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

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Business, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2014

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

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 grow up to be president of the United States." He never wanted to be president but when that professor told him he couldn't even if he wanted to, something triggered inside him and he thought... "Oh, yeah? I'll show you. I'm going to be president. I'm going to be president all over this country and there's not a damn thing you can do about it." On today's James Altucher Show, James and Daniel talk about our "badass" presidents and which ones Daniel thinks he could beat up. In 2007, while still in college, Daniel wrote an article that he thought might work on Cracked.com. They bought it and a bunch more. He's now Head Writer and Creative Director of Video having written more than 200 articles to date and his article "The 5 Most Badass Presidents of All-Time" has been downloaded almost 11 million times. James asks Daniel his favorite comedians and immediately he answers, Bob Newhart (and here). He also likes John Mulaney, Bo Burnham's - what, and Tim Minchin (careful, these two are X rated). They cover their favorite comedy books, TV shows, and movies. James' favorite is SuperBad. If you like comedy, then this show is for you. Their list of must-watch shows is almost endless. ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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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