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the simultaneous sip. And now go. Is this my imagination or are my zinc levels rising right now? It feels like it. So we've been talking about hydroxychloroquine and the president taking it. And I've mentioned a number of times that the studies that show it being used without zinc may be as if they're using it as if it matters, too. But if you test it without the zinc, you're testing it without…
← Previous segment →ne. But again, I will bookend this with unreliable, unreliable. Everything here about therapeutics, vaccines, vitamins, minerals — you just assume every bit of it is unreliable because it is. None of it is reliable. But keep an eye on zinc. I'm going to say that that has caught my attention.
All right. This Joe Rogan move to Spotify. I'm trying to decide how big a deal this is. Now obviously it's a real big deal for him. I'm delighted that he made that work.
Joe Rogan I often talk about as one of my examples of a talent stack done right. If you were to look at each of Joe Rogan's individual skills, you would say to yourself, "Oh, that one's good. That one's really good. You know, that was pretty great. You know, that one's good. That was great." But you wouldn't find that one specific thing that he does better than all the people in the world.
What you would find instead is about 25 things that he does better than just about everybody. If you could do 25 things better than just about everybody, you get to be Joe Rogan and, you know, probably have a hundred million dollar payday. So when I say he does 20 things, 25 things well, I'm talking about everything from — and to be honest, you have to manage your look if you're on a video thing. He does that well. He's got a great look. You know, that works for what he does.
He's got a whole bunch of skills. He can talk about a whole bunch of topics. I mean, I don't know how many skills he put together, but it's probably something like 25 different sub-skills that he stacked together just over time. You could just see him building up the power level over time.
But here's what really impresses me about it, asid
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e from the fact that he strategically managed his career better than I know better than everybody. Has anybody ever done it better than that? Because if you look at other stuff like Facebook or somebody starts a social media platform, quite often there's a big piece of luck involved. Or somebody was going to make a Facebook, the Facebook, and Zuckerberg was there. But if you look at Joe Rogan's c…
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