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The James Altucher Show

For Laughs: Life's Great Irony

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

For the past few weeks, there have been a huge amount of uncertainties, there are talks about recession, inflation, and even lay-offs! So, I think the world deserves some laughter. So I decided to do a fun episode to bring some laughter, just like what I did back in the 2009 crisis when I stood in front of the NYSE and handed chocolates out to everyone walking in! In this episode, Jay Yow, The Producer of The James Altucher Show, and I sat down and talk about life's great irony!  Some of the ironies include climate change,  productivity, newspaper headlines, and even some statistic that just doesn't make sense!Here's the irony list that I made on notepd.com: https://notepd.com/idea/online-business-models-i-wish-my-daughters-would-do-kyl18Make sure you check them out!Listen to the episode and find out more!Visit Notepd.com to read more idea lists, or sign up and create your own idea list!My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book!Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.Thank you 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 PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------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.

0:06.8

This is the James Altiger show.

0:10.1

So James, is this gonna be like the price episode?

0:15.4

Yeah, I was just thinking of some stuff like there's so much hypocrisy on the planet and

0:22.4

some of it annoying, like some of it bothers me, but some of it's just kind of funny because

0:28.1

I don't want to say people are stupid, which is not true.

0:31.1

I think most people care seriously about their lives and are as intelligent as they want

0:36.3

to be.

0:37.3

But then you just see things that are just completely insane and I've been keeping

0:41.1

track of them a little bit and it's sort of fun to talk about.

0:44.0

I started keeping track about it because one of my kids came up to me the other day and

0:49.0

she said, I should recycle.

0:52.2

And I have nothing against recycling, but I just wanted to drill her a little bit like,

0:57.1

okay, why should I recycle?

0:58.4

And she said, for the environment.

1:00.2

And I looked up some data.

1:02.1

So apparently, you know, it's all about how many carbon emissions you save.

1:06.5

So okay, recycling apparently saves some carbon emissions.

1:10.0

It's a little unclear, but you know what saves carbon emissions is not having more humans

1:17.3

on the planet.

1:18.5

So I did my research and I told her that if I didn't have you, that's the same result

1:25.1

on the environment as if 684 people recycled every day for their entire lives, assuming

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