Episode 716 Scott Adams: Early Coffee to Explain Everything in the World to You, Prepare Beverage!

Date: 2019-11-06 | Duration: 53:03

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My new book LOSERTHINK goes on sale 11/5. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2NRammu A reality penetrating tip about the Ukraine call ABC held off on Epstein story for not meeting their standards We need a border wall between America and the terrorist cartels Mormon family slaughtered by cartel Elizabeth Warren’s $52 TRILLION dollar Medicare for all plan UK writer says, unlike President Obama… …President Trump LACKS a sense of humor?

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bumbum bumbum bumbum bumbum bumbum oh hey everybody yes this is not my normal time if you're signing on now looking for me you're probably thinking hey Mark you're probably thinking you're at the wrong time and that is correct because I am on book tour for a loser think which is now available everywhere that books are sold in some places that books are not even sold but before we get to that let us enjoy a little thing I call the simultaneous sip you don't need much to participate no you don't a cup a mug chalice Stein canteen anything like that fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the simultaneous sip the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better go so you want to hear the

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better go so you want to hear the funniest thing about my book and there's somebody know there's that there's at least one person watching this who had the same situation you know who you are all right so here's my book and here's the subtitle I'm going to show you something I did that somebody pointed out to me today that is that is kind of funny so the subtitle is how untrained brains are ruining America all right and then somebody pointed out that on the title page on the inside it's got the title wrong or there's something wrong says how untrained brains are ruining the world
so yesterday I was on I was on Fox & Friends and one of the questions was about the president's tweeting and his and his I was talking about his typos I said that his typos really just connect people to him because they know that

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people to him because they know that it's an unfiltered message so they feel they till there was no middle person you know washing down the message I know I don't quite get that same benefit with the book but I will tell you that I laughed when I saw it not because it doesn't make any difference it doesn't change anything but I will tell you that the next time we print this will probably fix that I don't know exactly when in the process that opportunity comes up now whose fault is it mine because I I approve everything I I look at everything before it goes out and one thing you don't you don't you don't think to check is the subtitle because if you see it right in one place you know you just figure well it looks kind of the same and because it's the last word its world instead of America you the the brain doesn't always read to the

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the the brain doesn't always read to the end of a sentence so if you had asked me to look at those two sentences and say are they the same if I'm in a hurry and I'm looking at a lot of other stuff to see if it's right I'd probably say yeah they look about the same yeah maybe world is better and I think there was some probably some conversations about changing it to world for books that are sold outside this country so there's I think that conversation probably happened anyway I have never seen this kind of reaction to a book and I've published something like 45 books if you can and all the Dilbert reprint books so I think this is my 14th original book that's not a Dilber book and I've never seen this response before now what am one of the things that I told you that in a prior book is that when you're trying to decide if a product is good or people like it you

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product is good or people like it you should always look for bodily action if somebody reads your book and when they're done they say yeah that was a good book I enjoyed it thanks for asking there's enough there because people tend to be nice if you ask them but if somebody actually does something they they're moved to act because they read a book then there's something special going on there's a there's an x-factor sort of thing that the smartest people in the world will tell you they can tell that they can figure out why people are reacting the way they're reacting but nobody really knows sometimes it's just mysterious but if you've noticed on my my Twitter feed people are people are posting unboxing photos and and videos I've never seen that before at least not in the the extent that's happening so I've literally just never seen this this much

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literally just never seen this this much response to a book and the the early readers are delighted some people are saying it's my best book and it might be that's actually that's possible we'll let the we'll let the market decide hey Bill so I wanted to add a little value if you've been watching the news you know that there's a Ukrainian phone call situation and it's starting to get complicated and because I'm a great simplifier I thought I would take this big complicated Ukrainian phone calls situation and I would sort of summarize it for you and so here's the summary there's uh there's a guy who may or may not be a diplomat who said a thing but he he corrected it later because he didn't say the thing but we're not sure exactly what he meant but there was another guy who contradicts the guy who said the thing and then there are some people who agree but then there are other people who disagree some of them are mad at the president some are not

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are mad at the president some are not there you go I saw I watched the opening of Tucker yesterday his Tucker Carl Carlson and yeah he dismissed the whole story the very similar way which is it's complicated nobody cares and he just they just skip the whole thing because there's no way you can make in the entertaining show based on a bunch of people you've never heard of disagreeing about a bunch of stuff that doesn't seem important in the first place so I'm going to give you a a reality penetrating tip so you're looking at this situation and you're saying to yourself you know is the president going down because of because of this here's a here's a good rule of thumb if the TV lawyers can't even agree looking at same information because all these stories people basically have access to the same

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people basically have access to the same data so looking at the same thing if if you see TV lawyers and lots of them say I don't even see a crime but other lawyers who are equally qualified or saying oh yeah this is totally a crime here's the statute here here's what happened total crime and then other lawyers also in public also highly qualified looking at exactly the same stuff they're saying I don't even know what you're talking about there's no crime here at all even if everything that is reported to have happened the worst case listen let's say you took all the word of all the of all the people were saying the most damaging bombshell e things if all of it were true there's still lawyers who say but where's the crime now the trap is to say to yourself which one is right is one side right there's one side wrong that's kind of a trap

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one side wrong that's kind of a trap because people tend to be advocates right so people are a little shading their opinion toward their side in many cases one exception might be Dershowitz so Alan Dershowitz might be you know I've said this a billion times he seems to be the one TV lawyer if I can reduce his gigantic career to you know just while we're watching at the moment he seems to be the only one who's even capable of taking one side or the other based on where the facts lead it's kind of rare so he doesn't seem to think there's a crime or at least that's what somebody said I haven't seen him saying it live so I'll make that a tentative conclusion but here's the thing here's the rule nobody goes to jail when lawyers can't even agree if a crime has been committed I don't think you'll ever see a situation in which the

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you'll ever see a situation in which the the fact that a crime had been committed or not is so ambiguous and open to interpretation that even the person who committed it couldn't have known it was a crime which is different from saying is it impeachable because that's a different standard and different from saying was it a good idea those are all different standards but if you for those people who were saying but the president's going down because it's obvious the facts have shown there's crime I would say the odds of that leading to anything like prosecution close to zero as long as there are legitimate lawyers who can say I'm looking at the same stuff you are and I can't even tell it's a crime now remember this is different and I this may be confusing you but this is different from people or say in a jury or potential jurists who would say well I'm looking at the the argument from the

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I'm looking at the the argument from the defense and the argument from the prosecution and I've decided that based on the facts that this person is guilty in those cases when it gets to a jury I believe in most cases both the lawyer for the prosecution and the defense would agree that a potential crime is on the table and one says no those facts are not true and the other says the facts are true but they're not really disagreeing on the basic idea of if the person did these facts that are alleged would it be a crime both defense and prosecution would probably agree in would imagine most cases that there's a crime if the person did those things but if you're arguing about whether a crime even exists nobody's going to jail that's my that's my take on it all right

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that's my that's my take on it all right nothing about that let's talk about Emma Watson who came up with a humorous new name for being single she calls itself partnering now often I would make a joke when there's such a good set up that would be exactly the kind of person who might say hahaha I might say let's say let's say something humorous about that but it's such a good set up that I'm just gonna leave it to you you're up it's all yours you can take that one alright remember when we first saw the bombshell that there was a name ABC News host guess who said on the hot mic that they are that ABC had the story she had the story of Epstein and ABC management wouldn't publish it do you remember what I said

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publish it do you remember what I said would be their response
nailed it so I said the response from ABC would be that the reporting did not meet their standard of you know of confirmed usually they like to sources for something that would be so volatile and it looks like this one is actually this one's a little more gray than I think most people are taking it because the news organizations do have a standard there especially for something that's you know so so volatile and controversial and you know somebody could go to jail for it they like to have a to sources and I think I believe it's been confirmed that they at least much of it they didn't have to sources so their explanation of why they dropped it plus the fact that they have allowed

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it plus the fact that they have allowed they've allowed full reporting on it and apparently there's no specific order to stop the investigation they just thought it didn't it never reached the level where they could publish it now do you believe that yeah people are saying in the comments already lame excuse didn't they have plenty I don't know I don't know I think that I think that it's possible they didn't have enough but we do live in a world in which it seems that the news is often based on four or less but it's not always a sexual abuse allegation so since Epstein was not running for president I think they were treating him like a citizen not a politician and maybe they needed two sources now I'm not forgiving ABC if anybody wants to keep their opinion that they did have enough information and then they just killed it for whatever

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then they just killed it for whatever personal or monetary reasons that's a reasonable I think that would be a reasonable speculation but there I'm just pointing out that their explanation was exactly what I imagined it would be because it's pretty good if you're gonna defend yourself it's pretty good defense I don't think we'll ever know exactly what they were thinking and I I've read the book this suggests we should not imagine we know what is in other people's minds and there's certainly some of that happening right now all right the cartels who murder the Mormon families this story you kind of wish it were cleaner but because the the families that got murdered were part of a larger group that decades ago left the United States so they could practice polygamy and there's rumors that some of

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polygamy and there's rumors that some of them still do that's that's somehow seeping into the story as if that somehow matters to the fact that they were murdered and their children were burned in car seats it just doesn't seem relevant to the story I mean it's interesting it's very interesting but tying it to the story is just so wrong that it's like collosum ly wrong anyway you're seeing that done the so the question is did the cartel make a mistaken identity did the cartel think they were killing a rival gang apparently this cult has had so much trouble with the cartels that they had security against them and threats already and there was a history so given that there was a history of this group battling with the cartel for I think Water Resources was part of it I really doubt the mistaken identity

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I really doubt the mistaken identity explanation I think it's still possible I don't think it can be ruled out but if I had to place a bet I'd say 75 to 80 percent likely that they knew exactly what they were doing and they did it anyway
now we haven't heard from the President of Mexico I don't believe I don't think I've seen any kind of a statement from the President of Mexico responding to president Trump's offer of military help and I've heard people say on Twitter mostly people saying hey you can't you know bomb away a problem like that you know the cartels will still exist etc to which I say didn't work for Isis and then other people are saying well they're probably going to gather children around them

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children around them so that we're afraid to Bob them and I was pointing out that one of the special features of the mop-up and the the killing of Isis is that we didn't have any press when you don't have any press to report what's happening you can bomb the first house and maybe there's some children killed and nobody's happy about that but it is war in a war there are gonna be innocent people killed but what happens if they they bring their human shields around them and they get bombed anyway the next time do they need to bring the human shields because once you've demonstrated you're gonna bomb them anyway and nobody's gonna know the difference it just doesn't help you there there's no point in doing it a second time if you can't get your message out Low Energy all right let's get rid of this troll block so it seems to be the secret to

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block so it seems to be the secret to this sort of war with terrorists and I think the cartels are terrorists at this point the secret seems to be to not let the press watch what you have to do again I'm not unless suggesting it's a good idea that children die in collateral situations nobody likes that but sometimes there are adult decisions that are very unpleasant all right so so apparently senator Warren is added some details to her plan that would cost fifty two trillion dollars over the next decade including 20 trillion in new spending with an array of taxes on corporations and the wealthy and I'm thinking to myself have they just totally given up I have the Democrats just literally given up because that doesn't even seem like a good try does it it's just longer somebody says

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it it's just longer somebody says longest suicide note in history I don't see how that's trying and so I guess Joe Biden went after rewarded in a speech did
did my name but people are talking about the impracticality of some of the plans
it feels like she's just self-destructing with that stuff it just seems so unlike table it's it's hard to believe all right here's a new framing for the the wall between the u.s. and Mexico and I've said this before but because of the events in the news it's worth reopen if you're building a wall between the great people in the United States and the awesome citizens of Mexico that's hard to defend because if you live in any of the states where you

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you live in any of the states where you have lots of contact with people who came up through Mexico legally or illegally one of the things that almost everybody would agree on is hey good people the Mexican people people coming from south of the border just the regular citizens are excellent people excellent character hard workers just want to be Americans and while I think countries have to have borders and border control and EF does citizens have to decide who comes in and who doesn't we don't have that situation but independent of you know the things you have to do to protect your borders it's just the fact the Mexicans and people from Central America are more often than that just great people and so when you think about building a wall between your gray people and their gray people it just doesn't seem as compelling this it should be to get to where people want to get it which is a solid barbed border

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get it which is a solid barbed border security but realistically speaking the cartels owned the border region so it's not really a it's not really a wall between the United States and Mexico it's a wall between the United States and the cartels who are clearly terrorists do you want a wall between you and the cartel which is the better sale hey I'd like to build a wall between you and Jose by the way Jose is awesome if Jose were on this side of the wall he'd be your best worker but let's build a wall and keep Jose away from us well what kind of argument is that we like Jose Jose is awesome Jose come on over here we like you all right come over legally but we like you but if you say build a wall between the United States and the cartel that just machine-gunned well I don't know if his machine gun but they just shot up a

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machine gun but they just shot up a Mormon family and burned the children and their car seats do you want that wall yeah I think we want that wall let's get that wall all right here's a completely different thought I'm just gonna be all over the place today have you ever had a compliment that changed your life this has ever happened to you have you ever had a compliment that just stayed in your mind for decades every now and then a simple compliment will just change somebody's life completely and I was I was searching through my my memory of compliments yeah when you're a public figure and you produce products for the public you get complimented and insulted at a very high volume so the number of compliments I've received in my career

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compliments I've received in my career is you know zillion times what ordinary people do because they're not the public eye but also the criticisms are way more I was thinking through my past I was thinking you know there are some compliments then just stay with me forever but most of them done them don't most of them I appreciate at the time but they don't have any lasting quality and I saw new comments and so many of you said yes there were compliments that changed your life I was thinking it was a few of them in my case and I'm not even sure this is a compliment I'll tell you the one story when I first got an offer to be a syndicated cartoonist I had been told by another syndication that had had rejected me at the time that maybe I could be the writer but I could work with somebody who knew how to draw so so one of the cartoon syndicates said basically you're not really an

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said basically you're not really an artist maybe you should find somebody else to do the drawing for you now imagine that as you're trying to get your career started as a cartoonist and one of the one of the top three people in the planet who gets to decide who is it going to be a cartoonist you know they're the ones who make the deals with cartoonists and then sell them to the newspapers now one of the three of them told me I wasn't even not it wasn't a question of whether I was good enough cartoonist to be in newspapers but that I wasn't even a cartoonist so that's the kind of connection I got but later I got a phone call from the woman who was an editor for United media at the time and that company got absorbed by my current syndication company or at least the Dilbert product did and and and so she offered me a contract to be a cartoonist

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offered me a contract to be a cartoonist soon after I'd gotten this other advice that maybe I should find somebody to do the drawing for me and when she offered it I said well you know long story short I said yes but then I said do you think I should get a real artist to draw it for me and try to work as a team and this was sarah gillespie was is is her name and she said no your drawings fine just the way it is and it was sort of this Wizard of Oz scarecrow moment you know the Wizard of Oz story he simply The Wizard of Oz simply tells people that they're brave and then they act that way tells them that they're smart and then they act smart that's what happened she simply told me I was qualified and almost immediately the quality of my drawing improved 500% from the moment she told me I was

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from the moment she told me I was qualified I became qualified she actually turned to me from unqualified to qualified by telling me I was think about that think about the power of that completely made my career it's the reason you're here it's the reason I get to write books it was it was one sentence in my life that it was one sentence that changed the entire trajectory of my life and I was thinking about most of you now I got to visit the the president in the Oval Office last year and we had a little chat about the variety of things I don't talk about the details none of it was state secrets or anything it's just it was a private conversation and there was one point in which he paid me a compliment and I'm not even gonna tell you what it is because that's not the point but I think I'll always remember

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point but I think I'll always remember that compliment because of who said it and where I was when it happened so I think of that one all the time and I realized it's having a bigger effect on me like it's gonna last the ages and and so I would remind all of you that giving a compliment is absolutely free it doesn't cost you anything you can give a compliment and and you've lost nothing in fact you've gained something because when you compliment people they like you better but here's the big part sometimes when you compliment people just in the ordinary course of your life you're not trying to change the world you're just you're just giving an honest compliment if you give an honest compliment to somebody sometimes they changed the world and the compliment could be a big part of that so don't be stingy with compliments part

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so don't be stingy with compliments part of the one of my systems for a good life is that when I feel a compliment I try to release it you know because sometimes you'll you'll have a positive thought you'd had about somebody but you just keep it there it's all wasted if you keep if he keeps those good thoughts your head is just wasted so if you have a compliment and it's sincere I'm not a big fan of the insincere compliments but if it's sincere let it go could change the world could change the world all right friend of mine who is a big anti-trump ER send me an article from a British publication and in it a Brit was explaining why the British should dislike President Trump now I don't know that anybody needs to explain it because he has a polarizing personality and you know the details don't matter too much where we know this

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don't matter too much where we know this some people like him a lot and we know that some people don't but it was the weirdest explanation and here is the the the biggest part of the explanation for why the Brits don't like Trump this is gonna make you shake your head because you will not have seen this coming all right his biggest objection that the British don't like Trump is that Trump doesn't have a sense of humor and that the Brits sort of require that as was say a national personality that they would have a good preference for a witty people who have a sense of humor such as Obama right now this article I read one day after I think I was saying that President Trump is the funniest

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President Trump is the funniest president of all time and that he uses his humor consistently all the time to great effect he uses it in his tweets he uses it in his his rallies especially he doesn't use it as much when he's doing a press press conference or talking to the press that's a little more serious but I've never seen a president with a better sense of humor Reagan was pretty funny so isn't that just a like a jaw-dropping head shaker that the problem now this is just one author interpreting what he thinks other people are thinking but the amazingness that anybody could observe this president and think he doesn't have a sense of humor is it's just mind-boggling it's mind-boggling so that's a perfect example of two movies on one screen we're watching exactly the

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on one screen we're watching exactly the same president and I'm defining him as the best stand-up comedian of our time who's not Chappelle I guess yeah I think bill burr Chappelle are funnier but he's one you know if you look at his reach and how often he does it and how biggest crowds are you could make an argument he's the funniest stand-up comedian in the world right now so that was interesting to me yesterday and a thing happened that I can't explain and maybe some of you can so when you launch a book one of the things you do of course is you're watching the bestseller ranks and the easiest one to check is Amazon so from the moment I started doing publicity for the book I'm in New York right now doing the publicity tour from the moment I started I would start watching the ranked now I would normally expect one of my books on the day it comes out or at least the week he comes

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comes out or at least the week he comes out to fairly quickly get into the top hundred which is pretty good if you get it at the top hundred you're a solidly profitable book and then if you're in the top hundred sometimes you can you know dip down into the 20s or something for a little while and that would be a real good showing here's the interesting part sometime yesterday Amazon froze my rank and I think 3:18 and for the entire day yesterday the rank never changed it was it was dialed in at 3:18 now my first thought was oh my god we ran out of books you know maybe they sold their supply and and then they just froze it until they could resupply and and then things would start moving again but my publisher confirmed that they had provided them so many books that it wasn't really a chance that they sold them all of it you know you know a day there wasn't much chance of that so I'm left to speculate why the rank

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so I'm left to speculate why the rank would not have moved for a full day now if you've never never looked at book rankings most of you probably don't pay attention to that they normally change at least every hour and often more often so all of the books are sort of moving all the time you know it would be unusual for you to check a book rank and then come back the next day and it's the same rank unless you know it's in the top 10 if it's in the top 10 and why you stay at the same rank for a while but if you're number 318 the difference between 317 and 319 is so slim that there isn't the slightest chance that it actually was at the same ranking all day long so there's no chance that could have happened naturally so what do you think it was I have I have a speculation here's my speculation I believe that the Amazon let's say the algorithms are looking for suspicious behavior and they

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looking for suspicious behavior and they should so if if Amazon has done a good job of designing their system it should be checking for any activity in the system that's unusual because if you find something unusual it could be that somebody's gaming the system to try to improve their their author rank or the books rank so I think what happened I'm not positive this but based on the extraordinary sort of response I'm saying to the book even before people read it people were excited about it and should be it might be my best book I think it's possible the Amazon flagged it just automatically without human intervention as selling so many books that it couldn't have been normal behavior in other words they have they have a sense of how many books I sell because they many of my books have been on Amazon so if it suddenly was

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been on Amazon so if it suddenly was selling far more than what would be normal for me as an author I would think if it were a well designed system see certainly a bank would do this you know I have banking experience and I know that a bank would freeze anything temporarily that looked like it was out of place until humans looked into it so I think what might have happened as we sold so many books that they they froze it to see what was going on and then this morning it was unfrozen so and and it immediately dropped into a hundred something you know I think it was around 200 when I looked at it which is typical for this part of the process so that's my best guess but is it's it's sad that we're in a time where I know some of you immediately went to Jeff Bezos and said who might be political but it's not even a political book you know I talked about

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a political book you know I talked about some political topics but I talked about the left and the right it's not really taking sides now I got I got most of the reviews on Amazon or excellent but one of them which of course is a not a verified buyer so one of them who is not a verified buyer surprised in other words he didn't buy his book from Amazon but he was leaving a bad comment on Amazon appeared to have not I've read the book because he criticism of it said Scott claims a but in fact the book doesn't do that so his main complaint about the book is based on something he says I've I've claimed there isn't anywhere in the book so that's the kind of review I'm getting and of course that's purely personal or political somebody's just trying to reduce my influence by the bad review so

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reduce my influence by the bad review so that that's the sort of thing authors have to deal with Thank You Carol who just ordered my book yet the way it works now is it somebody saying in the comment that if you say anything positive about anything that Trump does your crazy kool-aid drinking cultists fanatic so I guess that's most of us
somebody says I stopped buying books that are above 4.5 stars but that's actually that's an interesting comment yeah if you can't even if your book is not important enough to attract bad actors if you probably don't even need to read it so if there's anything that's like 5 stars across the board it only means that people don't care about it because if people cared the bad actors

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because if people cared the bad actors and the trolls would come in and start leaving bad reviews I've never thought about that rule but maybe it's a good one yeah you know I don't follow the local politics somebody's asking about Virginia the Virginia election and I I can't get interested in other states
yeah somebody's saying is it Emery how do you pronounce your name Everett if Origin of Species was published today somebody's saying too complicated too long somebody says I relish giving a book called loser think to all my friends for Christmas you know that's a good point so books are often gift items and how much are you going to enjoy giving a book called loser think to people in your family and acting like it's a and acting like you know keep your keep a completely straight face and say I your

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completely straight face and say I your some literature I think you would enjoy here's your gift because it's sort of an insult at the same time that's sort of a perfect gift for a family member it's a perfect gift for a sibling and so your sibling can't tell if it's an insult or a nice gift as sort of ideal this is what I've needed to break through Angela says so good luck so so he says I don't love the title as much as when Bigley it was hard to it's hard to top when Bigley that's a that was a pretty good title too but I think loser think is already catching on because you see people using it in on Twitter already so people ask me why on my books I do funny funny what do you call these the blurbs so normally

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do you call these the blurbs so normally when you write a book you get other famous people to say good things about your book and then you put it on your book but once you become an author you learn how that process works and then that you sort of lose faith in it so the reason I don't ask other people to put blurbs of my book is partly practical because if you do every one of them will ask you to put a blurb on their next book and then suddenly all you're doing is writing blurbs for other people because you ask them know they can ask you so I've got that going on but also it tends to be a insight or a kind of thing people ask the author that they know and then the author that you know isn't going to give you a bad blurb so the blurbs are persuasive but I found them a little bit a little bit sketchier than I wanted to be associated because I know I can get people to say good things about the book without reading it

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reading it I know I can do that because it would be easy I just go to people I know say hey put a would you like to put a blurb on my book oh you want it'd be easy so I just don't do that I opt out I opt out of that process when does Greg Gutfeld tape his show well the Greg Gutfeld show tapes on Friday afternoons so I will be part of that I talked to him yesterday for his his digital piece the Greg Gutfeld and one smart person so we did that yesterday I think it'll probably be live in the day or so will I go in the five I don't know that the five takes guests the answer is no but I don't know that the the five ever takes guests with the exception of other other employees of Fox News who sometimes will will join if

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Fox News who sometimes will will join if they have a book or something but I don't think they take guests so that's that's not really the right venue I'm trying I think I'm scheduled for Dana Perino show tomorrow but I always hesitate to say in advance for any of these should any news related shows because they they change so often so you know just yesterday I had two major major media hits that just got rescheduled sort of at the last minute and that's ordinary so I I tend not to make a big deal too far in advance because I can't guarantee that there will be big news that bumps me off all right Wow somebody has a collection of my books all the way back to how to shave how to shave a whale it's actually called shave the whales but I'm impressed that you have that book ABC you don't have any ABC hits

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book ABC you don't have any ABC hits I've got a CBS radio this morning Joe Rogan is that's up to Joe ray Joe Rogan I'm not I'm not scheduled for the show and I don't know that I fall into the category that would be a repeat guest I think Joe Rogan brings on repeat guests when they're you know either more famous or they're comedians or people he knows but I'm not sure I'm the ideal person to have on twice I know I'm not sure what his policy is on that but I think some people would say we already saw that one we saw the one with Scott Adams we don't need to see another so it could be first of all I don't know if he's even aware that I have a book or that I'd be available he's got stuff to do
do he's a busy guy so I I do not presume that you would be interested to have me on the show may not be that kind of show that has repeat guests of the type they just have a new book out he's had

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just have a new book out he's had Michael MELAS on three times well I think what I'm saying is that there are guests who are repeats but it probably has more to do with his connection to them alright somebody says they have my God's debris book Pete you just joined all right I have to say again because Pete o West fault was I don't know if I'm pronouncing you're right your name right what's is on Pete look at this here's my new book you can appreciate this here's the title subtitle now untrained brains are ruining America except on the title page
the subtitle is different this is how untrained brains are ruining the world instead of America so Pete that's just for you you know why because you had you had a similar problem with the type of when you're in your book title recently

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when you're in your book title recently so I was saving that for you all right um
um no Pete is not my editor he's an author who has his own book which had a similar but different kind of title issue Wow Aleksei thanks for ordering all those books I appreciate that dr. drew I talked to yesterday on his radio show and I think I'm scheduled for Adam Carolla when I do LA I'll have to confirm that but I think Adam Carolla is on the list somebody says my title page is not wrong it says America are you serious do you have a physical hardcover book that says America instead of world if you do you need to send me a picture of that because that would be really interesting it would make you who make this one a collector's item so maybe that's true are your expenses paid well

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that's true are your expenses paid well so the publishers pay you know a certain amount for the the book to err but if there are public if they happen to have an author who has become accustomed to let's say a higher level of travel then I I'm paying I'm paying my own way for the hotel because it's a high-end hotel but the publisher does typically pay for the travel and they pay for the hotel and a stipend from the meals I just I just prefer to travel in a little higher style than they're willing to yeah to pay Nick Gillespie should interview you I always love talking to Nick maybe that maybe that could happen the Kindle version says America in both places yeah as does the audiobook the audiobook had that typo as well and I corrected that

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that typo as well and I corrected that when I was doing the audio recording but I never caught this one and by the way the I'll say again the the not catching it on the subtitle pages is my error because they do show it to me they show it to me and they say is this right and I say yes is right so you know I missed it
how many copies of wind Bigley did i end up selling well that's always confidential information but it's sold very well what about the Tim Ferriss podcast I would love to do a Tim Ferriss podcast I did one 2016 or so and Tim's always a great interview but again you know his I don't know that his podcast really makes sense to have repeat personalities on it so that would be up to him who would you most like to be on

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to him who would you most like to be on with that you haven't oh I love that question who would be the best person that I haven't been on with Rush Limbaugh so we did send the book to Rush Limbaugh now I know Rush is a controversial figure people on the Left hate him you know people on the right more often than not think he's awesome but I'll tell you he is one of the most talented people in the whole entertainment business by far he can fill up time with interesting content like nobody else really you know given that he's free-forming it most of the time I don't think there's his room has there ever been anybody as good as him at being coherent and interesting for that many hours basically just working off notes it's remarkable yeah he's not the only

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it's remarkable yeah he's not the only one who can do that but maybe the best maybe the best he's also funny and insightful so he's read my work a few times on his show blog posts and stuff so I know he's aware of me but I have not been on that show and I think he would be he would be interesting Howard Stern you know honestly I don't think I'd want to do the Howard Stern Show sorry I think I would probably turn that one down and as you know I'm a fan I like Howard Stern I like I mean he's again super talented for the for the thing that he does but you know his show requires in order to be interesting creating let's say creating stories that are the odd and embarrassing ones so it wouldn't be hard for that to go wrong

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wouldn't be hard for that to go wrong Ben Shapiro I will be talking to Candace Owens I need to follow up on Candace Owens because I I have been invited to be on that show but not scheduled and I'm gonna make a note because I need to follow up on that thank you for reminding me how about Morning Joe I haven't they have not I think they've been approached because I was on Morning Joe before interestingly when I did my last book to her so I was on Morning Joe on a day that Joe was not on the show so I don't know how many days Morning Joe runs without Joe on the show but I hit the one so I haven't actually been there when Joe is there all right I think the I haven't heard back from

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I think the I haven't heard back from Tulsi gabbard's campaign so I don't know if we can schedule that or not all right that's enough for now yes I think I'm doing I'm scheduled already for Dave Rubin that will be a good one always is Dave's always amazing
all right that's all for now and I will talk to you later