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Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

I am your host, Michael Cobell.

Not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

Why do people react so vociferously to what you say?

That was a question to former professional basketball player Charles Barkley, who I think is generally on the money with his comments.

Barclay responded, because I think people want their subject to be right no matter what.

People like for Charles to be honest unless he says something different from them.

That's all it is.

I'm pretty sure you get criticism.

The reporter responded all the time.

Charles responded.

People like you as long as you agree with them.

But that doesn't really bother me.

Now, he's a wise guy who's been in the

public eye for a long time. I've been in a little bit of public eye, just a little bit,

but long enough to appreciate deep in my gut what he's talking about. Criticism to me in 2015, if I don't have criticism, if I don't cause some people to get itchy,

if I don't cause some people to get sweaty, if I don't cause some people to scream,

if I don't have haters, if I don't have something, I'm not saying anything. And that applies to you too.

If somebody, if nobody, if there's not anybody, that really detests the angle that you take on life,

the angle that you take on your work.

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