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The Grant Williams Podcast

The Narrative Game Ep. 8: N.E.W.S.

The Grant Williams Podcast

Grant Williams

Business, Business:investing, Investing

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In the latest episode of The Narrative Game, Ben and Grant discuss the Narrative Early Warning System (N.E.W.S.) developed by Ben and Rusty Guinn to help not just investors, but everybody understand and sidestep the increasing amount of ‘controlled’ news funneled into our social media feeds, news sources and conversations with friends. NEWS is the culmination of a 30 year-long project which Ben has been developing since his earliest academic research and is designed to alert people to the signals and clues that what you may be reading has been delivered to you at a very specific time in a very specific way and through a very specific medium in order to generate a very specific reaction. Arming yourself with the defensive weaponry required to sidestep the ‘nudging state’ has never been more important so start fighting back today by listening to Ben. As a reminder, Silver Tier subscribers to https://www.grant-williams.com get access to both Things That Make You Go Hmmm… and all editions of The Grant Williams Podcast, including The End Game, The Super Terrific Happy Hour, The Narrative Game, This Week In Doom and Shifts Happen so sign up today!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before we get going, here's a bit where I remind you that nothing we discussed during

0:04.1

the narrative game should be considered as investment advice. This conversation is for

0:08.5

informational and hopefully entertainment purposes only. So while we hope you find it both informative

0:14.2

and entertaining, please do your own research or speak to a financial advisor before putting

0:19.2

a dime of your money into these crazy markets. And now, on with the show.

0:30.0

Welcome everybody to another edition of the narrative game, joining me as always, bringing

0:42.8

the narrative and his game, the man himself. I made how are you? Hey, hey Graham, I'm

0:48.2

doing super, doing super fantastic. Now, it is, um, I think what I would have to call

0:53.7

a new above a target rich environment for the narrative conscious among us.

0:58.6

And there's a bunch of stuff I want to talk to you about, but I'm going to say that

1:02.1

for a little bit later on because what I really want to start with is your latest project

1:05.8

news, which, um, you know, I go back to a dinner you and I had in San Antonio election night,

1:11.5

2016. Talk to me about what you and Rusty were doing. And it sounded equal parts, incredible,

1:18.1

and equal parts, sci-fi, and equal parts. How the hell is he going to pull this off?

1:21.8

Yes, exactly. But I know he will somehow. And here we are. So let's start with that. Let's talk

1:27.2

about what news is. It's Genesis and what your angel with it. Sure, sure. And point that was,

1:33.0

I keep coming back to that, that night, that was election night, 2016, right? When it all,

1:41.0

the things all changed, right? So news is an acronym and it stands for narrative early warning

1:49.5

system, narrative early warning system. And I got to take a grant. This goes back, gosh,

1:56.9

how old are we now? This is crazy. This goes back more than 30 years. Wow. This goes back to my

2:02.3

academic research. This goes back to my first real book. It's called Getting to War.

2:08.5

And it's the idea that you can use unstructured data. You can use the effort that journalist,

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