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Wicked Radio 5-20: Scott Adams Gave Us A Lesson On Facing Mortality With Guts And Grace · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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Speaker 1: I've never been so affected by any kind of a
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Speaker 1: media personality. If you want to narrow it down to
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Speaker 1: that announcement as it was yesterday, still am today by
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Speaker 1: what Scott Adams announced yesterday. I mean it really it
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Speaker 1: shook me, shook a lot of people, though, you want
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Speaker 1: to talk about a beloved personality, Well, he announced some
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Speaker 1: news that he's fighting the same kind of cancer, prostate cancer,
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Speaker 1: ironically that Joe Biden is, but handling it in a
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Speaker 1: completely and totally different way. And I've never done this
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Speaker 1: in any of the live streams so far, none of
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Speaker 1: the podcast. I've never dedicated anything to anybody. He's just
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Speaker 1: you know, it's just you and me talking about attitude
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Speaker 1: and lifestyle and mindset and all that good stuff and
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Speaker 1: how this world affects us. Well, I'm one hundred picating
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Speaker 1: this to Scott Adams and he's not even gone yet.
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Speaker 1: This was just an announcement, but it was sad and
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Speaker 1: it hit me. But like, this is one of the
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Speaker 1: things I learned from him. It's how you approach this
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Speaker 1: and how you look at it. And I deep to
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Speaker 1: some of the earlier ah I remembered him saying this
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Speaker 1: and it was from a couple of years ago, I believe,
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Speaker 1: and he was actually talking about how you handle death
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Speaker 1: and not moping around about it. Guts, balls, steel, grace,
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Speaker 1: and attitude is how he's handled this, which is how
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Speaker 1: the guy has done in his entire career. Just one
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Speaker 1: of the most impactful media figures, not just from the
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Speaker 1: Dilbert cartoon. He was a hell of a lot more
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Speaker 1: than that. And I will say this, and I mean
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Speaker 1: this truly, if you're happy with the way things are
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Speaker 1: going right now as far as the direction of our
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Speaker 1: country and Trump being in office, the administration, the Golden
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Speaker 1: Age and other coin he termed that we're supposedly entering
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Speaker 1: right now, it doesn't happen. It doesn't happen without Scott Adams.
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Speaker 1: Doesn't I don't think Elon Musk buys Twitter and turns
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Speaker 1: it into x and basically, you know, starts the killing
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Speaker 1: off of fake news without Scott Adams. I mean that.
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Speaker 1: It's how impactful of a guy this actually is. So
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Speaker 1: we'll get to him in just a second, but we're
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Speaker 1: also going to talk about speaking of prostate cancer. Of
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Speaker 1: course you knew as that for a segue. Of course
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Speaker 1: you knew Trump was going to address the supposed Biden
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Speaker 1: cover up of his diagnosis, which is looking more and
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Speaker 1: more obvious. Now you'll talk about that as well. And
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Speaker 1: speaking of Trump, is this the end of fake news?
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Speaker 1: This CBS settlement which is coming down the pike, Jack
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Speaker 1: Tapper of all people, as an update on this, and
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Speaker 1: how much they're willing to settle for the highly selectively
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Speaker 1: edited sixty minutes interview with Kamala Harris that Trump sued
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Speaker 1: them over. They're gonna settle for a massive amount of money. Reportedly,
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Speaker 1: it's not gonna end fake news, but it's gonna make
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Speaker 1: them think twice. Let's put it that way, and we'll
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Speaker 1: wrap it up today with which they do every single year,
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Speaker 1: Right when kids are getting out of college and starting
2:46
Speaker 1: your life and trying to pay down that college Yet
2:48
Speaker 1: Forbes magazine comes out and says, well, your degree sucks. Now, granted,
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Speaker 1: college isn't for anybody, and it actually is a pretty
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Speaker 1: bad consumer choice these days unless you're a doctor or
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Speaker 1: a lawyer. But don't let anybody tell you your career
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Speaker 1: choice sucks. It's what you make of it, all right.
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Speaker 1: That more nuts and bolts here. Thanks you finding the
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Speaker 1: Wicked Radio live stream all part of wicked Wisdom with
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Speaker 1: Bill Adams all the social media channels and the audio
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Speaker 1: podcast as well. But let's get right to it. And
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Speaker 1: this is what hit me and literally millions of other
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Speaker 1: people yesterday. If you follow Scott Adams, a little bit
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Speaker 1: of background if you don't know, Yes, the creator of Dilbert,
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Speaker 1: Yes true, a cartoonist, hell of a lot more than that, though,
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Speaker 1: a trained hypnotist, a persuader, an author, and this live
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Speaker 1: stream podcast Coffee with Scott Adams that he started several
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Speaker 1: years ago was one of the most impactful things in
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Speaker 1: this new media age we're in, you know, I mean
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Speaker 1: truly as much of an impact. I'll go so far
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Speaker 1: as to say as anybody on traditional terrestrial radio like Rush,
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Speaker 1: just as much and the perfect guy for these confusing
3:56
Speaker 1: times just personally just listening to him. He was one
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Speaker 1: of the He was one of the first, if not
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Speaker 1: the first, who said that Trump was going to win
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Speaker 1: the election. He said that in twenty fifteen and laughed
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Speaker 1: at and mocked. Of course, of course he was, and
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Speaker 1: he had his reasons, and he said, because he's an
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Speaker 1: energy monster and he knows how to persuade. That announcement
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Speaker 1: that came yesterday from him hit me like a ton
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Speaker 1: of rocks. And he even said it yesterday that he's
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Speaker 1: battling prostate cancer too. But the way he said it,
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Speaker 1: and went on to say it was so brave and
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Speaker 1: so gutsy and so graceful. But it started with this.
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Speaker 1: You want to talk about a reaction. It's his top
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Speaker 1: trending story about Scott in the world yesterday for a
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Speaker 1: short period of time. This is it.
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Speaker 2: Some of you have already guessed, so this one was
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Speaker 2: surprised you at all. But I have the same cancer
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Speaker 2: that Joe Biden has, So I also have prostate cancer
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Speaker 2: that has also spread to my bones. But I've had
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Speaker 2: it longer than he's had it, well longer than he's
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Speaker 2: admitted having it. So my life expectancy is maybe the summer.
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Speaker 2: I'd I expect to be checking out from this domain
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Speaker 2: sometime in the summer.
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Speaker 1: He wrapped up his entire the and then did his show,
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Speaker 1: you know, tried to do it as normal as possible,
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Speaker 1: and the end was looking at some of the comments
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Speaker 1: in his live stream and said, no, no, no, no, stop crying.
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Speaker 1: You're not allowed to cry if I'm not moping around
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Speaker 1: about my cancer paraphrasing here because you're not allowed to either.
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Speaker 1: It just it was just so impressive. I think the
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Speaker 1: rest of the world already a massive impact and a
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Speaker 1: massive audience, but I think the rest of the world
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Speaker 1: is going to understand this, believe it or not. Throughout
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Speaker 1: his final days and posthumously about the impact that Scott
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Speaker 1: Adams has had not only on media and politics and
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Speaker 1: personal life. My favorite thing though, in listening to him
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Speaker 1: for so many years now is when you would talk about,
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Speaker 1: you know, the lifestyle stuff, you know, personal advice. I
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Speaker 1: used to it was fascinated by this. I was really
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Speaker 1: really depressed about this. I mean just hit you was
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Speaker 1: just another thing. You know, it works with radio or
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Speaker 1: live streams or your favorite podcast or somebody you feel
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Speaker 1: intimate with them because it's an intimate relationship. This is
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Speaker 1: really I mean, we call these live streams and podcasts,
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Speaker 1: and his podcast is, but it's really it's that radio
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Speaker 1: intimate format that's always worked, that one on one format, right,
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Speaker 1: and you feel a close personal connection with the person,
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Speaker 1: and millions did with Scott. So for him to say
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Speaker 1: this affected a lot of people in a lot of
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Speaker 1: diffferent ways. And like I told you, it's this is
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Speaker 1: another thing for I have been hit with so much
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Speaker 1: death recently here just family members. I've lost two brothers,
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Speaker 1: and it's just certain and extended hit and friends and
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Speaker 1: it's just it's just been a lot, and it's made
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Speaker 1: me personally think a lot about you know, mortality and
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Speaker 1: what it means, but more important than that, how to
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Speaker 1: handle it in the meantime. I'm probably like, I'm not
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Speaker 1: afraid of death myself. I mean, you don't have to
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Speaker 1: worry about that, there's no more worries going to the
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Speaker 1: great beyond. I'm worried about handling it in the meantime
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Speaker 1: and the attitude to have towards it. So that's what
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Speaker 1: I was thinking about all day when he made this announcement,
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Speaker 1: and I remembered him saying something about this a couple
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Speaker 1: of years ago, I think about handling death. And I
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Speaker 1: dug it up and I found it from an earlier
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Speaker 1: livestream podcast of his, and it hit home for me now.
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Speaker 1: And he said this a while ago, but it applies
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Speaker 1: so well to right now and how you have to
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Speaker 1: handle this thing. This this is what he said. It's
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Speaker 1: a little long, but I think it's perfect. This is
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Speaker 1: Scott Adams from an earlier stream, before he even knew
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Speaker 1: he was diagnosed with anything.
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Speaker 3: Now your job is to stop feeling sorry for yourself
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Speaker 3: because the deceased doesn't have any problems. The deceased sounds
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Speaker 3: like who somebody reached, you know, the age of normal
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Speaker 3: death and then died. It sounds like they did great
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Speaker 3: and now you can, you know, honor their memory and
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Speaker 3: prepare for the future exactly the way they'd want you to.
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Speaker 1: How accurate is that? Absolutely? And that's what actually made
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Speaker 1: me feel better about that news. And like I said,
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Speaker 1: he's not even gone yet. We're gonna have him, you know,
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Speaker 1: hopefully as long as possible. I hope they found a
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Speaker 1: cure for the guy. I hope he's around forever because
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Speaker 1: of the impact that he's had. Specifically, what are we
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Speaker 1: talking about here If you're familiar with that guy's work,
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Speaker 1: and you really should be the books or just the
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Speaker 1: live stream or any anything that he's documented and having
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Speaker 1: said or taught people persuasion reading through hoaxes. In fact,
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Speaker 1: he coined the Fine People hoax. You know that they
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Speaker 1: tried to pull on us with the whole Charlottesville thing,
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Speaker 1: and they pushed forever. Biden got elected, He ran on that.
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Speaker 1: Scott pointed it out. Now it's widely debunked as a
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Speaker 1: complete political hoax, all that stuff. Twenty four hour rule.
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Speaker 1: That's another one for famous people when they say or
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Speaker 1: do something that too on the nose. Theory. When you
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Speaker 1: hears some scientific theory that sounds a UFO thing that
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Speaker 1: just sounds a little bit too exact, or any kind
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Speaker 1: of a wild story of it sounds too on the nose,
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Speaker 1: it's probably not right. So many different things now to
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Speaker 1: how to handle things. It's just an amazing, amazing impact.
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Speaker 1: As you can see because you've seen. If you're not
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Speaker 1: familiar with them, you're probably going, why are so many
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Speaker 1: people writing about Scott Adams? That's why. That's exactly why.
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Speaker 1: So that's my takeaway. Here's the attitude. Here's the attitude
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Speaker 1: pivot for this. Because of that, that's how I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: handle all this. I'm not gonna mope around. I lose
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Speaker 1: family members and the brothers that i've lost. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: live the way they would have wanted me to. It's
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Speaker 1: funny enough, exactly what Scott Adams had said right there,
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Speaker 1: because that's how to do it. With an attitude, you'd
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Speaker 1: be sad, but honor them. That's how I'm gonna do it,
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Speaker 1: all right, Speaking of prostate cancer, there's your segue of
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Speaker 1: the day. You knew Trump would chime in on the
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Speaker 1: Biden thing. You knew it was coming, and uh, pretty
9:50
Speaker 1: much cemented what we're all thinking, cover up, right, But
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Speaker 1: then he went into something else. This means, you know,
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Speaker 1: the American people were misled obviously throughout this, and I
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Speaker 1: think in the coming days we're going to learn more
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Speaker 1: and more about that. This was Trump just yesterday.
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Speaker 4: In other words, there are things going on that the
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Speaker 4: public wasn't informed. And I think somebody's gonna have to
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Speaker 4: speak to his doctor if it's the same or even
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Speaker 4: if it's two separate doctors. Uh, why wasn't the cognitive ability?
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Speaker 4: Why wasn't that discussed? And I think the doctor said
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Speaker 4: he's just fine, and this turned out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's turned out to be something different, hasn't it.
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Speaker 1: So we all know that. And again I spent all
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Speaker 1: yesterday's live stream saying the same thing. Separate the politics
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Speaker 1: from you, humanity, or you can get sucked into this
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Speaker 1: dark hole of losing your own soul. Right, And I
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Speaker 1: saw a lot of this yesterday just just awful response.
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Speaker 1: I understand it. I'm just saying, don't go in that
10:40
Speaker 1: direction for your own personal mental health. Well, he you know,
10:45
Speaker 1: he witched death upon half of the country. He would
10:47
Speaker 1: have thrown he wanted Trump to die in jail. He uh,
10:51
Speaker 1: you know, he perpetuated all these hopes in life. Yes,
10:55
Speaker 1: all true. I acknowledge it. I talked about it. Obviously,
10:59
Speaker 1: you could still separate all that stuff and still wish
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Speaker 1: somebody the best on the human side of things. You
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Speaker 1: really can. I'm not wishing Ill Will and Joe Biden
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Speaker 1: at all, but two things can be true. Two factors.
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Speaker 1: This was one hundred percent a cover up, you know,
11:14
Speaker 1: the sickness, not only the mental decline, but obviously a
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Speaker 1: physical decline as well, so that the attitude pivot on
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Speaker 1: that one. We're not gonna put up with that anymore.
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Speaker 1: We're really not. How much you want to bet that
11:25
Speaker 1: going forward, all of us are going to be much
11:27
Speaker 1: more aware, whether we show it or not, whether we
11:30
Speaker 1: express it or not, about the transparency of our leaders.
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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna have an effect. I think we're
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Speaker 1: going to demand it. We should demand it. We should
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Speaker 1: absolutely demand it, not only the physical test, but what's
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Speaker 1: going on behind the scenes, what's being hidden, and what's not.
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Speaker 1: It's good to have a healthy, you know, distrust of
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Speaker 1: what the media and the government are telling us. Don't
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Speaker 1: let it consume you. But your natural instinct should be
11:52
Speaker 1: to distrust what they're telling you. Harken back to Scott Adams.
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Speaker 1: Another thing that he taught the world you should, you
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Speaker 1: should about the so going forward, you should. This should
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Speaker 1: be the shift after the whole Biden fiasco. Would demand
12:05
Speaker 1: transparency and answers from all of them. We should. So
12:10
Speaker 1: let's see where that goes. It's being of transparency. Oh wow,
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Speaker 1: chock full of segues today, everybody, Well, this is this
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Speaker 1: is something very very quietly.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Sure it made some headlines, but very quietly. The CBS
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Speaker 1: reported settlement with Trump is going to have a major,
12:28
Speaker 1: major impact. So it's all over the highly selectively edited
12:34
Speaker 1: sixty minutes interview they did with Kamala remember that in
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Speaker 1: the waning days of the presidential campaign, to make her
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Speaker 1: look quite frankly not dumb. They did their best. Oh,
12:45
Speaker 1: they absolutely did their best. And Trump got ahold of
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Speaker 1: the transcripts that that was the first major fight, and
12:49
Speaker 1: then he got a hold of the original video that
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Speaker 1: was the second major fight and it wound up in
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Speaker 1: a lawsuit. Just to refresh your memory, let's go back.
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Speaker 1: It's long, but you got to listen to it. Got
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Speaker 1: some audio for you. You don't really need to see
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Speaker 1: the video on this. The audio is. The first part
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Speaker 1: is the original unedited video sound, and the second part
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Speaker 1: is when they edited it and how much of a
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Speaker 1: difference it makes. Now it's scary because it tells you
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Speaker 1: what the media is capable of, and it also shows
13:18
Speaker 1: you how in the bag the media was for Kamala
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Speaker 1: Harris and it still didn't work. That's another change that's happened.
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Speaker 1: We're not buying it anymore, all right, So just reckoning
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Speaker 1: back to the sixty minutes interview with Kamala. First part
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Speaker 1: you're gonna hear is the original and then they highly
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Speaker 1: selectively edited video. But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyah
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Speaker 1: who is not listening.
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Speaker 5: Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted
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Speaker 5: in a number of movements in that reasion by Israel
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Speaker 5: that were god very much prompted by or a result
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Speaker 5: of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to
14:01
Speaker 5: happen in the region.
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Speaker 1: But it seems said, Okay, here's the editing Prime Minister Netanyah,
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Speaker 1: who is not listening.
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Speaker 5: We're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for
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Speaker 5: the United States to be clear about where we stand
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Speaker 5: on the need for this war to end.
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Speaker 1: Wow, what a difference. What magic editing there to make herself.
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Speaker 1: It's a great answer. The second one problem is that's
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Speaker 1: not her answer. That was CBS's answer. That's what they
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Speaker 1: wanted her to say. That's what they wanted her to
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Speaker 1: look and sound like. So that's what God Trump's so upset.
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Speaker 1: As it turns out, He's absolutely right. A little bit
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Speaker 1: of information. Hold on, I gotta go to the original post.
14:34
Speaker 1: Now it was on X yesterday from Jake Tapper. That's right,
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Speaker 1: I'm quoting Jake Tapper from CNN. He says, now, listen
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Speaker 1: to this. He source close to negotiations tells me paramount
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Speaker 1: CBS could settle with President Trump for as much as
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Speaker 1: thirty to fifty million dollars. Wow. Now, Jake Tapper of CNN,
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Speaker 1: like him or not, he doesn't come out with that
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Speaker 1: unless he's got pretty solid source. And that's the way
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Speaker 1: it's looking. Okay, Now, the money doesn't matter to you
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Speaker 1: or me. We're not gonna get the money. Obviously, here's
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Speaker 1: what matters to you and me. Maybe here's the question
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Speaker 1: we should all ask, Does this end the fake news?
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Speaker 1: Do all the other networks look at CBS and the
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Speaker 1: amount they had to pay and the changes in staff
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Speaker 1: over this, which we'll get to in a second, and say, well,
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Speaker 1: they're not gonna try to pull that crap again. Will
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Speaker 1: this be the end of fake news? No, but they're
15:30
Speaker 1: still good news. It's gonna make them think twice, if
15:33
Speaker 1: you want to put it that way, towards putting out
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Speaker 1: a fake story, more hoaxes, deceptive, selectively edited videos, flat
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Speaker 1: out lies. It's not going to stop them, but it's
15:47
Speaker 1: gonna make them think twice. They're gonna be much more hesitant.
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Speaker 1: There will be less of it, I predict. Here's the
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Speaker 1: most important factor though, after all of this. I think
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Speaker 1: the trust in me, which is down to single digits.
16:02
Speaker 1: I think it's about they always do this national poll
16:04
Speaker 1: every year how much do you trust media? I think
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Speaker 1: it's down to like eight percent. I may be quoting
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Speaker 1: that wrong. You can fact check me there and tell
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Speaker 1: me in the comments. It may be down to zero.
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Speaker 1: I think our trust our distrust of traditional corporate mainstream
16:21
Speaker 1: media is pretty much gone. And that's a healthy thing
16:24
Speaker 1: because that eventually will turn into more open information like
16:28
Speaker 1: what we have on social media. Now you've got metadata
16:30
Speaker 1: on X where you can decide what you want to do.
16:33
Speaker 1: You really can get all opinions and then form your
16:35
Speaker 1: own opinion. This is why it was so important what
16:37
Speaker 1: Elon must did in buying X and taking the censorship away.
16:40
Speaker 1: That's why getting rid of censorship is so important. That's
16:44
Speaker 1: why people like Scott Adams are so important to tell
16:46
Speaker 1: you to read through all these hoaxes and all these things.
16:49
Speaker 1: All that stuff leads to this, CBS paying a massive
16:52
Speaker 1: price for lying during the campaign and helping out their
16:57
Speaker 1: preferred candidate, a major win for all of us. Not
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Speaker 1: the money, the after effects. It's not gonna change all
17:04
Speaker 1: of it, but it'll change a lot of it. Now,
17:06
Speaker 1: that's not the only trickle down effect of this thing,
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Speaker 1: not only the money, but because of that, maybe it's
17:11
Speaker 1: salary related, but I think more so it's about the
17:15
Speaker 1: direction of that particular company. Not only potentially a fifty
17:19
Speaker 1: million dollars settlement from CBS, their CEO, Wendy McMahon has
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Speaker 1: announced a resignation. This is a This is a CEO
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Speaker 1: of CBS News. This is a massively influential person walking
17:33
Speaker 1: away or being shown the door. Massive changes. Her departure
17:37
Speaker 1: comes at CBS's parent company, Paramount weighs that potential settlement.
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Speaker 1: We just talked about it alleges exactly what we heard.
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Speaker 1: The sixty minute segment was deceptively edited. I'll say it again.
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Speaker 1: Is this the end of fake news? No, let's not
17:52
Speaker 1: go that far. But it's gonna change how they're gonna
17:56
Speaker 1: throw fake news at you and me and everybody else.
17:59
Speaker 1: And here's the other more important change. All of us
18:03
Speaker 1: have our antennas up for fake news. Now everybody does.
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Speaker 1: This is why I dedicated this entire live stream today
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Speaker 1: to Scott Adams, because that's the guy that taught a
18:12
Speaker 1: lot of people, including me, yours truly, and how to
18:15
Speaker 1: spot it what the telltale signs are. Remember a couple
18:18
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, I was telling you about the propaganda
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Speaker 1: When you have the same media outlets and the same
18:22
Speaker 1: politicians saying the exact same thing, the exact words, word
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Speaker 1: for word. One just one of the telltale signs of propaganda.
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Speaker 1: How hip are we all to that now a lot better.
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Speaker 1: And you may be thinking, wow, that's terrible and we
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Speaker 1: don't trust anything anymore. So okay, that's good. It's a
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Speaker 1: good thing. It's good to have that attitude, a healthy,
18:43
Speaker 1: healthy level of distrust where you're kind of like, don't
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Speaker 1: take it verbatim and you kind of critically think your
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Speaker 1: way through that kind of thing. That's a more informed population.
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Speaker 1: That means a better country and a better society for
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Speaker 1: all of us. It's a great thing. All right. Now,
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Speaker 1: congratulations college graduates, you made it. It's that time of
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Speaker 1: the year there's not only college but high school graduations.
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Speaker 1: I see the signs through my neighborhood. Little Johnny's going
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Speaker 1: to FAU and this other person is going to Stanford.
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Speaker 1: All right, that's great, good love it. Get ready for
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Speaker 1: college debt, that's okay. But every single year they do
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Speaker 1: this as well. And I always laughed because it's just
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Speaker 1: so it almost seems mean spirit in a way. This
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Speaker 1: is the week high school graduations that Fortune magazine, Fortune
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Speaker 1: dot com now online comes up with the worst college
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Speaker 1: degrees you could ever have. So let's say you actually
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Speaker 1: pay attention to this outlet and you just graduated with
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Speaker 1: one of these degrees, you're like, oh great, thanks. Now
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Speaker 1: I could speak to this personally because my degree was
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Speaker 1: in political science. It was a triple put, not three degrees.
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Speaker 1: It was like all combined into one. Political science, International affairs,
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Speaker 1: and sociology. Yeah, basically stamped on my diploma. You'll never
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Speaker 1: get a job, thanks for the checks. That's pretty much it.
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Speaker 1: As it turns out, it was perfect for me, absolutely
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Speaker 1: perfect with what I went into with broadcasting and media
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Speaker 1: and being able to look at society as a whole
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Speaker 1: and understanding the works behind this thing. But the most
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Speaker 1: important thing I learned in college was how it was
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Speaker 1: a massive school. I went to USF and Tampa. Massive,
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Speaker 1: just factory of people, just massive, with massive red tape
20:30
Speaker 1: to get anything done, classes, housing anything. I learned how
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Speaker 1: to cut through red tape and work on people skills
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Speaker 1: to get to the people you need to deal with.
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Speaker 1: That's the most important thing I learned in college. I
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Speaker 1: really did. Besides all the things, you know, I loved
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Speaker 1: my classes. I loved them, I absolutely did. So. I
20:48
Speaker 1: knew coming out of college it was going to be tough,
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Speaker 1: like that wasn't going to be a high paying career.
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Speaker 1: The boys. It served me I still go back to
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Speaker 1: some item of fantastic professors. It explained some great things
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Speaker 1: in the background of it. But Forbes comes up with
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Speaker 1: this list about the worst ones you can possibly have,
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Speaker 1: meaning the lowest paying ready foreign language is number one. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but still a great school general social sciences. That's me
21:12
Speaker 1: performing arts. I have those in the house, anthropology or
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Speaker 1: childhood education, general education, miscellaneous social services, theology of religion.
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Speaker 1: You know what they're gonna say. And then they have
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Speaker 1: the salary amount on average, and then they have the
21:27
Speaker 1: highest paying degrees. Of course, it's you know, it's it's
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Speaker 1: pre med and doctorates and engineering of course, and all
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Speaker 1: the stem science, technology, engineering, and math degrees absolutely which
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Speaker 1: it absolutely, one hundred percent should be. Now, I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to tell you that college is right for everybody.
21:43
Speaker 1: I think what we've learned one of the things is
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Speaker 1: that it's not right for everybody. We got to get
21:48
Speaker 1: over this thing of putting down trade schoolsdiculous work with
21:51
Speaker 1: your hands. If that's what you do, it's fantastic. I know.
21:55
Speaker 1: I know people that have gotten a plumbing certificates who
21:59
Speaker 1: wound up in their own companies are multimillionaires now or
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Speaker 1: electricians fantastic. So it's not for everybody that said, don't
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Speaker 1: let people like Fortune Magazine, Fortune dot Com or anybody
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Speaker 1: else tell you your degree is useless if you put it
22:15
Speaker 1: to work and if you get out of it what
22:17
Speaker 1: you put into it. Because there are also doctors that
22:20
Speaker 1: will get there are mds who are miserable who also
22:25
Speaker 1: don't do too well, and there are some people who
22:27
Speaker 1: will get that history or social science degree who do great.
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Speaker 1: It's worked out for me, it really has. If done
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Speaker 1: actually pretty well with that degree, but I also knew
22:36
Speaker 1: I was going to have to put a lot into it.
22:38
Speaker 1: But that's everything. The most successful doctors, the most successful
22:41
Speaker 1: engineers still work their asses off. That's just the starting point.
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Speaker 1: Have the attitude of not following your passion and hoping
22:50
Speaker 1: that that works out, but have the attitude that you're
22:53
Speaker 1: going to look at college, if you're coming out of
22:55
Speaker 1: college or going into it with an idea that you're
22:59
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna put more into this than what they
23:02
Speaker 1: gave you. In other words, you're going to apply it
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Speaker 1: to everything. But don't let them tell you that your
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Speaker 1: degree is useless, because that's up to you, all right.
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Speaker 1: That's my words of wisdom. The takeaway, Well, like I
23:13
Speaker 1: told you, I dedicated this entire live stream today, this
23:17
Speaker 1: entire pod to Scott Adams and follow him and at.
23:20
Speaker 1: Scott Adams says after his announced me yesterday, which was
23:22
Speaker 1: it hit me and literally millions of people hard yesterday.
23:26
Speaker 1: It was tough news that he has the same prostate
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Speaker 1: cancer biden as he doesn't have very long to live.
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Speaker 1: He thinks he's gonna die over the summer. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but how he handled that is how I hope to
23:38
Speaker 1: handle any loss in my life, certainly mine when it's
23:41
Speaker 1: my time to kick. For sure. It's how you handle
23:44
Speaker 1: this The most important takeaway of all Your loved ones
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Speaker 1: don't want you open around. They don't want us sad
23:49
Speaker 1: because they're okay. Now honor them. That's it. Go follow
23:55
Speaker 1: Scott Adams by the way. At Scott Adams says, because
23:57
Speaker 1: I think in the final livestreams and broadcasts that he
24:01
Speaker 1: does and podcasts, he's gonna have some very impactful words
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Speaker 1: of wisdom. I really believe that for sure. All Right,
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Speaker 1: that's the takeaway. Have a great, a wicked, awesome Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: I will talk to you tomorrow. We'll have all kinds
24:13
Speaker 1: of headlines and how we're going to approach those to
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Speaker 1: talk about. But in the meantime, make sure you find
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