Ep. 72 - Daniel O'Brien of Cracked.com: How to Fight Presidents

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🗓️ 15 December 2014

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Daniel O'Brien's love of presidents started early. As he recounts the story in his hilarious book, How To Fight Presidents, it all started when his American Government professor said on his very first day of class, "Not one of you is ever going to...

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.4	This is the James Altichor Show on the Stansbury Radio Network.
0:11.4	So this is James Altichor.
0:22.1	I'm here with Daniel O'Brien, who some of you may have heard of.
0:28.2	Some of you might not have heard of, but many of you have read his writings.
0:32.4	Daniel, you write for crack.com.
0:34.5	How many articles have you done for crack.com?
0:36.8	Oh, somewhere between two and 300, I think.
0:41.8	Two and 300.
0:42.8	And the one time I've written for crack.com, which is a humor website, I got about a million views
0:49.1	on my article.
0:50.1	Like, you must have an insane amount of traffic.
0:52.0	There are, yeah, it's really, it's, we've been doing this long enough that most of us
0:57.3	don't even really think about it because the numbers just sound so huge that I can't
1:02.3	even like intellectually understand them when we hear, we just, we, this many 100 million
1:08.3	people came to the site this year and that number is just, just bizarre to me.
1:11.7	It's just like a, a made-up word because.
1:13.7	But it's like, but it's like though like 30 million people have read your writing and you
1:20.3	could just walk on the street and nobody's going to recognize you.
1:23.8	Yeah, it's pretty great.
1:25.4	It's, I like being able to hide behind a computer with that.
1:28.7	It's a, it's a, it's a strange thing to think about because I think if I actually tried to process
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