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ion. So now Joe Rogan is going from an advertising model on wherever he is to Spotify. And I don't know exactly how that's going to be handled. I guess if you're a member or maybe if you're not, you can watch it there. But whatever the deal is, I think he's just being paid directly by Spotify. So he'll be leaving the advertising model behind. By going to Locals, I have a subscription model that…
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Naval Ravikant, you'd be another example. I would always trust Naval to look at the whole field, look at the data, and then make a decision that common sense and reason and wisdom and data taken together — I would never expect any of the guys I just mentioned to just go left or right because that's where the team is. They just don't do that.
Elon Musk is another one. Can you imagine Elon Musk just taking a team side? No, just not part of his makeup. He's going to follow the information, have his own opinion. So I would say that Jack's in that category of a fairly small group of people that you could depend on to just look at the argument.
And yeah, Matt Taibbi, there's another good example. Matt Taibbi, you could depend on to just look at the whole field.
So what's the big deal about this is that I've been trying to educate people watching this Periscope about generation four. Most of that comes from Mark Snyder's work. And maybe it made a difference. So maybe this is another example. We don't know. I mean Jack reads lots of stuff, so he may have known about this from others and just thought it was interesting. But there's a good chance that what we're doing here to educate all of you is having an effect, right?
So yeah, we can't — it's illegitimate to trace any one thing back to one source because it's a big world with lots of variables. But I like to think that we were productive at the very least, productive in getting the generation four message out. So thanks to Mark Snyder for changing the world. I like that little old saying, you know, the pessimist says, "Well, one person, one person can change the world? What can I do? Just one person. I can't change the world."
And then the smarter person says the only way the world has ever been changed is by one person. It's always that way. One person always changes the world because it starts somewhere. The things don't start with a thousand people. They always start with one. So if you want to be the pessimist, you can say that one person can't change the world. If you want to be the optimist, that just gave you two examples where it happened, maybe.
All right. Here's my favorite story of the day. This is from a tweet from Trump, I think this is today or yesterday. "Roger Stone has been treated very unfairly." So it's not the first part of the tweet that's funny. It
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's wait for the end part. So the first part is just a setup. "Roger Stone has been treated very unfairly. How about that jury? 4-0-1. Does anybody think that was fair? Disgraceful. Stay tuned for Fox News." And guys, and then he says, "And guys like low ratings psycho Joe Scarborough are allowed to walk the streets. Open the cold case. A cold case." So if you don't know what that story's about,…
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