Back to episode — Episode 1048 Scott Adams - Kanye Enters the Race, Dark and Divisive Speeches, Magic Mushrooms
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e bit. Because you feel, in a way, exactly like you did a minute ago but with slightly more unity. You feel it. I think you do. Well, as you know, fireworks were banned and outlawed last night because of all the dangers. But it was also the Fourth of July, sometimes called Independence Day, at least for a part of the country. And I don't think the citizens of the United States gave a damn what th…
← Previous segment →I don't know. I can't explain those two feelings. I'm just going to have to be happy with having two conflicting feelings. It's like, no, don't do that. Well, I'm glad you did.
I'm up to 500,000 followers, a little bit more. You might call that half a million.
Oh, there was something. If you didn't see the videos of the wide shots of all the fireworks going off in L.A. last night, you have to look for that video because it's just sort of, I don't know where it's taken from, a high building or a mountain or something, and then the entire Los Angeles was just exploding. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. I thought I heard more fireworks last night locally. Just inside my house I could hear more explosions. It sounded like it was in the middle of a war zone.
Anyway, I've got half a million followers, as I told you. When I reach a million followers, I will effectively be running the world. Now the reasoning behind that is that influence has two parts. One is how much talent y
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ou have for influence, but the other is how many people are paying attention. So if I can get a million people to pay attention, say a million followers, then I'm pretty dangerous. I'm halfway there. There was an article in The Guardian about magic mushrooms, you know, psychedelic mushrooms. And once again, there just continues to be mounting anecdotal and other evidence that psychedelic drugs, a…
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