure that India and China are competing all right I'll see what else we got going here I talked about most of this did it no I think I've oh here's here's another fun thing a couple of fun things so I told you I was gonna order a tesla powerwall for my home yes if you know it's researching it turned out that that was a good thing to do and I I filled out Tesla's online things and they did call me back so so Tesla a plus for having a system in

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Tesla a plus for having a system in which they got back to me I also learned that they don't have a big problem with supply but it might take maybe two months to go through the process and and guess something installed which would be fine two months to get a battery backup for my house would be fine because I'm really preparing for next season not this one what you know this season's kind of lost yeah the fire season will be over in a few weeks before I would get a battery anyway so let me let me give you a little bit more about that process somebody says how much all right and that's what I'm gonna talk about next so what I expected was that the system that the process would work this way I thought I would contact Tesla you know say Who I am and what I'm looking for they would tell me on the phone oh we got these products it looks like we might have a fit but here's the important part I thought what they were gonna do is send somebody out you know an engineer to look at my

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you know an engineer to look at my specific situation and say whether it would work or wouldn't work and if it worked where could they put it because where are you located it makes a big difference right you know you want to be comfortable with where it's located that's what I thought would happen that's not what happened their process is that they call you they do answer any questions are very nice right on the phone but their process is that you you get homework so they send you a link which I haven't done yet and they ask you to take pictures of your existing solar if you have existing solar you take pictures and you send them in and you answer a bunch of questions about your existing system etc and then they can engineer a price and then at some point they'll schedule delivery and you pay $99 just to get in the system now I think it's refundable if you end up not buying but there is a commitment you you put in $99 investment that you can get back now here's the question do you

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back now here's the question do you think I'm gonna do those things do you think I'm gonna walk out and take pictures with my phone and fill out the form and spend half a day knowing in advance that they're going to contact me and say I don't have the right pictures and that I need to take more pictures and get back to them again probably not all right all they had to do was say we're going to send somebody out they're really going to make sure this works in your house you're going to talk to them in person they're going to point to your wall say uh well I see your solar okay we connect here and we'd have to put the device over there are you good to go I would have said you got me good to go instead they asked me to do homework let me ask you this if if you're ever in the sales job and you ask your customer to do homework before you will consider selling them

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before you will consider selling them your product that's as bad as you can do that's as bad as you can do now I understand why they'd want to automate their system as much as possible and I also think it probably works fine ninety percent of the time yeah probably most of the time it works fine if you have a smaller house etc but I've got a big complicated house I don't know how many units I would need etc so I think Tesla you probably failed on this sales process because I can't imagine myself having time to do this in the next several weeks yeah I've got the book tour coming up to Sentra so a problem and here's the worst part the other thing I was considering was a standard of gas generator backup by gas I mean natural gas so since I already have natural gas coming from the utility if my electrical kind of off the natural gas would automatically power up the system Generac I think is the company

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system Generac I think is the company that makes most of them and I wasn't even going to research that option as long as Tesla send somebody out and said yeah we'll start tomorrow or whatever they said but now I have to because it might be easier if I call Generac and if they say I don't know if they'll say that but if they say we'll send somebody out to your house to take a look that's what I'm gonna buy I'm gonna buy the one that says I'm sending somebody to take a look at your house and somebody says I'll need a tank also I don't know if I do because it's natural gas that's being pumped in on demand from the utilities all right so Tesla that system probably failed in my case but it probably works for simpler cases that was an update on that here's the funniest news Netflix is experimenting with a new technology that lets you speed up the movie so you can

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lets you speed up the movie so you can just put it at like 1.5% it's sort of like a podcast so you can do that now with podcast you can speed so the people have talked like this you can still hear exactly what they're saying but they're talking a little bit faster than you normally take you could get through an entire podcast much faster because people are talking so fast and so they're talking about making that available optionally to people who want to speed through movies here's the funny part so of course all the big directors are you know the creative types are complaining because it ruins their art so Judd Apatow coincidentally a big critic of President Trump he says quote in a tweet don't make me have to call every director and show creator on earth to fight you on this tweeted director Judd Apatow I will win but it will take a ton of time don't f with our timing we give you nice things leave them as they were intended to be seen okay I certainly understand why the

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okay I certainly understand why the creators would say that and let me tell you if somebody tries to mess with my comic strip I respond exactly this way so you want your creators to have this attitude so Judds Judd Apatow whose attitude it's perfect for a creator and from somebody whose support screeners but here's the thing movies are no longer good right movies are no longer good they used to be good movies used to be good but here's what's wrong with movies our attention span has shrunk at the same time that movies are getting longer movies are getting longer but our attention span is getting shorter it's now mismatched so if you want me to watch a movie and let's say it's a it's a drama action movie if I turn on an action movie how many action movies eventually have a

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how many action movies eventually have a scene where somebody is tied to a chair to be tortured let me think a hundred percent a hundred percent of movies have that same stupid scene which nobody who is a creator should ever be to put their name on if you made a movie and at any point in that movie you had somebody tied to a chair and tortured you are not a creator you're a copier you're just a copier do I care if I'm speeding up the work of a copier no no am i ruining their art because I sped through the time when somebody was tied to a stupid chair and tortured like every other fricking action movie you've ever seen have I ruined their art no there was no art they wanted me to feel bad for X amount of time and I decided not to do you know what else I would fast-forward through car chase because

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fast-forward through car chase because the car chases have all taken on Orwell the action scenes even a lot of the fight scenes I've taken on that I'll call it the Transformers model where there's so much happening they don't actually know who's doing what to whom except you can vaguely tell that the good guy is winning a little bit or losing a little bit I'm just not interested anymore the first the first thousand times I saw a fight scene I thought well that's cool good effects exciting but after watching the same damn thing a thousand times I might want to fast-forward through that how about a sex scene how about the scene where they're establishing that the character really loves his wife because you know the wife is gonna die later right how about that the moment you realize that the next 10 minutes of your movie are gonna be some guys sweet-talking his wife in a way that makes you cringe baby Olivia so much Oh or whatever the hell

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Olivia so much Oh or whatever the hell it is do you think that's art no that was the heart there's no art there I just have to have this scene that establishes that the guy loves his wife so when she dies you know why he goes crazy and kills everybody I get it I get where are you going okay I get this I get it you're gonna make me receive here for ten minutes to tell me something I got in one second he loves his wife he's gonna care once in skill bored fast forward so I say to judd apatow as a creator I totally understand I would say exactly the same thing if I were you I would say exactly the same thing so I know I wouldn't call this a criticism because I don't criticize people who do exactly what I would do in that situation but you have to understand that movies are no longer good because they don't have our attention span in mind and they're so uncreated of copycat every movie looks

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uncreated of copycat every movie looks like now that it's just you know there are hundred scenes and all they're doing is rearranging them in different order and saying I got a movie no it's all the scenes I've seen in every other movie you just put them in a different order that's all anyway I for one would be a big fan of a movie speed up the feature because I already fast forward through most movies the boring parts and they're all they all have boring parts the funniest thing was who was the director who was criticizing the superhero movies was it was a Coppola Francis Ford Coppola I know but there was some famous director who was recently saying that the all the superhero movies you know the Marvel stuff it's not really cinema to which I say do you know why there are lots of superhero movies and there are

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lots of superhero movies and there are there isn't so much at least in terms of box office success there's not a lot of that great art of cinema do you know why that is because people don't want to see it we don't care we don't want your great art cinema because we already know it's just a bunch of scenes we've seen a thousand times reorge you know with different lighting and and had a different cinematography it's the same movie just over and over again so I like watching my superhero movies because watching Robert Downey jr. make wisecracks it was just always good at least I liked all right
the foam I think I have covered most of my points and I want to talk about today I should put these things in order so I can tell what I've already talked about all right I think I hit all my points

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all right I think I hit all my points let me suggest to you that today is an excellent time to order in my book you can order the audiobook or the Kindle version wherever books are sold Amazon or wherever you like oh I heard recently that this book will be in the front window of Barnes & Noble through Christmas do you know what what a vote of confidence that is if Barnes & Noble says we're gonna put your book in the window of the stores for several months before Christmas the best time to be in the window of a book store that's a real good deal I've done some number of interviews that are delayed that will appear after the book his shelves November 5th and and people who have read it so far are pretty happy with it which makes me pretty happy so I think people are captivated by a number of the parts of it it's already changing how they see the world all right California

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they see the world all right California fires yeah here's here's a little update on that so the folks that I had staying with me got their power back but I think they're supposed to lose it again maybe today so I might have houseguests back again but watching the whole state burn up I just don't know how Democrats can even exist as a political party anymore the so the Democrats get full control of one state California so you've got this laboratory where you can watch whether democrat policies are good or not now of course you know I always caution you you don't have something to compare it to that's exact California's not really like anything else but you you certainly are affected by the fact that California is having some tough times and they have you know pure democratic policies I don't know how long you can go without noticing that and having it make a

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noticing that and having it make a difference
punchy dinero somebody's asking me about not sure why is he in the news again yes there will be an audio book and the Kindle version they'll all be available at the same time I believe you can pre-order those as well and they just get delivered on November 5th so that's the next week you should do that right away because next week is right around the corner and if you can get this book on the bestseller list it will change the world it's actually well yeah it was actually designed so that people have read this book can just eviscerate in argument the people who have not and that's going to become kind of obvious after a while enough people will have their arguments eviscerated and and they'll know where it came from that I feel like this might be a pretty big book we'll see all right

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be a pretty big book we'll see all right I will give you well that's all for now and I will talk to you tomorrow