Episode 814 Scott Adams: “Extremist Face”, Van Jones the One-Eyed King, Bad Risk Management, Blame

Date: 2020-02-09 | Duration: 56:30

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hey everybody it's good to see you come on in gather round it's time for the best part of the day except for the rest of it which is gonna be pretty good too yes it's gonna be coffee with Scott Adams this morning and all you need you don't need much you need a cup or a mug or a glass a tanker challenger's died in a canteen jerger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dope beans into the day the thing that makes everything better the simultaneous imp Erica I see you there dr. funk juice grab your mugs Marla come on go sublime let's talk about the news and stuff stuff in the news well there's a big story about some idiot and a white van

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story about some idiot and a white van who crashed into a voter GOP the voter registration tent in a shopping center in Florida now as luck would have it he did not kill anybody but apparently you he wasn't that far away from killing anybody this is one of those stories he's sort of had to be there to know yeah you know if you were there could you know in advance I mean or could you know by observing that he did or did not intend to hurt people so one report is that he got pretty close to somebody but I don't know if that person was jumping out of the way it was barely missed or if you know he he aimed his truck at the objects enough the people so we'll find out but I'm not sure it makes it that much better if he was aiming at their tent apparently the guy gets out to these making all kinds of took a video of it and gave them the finger so it was clearly political but

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finger so it was clearly political but that we see his mugshot and you look at the mug shot and you say to yourself okay I I'm tired of pretending that I don't see the correlation there's a correlation so just before I got on I tweeted in the replies to another tweet I'd asked a question if there's something called anti foul eyes in other words they have a look that you can identify so I took a I took a picture of a page full of 85 mug shots people who definitely were in anti Fahd they got caught and then I compared it to a page of shots of members of Congress just headshots in both cases take a look at them see see if that looks like you could identify them just walking down the street you know not necessarily that

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the street you know not necessarily that you're anti foul or that you're in Congress but that in one case there's somebody who was likely to obey the law and in another case someone a little less likely now someone said quite correctly hey that guy that probably is associated with or at least compatible with the philosophy of Anti Fog the guy wouldn't define who ran into the voter registration somebody said hey he looks more like one of those neo-nazis to which I say yeah he does so here's my hypothesis I think that there is an extremist look I believe that you can identify people who are extreme on the right or extreme on the left and here's how I think you can identify them by mental illness I think that's the identifying characteristic is mental illness because if you if you're

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illness because if you if you're mentally ill you're going to be far more likely to be gullible or drawn into something that's extreme and you know depending on where you started from you might say I'm extreme left or extreme right but there's there's lots of science to suggest that human beings can detect illness in other words if you let's say there's somebody you're very close to it's a spouse or boyfriend girlfriend somebody to your family somebody you see all the time and you walk into the room and you look at them and in a minute you can tell if they're sick most of the time right not every time it's not one of those 100% things but we're really good we're really good at identifying we're really good at identifying illness and I think that would probably include mental illness so I don't think it's a coincidence that when we see these extremists they have a look and to me

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extremists they have a look and to me again there's no there's no science and what I'm going to say next in my opinion subjectively the people on the extreme left and the extreme right look mentally ill there might be different types of mental illness but they they certainly have a distinctive generic look and maybe it would be more productive to talk about them that way because we end up talking about them in political ways so the left will say hey that one neo-nazi killed somebody so all you Republicans are bad and of course Republicans say hey those anti-fire guys hit and Ino and then so I guess all Democrats are bad you know they don't say it exactly that way but you know it becomes a political thing what I think it's mostly hell thing I think if you drilled down you'd find a health problem a mental health problem anyway just just a hypothesis mike bloomberg has a

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a hypothesis mike bloomberg has a commercial it's an anti-trump commercial in which he shows Trump quoting cording he shows Trump is saying something about climate change and I don't have Trump's exact words but it's something like this Trump says you know climate change will uh you know a lot of it is a hoax I think he said a lot of it or much of it or something like that so in other words the quote that Bloomberg puts on the screen is not Trump saying climate change is a hoax he wants you to think that but if you listen to the actual words that's not what he's saying Trump says something more like a lot of it is a hoax now I think that's just true I think that's objectively true now you have to accept that in the political realm the word hoax is being used very broadly for something that's not quite right something that's not true it doesn't necessarily mean that there's a

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necessarily mean that there's a prankster behind it who's running a practical joke on you you know we we've sort of morphed the word hoax from the original meaning to just mean there's something not right doesn't add up you know somebody's trying to get rich off it in general that sort of thing and if you're if you were to look at it that way
way there is objectively speaking let's just say the Paris Accords if you just looked at that that looks like a hoax again in the general sense not of a prankster playing a trick but of something that didn't add up it didn't make sense to be a part of it wasn't helping anything it was costing us money but it wasn't helping anything except you know the argument isn't some some leadership way it would make a difference but not really so so Trump's opinion of climate change is first of all not what it's being presented because there's a really big difference between saying the science is a hoax

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between saying the science is a hoax which he didn't say mattered what he thinks I'm just telling you what he said versus saying climate change a lot of it is a hoax because the whole topic is not just the science it's the prediction models that are a little less dependable probably than the science there's the economic models that are even less dependable and then there's the politics if you look it up the politics and the models and stuff saying that a lot of that looks like that's pretty reasonable there's no departure from science whatsoever to say that because it's not even a comment about science so Bloomberg shows that with the intention of showing that Trump is anti science and then it says and here's the ridiculous part and one of the things that politicians have to do is create content that matches and paces

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is create content that matches and paces the people they're trying to reach so I'm not going to say that this is necessarily Mike Bloomberg personal private opinion but it's something that he approved to put it in an ad and the ad and it says in the ad after mocking Trump for his opinion said Mike Bloomberg knows his science to which I say does he does he does Mike Bloomberg know his climate science because I don't think he's a scientist do you know who else doesn't know their science all of the scientists well I won't put it that way it is looser think as I devoted a part of a chapter in my book called loser think to imagine that you can quote do your own research on a field that you don't understand and let's face it if you're not a climate scientist you

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it if you're not a climate scientist you probably don't understand enough about climate science to do the research on your own and come to a conclusion that says you know science it's a ridiculous concept so Mike Bloomberg is is running with with this proposition and I think this is fair to say i think his proposition is he's running against somebody who doesn't understand science or doesn't respect it or or bow to it and and he's the more rational candidate that's the proposition right one is rational mike bloomberg looks at the facts and the other is irrational according to Bloomberg this troubled fellow but his commercial is a hundred percent irrational and there probably works so in terms of political ads it probably works because I think the people who want to believe this they oh yeah Trump thinks science is a hoax

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oh yeah Trump thinks science is a hoax which he didn't say and if he had said it I think Mike Bloomberg would have used that clip instead of the clip where he talks generally about much of it being a hoax which I take to be the political part now this is the most irrational thing you could ever say and many of you have said the same thing so this is about you too if you believe that you can do your own research on the topic of climate change and reach an opinion that MIT that is rational because you've done your own research you're not a rational person you can't do that there's no way that you or I could research climate change no matter how much work we put into it if we don't have a you know a background in it we haven't waded into it haven't really wrestled with the details in the scientific way we can't reach an opinion on that stuff all you can do is believe

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on that stuff all you can do is believe people who told you stuff that's it so here's what Bloomberg's commercial shoulda said if it had been honest and and isn't he running on honesty isn't that one of his biggest propositions Trump's a big liar I'll give it to you honestly and then he produces a campaign commercial that's pretty much the opposite of that because if he'd been honest about Trump's opinion he would have said okay we don't know what he means by the hoax part that would have been honest right we don't know what he means is he talking about the basic science he didn't say that or is he talking about the political element of it that's the best interpretation but again you'd have to get his clarification on it so it's a complete mischaracterization of the president's opinion so first of all Bloomberg is essentially lying by context omission just a lie and he's running to be the honest guy and it still works

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and it still works I guess his people will will will accept this message the way he wants them to so it's a weird situation all right I don't trust the guy who believes what the experts tell I've got a little more trust in the one who says maybe but it looks fishy to me who do you trust I'd have a little more natural trust for the person who says maybe but there's a part of this that you know could be a little sketchy I just naturally trust that person more alright I want to talk about Van Jones my favorite Democrat and I mean that I mean that literally of all the people who were Democrats he is my favorite one and what I what I love about watching him is that you've heard they saying that in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king

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one-eyed man is king so Van Jones is like the only person who has an eyeball it was a Democrat too I keep watching to see him suffer from TDs and he doesn't he doesn't I've been watching him for a long time since before an election after election including last night his comments about the the impeachment his comments about the debates and I just can't find any Trump derangement syndrome at all it's like he doesn't have it how in the world could he live and operate in that world and be immune when everyone around him obviously is is deeply infected with TDs and I have a hypothesis you ready I probably shouldn't say this in public so I apologize to you Van Jones in advance if you would wish I had not but I'm just

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if you would wish I had not but I'm just going to put this out here and the only people who are gonna really understand this as people have had a similar situation I predict that at some time in his life maybe not recently but at some time maybe in his younger life Van Jones experienced some hallucinogens now when I said that all of you who have never taken a hallucinogenic drug don't know what I mean everybody who has there was exactly what I just said and you'll see it in the comments although all the people who know what I what I mean are just gonna say uh-huh you know just watch the comments you'll see all the people who agree now I mean this totally as a compliment as you know I'd like to see you loosen some kinds of hallucinogens legal because they're greatly implicated in helping people with various mental health problems getting solving addictions all kinds of

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getting solving addictions all kinds of good stuff but one of their benefits is that you only have to do it once and you can start seeing the filters of life the filters of life are the people who get you know caught in a little mental prison and then they can only see the world through one filter and they think that they're one filter is reality but it's not if you have one experience with hallucinogens you experience living their world through a different filter even temporarily and when you're done you always remember it now you don't see the world the same way as you saw it when you are doing the loose engine but why you come away from is the understanding that you could have a completely wrong or different view of the world and you can still operate you can still eat and procreate and and go to work and everything else so if you had never had that experience and you were surrounded with people who said you

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were surrounded with people who said you know the world is this one way this President Trump is an existential threat he's a-- he's going to destroy the world what would you do well if you if your entire experience of life was that there's just this one reality and the smart people can see it and the dumb people can't you would buy into the majority of you it's the most natural thing you would do you would go with the people around you it's like oh everybody see in the world the same way they all seem pretty smart I think I'll probably adopt that view why wouldn't I but time and time again Van Jones surrounded by TDs I mean just he's like right in the middle of this boiling cauldron of insanity and he's not affected not even a little bit and what can explain that well you have my hypothesis I believe he is experienced and it doesn't have to necessarily have been hallucinogens but my hypothesis is

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been hallucinogens but my hypothesis is the Van Jones at least once in his life has experienced seeing the world through a different filter I don't know what that filter was but if you see the world through two different filters at two different times and you come to realize the subjectivity of your experience it's easier to see past other false filters and know that they're more of a lifestyle choice they could be a mental prison etc here's what here's how Van Jones described this in his own words roughly speaking in a clip I just saw today I'm not sure when he said it but it was recently and he said that the Democrats are playing quote - fantasy football and then he explains it this way now listen to how much this sounds like two movies playing on one screen but it's a it's a slightly different version and his examples of fantasy football that the Democrats are playing according to him are that remember when

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according to him are that remember when Trump first got elected there was all that talk that they would throw out the electoral college results how realistic was that wasn't really realistic was it and then it didn't happen they're like god I'm so surprised that didn't work and then they did the Muller report and that didn't work didn't work it's like a fantasy of getting rid of Trump and then there was the impeachment which also didn't have a chance of working and when Van Jones explains those three things and those are just three examples I'm by no means when I expect these to be the exhaustive list but is it that description fantasy football kind of really good kind of perfect because they're playing a game with the electro college and Muller and impeachment that they can fantasize is real meaning that in their minds they're like yeah we got him now and when Muller brings in the goods we

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and when Muller brings in the goods we got a male so it allows them to live in a manufactured fantasy world in which they're withing or they're about to win it's gonna be good at any minute now sure it's been bad for us four years in a row but in a minute now I thought that was a great great way to frame this thing anyway so pour of it and I I love watching Van Jones talking reasonably in the cauldron of TDS because I don't think other people know quite what to do with it they don't really push back they just sort of change the subject because if you're the only rational person in an irrational room but sometimes maybe they just change the subject so I tweeted this this morning I said there are two things that MSNBC pundits know to be true all right these are the two things they know to be true if the if you're on MSNBC number one

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if the if you're on MSNBC number one President Trump is an quote existential threat it's a phrase they use all the time existential threat meaning he's literally a threat to our existence look we could all die because of or at least a lot of us could die because of President Trump so they use this exact phrase he's an existential threat and they know that to be true because they all say it without any pushback there there's no one
one MSNBC who says whoa wait wait a minute you know you you mean that's hyperbole right you don't actually literally mean we're all gonna die nobody does happen do you know I fantasy football they're they've all taken on this fantasy that there's this president who's gonna kill us all and they're all on the other team now I'm adding that to van Joneses list he didn't put that on the list but to me it seems the same

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the list but to me it seems the same that there's a like a fantasy filter on this so that's the first thing they know that president Trump is an existential threat here's the second thing they know it's a special kind of existential threat that disguises itself for the first four years as a continuous flow of good news meaning that the country's in good shape things are going well and so the people who believe that Trump is an existential threat I would say to them I can kind of see what you meant three or four years ago remember by election day we'll have four continuous years of a trump administration if he's an existential threat wouldn't we see some signs of that you know it's one thing to say this is a big unknown you know the election of President Trump on day one when he sworn in it's a pretty big unknown so you would expect in the face

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unknown so you would expect in the face of unknown unknowns that people would have different opinions because they're just saying you know they're predicting with their biases or their preferences or their fantasies whatever so fairly reasonable fairly reasonable to be afraid of President Trump on his first day of office I disagreed I had a different opinion and I had a strong different opinion but I don't think it was crazy to be afraid of the unknown because he did talk you know he did talk in a way that people hadn't seen beautiful found a scary you know so reasonable reasonable turned out to be wrong but it wasn't crazy but that was three years in and what Election Day comes around it's four years in I think at that point it's kind of crazy right you should be able to change your opinion if four years go by and all we are is better off but no all right Rudy Giuliani went on Jesse

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right Rudy Giuliani went on Jesse Watters show last night and made news I don't know if Jesse knew that he was going to be breaking a big story he looked surprised but there it was now you may have seen President Trump tweeting ahead of last night's shows that there was going to be a great lineup on Fox last night so President Trump just as basically just did a tweet commercial for a judge judean the Greg Gutfeld show and a Jesse Watters show and now we know why because Rudy Giuliani was odd and of course he knew he would get you get you know favorable coverage in general but Rudy Giuliani has this claim that he's he's got three witnesses are ready to name names in an investigation into Hunter Biden so there's alleged corruption and Rudy Giuliani says he's got at least one document and three people who are willing to testify to something I don't

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willing to testify to something I don't know exactly had something to do with money laundering through different countries and making a loan not look like a load I don't know the details so I don't want to characterize it but Rudy is making a pretty big claim that there was something that wasn't too hard to find apparently I mean Rudy found it without a lot of help and that it would change how you saw president Trump's request to Ukraine now do you think that really Rudy Giuliani really has the goods what do you think if you had to put the odds on it and of course we don't know but there are two possibilities one is that Rudy is just being pulled ricky'll and he doesn't really have the goods but maybe it's something that he could convince you and looked a little suspicious so maybe that's one possibility the other possibility is he totally has the

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other possibility is he totally has the goods he totally has it now given that Rudy Guiliani is literally famous as being what what are the most effective prosecutors of all time one of the odds that Rudy Giuliani can't tell the difference between having the goods The Smoking Gun as he called it and not having a smoking gun I feel as if he'd know the difference and you would have to believe that he was intentionally lying to you about the quality of his evidence in order to think that there's something something to question here one of the odds that Rudy Giuliani who has names that he can shove to you so in other words he's offering he's practically begging to show his sources when people lie do they beg you to look at their original sources the same stuff they looked at to reach their opinion well not that often he wants us to look at the evidence which suggests and given

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at the evidence which suggests and given his experience and background if I had to guess you know if I had to put money on it sounds like he's got something so we'll see in general I have a proposition one way to tell the difference between Republicans and Democrats is risk management and I often see that Republicans seem let's say better skilled I think that's the way to say better skilled at managing risk now I've said and I've said it often that managing risk is not something you're born with necessarily it's a learned skill so if you had never learned to manage risk you probably think you're good at it but you wouldn't be because it's like a lot of things you have to you get better over time and you

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have to you get better over time and you notice that a lot of anti-fraud people either don't have corporate jobs to say the least or they're very young people in their 20s what would you say is generally true of people who have never worked in the corporate world and are young they're not all young but many of them are so it's people who don't have corporate experience in their young I would say the one thing that really characterizes that group there would be a number of things that they'd have in common I suppose but one of them is that they had never learned risk management you know how do we evaluate risks you see that all the time that yours there's no better example than this one that Warren and Bernie Sanders want to radically change the economy at a time when the economy is doing better than it has ever done if you are good at risk management would you ever take something that's operating better than it has ever worked and change it completely

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worked and change it completely you could argue completely but let's say a big change I don't think you would I don't think there's anybody who would make a big change to something that's working perfectly now the exit the exception to that would be let's say you're in business and you make a good product and it's better that it's better than your competition's product in that case you know your competition is going to catch up soon so that case you actually would make a big change because you anticipate then your competition will match you so you'd better you'd better cannibalize your own product and make a big change it's like oh here our old one was dominating the market but we're still going to throw it away because if we don't the competition is going to catch us so they throw away their own product even though it's the best one in the market to try to make it even better one now in business you have to do that because you can depend on competition pretty much 100% of the time but when you're talking about the American economy well we have sort of a

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American economy well we have sort of a general competition with China and other kind but we're beating all of them and probably will continue to because we have the superior system and I think that's a really big difference now take climate change the climate change if the progressives got everything they wanted would be a gigantic change again to the economy and would be really expensive and it would be a big risk in terms of how much money would be spent and how it would change the the way we live but they say there's there's a big risk of not doing it so this makes sense so the risk management analysis is said sure it would be risky to disrupt the economy make all these changes but it's even a bigger risk to let climate change do what it's doing according to them here's what's wrong with that it's very bad risk management in other words it's it's sort of risk management 101 it's how you

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sort of risk management 101 it's how you manage risk if you don't understand risk the Republican approach is to say well we don't know exactly you know what the risk is the models are not that accurate but there's probably some risk so let's do all the things that don't hurt us that would also be the right thing to do if it were a big risk nuclear power plant in trees just two examples president Trump is all in favor of planted trees and he's all in favor of developing nuclear power at least he doesn't say it enough and I think that's a flaw but in terms of the Department of Energy and the government they're doing a lot they're doing a lot so if you were to look at it not as a left or right situation but rather as a risk management situation which one of those is better I would argue that unambiguously the the Trump administration approach is better no matter what you think of climate change because their risk

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climate change because their risk management approach does all the things that would be good no matter what well we can always use more trains trees are bad is so much of a risk especially since everyone the world is doing it and it's not like we're the only ones planting trees so risk management you look for that look for that in all of the differences it's a risk management difference and I think it's an experience difference as well all right here's a theory that that I have some appreciation of because of my experience as the author of the Dilbert comic and it goes like this when the Dilbert comic first started it kind of reached its peak during the the 90s the mid nineties when there was a lot of downsizing and employees had very little power and their jobs were being sent overseas and all that and Dilbert was immensely popular and people were always sending

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popular and people were always sending these suggestions to mock their bosses and the bad management and how bad have bad businesses so as sort of the heyday for being the Dilbert guy because people were giving me all this great material from their own unhappy experiences and then Bill Clinton came along and the.com situation happened now when the.com thing happened the it looked like everybody was you know everybody but it looked like it looked like the only thing keeping you from getting rich was yourself because so many people were doing so well in so many different ways during the dot-com boom that if I asked you hey what's wrong with your career and I did let me give you the exact thing people stopped sending me complaints and I thought to myself come on you know even if let's say 10% of the population is doing great because this calm boom it can't be more than 10% the

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calm boom it can't be more than 10% the other 90% still to have the same bad boss they have before and the same job if you were complaining before with the same job the same boss the same coworkers why did you just stop complaining well I literally couldn't get people to send me complaints during the dot-com era to the point where I actually asked people to give me their phone number so I could call the at work and Assam if they have any complaints because I wasn't getting any without a solicitation and so I so people volunteered a lot of them actually and I recall them at work you know and sometimes I would pick up sometimes that and I'd say hi I'm Scott Adams I'm the Dilbert guy tell me what's bothering you about your job and they said have a good day nothing's bothering me I go no really you know there's nobody who has a perfect job and a perfect day just tell me what's tell me what's really bugging you about your job and I couldn't pry it out of them I couldn't pry out of them a complaint

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I couldn't pry out of them a complaint about their boss or their or their company it was amazing in and then you know after the dot-com bust the things got better for the Dilbert guy B because people went back to complaining here's how this is relevant to our political situation when the economy is bad who do you blame who do you blame when the economy is bad well you blame the government even if it's not the government's fault you still gotta blame them well you should have done more if you had done this we wouldn't be so bad you also blame management you blame rich people you blame big corporations all right yeah so you're blaming banks and businesses and corporations and stuff who does that sound like who did I just described did that sound like Republicans or did that sound like Democrats answer Democrats so Democrats there their message of blaming

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Democrats there their message of blaming the government the rich people the system that's what Democrats do they blame the government big business banks Wall Street rich people that makes complete sense when the economy isn't working the Democrat message is perfectly suited for a bad economy what happens when the economy is really really good people blame themselves now of course these are generalities so most people are never changed in mind no matter what the evidence is so most Democrats will just vote Democrat and feel the same way they always feel but for the small sliver of persuadable they suddenly found themselves from yeah the government's bad the big business - do you have any complaints about your job you personally just you personally don't talk about other people not nonpoint don't tell me that other people are being discriminated against I get that

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being discriminated against I get that I'm accepting all that to be true just queue you personally Bob Bob are you okay how are you doing well you probably saw there was a study that said 90% of people are happy in their personal lives because there's nobody to blame if your economy is screaming and you're not happy with your situation whose fault is it right people people understand that if the system is giving them you know low unemployment they can kind of change jobs it's pretty easy to change jobs in this economy so if you haven't changed jobs if you haven't done what you need to do if you haven't taken those courses to get that promotion it's kind of on you so we have what I would call a Republican biased situation which Republicans by philosophy are you have a problem that's your problem go solve

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problem that's your problem go solve your problem sure we'll we'll try to do what we can to get the government out of your way but the government isn't there to solve your problem that's what you're for you're the one who solves your problem and that makes sense when the economy's good people will accept that message so the point is I don't know if anybody has mentioned this effect but you can't get a strong Democrat turnout for an election and I think it would be reflected mostly in turnout you're not going to get a strong turnout from people who blame themselves for the problem and that's the situation we're in so I suggest there will be a low voter turnout because people won't want to
to abandoned their hatred for Trump they just might be busy that day you know what I mean they're not going to say I didn't vote because even though I don't like Trump I have to admit things are going pretty well it's not gonna be that it's gonna be well I could vote or I

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it's gonna be well I could vote or I know I was invited to this thing I can't say no to the thing I'm gonna have to go to the thing instead of vote today so I think you see low voter turnout there mostly because of that all right you've probably seen by now the clip of Budaj edge maybe you saw alive when he gave this long nonsense of word salad sounded like a corporate consultant answer to a question during the debate I watched that live and Buddha judge starts talking and it's all just concepts and words put into sentences and the sentence sort of made sense but in some cases not and I kept waiting for that to turn into a crisp point you know I would do this or here's the problem here's the solution I thought it was going to turn into that and then he just ran out of time and stopped and it was it was almost a full minute of talking

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it was almost a full minute of talking with no content and I thought to myself where have I heard that before where where have I been in my life in my history where I've heard somebody talked for a full minute without any content that I thought oh yeah I was sitting in a meeting at my old employer Pacific Bell and a high-end very expensive consultant from McKinsey was telling us how they were going to make everything better it's consultant talk it's it's corporate jargon except taking them to the political world it was pure empty calories and I thought to myself I've never seen somebody created a kill shot for themselves that was so effective if he became the candidate and ran against Trump all Trump would have to do has run that clip and show a picture of an empty suit I'm all right just show

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an empty suit I'm all right just show the clip and then do a split screen and it's like an empty suit and standing there there's nobody in it empty suit it's it's over so it's written some big weakness he's got there all right so here's somebody who responded to my comments about Buddha jej or actually I think it was a reach we did somebody else's tweet in I think it was Cathy's tweet and so this is this is what this individual said now remember I've told you that you can identify people who are artists without looking at their profile on Twitter you can identify them by the way they address topics all right so I'm going to give you this example so of the tweet where people were making fun of that Buddha jej statements during the debate where it was all word salad this is what

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where it was all word salad this is what this presumably is support or at least Democrat says quote word salad question mark question mark it's called being smart and it informed Trump can't even spell for crying out loud do you know who was notoriously against intellectuals yeah the Nazis why are you so threatened by intelligence someone is not elite because I read all right now as I mentioned in my book loser think it talks about all the bad ways of thinking there are almost all in this one tweet let me call them out so he's saying it's not word salad it's called being smart and it formed what is that that's what I call word thinking he didn't give her a reason he just relabeled it let's say you just relabeled it relabeling things is not thinking you just put different words on

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thinking you just put different words on the same thing we're looking at exactly the same thing there's no question about the facts just labeling it a different label didn't get you anything so we're thinking then he says Trump can't even spell what's that got to do with Buddha Jen what is what is spelling have to do with what Buddha James just did
did it's a ridiculous comparison so that's the next thing that artists do they don't they don't know how to compare things effectively and and it's not a good comparison because spelling things wrong is so common that everyone here says to themselves you know I spelled the tweet wrong woods I went to college and I spelled the tweet wrong how many times have I spelled at we trunk or spelled something wrong in a blog post or mispronounced something fairly often I've got a I've got a college degree I've got a master's degree I do this for a living I'm a professional writer I

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a living I'm a professional writer I still spell stuff wrong all the time it means nothing but so is weird comparison then that he does the Hitler thing he goes do you know who was notoriously against intellectuals yeah the Nazis so that's what I call analogy thinking where you imagined that because something reminds you of something that there's some something that you're learning because of that you're not learning anything if you just got reminded of something that's it that's the entire end of the story I was reminded of something you don't take that and then say therefore I predict Trump will become hillier so that's the analogy thinking and then he says why are you so threatened by intelligence who was threatened by it was there somebody in this story who was threatened by intelligence let's just mind reading he's mind reading and getting the wrong answer so he's got

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getting the wrong answer so he's got word thinking bad comparisons analogy thinking and mind reading and then he ends with someone is not elite because they read and I'm not even sure he oddly enough he had a typo he spelled a word wrong in his tweet in his tweet in which he was you know mocking the president for a spelling error he has a typo in this case is the type of not a spelling error but I'm thinking well you know don't throw stones anyway he says someone is not elite because they read and I'm thinking who was arguing anything like that who does he imagined he is countering he basically creates a straw man had an argument and then argues against it so he's got were thinking bad comparison analogy thinking mind reading in a straw man all in one tweet that's what I saw that I said to myself artists click on profile professional writer for

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profile professional writer for television was I surprised no I was not now since the moment I pointed this out and many of you have seen me point this out for a while that you can identify an artist by their comments because they don't know how to let's say understand the world in rational ways it's really obvious all of the worst comments on Twitter I kind of from people who are professional artists or want to be it's it's not a coincidence all right let me tell you the secret to success all right you ready if you stayed to the end you get this little nugget one of the greatest secrets to success I learned from a salt salesman he was my

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learned from a salt salesman he was my neighbor and he'd gotten rich after being born he was actually born in a shack in the South that didn't have running water all right so this is a guy who was born into extreme poverty lied about his age to get into the Navy I think is 16 because he just needed some way out of his extreme poverty but when I met him he was living in a mansion small mansion but yeah he was a rich guy lived in my neighborhood and I once asked him you know at a party what is path to success was he told me that he started out after the baby he became a salt salesman he would sell salt to grocery stores so you'd go in and say you should carry my brand of salt instead of the other one and I laughed and I said how in the world can you sell salt it's just price salt is salt am I wrong you know how could anybody say my salt

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you know how could anybody say my salt is better than your salt and I said how in the world did you sell it and he said well and he told me this story he said well yeah iodine blah blah but the point is from the consumers point of view it's a pretty generic thing so you told me this story said there was a local grocery store guy who when he called upon him the guy said that he was going to be he learned that the guy was going to be reorganizing his store over the weekend so the guy was going to have to come in and you know work all night or weekend or something reorganizing his shelves for some purpose so the salt salesman shows up unannounced to help he just shows up and says well you were gonna reorganize your shelf so I'm gonna show up and help so he works with him and when he was done that store owner bought this guy's salt and forever right now what is the lesson from us the lesson is that people who receive things

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lesson is that people who receive things if they're smart they created that situation by giving something and asking nothing in return so they so he gave something to somebody and that was his system he had a system not a goal his system was I'm gonna be nice to people I'm gonna help him I'm not gonna ask for anything and when they decide who they want to buy salt from I'm gonna get my share and he became the best salt salesman in his company and that created a bunch of money because he got paid on Commission and they parlayed that into a number of other businesses famous entrepreneur here's the reason I bring this up somebody else is using this technique somebody who's watching this periscope right now you probably already know him his name is dr. funky juice dr. funk juice started tweeting about my periscopes the the one you're watching right now so I'm not sure how

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watching right now so I'm not sure how long ago several weeks ago and he made a little image of a coffee cup and I guess was a chef and announced that my periscope comes up at you know the same time 10:00 Eastern 7:00 Pacific and told people to watch it now the first time I saw it I thought oh great the fan he's such a fan he made a shift and was promoting my thing and I don't know if I tweeted it or I liked it or whatever but I enjoyed seeing it then the next day he did it again and again and again now I had been thinking to myself you know I should do that myself but it was just one extra thing and I didn't feel like doing it but it was convenient for me because every time doctor juice would do one of those tweets it would come into exactly the right time like half an hour or so before the actual periscope perfect timing and I would see it in my Twitter feed because I'm always on Twitter and right before I come on here that's like oh I don't have to do

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here that's like oh I don't have to do in a tweet I'll just retweet dr. funk juice and day after day after day a person I've never met always be nothing gave me something it was just a gift now you know he apparently likes the content that comes out of this now normally I don't like to mention ethnicity but I think it matters in this case so dr. funk juice is based on his profile as an african-american man and as a DJ and he has found the secret to success because who am I talking about right now dr. funk juice and I'm going to tell you the you should follow him @ @ DJ underscore dr underscore funky juice one word - funk juice and I gotta say that if I

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funk juice and I gotta say that if I were to bet on somebody I would bet on this guy because he's figured out the salt salesmen trick he simply gave me something for free and got my attention and then he gave me something else for free got my attention and now I'm giving him a commercial so presumably he will gain some gains and followers you know get something out of it but I don't think he had that specifically in mind I'm guessing that he was running it like a system I can't read his mind but I'm guessing he didn't have a specific outcome in mind he just knew what the salt salesmen knew then if I do this good thing and ask nothing in return something good might happen but I don't think he necessarily did it for that reason I think he just understands the world at a deeper level and and the reason I mentioned ethnicity is this is the following point I've often thought that one of the biggest one of the biggest forms of I would call it almost

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biggest forms of I would call it almost what's the word in industrial racism or sort of built-in racism is that if you're born a typical white kid and you've got a successful white family you're getting all this advice even if you don't want you know just being born in a family where you've got entrepreneurs and people who are you know going to college and stuff you're just gonna sort of pick up advice and that's got to be a tremendous advantage over somebody who has some different situation and they don't get the benefit of that you know learning things by osmosis just being around it and I've often thought that there should be some kind of a class or a lesson and doesn't have to be for you know African Americans in specifically but as a group they may have less access to people who have already made it and that's part of the sort of intrinsic bias of arson xiety is that there's some people just don't have access to mentors so dr. funk

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don't have access to mentors so dr. funk juice either by being smart or possibly he had some good experiences with family members who were also successful is on to this secret very very powerful secret now Kenny Sharon you know I would imagine that if he has kids I don't know if he has or he has them someday they're going to have the benefit of his experience and by osmosis they'll learn what he did and maybe pick up some tricks how could you expand that to let's say inner cities people who really needed it when I wrote my book had it failed almost everything and still went big I was I was thinking in those terms but I don't think I don't think that book necessarily cracks every community so anyway big call out to dr. funk juice for being so smart about success in particular so thanks lat and thanks to the help that's all I have for today and I will talk to you all tomorrow