Episode 766 Scott Adams: Enjoying the Simultaneous Sip While Laughing About Shampeachment

Date: 2019-12-24 | Duration: 1:11:12

Topics

My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a The pending Double-Non-Impeachment The value of multiple imaginary problems President Trump’s respect for Tulsi’s vote integrity Steve Edwards hiring manager advice is accurate and important Q&A with the live viewers Free will, Simulation Theory, life advice, valuing yourself and more

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boom hey everybody how are you come on in here you're a little bit slow because a lot of you are on vacation sleeping in aren't you yep you are well if you are alert you may have noticed that in my Twitter feed this morning I sent out the actual full text of the simultaneous up so that you could join in now I need to warn you before we go further somewhere in my house there's an alarm going off and it's starting to make me crazy because I can hear it but you can't so I might have to take you in the trip through the house to find the alarm but before we do that we're going to enjoy the new and upgraded simultaneous SEP the reason I tweeted it out is that you could read long enjoy it in on the chorus its newly revised as somebody pointed out on Twitter I got rid of the word of thermos and as my Twitter wag said I impeached

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and as my Twitter wag said I impeached it so thermos has been impeached and removed from the list of the simultaneous sip texts and it goes like this grab your vessel be ready the simultaneous it I know why you're here you're here for the simultaneous up all you need is a copper in baccarat glass a tanker chalice or Stein a canteen junker flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee you can fill in your own beverage there and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better this simultaneous sip
and add that part got to add the ah alright as promised we're gonna have to go on a road trip cuz there's an alarm it's going off right now and so come with me I'll let you see where I'm going

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sounds like it's downstairs hmm sounds like I'm the only one who's up bear with me we'll find this we will stop it
stay with me stay with me hold hold here you can look at that while I turn this off there it is solved Snickers that's my loyal dog Snickers here's the tree
Christina's piano alright we'll go back upstairs everybody else is still asleep

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there's my cat boo yeah boo come upstairs we've got to talk to the people follow me follow me boo come with me all right boo she's following us bear with me
alright back in my office sorry about that little detour so I just set my drums up over here it's my new drum location here's my neighbors it's a foggy day in California
all right it's quite enough of that well I wasn't

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it's quite enough of that well I wasn't planning on that all right can't we go to the medicine cabinet somebody says so let's talk about the impeachment I did a little survey on Twitter to see which term people liked the most for the impeachment do you like calling it the shy impeachment the incomplete meant the half Pietschmann or the impeachment light I know Trump is used in Pietschmann light but I ran a poll and the winner the big winner was she impeachment I think he had over 60% of the vote second place was incomplete meant but I think it's rising fast I think she impeachment you were just used to but incompletion is funnier and as I as I

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incompletion is funnier and as I as I continued to say the word impeachment has started to lose all meaning you know it was only a week ago that impeachment was a terrible thing and today it's just a punchline in fact the Democrats were actually considering a second impeachment if they find out something from Don began the White House attorney that they think is extra impeachable so Trump might be the first person who's ever extra double impeached and I thought to myself you know if Trump had a choice I think he would like to not be a peached wouldn't you say if it were up to him and he got to choose and revise history I believe he would choose to never be voted to be impeached but if you do get voted to be impeached but it's not complete in our current situation let me ask you this wouldn't it be even better to be doubled not

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it be even better to be doubled not impeached I mean actually because it makes the whole thing look ridiculous it looks ridiculous already but if they do it twice at that point you you can't do anything but laugh I mean it would become a self-perpetuating joke if they try to impeach him twice so I kind of want it to happen and I'm not kidding because it would just be the the last vestige of you know chrome of credibility left with impeachment and we might as well go ahead and rip that band-aid off because the impeachment doesn't mean what I used to apparently
so here's the this is what I call an anti-trump of math so the things we've learned from anti-trump errs about math is that if you if your leader has one imaginary problem something that you just imagined he did or imagined he's thinking or imagined he will do well that's no problem right because it's imaginary there's no problem if you're

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imaginary there's no problem if you're if your leader has a problem that's only imaginary you're okay but in the anti-trump math if you have a laundry list of imaginary problems well that's impeachable one one imaginary problem it's imaginary literally doesn't exist you can ignore it but if you've got ten imaginary problems you're gonna need to impeach and the second part is that if you have one half Pietschmann where you get a vote in the house but the Senate doesn't confirm it well that's not fully totally impeached and removed from office it's closer to a half B but what if you have to them to half Beach mints add them together you see where I'm going that's the full impeachment so I think the Democrats are trying to string together to half Beach mints to call it a full impeachment or something if you

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a full impeachment or something if you can figure out their strategy please let the news business know because they don't know their strategy and neither do we
we I think the funniest thing that's coming out of all this is that it appears at least it's drifting in that direction that Trump is going to claim that there was no impeachment he's gonna say he's already said that there was no crime which apparently is true because the articles of impeachment don't even alleged crime they're not even saying he committed a crime so there's no crime he's right about that and and he's arguing that there's no impeachment because they haven't completed the process of suddenly into the Senate and I'm thinking to myself sure sure we're we're completely at a point where you can define anything to me in anything you know we're just changing words on the same observations and coming to different conclusions so can trump credibly claim that there

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so can trump credibly claim that there was no crime and in fact no impeachment happened kinda he kinda can now I think historians will see it differently but who cares you know we're not dealing with historians we're dealing with current reality and I think Trump is just gonna say it didn't happen which is the funniest thing ever how much is it gonna drive Democrats crazy if people say haha we impeached you and Trump just says night him it didn't happen you imagined you did you tried but you didn't now of course what you call it impeachment non impeachment impeachment half a Pietschmann has no impact or what it is but because our brains are wired for what I call word thinking we think that if we can agree on what the word is for the thing then we've agreed on the thing but they're different you can agree on

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but they're different you can agree on the thing and disagree about the label which is all we're doing but but because people think that the label of the thing have to be the same disagreeing about what you call it feels as though you're disagreeing about the content of it and we also we all watch exactly the same content we watch the house to vote to a beach we watch Nancy not gave it to the Senate we're all looking at exactly the same stuff so what words you put on it are up to you all right there's not a lot going on here so I thought I would yeah looks like maybe there's something wrong here I was gonna open this up to guess but doesn't look like I have that option oh yes I do so I'm gonna I'm gonna take some questions here in a minute so if you have any questions I will get to that president Trump said that he respects Tulsi Gabbard for her vote on the

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Tulsi Gabbard for her vote on the impeachment vote isn't that interesting who was the only other person in the world who said that Tulsi deserved respect for her vote of present instead of guilty or innocent just me so right now it's me and President Trump who have both said the same thing about Tulsi which is huh that's actually the smart play I think you know I I joke about Trump always picking up the the free money somebody says Jimmy Dore says the same thing that may be true when Trump sees free money on a table he picks it up and so I was saying the thing the same thing about Tulsi gabbard's yet there was free money on the table she could be the one who voted present get all the attention get her point of view elevated above everybody else's and also be completely correct on

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the morality and the concept and the you know the thinking behind it so I think that Trump just recognized that she had a table full of free money and everybody else walked past it and Tulsi reached out and said free money anybody anybody all right I guess it's my free money and she gathered it up how would how would Trump not respect that it's exactly what he would have done I mean in the sense that he he sees free money and he picks it up I'm gonna give you the most valuable financial advice you'll ever get in your life it comes from Steve Edwards who describes himself as a hiring manager I don't know from what company this is just on Twitter and here's his advice which I will I will amplify so hiring the hiring manager Steve Edwards says here's a tip from a hiring manager I will never revoke your offer because

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I will never revoke your offer because you asked for a higher base salary more stock a signing bonus relocation the assistance I might not be able to offer any of that but then I'll and that'll have to say no but it's probably safe to ask that's the most valuable financial advice you'll ever get because when people get an offer that they've been wanting such as a job offer or a contract or some kind of business offer in my case it's usually offers to do books or contracts or speeches or whatever and once somebody's made an offer there they're mentally committed they want you if you don't do a good job of negotiating for what you need you're not going to gain respect you might lose a little bit if somebody accepts the first offer you make for employment I just think well they're not going to negotiate for me you know if I hire

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negotiate for me you know if I hire somebody who can't negotiate for the job how could I possibly expect them to negotiate on my behalf when they're working for me you wouldn't expect so the hiring manager is quite accurate and saying you should ask I'll tell you the first time that I learned this I've told this story before but it's it's a good story so it's worth repeating when Dilbert first started taking off and I started getting a little bit famous I was still working my day job but I was becoming known for doing the comic that on weekends and nights it was running in newspapers and one of the newspapers was in Canada and a can a Canadian event organiser contacted me and I was in my cubicle of my day job and she said we wanted to pay you to come up and give a speech to a group of petroleum engineers and I said I don't do that kind of work and she said well but she could write I mean we'll pay you so you could do that kind of work couldn't you and I said but you know I

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couldn't you and I said but you know I don't really do that I don't I don't give I don't give speeches so she said but if you did now what what would you charge and so of course I have a degree in economics so I never say yes or no to things I only say what my price is because if he had said who will give you a billion dollars I would have said yes on the spot if she said we'll give you ten dollars I would have said no on the spot so it wasn't really a question of whether I would do the speech or not do a speech it was always a question the price all right that's that's my worldview and so the organizer said well why don't you get back to me and tell me what price you would do it for now remember I've never done the speech and it was a small group of people I think there were maybe 25 people total what do you think I should charge for it I had no idea so I went to somebody who worked at my publications syndication company at the time somebody was more experienced and I said and I said

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experienced and I said and I said somebody asked me to do a speech basically just to talk about myself and make some jokes what should I charge and he said well what once you you know when I told him I didn't want to do it he said well charge ten thousand dollars because one of two things will happen either they'll say yes and you get $10,000 which you'd be happy with or they say no and you say okay well that was my price so just put a price on it yeah go high and put a price on it now when he said $10,000 I laughed and I said I can't charge I can't charge $10,000 just to talk to 25 people for a half an hour all right that's that's a little bit ridiculous and my more experienced mentor said just ask for it see what happens just go ahead you'll be surprised so I actually had to practice in the mirror to say $10,000 without laughing and that that's actually true I

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laughing and that that's actually true I actually practiced out loud to myself saying the number without accident like I didn't mean it where I was laughing so I call her back she says did you think about it I said yes you know what would you be willing to do it for and I said I'd be willing to do it for $10,000 and there's this pause on the other side and I'm waiting for the response because I'm thinking there's no way she's gonna say yes to $10,000 and she goes we'd also pay for your first class travel of course and that's when my life changed because it was one of those moments when I realized that I had no idea what my economic value was no idea and so I said yes I did this speech it was terrible in fact they even told me it wasn't good imagine giving a speech and having your organizers say well you know sort of

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organizers say well you know sort of okay not really that good this is the first time I'd ever done it and I would agree it wasn't that good but I got better at it and demand kept increasing and so I would increase my price so I didn't have to do so much of it that I couldn't do my other work so I increased it to 15,000 to give a speech and people were offering amazingly people were offering me $15,000 to just show up and give a speech they'd pay for travel as well and that worked out so I raised it to 20 25 30 35 45 50 the most I've ever given been paid for her speech was a hundred thousand dollars I won't tell you who but it was a big company and they paid me a hundred thousand dollars to talk for an hour and take some pictures and they paid for they paid for travel as well now that's the most the most I ever got paid but I was in that fifty two hundred thousand range for for a while now I don't I

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range for for a while now I don't I don't do speeches anymore it's a little bit dangerous and it wasn't the lifestyle I enjoyed traveling around but take that take that lesson with you the person who is the least understanding of their own economic value is you you probably don't know what you're worth so ask for a little bit more than you think you're worth you'll probably get it and if you don't you'll probably still get the job or at least the option to get the job so the best advice you'll ever get is don't undervalue yourself ask for too much see what happens all right that is my advice I'm going to see if we've got any guests who want to ask me some questions I'm gonna take them in no particular order will are you coming on will will I'm good will how are you got have a question for me I do I was the guy who sent you the

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I do I was the guy who sent you the tweet earlier regarding the laundry list persuasion versus focusing on a single variable and your answer I thought explained your point well that isn't a reason just another word for variable no I would say so your question was I've said that if somebody has lots of reasons for their opinion instead of just a few good reasons that let that long list of reasons probably shows that they don't have one good reason whereas there are situations they have lots of variables and you don't want to concentrate on one variable as the only one that's determinants and my point was that a variable is very different than a reason there could be lots of variables within a reason but they're just different things so so you shouldn't make any judgment about what I say about reasons in terms of what I say about variables good variables and reasons or not they're not the same concept all right you two take care all right let's see

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you two take care all right let's see who else once they asked me a question have you noticed that the news just basically stopped bill bill are you there hey Bill bill Polti is joining us what can I do for you today bill and and happy holidays Merry Christmas you can do nothing for me you can continue to teach people how to make money well that's great that's a good start you could be teaching them how to make money - well do you give great advice that was awesome because often an employer doesn't want to get into a situation and have an issue with the employee so I agree most people accept it yeah and Bill you you fired a great many people in your life so innards you know you could see this from both sides hundreds hundreds but anyway it's a great Christmas season thanks for all your help we're helping people like crazy and it's been a very big help because of you

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it's been a very big help because of you so thank you so there's a bill for those who don't know about your internet philanthropy you've been giving away money literally just giving away your own money yes to people who have good reasons good cause what you tell us about one of your recent ones well yesterday I gave away a thousand dollars to somebody who posted that they needed a student loan or had a student loan and needed some help so we did that then we raised I think enough money for a 17 year old who had cerebral palsy to get Christmas presents and then we raised money I think before that for a family who had lost their 19 year old son and we raised money so they could have Christmas presents we raised presents Scott Christmas presents for 81 families this families all through Twitter that's amazing and and your your influence keeps growing wait how many Twitter followers yeah I think about 1.7 million and we got a few

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about 1.7 million and we got a few million on Instagram and and a year ago it was what maybe 3 20 to 30 thousand followers that's amazing now you really suddenly sudden the internet on fire here well so where everything Scott thanks for promoting it we wouldn't be able to help as many people as we are without you so thank you it's great talking to you Bill and I'm gonna call her up I have a great holiday you too it was fun let's see who else we got here
it's funny I look it I look at all your faces names on your logos before I select the guests and I act as I'm gonna be able to tell something by looking at that hello guests guests can you hear me sure I don't have any questions for ya
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year doing sure say that thank you that was easy

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sure say that thank you that was easy all right let's bring in somebody who looks like they're gonna cause trouble I think hit or miss looks like a troublemaker maybe in a good way we'll find out call her miss can you hear me as oh hello Merry Christmas did you have a question yes I can hear you can you hear me yes go ahead I was curious about your thoughts on free will oh yes my thoughts on free will well of course Sam Harris is the ultimate sort of the more scientific academic person to talk about free will but my basic idea is that if physics exists which it does and there rules of the universe and and cause an effect then you would not expect cause an effect to stop at your skull and to

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an effect to stop at your skull and to not apply to the things that are happening inside your skull so your brain is a machine that's hard for you to predict what will happen but your inability to know what you will decide or you've been inability for anybody else to predict it is unrelated to the fact that it's just cause and effect so one cause is always going to have one effect so what you're gonna do tomorrow is 100% determined by the conditions today but it will feel as though you made choices and certainly in the in the ordinary sense people make choices people do pick a or B they can go left to right they can pick one or two but those decisions feel like choices when they make them but they are not they are just your your conscious mind realizing what's gonna happen and then you interpret it after the fact there's a some kind of freewill choice but that's that's the basics of it did that make sense yeah I guess you know you being in self-help it's interesting that you're still having an effect on people even

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still having an effect on people even though it's you can't help it well you know that's not entirely true because if people have no free will and they're just subject to their environment I'm a variable that changes their environment so it's to your point it's not really self-help if the reason that somebody improved is that I did something you know you could argue that it's not a self-help it just feels that way because you accepted the help but the help came from somewhere else and you just incorporated it because it was a new set of variables so I the way I look at it is that wallet could be labeled self-help what I see is that I'm a variable that is doing whatever it needs to do because it was gonna do what its gonna do you know I I feel like every day I wake up and do the thing I was gonna do I just find out what it is as it happens and then I become a variable in your life and that can change you so so no no there's no conflict there at all I think

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conflict there at all I think
all right I think caller is off so let me add another one it's let's add Peter talk to me are you there Peter Merry Christmas do you have a question yeah the expanse season four have you had a chance to check it out I I have watched I think are there only ten episodes I can't tell if they're anymore coming yeah but I have been watching the newest season of the expanse probably my favorite sci-fi that's currently running I would say yes of the ones that are currently running yeah huge fan so I recommend anybody check it out but but listen to it with headphones all these sci-fi sci-fi properties if you don't listen on headphones you really miss the whole bringing you into their world effect so that's my recommendation there yeah

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that's my recommendation there yeah there are some amazing characters in there sometimes I just like to hear the belters talking the belters they don't like these I don't even know what kind of accent they have but the doctors that walk me they said they sound to me like South African or something mm-hmm but it's a great accent they have all right what the show is called the expanse and you should watch it thanks Peter right all right who else we got here Rick looks like he's got something to say Rick come me come at me Rick hi Rick you have a question I do so first of all I want to thank you for being so generous with your time and life's lessons both in your books and your periscopes thank you you're welcome so following up on the previous question about freewill my question is about what you refer to as the simulation which I

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you refer to as the simulation which I find fascinating would love for you to expound more on and my question is have you ever considered that we are in a simulation but that your interpretation of the simulation is an attempt by a finite being to understand an infinite God's creation well um have you are you familiar with my book gods debris I'm familiar with the fact that you've written it but I have not read it and well based on your question you would enjoy that book so I won't give you a any spoilers religious unless right near your ally right there if we are a simulation which means that we were created by some other species a species that came before and could make other species have a software it's likely that there are lots of us copies that is and there will be far more copies than there are originals because that's how it works the original makes lots of copies so

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the original makes lots of copies so chances are we're a copy because there are more of them and all the copies will think they are real just like the original does that's how they're programmed to think but I have thought what's the point of it all and one of the things that you could speculate and I'm not saying this is the case I'm just having fun with this if you were to build a simulated software world today let's say you're whatever you think is your current human existence if you were a programmer and you made your own simulation wouldn't you inhabit one of the characters you know wouldn't you want to be one of the avatars who is interacting with the people who are not real or in some cases they're players in some cases or not you probably would you'd you wouldn't want to just be an observer all the time sometimes you would sometimes you might want to build a little world just to experiment just to watch it it's like an ant farm maybe but you might you might also want to interact with it so it could be that some advanced advanced civilization has run out of challenges

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civilization has run out of challenges has run out of experiences has done everything that they could do in their own claim and have developed an artificial world that they can be a character within which means that I or you could actually be a an alien who's inhabiting an avatar for the purpose of Reax perience afib or actual life in other words you wouldn't have the knowledge that you were the avatar you would just wake up every day and say hey I see lots of other people dying but I'm not dying you know tons of terrible things are happening to other people but it's not happening to me it's like it's like I wrote this game for my experience or something yeah another thing any that's true that's just for fun we have to read God's debris and I think that'll blow your mind yeah well I isn't that what Christmas is all about is that the Creator is becoming part of the creation so well can can the Creator in the creation ever be separate correct that's

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creation ever be separate correct that's exactly that's exactly what I'm saying as a Christian I have no problem believing that we're in a simulation of sorts it's actually called creation right there's even a scripture that says in him we live and move and have our being and this simulation what we call creation is actually the context in which our God created us so that we could get to know him better the only giving yeah there's there's lots of ways to make those ideas all compatible so thanks for that great holiday message you write Merry Christmas guys Christmas let's take another how about Cassandra can you hear me good morning Merry Christmas do you have a question how much I love you and thank you for every morning that you'd been with us oh well thank you I love you all too and I wouldn't do any of this if I didn't enjoy it probably more than any of you

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enjoy it probably more than any of you do you know it's really hard to explain people often ask me you know how do you how do you spontaneously talk for an hour every day and when I think about it and I say to myself okay Scott suppose somebody told you it's your job to talk spontaneously for an hour every morning about whatever you have to figure it out you know five minutes before you go on you have to figure it out how would you like that my first reaction would be oh I wouldn't like that I wouldn't like that at all how am I going to talk for an hour spontaneously in some way that anybody wants to watch this thing but when it happens it's so easy because it's just enjoyable like this experience that I'm having literally right now will be one of the highlights of my day you know it'll be one of the best parts of my day and I think that you can most of you can pick up on that I mean if you knew I was just working you would know that right but you can tell that I do this for my

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but you can tell that I do this for my own purposes as well as yours and we've developed we've I would say we've evolved together and we continue to evolve as you've seen the simultaneous sips that I started out with started out as nothing but some words I jumbled together people responded to it people you know said what they liked or didn't like I would watch the comments and then it evolved into a proper toast and I think it actually has some legs I think people will actually use it over the whole days so thank you for thank you for your for your kind words Cassandra
all right thank you and I have a great Christmas all right once we got here looking for faces that people look dangerous Alex looks dangerous come at me Alex Alex Alex Alex Alex can

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come at me Alex Alex Alex Alex Alex can hear me
Merry Christmas Alex do you have a question for me oh not so much a question it's more your book your new book that I loser think it's funny I bought the the hardcover which by the way absolutely loved you but then I also ordered five copies to give to people think even the paperback now are those like fake ones or I just wasn't sure they're kind of cut a little weird around the corners and stuff too so I wasn't really sure do you have one where you could reach it I I know I don't I do you know what though I did put them up actually if you remember there was a video made of me unboxing my loser think book to that Lion King song oh yeah yeah that was me okay so that was the hardcover and then I have soft covers it was well that I posted on Twitter anyway here's the answer to your question the

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here's the answer to your question the the soft cover does not exist for the United States but there's some kind of bug on Amazon that allowed some people I think we've we tried to close that hole but it was just a bug that allowed people to order from overseas something they would not normally be able to get on overseas by Amazon so I think you got the probably the Indian subcontinent copy because I did an experiment where I tried to buy the softcover myself knowing of course as the author that it doesn't exist and to my surprise Amazon accepted my offer for the product that doesn't exist and mail to me and I got it too or I was like they sent me a product that I made that doesn't exist meaning a version that doesn't exist and I turned it over and said you know for sale only in the was a indian sub-continent or whatever it is that there are different words for that

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there are different words for that that's right so I just found it weird cuz the way it was cut around the edges it almost looked like it was something was off about it and I was gonna actually send it back because the whole point of it was wanting to support you I don't want it to go to some company out and who knows where if you don't get credit it was back and just get hard endeavors so I'll give you the the complete answer to that is that it helps me most if Americans by the American Heart cover book in the beginning because that's what counts toward bestseller lists and the less tough but any any foreign country that also bought the rights indirectly you know once we paid through the advance and stuff that could also be profit but less so I'm far more helped by getting the hardcover if you'd like to be supportive which I appreciate very much but I can't I can't help it if Amazon will sell you the other one no bottle right so I will not will not be buying those so just want to make one last quick note here this is

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make one last quick note here this is the fourth time actually that I've had a chance to speak to you and this makes me further believe that this is really just a simulation that we're in and that like I'm creating this somehow because it doesn't make any sense it's just doesn't mind-blowing to me yeah it's funny I've I've had that experience myself recently where I've interacted with a couple of presidential candidates you know just by direct message and of course you get a direct message on Twitter it looks like every other direct message except it's coming from somebody you just watched on television who literally might be in control of the largest military that the universe's ever has ever put together and I think myself this doesn't feel like it's real like I there are seven billion people in the world I shouldn't be talking to the ones I just saw on TV it's just so you're having that business this is how I feel right now exactly so well enjoy you enjoy your experience and have a great holiday tomorrow all right Merry Christmas take care I saw somebody else did lose

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take care I saw somebody else did lose your thing make it to the New York Times bestseller list the answer is yes on his first week because we do a lot of publicity and as I expected it pulled off the list you know once you're once you're not doing your your press tour but there's a lot of Christmas buying and it seems to be selling briskly so we'll see you should get back on the list I think all right let's see who else we got here
Buckeye girl let's see if Buckeye girl is really a girl or even a Buckeye Buckeye girl can you hear me you are a girl you are one did you have a question for me I do

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go ahead did I lose yourself I have an 18 year old nephew who's trying to find his way in the world he has his GED and is just wondering what's next where to go well I have the answer the answer is this read my book had a failed almost anything and still win big just googled my name on Amazon and and look for the one that says had a fail and that is written for somebody exactly his age and exactly his situation and it's a strategy for how to I don't know how to get a foothold in the real world and the the key thoughts there are building a talent stack which means you start with ever whatever talents you've developed or have naturally and then you figure out what you can add to that that would make you special that turns out to be the the secret to success because he may not have any world-class extraordinary talents but most of us don't but you could add together some ordinary talents and so you've got something special so

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and so you've got something special so figure out what he likes to do and then have him figure out what talents needed to be added to that either by work experience or taking a class at night or study at home on his own whatever it takes and go from there so if he continues to build his talent stack let's say he adds public speaking see ads had a code maybe he adds something about psychology hypnosis selling marketing you know any one of those things or lots of things we could add depending on his interests and where he lives and all that but that's the book you should look at and then look at his systems versus goals that's also in the book talking about was something that you can do every day that will make you more valuable without having a specific objective yet if you make yourself more valuable valuable you make yourself available to a lot of people opportunities will appear now the good thing is that the job market is so tight that the odds of you know getting a good position and working your way up are

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position and working your way up are really good no matter where you're starting from right now so that's that's my basic advice was that hopeful yes thanks so much I really appreciate it all right you're welcome have a great holiday you too all right let's see who else we got here I'm gonna go to I I swear I act as though I'd know like what I'm gonna get based on these profile pictures but they don't really tell you

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III miss the part which interview did you like the most
yes you know I I've said that often yeah you think that you think that being an interviewer is easy you're just the one asking the questions and you think that the hard part is the person who's being interviewed but James alta sure is one of those people who reverses that and when you see somebody who was really good at it like really really good at interviewing people as genuine curiosity he had he had marked up my book like completely he had notes everywhere he was referring my books back to points I'd made in previous books he'd read two different books I mean it was an amazing if you could give an award I guess for being the interviewer that was like an Academy Award and I told them at the time you know as soon as he was done I was sort of blown away it was the best the best interviewer performance maybe I've ever seen it was one of the best partly because he was interested

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best partly because he was interested partly because he was so prepared and partly because he's James Altucher and he's just good at this stuff but thank you thank you Morty I I have I have to be honest that the only reason I don't watch every episode of Rick and Morty is I can't stand the one character who's always drooling the the drool that's always coming out of his his mouth bothers me so much that I can't watch it but if you change just that one tiny little thing it's a tremendous show

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thank you and Merry Christmas all right let's go to forum beer forum here can you hear me again did I pronounce your name even close to correctly you are getting better every time so just like Alex this is my second time on okay thank you very much and just like everyone else I wanted to thank you for being a pillar that's literally holding this country together right now over the last two years so thank you so much well you know on that point if you don't mind I was going to talk about this today that Twitter and social media in general but I think mostly Twitter is is really strange in the way it create creates almost tribes or warlords it's almost like there are intellectual warlords I would say I love to use Mike sort of itches my example from lots of things because he fits in a lot of categories to make a good example but

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categories to make a good example but he's basically and I've never used this term before so I haven't thought it through but he's like an intellectual warlord meaning that if somebody has a message that's important he has the ability in the platform to amplify it and so ideas really are what turn it into action so if you're the person who controls people's ideas and they're thinking well indirectly you control their actions as well and so in a non-military sense there there are these groups or tribes with big followings usually the blue check people who also have interconnecting connections so there are tribes that connect to other tribes I'd say my tribe connects to Mike certain you know it's lots of overlap etcetera so and I could list a dozen other people but it does feel as though the impact of those tribes you know and it's not just the leader of the tribe but rather the people within or shaping the tribe at the same time it

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shaping the tribe at the same time it does seem like the power of that is tremendous and growing and not fully recognized and so when you mentioned it I thought it was worth calling out but did you have a specific question yes this is about your startup product interface and the question I have is you know on our phones we every week will tells me I've been I use my phone like 10 hours a day so always question or thought about why the interface does not allow people to opt-in to receive an alert if they're not on the app they're not online but somebody would like to speak to them and it just comes through and if I see it in dying I can just respond and get connected we do have that okay yet the I think the app has to be active in the background but yeah you would get an alert if somebody's trying to reach you guarded okay sorry I'll check it out I did my part I do not see it must be there and I think is there

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it must be there and I think is there because you should be there but there's also a scheduling feature that we've added more recently so somebody could actually schedule you and you'd get a notification say yes or no and they can schedule you for you know an hour from now and you'd get the notification so it's we have that for sure great okay I think I need to relook at the app I've not been there for a few months we keep upgrade again so I hope you like it all right thank you take care all right let's go to Deborah Deborah Deborah can you hear me I can good morning and Merry Christmas those of us that are not from California could you give us your perspective on Adam Schiff and you said

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perspective on Adam Schiff and you said there was a person challenging him that you thought you would support and what are the odds that somebody could actually beat him well so California is a big place and I'm not in one of the one of the areas that Adam Schiff yes he's a Southern California guy I'm Northern California so most even most of the problems they hear about in California you know my neighborhood hasn't caught on fire we don't have syringes on the sidewalks or or homeless but where Schiff lives apparently there's a lot and Jennifer Barossa is running against them as an independent so I've mentioned her and do it can an independent win it's hard to know apparently there are more independence than there are either Democrats by themselves and Republicans by themselves in some places I think this might be one so if you if you ask me I would say Schiff seams vulnerable

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me I would say Schiff seams vulnerable even though it's a deeply Democratic area that he's in he's been and been there for a long time but I would think after this year that whoever is the competitor would attract a lot of funding a lot of support there probably would be more effort to get him out now that at any time and I've offered to help so and you might see there there's at least there's at least a possibility of another strong candidate coming in there but I can't talk about that yet so maybe you know it would be it would be a tough ask to replace Adam Schiff in a democratic place but I think he's the most vulnerable Eve's ever been that would be my guess well I saw the video of his town-hall meeting he had in his district where it just totally broke out into chaos and his constituents or somebody that just came to voice their opinion but it was interesting anyway

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opinion but it was interesting anyway well we're in the political election season so you should expect that every group has a troll or two in it so I wouldn't make too much out of you know chaos at events because everybody's sending their their trolls to the other events so you see a lot of that everywhere I would think but thanks thanks so much all right let's take another I think we'll add Kim Kim can you hear me hi Merry Christmas amazing the
the a question for me yes first of all I have one statement than a question I would love to see you on the 5 substituting for Greg Gutfeld sometime what why why that in particular well I'd like to see how you kind of go face to face with Juan Williams and Dana Perino seems a little skeptical of the

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seems a little skeptical of the simultaneous sip so I'd like to see that I think it would be very interesting to watch well it's funny you say that because I've noticed that the exact mix of people on the show really makes a big difference you know if they have if they have the right people there it just it just sings it's the best show on TV it might be it's actually only one of the few shows that actually record and but if if they have fill-ins the fillings can be tremendous individual talents and certainly you know deserve to be on the show but if you don't have the right chemistry of the five people it just doesn't it doesn't work the same and if you notice that when all the regulars are there the regulars plus they rotate the the one chair now but if the four regulars are there I mean it's just always good it's just always good so I would be hesitant to be any kind of a

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would be hesitant to be any kind of a stand-in on that show because it would change the chemistry and even if I thought I were you know amazing yeah I don't but even if I thought I would you know was doing a great job it's all about the chemistry so that that's the thing the thing that they get right and I would credit primarily Greg Gutfeld for being I would say the I say the catalyst that makes the chemical reaction work if you've noticed that but anyway thank thanks for the question could you explain to me what went on with Bette Midler a couple days ago on Twitter well I don't know exactly I remember she did some all caps screaming tweets that other people were joking she must have been on an ambien because she didn't she didn't look insane is that what you're talking about well yeah and she said don't believe anything that's going to be put in

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anything that's going to be put in articles you know because it's all like Russian deception I don't know about the hex but it was on all caps and it looks like I mean it's cheap I don't know what the heck yeah you know you don't want to diagnose people's mental health from a distance but certainly you have to if you just make an assumption about normal people's lifestyles and who they are and how they spend their week you have to figure that some percentage of all tweets are done under the influence of some drug wouldn't you say some probably something like 20% because people are probably doing more tweeting at night which is when they're drinking and smoking and whatever else is doing and I would not be surprised if 20% of all the tweets you see coming from celebrity-type people are under the influence and and sometimes you look at them and you say well I think there's one and then you know they the next day

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one and then you know they the next day they're back to their normal tweeting but that that one night it looked pretty brutal so there's definitely there should be a tag that you can it should be like an extra option when you tweet this says I'm a little bit drunk right now
inebriated emoji so that later when people dig these up to embarrass you you can say well look look at the emoji I was drunk Merry Christmas all right let's do another one I'm having more fun than you are so bear with me let's talk to Jennifer Jennifer are you there
Merry Christmas question yeah I do it ties in with what you were talking about a little bit earlier about you know valuing yourself

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earlier about you know valuing yourself I I found an app it was really interesting and it's called cameo and authors celebrities actors can put themselves on there and for a fee they will record a short video of like a birthday message to someone so I noticed that you know Caitlyn Jenner lists herself at $2,500 and won you know like a kind of a minor actor will do it for $50.00 and I was just wondering if you had heard of that and and if you were the sign up on there what would you charge I haven't I don't believe I've downloaded it or played with it yet and it's funny you'd ask that question because I've asked myself the same question I would probably look at what other people are charging and then I would I would judge where where I rank in the celebrity the celebrity ranking and then I'd say well if I'm somewhere

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and then I'd say well if I'm somewhere in this area and then I would modify that by how much time I wanted to spend so if I didn't want to spend much time on it I'd set it higher than the market it looks like it could bear so I'd only get a few who really cared about so what did you notice anybody who's let's say and you could be very general in this anybody who is roughly at my level of notoriety did you see what they charge oh I was trying to think well sporting example maybe Sean Spicer it seemed like he was around a hundred bucks you know something like that oh I'm Way more than Sean Spicer yeah I was gonna say that but that's how we did reference yeah yeah and it was such an interesting thing to stumble upon yesterday and and there were celebrities that were really popular kind of in the 70s that are sort of getting a new life because of it and I don't know it was

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because of it and I don't know it was just really really kind of an interesting social a statement about you know kind of what we value you know or what we're willing to pay for to have some celebrity say our name you know briefly but it was just kind of interesting to go through that site and I think that people who thought of it are geniuses I'm looking at the comments going by so somebody thinks 200 200 to 500 should be my price somebody says a thousand a hundred to four hundred I'm just looking at the you know because it really depends on what the market would bear right so what people are saying in the comments somebody says I'd paid 250 for 250 for 30 seconds other people saying well there are people saying that I should charge a thousand but people saying they'd pay 250 so I think what people would pay it would be closer to what it would be anyway I might try that out at some point but thank you thank you thank you for the question well thanks for having me Merry Christmas everybody

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having me Merry Christmas everybody right Merry Christmas all right see who else we got here it's time for George Jordan Jordan you're coming at me coming in hot Jordan how are you
wait what's just that what just happened I think we had a technical crosstalk there let's try it again except I lost you sorry we'll try James are you there hey James Merry Christmas do you have a question for me Merry Christmas yeah I just read I finished loser think and there was a couple things I disagreed with and I wondered if you two want to talk about that sure go ahead yeah well I guess the main thing was

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yeah well I guess the main thing was when you were talking about friction and I agree with the overall point about friction but what I find is that like for example when they did prohibition right there they created friction by making alcohol legal but it had an unintended consequence of making more organised crime so like friction I feel like it works on the least motivated but not on the ones that you really care about like it won't stop a mass shooter because the mass shooter will get a gun they're very desperate and will get a gun to do the horrible act no matter what let me let me make the the counterclaim how many mass shooters have used fully automatic rifles as opposed to semi-automatic in the last several years well that's my point is that they'll find another way to do it no no but to my point let me let me finish the point a fully automatic weapon most

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point a fully automatic weapon most people who know weapons would say well that would be a far better tool to use and you would kill more people if you could use that so the shooters don't have access to the best tool so they go to the second best tool and they still kill way too many people but it probably is less than they would have done with the better tool likewise likewise they can't buy a bazooka and the bazooka or the you know I don't get you can't get your own tank or drone yourself so we know that the friction the the law puts on those bigger weapons keeps people from using them so there's no question that it reduces the number of people who would use more powerful weapons they just don't have access to them would you disagree with that I do but the problem is with with a semi-automatic because you it's one bullet one shot and you could be a lot more precise so there's actually been studies that said that semi automatics can be more because because they they

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can be more because because they they don't run out of bullets as quickly they're actually well well the you know I'm no gun expert but here's the here's the calculus if you walk into a place that is let's say a crowded square and people are sort of spread down a little bit you probably like you said one shot at a time is probably fine in fact a handgun would get you there if it's a small enough space but if you wanted to go into a nightclub and I don't want to be giving people ideas and you would just wanted to you know shoot in 360 degrees around you because there's plenty of targets then you want the one that doesn't jam and the one that doesn't jam is gonna be the fully automatic weapon so you're right it depends on the situation I don't want to get people killing suggestions but it does depend my point is that don't you imagine that there's at least somewhere in the country one potential mass shooter who didn't have a good way to get a fully automatic rifle maybe it was a 16 year old who didn't have one in the

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a 16 year old who didn't have one in the house maybe it was a 19 year old who could have purchased one but didn't have the money didn't want to maybe it was somebody who was bad one day but it would take a few weeks to get a gun and by the time I got it they're not mad anymore so you don't know what didn't happened it's impossible it's impossible to know what you prevented because they even those are the things that don't happen by by definition you also don't know about the unintended consequences like in the example like it created more organized crime like there'll be more illegal selling of guns more mobs like just like when they when there was prohibition more resentment I think because the more laws you create to restrict people's rights the resentful they become so it could actually cause more but you you know you you're not you're only focusing on one variable so you don't see that oh no I would I would agree that we must look at that variable as well so we're in complete agreement that you can't look at just the friction you have to look at the whole picture and part of the whole

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the whole picture and part of the whole picture is unintended consequences so I think I'm fully on board with with that point okay cool I got other things but I know you got a caller so hi thanks and Merry Christmas Merry Christmas Owen your book by the way the was it how to fail at almost everything and still one big was a big help to me I was able to finish my album because I want to thank you for that wow thanks that that's that's great to hear and congratulations alright thank you
alright let's do another one let's talk to you Charlie Charlie come at me Charlie Charlie Merry Christmas oh good good good so I just wanted to tell you that the Hat a fail book really helped me as well and I recommend it to everyone especially college graduates when I

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especially college graduates when I encounter them I always encourage them to go by the book and even people that are entering the workforce especially early in their career I always recommend it so thank you so much it really helped me too well thank you one of the things that I was thinking about was probably a lot of it has to do by like from listening to you is when I heard the caller talking about the paperback book that they received or a loser thing and I was thinking how you know the conspiracy can be that China taking the revenge on you by counterfeiting your book and the reality is is that there was a bug on Amazon and I just I just found that funny that I think that way and part of that thinking come from listening to you and
and and ask you was do you have any update on when hub and the token and what are

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on when hub and the token and what are you guys wanting to do are there any future roadmap plans for when hub and the token as well so we're talking about that right now so nothing to announce at the moment the token the token lives on independent of the entities the company because once the token is created it just exists forever and the the internet if you will so they'll they'll never go to zero unless nobody wants them so they'll still be tradable etc but we're working on some things we don't want to announce at the moment but we're definitely looking at roadmaps and what do you do we're having trouble getting you we have no trouble getting experts we got fifty thousand experts to sign up on you know right away practically but we have more trouble getting people to connect with them we don't know exactly why that is but we're trying to figure it out and figuring out in our next move because of that so I will keep you all informed in the new year but nothing to say on that

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the new year but nothing to say on that right now but thank you for asking cool thank you and I actually used the app to reach out to you once and I successfully got you and you really helped me out actually we spent some time you really were super gracious with your time and you gave me some phenomenal phenomenal advice and a lot of it had to do with like helping me think differently and I took a lot of that I took away from that a lot of new ideas as well as the ideas that we discussed them it really helped push my agenda and solve some of my problems so thank you and I look forward to continue to use the app and and reaching out to other expert wow that's that's great to hear and I really appreciate that and merry Christmas to you too happy holiday I take care alright folks I think we've done enough for today happy holidays have an amazing Christmas tomorrow I will join you in the morning yes I will I'm not going to miss it just

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yes I will I'm not going to miss it just because it's Christmas are you kidding me
me making Christmas Day Off that's not for winners I'm kidding the rest of you take your day off but I'll join you anyway for the simultaneous up and I'll see you tomorrow