Back to episode — Episode 1032 Scott Adams - Why Your Vote is Irrelevant This Time, Baby Memes, Supreme Court
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fect. And it was short. And you know sometimes memes can go out a little bit too long. That's my only complaint about the political memes. I like them short. This was just the right length. Perfect visual. And part of the reason I think they were complaining so much about it is that it was really powerful visually. When you watch the two kids hugging, you can just feel their joy. These are two li…
← Previous segment →hear myself, sometimes I play back my periscopes just to see if I can learn anything to improve them. And when I'm playing back my own periscopes, I see the density in them that I didn't know I had when I started. So what I was doing, I wasn't aware of it, but when I watch it I can watch it like a spectator and I'll think, wow that's pretty dense.
But also I realized that I'm using, massively and I don't even do it consciously, the techniques of hypnosis. So while I don't think that was his intention to make a hypnosis slash musical product, because everything I do is sort of infused with persuasion, the little clips of my voice, forget about them musically, they just activate a different part of your brain. And so what you're feeling is that the text is activating one part of your brain while the music is activating another. And there's two parts of your brain that you just don't activate at the same time. And that's why it has a weird effect on you because you haven't had those two parts of your brain simultaneously activated.
It's not the same as just hearing somebody talk. Because again I've infused it, without trying, I infuse it with a lot more weight than normal words. And it's just because of training and technique. Anybody, Tony Robbins would do the same thing without trying.
So I recommend it. At the same time I just don't know how to describe it because it's just not like anything else. Scott speaks perfectly. That's a callback to I told you the story when I'd lost my voice for three and a half years and I literally couldn't communicate. At least I could make noise but I couldn't make full sentences and stuff. And my affirmation at the time was that I would speak perfectly. Now I don't speak perfectly because perfect is a standard you can't really achieve. But nonetheless it is true that my voice is now a work of art. That's music.
Now I can't tell if he enhanced my voice or he just edited out anything that was weak sounding, but it does sound better than my normal voice. I don't know how he did that. So there might be some digital magic about that. Now you might have autotuned it possibly. If you listened to it, is there somebody smart enough to know that my voice was autotuned or even a little bit? I can't tell. But there does seem to be a little more character in my voice than what I would normally hear if I just played it back. It could be in my imagination. So I don't know.
Yes, so it's on Spotify. So you can look for it. The single is called "It Feels Like It Works." So look for Akira the Don, and this should pop up with your Google searches. And there's a whole album coming that I haven't heard yet. But impressive, right?
Amy Klobuchar said she was dropping out in the running to be the vice presidential pick because she thinks that Biden should pick a woman of color. So throwing Elizabeth Warren under the bus at the same time now.
Because you are a seasoned political observer, what do you make of the story that Amy Klobuchar withdrew from consideration to be the vice presidential pick? What does it mean that she withdrew, and in withdrawing said that she supports a woman of color? Let me read between the lines. The choice is already made. Do you think Amy Klobuchar gives up? I don't think so. No, maybe, maybe. But there's nothing about her vibe or anything that I've seen about her. I have actually a very positive overall opinion of Amy Klobuchar and have since the beginning. Although on day one I didn't think she had the charisma. So I thought she's wanting in charisma. But that's, you know, I'm not sure you can fix charisma. But in terms of being a serious, capable, highest level politician, I always thought she was very good.
And she was certainly smart enough to know that if the selection had already been made, the smartest thing she could do is act as though the selection had not already been made and then drop out by recommending a person of color. Biden presumably has already picked Kamala Harris and everybody knows it. Then when he does pick her, people could say, oh that's exactly what Amy Klobuchar advised him to do. She wins.
So in other words she already knows she lost the race to be vice president. It's obvious to me she already knows that's over. The best thing she could salvage from this is to predict or advise or suggest the thing that's already happened. Because you're not going to be wrong if you suggest something that's already happened. And I'm sure that Kamala Harris has been selected at this point. Now anything could change. She could be deselected. I don't think that would be the first time a vice presidential pick got altered at the last minute. But at the moment it looks like she's the pick.
And here's something that Harris did today which reminded me of Trump. I've told you before that I think her advisers are now the world-class type. When she was running just as a candidate in the primaries, she was a hot mess in terms of her messaging or body language or her unconfident laughs. It was just a mess. And all of that just suddenly changed. And even her strategy I thought was weak, but even her strategy is better.
So I always tell you that Trump picks up free money. I use that as an analogy. Free money meaning that Trump will do the thing that is all upside, no downsid
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e, and for some reason nobody else thought to do it. It was just right there. It was just obvious. It's just right here. Pick up the free money. Anybody? Anybody? So that's why Harris did. She's planning to introduce a bill that declares Juneteenth a national holiday. Now your first question should be why her? Well, did nobody else think of that? If President Trump had suggested this first to mak…
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