Episode 578 Scott Adams - All the News, With Coffee

um okay everybody get in here hello Andrew you have a coffee cup you weigh in get in here grab a seat make sure you take the seats up front first and make sure that you've got a cup or a mug or a glass make sure you've got a tanker - Stein a chalice could it be a thermos maybe a flask whatever it is what kind of doesn't matter what kind of vessel you have fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and get ready to join me for the unparalleled pleasure that I call the simultaneous up dopamine ready go oh yeah that's the good stuff right there we have about a million things to talk about so I'm just gonna hit them fast and some of them are really fun so this today is a really good one you know there are days when you have lots of news that's worth talking about days when you don't today's very newsy day I had never mentioned president Trump's comment about Biden's brain so I guess the president last time he was talking about Biden mentioned he points his head he says there's you know something's changed there's something wrong there something different now the news of course has covered this but they haven't quite put the spin on it that I'm going to I'm going to teach you a little bit about persuasion today especially looking at at Jared Kushner's a speech about the Middle East we'll talk about a minute but there's some technique in the president's mention of Biden's brain it's not just an accusation it's technique and here's what makes a technique an accusation it would be specific he would say I think he's got a tells Ivers there's no evidence of that I think he's drunk there's no evidence of that I think he's too old maybe but if the president had something that said there's something specific wrong with Biden either mentally or substance wise or health-wise or anything else you would have something to falsify you would be able to say no that specific accusation is not true maybe I think there's something else wrong with them but I don't think there isn't that wrong with them the beauty of the way the president does it and trust me this is technique it's not an accident that he does this so well I'm going to give you another example this in a bit the president allows you and this is straight out of hypnosis class by the way that's that's literally where I learned the thing I'm going to teach you if you want people to have the most persuasive argument in their heads let them make it themselves in other words don't give them too much detail give them enough detail that their imagination fills in the gaps so when you say to me odd Biden's not the same you know up here there's there's something that's changed that's a very broad statement it allows you to imagine that Biden is drunk it allows you to imagine that he's tired too tired to run for president it allows you to imagine somebody else that he's you know he's declining with age he's got dementia he's not healthy whatever else so it's good technique to say generally that there's something wrong but you leave it as a question mark if you're specific you can be falsified and people say yeah I don't think that's what's wrong but if you're General and saying you better fill in the blank here there's something wrong I'm not saying I'm not saying what's wrong but there's something wrong that is a plus Gold persuasion so keep that in mind because you get to see it again later in my periscope we can't go too far without talking about that a horror photo that's on the news about the the two potential I guess attempted immigrants into this country from El Salvador who did not make it it's the one of the saddest pictures you ever see in your life so I don't want to dwell on it too much the news is doing that fine I'll just point out that because it's visual and because it hits its father and daughter it hits literally every emotional button that we have it's the sort of thing that can move the dial but everybody is going to see in this picture what they want to see so the people who say the president's a monster are gonna see more evidence that the president's a monster why didn't you fix this the people who say we should have sealed off the border so people were not tempted to come are going to say look at this it's obvious it's obvious that if you had you know sealed off the border if you'd built a wall if you were tougher on immigration people wouldn't be trying to come and then they would be not dying so everybody's going to see what they want it is beyond disgusting that people will use it for their own political benefits it is beyond disgusting it's the worst well you know the only thing that could make the deaths of those two people worse is to use them for political purposes it's probably probably the lowest humanity can go well that's not true because you always you always have the Holocaust yeah you can't top that but or slavery I guess you can't top those two things but in our in our normal normal world of things it's as low as you can come to use the deaths of these two people who are just trying to get away from probably a worse situation now here's how I would prefer to see it when I see that horrible picture I say I think most of you seen it by then when I see that horrible picture of how their lives ended I think Congress I see Congress bunch of people well-dressed sitting in a room thinking about the small picture thinking about how do we get a victory over the other side how do I get a good news bite complete and total incompetence so when I see those two deaths I do not see one side did well the other side caused the problem either way I see a Congress that doesn't work and if you like your Congress to work better that's the way you should see it too you shouldn't be telling yourself things should have gone one way or things should have gone the other way and we wouldn't have this problem if you're doing that you're part of the problem let me say that again if your reaction to the picture is anything except our entire Congress is completely incompetent if that's not what you're thinking and you're thinking is one side cause this your part of the problem and you are using the deaths of these two innocent people in the most despicable way a human being could it's the it's the pit of wrongness so you should put your hate where it belongs Congress both sides I don't care which side is the obstacle this time I don't care which ones you know the one you agree with I don't care Congress killed those people Congress killed those people period Congress killed them there's no way around that Congress killed them all right let's talk about something that's more fun you you know when I was talking about Iran's supreme leader and their I guess somebody in their government I forget who was was reported that they said that the President or the White House was suffering from mental retardation do you remember I talked about that yesterday and I said to myself is that an Iranian word because that word is not allowed in this country you're not supposed to say the r-word and in fact the only reason I would say it is because a hand of state allegedly said it when I'm repeating it I wouldn't use that word I agree it's not it's not a word to use it in public I didn't used to think that but I'm I've come over to that side and today I noticed that CNN is interpreting it differently and now they're reporting that what the Iranian official said was that the White House has a quote mental disability in other words just as I said yesterday do you really think that there's an Iranian phrase or word that means mental retardation the way it was reported and I remember I had some skepticism that that was an accurate translation and then today you see a fairly different translation I mean essentially the same meaning but different words that matters apparently Trump this entity that there would be some obliteration if they go to war so it's very similar to fire in fury and very similar again to North Korea and that Kim jong-un as you remember called the president a donor and then the president responded back in a fairly humorous way he matched him it became friends and now they're exchanging love letters apparently almost literally they seem to actually really be fond of each other and I think that's actually real and it looks like there might be a little more progress on North Korea as slow as it needs to be doesn't need to be fast and so there the reports that they're talking again about getting back on track in North Korea but what are the odds that the same game plan will work with Iran because I think the Ayatollah is pretty different than Kim jong-un it was easy to imagine chairman Kim and president Trump standing together and having a laugh and shaking hands well before it ever happened could you imagine it I mean you could imagine it very easily and but I don't see that picture I am like my brain can't generate I cannot generate an imaginary photograph a president Trump and the Ayatollah shaking hands okay do you see it because I can't even I literally have a prohibition about imagining it in a way that you know you imagine things that could actually happen so I think Iran will have to have a slightly different track but I don't know that we're on the wrong track at this point we'll talk about Jarrad in a moment so let's talk about Jared Kushner's peace plan now if you haven't seen it there's a speech in which jared is introducing his concept of the 50 billion dollars were rebuilding the palates Palestinian areas and the West Bank yeah and and of course the Palestinian leaders and other people who supported them said hey Jared Kushner in a United States you can't buy our agreement to end war because this is not about money so we are insulted why would you try to buy our you know you can't buy us off down now most people all the smart people the smart people said wait things are backwards if you don't have a peace deal on a political level you can't do any investing so why would you talk about the investing when you're not even close to having a political deal don't you have it backwards well do we I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you what to look for in terms of technique and then I'm going to play Jarrod's just a fairly brief clip of him introducing the idea and I want you to look for all of the techniques of persuasion that are built into his simple statement is literal one of the best few minutes of speech you'll ever save but it won't look like that unless you understand persuasion because there's so much technique built into it there would be invisible to someone who doesn't study in this field so I'm gonna call it out first before I play it so that you can really looking for it all right here are all the elements of here are all the elements of persuasion number one and most importantly he is making people think past the sale the sale is the political agreement that they all know has to be reached before one dollar can be invested so he wants you to think past the political agreement to imagine what would happen with his fifty billion how you would spend it who would get it where it would go where it would come from if you can get the people who think there's no hope of a deal which is most people right most people probably think there's no real hope by the way I will go to the whiteboard in a moment so you'll see some summary to this so the first thing is that if you can get people to say to themselves even for a moment you want them just for a moment to ask themselves how could this 50 billion work on a practical level if you can get them to have even one fleeting thought of how the fifty billion could work on a practical level who gets it who pays what where's it go you have made them think past the sale you have made them imagine for the first time that a political agreement is possible because in order to imagine where the money goes and the details of the money you'd have to uncritically imagine okay so imagine we did have a peace deal what would it look like that is so important and it's the first time well I'm no historian so somebody somebody correct me on this correct me on this I don't know that we've ever started with money first certainly not at this level we may have said hey you know there's money to be had if you have peace about 10 million but by picking this giant number 50 billion which I understand is big number 4 what we're talking about here it gets your attention so the second part of the technique is to come up with a really big number now I saw somebody in the comments say it's a carrot and stick approach that you're saying a will will bribe you you'll get money it'll be a good deal well that's a that's the 2d image so the the checkers version is that we're paying you to do something we want ya there's some money in this if you do what everybody wants which is make peace that's true it's part of the story but the the making you think passed the sale is the magic part the the bribe part will give you some money if you do this is not the magic part it'll say more about that why that's not the magic part here's another thing that Jarrod will do and I'll show you in a minute in his speech he asks people to literally imagine imagine because literally put your imagination into the future where we're spending this money and making it an economic powerhouse asking people to imagine the future is again part of making you think past the sale but imagination is very powerful it actually gets you past past the point where you think it's impossible it makes you start thinking past the point of impossibility and once you're thinking past that you have a chance of getting rid of whatever that obstacle was very very powerful next and I mentioned this before when I talked about the President and talking about Joe Biden's brain the president was not specific he did not say there's something specific wrong with the brain because it's better technique to let somebody imagine their own scene likewise when Jarrod talks about the the future for the Palestinian areas and the Palestinian people he does not give too many specifics what he says is something along the line of it would be it could be a bustling center of commerce and trade words to that effect now when you hear that do you say to yourself well bustling cut what does that mean to me is there anybody who doesn't like the idea of a bustling center for trade probably nobody probably a hundred percent of people say yeah a bustling center of trade that sounds good so the the being general about it is very powerful because it allows people to imagine their own version of what that looks like the other thing he does is he keeps it simple at least at this part when you're talking about fifty billion dollars you could imagine that somebody would have gotten up there with a Power.

Point deck showed you all the ways the money's coming in and where it's where it goes and you know how this translates and here's my spreadsheet you don't do any of that if you're trying to persuade forget about numbers you want to make people feel you want to give it to them simple and so look how simple and clean Jarrod's introduction to this is it's as simple and clean there's no extra stuff in it that's very important because you don't want to clutter up your persuasion with experts and I mentioned before that the 50 billion is such a big offer that you can't ignore it that's a very trumpian technique and you see some of the Democratic candidates for president using it very very big offers it's the Trump technique and even if you can't get everything you want you can't look away so as soon as they said 50 billion you said well I think it's impossible to get peace in the Middle East but 150 billion so 50 billion is a giant shiny object to keep your attention on the topic attention is half of persuasion if people aren't paying attention they're not going to get persuaded so simply having this giant number even if it's not entirely realistic I don't know if it is or not makes you pay attention it's good good persuasion the other thing that Jarrod says is he he gives what I call a fake because a fake because is a reason that doesn't make sense but we uncritically hear it as a reason that does make sense because the human brain and by the way Geel DD in his book influence talks about this so there's a good scientific basis behind what I'm saying the human mind is a rationalize er it's not something that is rational for anything complicated because we don't really understand complicated things but we think we do so one of the things that Jared does is he says that the reason that this is possible to turn this area into a bustling economic powerhouse is because in history it had happened before think how powerful that is he says that historically it had been a powerhouse economically so therefore it can be again that is a fake because there is no logical connection between the fact that he in deep history it was an economic powerhouse that does not mean therefore logically it will be one again because you know what's changed everything everything history doesn't repeat it's a complete nonsense reason but when you hear it does it register as a nonsense reason it does not it registers as a real reason that's a fake because now this works because people wanted to be true if people did not want it to be true then it could turn into a economic powerhouse then it wouldn't work but if somebody wants something to be true it doesn't matter what reason you give and since this is a region that is sort of trapped in history they're sort of locked into little mental prisons because of things that happened in the past a reference to history is more powerful over there because they're they really care about history more than we would hear and so he mentions history and he says here's my reason why it can happen again because it happened before that's not a reason it isn't do you know what was different before well there wasn't any Israel that's pretty different you know how different can you get you know there wasn't Isis or wasn't al-qaeda there wasn't Iran sponsoring trouble I mean nothing's the same it is not a reason that because it used to be true therefore there's a good reason that could be true in the future but it sure works it works very very very solid technique you're actually seeing what I'm going to show you is some of the best persuasion technique you've ever seen in a little package the other thing that Jared does which you would completely miss if you didn't study persuasion is that he does a trick that doesn't really have name but the idea is that if you tell people what they're thinking as they're thinking it you form a connection with them that gives you influence so if for example I could exactly what you were thinking the audience and I called it out so if I said God Scott's to take him through long can he just show the video Scott will you get past this description I just want to see the video right some of you were thinking that weren't you now the moment I said that what did you feel you thought uh okay and that's what I was thinking and you felt a little connection that's technique that's not accident watch when Jared talks about what the two sides want the two sides roughly speaking or Israel and the Palestinians do they want the same thing well if I asked you does Israel and the Palestinians want the same thing and you had never studied persuasion you would say yeah roughly speaking they want the same thing they want peace for austerity then what they both want to control Israel they kind of want the same thing Jared does not make that mistake because people don't think in generalities like that they have specific thoughts and we listen for Jared describing to two sides in the simplest cleanest way you've ever seen he says that the Palestinians want dignity and Israel wants security think about that is brilliant because he's saying we don't want the same thing if I had to ask you you'd say they do want the same thing they're people they want peace they want good things for the family they want to pray to their God they unfortunately that what the same land they literally want exactly the same thing but it's not true it's just not true because the Palestinians when they are offered fifty billion dollars what they say non-starter because dignity or something that could easily be put into that word is the problem but that's not the problem for Israel it really has a security problem so by calling out those two simple points he bonded with both sides simultaneously and you'll hear it when I plant very strong technique in fact among the strongest things you could do visual persuasion is is always near the top and so is fear but if you don't have access to fear and visual persuasion the one of the next most powerful persuasion things is to tell somebody what they're thinking and if you could even use the same words that they're using in their head BAM solid connection for influence okay that's what jared is doing one of the things that people are always confused about is the role of passion and charisma in influence now charisma and passion do have some power meaning that if you can if you can create a an emotional state in yourself as a speaker you can sometimes transfer that emotional state to your audience so if I'm getting angry sometimes I can get you angry so I can make you follow my emotional state but it's completely optional it's an advantage and if somebody can pull that off it's great but one of the strangest things that you will learn in hypnosis is that the quality of the presentation is almost irrelevant not totally but almost in other words when you hear me speaking if I were to say to you there are two hypnotists one sounds like the way I'm talking right now now you probably say to yourself well the way you hear my voice right now if I already hypnotized you I would say something like now you can imagine yourself in a forest you walk you through the forest and you see a beautiful tree you pause to look at the tree before you go further into the forest you're getting more and more relaxed now you wouldn't you would recognize that as something you would think oh that's a persuasive voice the way you're saying it the presentation you're giving makes a difference it doesn't that's one of the surprising things about hypnosis the way I talk is just the way I talk if someone else had a bad voice a strange presentation but said the same words it would have the same effect so this is what I'm getting to when you watch Jarrod's presentation you're gonna say to yourself I'm not listening to Martin Luther King you'll say to yourself I'm not listening to President Trump two of the most like you know best public speakers of all time you say to yourself I'm listening to Jared Kushner I'm just got a more subdued you know business man I would call a sort of a modest approach to public presentation and you probably say to yourself well that's got a heard of right he's not he's not out there you know getting the crowd all worked up and everything the answer is doesn't make any difference the words he is speaking are the magic sauce if you think it's the way his body is being held if you think it's the sound of his voice if you think it's the pattern of his speaking whether he's got a high or a low tone almost irrelevant his his calm approach is a hundred percent successful for persuasion even though in some cases if you're trying to get people riled up emotionally you might go a different way but there's nothing he doesn't leave anything on the table this alright the other thing he brings to it is a track record persuasion works best if you already believe you can be persuaded Jared now has some track record of being successful both in the prison reform stuff where he's associated with that and which people would consider a tough thing to get done and also apparently successful although not approved by Congress I guess the the Mexico Canada negotiations and other stuff so he comes into it with credibility jared has credibility if you bring credibility to a conversation and you can be persuasive if you bring no credibility you can't be persuasive I'm going to turn my camera around and let you see a little a little reminder of the things you're gonna see on the video so jared is going to make you think past the sale he's gonna make you imagine the future but he's gonna make you imagine the future in a generic way well I forgot the third bullet point he asks you to do something in this case imagine part of hypnosis part of persuasion is to get people to do a small thing no matter how trivial because it Tunes you for doing bigger things so here jared is making the audience literally do something literally imagine that is technique if you can get them to clap raise their hands laughs to do something nod their head anything any small thing you can get the audience to do Prime's them for bigger things so asking them to imagine is really good technique then you'll hear him talking about generically the bustling center they could get to but not too specific he keeps it simple the 50 billion is a gigantic offer he talks about history that's his fake because even though there's no reason to think that you can do now what was done in history it doesn't logically connect but it does it or irrational minds we go oh he's got a reason at least he's got a reason he talks about dignity versus safety telling people what they're thinking his passion is irrelevant to this thing and he brings credibility so let's go back to me now that you've heard that I'm gonna play it I don't know how well this will play let's see if we do well-intended programs numerous well intended programs investments and plans have been derailed by violence political instability and the lack this is pacing longstanding core issues of this Cup that's pacing so he's saying what everybody's thinking that this has never worked before that's pacing you always tell you tell the audience what they're already thinking before you try to get them to think something new it's like to be clear economic growth and prosperity for the Palestinian people are not possible without an enduring and fair political solution so here he's acknowledged that finance is irrelevant if you don't get a political if you don't get a political agreement so he's pacing again because everybody's thinking that they think we went to this economic thing is this a waste of time because you can't do any economics until you've done until you've done a political agreement so he says that first that's pacing conflict one that guarantees Israel's security and respects the dignity of the Palestinian so there's where he talks about Israel wants security and the Palestinians want dignity that's that's telling you what you're thinking that's technique we'll get to those the goal of this workshop is to begin thinking about these challenges in a new way a new way let's try to view this conflict at the potential of the entire region through a different lens through a different lens very powerful he's telling you that the world can be looked at the same set of facts through a different lens he's giving you permission to look at the same things you've been looking at but see them differently it's a yani laurel opportunity can you look at these same facts with me and now imagine that you see them differently very powerful and work together to develop a concrete plan to try and achieve it for a moment imagine a new reality in Middle East imagine imagine a bustling commercial and tourist center and Gaza and the West Bank where international businesses come together and thrive imagine the West Bank as a blossoming economy blossoming of entrepreneurs full a bunch of years you see a writers i.

Mac so when he described this didn't you all see pictures in your head when he's when he's had engineers didn't you see an engineer when he said startups didn't you see a little group of startups when he said technology weren't you seeing something this was visual he's turning the concept into a visual and making you imagine it people and goods flowing quickly and securely throughout the region as economics become more integrated and people become more prosperous this isn't a stretch this is actually the historical legacy of the Middle East specifically of Gaza and the West Bank it is a legacy of great cultures coming together as a center of Commerce innovation and prosperity so Larry talkies well-intended programs there he talked about the history that's the fake because making you think it's possible now because it was possible in the past vestments and plans have derailed by violence political instability and the lack of a resolution today long-standing core issues of this conflict so he mentions again it lacked a resolution to the core core conflict so he's never letting you forget that he understands money is not the solution he's not trying to tell you money is the solution clear economic growth and prosperity for the Palestinian people are not possible without an enduring and fair political solution to the conflict mm-hmm one that guarantees Israel's security and respects the dignity of the Palestinian people however today is not about the political issues look I think I missed imagine a bustling people and goods flowing quick what I think I got so that's that's just the first couple of minutes of his presentation and look how powerful that is now I said before that I think we've never been in such a good situation in the Middle East almost all of the variables are lining up as if it's meant to be and what I mean by that is that we've never had a situation where Iran is so let's say so desperate to make a deal there they're not talking that way but obviously the impact on your economy has got to be pretty severe so we're an is getting flexible we've seen that the Arab world is now sort of fed up with the palestinian situation and they don't seem to be backing them they seem to be backing more of a comprehensive peace and they've even said explicitly it's time to deal with israel and just sort of move on we but more importantly we've never had I would say this effective a group of leaders in the Middle East and I'm talking about all of the countries including the United States including Israel we simply have the best operators that have ever been on this question it's the first time we've had so many people who are not let's say traditional politicians because this doesn't get done with traditional politicians we know that because they're they're good for example a traditional politician would work on the political settlement before talking in detail about the money you're seeing people operating at a whole different higher level because they're talking about the money simply to make you get you think past get you to think past the obstacles and that makes you think you makes you think it's possible and also the MDS situation I think gives us some a lot of leverage with Saudi Arabia because the President had MBS is back on the khashoggi thing even when the entire world said I'll think you ought to be doing that president Trump and he said I'm doing it and now if we get to a point where Saudi Arabia is a primary player maybe they're one funders of this alleged 50 billion if they become super productive in the Middle East peace we're gonna look back at this and say ah I really hated it that the president acted as though the Khashoggi thing was not known by MBS I hated it it was immoral it made me feel dirty I hate everything about it except that it was important to get Middle East peace if we get to that point you're gonna look at this and say it was one of the smartest political moves of all time if we don't it'll just look like more badness I guess all right the debates start tonight I will be live tweeting the debates as well the president so I'll be competing with President Trump live tweeting the debates you're gonna enjoy that yesterday I had Kirk Sorensen on to talk about thorium and the potential for thorium energy that was very illuminating I will tell you that I've heard from other people who are experts after that and I would just summarize by saying that the the question of whether thorium is better than ordinary plutonium for nuclear power is not a settled question in other words there are experts who will tell you Wow thorium looks like has some advantages but when you when you dig down there are also advantages to plutonium there might be more thorium available in the world but it's harder to get to or maybe the plutonium is harder to get but we have a bunch sitting around so there are a lot of things that will change how you see this the bottom line is that there are people who think thorium is the answer I think there are four startups or so working on it maybe more and there are people who think it isn't and they're all qualified so there are a lot of qualified people who have a disagreement on that that's all I'll say about that so one of the biggest in news in the world this seems to be only news to half of the world and not the other is the social media platforms stuff and the project fair undercover work they've got a they've got a document that appears to say so this is the latest so Project Veritas has produced a document that allegedly shows a conversation within Google the You.

Tube were part I guess in which they're discussing how to minimize the influence of people they call Nazis including Dave Rubin Jewish and then also they call Ben Shapiro and Nazi Jewish and Prager University I don't know if he's Jewish too but once you start calling well-known Jews Nazis you've really gone over too far now the document the document that was uncovered we don't know exactly the context because I I'm gonna be the one who sort of makes you unhappy and saying that people are saying that Prager is Jewish too so the fact that there are three people in Google or there are people in Google who saw three prominent Jewish conservatives consider them to be Nazis is I mean that says a lot about the world right I mean what however you could get that viewpoint and in the facts and evidence is sort of astonishing but here's the thing what we don't know from that document is what came of that conversation if you have a big organization it is not unusual for there to be people disagreeing and that if you were to see all the disagreement before you saw the final decisions you would have a very different idea about the company let me say that again I've worked for big companies I've been in a lot of meetings if you only saw the result of the meeting you'd say hey looks like pretty good people in that meeting they came up with decision if you saw what happened in the meeting before the decision you would be horrified because any meeting has dumb people in it and dumb people are gonna say super dumb stuff but you trust that the process the meeting the boss the smarter people will prevail and so the fact that there are dumb people saying insanely stupid and harmful things in the context of discussing what to do next doesn't necessarily tell you that the company did something wrong it's a huge red flag and so you know I certainly agree with everybody who says my God my God my God it the fact that they're even having this conversation and talking in that way assuming the document is true and in this world we can never assume anything but if it is true it would be very alarming but we don't know if that one person's opinion was everybody's opinion and we don't know if lated into any actual policies but you sure got to worry about it and you may have also seen the the I guess it was a whistleblower from Google who was talking about the internal conversations and James O'Keefe was interviewing him and if you saw it he was the voice of the whistleblower was digitally altered so it's brown the the garbled voice and and and then you can see that the the image was distorted let me say this I have no reason to believe that that whistleblower is fake no reason to believe that but I want to say just because it needs to be said we no longer live in a world where seeing a disguised whistleblower on video should be considered credible sorry you know I I don't want to say that I would love to say this is a real whistle blower we know it's real the things as whistleblowers saying you know are true we just don't live in that world anymore now I'm not doubting it's true I'm saying that if you saw that and you said oh it must be true because he's on video he's on video he's talking you know this is a group they used trusted before it's probably true it might be I'm not saying it's not I'm just saying that we no longer live in the world we're looking at a video of a thing or listening to a person talk is quite as meaningful as it used to be somebody says Trump just in a great tweet so I'm gonna if it's so great that you mentioned it I'm gonna pause I guess I'm gonna pause it I'm gonna look at it so give me one moment to look at the trumpet tweet all right women's soccer women's soccer player amp you know just stated that she is quote not going to the effing White House is when we win okay so first of all I love the fact that you put that in a tweet other than the NBA which now refuses to call owners owners please explain that I just got back criminal justice reform past black unemployment as the lowest of our country ever and the property index is also best number ever leagues and teams love coming to the White House I'm a big fan of okay well I don't know that's just that's not that fun all right so here's what to make of all the the Google stuff it does look to me that Google has been having direct conversations about people like Dave Rubin people like Crowder etc and it does seem that they are there are people within the company whose intentions are to block them from being seen so the fact that Google has employees who apparently have intentions of blocking some kind of voices that they consider over the line but you and I would consider like right down in the middle is enough to regulate so I think the case for regulating the social media platforms is now made is there anybody who would disagree with that is there anybody out here who doesn't think the social media platforms have to be regulated now with what we know even if everything we've heard is not exactly the way it would happened the the uncertainty that injects into the system it really it's no longer a question anymore now we should be talking about how to do it somebody says break up I don't think so I don't think breaking them up is the answer I mean I I'm open to that conversation but my first blush is no don't break them up all right I have a friend who has the worst case of TDS that I know in person and here's the amazing thing my friend emailed me this yesterday he said have I seen this latest accuser against President Trump have I seen the things she's saying and now surely I must stop saying good things about President Trump he argued because now this latest accusation from the the L writer is so credible he said and so you know on point that clearly I must know that it's true and I read that email and I thought what what universe are you living in where that looked totally credible to you and so I said have you seen me Anderson Cooper interview and he said that he had seen the Allison cammarata interview which to me looked just as crazy but he hadn't yet seen the Anderson Cooper so he watched it and then he emailed me back and said okay he did watch that and that was I don't forget what word to use but he did mention there was there was an unusual interview but he was still convinced that it was true really can you watch the intercept Cooper interview and come away thinking that that's a credible accusation can you really now the the fun part of this story is that people realized that there was a law-and-order SUV plot that is disturbingly similar in which on law and order SUV the TV show there was mention and I saw the clip there's mention of somebody being raped in a Bergdorf Goodman changing area while trying on lingerie now people said is that a coincidence and I'm here to tell you probably probably if if you had to put money on it would you say that the accuser saw this TV show and then turned it into her imagination and then used it well maybe I mean I wouldn't rule that out but by far the most likely explanation this is just a coincidence because it's a big world and coincidences happen all the time it's a weird one but probably a coincidence now the other thing that people suggested is that the accuser is actually a writer and she might have actually been the source of the plot maybe somebody knew her and heard the story and they were a writer Freddie as for you so it might not be a coincidence it might be that the TV show was based on the real up you know the real reported incident which probably wasn't real alright it was a it's really amazing to see behind the door and to see somebody who's so deeply in TDS denial that the Anderson Cooper interviewed looked like a serious interview there was an interesting quote tweet by Balaji Sreenivasan one of the smartest people on Twitter if you're not following Balaji you should you tweeted that the future will will include pseudonym for people who are online in other words the future might be that we all have multiple identities we have our online identity which is not our real identity so that we can say anything we want because we'll be just characters online and will not be real people but then for getting paid you need a real identity because money has to be associated with real people so that the future might be will have more than one identity somebody says what I already do here's something fun brian Stelter at CNN says he's watching Fox and seeing the talk shows promote the project Veritas video that I just talked about and he says I googled for a reliable news account about what's going on and I can't really find one are you having the same reaction that most of the people on Twitter had when they saw that that's right brian Stelter said he doesn't understand why he can't google and find a story about why Google is bad I'm not making that up that this actually happened he doesn't understand why here Google a story about Google being bad and manipulating search results I mean that's rage anyway remember I told you that there's a there's a good filter for reality one of the filters for reality I will talk about the when somebody's asking about that one of the filters for reality is that if something is reported only on the conservative side or only on the liberal side is probably not true but right now the liberal side let's say see it in MSNBC are not they don't seem to be reporting that the project Veritas stuff is not true and they would easily do that if they believed that to be the case they're simply ignoring it so this is sort of a special case where one side is reporting it widely and the other side acts like it doesn't exist and then or at least mostly doesn't exist brian Stelter is saying why didn't I see any credible sources for this but here's the thing the project Veritas is the source so is he looking for something more credible a bit is that what do you say I don't know looking for a second source I don't know but I would say at this point you should at least be asking yourself why you're only seeing this on the conservative side it's a good question isn't it is there a reason that you're only seeing it on one side there might be Andrew yang had an interesting offer you is going to offer a thousand dollars a month to one person that he will select who retweets his tweet making the offer and of course this is related to his idea that people should get at universal basic income of a thousand dollars a month so he's going to give a thousand dollars a month for a year to somebody who just he picks from the people who retweeted him now that was really smart it really smart I'm talking about persuasion wise politically getting attention he has this you know wacky idea of the ubi and by the way I'm now saying it's wacky that's other people's opinion I think there might actually be some substance to it I'd love to talk to him about it but it's a it's a fringe idea in the sense that the mainstream people are not talking about so much as he is and he's getting a lot of attention for a very low price a lot of attention for a very low price of $12,000 I think he got over 50,000 new followers he got headlines he's got me talking about it I mean you're talking about him very good play now I don't that Andrew yang can become the nominee I think the I think that the Democrats just don't have the right I don't feel for him he might be a more serious player in a future future election but I think he could he's got a chance of making the top four by the end so I would say the yang will get into the top four that's gonna be my my prediction before the Democrat primary yang will make the top four so I'll make that my prediction let's say somebody asked me about the when the when is the cryptocurrency this is associated with my startup and you might know that Eric finiman made two predictions Eric fenman is the so-called boy genius millionaire who made his first million and then lost more millions with Bitcoin and Eric made a call recently that Bitcoin was was going to go way up and right after he made that call that Bitcoin was going to go way up what happened Bitcoin broke out and bitcoin is way up now I better check that because that could change any moment but let me check today's situation is Bitcoin still up today it's up its up almost eleven percent today so it's screaming so remember I told you there was something called the Eric Shannon effect I said that Eric actually can move a market he actually moved the entire Bitcoin market because I don't think anything else happened right did anything else much happen I don't think so I think the Bitcoin millionaire / genius which is he is all of those things he's a Bitcoin millionaire and the genius and he called he called the Bitcoin move exactly do you know what else he called you're gonna love this do you know what else he called the election of President Trump he was one of the very few people who sought way before anybody else thought so now he's called Bitcoin twice twice once he got richer than the second time this latest run and he called the Trump election coincidence I think at some point you have to say to yourself okay let's pay attention to him so somebody asked me about the when Eric also called out the when as a likely high potential crypto that's not Bitcoin and the when went on the run as soon as Eric mentioned it because that's what it does now there's a four this smaller traded the currencies they're gonna pop up and down and that's what's happening but I think the volume of trade is that was that an all-time high the other day so he's created a great deal of interest there are a number of speculators who have the when they've got to sell them off before you can you can form a bottom that you can rise so we're in a normal state of up and down that we expect and it should stabilize if the company does well so one of the main things to make the when valuable is the company succeeds and the company is interface by one hub it's an app for experts and you're going to see some more promotion coming up in the next month on that the when is not an investment all right cryptocurrencies are not investments at most is something you could add to a portfolio in a small amount because you think that you know there are a number of things that might go up and you don't know which one so you get them all in case one goes up so if you're going to diversify it makes sense steps in crypto make sense steps the Bitcoin as I do and it might make sense for you to have a few other crypto assets as a small part of your portfolio alright I will tell you more about interface by when hub in the next days some interesting things oh and by the way if anybody wants some free attention for your business if you have a website and you have pasted our interface button on there which would allow somebody to click on it and go into a 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that's the good stuff right there we

have about a million things to talk

about so I'm just gonna hit them fast

and some of them are really fun so this

today is a really good one you know

there are days when you have lots of

news that's worth talking about days

when you don't today's very newsy day I

had never mentioned president Trump's

comment about Biden's brain so I guess

the president last time he was talking

about Biden mentioned he points his head

he says there's you know something's

changed there's something wrong there

something different now the news of

course has covered this but they haven't

quite put the spin on it that I'm going

to I'm going to teach you a little bit

about persuasion today especially

looking at at Jared Kushner's a speech

about the Middle East we'll talk about a

minute but there's some technique in the

president's mention of Biden's brain

it's not just an accusation

it's technique and here's what makes a

technique an accusation it would be

specific he would say I think he's got a

tells Ivers there's no evidence of that

I think he's drunk

there's no evidence of that I think he's

too old maybe but if the president had

something that said there's something

specific wrong with Biden either

mentally or substance wise or

health-wise or anything else you would

have something to falsify you would be

able to say no that specific accusation

is not true

maybe I think there's something else

wrong with them but I don't think there

isn't that wrong with them the beauty of

the way the president does it and trust

me this is technique it's not an

accident that he does this so well I'm

going to give you another example this

in a bit the president allows you and

this is straight out of hypnosis class

by the way that's that's literally where

I learned the thing I'm going to teach

you if you want people to have the most

persuasive argument in their heads let

them make it themselves in other words

don't give them too much detail give

them enough detail that their

imagination fills in the gaps so when

you say to me odd Biden's not the same

you know up here there's there's

something that's changed that's a very

broad statement it allows you to imagine

that Biden is drunk it allows you to

imagine that he's tired too tired to run

for president it allows you to imagine

somebody else that he's you know he's

declining with age he's got dementia

he's not healthy whatever else so it's

good technique to say generally that

there's something wrong but you leave it

as a question mark if you're specific

you can be falsified and people say yeah

I don't think that's what's wrong but if

you're General and saying you better

fill in the blank here there's something

wrong I'm not saying I'm not saying

what's wrong but there's something wrong

that is a plus Gold persuasion so keep

that in mind because you get to see it

again later in my periscope we can't go

too far without talking about that a

horror

photo that's on the news about the the

two potential I guess attempted

immigrants into this country from El

Salvador who did not make it it's the

one of the saddest pictures you ever see

in your life so I don't want to dwell on

it too much the news is doing that fine

I'll just point out that because it's

visual and because it hits its father

and daughter it hits literally every

emotional button that we have it's the

sort of thing that can move the dial but

everybody is going to see in this

picture what they want to see so the

people who say the president's a monster

are gonna see more evidence that the

president's a monster why didn't you fix

this the people who say we should have

sealed off the border so people were not

tempted to come are going to say look at

this it's obvious it's obvious that if

you had you know sealed off the border

if you'd built a wall if you were

tougher on immigration people wouldn't

be trying to come and then they would be

not dying

so everybody's going to see what they

want it is beyond disgusting that people

will use it for their own political

benefits it is beyond disgusting it's

the worst well you know the only thing

that could make the deaths of those two

people worse is to use them for

political purposes it's probably

probably the lowest humanity can go well

that's not true because you always you

always have the Holocaust yeah you can't

top that but or slavery I guess you

can't top those two things but in our in

our normal normal world of things it's

as low as you can come to use the deaths

of these two people who are just trying

to get away from probably a worse

situation now here's how I would prefer

to see it when I see that horrible

picture I say I think most of you seen

it by then when I see that horrible

picture of how their lives ended I think

Congress I see Congress bunch of people

well-dressed sitting in a room thinking

about the small picture thinking about

how do we get a victory over the other

side how do I get a good news bite

complete and total incompetence so when

I see those two deaths I do not see one

side did well the other side caused the

problem either way I see a Congress that

doesn't work and if you like your

Congress to work better that's the way

you should see it too

you shouldn't be telling yourself things

should have gone one way or things

should have gone the other way and we

wouldn't have this problem if you're

doing that you're part of the problem

let me say that again if your reaction

to the picture is anything except our

entire Congress is completely

incompetent if that's not what you're

thinking and you're thinking is one side

cause this your part of the problem and

you are using the deaths of these two

innocent people in the most despicable

way a human being could it's the it's

the pit of wrongness so you should put

your hate where it belongs Congress both

sides I don't care which side is the

obstacle this time I don't care which

ones you know the one you agree with I

don't care Congress killed those people

Congress killed those people

period Congress killed them there's no

way around that Congress killed them all

right let's talk about something that's

more fun you you know when I was talking

about Iran's supreme leader and their I

guess somebody in their government I

forget who was was reported that they

said that the President or the White

House was suffering from mental

retardation do you remember I talked

about that yesterday and I said to

myself is that an Iranian word because

that word is not allowed in this country

you're not supposed

to say the r-word and in fact the only

reason I would say it is because a hand

of state allegedly said it when I'm

repeating it I wouldn't use that word I

agree it's not it's not a word to use it

in public I didn't used to think that

but I'm I've come over to that side and

today I noticed that CNN is interpreting

it differently and now they're reporting

that what the Iranian official said was

that the White House has a quote mental

disability in other words just as I said

yesterday do you really think that

there's an Iranian phrase or word that

means mental retardation the way it was

reported and I remember I had some

skepticism that that was an accurate

translation and then today you see a

fairly different translation I mean

essentially the same meaning but

different words that matters

apparently Trump this entity that there

would be some obliteration if they go to

war so it's very similar to fire in fury

and very similar again to North Korea

and that Kim jong-un as you remember

called the president a donor and then

the president responded back in a fairly

humorous way he matched him it became

friends and now they're exchanging love

letters apparently almost literally they

seem to actually really be fond of each

other and I think that's actually real

and it looks like there might be a

little more progress on North Korea as

slow as it needs to be doesn't need to

be fast and so there the reports that

they're talking again about getting back

on track in North Korea but what are the

odds that the same game plan will work

with Iran because I think the Ayatollah

is pretty different than Kim jong-un it

was easy to imagine chairman Kim and

president Trump standing together and

having a laugh and shaking hands well

before it ever happened

could you imagine it I mean you could

imagine it very easily

and but I don't see that picture I am

like my brain can't generate I cannot

generate an imaginary photograph a

president Trump and the Ayatollah

shaking hands okay do you see it because

I can't even I literally have a

prohibition about imagining it in a way

that you know you imagine things that

could actually happen so I think Iran

will have to have a slightly different

track but I don't know that we're on the

wrong track

at this point we'll talk about Jarrad in

a moment so let's talk about Jared

Kushner's peace plan now if you haven't

seen it there's a speech in which jared

is introducing his concept of the 50

billion dollars were rebuilding the

palates Palestinian areas and the West

Bank yeah and and of course the

Palestinian leaders and other people who

supported them said hey Jared Kushner in

a United States you can't buy our

agreement to end war because this is not

about money so we are insulted why would

you try to buy our you know you can't

buy us off down now most people all the

smart people the smart people said wait

things are backwards if you don't have a

peace deal on a political level you

can't do any investing so why would you

talk about the investing when you're not

even close to having a political deal

don't you have it backwards

well do we I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you

what to look for in terms of technique

and then I'm going to play Jarrod's just

a fairly brief clip of him introducing

the idea and I want you to look for all

of the techniques of persuasion that are

built into his simple statement is

literal

one of the best few minutes of speech

you'll ever save but it won't look like

that unless you understand persuasion

because there's so much technique built

into it there would be invisible to

someone who doesn't study in this field

so I'm gonna call it out first before I

play it so that you can really looking

for it all right here are all the

elements of here are all the elements of

persuasion number one and most

importantly he is making people think

past the sale the sale is the political

agreement that they all know has to be

reached before one dollar can be

invested so he wants you to think past

the political agreement to imagine what

would happen with his fifty billion how

you would spend it who would get it

where it would go where it would come

from if you can get the people who think

there's no hope of a deal which is most

people right most people probably think

there's no real hope by the way I will

go to the whiteboard in a moment so

you'll see some summary to this so the

first thing is that if you can get

people to say to themselves even for a

moment you want them just for a moment

to ask themselves how could this 50

billion work on a practical level if you

can get them to have even one fleeting

thought of how the fifty billion could

work on a practical level who gets it

who pays what where's it go you have

made them think past the sale you have

made them imagine for the first time

that a political agreement is possible

because in order to imagine where the

money goes and the details of the money

you'd have to uncritically imagine okay

so imagine we did have a peace deal what

would it look like that is so important

and it's the first time well I'm no

historian so somebody somebody correct

me on this correct me on this I don't

know that we've ever started with money

first certainly not at this level we may

have said hey you know there's money to

be had if you have peace

about 10 million but by picking this

giant number 50 billion which I

understand is big number 4 what we're

talking about here it gets your

attention so the second part of the

technique is to come up with a really

big number now I saw somebody in the

comments say it's a carrot and stick

approach that you're saying a will will

bribe you you'll get money it'll be a

good deal well that's a that's the 2d

image so the the checkers version is

that we're paying you to do something we

want ya there's some money in this if

you do what everybody wants which is

make peace that's true it's part of the

story but the the making you think

passed the sale is the magic part the

the bribe part will give you some money

if you do this is not the magic part

it'll say more about that why that's not

the magic part here's another thing that

Jarrod will do and I'll show you in a

minute in his speech he asks people to

literally imagine imagine because

literally put your imagination into the

future where we're spending this money

and making it an economic powerhouse

asking people to imagine the future is

again part of making you think past the

sale but imagination is very powerful it

actually gets you past past the point

where you think it's impossible it makes

you start thinking past the point of

impossibility and once you're thinking

past that you have a chance of getting

rid of whatever that obstacle was very

very powerful next and I mentioned this

before when I talked about the President

and talking about Joe Biden's brain the

president was not specific he did not

say there's something specific wrong

with the brain because it's better

technique to let somebody imagine their

own scene

likewise when Jarrod talks about the the

future for the Palestinian areas and the

Palestinian people he does not give too

many specifics what he says is something

along the line of it would be it could

be a bustling center of commerce and

trade words to that effect now when you

hear that do you say to yourself

well bustling cut what does that mean to

me is there anybody who doesn't like the

idea of a bustling center for trade

probably nobody probably a hundred

percent of people say yeah a bustling

center of trade that sounds good so the

the being general about it is very

powerful because it allows people to

imagine their own version of what that

looks like the other thing he does is he

keeps it simple at least at this part

when you're talking about fifty billion

dollars you could imagine that somebody

would have gotten up there with a

PowerPoint deck showed you all the ways

the money's coming in and where it's

where it goes and you know how this

translates and here's my spreadsheet you

don't do any of that if you're trying to

persuade forget about numbers you want

to make people feel you want to give it

to them simple and so look how simple

and clean Jarrod's introduction to this

is it's as simple and clean there's no

extra stuff in it that's very important

because you don't want to clutter up

your persuasion with experts and I

mentioned before that the 50 billion is

such a big offer that you can't ignore

it

that's a very trumpian technique and you

see some of the Democratic candidates

for president using it very very big

offers it's the Trump technique and even

if you can't get everything you want you

can't look away so as soon as they said

50 billion you said well I think it's

impossible to get peace in the Middle

East but 150 billion so 50 billion is a

giant shiny object to keep your

attention on the topic attention is half

of persuasion if people aren't paying

attention they're not going to get

persuaded so simply having this giant

number even if it's not entirely

realistic I don't know if it is or not

makes you pay attention it's good good

persuasion the other thing that Jarrod

says is he he gives what I call a fake

because a fake because is a reason that

doesn't make sense

but we uncritically hear it as a reason

that does make sense because the human

brain and by the way Geel DD in his book

influence talks about this so there's a

good scientific basis behind what I'm

saying

the human mind is a rationalize er it's

not something that is rational for

anything complicated because we don't

really understand complicated things but

we think we do so one of the things that

Jared does is he says that the reason

that this is possible to turn this area

into a bustling economic powerhouse is

because in history it had happened

before think how powerful that is he

says that historically it had been a

powerhouse economically so therefore it

can be again that is a fake because

there is no logical connection between

the fact that he in deep history it was

an economic powerhouse that does not

mean therefore logically it will be one

again because you know what's changed

everything everything history doesn't

repeat it's a complete nonsense reason

but when you hear it does it register as

a nonsense reason it does not it

registers as a real reason that's a fake

because now this works because people

wanted to be true if people did not want

it to be true then it could turn into a

economic powerhouse then it wouldn't

work but if somebody wants something to

be true it doesn't matter what reason

you give and since this is a region that

is sort of trapped in history they're

sort of locked into little mental

prisons because of things that happened

in the past a reference to history is

more powerful over there because they're

they really care about history more than

we would hear and so he mentions history

and he says here's my reason why it can

happen again because it happened before

that's not a reason it isn't do you know

what was different before well there

wasn't any

Israel that's pretty different you know

how different can you get you know there

wasn't Isis or wasn't al-qaeda there

wasn't Iran sponsoring trouble I mean

nothing's the same it is not a reason

that because it used to be true

therefore there's a good reason that

could be true in the future but it sure

works it works very very very solid

technique you're actually seeing what

I'm going to show you is some of the

best persuasion technique you've ever

seen in a little package the other thing

that Jared does which you would

completely miss if you didn't study

persuasion is that he does a trick that

doesn't really have name but the idea is

that if you tell people what they're

thinking as they're thinking it you form

a connection with them that gives you

influence so if for example I could

exactly what you were thinking the

audience and I called it out so if I

said God Scott's to take him through

long can he just show the video Scott

will you get past this description I

just want to see the video right some of

you were thinking that weren't you now

the moment I said that what did you feel

you thought uh okay and that's what I

was thinking and you felt a little

connection that's technique that's not

accident watch when Jared talks about

what the two sides want the two sides

roughly speaking or Israel and the

Palestinians do they want the same thing

well if I asked you does Israel and the

Palestinians want the same thing and you

had never studied persuasion you would

say yeah roughly speaking they want the

same thing they want peace for austerity

then what they both want to control

Israel they kind of want the same thing

Jared does not make that mistake because

people don't think in generalities like

that they have specific thoughts and we

listen for Jared describing to two sides

in the simplest cleanest way you've ever

seen he says that the Palestinians want

dignity and Israel wants security think

about that

is brilliant because he's saying we

don't want the same thing if I had to

ask you you'd say they do want the same

thing they're people they want peace

they want good things for the family

they want to pray to their God they

unfortunately that what the same land

they literally want exactly the same

thing but it's not true it's just not

true because the Palestinians when they

are offered fifty billion dollars what

they say non-starter because dignity or

something that could easily be put into

that word is the problem but that's not

the problem for Israel it really has a

security problem so by calling out those

two simple points he bonded with both

sides simultaneously and you'll hear it

when I plant very strong technique in

fact among the strongest things you

could do visual persuasion is is always

near the top and so is fear but if you

don't have access to fear and visual

persuasion the one of the next most

powerful persuasion things is to tell

somebody what they're thinking and if

you could even use the same words that

they're using in their head BAM

solid connection for influence okay

that's what jared is doing one of the

things that people are always confused

about is the role of passion and

charisma in influence now charisma and

passion do have some power meaning that

if you can if you can create a an

emotional state in yourself as a speaker

you can sometimes transfer that

emotional state to your audience so if

I'm getting angry sometimes I can get

you angry so I can make you follow my

emotional state but it's completely

optional it's an advantage and if

somebody can pull that off it's great

but one of the strangest things that you

will learn in hypnosis is that the

quality of the presentation is almost

irrelevant not totally but almost in

other words

when you hear me speaking if I were to

say to you there are two hypnotists one

sounds like the way I'm talking right

now now you probably say to yourself

well the way you hear my voice right now

if I already hypnotized you I would say

something like now you can imagine

yourself in a forest you walk you

through the forest and you see a

beautiful tree

you pause to look at the tree before you

go further into the forest you're

getting more and more relaxed now you

wouldn't you would recognize that as

something you would think oh that's a

persuasive voice the way you're saying

it the presentation you're giving makes

a difference it doesn't that's one of

the surprising things about hypnosis the

way I talk is just the way I talk if

someone else had a bad voice a strange

presentation but said the same words it

would have the same effect so this is

what I'm getting to when you watch

Jarrod's presentation you're gonna say

to yourself I'm not listening to Martin

Luther King you'll say to yourself I'm

not listening to President Trump two of

the most like you know best public

speakers of all time you say to yourself

I'm listening to Jared Kushner

I'm just got a more subdued you know

business man I would call a sort of a

modest approach to public presentation

and you probably say to yourself well

that's got a heard of right he's not

he's not out there you know getting the

crowd all worked up and everything

the answer is doesn't make any

difference the words he is speaking are

the magic sauce if you think it's the

way his body is being held if you think

it's the sound of his voice if you think

it's the pattern of his speaking whether

he's got a high or a low tone almost

irrelevant his his calm approach is a

hundred percent successful for

persuasion even though in some cases if

you're trying to get people riled up

emotionally you might go a different way

but there's nothing he doesn't leave

anything on the table

this alright the other thing he brings

to it is a track record persuasion works

best if you already believe you can be

persuaded

Jared now has some track record of being

successful both in the prison reform

stuff where he's associated with that

and which people would consider a tough

thing to get done and also apparently

successful although not approved by

Congress I guess the the Mexico Canada

negotiations and other stuff so he comes

into it with credibility jared has

credibility if you bring credibility to

a conversation and you can be persuasive

if you bring no credibility you can't be

persuasive I'm going to turn my camera

around and let you see a little a little

reminder of the things you're gonna see

on the video so jared is going to make

you think past the sale he's gonna make

you imagine the future but he's gonna

make you imagine the future in a generic

way well I forgot the third bullet point

he asks you to do something in this case

imagine part of hypnosis part of

persuasion is to get people to do a

small thing no matter how trivial

because it Tunes you for doing bigger

things

so here jared is making the audience

literally do something literally imagine

that is technique if you can get them to

clap raise their hands laughs to do

something nod their head anything any

small thing you can get the audience to

do Prime's them for bigger things so

asking them to imagine is really good

technique then you'll hear him talking

about generically the bustling center

they could get to but not too specific

he keeps it simple the 50 billion is a

gigantic offer he talks about history

that's his fake because even though

there's no reason to think that you can

do now what was done in history

it doesn't logically connect but it does

it or irrational minds we go oh he's got

a reason at least he's got a reason he

talks about dignity versus safety

telling people what they're thinking his

passion is irrelevant to this thing and

he brings credibility so let's go back

to me

now that you've heard that I'm gonna

play it I don't know how well this will

play let's see if we do well-intended

programs

numerous well intended programs

investments and plans have been derailed

by violence political instability and

the lack this is pacing longstanding

core issues of this Cup

that's pacing so he's saying what

everybody's thinking that this has never

worked before

that's pacing you always tell you tell

the audience what they're already

thinking before you try to get them to

think something new it's like to be

clear economic growth and prosperity for

the Palestinian people are not possible

without an enduring and fair political

solution so here he's acknowledged that

finance is irrelevant if you don't get a

political if you don't get a political

agreement so he's pacing again because

everybody's thinking that they think we

went to this economic thing is this a

waste of time because you can't do any

economics until you've done until you've

done a political agreement so he says

that first that's pacing conflict one

that guarantees Israel's security and

respects the dignity of the Palestinian

so there's where he talks about Israel

wants security and the Palestinians want

dignity that's that's telling you what

you're thinking that's technique we'll

get to those the goal of this workshop

is to begin thinking about these

challenges in a new way a new way let's

try to view this conflict at the

potential of the entire region through a

different lens through a different lens

very powerful he's telling you that the

world can be looked at the same set of

facts through a different lens he's

giving you permission to look at the

same things you've been looking at but

see them differently

it's a yani laurel opportunity can you

look at these same facts with me and now

imagine that you see them differently

very powerful and work together to

develop a concrete plan to try and

achieve it

for a moment imagine a new reality in

Middle East imagine imagine a bustling

commercial and tourist center and Gaza

and the West Bank where international

businesses come together and thrive

imagine the West Bank as a blossoming

economy blossoming of entrepreneurs full

a bunch of years you see a writers iMac

so when he described this didn't you all

see pictures in your head when he's when

he's had engineers didn't you see an

engineer when he said startups didn't

you see a little group of startups when

he said technology weren't you seeing

something this was visual he's turning

the concept into a visual and making you

imagine it people and goods flowing

quickly and securely throughout the

region as economics become more

integrated and people become more

prosperous this isn't a stretch this is

actually the historical legacy of the

Middle East specifically of Gaza and the

West Bank it is a legacy of great

cultures coming together as a center of

Commerce innovation and prosperity

so Larry talkies well-intended programs

there he talked about the history that's

the fake because making you think it's

possible now because it was possible in

the past vestments and plans have

derailed by violence political

instability and the lack of a resolution

today long-standing core issues of this

conflict so he mentions again it lacked

a resolution to the core core conflict

so he's never letting you forget that he

understands money is not the solution

he's not trying to tell you money is the

solution clear economic growth and

prosperity for the Palestinian people

are not possible without an enduring and

fair political solution to the conflict

mm-hmm one that guarantees Israel's

security and respects the dignity of the

Palestinian people

however today is not about the political

issues look I think I missed imagine a

bustling people and goods flowing quick

what I think I got so that's that's just

the first couple of minutes of his

presentation and look how powerful that

is now I said before that I think we've

never been in such a good situation in

the Middle East almost all of the

variables are lining up as if it's meant

to be and what I mean by that is that

we've never had a situation where Iran

is so let's say so desperate to make a

deal

there they're not talking that way but

obviously the impact on your economy has

got to be pretty severe so we're an is

getting flexible we've seen that the

Arab world is now sort of fed up with

the palestinian situation and they don't

seem to be backing them they seem to be

backing more of a comprehensive peace

and they've even said explicitly it's

time to deal with israel and just sort

of move on we but more importantly we've

never had I would say this effective a

group of leaders in the Middle East and

I'm talking about all of the countries

including the United States including

Israel we simply have the best operators

that have ever been on this question

it's the first time we've had so many

people who are not let's say traditional

politicians because this doesn't get

done with traditional politicians we

know that because they're they're good

for example a traditional politician

would work on the political settlement

before talking in detail about the money

you're seeing people operating at a

whole different higher level because

they're talking about the money simply

to make you get you think past get you

to think past the obstacles and that

makes you think you makes you think it's

possible and also the MDS situation I

think gives us some a lot of leverage

with Saudi Arabia because the President

had MBS is back on the khashoggi thing

even when the entire world said I'll

think you ought to be doing that

president Trump and he said I'm doing it

and now if we get to a point where Saudi

Arabia is a primary player maybe they're

one

funders of this alleged 50 billion if

they become super productive in the

Middle East peace we're gonna look back

at this and say ah I really hated it

that the president acted as though the

Khashoggi thing was not known by MBS I

hated it it was immoral it made me feel

dirty I hate everything about it except

that it was important to get Middle East

peace if we get to that point you're

gonna look at this and say it was one of

the smartest political moves of all time

if we don't it'll just look like more

badness I guess all right

the debates start tonight I will be live

tweeting the debates as well the

president so I'll be competing with

President Trump live tweeting the

debates you're gonna enjoy that

yesterday I had Kirk Sorensen on to talk

about thorium and the potential for

thorium energy that was very

illuminating I will tell you that I've

heard from other people who are experts

after that and I would just summarize by

saying that the the question of whether

thorium is better than ordinary

plutonium for nuclear power is not a

settled question in other words there

are experts who will tell you Wow

thorium looks like has some advantages

but when you when you dig down there are

also advantages to plutonium there might

be more thorium available in the world

but it's harder to get to

or maybe the plutonium is harder to get

but we have a bunch sitting around so

there are a lot of things that will

change how you see this the bottom line

is that there are people who think

thorium is the answer I think there are

four startups or so working on it maybe

more and there are people who think it

isn't and they're all qualified so there

are a lot of qualified people who have a

disagreement on that that's all I'll say

about that so one of the biggest in news

in the world this seems to be only news

to half of the world and not the other

is the social media platforms stuff and

the project fair

undercover work they've got a they've

got a document that appears to say so

this is the latest so Project Veritas

has produced a document that allegedly

shows a conversation within Google the

YouTube were part I guess in which

they're discussing how to minimize the

influence of people they call Nazis

including Dave Rubin Jewish and then

also they call Ben Shapiro and Nazi

Jewish and Prager University I don't

know if he's Jewish too but once you

start calling well-known Jews Nazis

you've really gone over too far now the

document the document that was uncovered

we don't know exactly the context

because I I'm gonna be the one who sort

of makes you unhappy and saying that

people are saying that Prager is Jewish

too so the fact that there are three

people in Google or there are people in

Google who saw three prominent Jewish

conservatives consider them to be Nazis

is I mean that says a lot about the

world right I mean what however you

could get that viewpoint and in the

facts and evidence is sort of

astonishing but here's the thing what we

don't know from that document is what

came of that conversation if you have a

big organization it is not unusual for

there to be people disagreeing and that

if you were to see all the disagreement

before you saw the final decisions you

would have a very different idea about

the company let me say that again

I've worked for big companies I've been

in a lot of meetings if you only saw the

result of the meeting you'd say hey

looks like pretty good people in that

meeting they came up with

decision if you saw what happened in the

meeting before the decision you would be

horrified because any meeting has dumb

people in it and dumb people are gonna

say super dumb stuff but you trust that

the process the meeting the boss the

smarter people will prevail and so the

fact that there are dumb people saying

insanely stupid and harmful things in

the context of discussing what to do

next

doesn't necessarily tell you that the

company did something wrong it's a huge

red flag and so you know I certainly

agree with everybody who says my God my

God my God it the fact that they're even

having this conversation and talking in

that way assuming the document is true

and in this world we can never assume

anything but if it is true it would be

very alarming but we don't know if that

one person's opinion was everybody's

opinion and we don't know if lated into

any actual policies but you sure got to

worry about it and you may have also

seen the the I guess it was a

whistleblower from Google who was

talking about the internal conversations

and James O'Keefe was interviewing him

and if you saw it he was the voice of

the whistleblower was digitally altered

so it's brown the the garbled voice and

and and then you can see that the the

image was distorted let me say this I

have no reason to believe that that

whistleblower is fake no reason to

believe that but I want to say just

because it needs to be said

we no longer live in a world where

seeing a disguised whistleblower on

video should be considered credible

sorry you know I I don't want to say

that I would love to say this is a real

whistle blower we know it's real the

things as whistleblowers saying you know

are true we just don't live in that

world anymore

now I'm not doubting it's true I'm

saying that if you saw that and you said

oh it must be true because he's on video

he's on video he's talking you know this

is a group they used trusted before it's

probably true it might be I'm not saying

it's not I'm just saying that we no

longer live in the world we're looking

at a video of a thing or listening to a

person talk is quite as meaningful as it

used to be somebody says Trump just in a

great tweet so I'm gonna if it's so

great that you mentioned it I'm gonna

pause I guess I'm gonna pause it I'm

gonna look at it so give me one moment

to look at the trumpet tweet all right

women's soccer women's soccer player amp

you know

just stated that she is quote not going

to the effing White House is when we win

okay so first of all I love the fact

that you put that in a tweet other than

the NBA which now refuses to call owners

owners please explain that I just got

back criminal justice reform past black

unemployment as the lowest of our

country ever and the property index is

also best number ever leagues and teams

love coming to the White House I'm a big

fan of okay well I don't know that's

just that's not that fun all right so

here's what to make of all the the

Google stuff it does look to me that

Google has been having direct

conversations about people like Dave

Rubin people like Crowder etc and it

does seem that they are there are people

within the company whose intentions are

to block them from being seen so the

fact that Google has employees who

apparently have intentions of blocking

some kind of voices that they consider

over the line but you and I would

consider like right down in the middle

is enough to regulate so I think the

case for regulating the social media

platforms is now made is there anybody

who would disagree with that is there

anybody out here who doesn't think the

social media platforms have to be

regulated now with what we know even if

everything we've heard is not exactly

the way it would happened the the

uncertainty that injects into the system

it really it's no longer a question

anymore

now we should be talking about how to do

it somebody says break up I don't think

so I don't think breaking them up is the

answer I mean I I'm open to that

conversation but my first blush is no

don't break them up all right I have a

friend who has the worst case of TDS

that I know in person and here's the

amazing thing my friend emailed me this

yesterday he said have I seen this

latest accuser against President Trump

have I seen the things she's saying and

now surely I must stop saying good

things about President Trump he argued

because now this latest accusation from

the the L writer is so credible he said

and so you know on point that clearly I

must know that it's true and I read that

email and I thought what what universe

are you living in where that looked

totally credible to you and so I said

have you seen me Anderson Cooper

interview and he said that he had seen

the Allison cammarata interview which to

me looked just as crazy but he hadn't

yet seen the Anderson Cooper so he

watched it and then he emailed me back

and said okay he did watch that and that

was I don't forget what word to use but

he did mention there was there was an

unusual interview

but he was still convinced that it was

true really can you watch the intercept

Cooper interview and come away thinking

that that's a credible accusation

can you really now the the fun part of

this story is that people realized that

there was a law-and-order SUV plot that

is disturbingly similar in which on law

and order SUV the TV show there was

mention and I saw the clip there's

mention of somebody being raped in a

Bergdorf Goodman changing area while

trying on lingerie

now people said is that a coincidence

and I'm here to tell you probably

probably if if you had to put money on

it

would you say that the accuser saw this

TV show and then turned it into her

imagination and then used it well maybe

I mean I wouldn't rule that out but by

far the most likely explanation this is

just a coincidence because it's a big

world and coincidences happen all the

time it's a weird one

but probably a coincidence now the other

thing that people suggested is that the

accuser is actually a writer and she

might have actually been the source of

the plot maybe somebody knew her and

heard the story and they were a writer

Freddie as for you so it might not be a

coincidence it might be that the TV show

was based on the real up you know the

real reported incident which probably

wasn't real alright it was a it's really

amazing to see behind the door and to

see somebody who's so deeply in TDS

denial that the Anderson Cooper

interviewed looked like a serious

interview there was an interesting quote

tweet by Balaji Sreenivasan one of the

smartest people on Twitter if you're not

following Balaji you should you tweeted

that the future will will include

pseudonym

for people who are online in other words

the future might be that we all have

multiple identities we have our online

identity which is not our real identity

so that we can say anything we want

because we'll be just characters online

and will not be real people but then for

getting paid

you need a real identity because money

has to be associated with real people so

that the future might be will have more

than one identity somebody says what I

already do here's something fun brian

Stelter at CNN says he's watching Fox

and seeing the talk shows promote the

project Veritas video that I just talked

about and he says I googled for a

reliable news account about what's going

on and I can't really find one are you

having the same reaction that most of

the people on Twitter had when they saw

that that's right

brian Stelter said he doesn't understand

why he can't google and find a story

about why Google is bad I'm not making

that up

that this actually happened he doesn't

understand why here Google a story about

Google being bad and manipulating search

results I mean that's rage anyway

remember I told you that there's a

there's a good filter for reality one of

the filters for reality I will talk

about the when somebody's asking about

that one of the filters for reality is

that if something is reported only on

the conservative side or only on the

liberal side is probably not true but

right now the liberal side let's say see

it in MSNBC are not they don't seem to

be reporting that the project Veritas

stuff is not true

and they would easily do that if they

believed that to be the case

they're simply ignoring it so this is

sort of a special case where one side is

reporting it widely and the other side

acts like it doesn't exist and then or

at least mostly doesn't exist brian

Stelter is saying why didn't I see any

credible sources for this but here's the

thing the project Veritas is the source

so is he looking for something more

credible a bit is that what do you say I

don't know looking for a second source I

don't know but I would say at this point

you should at least be asking yourself

why you're only seeing this on the

conservative side it's a good question

isn't it is there a reason that you're

only seeing it on one side there might

be Andrew yang had an interesting offer

you is going to offer a thousand dollars

a month to one person that he will

select who retweets his tweet making the

offer and of course this is related to

his idea that people should get at

universal basic income of a thousand

dollars a month so he's going to give a

thousand dollars a month for a year to

somebody who just he picks from the

people who retweeted him now that was

really smart it really smart I'm talking

about persuasion wise politically

getting attention he has this you know

wacky idea of the ubi and by the way I'm

now saying it's wacky that's other

people's opinion I think there might

actually be some substance to it I'd

love to talk to him about it but it's a

it's a fringe idea in the sense that the

mainstream people are not talking about

so much as he is and he's getting a lot

of attention for a very low price a lot

of attention for a very low price of

$12,000 I think he got over 50,000 new

followers

he got headlines he's got me talking

about it I mean you're talking about him

very good play now I don't

that Andrew yang can become the nominee

I think the I think that the Democrats

just don't have the right I don't feel

for him he might be a more serious

player in a future future election but I

think he could he's got a chance of

making the top four by the end so I

would say the yang will get into the top

four that's gonna be my my prediction

before the Democrat primary yang will

make the top four so I'll make that my

prediction let's say somebody asked me

about the when the when is the

cryptocurrency this is associated with

my startup and you might know that Eric

finiman made two predictions Eric fenman

is the so-called boy genius millionaire

who made his first million and then lost

more millions with Bitcoin and Eric made

a call recently that Bitcoin was was

going to go way up and right after he

made that call that Bitcoin was going to

go way up what happened

Bitcoin broke out and bitcoin is way up

now I better check that because that

could change any moment but let me check

today's situation is Bitcoin still up

today it's up its up almost eleven

percent today

so it's screaming so remember I told you

there was something called the Eric

Shannon effect I said that Eric actually

can move a market he actually moved the

entire Bitcoin market because I don't

think anything else happened right did

anything else much happen I don't think

so I think the Bitcoin millionaire /

genius which is he is all of those

things

he's a Bitcoin millionaire and the

genius and he called he called the

Bitcoin move exactly do you know what

else he called you're gonna love this

do you know what else he called the

election of President Trump he was one

of the very few people who sought way

before anybody else thought so now he's

called Bitcoin twice twice once he got

richer than the second time this latest

run and he called the Trump election

coincidence I think at some point you

have to say to yourself okay let's pay

attention to him so somebody asked me

about the when Eric also called out the

when as a likely high potential crypto

that's not Bitcoin and the when went on

the run as soon as Eric mentioned it

because that's what it does now there's

a four this smaller traded the

currencies they're gonna pop up and down

and that's what's happening but I think

the volume of trade is that was that an

all-time high the other day so he's

created a great deal of interest there

are a number of speculators who have the

when they've got to sell them off before

you can you can form a bottom that you

can rise so we're in a normal state of

up and down that we expect and it should

stabilize if the company does well so

one of the main things to make the when

valuable is the company succeeds and the

company is interface by one hub it's an

app for experts and you're going to see

some more promotion coming up in the

next month on that the when is not an

investment all right cryptocurrencies

are not investments at most is something

you could add to a portfolio in a small

amount because you think that you know

there are a number of things that might

go up and you don't know which one so

you get them all in case one goes up so

if you're going to diversify it makes

sense steps in crypto make sense steps

the Bitcoin as I do and it might make

sense for you to have a few other crypto

assets as a small part of your portfolio

alright I will tell you more about

interface by when hub in the next days

some interesting things

oh and by the way if anybody wants some

free attention for your business if you

have a website and you have pasted our

interface button on there

which would allow somebody to click on

it and go into a video call with you

which could be paid or or free if

anybody wants to add that code to their

webpage go to web hub comm look for your

own profile if you've created it in the

app and there'll be some code that you

could just put in your web page whoever

does that I will mention you on Twitter

and on my periscope so if anybody wants

to get a whole bunch of free publicity

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grab the code for that profile stick it

just copy paste stick it into your web

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show it to null tweet it and I'll

promote it alright that's enough for now

I will be watching the democratic

debates I will be live tweeting it and I

will and I will talk to you later