Back to episode — Episode 2158 Scott Adams - Let's Chat About Headlines While You Sip Your Coffee & Pet Your Dog Or Cat
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re of the dopamine. You know, the day thing makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Ah. All right. Well, I think you all Americans know what tomorrow is. That's right. Tomorrow will be the anniversary of the death of John Adams, President John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. Little known fact: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who had been great nemeses, but the…
← Previous segment →aid, "Adams still lives," or was it the other way around? Which way did it go? When Adams died he said, "Jefferson still lives." It was Jefferson who said, "Adams still lives." And they died the same day. Yeah, amazing.
Well, anyway, let's talk about stuff. Do you want to see if I can make a billion dollars sound like a small amount of money? Watch this. Here's the power of contrast. Normally if I said to you, "Hey, I'd like to give you a billion dollars," wouldn't you think that was a lot of money? You would,
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right? Because you'd be contrasting that to what you already have. I'm going to make a billion dollars sound like not a lot of money. Now, you ready for this? It has nothing to do with Ukraine. There's some estimates that the cage match between Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, if it happened, could charge a hundred dollars per person for pay-per-view and it would bring in over a billion dollars, just on…
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