Chapter 1: What personal experiences does Scott share about his health?
How are you doing? That's my impression of Joey from Friends. How are you doing? Well, if you didn't expect the show to go back to its normal time, you were surprised. So here we are. I am officially back home from a week in the hospital. We will not dwell on my medical situation, but suffice to say, I'm feeling terrific this morning. I'm going to give you the best podcast show you've ever seen.
Now, I say that, of course, jokingly, but it might actually be the best one you'll ever see. I have a high standard to beat because just the other day I was saying, and I meant it, by the way, I said that the All In Pod most recent episode is just one of the best things I've ever seen in a podcast.
It was about AI and economics and just a bunch of things that interest me and were perfectly debated and described. It was just such a great show. But because I'm competitive, I've put together for you a special show today, a Sunday edition that will combine all the things you'd normally like with a new framing that That I think you'll like a lot. I'm predicting. That is my stomach growling.
I'm not using my normal microphone. So it might get picked up on the microphone. If you don't mind. But has anybody missed the simultaneous sip? Wouldn't you like it to go back to normal? Yeah, you would. Guess what's coming. Get your beverage ready. Because we're back, baby. We're back. All right. I know why you're here. You're here for the simultaneous sip.
All you need is a copper mug or a glass of tanker, chalice or stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine here today, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens now. Go. Oh, God. So good.
Sometimes the best thing in the world is just to get back to your routine. So pretty happy this morning. All right, here's what's special about today. I'm going to give an extended shout out to three artists who blew my mind this week. Now I'm using the word artist and art in an expansive way.
So it's not exactly what you would call art perhaps, but there are people who have raised what they're doing to, in my opinion, an art form. And I'm going to start with a long windup so that you've got a context that will make this much more meaningful. You ready? All right.
So I've mentioned a few of these things I've mentioned before, but I've never tied them together in the way you're going to see. One of them is I've always been a, not always, but for years I've been a student of the Beatles, you know, the musical group, the Beatles. And what I'm interested in is not just how much I liked them, you know, especially when I was young, but their processes, right?
and the systems that they used and how did they get to be so great? Because one of the things you would note about the Beatles is if you looked at any one of their skills, they have lots of skills across a variety of domains, none of them look like the best in the world. So they're not the best lyricists. In fact, a lot of their lyrics were random.
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Chapter 2: How does Scott relate The Beatles to talent stacks?
I'd written books that were part of my talent stack. on advice, affirmations, and I'd found a way to be persuasively verbal. So I wasn't trying to do any music because I have no musical talent whatsoever, but I was trying to make my voice as compelling and useful as possible. Now, I'm going to expand the definition of my voice to include not just how it sounded,
but what I said, because by then I'd learned to speak persuasively. And when you listen to it, you'll see that the persuasion part, the clips, are really unusually well picked. So it's not everything I've ever said, but Kira the Don was also talented in figuring out what clips would work well with the music, what would affect people, maybe what affected him, I'm not sure. And he puts it together,
And if you haven't heard it yet, you will be blown away because he's literally invented an entirely new form of entertainment. And I've never seen anything in a musical domain, and you could argue whether it's music or a whole new art form, but I've never seen anything with that nearly 100% of the people who listen to it say, my God, that's good. People put it on and play it all day.
People use it to go to sleep. So, back to my definition and my system. Remember, my system was not to get back to where I was, because that would be a nasally, unpleasant voice that even I would not want to listen to. But by that time, I'd learned to speak in a pleasant way. I had recovered the strength of my voice, which took years.
And the podcasting was part of that strategy to make sure that I talked for an hour a day at least. And the net result is that I produced without any effort on my own part. I guess I'll say Akira the Don produced with my clips an art form that's better than just anything you've ever seen. Just unbelievably mind-blowingly innovative and Just so good. So good.
So I would recommend that you at least give it a sample At least give it a sample so now that's an example of Both he and I using the same system I was combining skills. He was reading about my suggestion to combine skills and
have a system he had a system lots of systems and uh it was just many it was amazing anyway so here's my first shout out uh you're gonna ask me because you're curious and it's a fair question uh am i sharing in the economics of this the answer is no no i have no economic stake not not directly
not indirectly, and that's exactly what I want to say publicly in case someday my estate decides to challenge it. I want my estate to know, because I'm now saying it in public, that it is not my wishes to share economically. One of the reasons for that is that he has already rewarded me more than money can't compensate. So the feeling that I got
from watching my voice become not just serviceable, but put in a context where it was way better than, way better than it ever was, that even when I listen to it, I say to myself, wow, I really enjoy listening to me. And that is rare. So you could say that that is perfect, because what would be more perfect than going from not being able to speak
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Chapter 3: What insights does Scott provide about AI and healthcare?
So the idea is that free market people would get to attack these cartel assets and keep what they got. So if they found $10 million sitting around in some cartel asset, they could just keep it. And that's what the law specifically allows. So we're not talking about people who don't know how to do this business.
We're talking about retired SEALs, retired top operators who might want to bring together their own private little army just for plundering the cartels. Now, I saw a comment by Elon Musk that I haven't figured out how to interpret. I don't have the exact quote, but in response to Mike Lee's post about it, Musk said something like, that should work out super well. Does that sound like sarcasm?
Or does it sound like he's agreeing? That should work out super well. So I don't know what Elon thinks. It could be either way. But, In my opinion, if you just look at it from a persuasion perspective, every time you make it harder for the cartel to operate or you suggest that it will very soon become harder because we don't know if this will pass, it might not pass.
It should change the behavior of the target group because if nobody had ever brought up the idea of letters of marque, you can assume that your only risk was the U.S. military and that at some point maybe the public would get tired of it or whatever.
But by even suggesting, which Mike Lee's legislation does, it suggests that there's a way to make it zero expense for the government while being completely legal and constitutional and almost certainly having some big impact on smugglers. The mere risk that things go to that level should already make them change their behavior because they don't want to be easy targets.
And the free market would create these little battle groups that would certainly take down some of them. It wouldn't have to take down all of the drug dealers and all of their assets. It would just have to introduce this new level of risk. And imagine, if you will, that the first letter of Mark private battle group, let's say they take over a cartel shipment and they capture $300 million in cash.
How many of those new battle groups would form the next day? A lot. It would only take one success. where somebody essentially pirate stole the cartel assets and made it work and it was all legal. We have to do it once and the free market would flood it with other participants. So I don't know what Elon meant.
He may have easily meant that this is exactly the kind of thing that could go wrong, or he might have meant what I just said. I don't know, but it wouldn't change my opinion. that even if it doesn't get approved from a persuasion perspective, it's one more good kick in the ass for the cartels.
Well, according to Psi Post, Karina Petrova, there's a non intoxicating cannabis compound that might reverse opioid induced brain changes. So it's possible that there's something in cannabis, not smoking it, but some kind of chemical in it that would make a big deal in your brain if you had opioid-induced problems.
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