Episode 725 Scott Adams: Special Guest Clint Morgan, Shampeachment

Date: 2019-11-14 | Duration: 58:16

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Special guest: Clint Morgan, Texas candidate for Congress CNN confusion… …why are FOX people pretending nothing impeachable? What are the odds that someone in Ukraine has dirt on the Bidens? Representative Paul Gosar’s tweet thread on impeachment Tweet of the year, very clever The best day of my life A healthcare plan for BOTH Republicans and Democrats

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something boom hello everybody is it a good day yeah one of the best we'll be talking about that a little bit but I know the best part of your day is a little thing called the simultaneous it now if you'd like to enjoy the simultaneous hip and this is the official one this is not the I'm on the road version this is I'm in my home office version and you can enjoy the simultaneous sip and all of its goodness connecting you to all the zippers all over the world and after we do that I'm gonna bring on a special guest but before that do you have anywhere near you in your general area one of these things because you're given eat it all you need is a cup or a mug or a glasses snifter stein chalice tank your thermos flask canteen Grail goblet a vessel of any kind and you fill it with your favorite liquid your favorite liquid yeah don't don't pick your second favorite liquid for the simultaneous sip

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favorite liquid for the simultaneous sip and get ready for the dopamine the end of the day the thing that makes everything better the simultaneous sip go o feel it flowing through your Corp bustles that's a word right corpuscle all right boo hold on boo there we go better lighting sorry about that boo she likes that light all right this morning I'd like to kick it off with something I have never done I've never done on this periscope I'm gonna bring on a guest a special guest let's make sure that he's ready I'm gonna click them on and then tell you what we're up to in mere moments we will be joined by Clint Morgan who is gonna make

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joined by Clint Morgan who is gonna make an announcement Clint can you hear me I can hear you Scott can you hear me I can hear you perfectly ladies and gentlemen allow me to introduce Clint Morgan Clint tell us who you are and what you're announcing today uh yeah so I am a prosecutor in Harris County I'm a Republican and I'm announcing that I'm running for Congress in the Texas is 22nd district yay it's my first political running for office and it's been on coffee with Scott Adams who are you running against anybody we know uh right now it's an open seat our current congressman Pete Olsson is retiring and so it's a wild and wooly primary on the Republican side we've got probably about a dozen candidates by the time it's said and done what's what's the name of your website I just saw it's up I Club for Texas or Claire Morgan for texture I'm sorry Clint for Texas com can you tell I'm new at this yes Clint for Texas comm so you can go

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yes Clint for Texas comm so you can go there if you want to see more about Clint now give us give us just a quick rundown of your policy preferences where are you on nuclear power I am very Pro nuclear power Scott that is the most sensible solution to a lot of problems we've got going on right now and I really think if a lot of the environmentalists were more serious about global warming they would be on board with nuclear power good answer and where are you on health care what's I know that's a complicated one but give us just the high level what do you think we should do with health care you know generally speaking we need to move towards a more transparent system like our president has proposed on a lot of times we need to ensure that people can have policies that match their needs and we need to ensure that people know the prices when they go in and they try to do I try to get health care taken care of you know it's what sort of system is it where you go in and

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sort of system is it where you go in and you don't you don't know what the price of anything right you know I'm gonna good actually maybe I'll bust this out now but I've got an idea that would combine that transparency with getting everybody covered do you think it's important to get everybody covered what how do you feel about that you know I I don't think that's as important as it we need everybody just have an option to have an affordable health care plan and what about what about what about people who even if it's affordable they still can't afford it would we leave anybody behind in in the just purely capitalist system here yeah you know I think ultimately if people are gonna have be making decisions I think we oughtta so we add I have policies that allow them to get a low premium high deductible coverage in case of catastrophes but ultimately this is not for a lot of people I mean for instance should

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people I mean for instance should extremely wealthy people be required to buy health insurance at Donald Trump be required to buy health insurance yes the requirement part is certainly something that people push back on all right um how about border security I'm gonna guess your first Ron border security am i right you're you're exactly right Scott I'm with our president on this all the way you know and I I really have liked watching how you've documented that he started off with the very big build the wall sale and he's really moved along to I think what most people in America and certainly most people in my district are looking for which is reasonable borders curity to keep a criminal element out to reduce drug trafficking and what do you think we should do with the cartels military action or not if Mexico had led us yes but I not sure they will so we've

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us yes but I not sure they will so we've got to put pressure on them for that and how about China's fentanyl business would you do a trade deal with China before you knew that they'd at least put their top fentanyl dealer in jail that is a very good starting point for them Scott if they're going to show us that they're getting serious about being a fair trader with America and about keeping Americans safe from their drug dealers I think that is a very important starting point for them yeah what do you say starting for you probably where I am which is you have to give us that first or we're not going to do the rest of the stuff but that's just got to be the ticket to the show now I've got lots to talk about on this impeachment stuff and so my audience is clamoring for this but we love that you came on and did this on coffee with Scott Adams now I assume you've you've watched my periscopes uh yeah you know I don't watch every day but I watch when I can I listen to you in the car on the way to the office for

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in the car on the way to the office for half an hour so I love the stuff you do and you're you're a big part of what has gotten me back into politics over the last few years well that's a pretty strong start if you're a if you're studying persuasion on this periscope or you've seen any of my books you're you're off to a strong start give me just in closing give me your impression of the impeachment sham so far I'm leading the witness tell us about the sham yeah yeah I you know Scott if I use a word for it I'd say it's a shame I I've been trying to pay some attention to this and I think I'm a reasonably intelligent person and I a lawyer I pay attention to things and I don't know we've got fourth hand telephone information about it somebody thinking that somebody was they doing and and that's just not much there that's a peculiar basis to impeach a president all right you know it's funny

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president all right you know it's funny it must be tough to be an actual you know trained lawyer and watch this stuff and you you know I I know from at least whether the lawyer who's watching it don't you want to yell up you know I object because they're leading the witness they're imagining things as hearsay are you watching this thing is just like I object I object right I mean the normal rules don't apply here so you got a grasp that I think of this is you know I'm a lawyer and sometimes I'll watch an episode of Law & Order and none of that makes any sense from a legal perspective but I just like to imagine that New York's a different universe where they have different right alright and that's exactly what's going on here and none of this is legal in any sense of the term this is just a different universe with different rules and well it's producing not the predictable results that we expect from a legal proceeding right all right Clint thank you so much for coming on here we're gonna get on with the rest of this and

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gonna get on with the rest of this and congratulations that getting in and best of luck thanks a lot Scott I figure let's talk about let's talk about the champion you know I watched some of it I was traveling yesterday coming back from my la tour for loozer think which is where do you think loser think is is on the bestseller list number five number five on the the list that this book is on is on the New York Times self-help list which is actually the very best place to be I'll talk about that later but it's a very good day for me so no I just found out that the next time it's published it'll be number five best seller on the list that matters the most to this book thank you quite happy about it alright so I was sort of paying attention a little bit that while I was traveling you know my

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that while I was traveling you know my Wi-Fi and my signal kept cutting out so I didn't catch every minute of the she an impeachment but I thought I'd catch up by looking at CNN's website this morning just before and I thought to myself I wonder if it was bad for the president and I read the CNN report and it's like wow it's really bad for the president listen listen to some of the things from CNN right so brian Stelter was talking about how how it was a damning picture well this is all from CNN from various various sources dramatic new disclosures on day one of the hearings painted an incriminating picture of Donald Trump as a president instinctively willing to sacrifice America's interests for his own Wow and I'm thinking that sounds pretty bad so I'm reading on some more from CNN's website if quote if this is not

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CNN's website if quote if this is not impeachable conduct what is my god that's a quote from Adam Schiff arguing that the Republic's values and the concept of an accountable presidency were at stake for future generations I thought this was just going to affect us but it turns out the Sham Pietra stuff meaning the president's bad behavior it's gonna it's going to affect future generations did you know that how bad it was I thought it was only gonna ruin my generation and your generation but future generations are gonna be ruined by this this is far worse than I thought
then we also heard on CNN's website that Taylor and his colleague George Kent who is this is the official title of George Kent he's the blah blah blah of the blah blah blah that's his official title he they also provided testimony to back up the theory

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provided testimony to back up the theory that Trump demanded political dirt on Biden oh my god he didn't he demanded political dirt on Biden I can't wait to see the quote in which Taylor and Kent said that Trump was looking for a political Dirk's so they must have used that phrase in a political world ruled by facts blah blah Trump's position immeasurably worsened over an intense day of testimony my god future generations are going to be destroyed and the president's position immeasurably worsened this is much worse than I thought I you know when I when I was clicking on and watching I didn't apparently I didn't see all the bad parts this was filled with the bad parts all right here's some more this gets much worse at the outset of the hearings there is no sign yet of a collapse and Trump's Republican support are you kidding me how could the

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are you kidding me how could the Republicans now fold after seeing that first day of testimony don't they know that Trump's position immeasurably worsened how could the Republicans still be supporting this monster knowing the future generations are a stake future generations don't we care about them the children Greta Greta Thornburg what about her she doesn't have a chance if any of this stuff is true which we know it is because it's being reported but I haven't even got to the worst part Oh Oh CNN's explaining why why so many Republicans aren't getting it it says if you are watching the hearing through the lens of a right-wing media well there's the problem somebody's looking at this through the lens of the right-wing media unless lots of people importantly if you did that looking through that lens you probably didn't see a case against the president being built you could be

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president being built you could be blinded by looking through the wrong lens you probably walked away thinking the Democrats case collapsed which would be ridiculous who'd be ridiculous oh that's ridiculous
so it turns out that it comes down to this Taylor testified that it is aid told him a phone conversation Trump had with ambassadors Englund on July 26 sorry let me get back to it this exciting testimony one day after Trump's phone call with ukrainian President a lot of being burrows Alinsky Taylor's aide this is getting serious this isn't aide who has accompanying Soglin to meetings so there's a guy who accompanied sunland in Kiev with

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accompanied sunland in Kiev with Ukrainian officials he could hear Trump asking sunland so in other words somebody was nearby enough that they could hear song was part of the conversation because he was in the room but Trump was on the phone and I guess Trump was screaming into the phone so so loudly that you could hear it and elsewhere in the room and Taylor testified all right so so Sunland quote told President Trump that the Ukrainians who were ready to move forward Taylor said wha missing the bombshell Wow okay here it is House Intelligence Chairman Adam chef a California Democrat by the way if you didn't know that ask Taylor if sundaland statement meant that Trump cared more about the investigations than he does about Ukraine yes sir Taylor responded so this is way

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yes sir Taylor responded so this is way worse than I thought I thought Adam Chef was like a regular human with normal powers but according to CNN's reporting both he and this Taylor guy they have some powers we don't have they can actually tell how much somebody cares about something without actually asking now somebody asked me on on Twitter Paulie guy at bol i underscore guy you saw that and he asked this question how do you measure how do you measure caring is that by weight or by volume and that's a good question the way you can tell how much somebody cares if they don't tell you explicitly you don't need to be told you don't need to wait for somebody to say I like this more than that that's that's sort of a looser way to do it instead if you've got somebody like an Adam Schiff or this guy Taylor

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like an Adam Schiff or this guy Taylor they can read directly into the minds of the people they can see the caring and they can see oh one is definitely bigger than the other yeah I could see the caring and so they actually have what's happening what's happening right now somebody's in my mind I feel my thoughts being read it's Adam chef he knows I was talking about him oh god he's in there he's that he's got my passwords he's got all my passwords oh forgot my secrets he has my secrets now Oh knows what I care about oh I'm so dead I'm gonna get impeach to Adam Schiff get out of my head get out of my head Adam chef he's out all right I think I'm I'm good now Adam Schiff was in my head with his mind-reading skills by the way

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his mind-reading skills by the way distance is no impediment so Adam Schiff I got out of there somebody else somebody else there's another it's Taylor Taylor's in there now Taylor get out get out no that's not true okay it is true that memory can you just don't take that he took the fifth grade I'd no longer remember I no longer remember the fifth grade it's gone Taylor got it so shift gets in there he gets all my passwords Taylor goes in there takes the fifth grade people these people are stronger than you think they have powers they can reach through time and space and tell what you care the most about much worse than I thought and this is how wrong I was let me tell you how wrong I was about

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let me tell you how wrong I was about where this impeachment is going I happened to catch just a little tidbit early on in which Kent who is official whose official title is as you know he's the blah blah blah of the blah blah blah to the blah blah blah and that's a pretty official title he said that in his opinion verismo was corrupt and they needed to be investigated and how dumb am i I thought to myself well that's sort of the end of the the whole Sham patient this is how dumb I was I thought well if an official person in the government who's neither Pro nor anti-trump he's close to burr yzma and he says they should be investigated for corruption well it would seem to me that the President of the United States asking for that especially the connection of the Biden's would be

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connection of the Biden's would be exactly what the citizens of the United States would want to happen because we wouldn't want the candidate who's polling at the top Biden to even be running for office if there's something that's gonna take him out I mean I'm sure the Democrats wouldn't want to have a candidate who could be completely taken out of the race should he get the nomination because something in Ukraine happened wouldn't you want to know when you want to kind of find out pretty quickly there's something happening over there so in my simple way of looking at the world I thought oh as long as the president is doing what the citizens want and it's one of our top priorities I can't imagine a higher priority than knowing if the person who's polling at the top of the polls to be the next president knowing if Ukraine owns him because they've got something on his son for example do you think they have anything on hunter Biden let me ask you

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anything on hunter Biden let me ask you this what are the odds that burr yzma or somebody in Ukraine has some dirt on hunter Biden any chance of that I mean I don't know that they would and I don't know the hunter Biden did anything wrong because you have to ask yourself is hunter Biden the kind of person based on what little we know about him you see the kind of person who is likely to do something over in Ukraine that maybe would reflect poorly on him or his father I don't know what the odds of that are but it seemed to me they're asking those questions the president asks you those questions that that should be the end of the story had the president been asking for an investigation into Biden's and ambarisa had he asked about that and the people who are experts on briefs and said what are you talking about Maurice was totally clean why there's no reason

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was totally clean why there's no reason to look into that well I'd say to myself there must be ulterior motives but it doesn't really matter what the president was thinking it doesn't matter what he cares it turns out that you can't measure how much somebody cares about something they kind of have to tell you you can't really look into their brains and see that and then apparently there's also the Ukrainians Foreign Minister whose name is Adam fish tank o priest Inc Oh baby fish tank Oh shall we say and if you're saying it at home you should because it's fun say it with me fresh tank o fresh tinkle anyway he said on Thursday that US Ambassador Gordon Sunland did not explicitly link military aid to Kiev but with opening an investigation so I'm not positive because I don't have all my names and people straight on this story but I think that's debunking the aide

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but I think that's debunking the aide who overheard the phone call are those the same I think there was at the same point but I'm not totally sure in any event it doesn't matter does it matter what the president's internal caring that level was would it matter would it matter in any way if the president cared more about getting elected than he cared about the Ukrainian people or they he cared about getting the information to the American public no doesn't make any difference at all it doesn't matter our system is designed so if our president does as long as he's doing what the public wants it doesn't matter what he is internally caring about we don't judge people by their internal thoughts you judge by what they're doing what did he do you ask some questions that the American public wanted answers to impeach him now in this not in a million years now the funniest thing

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million years now the funniest thing about a CNN's coverage and by the way if you're not switching back in four you're missing the best part of the show you've got to check the Fox News then you then CNN and go back and forth because they are really reporting to different worlds and CNN is reporting on how Fox News is reporting it and vice versa and CNN's reporting about why Fox News all the hosts seem so confident so they're acting confused about why everybody on CNN says there's nothing here and nothing to worry about and nobody's even a little bit worried and they just say it's boring and stupid in an irrelevant and brian Stelter is trying to work out the reason that everybody on a seat on fox news says it's just a bunch of bull and there's nothing there that there's nothing to worry about and it's a waste of time why

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worry about and it's a waste of time why would they do that what possible reason would Fox News have to say that there's nothing there well I can think of one reason there's nothing there that's one reason but brian Stelter z' has speculation about why Fox News is treating it that way as they're trying to hypnotize basically trying to convince their viewers that there's nothing there so see you the trek the trick is according to brian Stelter CNN Fox News is running a big ol con in which they're all pretending to not see all the impeachable stuff so in other words everybody everybody on Fox News doesn't see anything impeachable because they're pretending so that their viewers won't know that there's you know all this impeachable stuff and when i say all this impeachable stuff i'm talking

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all this impeachable stuff i'm talking about the aide who overheard something which has been debunked which led somebody else who didn't hear it to think that the president has more caring for one thing than another in his hidden thoughts how can FoxNews not see that it's as clear as day let me say it again can you believe that Fox News hosts are not picking up on this it's just so it's right in front of us there was an aide that we don't care about who overheard a phone call conversation that has already been debunked by the person who was on the phone call on the other end who told somebody something that made them think that the president cared more about one thing than the other in his hidden thoughts that's it how could Fox News not see it clear as the nose on their faces is what I'm saying and by the way the way you measure how much people care about

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measure how much people care about things it's by tears teardrops number teardrops all right I had a funny tweet that for some reason I didn't print out but it was hilarious trust me all right well I don't have that so as many of you been watching the show is Abeka today is it is there more of it today I just don't know so here's what I think I don't think there's even the slightest tiny little chance that the president could be impeached based on anything we've heard so far and based on anything we would expect here because I don't

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we would expect here because I don't know that I really don't know that you know we've we've I don't think we're gonna hear anything new so on a couple other topics did you see representative Gosar tweets if you miss this it's one of the funniest things so representative Gosar was tweeting events as they happen from the impeachment trial so we had a long series of two but here's the fun part somebody noticed or found out or somehow they understood that if you looked at the first letter of each tweet in order the first letter of each of his goes ours tweets spelled out
out Epstein didn't kill himself yeah I gotta say that was the play of the year it was the tweet of the year because everything

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the tweet of the year because everything about that was right so first of all it was clever because you know it took a little work to make all of those tweets have that first letter second of all I doubt I doubt that anybody noticed it on their own so there was the tweet but of course there had to be leaked so somebody who knew what the story was had to leak it so that somebody else could tweet about it and then once it was tweeted to everybody could see it and it became viral and so so there's always one long tweet somebody says but one long threaded tweet I guess but what's what's awesome about this is it it put in perspective how ridiculously impeachment is because go czars not only tweeting about it he's mocking it at the same time by by just throwing that epstein didn't kill himself meme in there so it was hilarious it it took the

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there so it was hilarious it it took the impeachments down to a laugh level where you could just have it have a joke and you know you're in on the joke because you know what gosar was up to it was really clever in the in the annals of tweets I think that's got to be that's got to be a top 10 all-time tweeting technique so well done representative Gosar I what else is happening so China's GDP I guess their manufacturing is down oh so sorry does anybody think there's gonna be a trade deal does anybody think there's gonna be a trade deal with China cuz I just don't see it happening you know I could imagine there's some minor minor you know you you take these tariffs off we'll take these off but I

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tariffs off we'll take these off but I just don't see China really doing any of the things that we're asking them to do and I don't know that we could check so I don't know that there's any way we could know for sure that they're not going to do the things that we asked them not to do anymore so I just don't see us getting there and I'm okay with that apparently the stock market's okay with that - is there anything else happening it seems like you know the news just stopped they all other news in the country just stopped let me tell you about the best day of my life it goes like this my first book that was called the Dilbert principles back in late 90s I had never written a book before and I was asked to write a book and so I wrote one it was called the Dilbert principle and it hit the charts and just screamed

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and it hit the charts and just screamed I mean it just went running up the bestseller list and it became very quickly the number-two book the number-one book in the nonfiction side the the number one book was Dennis Rodman's book as bad as I want to be his little biography biography slash autobiography and it just sat there for a while and it looked like I would never get to number one because his was so dominant it was just sitting there number one and one day I got a call from my publisher and my publisher who finds out
out about the bestseller list before the public does and the publisher called to tell me that when the next list dropped I would be the number one author on the New York Times list and I happen to be alone when I got that call so I was in a relationship but I was it wasn't with anybody I was just home and I got that

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anybody I was just home and I got that call and I found out that I would be the number one author of the New York Times list and I just cried because it was just one of the best days of my life just one of the best days of my life now it's very difficult to get another number one book but because that one was doing so well my publisher said can we can you hurry and put together some some stuff that you know maybe you've got ready or whatever and I didn't think I could do it but I worked very quickly and put together a fairly rapid follow-up book called dogbert's top secret management to handbook and for awhile my two books were number 1 and number 2 on the bestseller list and that was a really good feeling number 1 in number 2 book now because

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number 1 in number 2 book now because the nature of publishing is people who have big hits like that almost never have another big hit so the I was told by my publisher at the time what to expect that each book that came after that would sell about half as much as the one before sort of a standard rule for nonfiction it's not true with fiction with fiction you could just sell as many as you want but we're non fiction yeah if you have a big hit right off the bat your subsequent books tend to sell half as much than the next ones half as much as that until they're not viable anymore and sure enough that's exactly what happened so I I got a big book deal because the first one did so well and and just like almost like magic every book who followed that exact formula everyone was half as much as one before until you got to the point where writing books didn't make as much sense so that was my Dilbert II office jokes

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so that was my Dilbert II office jokes kind of life and as you know in 2013 I pivoted to writing some books there were more in the self-help category and then a little bit on politics so I wrote to how to fail and almost everything and still win big in 2013 and that became a it I think it it may have touched the bestseller list for a little bit but didn't really set the world on fire in terms of the bestseller list it is by many considered to be the the best self-help book out there and then I wrote win big Lea which was more about persuasion in the political sense and then I just published loser think which is more about how to think productively and avoid the little traps that are easy to fall into and because this one hit the bestseller list I got to feel a little bit of that feeling that I felt in the late 90s that one day there was

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in the late 90s that one day there was the best day of my life and that was yesterday I have to tell you that if you spend a year working on something and you've already got a full time job it hurts like the process of writing an entire book editing it rewriting it editing rewriting then there's just a ton of work around the the title the the blurbs the acknowledgments there's the advertising the marketing the reacting the contracts there there's an immense amount of work that goes into producing a book and then you go on a book tour the book tour has every author will tell you is just painful it's just painful now there are parts of it which are fun I like the people I loved going on there Greg feldjoe I loved a lot of the interviews

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feldjoe I loved a lot of the interviews meeting the people you know I got to meet Dana Perino got to meet you know I hung out with I'd already met but Dave Rubin you know Adam Carolla Dennis Prager yesterday so I'm having a great time because I'm hanging out with all these cool people but the nature of it is it's just hard because you're crossing time zones you're getting up super early you're going all day you're talking you've got to concentrate it's just it's just really hard and you're away from home so I just completed and I was I was on I was actually in the southwest terminal to come home from the the second big leg of the tour because it's New York first and then LA this is the media markets and I'm in there and I my phone rings and I almost didn't answer it because I was you know waiting for my flight and I'm I'm in the terminal but I say it's from my publisher and so I took the call and the

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publisher and so I took the call and the entire team that worked on the book from editor publisher publicists etc were on the call there was a and they said they just called to tell me that they just heard that loser think would be number five on the bestseller list for the very prestigious self-help category now you might say to yourself hey being on the self-help bestseller that's not as good as being on the all nonfiction bestseller and you would almost be right you would almost be right it turns out that being on the self-help list is a place you could live for decades you could be on that list for decades and in fact books that are on there right now I've just been around forever so the self-help stuff tends not to be a big hit and then nobody buys it which is a lot of books a lot of books are hey everybody buys it and then they forget about it move on to the next book but

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about it move on to the next book but with yeah like Steven Covey's or is a Stephan Steven Covey's seven Habits that's still on there how old is that book decades old so it is a really really big deal to hit anywhere in the top half of the bestseller list for a book and yesterday I I felt the weight of all of that year of work and the the risk that I put into it to completely develop a whole new career at this point in my life so the self-help books now three of them essentially if you count how to fail and when Bigley and their loser think they they form a trilogy a body of work which effectively legitimized my entire career change so I want to tell you about this moment so

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want to tell you about this moment so I'm ready to fly home and I'm nothing but exhausted right nothing but exhausted and I get this good news and it felt amazing it felt amazing it was a full body every every atom in my body was vibrating in the right direction suddenly the incredible stress of the last three weeks and it's really stressful to do all this you know live TV stuff just evaporated just evaporated and I got on the plane it was just like a short very short flight home and I walked in my house Christina was there and Christina told me that she had just finished the book herself she was waiting for the audio version so she just had consumed it had just finished

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just had consumed it had just finished and then she told me that it was one of the best books she'd ever read or listened to and I got to tell you here we are from Christina was as good as the first time I heard I made it to the number one of the list it was just one of the best days of my whole life
one of the best days of my life and I'm still sort of you know they're still sort of riding it and now making it on the bestseller list doesn't mean you'll be there next week but the beauty of making it on to the list is that you you're forever that person you only have to hit the list once and then you're a best-selling author you're a New York Times best selling author when the paperback version comes out whenever that comes out somebody in the future years from now that will say New York

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years from now that will say New York Times bestselling author author so I got to tell you I couldn't be much happier right now I couldn't be much happier and I you know I also spend some time yeah I know how this sounds but if you're an author you understand you have to do this so forgive me for how this sounds but understand it's part of my job I read the reviews of Amazon now I tend to ignore the one-star reviews because all of my all of my books can at least a few the one-star reviewers are almost always from somebody who didn't read it there are two categories just trolls who didn't read it and then my favorite category of bad review is the is it's always a guy it's always a guy it's a guy who wants to tell the world that he's much smarter than my book it doesn't matter which book it is every one of them has had this guy it's the

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one of them has had this guy it's the guy who comes in and said I read that whole book and didn't learn anything because I already know everything or words to that effect then I always laugh because that guy always shows up there's always that guy but if you read the five-star reviews and it's overwhelmingly 5-star reviews you can see that people are benefiting from the book they're getting something out of it and that I gotta say is the payoff the payoff is that people are reading it and rereading it in fact Christina said that it's the only she's only consumed one other book in her life that she wanted to immediately reread and it was this one and she swears it's not because I'm the author but that it's that good well it doesn't get much better than this I gotta tell you this is if you're ever gonna have and I feel honestly I feel a little bit

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and I feel honestly I feel a little bit guilty that I can't share it yeah I can't really I wish you could feel the way I feel right now because you can't feel much better like right now I'm having just one of the best times of my life it just doesn't get any better than this so I hope you can get a little bit of a contact high from just hearing about it
should it go to number one on that list we're gonna have another little celebration here but I got a set to tell you when you work that hard on something and then it pays off it's a damn good feeling
here you're immortal though I am in more ways than one you know I've said before that my grand plan I always have a you know small small plans and then the big plan the big plan is that I've created enough content that somebody can build the

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content that somebody can build the first artificial person robot based on me because I've explicitly approved that here I'm doing it again in public I give complete and unrestricted approval for AI experimenters or even manufacturers to after my death this is the key part asked me after my death no copyright restrictions you may copy my entire personality and being and put it into your your test robot because there's so much content that I've created in the public domain you could do that easily and I'd like to go first because who would be who would be easier it would be completely easy because of all the materials out there already so cenk is running for a candy hills seat isn't that to seat them Mike sort of

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isn't that to seat them Mike sort of itch was thinking of running for is it possible do I have that wrong somebody fact check me on that but could we see a contest between sank Unger and Mike sort of itch for the same seat please if if there's a divine being can you think of anything that would be better than it like actually anything could you imagine anything that would be as entertaining as that I wouldn't watch anything else I would get rid of my television just to watch those two guys to mate oh my god so I don't know if Mike's or I may have my facts wrong but how much would you pay for that good lord they'll just be the best show on earth
yes they're both running I know Mike's talked about it I don't know if he's

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talked about it I don't know if he's gotten in I would feel sorry for sake I
feel a little bit sorry for him all right somebody says hope this makes up for the incoming hit you took yesterday did I think you hit yesterday I don't remember that was such a good day I don't even remember any bad news that may have ever happened before how about Deval Patrick for president well I don't know much about him but if he's a sort of middle of the ground
candidate his might be dangerous he was governor right that's best juice it's

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it's painful watching sang-kyu debate somebody says you know I I have this feeling that people who have our memorable unusual names have an advantage I don't know that there's any science behind that but I do believe there's something to it so people like Sync and Barack Obama you think to yourself oh my god that's such a disadvantage Barack Obama I think I think nicknames or interesting names work into your favor because there's something about it that makes it sort of sticky in your brain somehow because you repeat it over your head it sounds fun to say that sort of thing all right I want to give you I'm gonna give you a preview of an idea for solving health care that makes both Republicans and Democrats happy are you ready do you think it's possible to make a plan that makes Republicans and Democrats happy let me let me give you the bones of what

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let me let me give you the bones of what it could be I've told you before that all the numbers you see about health care are probably BS because if only 9 percent of the public is not insured and we're already paying for their health care if they have an accident or have surgery or something somebody pays for it already so the money to pay for all health care to come for everybody we're only nine percent off it's just that that money exists in different places it exists in savings that the hospital could save it exists in your employer is paying it now but they don't have to pay it later so it exists in the system sure 9 percent what would be the thing that Republicans want to do more than anything in fact Linda Morgan said at the beginning of this periscope what they want to do is make prices transparent so the main thing the Republicans want is a transparent system how much do people believe a health care

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how much do people believe a health care cost could be reduced with that one change let's say a law that requires all pricing to be transparent so you so customers can shop for better deals how much how much would we save and I've seen ridiculous estimates of 75% yeah they've been but I think that's based on anecdotal stuff that there's sort of one thing that went down 75 percent at one time or somebody else's experience I would never in a million years with my background in economics imagine that cost could go down 75% in any near-term way but could they go down 9% do you think that transparent pricing would buy you 9% I think so so in other words if Republicans got what they want transparent pricing it would create the space to cover for

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it would create the space to cover for everybody now you'd still need the right kind of law to be able to claw back the money from the hospital that saves a bunch of money because now they always get paid when they cover people who were not covered because there's nobody who's uncovered so there's that sort of pot could be accessed I think if you could figure out what it was and employers then would save a bunch of money but maybe you tax them the same amount that they saved in the short run so if you could somehow tax the people who are going from paying health care to not paying health care in other words your employers and the hospitals that are treating people anyway would just they're not getting paid for it and then you save nine percent you've created all the money you need to cover everybody and people could still keep their private health care insurance probably so let's say you say you do this you

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so let's say you say you do this you create a system where people can shop for the best deals but wait for it if you do a good job of shopping for deals you get a rebate so imagine that I'm just going to throw this out imagine the other system where the government insured everybody before you throw up let me finish the point because you don't know where the points going yet right so suspend your just suspend your judgment for a while just imagine that the government handles the health insurance how much would that lower costs well I would think that the insurance industry would of course get decimated but whatever their profit level was would would in u're and we'll use a big word whatever that profit margin was that insurance companies were making that should now go to the benefit of the government in essence because they they

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government in essence because they they would have a lower cost structure because it's not a profit but suppose wait wait for the end you said you lost me a government that's the right instinct so every one of you who said I'm out I'm out because you said the government has some control wait for the second part and by the way I'm just just brainstorming here so these don't have to be great ideas here's the second part let's say you the consumer can see all the prices and you can shop and if you if you do the right things let's say you get the get the preventive tests you get some points you don't smoke you get some points I don't know if that's good you join a gym you get some points now these are hard to measure but just stay with me on the concept if you do the right lifestyle things you take the right preventive measures you get points

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right preventive measures you get points and then maybe you get some money back so if you wanted to take real good care of yourself and do all the right stuff you could actually get money back you can your free health care and money back because the whole system is benefited by you shopping for better prices so would you accept a government plan if it had total market competition that's driven by the consumers so the government isn't doing so much maybe for negotiating and it's this big inefficient thing but all it's doing is allowing the individual people to shop and use market forces to drive down costs that would be a system in which Republicans would see market competition driving that costs individuals shopping for better prices if they want to they don't even know what they don't even have to and you'd have all the money you needed for a system now when you're saying no

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system now when you're saying no government you do understand that Medicare exists right so Medicare exists and nobody's dying from it you know Medicare isn't killing anybody seems to exist yeah the Veterans Affairs that's a government-run like so there's government and then there's government I don't buy the I do not accept the idea that just because the government's involved everything goes to hell because we have a system now that works quite well you've got your you know prevail insurance for people who can have it you got your Medicare for people who can't afford it certain ages etc it's kind of working isn't it except for prices the only thing that's somebody says look up Mark Cuban's talk at the recent health conference in Vegas I would very much like to have Mark Cuban on here to ask

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like to have Mark Cuban on here to ask about that III know that he was working on a sort of a concept but I love to hear what his concept half I'm sure it's got some I would be without seeing it I'm sure that Mark Cuban's plan would have some market price transparency and some market competition built into it I don't know but I'd be you know I'd be amazed if it doesn't so hey let's make that a task I'll go look for that all right that's all I got for now
let's go watch the rest of the beach good stuff and I will talk to you later