Episode 988 Scott Adams: Things Getting Back to Normal Because the News is About Racism Again

Date: 2020-05-21 | Duration: 49:48

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Episode 988 Scott Adams: Things Getting Back to Normal Because the News is About Racism Again. Normal Might be Overrated. My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Content: Jeffrey Shaman ProPublica article on COVID-19 Volkswagen ad Kamala Harris resolution, “Chinese virus” is racist Howard Stern hates Trump supporters…is that racist? Stacy Abrams, black women and Democrat party Facebook censored coronavirus information and protests

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hey everybody dr. funk juice good to see you as always well if you came here for the simultaneous sip and you were expecting it to be good I Got News for you it's gonna be great yeah and all you need is what what do you need that's right a cover of our glass of tanker chalices die and a canteen juggler flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that dopamine the other day the thing that makes everything including the damned pandemic better it's called the simultaneous if it happens now go mmm-hmm I can feel racism declining everywhere in the country I think it's the caffeine I think so what well I'll tell you

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I think so what well I'll tell you there's nothing better better news than seeing things get back to normal am i right and by getting back to normal I mean the news is now full of stories about racism fake racism allegations of racism people defending themselves against racism and policies that are racist once you see the headlines look like that on CNN mostly back to normal apparently there's nothing else happening but there are do a few other stories which I shall talk about so ProPublica which is a publication they've got a story talking about how if the if the United States had locked down sooner let's say if the country had locked down two weeks earlier than it did
did it could have prevented 84 percent of the deaths and 82 percent of the cases

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the deaths and 82 percent of the cases said this was said by research team led by epidemiologist Jeffrey Shaymin so - Jeffrey Schaben and his team of epidemiologists oh this would be a good time to ask your children to leave the room if we could or turn down to your sound a little bit maybe put on some headphones because Jeffrey Hammond is not making me happy right now and sometimes when I'm not happy I will use an appropriate language I feel that moment is approaching so you've been warmed so according to the team led by epidemiologist Jeffrey Hammond if we had locked down two weeks early we could have prevented 84 percent of our deaths to which I say - Jeffrey Shaymin you you you stupid did the best we could did the best we could

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could did the best we could where were you where were you when it was time to lock down bring your stupid model thanks for coming after the crisis to stab the wounded you useless piece of this is the analysis we don't need we don't need you bayonetting the citizens while we're still alive can you let us just work through the crisis without blaming people for making decisions they could possibly have gotten right every time 50 stays with 50 different situations do you think anybody knew what to do nobody knew what to do don't give us your after-the-fact you weren't there you weren't a leader you didn't have to make any decisions Jeffrey Shaymin

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in other news a separate separate analysis has shown that let's say they thought I wrote that down in a separate analysis okay yeah there's another analysis that you know there's another model too that says that if if New York had shut down sooner bla bla bla bla I'll tell you I don't have any patience for that for the 20/20 hindsight that was the biggest useless pieces of in this country and anybody who was here just to stab the stabbed the people who you know did the best they could all right there wasn't anybody on the other side right the everybody in the United States was trying the best they could that's it we did the best we could anyway so apparently Sweden has taken the

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so apparently Sweden has taken the throne for the most deaths per a thousand we don't know if that will last and obviously that's just a recent number if you look historically they were not number one but now they're up to you Sweden has a little over six deaths per million inhabitants having its per day on a rolling seven-day average now who now is a you know that keeps keeps changing I would say that almost all of our data about coronavirus is sort of not credible so I wouldn't take any of it too seriously but it does tell you that leadership doesn't matter I keep saying that that when this is all done the countries are going to be sufficiently different you know there's enough different going on in each country that I don't know if we'll ever know what made a difference I really don't because I there's there's this one fact I just can't get out of my head that I

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I just can't get out of my head that I heard this one epidemiologist expert talk about and he said that we don't know why viruses ever burn out to which I said what really we don't know the most basic thing which is why any virus ever burns out now I think it's probably a combination of smaller smaller things right you get a little bit of herd immunity but that's not the whole answer maybe there's something about the temperature the weather people change behavior something maybe the the virus mutates maybe there's something about some individuals who are more susceptible and once you've gotten all of those that's effectively heard instinct because the other ones weren't gonna get it anyway it's some kind of mysterious soup but the fact that we've gone this far into it and we don't know even what's what stops of virus is just mind-boggling to me let's talk about the printing all the money so I have a little rule sort of a rule of thumb

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little rule sort of a rule of thumb which is and I think you will agree with this it's probably not a hundred percent effective but it's pretty darn that's pretty darn reliable and it goes like this if somebody can't explain something to you simply it's because they don't understand it so you'll see you'll see that rule works pretty effectively if you cannot simplify your argument to the point where I can understand it it's because you don't understand it because I could certainly I'm capable of understanding a simplification but if you're not capable of making one it means probably you don't understand your topic here's the perfect example when everybody's talking about the money supply and I would ask the question you've been hearing me asking you now for a few months what's the downside of just printing trillions of dollars and your brain immediately says well obviously the downside is and then you can't finish the sentence because you

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can't finish the sentence because you say uh because we owe too much money and then I say well we're not we're just printing it we're not borrowing it we're just printing it digitally but we're printing it and then you say well inflation and then I say can't have inflation because the demand is too low the economy got whacked too hard nobody's gonna raise their prices they might lower them to get some more demand but it's gonna be a long time before they raises any prices and then you say yeah yeah it's okay for now but when the economy gets back on his feet then there's too much money sloshing around so it's a problem for later and it's very quantitative I mean you can really you could just measure it it's like this much extra money economy gets up to speed that that much extra money causes all the inflation pretty pretty objective wouldn't you say so let me see

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objective wouldn't you say so let me see if I can explain it as somebody did today to be on the locals platform it was the best explanation I've seen it goes like this that the economy could be thought of as the money supply literally how many dollars there are multiplied times something economists call velocity now in in economic terms of velocity is just how quickly the dollar is going through the economy you know I buy something then the person I bought it from and quickly buy something and then they buy something so velocity is how quickly things are going through the economy so if you've got a high speed and you've also got a lot of dollars you got a baby economy because lots of dollars times lots of speed it's a big number so taking those two variables simplifying it to just how much there is and how much is moving you can change one of them as long as the other one is somewhat compensating so you can add

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somewhat compensating so you can add lots of dollars so long as the velocity goes down or stays the same so would the velocity go up and here here was an insight that somebody made and I thought that's pretty good because there's a big unexplained part of this where my brain can't quite figure out what's gonna happen a few years down the road and I'm not sure anybody can actually and it goes like this that all of that extra money if it's stayed in circulation at the same time the extra activity created the velocity to be higher you would get you would get inflation but rich people don't necessarily circulate their money sometimes they just sit on it so we have enough rich people they could actually just absorb the extra cash and just take it out of the velocity equation because they don't have to spend it they have what they need so the weird thing about

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what they need so the weird thing about this this economic hit is that it hit half of the country I'm just you know throwing our approximate numbers right just making this up but half of the country got whacked hard but generally speaking it was the half of the country that didn't have much money to begin with it was the the lower income wage earners the top half of the country actually got richer I know it's not fair it's not good whatever but it is true that a whole bunch of people kept getting them paid and didn't have any expenses for a few months they just got richer so we've never seen this situation where half the country got richer at exactly the same time half the country lost everything I mean when have we seen that so we at least have the possibility that the rich half of the country becomes like a regulator for the economy remember there are two variables that need to be tweaked how much cash and then the velocity so

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how much cash and then the velocity so the government is going to determine how much how many dollars RR and they've done that they printed a whole bunch of new ones so there's more of that at the same time because inflation is slow the half of the country with money can be like the regulator of the country working like a psychological engine managed by the President of the United States and his optimism essentially because he's gonna say hey things are good spend some money and then it's gonna be good because we got a bunch of extra money we don't have enough velocity so the people who still have money they spend they get the velocity up so now we've got the velocity up we've got all this extra cash suddenly the GDP recovers a lot faster than you thought but then what then what if you keep going you could overshoot the mark and then you've got too much cash and too much velocity then you've got inflation but the rich people again the half of the country that's got the money can

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the country that's got the money can pull back know what they I don't know but it's interesting that they could they could literally just spend less let's say your let's say your problem was I don't know five or ten percent inflation that's why you're worried about if the rich people simply pull back five or ten percent I don't think that math works quite but there's some number that they can pull back just voluntarily just because they wanted to and that wouldn't have any impact on their life because a ten percent let's say you know spending for rich people is material and and we could sort of just regulate this thing so that as the economy grows progressively is it eventually absorbs all that extra cash boom so here's the thing is it is it mathematically possible is it physically possible because the laws of physics the laws of math the laws of the land the

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laws of math the laws of the land the way capitalism works if you take into account all of the forces can we can we print trillions of dollars and still come out of this fine and I think the answer is yes I think the answer is yes right I don't know if I'm missing something but it looks like the answer is yes but only because this very specific situation and I I gotta say I'm I'm impressed that minuchin and the people making the I n decisions it could be that they just didn't have any choice I suppose you could say that but it looks like they did exactly the right thing in terms of tweaking the economy it looks like it so that's the good news
it's the funniest story of the day so we'll get into the races and the theme now so I I mean this seriously when the

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now so I I mean this seriously when the news when the news let's say on the left anyway turns to non-stop stories about alleged an actual racism you know that things are looking better right the things will look it up if that's what we're talking about and sure enough CNN's page is a bunch of racism stories so here's the funniest one if racism can be funny sometimes it can come on lighten up it's not always doubt funny in this case Volkswagen accidentally did a racist advertisement okay that's funny come on you know no but no nobody's saying anything bad it's just funny that Volkswagen accidentally made a racist ad now I didn't see the ad but it's described this way let's see as you won't even believe this like I swear this is actually real folks where I could have this ad I don't think it ran in the United States it must have been in German that it showed an outsized

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in German that it showed an outsized white hand pushing a black man away from a part of VW golf before flicking him into a restaurant called petit colon which translates from French as the little columnist or little settler now how many people in Germany saw the commercial and saw that like the big hand coming down the big white hand and flicking a tiny character of a black character other than commercial into a restaurant called the little settler nobody no no flags were raised do you know how many people see anything and incorporate in a corporation there's rooms full of people of all of those rooms full of people there wasn't one person who said hmm I don't know this doesn't look quite right to me not one person let me make a guess on what happened this is just a guess

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happened this is just a guess okay I'm guessing that a lot of people saw it as a script so they saw it written down and it said there's a character here there's a character here and it didn't specify what they look like or that they were white or black because why would you even specify that I mean who would write a who would write a script for a commercial that actually specified the ethnicity like unless that was the point of it which it wasn't so I think the the commercial was written as a just a generic commercial and didn't matter what characters you put in there they were probably just been and then whoever was casting the commercial said you know you know it would be good would be diversity this commercial needs a little diversity but we already filmed the part with the giant hand now we need to film the second part that will you know put together with CGI so we needed just a guy who's just walking down the

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just a guy who's just walking down the sidewalk oh I know why don't we be you know inclusive and we'll we'll make sure that we show some diversity here so the other character in it since one character is white will make the other one black yeah I was going to say african-american but this is Germany we're talking about so it's a black character and probably the person who cast the commercial was the opposite of racist was probably just saying all right we got all these people let's put some diversity in there just guessing I'm just guessing whoever cast the commercial was just on a whole different wavelength and was literally trying to do the right thing as they thought but then there's this whole time between when the gunshot - when other people in Volkswagen sought was there no time was there no point at which you know it was

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there no point at which you know it was sort of previewed to the management because that would be the typical way to do it you know that almost always you would preview your commercial to management before it ever got on TV and was there no point at which management management sat there and watch that commercial and said to themselves are you sure you cast this right because let's bite get us in a little trouble now the funniest part of the convert the whole story is that when it came out and you know the folks wagon was roundly criticized for it Volkswagens response was we made a racist commercial they didn't say IIIi don't know if this is to their credit or not you can you can decide but what they didn't say oh my god we didn't mean it that way it wasn't its complete accident we we sure hope you didn't take it that way we were just trying to put some diversity into it didn't occur to us but now we see a - you know nothing like that they

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see a - you know nothing like that they just went straight at it and said we made a racist commercial no excuse and I thought to myself that's weirdly refreshing isn't it you know you almost want to hear an excuse because you'd like to know it was an accident right wouldn't you like to know it's an accident but there's something Noble there there's something I can respect about the fact that they left out the excuse you gotta have to appreciate that don't you because they easily could have put it an excuse they could have said you know it was Bob Bob meant well we see how it came out but you know sorry Bob's not a racist we just didn't see it that way we don't see color that's why we missed it there's so many ways Volkswagen could have weasel down of this and keep in mind that they're still suffering from the fact that Volkswagen was associated with you know the Nazi regime literally so they've got a little

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literally so they've got a little reputational baggage there if you can call being associated with Nazi Germany baggage and instead of making any excuses they just said we we made a racist commercial we don't even know how it happened boom sorry about that
I like the directness in racist story number two Kamala Harris as introduced resolution condemning the phrase Chinese virus as racist because you know when you got a pandemic you got to take care of the priorities this was a pretty big priority wasn't it not I would suggest that the phrase Chinese virus is indeed a racist so I would agree with comel Harris in that in that but I would add this China virus is not Chinese also to my ears says wait a minute

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also to my ears says wait a minute there are a lot of Chinese Americans that are Americans emphasis on the Americans part right do I want to cause trouble with other Americans in the middle of a pandemic when we're all just trying to get through this together the answer is I do not I do not want to be accidentally insulting Chinese Americans or Chinese citizens in China either for something that none of them had anything to do with so I don't like Chinese virus as a phrase I don't think it's racist you know in terms of the people using it they're not using it in a racist way certainly that's not what they're thinking I feel confident in saying that but sometimes words carry their own meaning somebody says oh please oh let me let me clarify if you're if you're anointed by opinion it's only because I haven't clarified I

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it's only because I haven't clarified I don't personally give a so I don't want you to confuse me late me agreeing that these words are suboptimal that's different from me personally giving a like it doesn't feel racist to me right and I don't think the people are using it or even slightly thinking of it that way so it's not racist in reality it is racist in how it's gonna feel to some people and in my opinion we are as social species so if something bothers you that should matter to me right should it not matter to me that it's something I do bothers you of course I should I should care about that so if there are people in the United States who are chinese-american or even here on green cards or whatever status would this make them uncomfortable hearing Chinese virus

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uncomfortable hearing Chinese virus instead of China virus which would be the government and the place not the people and I would say they might I can see how somebody would feel a little uncomfortable about that phrase so I'm gonna agree with Kamala Harris not that it should be you know I don't think the government should be involved so I think that's a dumbass thing so I think what couple errors is a dumbass thing it's the least priority and it's just not something the government should be messing with but in general I see the point so that's all I'm saying Jake Novak two points out that political political humor that goes after one side is just hate speech with a laugh track which is a good line on a tweet so a political humor that goes after only one side is just hate speech with a laugh track now of course all political speech pretty much just goes after one side but the difference is and I think the context Jake was talking about is sort

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context Jake was talking about is sort of the Howard Stern situation you know you know the Howard Stern has decided he's going to be saying publicly and provocatively now remember he's a shock jock so you have to put everything in but he's saying that he just hates Trump supporters now here's the thing if you say you eat the politics oh you hate the the candidate that's that's political but if you say you hate the voters what's that well I would suggest it's racist so I would suggest that Howard Stern when he says he doesn't like Trump voters do you think that in his mind see we're not mind reader's but so we don't know what he's thinking but let's just speculate of the possibilities is Howard Stern when he thinks about Trump supporters is he thinking of any of them as being black oh but not a Betty as an image in his head that's the stereotyped image of

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his head that's the stereotyped image of some of the southern southern guys and women you know with their baseball hats and their Maggi hats and their maybe their ar-15 or whatever and that's probably his image of Trump supporters which is sort of racist because you know that he's thinking of them as a certain type of white person right I don't feels racist to me and I mean literally I'm not joking about that because it would be funny to call them racist I don't know what else it would be all right because I mean I think it fits their definition because you couldn't end the test of course as you couldn't replace anybody else and get the same result let's say he had said that he hated everybody in black lives matter would you say to yourself well that's not racist because there are white people who were in black lives

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white people who were in black lives matter now you wouldn't say that if Howard Stern had ever said it he hasn't but if he said I hate the people who are in black lives matter you'd say the less racist even even though the people are all kinds of different people because your mind would say well mostly black people right so I would say this is just classic racism to me I mean looks like it to me let's talk about some more racism now let's talk about Olivia Jade Gian Ulis so you know the the rich kids who were getting into college I'm think scholarships and stuff I don't know why this is funny but Olivia Jade's fake scholarship was based on being a what do you call it when they ro what's the name for that what's the official name for rowing forget what it is but a way but

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rowing forget what it is but a way but specifically she was she was going to be a champion coxswain CEO X SWA I am now I don't exactly know what a champion coxswain is I just know I wouldn't want to be telling anybody that my daughter went to college to be a champion coxswain you can fill in your own joke don't make me do everything for you alright I see that oh there's another racism story so Stacey Abrams recently said that black women are the strongest part of the Democratic Party to which I say and that's not racist what makes some of the strongest how do you how would you measure who's the strongest part of the Democratic Party moreover isn't the whole point of the

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moreover isn't the whole point of the Democratic Party diversity is it is it sort of really basic to being a Democrat that you know it's diverse that's like the whole the whole deal but according to stacey abrams the democrats are diverse but there's one part that's a little bit stronger and that just happens to be the group she's in black women the strongest part of the Democratic Party now I think because Stacey Abrams is not terribly important you know she's not gonna be the vice president and she's not important to the country in other ways except you know a little interesting character in the news but I can't imagine anybody else saying that there was one ethnic group within a political party that was the important one and get away with that like somehow that somehow that was okay oh thank you the the word I was looking for was crew for the the

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I was looking for was crew for the the rowing stuff and the coxswain somebody says is the captain but what am I am i and by pronouncing coxswain wrong yeah it's a funny word if you're gonna send your daughter to college just hope she's not called a champion coxswain when she gets back that's all I'm saying i crack myself up all right so Facebook was getting in trouble for taking down coronavirus information now the facebook was trying to take down information that's incorrect medically and also information about protests to which I said what you know what I would had originally heard the Facebook was taking down medical information I thought to myself you know at least that's well-intentioned I don't think there's any way to do it right because

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there's any way to do it right because the World Health Organization had bad information and I had good information how would how was Facebook's supposed to know that the cartoonist had the good information telling people they should wear masks when the World Health Organization was not I would have been banned by Facebook for my correct medical advice and the World Health Organization would have been included so the whole idea that you're gonna ban the stuff that's not correct assumes that you know what's correct and we just proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that we just can't tell no matter where it comes from so a little bit of a problem but at least you can say to yourself all right well maybe least they can get the big stuff you know if somebody had a really bad medical advice that would just kill you well maybe they could catch that stuff right so but then that's impossible too because would they take hydroxychloroquine off the list or would

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hydroxychloroquine off the list or would they put it on the list I don't know would that would would Facebook say it's not approved for this use and therefore even though a doctor can use it off-label that's more about you and your doctor we're going to take the whole idea of it and of your universe would they do that so the point is even with good intentions and I think Facebook has good intentions I mean why wouldn't they what why would they have bad intentions right so I think Facebook has good intentions about getting people the right medical advice because it matters it's just not doable it just isn't doable so it's a it's an impossible task and therefore you have to ask why try because they're going to be filtering good information with bad and they're just there's just no way to avoid it so that's one question but then the second question is apparently they were taking down notices for anti lock down protests at which point I say wait

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down protests at which point I say wait a minute an anti lock down protest I get that there's a medical you know risk that involves with that just getting together but that's free speech it's one thing that you're trying to be helpful in getting us the good and useful medical advice but you don't know how to do it and you did it wrong that's one thing I can sort of almost kind of forgive you for trying hard to get the medical part right but just not knowing how to do it because it's hard okay but blocking a notice of a protest a peaceful protest in the United States
Facebook used to be destroyed Facebook sort of cross the light here don't you think if Facebook is suppressing political speech that's both legal and nonviolent and has a good

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legal and nonviolent and has a good purpose I mean nobody's nobody's looking for a bad purpose here the protesters are looking to help the country not hurt it you know they have a different idea of what helps you take that kind of speech down if you're suppressing ordinary protest speech you have lost your moral authority to exist in the United States you can't coexist in our system and also be the primary vehicle of communication and suppressing people's free speech now of course you can argue blah blah blah Scot Facebook's not the government they're private company well public company but they can do what they want they're not the government the First Amendment doesn't apply to it the private companies I hear you I get that you're technically correct you are technically correct what is also true is if you're still using Facebook why why does anybody use Facebook so I

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why why does anybody use Facebook so I have a Facebook account and for you know if I want to see if there's a picture of my stepdaughter or something on there like I'll go and check that one thing but why would you ever post on on Facebook why would you go there for anything I actually don't know like that's the honest question if I go to Twitter I'm like I'm just filled with stories and ideas I'm getting informed and I'm debating people and I'm I'm meeting people and it's like this whole you know this whole energetic situation where there's good and bad but you certainly know why you're doing it I don't know why anybody uses Facebook view I can't think of a single reason now I suppose if you have families and you want to show pictures but is there really no other way to show pictures you can't show pictures on you know Twitter shows pictures a lot of ways to show pictures so I'm gonna make

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ways to show pictures so I'm gonna make a contrarian prediction on Facebook I don't think it's gonna last I think Facebook could actually be a failed company in five years and I think it would have to do with the fact that there's just something about it it doesn't work anymore and now do you get any kind of a dopamine hit from Facebook I'm curious about that because if I look at let's say if I look at Instagram which of course part of Facebook but walled off if I look at Instagram I can get a dopamine here from that see some good pictures of some things I wouldn't say it's interesting if I got a Twitter I can get all kinds of dopamine hits I go to locals I get dopamine hits like crazy for the creator that's the highest dopamine hit his locals and but Facebook what was the last time you went to Facebook and got a

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last time you went to Facebook and got a dopamine hit like it actually felt good I don't know if I've ever felt that so since kids don't really use it and I honestly don't know anybody uses it actually I mean I know people use it but not you usually use it I think Facebook is destined to become an elderly person's product that that would be my guess so I'm going to predict that Facebook that the the best part of their history is behind them I think all right those were my prepared comments how many of you have learned a skill during the lockdown I'll give you a little the reason I do this is because I want to inspire you by example I know that's a that's sounds terrible when you say that

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that's sounds terrible when you say that out loud but that's the point the point is that humans are imitating species if all of your friends are doing X the odds of you ending up doing ax are really high so I'm using pure influence to persuade you in a positive way so what I'm going to do is I'm going to tell you the things that I've personally accomplished during the shutdown so that you could say to yourself well it was still a few weeks left of the shutdown let's see if I get a few things done so this is the talent stack idea that if you have any opportunity to add a talent to what you already have you can make yourself far more valuable so what I've done is I've moved a lot of content over to the locals platform so it's basically a whole new line of business I effectively started a new business by just moving my content over and that's doing great I have to admit I'm way surprised at the number of people who signed up and how well that's going so

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signed up and how well that's going so we did that I started using Cameo just to see what that was about I'd have to say I probably won't use that for much longer but in in terms of a be testing I wanted to see if it was something I liked now the problem with Cameo if you don't know what that is it's for semi-famous people like me to leave messages for people and they pay for the message so somebody usually somebody paying for a message happy birthday message for example for someone else now I tried it and here's why it doesn't work for me what I thought was you really I could just say a few words and say hi and like somebody will give me money for that I'll try that here's the problem the people tell you what to say and they're so confusing that you don't get it right the first time because it would be like say hi to my my mother she's she's a fan she did this she's taking a class she's good at pottery make sure you complement her hat

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pottery make sure you complement her hat and I'll be like okay that's a lot of stuff and I'll be like good in your pottery I like your hat you know happy birthday and then I'll submit it and so far so good and then you get an email back could you redo this because the thing you said about the hat Wow wasn't you left out the part about it it should be a pink hat could you do redo it with just say everything you said but say pink hat this time and at that point I leave the app because I don't want a boss I don't want anybody telling me what I did wrong I didn't sign up for that like so so I'm still having the app but the point is try some stuff it's not all going to work out the Cameo thing I'm gonna say it was a failed experiment but totally worth trying the the local stuff I didn't know what to expect looks like it's gonna be hugely

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looks like it's gonna be hugely successful I'm really happy about that so far and who knows I've brainstormed a new book I've started doing these micro lessons I added a periscope I worked on my fitness got my muscles up I got a bike started biking I got more Sun so yeah and a personal level a dozen other things so those things I did intentionally because I knew I could do them during the lockdown so as soon as the lockdown started to emerge and I could see that what we were looking at for the next few weeks and I also improved my my drumming I spent a lot of time to do that so the point being think to yourself what you can get done in the next few weeks you still got a few more weeks where things are not normal and you can pick up a few more skills I've tried to to teach a

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more skills I've tried to to teach a bunch of skills like the the user interface for reality et cetera that have been doing on these periscopes so that you can at least even passively pick up skills I'll say this again because I think I want to just keep saying it forever but I try to learn things from YouTube and I'm watching mostly drum lessons and if I watch a drum teacher for five minutes before telling me one useful thing again I'm gonna just like beat myself to death with a drum stick please the people who are making lessons you know put the put the whole worker there you know the housekeeping in the notes or something don't make it the first five minutes of the frickin video because people try to learn five minutes is a long time all right with that one with that one change of having lessons start immediately instead of a preamble you would change education in this country do you know how much more I would learn if I didn't have to wait

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would learn if I didn't have to wait five minutes for the lesson to start it doesn't matter what the topic as they all do the same thing a lot more all right somebody says I learned or - I'm looking at your comments about why you for move I've improved these skills your multi-threading okay Oh somebody's teaching Telma stack to a group of teen leaders today that's great yeah drumming oh I've tried that too much introduction stuff get to the useful stuff you're all say the same thing you know what I'd like to see is YouTube videos where you can easily go to the starting point wouldn't you like to see a YouTube video come up on your screen and then before you hit play on the left there are a bunch of start times and you pick the start time based on the topic so wouldn't you like that for these videos if you watch them back so you say oh it's minute five Boop and you just hit

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it's minute five Boop and you just hit it and ghost a minute five that's what you need somebody's writing a pattern right now while listening to me good
look at a recipe video it's horrible yes recipes I've done that try to do a recipe oh my god here's the app that I would like somebody to invent can you do this for me maybe it already exists actually if it exists just tell me what it is so here's the app I want an app that does nothing but make it easy to put together three to five second videos really quickly to form a lesson so let's say I want to teach you how to start your water heater if it went off so starting your water heater is like several little steps it's like look at this find this knob turn this you know push this so with your if

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this you know push this so with your if you're trying to make an instructional video you'd have your app and you hold down the the thing for three seconds and you point it at the button you'd say hear it here's the knob that's a three second video then you do the nother three second video and you say turn it to the right and then you'd put it on the on the the readout you say here's where the readout will say such-and-such and you just put all these three second videos together no introduction boom it's called learning does anybody make that app is there an app that that is designed to make a quick tutorial on any topic and I'm talking about something they could be explained in a minute or two find that app I need it I'm seeing the words Mark Cuban in my feed I think that's because you're asking about him running for president is that why and I think I saw a news bit go by that said

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think I saw a news bit go by that said he was not ruling it out which if you have any chance of running for president as a Democrat why would you rule it out why would you rule it out so one of the things that makes Mark Cuban's smarter than other people is that free money thing if you're Mark Cuban would it make sense to rule out running for president if Biden is the presumptive nominee it doesn't it does not make sense for him to rule that out because even if he's not really thinking about it seriously you might as well have the country thinking about you seriously because that could turn into something even if the only thing it turns into is people listen to him more carefully because he has lots of good ideas so if you're listening to Kuban more carefully during the crisis you're probably doing okay

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tick-tock why is everybody mentioning tick-tock Oh
tick-tock as a the app that you could make a okay I got it so tick-tock has that quick video thing that you can splice together somebody said Instructables but I don't think Instructables has quite the user interface I just described I'd know about his destructible china has it so he says tick-tock let's you do it well you know that's bad news because did people use tick-tock for directions though is it actually used for that I only know it for those dumb little dancing videos you've been debated Hannity you know I have to watch that I'd like to see him to Beit Hannity we said tik-tok for fast learners okay well all right all right that's all I got for now I will talk to you later today for the people on locals I've got

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today for the people on locals I've got a little lesson for them they know what it is and they're gonna like it a lot could change your life I'll talk to you later