
#1007: January 25, 2025
Knowledge Fight
Decline and Discontent
This chapter explores the challenges faced by certain public figures amidst a perceived decline in product appeal and consumer interest. Through humor and metaphor, the discussion emphasizes the importance of continuous improvement in creativity while addressing societal pressures and the frustration of feeling undervalued.
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Speaker 1
It's flying
Speaker 3
towards zero with with f with mach three speeds yes yeah yeah
Speaker 1
yeah that is a terrible that's not a terrible number that's not good and it also i think honestly the uh like the conversion rate is probably higher because i think that it's less people watching than he thinks i think that is definitely overinflated. Right, right, right. At least he better hope it is. Right. Because otherwise there is no demand for these products. No one wants this shit. There is no demand
Speaker 3
for these products. Well, I think there's about a thousand people. Exactly. You're selling trash because the only people who will work with you are trash people. It makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. So I
Speaker 1
think that there's a dynamic where I can't stress this enough. Most of the show is being defensive about Elon Musk. It makes sense. So he comes in on his Saturday to do this and, you know, be like, Musk is cool. Everyone is. Why are the racists still kind of mad at me that I like Elon Musk? Why do people think I'm a sellout? Because I support a billionaire, unelected bureaucrat running the government.
Speaker 3
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that one.
Speaker 1
And just this, like, no one's buying shit. Why? Is it because I'm being a little baby on air and having these breakdowns? Could be. Maybe. Maybe. But people who say so suck. That's a good point. Alex gets kind of mad in this next clip about how no one wants to watch him bang. You
Speaker 2
like having their thumb on you? You want to live in a totalitarian country that literally wants to cut your son's penis off and your daughter's breast off? Are you tired of putting up with their fucking bullshit? Get fucking real here, people. These are goddamn psycho death cult. Fuck them. Fuck them. Fuck them. What the fuck? Let's go. Hey, I should be happy. We're reaching tons of people. That's all. Then I'm just like, again, it's like a video game and you're winning at the last level and you're down to a half life. And you're just like, I should have already gotten more lives at this level. And God's like, nope, you don't get. And the fact we've survived a whole bunch of their takeovers just barely just makes it that much sweeter and dearer to save it. But it's all God's plan. I just don't even, I don't know how 99.9% of the audience, it's bigger than that, just goes, yeah. I'll tune back here when he's not begging. That one got to you, huh? I'm a gun that's blowing your enemies up politically in the infowar. I'm a weapon. A begging weapon. I'm like a dagger that you're defending yourself with, and you're just like, oh, the dagger's asking to be sharpened. Oh, the dagger got broke. The dagger wants to be fixed. And I'm just like, I'm your dagger. I'm your gun. I'm saying, give me ammo. Give me ammo. Give me ammo. Look, I blew up a whole bunch of the bad guys. I'm really good at it. Give me ammo. Give me ammo. No, no no you have correctly
Speaker 3
sussed out why nobody wants a talking gun well done sir yeah definitely yeah
Speaker 1
nobody wants that whiny ass come
Speaker 3
on give me some ammo no you know how less
Speaker 1
cool a gun is if it's
Speaker 3
begging
Speaker 1
for ammo come on
Speaker 3
give me a bullet one of
Speaker 1
the things that makes a gun appealing is that it's a strong, silent type.
Speaker 3
So quiet. Yeah. Tack-a
Speaker 1
Mm-hmm. You know? It almost is like, I don't care if you put bullets in me. I
Speaker 3
don't need to exist. Yeah.
Speaker 1
Guns are also still dangerous without bullets. You could hit somebody with that. I've seen people throw them in movies.
Speaker 3
Predictive programming.
Speaker 1
And guns, that makes them confident. Yeah. Alex, not so confident. I think I'm reluctant to make rules about life. Sure. Lest I turn into Jordan Peterson. That'll happen. With his rules for living. But I think if you're ever in a position where you're complaining about how people don't want to watch you beg. Yeah. Then I think that you have answered your own question. Sure. And I think that you need to recognize that you got to chop it up after that. You got to do something. Because the reason that people aren't giving you money is because you make a shitty product. Yep. And you're making a shitty product because you're doing this. Yep. And then you're getting mad at people not liking the shitty product and tuning out. Yep. And saying, we'll check back in when he's done yeah being a mope like just the the problem is just do better take the note yeah stop being a mope you know if you make a bad show people don't want to watch it it's
Speaker 3
just so sometimes you know there's a lot of details sometimes there's a lot of variables sometimes things are so very, very complex.
In this installment, Dan and Jordan check out Alex's first Saturday episode of Trump's second term, which is mostly about how Elon Musk is super cool, how Alex needs money bad, and how Alex ran head-first into a door in the middle of the night.