Didn't I say I had something else to talk about today? Can somebody remind me what I put in the title of my Periscope here?

Oh, by the way, if you're watching my Periscopes on YouTube, if you're watching them on YouTube, make sure that you're watching my actual account. There are some fake accounts that take my Periscopes and put them on YouTube. They are not me. So look for Real Coffee with Scott Adams. I tweeted the actual link to it yesterday so you can see it in my Twitter feed. So please watch that one.

Yes, the WhenHub startup, my startup, is now listed on CoinPulse. I'll have more about that on another Periscope, but we're now able to trade the When tokens that are part of the WhenHub app. I'll talk more about that another time.

Scott, are you trying to fleece us? No, I'm trying to make an app that I think will be useful in a whole variety of ways, including education and keeping lonely people company. You know, if you haven't seen it, my app, the WhenHub app, it's available in stores. And I'll just say one thing about it. It's designed so that anybody can sign up as an expert at anything. You just have to know more than the people who want advice from you and that you can set your own price and when people can immediately call you so you're available now. Somebody says, oh, I want an expert, and they're immediately on a video call with an expert at the price set by the expert.

But I'm starting to think that maybe its larger application that would be useful is keeping people company. I saw that in Japan middle-aged men are actually renting themselves out to give advice that a middle-aged man would know and just keep people company. Have you heard of that? And there are other people I think who are making scads of money on YouTube who just eat. It's just a YouTube of somebody eating their lunch and these are used to largely just keep people company. And I'm thinking how many people would pay just to have somebody hang out with them for a while and it's probably a lot because keep in mind that the price could be quite reasonable, especially if it's somebody in another country, somebody who just has some free time, maybe so they just want to do it. So it might be that the biggest application is just somebody who wants to provide some company and mild advice and life advice and that sort of thing.

I was thinking the other day about how much knowledge I have accumulated in my way-too-long life and how if I didn't share it, it would be just sort of stranded. You know, by the time you reach my age and when you've been involved in this many different businesses as I have and you've seen the ones that worked and the ones that failed, you know, I've got an MBA degree in economics. I've been probably involved in, I don't know, 25 different businesses one way or another. When you've done that many things you have all this sort of, I hate to call it wisdom, but experience locked up in your head and it's just a shame that it would be stranded there. So there are lots of people like me who have tons of knowledge that they can unlock.

I've said this before about race relations and particularly the African-American community and also women. So this is something that we and African-American citizens have in common, which is if it's true that the people who mostly have the power and the influence in our society are white men, you know, just on average they've got more of the power and the networks and the connections and the experience and all that. If that's true, and I think most people would say that's where it's concentrated, if you don't have access to all of those people then you don't have the biggest financial asset that a person could have, which is who you know. Who you know, especially if you were related to them, that helps a lot, is gonna be everything. Who you know really, really matters.

And I've said this before but especially in the MeToo era, if a professional woman, let's say a woman in the business world, wanted to get some advice or network with a man and said, hey, how about, you know, would you like to go to lunch, what would that man or should that man say or do in the era of MeToo? I don't know if the man is going to take the lunch and if he does you might have to invite somebody else there just so there's some witnesses so you're not going to get the same kind of interaction that two men will get. It's very common for a man to say, hey yeah, how about a cup of coffee. Like I get that request all the time. The number of men who have contacted me to say, hey do you have a minute, let's, you know, for a phone call, cup of coffee, and of course I say, you know, most of the time I don't have time but lots of times I say yeah, and then they can get connected to whatever people I know, wisdom, etc. And it's free, doesn't cost them anything most of the time.

But if a woman made the same request and said, hey, do you want to meet me for lunch, I wouldn't take that. I would not go to lunch with a woman in the era of MeToo. And how devastatingly bad is that for women? You know, I'm not talking about me in particular but you are. So it's such a, that is such a bad situation.

Now let's take a similar but different situation for African-Americans, let's say people in the business world who want to network, want to connect. Now I would of course, if it's a male, if let's say if it's an African-American male, I would definitely take the lunch, take the coffee, you know, if I have time. Time allowing is always the biggest thing but I would take that. But do they ask? How many African-American men have contacted me compared to the number of, let's say, Asian Americans, you know, Indian Americans and white Americans? That group very easily contacts me all the time. So it's just almost every day somebody in one of those groups says, hey can I talk to you, can I connect, can I get some advice, can I do something. But the number of African-American men who contact me is low, lower than their percentage in the population even. And I don't know why that is exactly but I assume that it's just a little less comfortable. That's a gigantic, gigantic disadvantage.

And so I'm hoping that the WhenHub app may be one of the things that could do is just make it easier to contact somebody that you wouldn't easily contact. Maybe you wouldn't go to lunch with them but you'd have a phone call. And the other advantage of the WhenHub app, this is my startup's app, is that you can be as anonymous as you want to be because the person on the other end is not going to get your phone number or your contact information. So only the app knows who you are or how to contact you. So if you're a woman and you wanted some advice from a male but you didn't want to have that male have your phone number, which is probably pretty common, the WhenHub app would let you do that.

All right, so if you pay them do they have to be nice to you? Well we hope they will be.