Episode 672 Scott Adams - Jake Tapper Drawing Dilbert This Week, “Worse Than Watergate” guy, Ukraine

I'm pumpin pumpin Papa welcome to coffee with Scott Adams it's gonna be lit today lit I tell you do people still say that it feels a little dated can somebody give me a more modern reference so I can pretend to be with it hey everybody take a seat we're gonna get into some fun stuff today you know it and it's gonna be so good because we're gonna start it with a little thing I call the simultaneous if yes if you'd like to play along and I know you do if you'd like to join in on the simultaneous if you don't need much all you need here's a cover of Megara glasses Diana jealous of tankard a thermos flask we can't you know Grail the goblet a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee go oh oh so you may have seen my tweet this morning that Jake Tapper of CNN is drawing Dilbert for the week the comic arts that Jake draws so I wrote I wrote the words Jake to the art so if you don't think they're funny that would be that would be my fault not Jake's and just to be clear about that so I wrote them Jake drew them he drew them in his own style so they don't look like the same characters exactly but you'll you'll recognize them and that's part of the fun is that he gets to reimagine that universe in a whole different visual way now I don't think the little purpose of it is that they will be framed and then auctioned off so you can get our signatures on on both of them and they will be framed if you'd like to find out more about that go to my pinned it tweet and you'll see a link over to homes for our troops now homes for troops is not just a veterans organization but they take care of some of the the hardest cases people have lost arms and legs people who need special situations for their housing and I'll tell you how I looked at this now I can't can't speak for Jake so I'll just speak for myself but it's probably fair to assume there's something like this was happening in his mind but I can't speak Korean you know one of the one of the most basic sort of principles is it a principle or a practice you decide of our American experience is that we don't leave warriors behind right if you're in the military and even if somebody goes down if their dad if they're wounded we don't leave we don't leave if it's like one of the most basic principles that keeps our our countries so safe because would you join the military and would you serve your country if you thought you would be left if you thought there was even a chance if you thought there's any chance you would be left behind would you serve well some wood some wood of course but I kind of think that it's part of the glue that holds civilization together is that if you do this stuff for the benefit of the country we will make you one promise we won't leave you there that's it it's like it's like the primary promise and so these warriors who are coming home badly wounded it doesn't seem like they're all the way home so when I look at this situation and probably Jake has a similar feeling we could do a little bit more so that's what we're doing now for your amusement I would like to read to you some of the comments from the internet over this project now keep in mind that the entire point is to help badly wounded veterans it should be pretty obvious that that's the point all right but and people also are quite aware that that CNN and my brand have some conflict but that's not what that's about because the highest principle is you don't leave people behind so we're operating on that principle sort of the civilian version of that where once they're home they're still not all the way home you got it you got to bring them all the way home if you can so you know we're at operating on just trying to be useful because people in the public eye we have some extra we have some extra tools that the average person doesn't have we can get a lot of attention so we're using our tools get a lot of attention help the veterans but here are some of the comments so you see you know what kind of a world you you're living in so there's the the worst comments are on Jake's tweets so Jake tweeted it this morning I did my own my own tweet so the comments under my tweet tend to be fairly supportive but anti Jake and as you might as you might imagine the comments under his feet are more anti me so I'll just read the ones that are anti me so keep in mind the noble cause and it's obvious this is for good purposes everybody who's making these comments knows the the Jake and I did a bunch of work and putting our time and effort and reputations on the line to try to do something useful and these are the comments we got Hey look it's a cyst white male privilege on parade and there's somebody who comes in who has a whole bunch of rumors about me he says so this is somebody saying this about me he says rape is a natural instinct for men now keep in mind that these are never things I've ever said these are things people imagined I said about a blog post there was a parody that people didn't know as a parody years ago I saw nothing nothing that this guy says is actually representative of my opinion but this is what he comes in to do he comes in to destroy me on a charity project all right and then this guy says I got a Jake you're rich you're on TV every day you get to hobnob with the elite it's got to be fun but the rest of us have to live outside of DC where men like Scott Adams just view this and then he's got some more spewing there all right I was hoping this was straight-up satirizing Scott Adams now is just too dumb to get it but instead you chose to promote him that's not what he's doing nobody's promoting everybody except the charity but instead you chose to promote him and attempt to restore credibility and legitimacy to him and his opinions wait are you telling me I lost my legitimacy I didn't even know this is my worst day ever according to Rando on Twitter I've lost my legitimacy my credibility but maybe maybe this whole charity thing can get it back this question to Jake on internet why are you partnering with that loon have you asked Scott how he feels about your network and your peers Jake you might want to look into that before you do our comics with him these are not helpful people these are not helpful people here's another one so this isn't this is the same guy who misrepresents my opinion he says or this one so he's he's inferring that this is my opinion where he says if you can't hug women he'll have to start killing them does that sound like something I might have actually said no I have never said or implied or thought that if I am unable to hug women I will have to start killing them that's what somebody's actually roped in public about me all right somebody else says glad you're supporting a guy meaning be me being the guy glad you're supporting me I use the mass shooting to promote his Apogee well that's not exactly what I did I made it I made a tool available a time when it would be useful okay doot-doot-doot to the cause is admirable your choice of partners is highly unfortunate very disappointed unn smiley face yeah then somebody else came in one of my followers and said you're disappointed two friends came together for a good cause you're the hater you're the problem somebody else says I like it but working with Scott Adams strikes me as questionable not a good look let's see Oh phew people saying positive thing and somebody saying it's very good comic oh it looks like most of the bad people would away somebody'll says this guy is Trumpy why do you give them any publicity all right gross oh man so apparently there's no such thing as doing a good thing in public anymore because there there are very broken people out there who are not veterans who are happy to criticize anybody trying to do anything positive but I will I will die on this following Hill that when it comes to the veterans all that political stuff has to go away right all the political stuff has to go away now I'm gonna further blow your mind by saying some good things about Jake Tapper which are true these are all true good things I talk about talent stacks a lot and how if you if you pile together a variety of talents that work well together you become extraordinary even if each of those individual talents is maybe not the best one in the whole world but there are very few people who had to have that car Jake's I believe his background his education he's a historian so he knows history he's obviously great on TV he's got the look he's got the writing skill he wrote a novel he's a cartoonist he's a better artist than I am and he's used all those skills for his show he's one of the best examples you'll see of a talent stack now just to make it fair taking the politics out of it and just talking about the skill set here Sean Hannity is another one Sean Hannity has more skills in one person but you're it's amazing you know same thing with Jake they have so many different skills put together but if you were to say okay what's the one thing Hannity is like the best of the world that and I say well I don't know it's not one thing is that he's got a good look he talks well you know presents well he's you know obviously writes well he said best-selling books he does radio he does TV he's apparently brave enough to say things he understands I mean you you I could probably go on for about 20 more things this Sean Hannity has a set of talents now the people who don't like his program will say well but certainly the people you see all right let's talk about the news do you ever wonder if Democrats wake up ever like in the modern moment let's say the moment as any Democrat ever awakened this week you know got up and like oh let's check the news and they check the news and pretty much everything's going right there's no bad economic news we're not really we're not really close to or I mean we're not really going to attack Iran and if we did it would be some pinpricks it feels like how do they reconcile their original predictions of how things would go after Trump with how things have gone so far because you know the first few months you could say oh well he's getting lucky or it's a overflow from all the goodness from Obama but year after year doesn't it get harder to hold on to the fact that you predicted a hundred percent of everything wrong about him and they're just none of it is coming to pass now I think if you ask them they say it's all coming to pass oh it's all coming to pass and they were there we have to work pretty hard to make that true I think they say stuff like income inequality got worse I know does anybody even care about that anymore when was the last time you saw a protest about income inequality it's like it doesn't even matter anymore as long as people have jobs and they're doing well they care a lot less about other people it turns out so I just wonder about the psychology of being so wrong in the face of the facts that things are going great now one of the ways that you know things are going great is that this I'm going to tell you what the worst news is here's the worst news on the major political sites number one blah blah blah the Emmys like that's as major news the Emmys okay what else well mostly this Ukraine thing there's basically nothing else happening just the Ukraine thing so let's talk about that because the there's something about the Ukraine situation the somehow captured everything else have you ever noticed that oh yeah we'll talk about Modi remind me again that was that was a great situation there so here's the thing that's happening with the Ukraine situation you know you all know the story the president made a phone call with the president of the Ukraine and tried to get him to investigate Biden and Biden's son's involvement in Ukraine and some people say that he was being he was and if you did let's hear it so here it is here's a statement this came off of CNN I forget which commentator but if Trump used his power to try to coerce a foreign leader into influencing US elections it could precipitate the worst political crisis of a presidency that has been mired in notoriety from its first hours so here's the frame that people are just beginning to realize but we haven't quite realized yet are you ready now if you've been watching this periscope for years you know that I sometimes accurately predict things you know as much as a year ahead sometimes longer here's what's going to happen and how the news cycle is going to start evolving are you ready for this all communications is influenced at the moment we're treating them like they're separate things but we know they're not and it just takes somebody like me to say it a few times before other people say oh yeah all communication is influenced so if the President of the United States let me give you some examples to fill out my point let's say let's say four months before the elections of 2020 China decides to sign a trade deal would they be in would they be interfering with our elections and would we say that the President may have influenced China to influence our elections yeah people will say that because every single thing a president does if it involves a foreign leader is trying to influence them they're trying to influence us it's all an influence job and you could use words like coerce persuade influence cajole deal it's all that same realm all conversations between leaders are influence conversations even if they're talking about the weather they're trying to get to know each other they're trying to influence so the only reason that this Ukraine story is a story is because people can't realize that communication and influence are always the same thing you can't do anything with another country on that level that isn't influence and obviously influence I'm not talking about was I'm some weird you know academic way you could determine its influence I mean it's directly obviously observably a study of influence as soon as we lose lose our childlike belief that communication can happen separate from influence at this level here I'm just talking about world leaders doing world leader Li things as soon as we lose that simple childlike view that some of it is influence and some of it is not because it's all influenced every every single word every gesture the clothes they wear the places they meet every single part of every interaction is designed intentionally for its influence on the world so let's take for example one of let's say one of our allies France says something positive or negative about President Trump are they influencing elections in this country yeah they are how about Modi comes to the United States he's a seems to be great personal friends with drop they get along great some for some reason their personalities are just apparently you know we can't tell that what's really happening but by all observations their personalities are just a perfect fit they just seem like boom and you can see that everybody was commenting on that this is not an original observation on my part everybody was saying that if you didn't see the introduction that Modi gave into this huge rally type crowd where he introduced the president with such glowing terms you could only imagine no you not imagine any reasonable observer would conclude that that the leader of India was influencing American elections what else was it now I'm not saying that's bad I'm saying that we have to grow up because that's just what it is you know everything suppose he had said suppose Modi had said instead I am NOT going to visit the United States because your president is a bad person blah blah blah you could easily imagine that happening right imagine all of the Indian American voters of which obviously there are a lot it was a whole stadium filled with people who are there to see Modi as well as Trump imagine all of them hearing their their Prime Minister back in India you know where they may have been born or at least they may have some family connections through their parents or whatever telling them that our president is so bad they won't even you won't even visit just hypothetically that didn't happen the opposite of that happened wouldn't that wouldn't that influence the election of course it would of course it would did Modi's great attitude toward our president influence the election absolutely of course was it intended to do that well in the sense that all politics are about reelection or election I mean everything's really oriented toward that because that's the system we built there all of the politicians are supposed to be trying to get elected that that's not the secret plan that's explicitly what we hire them to do do such a good job create such a good image that we want to reluck you or elected that's your job so they're just out there doing their jobs but can we imagine that the president's one phone call with the President of the Ukraine had any impact that was nearly as large as every time he visits a foreign leader or vice versa how can you compare Modi's visit which was enormous influence on our election it was enormous influence on our election how do you compare that we're we're all watching it's all obvious and you know but because it's just two leaders acting friendly to each other you say to yourself oh that's no no that's just normal stuff well it is normal stuff for leaders to be friendly with each other but the the level of camaraderie that you're seeing between these levels is influenced great it's meant to influence both domestic populations and I would argue it's doing a good job but doing exactly that and of course the other big example is did the Brits influence our election through Christopher Steele through anything that they did the answer is yes of course and how about do we influence elections in France and Israel and Great Britain yes all the time do you think it doesn't matter to people in Israel that Trump and Netanyahu got along well of course it mattered and mattered a lot it's all influence so the children in the room are looking at this conversation between leaders and saying if it was meant as influence and if it could have had an impact on the election it's something terribly terribly wrong here's me recasting that same statement if it was meant as influence and if it was meant to influence the elections it would be like every other interaction between leaders oh they're all they all have that same nature they all influence elections if you do it wrong it's bad for you if you do it right it's good for you so we should break out of this child frame of imagining that communication between leaders is ever influenced Freight or that is ever not about the election because that's always about the election all right some that the funniest part of the story is I don't know about you but I love watching the anti-trump pers trot out a new theory that's going to take down the president this time this time we got him okay the last ten times those didn't count this time this time we got him and then watching you fall apart in the usual ways you know it always starts with the the bombshell from the Washington Post of the New York Times and we're not gonna give you any names you sure we're not gonna name any names of our sources but it's a bombshell and then the rumors started and everybody piles in and it's the biggest story and then stuff starts trickling out one of the things that trickle down to over the weekend I think was that the so-called whistleblower the person who is complaining about the Ukrainian phone call wasn't there he didn't hear it heard it from someone else okay now that doesn't mean that he heard it wrong but it changes how you feel that it does that he wasn't in the room he didn't hear the actual words he heard someone else's description of the words do you think of it the same anymore no because whoever told them the words didn't quit whoever reported to the whistleblower this is what the president said that person didn't quit and they shoulda quit if they had a problem with it otherwise they were just talking in other words they didn't have a problem with it which is part of the story too so they bring out Carl Bernstein this is CNN they bring out Carl Bernstein to compare it to Watergate now Elizabeth kubler-ross many years ago developed the what is it these seven phases of acceptance for death you know if somebody dies who's close to you you go through the seven levels of or is a is it your own death it's one of those if your own death is approaching there's the there's the bargaining and there's the denying you know you go down the the seven levels of you know denial before you get to acceptance and one of these seven layers of of whatever this is it's terrible analogy but as you watch conspiracy theories or or charges against the president whether it's Russia collusion or anything else as you watch them disintegrate in front of you they go through this predictable phase stages of grief oh thank you and in the comments people telling me I should have said stages of grief Elisabeth kubler-ross but one of the stages of grief for a a charge against the president that's dying is you wheel out Carl Bernstein to say it's a lot like Watergate I'm positive you don't bring that guy out unless you know you know your you know your charge against the president is dying so he's like a he's like he's like the Angel of Death for an impeachable offense so if somebody says hey president Trump made an impeachable defense stage one anonymous sources stage to a little bit of softening of the story it's like well the whistleblower didn't hear it but he did talk to somebody who told them about it that's stage two stage three is somebody pointing out that it wasn't illegal even if all this even if all the reporting is accurate which we've had it's like what's the difference if he did it that's just a president talking to another leader he can say anything he wants it's legal it's expected it's normal alright at that point it's obvious that there's no impeachable thing here so the next stage of grief is you will out Carl Bernstein to say what are we talking about well the thing is his echoes of Watergate and then they sort of wheel amount say okay thanks thanks Carl that's great and then of course the the stage of grief right after the the Bernstein Watergate guy is I think you know this is the Mitt Romney stage where they bring in Mitt Romney to show that there's even a Republican who was who is a fact that was terribly worried about whatever this behavior is so I think we've reached the the Romney stage of grief where Romney and pretty much only Romney thinks there's a big problem here and then I think the stage after that would be look over here and then the stage after that the last stage of grief is it really did happen you just you're you're talking about it wrong now we swear the thing we said happened it did happen yeah I know all the facts say it didn't but it really did it happened anyway so that's the phase we haven't gotten to yet but we're getting there all right here's the here's my question there are two possibilities for this whole Biden hunter Biden thing and Ukraine one possibility is that nothing was done wrong by anyone what are you agree I'm s possibility I don't know what the details are and I could easily be convinced that that maybe it looks bad but nothing illegal happened I can easily be convinced of it I could also easily be convinced that there is something there I'm making a general statement I'm not telling you what I think is likely or what I hope is likely I'm just saying two possibilities either a hunter Biden did something terrible or hunter Biden did nothing at all and by the way those same possibilities apply to you and me maybe I murdered somebody this morning maybe I didn't always two possibilities and I asked you under either of those conditions wasn't it still a good idea for Trump to ask about it because you still need to know you need to know which it is don't you and suppose Ukraine said yeah we'll look into that okay we looked into it turns out it was just business as normal wouldn't you need to know that but suppose it was the other way wouldn't you also need to know that because otherwise you might end up with Biden getting elected and being owned by Ukraine why isn't anybody saying that except me if Biden got elected and we had not looked into this Ukraine whatever business is going on and honestly I don't know what the hell's going on over there I'm totally confused about the story everybody else's too I think but if Biden got elected wouldn't we have to wonder if somebody had some stuff on him and it's over into Ukraine oh it means Russia has it now that's that's a jump right but I'm assuming that Russia has figured out how to get into Ukraine's business meaning in the in the spy sense so I would think that if Ukraine had some good stuff on Biden and I'm not saying they do I think it's terribly unfair to assert that like it's true we can only say that the question has been asked but you know you could ask me if I murder somebody this morning it doesn't mean I did it just means you ask the question so I don't like I don't like to throw a bunch of unearned guilt in the Biden direction but we certainly needed to know now you might ask yourself why does the president have to ask that question yeah oh well here's the other thing was suppose that's not the reason that Trump is asking the question it doesn't matter it doesn't matter at all it even if Trump's mind the only reason they was asking is to win an election so long as it was all so perfectly with him the scope of his duties is still fine it would be like what if the president boosted the economy so he could get reelected well you wouldn't complain about that because that's his job right what if he protect from terrorism and it was just to get elected well that's okay that's how the system works he's supposed to work on getting elected but part of that is just doing his job and this was absolutely his job so whether or not you believe that the reason he was doing his job was for his own personal interest completely irrelevant the system allows him to pursue his self-interest he did it in front of lots of witnesses so long as it's also his job that's how it works all right so this is another one of those stories is too complicated for the public to follow of law sort of like Russia gate so it allows us to just retreat to our bias anytime you add complexity to a story it just allows people to retreat to their team and say well my team was right I don't know what's going on here but my team is right so that's what's happening you're not seeing anybody who's got any kind of a reasoned opinion on any of this stuff so there I keep seeing stories about the youth of this country are having Eco anxiety in other words they're so worried about climate change that they're actually having mental health issues like legitimate mental health issues it's not a laughing matter these are these are children being damaged by the games that adults are playing and adults are I say games because climate change is a sort of a political football and in order for the adults to sell their version of climate change to other adults it necessarily ends up scaring the kids to death maybe literally I mean I can't if you scare enough kids somebody's gonna die because of at least one it's a big country and so and so I saw a tweet from March nighter are are one of our favorite nuclear energy advocates and he pointed out that nuclear energy is actually the cure for Iko anxiety and i thought about it was like that's actually true if you were to actually accurately describe the risks of the new generations you know the current and new current and future generations of nuclear energy and you were to tell children accurately hey children is the safest technology we have for energy every other technology has killed more people and here's the thing no matter what happens with with the planet even the most aggressive estimates are that we'll be better off in the future not worse kids don't understand that when kids hear that the climate is going to heck what they hear is that the world is going to go bad that their experience of life will be worse than the ones before here's the thing even the climate experts are not saying that the climate the the best estimate on economics is that over the next 80 years the GDP will be 10% less than it could have been but it will still be maybe five to ten times better than it is now so the number of people who will be poor in the future no matter what the climate does is going to go way down the number of people who have a better life is probably going to continue going up as it has through most of human history and certainly modern history so who is teaching the children that they're doomed bad teachers any teacher who understood the math of it wonders the history of it who understood that nuclear energy is just sitting there waiting to be used to solve the problem it is we already have the solution to climate change we have it who's telling the kids that we already have the solution to it and it's nuclear energy all right now obviously there are government reasons and political opinion and public opinion and all that so the things that need to be solved but they're fairly minor compared to whatever the children are worrying about fate of the planet they will be better off almost in every situation I'll bet I'll bet there isn't one climate for guests that doesn't also have those same children better off in the future they're just not as better off as maybe they couldn't bet that's the claim that's their claim that's that's not even me reinterpreting what they're saying or anything that's their explicit public primary claim the things will be a lot better but they could have been even a little bit better so it almost makes me wonder if I need to fix this meaning that this is a communication problem that children need to be deprogrammed so perhaps I could write a one-pager to put the let's say that the child version of what I just said into an easy to digest maybe a page is too much and maybe two paragraphs would be maximum because remember it's kids so you have to really shrink it down to its tiniest little thing so why don't we tell kids that if they promote the modern version of nuclear energy not the old the old stuff that was dangerous but the modern version if they promote that and if they know that carbon scrubbing technologies are a thing they should feel good because not only is our generation not destroying the world our generation made the world a lot better don't you think would you agree that when I say our generation I'm gonna take my generation and every adult you know from let's say let's say from 40 to infinity you know over 40 let's say the the over 40 generation which you you would argue had the greatest influence on that the way things are right now I feel like the world is way better if you look at the amount of poverty way down isn't everything better than it was 40 years ago 60 years ago I think everything's better and that's not going to change and the kids need to know that but here's the deal those kids are gonna be the ones changing it all right we did our job the greatest generation that was you know the one before me fought World War two built this country into something amazing I kind of think they did job I also feel like my generation did its job I think we did our job you know my generation was protesting the Vietnam War and apparently that worked we didn't do a good job with Iraq but I'm not sure that was the public that was more of the government so that's the good news all right I feel like I have jabbered jabbered enough I'm jabbering all over the place I would like to put in the plug for my book loser think let me know let me tell you some true facts before you decide when you're gonna buy my book loser thing and before you decide if you want the audio book or the hard copy let me tell you a few facts in 2013 I published my book kind of failed almost everything still and big and I predicted at the time that people wouldn't understand when it was published how important it would be now that was the book that introduced the idea of systems being better than goals which I think you've observed has become a common public understanding since then that all came from me and then you have also heard the idea of the you've also heard the idea of the talent stacks and that also came from me and that book now since then that was 2013 so that six years ago enough people have tried the ideas in the book that now they're getting back to me people are saying they got promotions they people have lost vast amounts of weight because using a system instead of a goal for weight loss and just these tremendous life changes people will start companies quit their job made a fortune I mean I hear I literally hearing this every day every single day somebody contacts me usually in social media and says your book changed my life then I wrote wind Binkley that came out about president Trump's of powers of persuasion and it wasn't just about Trump it was a book to teach you persuasion in a very approachable everyday way so you can see it happening to you you could use the same techniques for your own benefit for your business for your personal life and now I'm starting to hear those reports so enough time is going by that I can't tell you how many people read that book contacted me and said hey you know I'm wanted to want a better situation in my job and I would say well you know use some of those techniques in the book and then they get back to me and say I got a huge raise or I got a promotion so when bingley is actually totally changing people's lives that they are getting richer by using their negotiating powers and their persuasion powers and going out and getting stuff they're getting raises they're getting promotions they're doing things that they didn't they didn't feel they had the the tools to go get that thing and then would they realize that the tools are quite approachable once they've been explained to them then they could just take those into their Bossin next thing you know raise so my my new book that's available for presale loser thing is written for the same general purpose meaning that it's meant to have a direct improvement on your life in this case to allow you to see the world in a clearer way so the loser think is unproductive ways of thinking and unproductive in this this context just means you don't have experience across a number of domains for example when I was just talking about climate change did you notice how I put an economic spin on climate change the reason I can do that is because I'm an economics major you know MBA etc so I've actually worked and lived in that world where you're doing projections so when I look at the economic projections I can just see a little bit deeper I can understand them with more texture then if I had never had that background now the argument is you don't need to have a degree in economics to get the basics for example it would be easy to learn about sunk costs it would take me a minute to explain it to you and then you'd know it forever it would it would take me maybe two minutes to explain the entire concept of the discounted value of money if you've never heard of it it's maybe maybe you should and to understand that money in the future is worth less than money today so there are probably a dozen or so basic ways of thinking that are common to different disciplines if you've never been exposed to them let's say you're let's say your channel and life had been art if you were an art major or let's say just a history major and you were looking at the world of politics you would be flying totally blind because you would be looking in one window the window that you learned your artists window or your history window or whatever you're looking in one window you're saying okay I see this house and it's a bathroom that's it I'm only looking through one window all I see is a bathroom I gotta go that's a delivery but if you can see through more windows you can see the world better and that's what loser think is about teaching you're looking all the windows I hope you get it pre-order now on Amazon bye

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I'm pumpin pumpin Papa welcome to coffee

with Scott Adams it's gonna be lit today

lit I tell you do people still say that

it feels a little dated can somebody

give me a more modern reference so I can

pretend to be with it hey everybody take

a seat we're gonna get into some fun

stuff today you know it and it's gonna

be so good because we're gonna start it

with a little thing I call the

simultaneous if yes if you'd like to

play along

and I know you do if you'd like to join

in on the simultaneous if you don't need

much all you need here's a cover of

Megara glasses Diana jealous of tankard

a thermos flask we can't you know Grail

the goblet a vessel of any kind fill it

with your favorite liquid I like coffee

go oh oh so you may have seen my tweet

this morning that Jake Tapper of CNN is

drawing Dilbert for the week the comic

arts that Jake draws so I wrote I wrote

the words Jake to the art so if you

don't think they're funny that would be

that would be my fault not Jake's and

just to be clear about that so I wrote

them Jake drew them he drew them in his

own style so they don't look like the

same characters exactly but you'll

you'll recognize them and that's part of

the fun is that he gets to reimagine

that universe in a whole different

visual way now I don't think the little

purpose of it is that they will be

framed and then auctioned off so you can

get our signatures on on both of them

and they will be framed if you'd like to

find out more about that go to my pinned

it tweet and you'll see a link over to

homes for our troops

now homes for troops is not just

a veterans organization but they take

care of some of the the hardest cases

people have lost arms and legs people

who need special situations for their

housing and I'll tell you how I looked

at this now I can't can't speak for Jake

so I'll just speak for myself but it's

probably fair to assume there's

something like this was happening in his

mind but I can't speak Korean you know

one of the one of the most basic sort of

principles is it a principle or a

practice you decide of our American

experience is that we don't leave

warriors behind right if you're in the

military and even if somebody goes down

if their dad if they're wounded

we don't leave we don't leave if it's

like one of the most basic principles

that keeps our our countries so safe

because would you join the military and

would you serve your country if you

thought you would be left if you thought

there was even a chance if you thought

there's any chance you would be left

behind would you serve well some wood

some wood of course but I kind of think

that it's part of the glue that holds

civilization together is that if you do

this stuff for the benefit of the

country we will make you one promise we

won't leave you there that's it it's

like it's like the primary promise

and so these warriors who are coming

home badly wounded it doesn't seem like

they're all the way home so when I look

at this situation and probably Jake has

a similar feeling we could do a little

bit more so that's what we're doing now

for your amusement I would like to read

to you some of the comments from the

internet over this project now keep in

mind that the entire point is to help

badly wounded veterans it should be

pretty obvious that that's the point all

right but and

people also are quite aware that that

CNN and my brand have some conflict but

that's not what that's about because the

highest principle is you don't leave

people behind so we're operating on that

principle sort of the civilian version

of that where once they're home they're

still not all the way home you got it

you got to bring them all the way home

if you can so you know we're at

operating on just trying to be useful

because people in the public eye we have

some extra we have some extra tools that

the average person doesn't have we can

get a lot of attention so we're using

our tools get a lot of attention help

the veterans but here are some of the

comments so you see you know what kind

of a world you you're living in so

there's the the worst comments are on

Jake's tweets so Jake tweeted it this

morning I did my own my own tweet so the

comments under my tweet tend to be

fairly supportive but anti Jake and as

you might as you might imagine the

comments under his feet are more anti me

so I'll just read the ones that are anti

me so keep in mind the noble cause and

it's obvious this is for good purposes

everybody who's making these comments

knows the the Jake and I did a bunch of

work and putting our time and effort and

reputations on the line to try to do

something useful and these are the

comments we got Hey look it's a cyst

white male privilege on parade and

there's somebody who comes in who has a

whole bunch of rumors about me he says

so this is somebody saying this about me

he says rape is a natural instinct for

men now keep in mind that these are

never things I've ever said these are

things people imagined I said about a

blog post there was a parody that people

didn't know as a parody years ago I saw

nothing nothing that this guy says is

actually representative of my opinion

but this is what he comes in to do he

comes in to destroy me

on a charity project all right and then

this guy says I got a Jake you're rich

you're on TV every day you get to hobnob

with the elite it's got to be fun but

the rest of us have to live outside of

DC where men like Scott Adams just view

this and then he's got some more spewing

there all right I was hoping this was

straight-up satirizing Scott Adams now

is just too dumb to get it but instead

you chose to promote him that's not what

he's doing nobody's promoting everybody

except the charity but instead you chose

to promote him and attempt to restore

credibility and legitimacy to him and

his opinions wait are you telling me I

lost my legitimacy I didn't even know

this is my worst day ever

according to Rando on Twitter I've lost

my legitimacy my credibility but maybe

maybe this whole charity thing can get

it back this question to Jake on

internet why are you partnering with

that loon

have you asked Scott how he feels about

your network and your peers Jake you

might want to look into that before you

do our comics with him these are not

helpful people these are not helpful

people here's another one so this isn't

this is the same guy who misrepresents

my opinion he says or this one so he's

he's inferring that this is my opinion

where he says if you can't hug women

he'll have to start killing them does

that sound like something I might have

actually said no I have never said or

implied or thought that if I am unable

to hug women I will have to start

killing them that's what somebody's

actually roped in public about me all

right

somebody else says glad you're

supporting a guy meaning be me being the

guy glad you're supporting me I use the

mass shooting to promote his Apogee well

that's not exactly what I did I made it

I made a tool available

a time when it would be useful okay

doot-doot-doot to the cause is admirable

your choice of partners is highly

unfortunate very disappointed unn smiley

face yeah then somebody else came in one

of my followers and said you're

disappointed two friends came together

for a good cause you're the hater you're

the problem somebody else says I like it

but working with Scott Adams strikes me

as questionable not a good look

let's see Oh phew people saying positive

thing and somebody saying it's very good

comic oh it looks like most of the bad

people would away somebody'll says this

guy is Trumpy why do you give them any

publicity all right

gross oh man

so apparently there's no such thing as

doing a good thing in public anymore

because there there are very broken

people out there who are not veterans

who are happy to criticize anybody

trying to do anything positive but I

will I will die on this following Hill

that when it comes to the veterans all

that political stuff has to go away

right all the political stuff has to go

away

now I'm gonna further blow your mind by

saying some good things about Jake

Tapper which are true these are all true

good things I talk about talent stacks a

lot and how if you if you pile together

a variety of talents that work well

together you become extraordinary even

if each of those individual talents is

maybe not the best one in the whole

world but there are very few people who

had to have that car

Jake's I believe his background his

education he's a historian so he knows

history

he's obviously great on TV he's got the

look he's got the writing skill he wrote

a novel he's a cartoonist

he's a better artist than I am and he's

used all those skills for his show he's

one of the best examples you'll see of a

talent stack now just to make it fair

taking the politics out of it and just

talking about the skill set here Sean

Hannity is another one Sean Hannity has

more skills in one person but you're

it's amazing you know same thing with

Jake they have so many different skills

put together but if you were to say okay

what's the one thing Hannity is like the

best of the world that and I say well I

don't know it's not one thing is that

he's got a good look he talks well you

know presents well he's you know

obviously writes well he said

best-selling books he does radio he does

TV he's apparently brave enough to say

things he understands I mean you you I

could probably go on for about 20 more

things this Sean Hannity has a set of

talents now the people who don't like

his program will say well but certainly

the people you see all right let's talk

about the news do you ever wonder if

Democrats wake up ever like in the

modern moment let's say the moment as

any Democrat ever awakened this week you

know got up and like oh let's check the

news and they check the news and pretty

much everything's going right there's no

bad economic news we're not really we're

not really close to or I mean we're not

really going to attack Iran and if we

did it would be some pinpricks

it feels like how do they reconcile

their original predictions of how things

would go after Trump with how things

have gone so far because you know the

first few months you could say oh well

he's getting lucky or it's a overflow

from all the goodness from Obama but

year after year doesn't it get harder to

hold on to the fact that you predicted a

hundred percent of everything wrong

about him

and they're just none of it is coming to

pass now I think if you ask them they

say it's all coming to pass oh it's all

coming to pass and they were there we

have to work pretty hard to make that

true I think they say stuff like income

inequality got worse I know does anybody

even care about that anymore when was

the last time you saw a protest about

income inequality it's like it doesn't

even matter anymore as long as people

have jobs and they're doing well they

care a lot less about other people it

turns out so I just wonder about the

psychology of being so wrong in the face

of the facts that things are going great

now one of the ways that you know things

are going great is that this I'm going

to tell you what the worst news is

here's the worst news on the major

political sites number one blah blah

blah the Emmys like that's as major news

the Emmys okay what else

well mostly this Ukraine thing there's

basically nothing else happening just

the Ukraine thing so let's talk about

that because the there's something about

the Ukraine situation the somehow

captured everything else have you ever

noticed that oh yeah we'll talk about

Modi remind me again that was that was a

great situation there so here's the

thing that's happening with the Ukraine

situation you know you all know the

story the president made a phone call

with the president of the Ukraine and

tried to get him to investigate Biden

and Biden's son's involvement in Ukraine

and some people say that he was being he

was

and if you did let's hear it so here it

is here's a statement this came off of

CNN I forget which commentator but if

Trump used his power to try to coerce a

foreign leader into influencing US

elections it could precipitate the worst

political crisis of a presidency that

has been mired in notoriety from its

first hours so here's the frame that

people are just beginning to realize but

we haven't quite realized yet are you

ready now if you've been watching this

periscope for years you know that I

sometimes accurately predict things you

know as much as a year ahead sometimes

longer here's what's going to happen and

how the news cycle is going to start

evolving are you ready for this all

communications is influenced at the

moment we're treating them like they're

separate things but we know they're not

and it just takes somebody like me to

say it a few times before other people

say oh yeah all communication is

influenced so if the President of the

United States let me give you some

examples to fill out my point let's say

let's say four months before the

elections of 2020 China decides to sign

a trade deal would they be in would they

be interfering with our elections and

would we say that the President may have

influenced China to influence our

elections yeah people will say that

because every single thing a president

does if it involves a foreign leader is

trying to influence them they're trying

to influence us it's all an influence

job and you could use words like coerce

persuade influence cajole deal it's all

that same realm all conversations

between leaders are influence

conversations even if they're talking

about the weather they're trying to get

to know each other they're trying to

influence so the only reason that this

Ukraine story is a story is because

people can't realize that communication

and influence are always the same thing

you can't do anything with another

country on that level that isn't

influence and obviously influence I'm

not talking about was I'm some weird you

know academic way you could determine

its influence I mean it's directly

obviously observably a study of

influence as soon as we lose lose our

childlike belief that communication can

happen separate from influence at this

level here I'm just talking about world

leaders doing world leader Li things as

soon as we lose that simple childlike

view that some of it is influence and

some of it is not because it's all

influenced every every single word every

gesture the clothes they wear the places

they meet every single part of every

interaction is designed intentionally

for its influence on the world so let's

take for example one of let's say one of

our allies France says something

positive or negative about President

Trump are they influencing elections in

this country yeah they are

how about Modi comes to the United

States

he's a seems to be great personal

friends with drop they get along great

some for some reason their personalities

are just apparently you know we can't

tell that what's really happening but by

all observations their personalities are

just a perfect fit they just seem like

boom and you can see that everybody was

commenting on that this is not an

original observation on my part

everybody was saying that if you didn't

see the introduction that Modi gave into

this huge rally type crowd where he

introduced the president with such

glowing terms you could only imagine no

you not imagine any reasonable observer

would conclude that that the leader of

India was influencing American elections

what else was it now I'm not saying

that's bad I'm saying that we have to

grow up because that's just what it is

you know everything suppose he had said

suppose Modi had said instead I am NOT

going to visit the United States because

your president is a bad person blah blah

blah you could easily imagine that

happening right imagine all of the

Indian American voters of which

obviously there are a lot it was a whole

stadium filled with people who are there

to see Modi as well as Trump imagine all

of them hearing their their Prime

Minister back in India you know where

they may have been born or at least they

may have some family connections through

their parents or whatever telling them

that our president is so bad they won't

even you won't even visit just

hypothetically that didn't happen the

opposite of that happened wouldn't that

wouldn't that influence the election of

course it would of course it would did

Modi's great attitude toward our

president influence the election

absolutely of course was it intended to

do that well in the sense that all

politics are about reelection or

election I mean everything's really

oriented toward that because that's the

system we built there all of the

politicians are supposed to be trying to

get elected that that's not the secret

plan that's explicitly what we hire them

to do do such a good job create such a

good image that we want to reluck you or

elected that's your job so they're just

out there doing their jobs but can we

imagine that the president's one phone

call with the President of the Ukraine

had any impact that was nearly as large

as every time he visits a foreign leader

or vice versa how can you compare Modi's

visit which was enormous influence on

our election it was enormous influence

on our election

how do you compare that we're we're all

watching it's all obvious and you know

but because it's just two leaders acting

friendly to each other you say to

yourself oh that's no no that's just

normal stuff well it is normal stuff for

leaders to be friendly with each other

but the the level of camaraderie that

you're seeing between these levels is

influenced great it's meant to influence

both domestic populations and I would

argue it's doing a good job but doing

exactly that and of course the other big

example is did the Brits influence our

election through Christopher Steele

through anything that they did the

answer is yes of course and how about do

we influence elections in France and

Israel and Great Britain yes all the

time do you think it doesn't matter to

people in Israel that Trump and

Netanyahu got along well of course it

mattered and mattered a lot it's all

influence so the children in the room

are looking at this conversation between

leaders and saying if it was meant as

influence and if it could have had an

impact on the election it's something

terribly terribly wrong here's me

recasting that same statement if it was

meant as influence and if it was meant

to influence the elections it would be

like every other interaction between

leaders oh they're all they all have

that same nature they all influence

elections if you do it wrong it's bad

for you if you do it right it's good for

you so we should break out of this child

frame of imagining that communication

between leaders is ever influenced

Freight or that is ever not about the

election because that's always about the

election all right

some that the funniest part of the

story is I don't know about you but I

love watching the anti-trump pers trot

out a new theory that's going to take

down the president this time this time

we got him

okay the last ten times those didn't

count this time this time we got him and

then watching you fall apart in the

usual ways you know it always starts

with the the bombshell from the

Washington Post of the New York Times

and we're not gonna give you any names

you sure we're not gonna name any names

of our sources but it's a bombshell and

then the rumors started and everybody

piles in and it's the biggest story and

then stuff starts trickling out one of

the things that trickle down to over the

weekend I think was that the so-called

whistleblower the person who is

complaining about the Ukrainian phone

call wasn't there he didn't hear it

heard it from someone else

okay now that doesn't mean that he heard

it wrong but it changes how you feel

that it does that he wasn't in the room

he didn't hear the actual words he heard

someone else's description of the words

do you think of it the same anymore

no because whoever told them the words

didn't quit

whoever reported to the whistleblower

this is what the president said that

person didn't quit and they shoulda quit

if they had a problem with it otherwise

they were just talking in other words

they didn't have a problem with it which

is part of the story too so they bring

out Carl Bernstein this is CNN they

bring out Carl Bernstein to compare it

to Watergate now Elizabeth kubler-ross

many years ago developed the what is it

these seven phases of acceptance for

death you know if somebody dies who's

close to you you go through the seven

levels of or is a is it your own death

it's one of those if your own death is

approaching there's the there's the

bargaining and there's the denying

you know you go down the the seven

levels of you know denial before you get

to acceptance and one of these seven

layers of of whatever this is it's

terrible analogy but as you watch

conspiracy theories or or charges

against the president whether it's

Russia collusion or anything else as you

watch them disintegrate in front of you

they go through this predictable phase

stages of grief oh thank you and in the

comments people telling me I should have

said stages of grief Elisabeth

kubler-ross but one of the stages of

grief for a a charge against the

president that's dying is you wheel out

Carl Bernstein to say it's a lot like

Watergate I'm positive you don't bring

that guy out unless you know you know

your you know your charge against the

president is dying so he's like a he's

like he's like the Angel of Death for an

impeachable offense so if somebody says

hey president Trump made an impeachable

defense stage one anonymous sources

stage to a little bit of softening of

the story it's like well the

whistleblower didn't hear it but he did

talk to somebody who told them about it

that's stage two stage three is somebody

pointing out that it wasn't illegal even

if all this even if all the reporting is

accurate which we've had it's like

what's the difference if he did it

that's just a president talking to

another leader he can say anything he

wants it's legal it's expected it's

normal

alright at that point it's obvious that

there's no impeachable thing here so the

next stage of grief is you will out Carl

Bernstein to say what are we talking

about well the thing is his echoes of

Watergate

and then they sort of wheel amount say

okay thanks thanks Carl that's great and

then of course the the stage of grief

right after the the Bernstein Watergate

guy is I think you know this is the Mitt

Romney stage where they bring in Mitt

Romney to show that there's even a

Republican who was who is a fact that

was terribly worried about whatever this

behavior is so I think we've reached the

the Romney stage of grief where Romney

and pretty much only Romney thinks

there's a big problem here and then I

think the stage after that would be look

over here and then the stage after that

the last stage of grief is it really did

happen you just you're you're talking

about it wrong

now we swear the thing we said happened

it did happen yeah I know all the facts

say it didn't but it really did it

happened anyway so that's the phase we

haven't gotten to yet but we're getting

there

all right here's the here's my question

there are two possibilities for this

whole Biden hunter Biden thing and

Ukraine one possibility is that nothing

was done wrong by anyone

what are you agree I'm s possibility I

don't know what the details are and I

could easily be convinced that that

maybe it looks bad but nothing illegal

happened I can easily be convinced of it

I could also easily be convinced that

there is something there

I'm making a general statement I'm not

telling you what I think is likely or

what I hope is likely I'm just saying

two possibilities either a hunter Biden

did something terrible or hunter Biden

did nothing at all and by the way those

same possibilities apply to you and me

maybe I murdered somebody this morning

maybe I didn't always two possibilities

and I asked you under either of those

conditions wasn't it still a good idea

for Trump to ask about it

because you still need to know you need

to know which it is don't you

and suppose Ukraine said yeah we'll look

into that okay we looked into it turns

out it was just business as normal

wouldn't you need to know that but

suppose it was the other way wouldn't

you also need to know that because

otherwise you might end up with Biden

getting elected and being owned by

Ukraine why isn't anybody saying that

except me if Biden got elected and we

had not looked into this Ukraine

whatever business is going on and

honestly I don't know what the hell's

going on over there

I'm totally confused about the story

everybody else's too I think

but if Biden got elected wouldn't we

have to wonder if somebody had some

stuff on him and it's over into Ukraine

oh it means Russia has it now that's

that's a jump right but I'm assuming

that Russia has figured out how to get

into Ukraine's business meaning in the

in the spy sense so I would think that

if Ukraine had some good stuff on Biden

and I'm not saying they do I think it's

terribly unfair to assert that like it's

true we can only say that the question

has been asked but you know you could

ask me if I murder somebody this morning

it doesn't mean I did it just means you

ask the question so I don't like I don't

like to throw a bunch of unearned guilt

in the Biden direction but we certainly

needed to know now you might ask

yourself why does the president have to

ask that question yeah oh well here's

the other thing was suppose that's not

the reason that Trump is asking the

question it doesn't matter it doesn't

matter at all it even if Trump's mind

the only reason they was asking is to

win an election so long as it was all so

perfectly with him the scope of his

duties is still fine it would be like

what if the president boosted the

economy so he could get reelected well

you wouldn't complain about that because

that's his job right what if he protect

from terrorism and it was just to get

elected well that's okay that's how the

system works he's supposed to work on

getting elected but part of that is just

doing his job

and this was absolutely his job so

whether or not you believe that the

reason he was doing his job was for his

own personal interest completely

irrelevant the system allows him to

pursue his self-interest he did it in

front of lots of witnesses so long as

it's also his job that's how it works

all right so this is another one of

those stories is too complicated for the

public to follow of law sort of like

Russia gate so it allows us to just

retreat to our bias anytime you add

complexity to a story it just allows

people to retreat to their team and say

well my team was right I don't know

what's going on here but my team is

right so that's what's happening

you're not seeing anybody who's got any

kind of a reasoned opinion on any of

this stuff so there I keep seeing

stories about the youth of this country

are having Eco anxiety in other words

they're so worried about climate change

that they're actually having mental

health issues like legitimate mental

health issues it's not a laughing matter

these are these are children being

damaged by the games that adults are

playing and adults are I say games

because climate change is a sort of a

political football and in order for the

adults to sell their version of climate

change to other adults it necessarily

ends up scaring the kids to death maybe

literally I mean I can't if you scare

enough kids somebody's gonna die because

of at least one it's a big country and

so and so I saw a tweet from March

nighter are are one of our favorite

nuclear energy advocates and he pointed

out that nuclear energy is actually the

cure for

Iko anxiety and i thought about it was

like that's actually true if you were to

actually accurately describe the risks

of the new generations you know the

current and new current and future

generations of nuclear energy and you

were to tell children accurately hey

children is the safest technology we

have for energy every other technology

has killed more people and here's the

thing no matter what happens with with

the planet even the most aggressive

estimates are that we'll be better off

in the future not worse kids don't

understand that when kids hear that the

climate is going to heck what they hear

is that the world is going to go bad

that their experience of life will be

worse than the ones before here's the

thing even the climate experts are not

saying that the climate the the best

estimate on economics is that over the

next 80 years the GDP will be 10% less

than it could have been but it will

still be maybe five to ten times better

than it is now so the number of people

who will be poor in the future no matter

what the climate does is going to go way

down the number of people who have a

better life

is probably going to continue going up

as it has through most of human history

and certainly modern history so who is

teaching the children that they're

doomed bad teachers any teacher who

understood the math of it wonders the

history of it who understood that

nuclear energy is just sitting there

waiting to be used to solve the problem

it is we already have the solution to

climate change we have it who's telling

the kids that we already have the

solution to it and it's nuclear energy

all right now obviously there are

government reasons and political opinion

and public opinion and all that so the

things that need to be solved but

they're fairly minor compared to

whatever the children are worrying about

fate of the planet they will be better

off almost in every situation I'll bet

I'll bet there isn't one climate for

guests that doesn't also have those same

children better off in the future

they're just not as better off as maybe

they couldn't bet that's the claim

that's their claim that's that's not

even me reinterpreting what they're

saying or anything that's their explicit

public primary claim the things will be

a lot better but they could have been

even a little bit better so it almost

makes me wonder if I need to fix this

meaning that this is a communication

problem that children need to be

deprogrammed so perhaps I could write a

one-pager to put the let's say that the

child version of what I just said into

an easy to digest maybe a page is too

much and maybe two paragraphs would be

maximum because remember it's kids so

you have to really shrink it down to its

tiniest little thing so why don't we

tell kids that if they promote the

modern version of nuclear energy not the

old the old stuff that was dangerous but

the modern version if they promote that

and if they know that carbon scrubbing

technologies are a thing they should

feel good because not only is our

generation not destroying the world

our generation made the world a lot

better don't you think would you agree

that when I say our generation I'm gonna

take my generation and every adult you

know from let's say let's say from 40 to

infinity you know over 40 let's say the

the over 40 generation which you you

would argue had the greatest influence

on that the way things are right now I

feel like the world is way better if you

look at the amount of poverty way down

isn't everything better than it was

40 years ago 60 years ago I think

everything's better and that's not going

to change and the kids need to know that

but here's the deal those kids are gonna

be the ones changing it all right we did

our job the greatest generation that was

you know the one before me fought World

War two built this country into

something amazing I kind of think they

did job I also feel like my generation

did its job I think we did our job you

know my generation was protesting the

Vietnam War and apparently that worked

we didn't do a good job with Iraq but

I'm not sure that was the public that

was more of the government so that's the

good news

all right I feel like I have jabbered

jabbered enough I'm jabbering all over

the place

I would like to put in the plug for my

book loser think let me know let me tell

you some true facts before you decide

when you're gonna buy my book loser

thing and before you decide if you want

the audio book or the hard copy let me

tell you a few facts in 2013 I published

my book kind of failed almost everything

still and big and I predicted at the

time that people wouldn't understand

when it was published how important it

would be now that was the book that

introduced the idea of systems being

better than goals which I think you've

observed has become a common public

understanding since then that all came

from me

and then you have also heard the idea of

the you've also heard the idea of the

talent stacks and that also came from me

and that book now since then that was

2013 so that six years ago enough people

have tried the ideas in the book that

now they're getting back to me people

are saying they got promotions they

people have lost vast amounts of weight

because using a system instead of a goal

for weight loss and just these

tremendous life changes people will

start

companies quit their job made a fortune

I mean I hear I literally hearing this

every day every single day somebody

contacts me usually in social media and

says your book changed my life then I

wrote wind Binkley that came out about

president Trump's of powers of

persuasion and it wasn't just about

Trump it was a book to teach you

persuasion in a very approachable

everyday way so you can see it happening

to you you could use the same techniques

for your own benefit for your business

for your personal life and now I'm

starting to hear those reports so enough

time is going by that I can't tell you

how many people read that book contacted

me and said hey you know I'm wanted to

want a better situation in my job and I

would say well you know use some of

those techniques in the book and then

they get back to me and say I got a huge

raise or I got a promotion

so when bingley is actually totally

changing people's lives that they are

getting richer by using their

negotiating powers and their persuasion

powers and going out and getting stuff

they're getting raises they're getting

promotions they're doing things that

they didn't they didn't feel they had

the the tools to go get that thing and

then would they realize that the tools

are quite approachable once they've been

explained to them then they could just

take those into their Bossin next thing

you know raise so my my new book that's

available for presale loser thing is

written for the same general purpose

meaning that it's meant to have a direct

improvement on your life in this case to

allow you to see the world in a clearer

way so the loser think is unproductive

ways of thinking and unproductive in

this this context just means you don't

have experience across a number of

domains for example when I was just

talking about climate change did you

notice how I put an economic spin on

climate change the reason I can do that

is because I'm an economics major

you know MBA etc so I've actually worked

and lived in that world where you're

doing projections so when I look at the

economic projections I can just see a

little bit deeper I can understand them

with more texture then if I had never

had that background now the argument is

you don't need to have a degree in

economics to get the basics for example

it would be easy to learn about sunk

costs it would take me a minute to

explain it to you and then you'd know it

forever it would it would take me maybe

two minutes to explain the entire

concept of the discounted value of money

if you've never heard of it

it's maybe maybe you should

and to understand that money in the

future is worth less than money today

so there are probably a dozen or so

basic ways of thinking that are common

to different disciplines if you've never

been exposed to them let's say you're

let's say your channel and life had been

art if you were an art major

or let's say just a history major and

you were looking at the world of

politics you would be flying totally

blind because you would be looking in

one window the window that you learned

your artists window or your history

window or whatever you're looking in one

window you're saying okay I see this

house and it's a bathroom that's it I'm

only looking through one window all I

see is a bathroom

I gotta go that's a delivery but if you

can see through more windows you can see

the world better and that's what loser

think is about teaching you're looking

all the windows I hope you get it

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