Oddly Incorrect

Product Idea: Social Proof of Life If you are not with us, you are against us Disagreeing with Agreeing to Disagree It is about Tolerance Is there an absolute truth? Yes! Do Left and Right have to be mutually exclusive Since we are being programmed, how do we break the programming? Need to be like Spock and block emotional reactions, which occur prior to decisions We are easily programmed because...

Show Notes: Rio Bravo / John Wayne / John Ford / Walter Brennan Are we nothing more than operant conditioning - we are programmed to be programmable Popularity uber allies / Thre is no left and right - its a circle Proud Boys are traditionalists are not racists - but they have been tarred by the brush 3rd+ wave feminism is causing a pushback Could we really have 2 presidents? 70% of people think t...

Should I buy a Liberal Tears Mug to drink deep of the incoming tsunami? Are we being filtered by the AI? Totally. 90% of my videos are unpromotable Use YTs content creator with a textual slideshow - PowerPoint ability Talking about the 100-ton mammal in the sea - Trump will win - and there will be unrest More than possible - totally likely - its time to go buy GOYA beans and rice Trump will invoke...

Show Notes: It's election day 2020, but we don't talk about it. Dixville Notch goes for Biden, but Trump is up 16 votes to 10 when you count the next town Polls mean nothing - lies, damn lies and statistics are all the same. Trying not to "but" / QAnon disappearing / Inverting objects in time  Will entropy end when it has fully disassembled all atoms in the universe? Is the Universe in balanc...

How are music services like Big Tech censors? How we used to discover music then to how we are fed music now Pandora , Spotify, and SomaFM The differences between music services and feed providers How can we fight censorship? Get people to understand that there are infinite sides to any question, if you can get them to understand that there is more than one, or more than two, then you really blow...

Show Notes: Goozlums / James Michener's Texas / Dumb YouTube Viewers / Hitler was a socialist The right believes in natural hierarchies, while the left wants to create their own We agree on hierarchy - but the left wants their own The more oppressed you are, the higher you are in the new hierarchy The ultimate bad guy is the rich white straight male White people can no longer be in the upper echel...

DVRs, Sports, and Going Long Star Trek, Requiem for Methuselah, and The Man from Earth Is Star Trek the most society affecting cultural artifact? Drove more people into STEM? Parents never understood “willing suspension of disbelief” Next this year: aliens Sometimes the profit motive gets in the way of innovation How to grab attention through the noise? Do you just jump on new platforms as they sh...

how Notes Voter fraud - how bad will it be - we know more about reality than we have ever been Its been going on forever, but we only care now because it happening everywhere - even not in swing states Newsom is a crook - he'll run next cycle - he's paying his dues - he has yet to sufficiently destroy California Just south of the multi-billion dollar Apple Campus is a homeless camp Why are the may...

Trump debates Chris Wallace and Joe Biden - it was 2 on 1 Did Trump establish dominance over his opponents? Yes.  No one was persuaded by this / This ain't Lincoln/Douglas We have eroded attention spans - for sure / We need a Joe Rogan moderated debate Wallace was a total disaster as a moderator - everything was out of control Is the point of the debate just capturing sound bites to be used f...

Interfaces - like life - change all the time Humans have issues with constant change Big fight night - this show is being recorded on the date of the first debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden If anything, tonight should be entertaining. Is this all a sham? Is Biden really suffering from dementia? Or is it a carefully constructed persona? Adderall is great for performance enhancement - everyo...

Canceling meetings two minutes before the meeting All about power and priorities Habitual lateness based on seniority Playing the status game Machiavelli's The Prince should be required reading Corporate America is becoming politics over profit 1099 workers are the only ones that work, everyone else is just covering their asses New Blood vs Organizational Culture You are hired to alleviate risk An...

Chris wishes he lived in San Diego, lifting restrictions Getting paid to be abused in college Are they banning fun? Beaches and anything fun is banned. We are not as worried as we were - we no longer need to ban The rational approach would have been to quarantine the sick The six-foot rule was made up by a high school kid There is NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE to the 6 foot rule Postmodern Science is dif...

Hearts vs Spades Project Management Recalcitrant employees Working with unions Why did we move to a matrix management model? TQM, self-managed teams, self-directed teams Change management Having power over others Team charters and project charters Hierarchical management  Responsibility and accountability De-risking the situation and blaming others Not seeing your manager for months Holocracy...

The end of the Renaissance Man Wouldn't it be cool if there was a "Book Day" Christmas & Easter were co-opted days too A business is a concept - a brand In Defense of Looting - how can you defend looting? You can, if you define that there is no such thing as private property - its the Hegelian Dialectic The Wrap Up Smear - get something false published in a supposedly authoritative publication...

Believe it or not, we aren't watching the DNC/RNC Its pretty boring stuff, actually Interesting differences between the presentations Parents are protesting in Quebec Most parents want their kids back in school The SAT/ACT should not be studied for - but the educational system is so messed up that kids need tutors just to get by - this is why Kaplan and other tutoring services are rocking Tests ar...

Who talks more - Dutch or Chris? Whats better - Live or prerecorded? To edit or not to edit? Its a time management issue - records 6-7 shows at once - do live in a slot. Shouting into the wilderness - we need to drive engagement. Lets to a live show! Editing is soul-sucking. We are using vocalized pauses - ah/uh/basically and So! How do you feel about "Sharing Lies" online? Do you feel bad at all...

To swear, or not to swear, that is the question. Can you golf without beer? If you don't have a cart... Ribbing each other helps you think quicker on your feet, it teaches adaptability - sometimes its a guy thing - some of the time People are too sensitive - its hard to tease people nowadays - Californians cannot handle sarcasm Too prone to hurt someone's "feelings" - If you are hurt by speech, th...

It's important to moisturize In ancient Greece, they thought literacy was bad. Kids used to memorize 10,000+ lines of poetry As time goes by, we lose cultural references You pull on those references to create different emotions within your audience. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (an Eric Metaxas recommendation) Expanding the Overton Window from both directions Dissecting the full George Floyd bodyc...

Teleconferencing Fun: Forgetting to MUTE! Falling asleep in meetings and training courses I fell asleep in a meeting Conspiracy Theories: White Coat Conference in DC eliminated from Facebook - because they said that HCQ was effective in treating COVID-19 - it's safe AND a cure. That's why they took it down. They can't handle the truth. HCQ has been around forever. Do COVID-19 antibodies not last?...

We talk masks, stats, and hunting Trump supporters - will it happen? Bone conducting headphones - good or great? The podcast microphone section in Best Buy was practically empty There is magic in the world. Wizards among the Muggles Persuasion is more art than science We all manipulate other people all the time. It's not even a question Coercion doesn't need to be physical - gaslighting, peer pres...

Chris: Apologies for the crappy sound on my mic at the start, I had my inputs switched to the wrong mike. Why are US COVID-19 cases soaring in the US while the rest of the world is dropping - is this being way over-recorded for political purposes? The guidance was warped. Plus there are tons of false-positives? Flu seemed to disappear with COVID-19 showed up, does this mean that flu is shown up as...

We talk about the Outrage Industry and why we are the way we are. The Outrage Industry (The News Media) Outrage Archeology (Digging Up One's Past To Cancel Them) The media  is less trustworthy than politicians and lawyers Has the news media always been focused on riling people up over the truth? Why are we so interested in presenting misery? That's what Oprah used to be like until they switch...

Show Notes: Technology Adoption and Change management Despite the time constraints, it's more useful to have more folks on the call than less Do we expect too much from people? Do we want them to be more "automatic" than they are?  Everyone is detail-oriented, but they are different details Technology should just work - but you need to be a technologist to get any modern product to work Its b...

Are we witnessing a political paradigm change - are things getting better or worse? Feels over Realz Questioning Authority is out of style? Fistfights over masks The Olders vs the Youngers Building facades start with families Honorifics Competing cultures - not American culture Is China sowing discontent to eventually take the US down? The downside of situational ethics Being consistent in your de...

Show Notes We talk about the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), or Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) Let us talk CHAZ Flip charts are racist Overdemocracy is sometimes worse than too little democracy. The meaning of private property in the CHAZ Have human beings always had a concept of ownership? Are we back to envy again? Imagine no possessions? We want to see the results of this experiment...