It is a weird move, and because he goes on to describe how you can buy his book, I think some of it is the intention of revealing, like, this is all from a book, and you can buy my book. Right. I think there's a salesy aspect to it.

See, it's not a customer service call as much as it is a hard sell. That's what Alex is doing.

But also uses an offer to try and upsell if possible. Totally. So I think that these are both probably true. There's a pay-to-play thing, and then also it is used to induce people into these larger packages of events.

Incidentally, back when that book came out, Alex signed thousands of copies and wouldn't stop talking about how difficult it was and how they were all sold out. That was supposed to be a limited availability thing, like his dumb silver coins, but I guess either they weren't sold out or there isn't a finite number of these signed books after all. Just trying to exploit the audience's fear of missing out on the opportunity to own a piece of history by creating artificial scarcity among this shit.

I mean, yeah, it's the fucking Ted Anderson gold sales model of, like, as long as I get you to buy the first thing, you're obviously not coming back. So I just need you to buy one thing, and then...

No, because he doesn't want actual rioting or looting. Right. He wants the controlled chaos that's enough, like you're scared enough to buy his product, but you're not scared enough to get out in the streets. Right. That's the sweet spot that he wants people at.

There's zero hedge headlines. Those are your talking points. You do have talking points. Your talking points are whatever it is that will help you sell fucking whatever it is that can be sold. Yeah, they're bullet points on a sales list.

This is salesman tactics. This is explicitly the sort of thing that you learn when you go and try and get a job like with Cutco, the knife sale people. I was a salesman for 10 years. One major sales strategy, I'm sure you'll agree with me, is to make the person seem like they're smart. Oh, they're so smart. Hey, you know, you're not one of the people who wouldn't listen to this sales pitch. You're already here listening, and that means that you're smart. You need to survive. Hey, when I was working with hearing aids, selling those to people, it was just like, hey, you know what? Just by coming in and getting your hearing tested, you're already way advanced. You don't even know what you'll be whenever you get something. I think there's degrees, because people actually do need hearing aids. I know, that is the problem. It was weird. I was using sales tactics that are normally used to get people to waste their money on something that would help them. Like a set of knives. Yeah, it's very strange. It's weird. What he's doing is creating this sense of in-group, but the in-group is based on you're going to buy out of shit. It's so manipulative.

Like, it's not good for someone whose entire business model is about selling you things to prepare for the end times to really want them to come. Because you've got to assume that he's getting you from both ends then. Oh, of course. You've got to assume that he's manipulating you with his rhetoric in order to get you to buy the thing to prepare you for what his rhetoric says is coming.

I will say, actively, what Jim Baker does as a career is talking that old woman into giving away her turkey or chicken. That's a very good point. He is just using a different tactic in order to get the exact same thing that the gangs do. He uses emotional manipulation, fear of religious shit that's all made up, and apparently giants in order to trick grandma into selling, sending what she can't afford to send.

This is what scam artists do. They say, like, tomorrow it won't be here, the sale won't be here, and then tomorrow, like, we're stopping it soon. It's this thing called fear of loss of gain. Yeah. And it's a trick... Well, it's the tele... It's the tele... Or not telemarketing. It's the infomercial. Yeah, yeah. It's the sales, like... We're going to put that these are selling too fast. These wooden handled knives, they're just selling too fast. We've got to put a timer on this. You've got an hour? That's the second thing. That is artificial scarcity. Yes. That is, we're going to run out of this thing and you're not going to be able to get it. That motivates some people who are afraid that they're not going to get the thing. But then fear of loss of gain is what people have when it's like, oh, the sale is going to stop. And if I don't buy now, I'll have to pay 30% more. And, you know, you come to realize that sale never ends. No. It's always a sale, but if you pretend you're going to end it soon, people don't call you on it.