the thing I don't really agree with because I understand this is just a study. All right, so I'll just do what you say. And they would follow up with the people who wrote an opinion that wasn't their real opinion. And a year later a lot of them had moved to the opinion that they wrote just because it sort of bought into it a little bit. The process of writing a fake opinion about something actually caused them to buy into it.

So calling Kim Jong-un honorable, to the extent that that reinforces what he's telling people, why he'd like you to believe the image he wants to portray, is actually really effective because that it locks him in a little bit. There's a psychological lock-in effect of the president calling the other party honorable. It actually makes them more honorable. That's like a real thing. President Trump actually causes Kim Jong-un to act a little more honorable by labeling him that way. That's a real thing.

But them, I'm just reading your comments here. When will you analyze Kanye's tweet persuasion? Well, I don't know if it's—yeah, there may be some tweets that are worth looking at the details. But I will tell you if you look at his approach—I'm not sure which one I'm seeing—but yeah, but there have been a few of his tweets recently that look very Trumpian. All right, yeah, I'll talk more about that in the future probably.

Oh, you know, I watched back the periscope I did yesterday with Joel Pollak from—he's the editor-at-large at Breitbart. He an editor at large of Breitbart, senior editor at large I think. But I played it back myself because he said a lot of things I wanted to just remind myself of all the stuff he said. And I had this weird experience because I'm talking and he's talking in this periscope. But every time he talked it sounded brilliant, like really well-informed and he understood all the issues in their proper context. And every time I talked it sounded like a dumb guy. And I don't think I would have noticed how uninformed I am if I were not contrasted immediately with somebody who knew so much. And by the way I know Joel and this isn't the only topic that he knows that much about. He kind of knows this much about everything important. So that was a fascinating experience.

Did you notice also that the best part—we probably didn't notice but what made that so effective, not only was that Joel is a great communicator and he knows the topic—but we didn't have a time limit. I'm treating now because he gave me a time limit and I exceeded it by a lot. So when we first said let's do this I said I'll do five, ten minutes because he had some stuff to get to in the morning. And I don't know how long we went, 22 minutes or something. So because there was no limit to how long we could go I could make sure that I didn't ask all my questions and he was generous enough to stay longer than that. I told him he would have to, but I feel like we got a good sense of the situation because we were not limited to a three-minute block on CNN. You know, that's the typical situation. That's really the power of the podcast, by the way, and the power of the periscope, is that they go as long as they should go.

Oh, thank you. People saying they liked my questions. Did you notice how dangerous it was? Did anybody sense the danger in the questions I was asking about Iran? Just interested in that. Was there anybody watching it who was thinking, "Oh Scott, don't ask that question. You don't even want to act like Iran could be rational because that's dangerous." Yeah, so some people were picking up the danger.

I've often said that one of the dividing lines between good art and boring art is that the audience should sense danger. It's one of those thoughts that when you first hear it doesn't really ring as true. You're like, I don't know, I like art that doesn't project any feeling of danger. But when you see how often it is that the thing you're interested in is either the artist or somebody the artist is talking about or impacting is in some danger. And when you watch me work you'll quite often see, "Oh shoot, he's gonna get in trouble for that too. Like oh god, I think newspapers are gonna drop him. Oh, I don't think he can say that."

So artists like Kanye, he's the universal example. He understands that if the audience don't feel some danger—not only for him, he put himself in a dangerous situation this week—but it's also dangerous for other people because Kanye is affecting a big population of people who are literally thinking differently today. I mean, whatever you want to say about Kanye, whether you're a critic or a lover, there's one thing I think we'd all agree on. Today we're thinking differently than we did last week. Not completely. We're not all thinking the same way differently. But there's definitely a shift. And Kanye did that. He did it intentionally. He did it skillfully. And it looks like it might stick. We'll see. Now if two weeks from now it all turns into other news stories, maybe it won't be as big as I think. But I think he's planted a seed that doesn't have any chance of not growing. It's just too true. There's sort of a truth to what he's doing that's gonna be hard to extinguish.

All right, update on Iran prediction. My Iran prediction is that we have, based on listening to Joel's explanation, that we have a flawed deal that probably could become a better deal without Iran feeling like they really lost too much. So there probably is a deal to be made. Whether or n