Back to episode — Episode 267 Scott Adams - Saudi Excuses, #JobsNotMobs, Voter Turnout
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everything, right? Hyperbole is sort of his brand. Yeah, so watching people try to compare calling somebody sleepy eyes or saying that Megyn Kelly has blood coming out of her whatever to compare angry — not angry but to compare insulting tweets to dismembering somebody with a bone saw, not exactly the same thing. Somebody's saying that they came up with "jobs not mobs." You know, let's talk ab…
← Previous segment →uring the internet for the memes, the approaches, the attacks, the tweets that work. So people are clearly looking at what the Trump followers are doing collectively, finding out what is popular, what gets a lot of clicks, what gets a lot of likes, and then taking that to the boss at some point, one assumes, or taking it to the speechwriter, which ends up being very similar because the boss is going to look at it. And then he A/B tests it.
So he's not just good at branding sitting in a room and thinking of brands. He's expanded the system so that they're scouring the internet for things which are naturally viral, things that people are already responding to. And he sees — presumably somebody in the administration saw "jobs not mobs" somewhere on some Twitter feed and said, "Let's give it a try."
Now the next part of this is the A/B testing, which is where you just put it out there and you see how people react. And you saw him do that at his rally. And when the crowd had a visceral reaction to it, you could tell that when he landed it the very first time in a rally, the crowd responded with a big laugh and a good reaction.
Now if you have ever spoken in front of big crowds you
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can really feel the energy. I've spent years giving very large keynotes to big ballrooms and theaters filled with thousands of people. So I've had the experience of being on stage hundreds of times with thousands of people in the audience who are just there to see me. And if I land a good joke, the audience responds and you could just feel the energy. You know, the crowd is just giving you energy…
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