Episode 183 Scott Adams - CIA Directors Who Can’t Recognize Jokes, RBS Scumbags
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Hey, Kevin, come on in here. Grab your coffee. Where are the rest of you? Come on, it's time. Andy, Pat, come on in. All right. I think you may have noticed that it's sort of a slow news day so far. So far. Could get more interesting. Let's talk about a few things that are happening that are intere…
View segment →You may have seen the president's tweet in which he tweeted a clip of Schumer, his nemesis, Schumer, who is his nemesis on immigration in particular, saying pretty much exactly what the president says, except it was a while ago and the president wasn't saying it as president or candidate. So Schumer…
View segment →But the other thing that I'd like to, somebody said Trump's black approval is at 36%. I believe that's based on a typo. I saw Candace Owens doing a video in which she said that black support was, I think, 39 percent or something, but then you look at the actual numbers and it's more like 29 percent.…
View segment →Now I put in the title of my Periscope that I tweeted an article about RBS, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and apparently they've been caught. There must be some tapes or something in which members of the bank in the lending department were talking about how they were quite aware that they were destroy…
View segment →Now there's some news. I just tweeted this out, article in Breitbart. Joel had an article about Brennan. So Brennan has apparently written his own response to losing his intelligence credentials or his intelligence, what do you call it, clearance. And he said that a big part of why he started the in…
View segment →All right, somebody says is it true that Brennan is Muslim? There's no evidence of that but he is a friend to Islam, I think. I think we could say that, which is not a bad thing. You know, there's nothing wrong with being a friend to all the religions, but I understand why it's raising an eyebrow. B…
View segment →Why haven't I sipped yet? That is an excellent question. How often do we get this far into Coffee with Scott Adams without a simultaneous sip? I think we're gonna have to catch up. Do you have your cup, your mug, your vessel? Because it's time for the simultaneous sip. Now I know that what some of y…
View segment →Didn't I say I had something else to talk about today? Can somebody remind me what I put in the title of my Periscope here? Oh, by the way, if you're watching my Periscopes on YouTube, if you're watching them on YouTube, make sure that you're watching my actual account. There are some fake accounts…
View segment →All right, I think I've said enough. Now let me just add one other thing. If you haven't yet gone to the website BlightAuthority.com then you should check it out because that's where Bill Pulte and I have a website where we can collect ideas about what to do with these blighted urban areas. You know…
View segment →Hey, Kevin, come on in here. Grab your coffee. Where are the rest of you? Come on, it's time. Andy, Pat, come on in.
All right. I think you may have noticed that it's sort of a slow news day so far. So far. Could get more interesting. Let's talk about a few things that are happening that are interesting.
You may have seen the president's tweet in which he tweeted a clip of Schumer, his nemesis, Schumer, who is his nemesis on immigration in particular, saying pretty much exactly what the president says, except it was a while ago and the president wasn't saying it as president or candidate. So Schumer was completely on his side. I'm not sure how long ago that clip was, but nothing changed. So it's sort of disgusting to see the level of awfulness.
However, however, let's look ahead a little bit. Imagine if you will that what Chuck Schumer said about immigration, whenever that clip was, must have been several years ago, was completely in agreement with what President Trump says now. So what would happen if the Democrats get control of, let's say, the House? Let's say Congress is split. Does that make the odds of a good immigration package better or worse? Because the main reason that the Democrats won't play with the Republicans is because they just don't want to give the Republicans a win. It's not because they disagree, right? I mean, they pretend they disagree, but you can tell from the video clip of Schumer that he doesn't really disagree on the main points.
So what happens when they can get a win? So if there's a mixed Congress, the president would have to work with the Democrats to get something through, which would give the Democrats some kind of a win. So we may have a situation where a mixed Congress actually helps this president, possibly on health care, possibly on immigration. It could happen. I think that I don't think you can rule out that President Trump will come out ahead if the Congress is mixed.
Now if, let's say, it goes the other way, let's say there's a red wave and the president gets even more Republicans in power, well, unless those Republicans have a dominant position where they've got enough of them that they can just force anything through, they're still going to be in this weird middle ground where the Democrats would still have enough power that they can thwart them. So we might come out ahead and even Republicans might get more of what they want with a few more Democrats in power. So you can't really predict how this will go. I'm not telling you that's what I prefer. I'm telling you it's not predictable. And if I had to, if I had to, you know, get in my head and I had to predict, I would say that a mixed Congress will get the president more power, not less. It's possible.
But the other thing that I'd like to, somebody said Trump's black approval is at 36%. I believe that's based on a typo. I saw Candace Owens doing a video in which she said that black support was, I think, 39 percent or something, but then you look at the actual numbers and it's more like 29 percent. Yeah, so I don't think the 39 is real. I think that was actually just a typo. 36 percent, I don't know. Let's look at the numbers. It's much higher whatever it was, and that's important.
One of the things I had underestimated is how amazingly unpopular Omarosa was in the black community. Apparently she was quite hated for being on Trump's side. 36 is a new poll, huh? Wow. Does that seem possible? I mean, let me just Google that. 36 percent, Rasmussen. Let's see if that pops up. Holy hell, you are not kidding me. Trump's, okay, I thought you were kidding. I honestly didn't think that was even possible.
Now again, remember the critics are going to say that Rasmussen leans Republican, but it was the Rasmussen poll that shows that going from 19 to 36. So this day last year was at 19. It literally doubled in one year. Well, well, well. Congratulations to Candace Owens. I don't think anybody has more to do with this, do you? Probably Candace, Kanye West of course, and you know that's a big deal, but it feels like Candace is the one who pulled everything together.
Now what I'm curious about though is how can this play on the left? You know, we see her all the time, but I'm not sure, I'm not even sure how much attention she gets outside of the right silo. So do you wonder if there's something else going on there? You know, if you were to look at all the different forces that might be behind this, probably the economy is the number one thing, but the second thing is I don't think being tough on immigration. So the president's being tough on immigration. I think the black community is kind of looking at that and saying it's hard to see how this isn't good for us.
You know, one of the great things about our system is that you are allowed, you're allowed to vote for your own self-interest. It's a democracy. You can vote for whoever you think is good for you. You don't have to vote for who is good for other people. You can, you just don't have to. And I think probably the African-American citizens of this country are saying to themselves, well, I don't want to sound like I dislike illegal immigrants because I might sound like a racist myself, but it's hard to avoid the fact that if there's less immigration, there's less competition for jobs on the low end, and that might be important.
So something tells me immigration might be the secret sauce that allows everything else to work. That plus good employment. Another factor might be that, and I said this before, that the Democratic Party has sort of self-branded itself a female-centric party. And I don't know if you're a male African-American Democrat if you're feeling entirely comfortable there anymore. I don't know. I don't know how that feels. I would love to see the split. Has anybody seen this? Have you seen the split in the African-American polling between the male and female and whether or not there's, if I had to take a guess, and this is just a guess, all right, I'm not going to bank on this, don't make this one of my predictions that you grade me on. If I had to guess, I would guess that there are more male African-American citizens who are moving to a pro-Trump point of view than female. I think, just guessing. I'd love to see some numbers on that.
Now I put in the title of my Periscope that I tweeted an article about RBS, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and apparently they've been caught. There must be some tapes or something in which members of the bank in the lending department were talking about how they were quite aware that they were destroying the housing market and therefore much of the economy of the United States by making loans that they knew to be fraudulent. Let me just think about that. A gigantic bank was making loans, mortgage loans apparently, that they knew to be fraudulent and they knew would destroy the economy of the United States according to these recordings that are alleged. So let me add "alleged" to all of this just to stay out of trouble. So alleged, alleged, alleged, alleged, alleged. All right, now I'm not in trouble.
Now you might ask yourself, Scott, why did you tweet this? Is it because it's a slow news day? Well, it is, but that's not my interest. Is it because it's a banking story and I used to be a banker? No, no, that is not why it has my interest. It has my interest because years ago I had a little trouble with the Royal Bank of Scotland. Yes, I personally had a little bit of trouble with the Royal Bank of Scotland. Now I'd love to tell you about it, but let's just say lawyers were involved, a lot of lawyers, and I can't tell you about it because one of the things that lawyers often end up doing is saying, hey, when this is all wrapped up, how about we don't talk about it. So I can't talk about it.
But let me tell you a few general things that I can, I feel safely that I can say. One is this. There are two things that you want to avoid in this world. There are lots of things you want to avoid, but I'll talk about two of them. One is you don't want to ever get in a conflict with an entity that has billions of dollars and very expensive lawyers. If I can tell you anything, that would be good advice. Do not get involved in a dispute with an entity that has billions of dollars and can afford very expensive lawyers. Don't do that.
Here's the second bit of advice. Don't get in a dispute with an angry cartoonist. There's also a hypnotist and will stop at nothing to crush your balls. Don't ever do that. You should never be in either one of those situations. Just a general statement.
So I can't tell you more than that. I can just tell you that the Royal Bank of Scotland is one big frickin' piece of crap, if I may. Implore you, if any of you do business with the Royal Bank of Scotland, I would ask you to stop. Consider all alternatives. If you're working with any kind of a subsidiary, just know if you're American, you know, this can go for the rest of you too, but if you're American, you should know that they tried to destroy your country and that you should never do business with the Royal Bank of Scotland based on this article in Business Insider, because now we know that they were trying to destroy your country, Americans. Why would you ever do business with them again?
So that's the end of my little rant. I wish I could tell you more. I wish I could tell you more, but that's all I can tell you.
Now there's some news. I just tweeted this out, article in Breitbart. Joel had an article about Brennan. So Brennan has apparently written his own response to losing his intelligence credentials or his intelligence, what do you call it, clearance. And he said that a big part of why he started the investigation about Trump collusion was because of Trump's joke in public where he said, hey Russia, if you've got Hillary's email, let's see 'em. I think it was Hillary's email, right?
Now how many times have I told you they're one third of the public can't tell the difference between a joke and something that's not a joke. I'm not kidding about that. It's roughly a third of the public quite literally doesn't have a sense of humor. I would go further. I will go further and tell you that I'll bet there's some day, here's a prediction, this one you can bank on, here's a prediction. Some day 23andMe and other places that check your DNA, they will be able to determine if you have a sense of humor. Seriously. You will be able to know genetically if you have a sense of humor.
I did 23andMe and it's fascinating how much it does know. It can know stuff like, will your hair turn lighter in the sun? Do you have a sneeze reflex when you see the sun? What kind of allergies you might get? But the one they just gave me an update, and one of the updates was that I would not be very good at holding a tune. So in other words, I'm a little bit musically ungifted, if you know what I mean. Whereas Christina, my girlfriend, who is musically gifted, you know, she plays a number of instruments at a very high level, her tests came back and sure enough it said that people with her DNA are usually musically gifted. Not usually, but strong propensity.
Now if your DNA can tell if you are musically inclined or you know you can hear tones, right, I'm, I feel confident in saying this, someday they'll be able to determine if you have a sense of humor and it's going to be devastating because a third of the public is going to be outed as not having one. I know if you're not a professional humorist this is hard to believe because if you see a crowd of people and there's a humorist and it seems like they're all laughing, but if you were to zoom in on the audience, and it wouldn't matter who that comedian was, if you zoomed in you'd see that about a third of them are not laughing. They're just like they're looking at the people around them laughing. They're like, wow, people are laughing. I suppose I should at least clap a little bit. I think some of this is funny but I can't really tell.
Now that's very much the way I listen to music, being on the low end of music appreciation where I am. I still like a good song but I've noticed that I mostly like music when I'm around other people who are liking it. In other words, I'm picking up something from the social interaction so that if other people are really loving a song, the odds of me also loving it go way up. So that's how unmusical I am, that I'm just completely influenced by the crowd.
So Brennan may have started one of the most important political witch hunts in history based on not recognizing a joke. And I'm not even making that up. I feel fairly confident in saying that what I just said is literally true. That the head of the CIA has almost destroyed the United States because he didn't understand an obvious joke was a joke.
Now he might be lying about that. You know, it could be that he's just using that as an excuse and say, uh, it was really about that thing he said that didn't look like a joke to me. So maybe it's just something he wanted to do and he just needed what I call a fake because it was already inclined to do it but he wanted to wait. So we don't know, but it's entirely possible and we can't rule it out at this point that he started something that could almost destroy the planet Earth. You know, if you imagine that it could be a ripple effect of destabilizing the United States which causes god-knows-what nuclear war. But that's sort of on Brennan now.
If you've got a guy who is willing to put the entire stability of the world at risk because he can't tell the difference between a joke and a serious statement, that guy's gotta lose his security clearance at least. I wouldn't want him anywhere near a decision, would you? After seeing how Brennan responded to a public joke, would you want him to make any important decisions? By that I mean that's some scary stuff. And having watched him in public now for I guess two years, would you trust him in any kind of job? Like I don't know what kind of job I would trust that guy because we've seen some bad judgment and bad intentions probably. I don't want to be a mind reader but there are some things we can say that are objectively true. It looks like bad judgment to us so we can say that. We can't read his mind though.
All right, somebody says is it true that Brennan is Muslim? There's no evidence of that but he is a friend to Islam, I think. I think we could say that, which is not a bad thing. You know, there's nothing wrong with being a friend to all the religions, but I understand why it's raising an eyebrow. But that alone, I don't think that alone is something you can bank on. Well you could bank on it if it's the RBS, Royal Bank of Scotland. Yeah, if you want to bank on Brennan, your bank should be the Royal Bank of Scotland. That would be the one.
Why haven't I sipped yet? That is an excellent question. How often do we get this far into Coffee with Scott Adams without a simultaneous sip? I think we're gonna have to catch up. Do you have your cup, your mug, your vessel? Because it's time for the simultaneous sip. Now I know that what some of you are thinking. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, dear Mr. Scott, I'm not gonna take a simultaneous sip just because you want me to. What are you trying to do to me? I'm a free thinker. I will never have a simultaneous sip. And that's fine. For those of you who want to go against the grain, you want to go the other way, that's good. But I think I can speak for all of you who have enjoyed the simultaneous sip, it does make the coffee taste better. And if you haven't experienced that, well you have to take our word for it.
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Somebody said I was slipping past the sale, which is very funny. Simultaneous resistors.
Didn't I say I had something else to talk about today? Can somebody remind me what I put in the title of my Periscope here?
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Yes, the WhenHub startup, my startup, is now listed on CoinPulse. I'll have more about that on another Periscope, but we're now able to trade the When tokens that are part of the WhenHub app. I'll talk more about that another time.
Scott, are you trying to fleece us? No, I'm trying to make an app that I think will be useful in a whole variety of ways, including education and keeping lonely people company. You know, if you haven't seen it, my app, the WhenHub app, it's available in stores. And I'll just say one thing about it. It's designed so that anybody can sign up as an expert at anything. You just have to know more than the people who want advice from you and that you can set your own price and when people can immediately call you so you're available now. Somebody says, oh, I want an expert, and they're immediately on a video call with an expert at the price set by the expert.
But I'm starting to think that maybe its larger application that would be useful is keeping people company. I saw that in Japan middle-aged men are actually renting themselves out to give advice that a middle-aged man would know and just keep people company. Have you heard of that? And there are other people I think who are making scads of money on YouTube who just eat. It's just a YouTube of somebody eating their lunch and these are used to largely just keep people company. And I'm thinking how many people would pay just to have somebody hang out with them for a while and it's probably a lot because keep in mind that the price could be quite reasonable, especially if it's somebody in another country, somebody who just has some free time, maybe so they just want to do it. So it might be that the biggest application is just somebody who wants to provide some company and mild advice and life advice and that sort of thing.
I was thinking the other day about how much knowledge I have accumulated in my way-too-long life and how if I didn't share it, it would be just sort of stranded. You know, by the time you reach my age and when you've been involved in this many different businesses as I have and you've seen the ones that worked and the ones that failed, you know, I've got an MBA degree in economics. I've been probably involved in, I don't know, 25 different businesses one way or another. When you've done that many things you have all this sort of, I hate to call it wisdom, but experience locked up in your head and it's just a shame that it would be stranded there. So there are lots of people like me who have tons of knowledge that they can unlock.
I've said this before about race relations and particularly the African-American community and also women. So this is something that we and African-American citizens have in common, which is if it's true that the people who mostly have the power and the influence in our society are white men, you know, just on average they've got more of the power and the networks and the connections and the experience and all that. If that's true, and I think most people would say that's where it's concentrated, if you don't have access to all of those people then you don't have the biggest financial asset that a person could have, which is who you know. Who you know, especially if you were related to them, that helps a lot, is gonna be everything. Who you know really, really matters.
And I've said this before but especially in the MeToo era, if a professional woman, let's say a woman in the business world, wanted to get some advice or network with a man and said, hey, how about, you know, would you like to go to lunch, what would that man or should that man say or do in the era of MeToo? I don't know if the man is going to take the lunch and if he does you might have to invite somebody else there just so there's some witnesses so you're not going to get the same kind of interaction that two men will get. It's very common for a man to say, hey yeah, how about a cup of coffee. Like I get that request all the time. The number of men who have contacted me to say, hey do you have a minute, let's, you know, for a phone call, cup of coffee, and of course I say, you know, most of the time I don't have time but lots of times I say yeah, and then they can get connected to whatever people I know, wisdom, etc. And it's free, doesn't cost them anything most of the time.
But if a woman made the same request and said, hey, do you want to meet me for lunch, I wouldn't take that. I would not go to lunch with a woman in the era of MeToo. And how devastatingly bad is that for women? You know, I'm not talking about me in particular but you are. So it's such a, that is such a bad situation.
Now let's take a similar but different situation for African-Americans, let's say people in the business world who want to network, want to connect. Now I would of course, if it's a male, if let's say if it's an African-American male, I would definitely take the lunch, take the coffee, you know, if I have time. Time allowing is always the biggest thing but I would take that. But do they ask? How many African-American men have contacted me compared to the number of, let's say, Asian Americans, you know, Indian Americans and white Americans? That group very easily contacts me all the time. So it's just almost every day somebody in one of those groups says, hey can I talk to you, can I connect, can I get some advice, can I do something. But the number of African-American men who contact me is low, lower than their percentage in the population even. And I don't know why that is exactly but I assume that it's just a little less comfortable. That's a gigantic, gigantic disadvantage.
And so I'm hoping that the WhenHub app may be one of the things that could do is just make it easier to contact somebody that you wouldn't easily contact. Maybe you wouldn't go to lunch with them but you'd have a phone call. And the other advantage of the WhenHub app, this is my startup's app, is that you can be as anonymous as you want to be because the person on the other end is not going to get your phone number or your contact information. So only the app knows who you are or how to contact you. So if you're a woman and you wanted some advice from a male but you didn't want to have that male have your phone number, which is probably pretty common, the WhenHub app would let you do that.
All right, so if you pay them do they have to be nice to you? Well we hope they will be.
All right, I think I've said enough. Now let me just add one other thing. If you haven't yet gone to the website BlightAuthority.com then you should check it out because that's where Bill Pulte and I have a website where we can collect ideas about what to do with these blighted urban areas. You know, what to build on the blank, you know, the empty pieces of land. And we had a denial of service attack that came out of China, which doesn't mean that China was behind it. You know, I suppose hackers could have taken over a server in China and directed it to attack the site. But so I thought to myself, of all the websites in the world that you are going to attack with a denial of service, why that one? It literally has no negative anything to it. It's just a collection of good ideas to help people who need help in the urban areas. You know, something to build, something that would be positive. There's literally nothing about that that's negative and that gets a denial of service attack. I mean, who is that awful that that's the thing you attack? I mean it's mind-boggling that anybody would even bother.
So anyway, you can either go to BlightAuthority or the Blight Authority, I believe they both go to the same page, and give us your ideas. I'll be talking a lot more about that in its own Periscopes. There may be some exciting things coming up soon but I can't say anything about that yet because I don't know. But there might be some exciting developments. So stay tuned and I will talk to you another time, maybe sometime soon. See you later.
bum-bum-bum bum-bum-bum bum-bum-bum hey Kevin come on in here grab your coffee where are the rest of you come on it's time Andy Pat come on in all right I think you may have noticed that it's sort of a slow news day so far so far could get more interesting let's talk about a few things that are happening that are interesting you may have seen the president's tweet in which he tweeted a clip of Schumer his nemesis Schumer who is his nemesis on immigration in particular saying pretty much exactly what the president says except it was a while ago and the president wasn't saying it as president or candidate so Schumer was completely on his side I'm not sure how long ago that clip was but nothing changed so it's sort of disgusting to see the level of awfulness however however let's look ahead a little bit imagine if you will that what Chuck Schumer said about immigration whenever that clip was must have been several years ago was completely in agreement with what President Trump says now so what would happen if the Democrats get control of let's say the house let's say Congress is split does that make the odds of a good immigration package better or worse because the main reason that the Democrats won't play with the Republicans is because they just don't want to give the Republicans a win it's not because they disagree right I mean they pretend they disagree but you can tell from the the video clip is humor that he doesn't really disagree on on the main points so what happens when they can get a wind so if there's a mixed Congress the president would have to work with the Democrats to get something through which would give the Democrats some kind of a win so we may have a situation where a mixed Congress actually helps this president possibly on health care possibly on immigration it could happen I think that I don't think you can rule out that President Trump will come out ahead if the Congress is mixed now if let's say you goes the other way let's say there's a red wave and the president gets even you know more Republicans in power well unless those Republicans have a dominant position where they've got enough of them that they can just force anything through they're still going to be in this weird middle ground where the Democrats would still have enough power that they can thwart them so we might come out ahead and even Republicans might get more of what they want with a few more Democrats in power so you can't really predict how this will go I'm not telling you that's what I prefer I'm telling you it's not predictable and if I had to if I had to you know got into head and I had to predict I would say that a mixed Congress will get the president more power not less it's possible but the other thing that I'd like to somebody said Trump's black approval is at 36% I believe that's based on a typo I saw Candace Owens doing a video in which she said that black support was I think 39 percent or something but then you look at the actual numbers and it's more like 29 percent yeah so I don't think the 39 is real I think that was actually just a typo 36 percent I don't know let's look at the numbers it's it's much higher whatever it was and that's important one of the things I had underestimated is how amazingly unpopular Omarosa was in the black community apparently she was quite hated for being on Trump side 36 is a new poll huh Wow does that seem does that seem possible I mean let me just google that 36% or s moves and let's see if that pops up holy hell you are not kidding me Trump's okay I thought you were kidding I honestly didn't think that was even possible now again remember the critics are going to say that Rasmussen you know leans Republican but it was the Rasmussen zoned poll the shows that going from 19 to 36 so this this day last year was at 19 it literally doubled in one year well well well congratulations to Candace Owens I don't think anybody has more to do with this do you probably Candace Kanye West of course and you know that's a big deal but it feels like Candace is the one who pulled everything together now what I'm curious about though is how can this plays on the left you know we we see her all the time but I'm not sure I'm not even sure how much attention she gets outside of the you know the right silo so do you wonder if there's something else going on there you know if you were to look at all the different forces that might be behind this probably the economy is the number one thing but the the the second thing is I don't think being tough on immigration so the president's being tough on immigration I think the black community is kind of looking at that and saying it's hard to see how this isn't good for us you know one of the great things about our system is that you are allowed you're allowed to vote for your own self-interest it's a democracy you can vote for whoever you think is good for you you don't have to vote for who is good for other people you can you just don't have to and I think the probably the african-american citizens of this country are saying to themselves well I don't want to sound like I dislike you know I don't want to sound like I dislike illegal immigrants because I might sound like a racist myself but it's hard to avoid the fact that if there's less immigration there's less competition for jobs on the low end and that might be important so something tells me immigration might be the secret sauce that allows everything else to work that plus good employment another factor might be that and I said this before that the Democratic Party it has sort of self branded itself a female-centric party and I don't know if your if you're a male african-american Democrat if you're feeling entirely comfortable there anymore I don't know I don't know how that feels I would love to see the split has anybody seen this have you seen the split in the african-american polling between the male and female and whether or not there's if I had to take a gas and this is just a guess all right I'm not gonna I'm not going to bank on this don't make this don't make this one of my predictions that you grade me on if I had to guess I would guess that there are more male African American citizens who are moving to a pro-trump point of view than female I think just guessing I'd love to see some numbers on that now I put in the title of my periscope that I tweeted a article about RBS the Royal Bank of Scotland and apparently they've been caught there must be some tapes or something in which members of the bank in the lending department we're talking about how they were quite aware that they were destroying the housing market and therefore much of the economy of the United States by making loans that they knew to be fraudulent let me just think about that a gigantic bank was making loans mortgage loans apparently that they knew to be fraudulent and they knew would destroy the economy of the United States according to these recordings that are alleged so let me add allege to all of this just to stay out of trouble so alleged alleged alleged alleged alleged all right now I'm not in trouble now you might ask yourself Scott why did you tweet this is it because it's a slow news day well it is but that's not my interest is it because it's a banking story and I used to be a banker no no that is not why it has my interest it has my interest because years ago I had a little trouble with the Royal Bank of Scotland yes I personally a little bit of a trouble with the Royal Bank of Scotland now I'd love to tell you about it but let's just say lawyers were involved a lot of lawyers and I can't tell you about it because one of the things that lawyers often end up doing is saying hey when this is all wrapped up how about we don't talk about it so I can't talk about it but let me tell you a few general things that I can I feel safely that I can say one is this there are two things that you want to avoid in this world there are lots of things you want to avoid but I'll talk about two of them one is you don't want to ever get in a conflict with an entity that has billions of dollars and very expensive lawyers if if I can tell you anything that would be good advice do not get involved in a dispute with an entity that has billions of dollars and can afford very expensive lawyers don't do that here's the second bit of advice don't get in a dispute with an angry cartoonist there's also a hypnotist and will stop at nothing to crush your balls don't ever do that you should never be an a either one of those situations just a general statement so I can't tell you more than that I can just tell you that the Royal Bank of Scotland is one big frickin piece of crap if I may implore you if any of you do business with the Royal Bank of Scotland I would ask you to stop consider all alternatives if you're working with any kind of a subsidiary just now if you're American you know you this this can go for the rest of you too but if you're American you should know that they tried to destroy your country and that you should never do business with the Royal Bank of Scotland based on this article in Business Insider because now we know that they were trying to destroy your country Americans why would you ever do business with them again so that's the end of my little rant I wish I could tell you more I wish I could tell you more but that's all I can tell you now there's some news I just tweeted this out article in Breitbart Joel had an article about Brennan so Brennan has apparently written his own response to losing his his intelligence credentials or his intelligence what do you call it clearance and he said that a big part of why he started the investigation about Trump collusion was because of Trump's joke in public where he said hey Russia if you've got Hillary's email let's see him I think it was Hillary's email right now how many times have I told you they're one third of the public can't tell the difference between a joke and you know something that's not a joke I'm not kidding about that it's roughly a third of the public quite literally doesn't have a sense of humor I would go further I will go further and tell you that I'll bet there's some day here's a prediction this one you can bank on here's a prediction some day 23andme and other places that check your DNA they will be able to determine if you have a sense of humor seriously you will be able to know genetically if you have a sense of humor I did 23andme and it's fascinating how much it does know it can know stuff like blue your hair turned lighter in the Sun do you have a sneeze reflex when you see the Sun what kind of allergies you might get both but the one they just gave me an update and one of the updates was that I would not be very good at holding a tune so in other words I'm a little bit musically ungifted if you know what I mean whereas Christina my girlfriend who is musically gifted you know she plays a number of instruments at a very high level she her her tests came back and sure enough is said that people with her DNA are usually musically gifted not usually but strong propensity now if your DNA can tell if you are musically inclined or you know you can hear tones right I'm I feel confident in saying this someday they'll be able to determine if you have a sense of humor and it's going to be devastating because a third of the public is going to be outed as not having one I know if you're not a professional humorist this is hard to believe because if you see a crowd of people at you know and there's a humorist and it seems like they're all laughing but if you were to zoom in on the audience and it wouldn't matter who that could be was if you zoomed in you'd see that about a third of them are not laughing they're just like they're looking at the people around them laughing they're like wow people are laughing I suppose I should at least clap a little bit I think some of this is funny but I can't really tell now that's very much the way I listen to music being a on the low end of music appreciation where I am I still like you know a good song but I've noticed that I mostly like music when I'm around other people who are liking it in other words I'm picking up something from the the social interaction so that if other people are really loving a song the odds of me also loving it go way up so that's that's how unmusical I am that I'm just completely influenced by the by the crowd so Brennan may have started one of the most important political witch hunts in history based on not recognizing a joke and I'm not even making that up I feel fairly confident in saying that what I just said is literally true that the head of the CIA has almost destroyed the United States because he didn't understand an obvious joke was a joke now he might be lying about that you know it could be that he's just using that as an excuse and say uh it was really about that thing he said that you know didn't look like a joke to me so maybe it's just maybe it's something he wanted to do when he just needed what I call a fake because you know it was it was already inclined to do it but he wanted you wanted to wait so we don't know but it's entirely possible and we can't rule it down at this point that he started something that could almost destroy the planet Earth you know if you imagine that it could be a ripple effect of destabilizing the United States which causes god-knows-what nuclear war but that's sort of on bredren now if you've got a guy who is willing to put the entire stability of the world at risk because he can't tell the difference between a joke and a serious statement that guy's gotta lose his security clearance at least I wouldn't want him anywhere near a decision would you after after seeing how Brennen responded to a public joke would you want him to make any important decisions by that anything I mean that's some scary stuff and having watched him in public now for I guess two years would you trust him in any kind of job like I don't know what kind of job I would trust that guy because we've seen we've seen some bad judgment and bad intentions probably I don't want to be a mind reader but there are some things we can say that are objectively true the it looks like bad judgment to us so we can say that we can't read his mind though all right somebody says is it true that Brendan is Muslim there's no evidence of that but he is a friend to Islam I think I think we could say that which is not a bad thing you know there's there's nothing wrong with being a friend to all the religions but I understand why it's raising a raising an eyebrow but that alone I don't think that alone is something you can you can bank on well you could bank on it if it's the RBS Royal Bank of Scotland yeah if you want to bank on Brennan your bank should be the Royal Bank of Scotland that would be the one why haven't I sipped yet that is an excellent question how often do we get this far into coffee with Scott Adams without a simultaneous sip I think we're gonna have to catch up do you have your cup your mug your vessel because it's time for the simultaneous if now I know that what some of you are thinking I know what you're thinking you're thinking dear Miss Scott I'm not gonna take a simultaneous sip just because you want me to what are you trying to do to me I'm a free thinker I will never have a simultaneous sip and that's fine for those of you who want to go against the grain you want to go the other way that's good but I think I can speak for all of that all of you who have enjoyed the simultaneous sip it does make the coffee taste better and if you haven't experienced that well you have to take our word for it and now the simultaneous soup somebody said I was slipping past the sale which is very funny simultaneous resistors didn't I say I had something else to talk about today can somebody remind me what I put in the title of my periscope here oh by the way if you're watching my periscopes on youtube if you're watching them on youtube make sure that you're watching my actual account there there are some fake accounts that take my periscopes and put them on youtube they are not me so look for real coffee with scott adams i tweeted the actual link to it yesterday so you can see it in my Twitter feed so please watch that one yes the when hub start-up my startup is now listed on coin pulse I'll have more about that on another periscope but we're now able to trade the when tokens that are part of the interface buy win hub app I'll talk more about that another time Scott are you trying to fleece us no I'm trying to make an app that I think will be useful in a whole variety of ways including education and keeping lonely people company you know the if you haven't seen it my my app the interface app it's available in stores and I'll just say one thing about it it's designed so that anybody can sign up as an expert at anything you just have to know more than the people who want advice from you and that you can set your own price and when people can immediately call you so you're available now somebody says oh I want an expert and they're immediately on a video call with an expert at the price set by the expert but I'm starting to think that maybe it's larger application that would be useful is keeping people company I saw that they're in Japan middle-aged men are actually renting themselves out to give advice that a middle-aged man would would know and just keep people company have you heard of that and there are other people I think who are making scads of money on You.
Tube who just eat it's just a You.
Tube of somebody eating their lunch and it's and these are used to largely just keep people company and I'm thinking how many people would pay just to have somebody hang out with them for a while and it's probably a lot because keep in mind that you know the price could be quite reasonable especially if it's somebody in another country somebody who just has some free time maybe so he just wants to do it so it might be that the the biggest application is just somebody who wants to provide some companies and milds advice and life advice and that sort of thing I was thinking the other day about how much knowledge I have accumulated in my way to long life and how if I didn't share it it would be just sort of stranded you know by the time you reach my age and when you've been involved in this many different businesses as I have and you've seen the ones that worked and the ones that failed you know I've got a I've got a an MBA degree in economics I've been probably an involved and I don't 25 different businesses one way or another when you've done that many things you have all this sort of I hate to call it wisdom but it experience locked up in your head and it's just a shame that it would be stranded there so there are lots of people like me who have tons of knowledge that they can unlock I've said this before about race relations and particularly the african-american community and also women so this is something that we and african-americans citizens have in common which is if it's true that the people who mostly have the power and the influence in our society are our white men you know just on average they've got more of the power and the networks and the the connections and the experience and all that if that's true and I think most people would say that's where it's concentrated if you don't have access to all of those people then you don't have the biggest financial asset that a person could have which is who you know who you know especially if you were related to him that helps a lot is gonna be everything who you know really really matters and I've said this before but especially in the me to era if a if a professional woman let's say a woman in the in the business world wanted to get some advice or network with a man and said hey how about you know would you like to go to lunch what what would that man or should that man say or do in the era of me - I don't know if the man is going to take the lunch and if he does you might have to invite you know somebody else there just so we asked them you know some witnesses so you're not going to get the same kind of interaction that two men will get it's very common for a man to say hey yeah but a cup of coffee like I get that request all the time the the number of men who have contacted me to say hey do you have a minute let's you know for a phone call cup of coffee and of course I say you know most of the time I don't have time but lots of times I say PR and then they can get connected to whatever people I know wisdom etc and it's free doesn't cost him anything most of the time but if a woman made the same request inside a day he do you want to meet me for lunch I wouldn't take that I would not go to lunch with a woman in the era of me too and how how devastatingly bad is that for women you know I'm not talking about me in particular but you are so it's such a that is such a bad situation now let's take you know a similar but different situation for african-american let's say people in the business world who want to you know one a network want to connect now I would of course if it's a male if let's say if it's an african-american male I would definitely take the lunch take the coffee you know if I have time time allowing is always the biggest thing but I would take that but do they ask how many african-american men have contacted me compared to the number of let's say Asian Americans you know in Indian Americans and white Americans that group very easily contacts me all the time so it's just almost every day somebody in one of those groups says hey can I talk to you can i connect can I get some advice can I do something but the number of African American men who contact me is low lower than you know their percentage in the population even and I don't know why that is exactly and but I assume that it's just a little less comfortable that's a gigantic gigantic disadvantage and so I'm hoping that the interface app may be one of the things that could do is just make it easier to contact somebody that you wouldn't easily contact maybe you wouldn't go to lunch with them but you'd have a you know you might have a phone call and the other advantage of the interface app this is my startups app is that you can be as anonymous as you want to be because the the person on the other end is not going to get your phone call or your contact information so only the app knows who you are or had contact you so if you're a woman and you wanted some advice from a male but you didn't want to have that male have your phone number which is probably pretty common the interface app would let you do that all right so if you pay them do they have to be nice to you well we hope they will be all right I think I've said enough now let me let me just add one other thing if you haven't yet gone to the website blight Authority dot-com then you should check it out because that's where Bill pulled a and I have a website where we can collect ideas about what to do with these blighted urban areas you know what to build on the blank you know the empty pieces of land and we we have a denial of service attack that came out of China which doesn't mean that China was behind it you know I suppose hackers could have taken over a server in China and directed it to attack the site but so I thought to myself of all the websites in the world that you are going to attack with a denial of service why that one it literally has no negative anything to it it's just a collection of good ideas to help people who need help in the urban areas you know something to to build something that would be positive there's literally nothing about that that's negative and that gets a denial of service attack I mean who is that awful that that's the thing you attack I mean it's it's mind boggling that anybody would even bother so so anyway you can either go to blight to Authority or the blight Authority I believe they both go to the same page and give us your ideas I'll be talking a lot more about that in its own periscopes there may be some exciting things coming up soon but I can't say anything about that yet because I don't know but there might be some exciting developments are so stay tuned and I will talk to you another time maybe sometime soon see you later
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hey Kevin come on in here grab your
coffee where are the rest of you come on
it's time Andy
Pat come on in all right I think you may
have noticed that it's sort of a slow
news day so far so far could get more
interesting let's talk about a few
things that are happening that are
interesting you may have seen the
president's tweet in which he tweeted a
clip of Schumer his nemesis Schumer who
is his nemesis on immigration in
particular saying pretty much exactly
what the president says except it was a
while ago and the president wasn't
saying it as president or candidate so
Schumer was completely on his side I'm
not sure how long ago that clip was but
nothing changed so it's sort of
disgusting to see the level of awfulness
however however let's look ahead a
little bit imagine if you will that what
Chuck Schumer said about immigration
whenever that clip was must have been
several years ago was completely in
agreement with what President Trump says
now so what would happen if the
Democrats get control of let's say the
house let's say Congress is split does
that make the odds of a good immigration
package better or worse because the main
reason that the Democrats won't play
with the Republicans is because they
just don't want to give the Republicans
a win
it's not because they disagree right I
mean they pretend they disagree but you
can tell from the
the video clip is humor that he doesn't
really disagree on on the main points so
what happens when they can get a wind so
if there's a mixed Congress the
president would have to work with the
Democrats to get something through which
would give the Democrats some kind of a
win so we may have a situation where a
mixed Congress actually helps this
president possibly on health care
possibly on immigration it could happen
I think that I don't think you can rule
out that President Trump will come out
ahead if the Congress is mixed now if
let's say you goes the other way let's
say there's a red wave and the president
gets even you know more Republicans in
power well unless those Republicans have
a dominant position where they've got
enough of them that they can just force
anything through they're still going to
be in this weird middle ground where the
Democrats would still have enough power
that they can thwart them so we might
come out ahead and even Republicans
might get more of what they want with a
few more Democrats in power so you can't
really predict how this will go
I'm not telling you that's what I prefer
I'm telling you it's not predictable and
if I had to if I had to you know got
into head and I had to predict I would
say that a mixed Congress will get the
president more power not less it's
possible
but the other thing that I'd like to
somebody said Trump's black approval is
at 36% I believe that's based on a typo
I saw Candace Owens doing a video in
which she said that black support was I
think 39 percent or something but then
you look at the actual numbers and it's
more like 29 percent yeah so I don't
think the 39 is real I think that was
actually just a typo 36 percent I don't
know let's look at the numbers it's it's
much higher whatever it was and that's
important one of the things I had
underestimated is how amazingly
unpopular Omarosa was in the black
community apparently she was quite hated
for being on Trump side 36 is a new poll
huh Wow does that seem does that seem
possible I mean let me just google that
36% or s moves and let's see if that
pops up
holy hell you are not kidding me Trump's
okay I thought you were kidding I
honestly didn't think that was even
possible now again remember the critics
are going to say that Rasmussen you know
leans Republican but it was the
Rasmussen zoned poll the shows that
going from 19 to 36 so this this day
last year was at 19
it literally doubled in one year well
well well
congratulations to Candace Owens I don't
think anybody has more to do with this
do you probably Candace Kanye West of
course and you know
that's a big deal but it feels like
Candace is the one who pulled everything
together now what I'm curious about
though is how can this plays on the left
you know we we see her all the time but
I'm not sure I'm not even sure how much
attention she gets outside of the you
know the right silo so do you wonder if
there's something else going on there
you know if you were to look at all the
different forces that might be behind
this
probably the economy is the number one
thing but the the the second thing is I
don't think being tough on immigration
so the president's being tough on
immigration
I think the black community is kind of
looking at that and saying it's hard to
see how this isn't good for us you know
one of the great things about our system
is that you are allowed you're allowed
to vote for your own self-interest it's
a democracy you can vote for whoever you
think is good for you
you don't have to vote for who is good
for other people you can you just don't
have to and I think the probably the
african-american citizens of this
country are saying to themselves well I
don't want to sound like I dislike you
know I don't want to sound like I
dislike illegal immigrants because I
might sound like a racist myself but
it's hard to avoid the fact that if
there's less immigration there's less
competition for jobs on the low end and
that might be important so something
tells me immigration might be the secret
sauce that allows everything else to
work that plus good employment another
factor might be that and I said this
before that the Democratic Party it has
sort of self branded itself a
female-centric party and I don't know if
your if you're a male african-american
Democrat if you're feeling entirely
comfortable there anymore I don't know I
don't know how that feels
I would love to see the split has
anybody seen this have you seen the
split in the african-american polling
between the male and female and whether
or not there's if I had to take a gas
and this is just a guess
all right I'm not gonna I'm not going to
bank on this don't make this don't make
this one of my predictions that you
grade me on if I had to guess I would
guess that there are more male African
American citizens who are moving to a
pro-trump point of view than female I
think just guessing I'd love to see some
numbers on that now I put in the title
of my periscope that I tweeted a article
about RBS the Royal Bank of Scotland and
apparently they've been caught there
must be some tapes or something in which
members of the bank in the lending
department we're talking about how they
were quite aware that they were
destroying the housing market and
therefore much of the economy of the
United States by making loans that they
knew to be fraudulent let me just think
about that a gigantic bank was making
loans mortgage loans apparently that
they knew to be fraudulent and they knew
would destroy the economy of the United
States according to these recordings
that are alleged so let me add allege to
all of this just to stay out of trouble
so alleged alleged alleged alleged
alleged all right now I'm not in trouble
now you might ask yourself Scott why did
you tweet this is it because it's a
slow news day well it is but that's not
my interest is it because it's a banking
story and I used to be a banker no no
that is not why it has my interest it
has my interest because years ago I had
a little trouble with the Royal Bank of
Scotland yes I personally a little bit
of a trouble with the Royal Bank of
Scotland now I'd love to tell you about
it but let's just say lawyers were
involved a lot of lawyers and I can't
tell you about it because one of the
things that lawyers often end up doing
is saying hey when this is all wrapped
up how about we don't talk about it so I
can't talk about it but let me tell you
a few general things that I can I feel
safely that I can say one is this there
are two things that you want to avoid in
this world there are lots of things you
want to avoid but I'll talk about two of
them one is you don't want to ever get
in a conflict with an entity that has
billions of dollars and very expensive
lawyers if if I can tell you anything
that would be good advice do not get
involved in a dispute with an entity
that has billions of dollars and can
afford very expensive lawyers don't do
that here's the second bit of advice
don't get in a dispute with an angry
cartoonist there's also a hypnotist and
will stop at nothing to crush your
balls don't ever do that you
should never be an a either one of those
situations just a general statement so I
can't tell you more than that I can just
tell you that the Royal Bank of Scotland
is one big frickin piece of crap if I
may implore you if any of you do
business with the Royal Bank of Scotland
I would ask you to stop consider all
alternatives if you're working with any
kind of a subsidiary just now if you're
American you know you this this can go
for the rest of you too
but if you're American you should know
that they tried to destroy your country
and that you should never do business
with the Royal Bank of Scotland based on
this article in Business Insider because
now we know that they were trying to
destroy your country Americans why would
you ever do business with them again so
that's the end of my little rant I wish
I could tell you more I wish I could
tell you more but that's all I can tell
you now there's some news I just tweeted
this out article in Breitbart Joel
had an article about Brennan
so Brennan has apparently written his
own response to losing his his
intelligence credentials or his
intelligence what do you call it
clearance and he said that a big part of
why he started the investigation about
Trump collusion was because of Trump's
joke in public where he said hey Russia
if you've got Hillary's email let's see
him I think it was Hillary's email right
now how many times have I told you
they're one third of the public can't
tell the difference between a joke and
you know something that's not a joke
I'm not kidding about that it's roughly
a third of the public quite literally
doesn't have a sense of humor
I would go further I will go further and
tell you that I'll bet there's some day
here's a prediction this one you can
bank on here's a prediction some day
23andme and other places that check your
DNA they will be able to determine if
you have a sense of humor seriously you
will be able to know genetically if you
have a sense of humor I did 23andme and
it's fascinating how much it does know
it can know stuff like blue your hair
turned lighter in the Sun do you have a
sneeze reflex when you see the Sun what
kind of allergies you might get both but
the one they just gave me an update and
one of the updates was that I would not
be very good at holding a tune so in
other words I'm a little bit musically
ungifted if you know what I mean
whereas Christina my girlfriend who is
musically gifted you know she plays a
number of instruments at a very high
level she her her tests came back and
sure enough is said that people with her
DNA are usually musically gifted not
usually but strong propensity now if
your DNA can tell if you are musically
inclined or you know you can hear tones
right I'm I feel confident in saying
this someday they'll be able to
determine if you have a sense of humor
and it's going to be devastating because
a third of the public is going to be
outed as not having one I know if you're
not a professional humorist this is hard
to believe because if you see a crowd of
people at you know and there's a
humorist and it seems like they're all
laughing but if you were to zoom in on
the audience and it wouldn't matter who
that could be
was if you zoomed in you'd see that
about a third of them are not laughing
they're just like they're looking at the
people around them laughing they're like
wow people are laughing I suppose I
should at least clap a little bit I
think some of this is funny
but I can't really tell now that's very
much the way I listen to music being a
on the low end of music appreciation
where I am I still like you know a good
song but I've noticed that I mostly like
music when I'm around other people who
are liking it in other words I'm picking
up something from the the social
interaction so that if other people are
really loving a song the odds of me also
loving it go way up so that's that's how
unmusical I am that I'm just completely
influenced by the by the crowd
so Brennan may have started one of the
most important political witch hunts in
history based on not recognizing a joke
and I'm not even making that up I feel
fairly confident in saying that what I
just said is literally true that the
head of the CIA has almost destroyed the
United States because he didn't
understand an obvious joke was a joke
now he might be lying about that you
know it could be that he's just using
that as an excuse and say uh it was
really about that thing he said that you
know didn't look like a joke to me so
maybe it's just maybe it's something he
wanted to do when he just needed what I
call a fake because you know it was it
was already inclined to do it but he
wanted you wanted to wait so we don't
know but
it's entirely possible and we can't rule
it down at this point that he started
something that could almost destroy the
planet Earth you know if you imagine
that it could be a ripple effect of
destabilizing the United States which
causes god-knows-what nuclear war but
that's sort of on bredren now if you've
got a guy who is willing to put the
entire stability of the world at risk
because he can't tell the difference
between a joke and a serious statement
that guy's gotta lose his security
clearance at least I wouldn't want him
anywhere near a decision would you after
after seeing how Brennen responded to a
public joke would you want him to make
any important decisions by that anything
I mean that's some scary stuff and
having watched him in public now for I
guess two years would you trust him in
any kind of job like I don't know what
kind of job I would trust that guy
because we've seen we've seen some bad
judgment and bad intentions probably I
don't want to be a mind reader but there
are some things we can say that are
objectively true the it looks like bad
judgment to us so we can say that we
can't read his mind though all right
somebody says is it true that Brendan is
Muslim there's no evidence of that but
he is a friend to Islam I think I think
we could say that which is not a bad
thing you know there's there's nothing
wrong with being a friend to all the
religions but I understand why it's
raising a raising an eyebrow but that
alone I don't think that alone is
something you can you can bank on
well you could bank on it if it's the
RBS Royal Bank of Scotland yeah if you
want to bank on Brennan your bank should
be the Royal Bank of Scotland that would
be the one why haven't I sipped yet
that is an excellent question how often
do we get this far into coffee with
Scott Adams without a simultaneous sip I
think we're gonna have to catch up do
you have your cup your mug your vessel
because it's time for the simultaneous
if now I know that what some of you are
thinking I know what you're thinking
you're thinking dear Miss Scott I'm not
gonna take a simultaneous sip just
because you want me to what are you
trying to do to me I'm a free thinker I
will never have a simultaneous sip and
that's fine for those of you who want to
go against the grain you want to go the
other way
that's good but I think I can speak for
all of that all of you who have enjoyed
the simultaneous sip it does make the
coffee taste better and if you haven't
experienced that well you have to take
our word for it
and now the simultaneous soup somebody
said I was slipping past the sale which
is very funny
simultaneous resistors didn't I say I
had something else to talk about today
can somebody remind me what I put in the
title of my periscope here oh by the way
if you're watching my periscopes on
youtube if you're watching them on
youtube make sure that you're watching
my actual account there there are some
fake accounts that take my periscopes
and put them on youtube they are not me
so look for real coffee with scott adams
i tweeted the actual link to it
yesterday so you can see it in my
Twitter feed so please watch that one
yes the when hub start-up my startup is
now listed on coin pulse I'll have more
about that on another periscope but
we're now able to trade the when tokens
that are part of the interface buy win
hub app I'll talk more about that
another time Scott are you trying to
fleece us no I'm trying to make an app
that I think will be useful in a whole
variety of ways including education and
keeping lonely people company you know
the if you haven't seen it my my app the
interface app it's available in stores
and I'll just say one thing about it
it's designed so that anybody can sign
up as an expert at anything you just
have to know more than the people who
want advice from you and that you can
set your own price and when people can
immediately call you so you're available
now somebody says oh I want an expert
and they're immediately on a video call
with an expert at the price set by the
expert but I'm starting to think that
maybe it's larger application that would
be useful is keeping people company I
saw that they're in
Japan middle-aged men are actually
renting themselves out to give advice
that a middle-aged man would would know
and just keep people company have you
heard of that and there are other people
I think who are making scads of money on
YouTube who just eat it's just a YouTube
of somebody eating their lunch and it's
and these are used to largely just keep
people company and I'm thinking how many
people would pay just to have somebody
hang out with them for a while and it's
probably a lot because keep in mind that
you know the price could be quite
reasonable especially if it's somebody
in another country somebody who just has
some free time maybe so he just wants to
do it so it might be that the the
biggest application is just somebody who
wants to provide some companies and
milds advice and life advice and that
sort of thing I was thinking the other
day about how much knowledge I have
accumulated in my way to long life and
how if I didn't share it it would be
just sort of stranded you know by the
time you reach my age and when you've
been involved in this many different
businesses as I have and you've seen the
ones that worked and the ones that
failed you know I've got a I've got a an
MBA degree in economics
I've been probably an involved and I
don't 25 different businesses one way or
another
when you've done that many things you
have all this sort of I hate to call it
wisdom but it experience
locked up in your head and it's just a
shame that it would be stranded there so
there are lots of people like me who
have tons of knowledge that they can
unlock I've said this before about race
relations and particularly the
african-american community and also
women so this is something that we
and african-americans citizens have in
common which is if it's true that the
people who mostly have the power and the
influence in our society are our white
men you know just on average they've got
more of the power and the networks and
the the connections and the experience
and all that if that's true and I think
most people would say that's where it's
concentrated if you don't have access to
all of those people then you don't have
the biggest financial asset that a
person could have which is who you know
who you know especially if you were
related to him that helps a lot is gonna
be everything who you know really really
matters and I've said this before but
especially in the me to era if a if a
professional woman let's say a woman in
the in the business world wanted to get
some advice or network with a man and
said hey how about you know would you
like to go to lunch what what would that
man or should that man say or do in the
era of me - I don't know if the man is
going to take the lunch and if he does
you might have to invite you know
somebody else there just so we asked
them you know some witnesses so you're
not going to get the same kind of
interaction that two men will get it's
very common for a man to say hey yeah
but a cup of coffee like I get that
request all the time the the number of
men who have contacted me to say hey do
you have a minute let's you know for a
phone call cup of coffee and of course I
say you know most of the time I don't
have time but lots of times I say PR and
then they can get connected to whatever
people I know wisdom etc and it's free
doesn't cost him anything most of the
time but if a woman made the same
request inside a day he do you want to
meet me for lunch I wouldn't take that I
would not go to lunch with a woman in
the era of me too
and how how devastatingly bad is that
for women you know I'm not talking about
me in particular but you are so it's
such a that is such a bad situation now
let's take you know a similar but
different situation for african-american
let's say people in the business world
who want to you know one a network want
to connect now I would of course if it's
a male if let's say if it's an
african-american male I would definitely
take the lunch take the coffee you know
if I have time time allowing is always
the biggest thing but I would take that
but do they ask how many
african-american men have contacted me
compared to the number of let's say
Asian Americans you know in Indian
Americans and white Americans that group
very easily contacts me all the time so
it's just almost every day somebody in
one of those groups says hey can I talk
to you can i connect can I get some
advice can I do something but the number
of African American men who contact me
is low lower than you know their
percentage in the population even and I
don't know why that is exactly and but I
assume that it's just a little less
comfortable that's a gigantic gigantic
disadvantage and so I'm hoping that the
interface app may be one of the things
that could do is just make it easier to
contact somebody that you wouldn't
easily contact maybe you wouldn't go to
lunch with them but you'd have a you
know you might have a phone call and the
other advantage of the interface app
this is my startups app is that you can
be as anonymous as you want to be
because the the person on the other end
is not going to get your phone call or
your contact information so only the app
knows who you are or had
contact you so if you're a woman and you
wanted some advice from a male but you
didn't want to have that male have your
phone number which is probably pretty
common the interface app would let you
do that
all right so if you pay them do they
have to be nice to you well we hope they
will be all right I think I've said
enough now let me let me just add one
other thing if you haven't yet gone to
the website blight Authority dot-com
then you should check it out because
that's where Bill pulled a and I have a
website where we can collect ideas about
what to do with these blighted urban
areas you know what to build on the
blank you know the empty pieces of land
and we we have a denial of service
attack that came out of China which
doesn't mean that China was behind it
you know I suppose hackers could have
taken over a server in China and
directed it to attack the site but so I
thought to myself of all the websites in
the world that you are going to attack
with a denial of service why that one it
literally has no negative anything to it
it's just a collection of good ideas to
help people who need help in the urban
areas you know something to to build
something that would be positive there's
literally nothing about that that's
negative and that gets a denial of
service attack I mean who is that awful
that that's the thing you attack I mean
it's it's mind boggling that anybody
would even bother so so anyway
you can either go to blight to Authority
or the blight Authority
I believe they both go to the same page
and give us your ideas I'll be talking a
lot more about that in its own
periscopes there may be some exciting
things coming up soon but I can't say
anything about that yet because I don't
know but there might be some exciting
developments are so stay tuned and I
will talk to you another time maybe
sometime soon see you later
