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Hello there. I'm George Franklin, and I'm going to take a look at how even the best and brightest

people can make truly stupid decisions and terrible predictions. And what we can learn from them.

This is Dare to Be Stupid.

This time on Dare to Be Stupid, force multipliers, or the sure thing versus the underdodge.

In 2013, two men told a joke that never quite landed. In fact, the joke is still soaring sky high as we speak. That joke is Dogecoin, a parody cryptocurrency founded on the twin economic principles of memes and comic sands.

A financial powerhouse, this was not.

Yet now, eight years later, Dogecoin is a financial powerhouse, easily more than ever intended.

It's a competitive cryptocurrency that has made many people wealthy thanks to the dumbest of dumb money. Dogecoin was set up for failure. On paper it had nothing

going for it, and yet now it's an explosive success. It was destined to be the underdog,

or under Doge, and now it's the mouse that roared. But back in 1982, a lion roared and a squeak came out.

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