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3 Signs That We’re Close to the Apocalypse 11-4-25
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In this episode, Scott Becker discusses three moments that tested his patience and perspective.
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This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity in the Becker Business podcast. Today's discussion is three signs that we're close to the apocalypse. And I'll tell you what these three things are. One is we have largely a business and private equity podcast. We'll talk a little bit about politics, but not much. We try and keep it relatively level. Yes, I've grown to dislike immensely this mom, Donnie guy running for mayor in New York. And I have grown to dislike immensely, just hate Nick Fuentes and have grown to really dislike Tucker Carlson. You know, I find myself on the right and the left really hating the far left and the far right extremes. I view myself as somewhat of a centrist, which is almost impossible today. Big believer in individual rights, the ability for anybody who's gay, lesbian, anything to do whatever they want, get married to do anything they want. I'm a big fan of a safety net. I'm also a big fan of being fiscally conservative. I don't believe that either party is really fiscally conservative at this point. You know, at the end of the day, I really do feel myself as a centrist in a world where it's harder and harder to be a centrist. Now, here's the deal. One of my examples today is somebody writes me lambasting my views, you know, and if you don't line up. And I got lambasted last week from the right by. I forget what I had said. Something popped positive about legal immigration, H1B visas, and that caused somebody on the right to go after me. This one this morning was somebody in the left who says, oh, my God, I can't believe you think we should have borders. Or. Or you're a fan of capitalism, and I am a fan of capitalism. This is a private equity podcast, by golly. Don't be on the podcast if you're a. If you're. I should have said this clearer to the person and their person's right about this. But don't be on the podcast if you're a political. If you're political. If you're trying to be political. We're trying not to be. We're a private equity and business podc. I really don't want people on the far right or the far left in the podcast unless they're only talking about business and private equity stuff. My mistakes. That's one. The second one is I get told by somebody yesterday, and I guess this is the way of telling a man that you're too small and. But bear with me the concept. The person writes back to me is, well, I guess you don't have the luxury of controlling your own schedule. And. And I don't even know what to say to that. Yes, I work for a living. Yes, I've been successful. But when somebody says to you, you want to react, you can't control your own schedule. Like there's something wrong with you. And then I feel like I'm on the defensive. Well, I control my own schedule, but I go do this and I go do that. But it just felt like, you know, like such a condescending knock. I guess you don't have that luxury that I have. And I was sort of offended by it, a little taken aback. And maybe I'm being so sensitive. That's number two. The third one is, you know, there's this concept of problem solution selling. Of course you should get into problem solution selling. You have to be somewhat careful in how you do it. You can't really tell the person you're an awful person. And here's how I could fix it. Your product is awful. I can't believe you do it this way. And here's how I could fix it. Because by the time you've gotten to the fix, even if you're right, you've really got to be to the spot where I've already been so on the defensive about what you've said. In any event, it was one of those 24 hour periods. I am a huge believer in humankind, left, right, black, white, whatever, religious, whatever, ethnicity, all that kind of stuff. But there are days where you're just like, oh, my God, I remember why I need to have a thick skin. Learned that in grade school. There's this great lesson that everything you ever learned, you learned in kindergarten. I believe that it continues to be true. Thank you for listening to the Becker business and the Becker private equity podcast and God bless you all and God bless America. Thank you.