Episode 932 Scott Adams: Talking About the Sleepy Guy in the Basement of a House Not Moving Too Much

Date: 2020-04-24 | Duration: 47:18

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Content: Coronavirus doesn’t like sun, heat or humidity Matt Walsh’s inescapable conclusion President Trump’s brilliant/humorous branding of Joe Biden

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oops gotta use the official face scratcher that's better that's better hey everybody come on in there's plenty of room in this digital world of ours what if were actually simulated creatures who are meeting each other over a digital channel that would be like two levels away from being real and it's still pretty good still pretty good not bad at all so we got news news and stuff so here's a here's a little quiz for you if an taifa becomes active again how are we going to know which ones are the anti-shah and which ones are the counter-protesters because they're all going to be wearing masks and I have a suggestion how to tell them apart so if you see a big protest and the only thing you know

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big protest and the only thing you know is as some of the best people are antiphon and some of the mask people are whoever they oppose what you do is you wait for their skirmish and then you see who wins the one who is losing the skirmish would be the Anti Fog number so you can't tell right away you might have to wait for a skirmish but if they were getting their butt kicked probably antifouling here is a horrible question but it's really just for the the thought process it's a horrible question but I'm gonna ask anyway if the coronavirus it turns out kills mostly elderly people while the academics slow down mostly saves younger people so we're in this weird situation where we're consciously saving younger people

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we're consciously saving younger people someone accidentally because they they don't get to drive their cars into poles but fewer youngish people and I'm not talking about just 20 year olds I mean anybody under say 60 so there are fewer younger people getting killed but more older people would the net effect of that be an increase in expected lifespan with the average life expectancy actually increase because of this because you could lose three elderly people whose entire combined lifespan might be another 20 years but if you lose one person in their 20s who might have died in a car crash then they might lose you know 70 years of life so I think the math might be surprising I mean it's all McCobb and you know we can't can't take any pleasure from it but it math is the math now what you're going to ask me is

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math now what you're going to ask me is what about suicides and odious I and then I made a contrarian prediction on Twitter that I will follow up with now which that they will both be less at least in this country and I'm fully aware that a hundred percent of experts say that both of those categories will increase so you don't have to tell me that all common sense and all experts say that if you take people who are in a bad situation and you make their situation worse common sense says they're more likely to do something that's bad for themselves but here's why I'm going to disagree because there's something weird about this that pulls us all together at least psychologically like that all of the priorities just changed and I think in a

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priorities just changed and I think in a weird way some people might find more meaning more meaning because they're to have part of this bigger war whew well so and I think it's also interesting in a weird way because you want to see how it ends so there's some curiosity about it's like wow you know I might as well wait a few more months to see how this ends I'm kind of curious at this point you might also feel that you're not the one person who's having bad luck now I realize that people were going to decide to end their life have a variety of different reasons and mental illness to everything so there's no there's no magic one reason but you got to think there that it would be some kind of a trade trade off some people more likely because their situation got worse but other people I think may be forced to be around two people more so they might just want to say well I'm not

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they might just want to say well I'm not going to do it now because I didn't want to be living with my family but now we're quarantine so I don't have privacy so at the moment I'm concentrating on something else there might be people who say that they that they want to check out but they don't want to do it at a time when their family couldn't deal with it so they might say you know if it were just up to me now would be good but I have to think about you know the people we're gonna be affected by it and they've got other they've got bigger problems right now so this is a long way of saying that people are complicated and I think we might be surprised that because the box is shaking so much during this Korra virus that maybe just everything's different because nobody is thinking the way they used to it's a little bit unpredictable so I'm going to go with the contrarian view that will have fewer of those or it were at least

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have fewer of those or it were at least similar but not a lot more alright that would be let's hope that's true
there's a study and a China it's not really big enough but I had a 318 outbreaks Oh 318 outbreaks so that's a lot of people because that's just you know multiple people per outbreak and there are lots of them found that transmissions are transmission of the virus occurred out of doors in only one involving just two cases so and if 318 outbreaks you know gigantic clusters on how big they were but there were clusters only one of the clusters and 318 had any Andy's example at all that they could identify that was transmitted outdoors and that and affected two people and maybe they were you know in the same situation I don't know so the the

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situation I don't know so the the obvious implication of this is that if we all camped out if we all just camped out and lived outdoors over the summer there would be no coronavirus left yeah that might come to us from some other country they have not eradicated it but in theory if this if this is true that the corona virus just hates to be outdoors and you know trump was talking about this at the press conference that the corona virus doesn't like humidity it doesn't like sun and it doesn't like heat and so we could just all camp out well let me put it this way what what would be the odds of getting Peron a virus if you simply camped out for this for the summer you just lived in the woods basically zero not quite zero but pretty low so I think that gives also lots of ideas how businesses could open up

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ideas how businesses could open up because as luck would have it it's our summer so there are a lot of businesses that can open up like the restaurants could just I could imagine restaurants will do this just get rid of the front windows and be an open-air restaurant in California you know he doesn't work at every state but you know it works in Hawaii they've got their open-air restaurants and they also have the lowest oh that's you Hawaii has the lowest problem or one of the lowest problems and they also have all the conditions that would suggest it would stay that way because you sort of live outdoors when you're in Hawaii all right there was a leaked information that the remm des aveer it may not be that great but who trusts anything these days that's a wait and see all right the funniest thing well let's talk one more thing about the corona virus so there's this preliminary study of 3,000 New

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this preliminary study of 3,000 New Yorkers and they found that roughly fourteen percent of them tested positive for a corona virus antibodies according to cuomo so what does that mean what does it mean that in New York they have 40 they found that 14 percent already have it what's that mean well let's ask Matt Walsh so Matt Walsh tweeted yeah referred to that study he says these antibodies studies if the results hold true seem to indicate two things so these are the things that it indicates number one the virus is much less deadly than reported that would be true as a percentage of people who die who get it so this would this would suggest that there's a very very small percentage of people who actually died from it that is good news yay number two says Matt Walsh it had

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yay number two says Matt Walsh it had already spread widely before the lockdowns true I mean you could say that would be true right so these are two true statements no doubt about it definitely true that's less deadly than reported if these antibody tests are right and it's definitely true that it must been spreading faster and more than we know and that he says and those lead to an inescapable conclusion so I want you to see if this conclusion seems inescapable to you because watch me Houdini out of it inescapable you say who will see so the inescapable conclusion says Matt is we wrecked the economy for no good reason alright so is to two pieces of evidence are the viruses much less deadly than reported true as a percentage of people who died and they had already spread more widely before the lockdowns before the lock that was even started true and

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the lock that was even started true and these lead to an inescapable conclusion that we wrecked the economy for no good reasons is that true is that inescapable well let's do the math suppose that the New York numbers hold and let's say just to be generous that the rest of the world was like New York so the rest world is no than lot not like New York but let's say that let's say 14% of the whole country so I'm intentionally going with the most conservative estimate here because you know that 14% is probably only in the hot spots and other the rest of countries must be lower but let's say was that 14% everywhere in the country just magically to keep the the math simple and that is produced I believe 46,000 deaths so a you know 14% infection producing 46,000 deaths

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infection producing 46,000 deaths what would happen when the infection reaches herd immunity level which could be 60 to 70 percent well let's pick 70 because what we do know about this virus is it seems to be a little extra viral so you know I would think common sense it's always dangerous that if if a virus is a little extra viral you know because the way it goes to the air etc and it's a little extra viral you probably have to get higher on the end of herd immunity like closer to 70 percent to really stamp it down versus 60s let's say 70 so to get from 14% which has been measured just in new york to get to 70 percent how many times is that it's about five right so for the 14% who already have been exposed to grow to 70% it would be five times as much as has happened already and again this is the most

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already and again this is the most conservative because we know the rest of the country doesn't have anything like 14% it's like it's a hot spot number so if we continued on the way we're going with this super weak virus the 46,000 who have already died at a 14% infection would be five times that so that would be about 230,000 people who would die if we take the controls off and we're also hearing that people are getting organ damage there might be permanent we don't know so there's at least the possibility that the organ damage type people might be ten times as much as the deaths so maybe you get a million people with organ damage something like that maybe two million could be higher so would you say that we wrecked the economy for no

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say that we wrecked the economy for no good reason if what we did was at least slowed it down so maybe we can hold it to a few hundred thousand dead because we slowed things down got us a little closer to maybe a vaccination or some therapeutic saat work or some better testing or something I don't know to me that looks like that looks like a lot of people so you could certainly make an argument that we should not have closed the economy and we should have just plowed right through without you could make that argument I think but you can't make the argument that there was no good reason you can only say okay there's a pretty good reason but I still still think we should have done this I think a few hundred thousand people dead million people with organ damage that's a good reason if it's not good enough for you I'd respect that but it's not a bad reason all right

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let's see we've got well this is weird Elizabeth Warren's brother passed away from well he had coronavirus but they don't say he died from it he passed away after testing positive for it so you know I don't know what the what the ruling is on that and that Maxine Waters also said that her sister is dying from coronavirus anism is in the hospital so you know remember I told you that we were gonna have this Kevin Bacon thing where you know that your the the people who were having coronavirus problems are going to start out being well that's nobody I have any connection with and it's gonna be somebody you know who knows somebody and this could be somebody you know and you could just feel this thing like like somehow weaving its way into society because it's like okay now there's two people at

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it's like okay now there's two people at least you know from television who've got a problem in the family so getting closer alright I wonder if we need to get to a let's talk about Joe Biden so did you see the the brilliant branding that President Trump dropped on Joe Biden at the press conference I've been laughing I've been laughing for hours about this there is there is a real magic to the wave Trump words things you know I think we just have to at this point we just have to agree they can put a sentence together if it's going to be you know an insult or persuasion sentence like nobody really nobody else really does and here's what he said about Joe Biden when he was just riffing on him at the press conference and with now it looked like hey you know preparation I think he just wants the top of his head Trump says we have a sleepy guy in the

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says we have a sleepy guy in the basement of a house we have a sleepy guy in a basement of a house now I could I could write master's thesis on all the things that are right about this but let me just give you a hint so first of all it's visual right it's not just in a basement it's in a basement of a house if soon as he said he's in the basement of a house you can see the house and then you can see the basement and by adding the house you've added the contrast being in a house would be pretty good being in a basement under the house that's worse if you just said basement if all you said it was basement there are cool basements people have their man caves in the basement sometimes you like your basement but if you say the basement of a house you've added the context thing now you didn't even make it in the house you're the basement under the house so the this is the sort of thing the trim does

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the sort of thing the trim does obviously I don't he planned it before he said it exactly but it's perfect phrasing and even the first part of the sentence he didn't say Joe Biden is a sleepy guy in the basement which wouldn't really that wouldn't be funny would it if all he said was Joe Biden is a sleepy guy in the basement yeah that would just lay there but look at the way he said it he goes we we have a sleepy guy in a basement of a house you have to admit that we have totally sells that sentence you there's a hundred ways you could have started this sentence that would just lay there flat completely uninteresting and you say yeah yeah we get it you already said that Joe Biden sleepy Joe got it got it but somehow he makes this sentence just come alive by starting it with we have who's we and why do we haven't and the

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who's we and why do we haven't and the fact that you have to ask yourself who is we and why do we have Joe Biden that's that's part of the magic because everything he says has a little extra all right if he just said Joe Biden in his sleepy and he's in the basement that would be a little bit interesting but if he says we have suddenly your brain just stops and it goes we have what what exactly is a we who's we why don't we have him and it's just a whole level of complexity that draws you in and keeps you on the sentence and the and he doesn't even use Biden's name he just says and I don't even think he used the I don't think he used Biden's Dave at all he just goes we have a sleepy guy in a basement of a half and now they're combining the sleepy guy he's he's not even he's not even like an ex-senator annex vice president he's not a candidate for president he's just a

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candidate for president he's just a sleepy guy in the basement of house it is so minimizing he's just a sleepy guy he's not even a guy he's a sleepy guy he's not even in the house he's in a basement of the house and then it gets better you know he sent a few other things but then he he puts this end cap on it so that the first sentence was that we have a sleepy guy in the basement of the house they said a few other things then he puts his end cap it was just like this perfect you know frame and then he ends it with yes he guess and he's not moving around he's not moving too much do not worry too much yeah this is that kind of sentence fragment that all the the Trump haters I hate it because when you're if you read it it doesn't read as well there's when you're talking yes

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well there's when you're talking yes he's not moving around he's not moving too much
he's not moving around he's not even moving he's it's just some sleepy guy in the basement of the house he couldn't make it to the house he's in the basement it's not moving around not she's really not moving much what see you know if you want something that's even funnier than this if you if you want the TAT the topper the the fake news is running polls that Biden is just trouncing his truth his trouncing trump on me and the swing states by Biden is just barely sentient he's just barely sentient he's just a sleepy guy in the

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sentient he's just a sleepy guy in the basement and and he's leading Trump by like ten points and this week states all day all right well I think that's I think that's what I wanted to tell you today Oh sleepy God the basement of his house no names given all right oh man that is so funny because it's like a mic Lyndell topper it's a bi pillow all right I was think he have a topic for these these evening periscopes because I don't like to just you know do all coronavirus all the time it's fun in the morning but by the

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it's fun in the morning but by the evening he was something else to think about so I have a topic let's see if you like this one and the the and the topic would be the most surprising things I learned from either being old so that most surprising things I learned yeah I did walk today thanks for asking about being old about about Fame about getting rich because I've experienced all these things and I thought would you like to hear
would you like you're the most surprising things about those things and since your comments are delayed I'll just assume you said yes and you're some most surprising thing about getting older I'm totally surprised how healthy

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older I'm totally surprised how healthy I am because when I was a kid when I was a kid I don't think there was any such thing as anybody my age was also healthy it seems like it didn't exist I've also surprised at the fact that you get smarter as you as you age I didn't think that was gonna happen I thought I'd sort of you know cap out around 45 I did not expect that I would feel smarter every year of my life into my current age that that would not have occurred to me but it certainly feels like it's true and I think it's just as I layered a lot of skills together I also would not have I'm seeing lots of yeses good I also would not have guessed how much I could hack my own brain and reprogram myself so for my earliest

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reprogram myself so for my earliest memory I was interested in understanding reality but also in reprogramming my own brain and I started reading books was really young about you know the power of positive thinking and meditating and as you know I learned hypnosis and all of that stuff was the same it was the same journey which is trying to figure out how to directly reprogram my brain as though it were a computer and make it different so you know the easy ways you reprogram your brains you've learned some thing or you you break a habit or you give yourself a habit and all that but the thing that I would not have guessed is that there's very much a like a compound interest element to it which means that the first 10 or 20 years you try to hack your own brain you do get results and you say to yourself that's

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results and you say to yourself that's pretty good I just spent 10 or 20 years like working diligently and you know with a specific outcomes in mind just to fix my brain and reprogram it but how much how much further can you take it and I gotta tell you that it just keeps getting better and and at this point in my life I feel like I have a an almost self designed brain meaning that I have so programmed and hacked my own brain that it's almost an invention of my own creation it just took 50 years to get there and if you if you had told me that that was something that could happen that you could just keep reprogramming your brain and you would just keep getting better at it assuming that you are you know dedicated it was something you're actually trying to do all your life they would just get better and better I would have been totally surprised here's something I teach you

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surprised here's something I teach you how I can do that on another day I can I will teach you how to do that here's the most fail surprising things about Fame and one is how much responsibility it is the thing you don't really count on about being famous is how much work it is it's like it's really a lot of extra work to be famous just to manage the famous part because what happens is it attracts a lot of inquiries and messages and requests and it's just a lot of work to be famous now I'm not complaining I'm just describing right obviously I wouldn't be in their careers that I've chosen if I didn't want to be famous so the the positives outweigh the negatives in my opinion but here these are just the surprises so I was surprised how much responsibility there is first of all and part of it is the

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is first of all and part of it is the spider-man problem you know at the end of spider-man he says something like you know with great power comes great responsibility and when you're famous and especially if it's attracting any kind of money you end up feeling like oh they're just some things I can do excuse me
me laughed until I coughed there's some things I can do that other people can't do so you feel like well I guess I have to do them the other thing I would not have expected is the number of people you can heal if you're famous which sounds weird right but the number of people I've directly saved their lives I've lost count and that's not something you'd expect now you're probably wondering can you give me an example of how many people who healed or save their lives yes I can one example is I had my

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lives yes I can one example is I had my own bout with this this weird voice problem called spasmodic spasmodic dysphonia so I couldn't speak for about three years and but I found a surgical you know a new surgical technique that I took the surgery and then I became a sort of outreach ambassador so through my efforts I got to tell a lot of people who probably would not have found it on their own that there was a way to fix this thing so there were a whole bunch of people who heard about it from me because I was going out of my way to make sure that they heard about it who got the surgery and now can speak so those are people I basically healed now not directly right the doctor did it but wouldn't it happened if I hadn't connected them and likewise Tiresias something I've talked about before people have shy bladder just the fact that I talked about it and invaded a public topic actually probably healed

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a public topic actually probably healed dozens of people who just heard about it because I gave some tips about it etcetera I was among the first people to say that the corona virus maybe was something dangerous enough to close the traffic from China and I've heard from people who said that that was the first moment they took you seriously and started doing their own social isolating about that same time so I'm thinking wow maybe I helped you know indirectly in some way there as well bro you look like a goblin oh I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard that here's another thing that I would not have guessed about Fame that it cures shyness you would never see that coming with you because you would think that being faint the famous would be the worst thing that

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the famous would be the worst thing that could happen to an introvert and I'm sort of naturally an introvert but I'm naturally a ham at the same time it's which is not that unusual a lot of people who become actors and stuff are actually in Traverse so I'm a natural introvert but becoming famous cured all of my introvert problems because it gives me something to talk about and and it makes people know who I am before they know who I am so I don't have to I don't have to get people interested in me because as soon as I hear what I do for a living they're already interested and if people are interested in you know often they'll ask you questions about what you do then it's really easy to talk to people because you're not working hard at all you just answering questions about yourselves like yeah better cartoonists did this send newspapers bla bla bla bla so Oh somebody's saying like James Wood is is he an introvert as well

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he an introvert as well that would not surprise me but being famous creates a set of rules and expectations and psychology that makes being shy unnecessary it just makes it unnecessary so I'm biologically probably just as shy as I've always been but because I always have a set of rules about how to behave and people tend to be nicer to me than they would to people that they do know maybe the whole problem go away which is really cool here's here's something I heard from Craig of Craigslist you know Craigslist of course right well you may not know that there's an actual Craig so Craig is the guy who literally wrote the initial program that became Craigslist and I once asked him I had lunch with him once and I once asked them about I guess he famously passed

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them about I guess he famously passed ups on the gigantic offer to sell the company and if he had said if he had accepted the offer it would have been not at all hundreds of billions or billions what if it was some gigantic number and it'd been a news story and I asked him I asked him why he decided not to take it and he decided for just to keep the company smaller and simpler and and he said that being rich seemed like a lot of work and I thought to myself that when I heard that it's one of those things that you just can't get out of your head because he actually made the choice based on how much work it would be you know it's not like he ever he wasn't choosing a bad life he was just choosing a really good life it was sort of simpler with the complexities of what yet what do you do if you've got all this money you have to give it away you got to do something with it then do you have to hire people to take care of

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you have to hire people to take care of it then do you have to have a second house and you know that should I have a plane and at all these questions and I thought you know maybe it's not a coincidence that he started you know a company that was so successful because for someone to have such a keen grasp on what matters like to actually know what matters it's hard to do yeah and it's also the skill of a good programmer right a good engineer the skill of a good programmer engineer a technical person is to get the best result you can get with that with the least nonsense you know with a the cleanest most direct most solid approach and so it shouldn't surprise me that when it came to sort of a let's say a philosophy of life they had the most stripped-down cleanest most solid philosophy of life you might ever see so that always stuck

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you might ever see so that always stuck in my mind is one of those things that you you you just can't not think about that because I've sort of made the opposite choices of you know of endlessly complicating my life because it's interesting yeah I sort of like the challenge but I got to say there there are many years of my life where I would wake up and say to myself you know today would have been better if it'd been a little bit simpler because you know I've typically I've got three careers coming at the same time all the time and you know sometimes they're compatible sometimes they're not but I got a lot of stuff going on typically and if you if you ask me Scott did it make you happier because these are all things I chose right for the most part there are things I I have an option of doing or not doing and I choose them sometimes I choose them because they're hard I mean it's the challenges that I sorta like like I don't know if I could do that let's see if that that's possible sometimes it's

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if that that's possible sometimes it's just irresistible creatively and and I just draw myself in sometimes it's irresistible intellectually socially sometimes there's something I want to learn from it that is more the point sometimes it's because of the people involved you know have some affinity for them something like that but you know I always move toward cup complexity and I don't think it makes me happier I don't do not think it makes me happier but I don't know if I can stop so Oh home studio update yes well I'll give you the tour so it turns out that there's no such thing that's better for the home studio than these ring lights we've got one here and one there so roughly speaking there's one that's more on my left and one that's more on my right and I point them toward the wall because the iPad is actually the very best camera I found and I actually have

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best camera I found and I actually have to darken the room quite a bit because the iPad has such good light detection that even with the lights off and I've got motorized blackout curtains now but even with just a little bit too much light post so through great trial and error I have learned the following there is there's no about you can spend on a better camera system that would beat an iPad so this is an iPad the the other thing that's important if you ever want to do this is put it out I level so it may not be obvious to you but the iPad is actually honest and so its eye level if you've been watching all of the politicians and Talking Heads trying to do their skypes and zoom calls on TV have you noticed the thrill that the camera is looking up at them because they're looking at a laptop and they all

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they're looking at a laptop and they all look distorted they look distorted and everything looks wrong because they're looking down that they're at the camera on their laptop don't do that so if the only thing you do right is to put it at eye level it'll look professional now notice that I don't have much in the way of any reflection on the glasses that's because the ring lights are pointing toward the walls instead of toward me if they were pointing toward me you'd get a reflection pretty easily but because the iPad is such good light light detection basically I poured him away from me and there's still enough ambient light coming around then look well lit I'm actually sitting in fairly you know half in the dark right now then I've also discovered by trial and error that the very best microphone is a twelve dollar

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clip-on lavalier that's wired so it goes directly into it so there's no wireless problems I just clip it to anything and in in my experience it's better than or as good as a studio microphone now the studio microphone will have more let's say higher fidelity but it won't necessarily sound better to the ear I listened to myself on both and because my my voice is maybe not that pleasant so to speak that yeah the more the more casual sound of the lavalier clip on it was a little bit better so that's probably more than you wanted to know I've tried a whole bunch of different software's and hardware's to automatically stream to multiple platforms etc and they all have the same problem they don't work twice every time you come in you have to start from scratch and problem and you know

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scratch and problem and you know troubleshoot because just sitting there just sitting there from the time you walked away from it last time it degrades there's something that needs to be updated there's a connection that gets lost there's a thing that needs to be rebooted and then you get into this you have to reboot things and restart things in a certain order and wait a certain amount of time and then when it's all done there are like 35 settings have to be just right and you don't really know if they're right until you go live that's the system is a system where you actually don't know if you're gonna have sound you just don't know until you're live now I've you've some of you actually saw me testing such a system there's one behind me Wirecast system and it's not that the stuff doesn't work it's just this non stable because software is always changing the

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because software is always changing the operating system is changing you need a patch software that connects this one to this one oh they're not made by the same company so now you've got you know one person's hardware and two pieces of software to get you to the third to the fourth platform and if any that doesn't work which it never does twice in a row who do you talk to because you got four different vendors involved and you're doing something that none of them have ever seen done quite the way you just did it they don't even know what to do so if you have a full-time engineer let's say you're you're going full joe rogan then it makes sense because then that's just the engineers job but because of what I do depends almost entirely upon energy and I'm an introvert you see where this is going so if I had an engineer that engineer would be draining my energy instead of

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would be draining my energy instead of me having it available to do this so one of the things I teach in my how to failed almost everything book is that the thing you should manage to is your energy if you've this is the most perfect example of this so my energy would be completely diverted to technical problem solving and being angry if I do it myself but if I hire someone then they are going to be the source of my energy it's like how did you want this did you want this just checking how's your sound okay okay and my energy would just be going into this semi productive place so when I teach you that the most important metric is your energy this is the perfect example because all of those things would have made the quality better right the quality would have been better but my energy would have been just totally trashed so I wouldn't have lasted in other in other words it wouldn't be sustainable I wouldn't be interested I

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sustainable I wouldn't be interested I wouldn't I wouldn't look forward to it do you know when I prepare for these sometimes I usually you know maybe an hour or two before you see me live I start looking at what's in the news and looking at Twitter and stuff putting some ideas together but the actual technical part the technical part of how I go live it is literally I pick up this device I hit one button and my room goes dark I talked to my digital device and give it one command a voice command and it turns on my ring lights and then I hit periscope my iPad is always here so that's the other part of the system I don't use my iPad for anything else all right if you're gonna do this if I could give you one piece of advice make sure you got an iPad just for this because as soon as you take it from here and take it anywhere else something that's going

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it anywhere else something that's going to be wrong when you got to use it the next time so I don't even I don't even unplugged the microphone I just leave it here I might add power to it that's it so when I need to start I pushed two buttons put in the title and and here live and boom so that I have managed my energy so when you when you see me going live I've only thought about things I wanted to think about and I've not I've not interacted with another human being in the morning when you see me in the morning I've not I've not interacted with another live human being yet so you're getting the the freshest you know most most genuine clean energy you could get for me and I'm not frustrated by my technology or anything else all right
and you know when I looked at my my new iPhone which is a newer generation than

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iPhone which is a newer generation than even the iPad and the the quality of the cameras on the iPad and even the sound it completely makes it unnecessary to have expensive equipment it's just completely unnecessary
you're welcome I knew this some of you would care about that and so you save it from the end that makes sense then somebody says it's easier when you don't need to worry about a bad hair day well you know some of you saw me cutting my own hair on on periscope recently so I definitely had some bad hair days in the last month all right that's all for now I will see you in the morning