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The James Altucher Show

638 - The Fine Art of Baloney Detection

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Society & Culture, Talk Radio, Writer, Philosophy, Comedy, Chess, How To, Entrepreneurship, Jay, James, The James Altucher Show, Altucher, Author, Jay Yow, Education, Jay The Engineer, Business, James Altucher

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

How to detect the "trillion dollars" worth of B.S. out there! People argue pretty much about everything, everyone has their own argument and there's no end to it! How do you call B.S. on it! This is an episode where I summarize a chapter in the book by Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World, and the chapter is called, The Fine Art of Baloney Detection. If you enjoy this or if you have any question, you can tweet at me @jaltucher I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.8

This is the James Altiger show.

0:13.8

There is so much BS out there.

0:16.5

I mean there's like a trillion dollar for the BS out there and by that I mean people are

0:21.0

making arguments all the time.

0:23.6

Basically people or businesses are trying to convince you of things and they'll do whatever

0:28.8

it takes to convince you no matter how badly they're lying.

0:33.4

So for instance back in 2006 if a bank wanted you to buy a house they would say some BS

0:40.8

thing like everybody who's successful owns a house or housing prices only go up.

0:46.7

So this was all BS and it was arguments they would use to try to make you buy a house

0:50.8

and they're arguing to very convincing.

0:52.7

I mean so many people bought houses at ridiculous prices that had created a whole financial

0:58.2

collapse.

0:59.6

Right now we have a lot of arguing in politics like particularly around things like the coronavirus.

1:06.7

Like on one side Trump will say oh there would have been millions of deaths if I wasn't

1:12.4

around and on the other hand the Democrats would say there would have been zero deaths if

1:16.5

we had been president.

1:18.6

And so you have to ask yourself does what they're claiming does it make sense does it sound

1:23.5

true.

1:24.5

And then how do you prove such a statement and how do you have what's the best way to

1:29.0

either prove such a statement argue such a thing or call BS on it.

1:34.0

A lot of people have written about this but I kind of want to summarize there's a there's

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