The James Altucher Show

What does it takes to take the famous but underperforming (at that time) company, Nintendo, elevate them and create a whole culture following behind them? And how to take a food court brand, Panda Express, and make them a national chain restaurant?In this episode, I was joined by Reggie Fils-Aimé, is an American businessman best known for being the president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America, the North American division of the Japanese video game company Nintendo to talk about his new book, Disrupting the Game: From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo.We explore Reggie's origin story, what makes him take up his role in Nintendo, how he turns Pizza Hut and Panda Express into a national chain, what's his philosophy when he faces any challenges, and more importantly, why does he likes to take up task and roles that are in the most challenging situation!We also talked about how he became the meme man, and gaming community!Visit Notepd.com to read more idea lists, or sign up and create your own idea

The news cycle is moving extremely fast, and most of the news doesn't affect our daily life at all, especially if Elon Musk is buying Twitter or not, or the process of the trial of  Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard!In this idea list of the day episode, we talked about the list that was created by Bill Bergemen on Things to Ignore in 2022!Check out the full list here: https://notepd.com/idea/10-things-to-ignore-in-2022-2159Or 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.Thanks 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 RadioSpotify Follow me on Social Media:

Are you the person that has to feel happy all the time? Were you ashamed of yourself if you were feeling down and melancholy? Or are you the person that has to pick back up every time you feel down?Well, a study has shown that it's okay, and sometimes it's better to feel melancholy than feel positive!I invited one of my favorite authors, Susan Cain, the author of the bestsellers Quiet Journal, Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts, and Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, on to talk about her new book, Bittersweet, How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole.In the episode, we talked about why people are more drawn to melancholy music, the differences between sadness and melancholy, and the benefits of feeling melancholy that including elevating your creativity. We also talked about ways to cultivate the feeling of melancholy!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 yo

Are you obsessed with puzzles and riddles? When is the last time, you picked up the paper, and start doing the crossword puzzle in them? When is the last time someone ask you a riddle, and you solved it in seconds! In this episode, my good friend, A.J. Jacobs, an American journalist, author, and lecturer best known for writing about his lifestyle experiments came on to talk to me all about puzzles and riddlers and his new book, The Puzzler! He expresses his love for puzzles and riddlers, and how solving puzzles also helps him with his critical thinking! He also told me the stories on his journey of writing the book, including one of the crazies ones where he entered a puzzle competition along with 50 other people!Listen to the episode, and if you like the episode, tweet us on Twitter and let us know what you think!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 P

The Tax Season has just ended! What would you do with your tax refund? Or if you had a couple of side hustles that have been making a ton of money, what would you do with all of your money?In this Re-Release Episode with Bill Perkins, an American hedge fund manager, film producer, and high stakes poker player, we talked about health vs wealth, cash vs experience,  and why should you die with zero!? We also talked about his book, DIE WITH ZERO!-----------------------What the heck? Is that Dan Bilzerian in the background? Where are you? Dan said "Croatia". How did you get there? "When you're with Bill, you can get anywhere!" Bill Perkins lives life large and plans to DIE with zero. "Experiences pay dividends forever. You remember experiences. You tell stories. They can lead to other experiences. Money only pays a dividend once a year. Coming here with my family and friends will pay dividends forever." Like everything else he does. "If you die with money in the bank then you wasted all those hours you spent maki

Do you know there are some dangerous mental errors that you don't even know that you're making? They are many biases that we made every day, and to tell you the truth, it's almost impossible to avoid them! However, we can be made aware of them, to try our best for a better outcome in negotiation, debate, and sales! In this episode, I invited Sahil Bloom, entrepreneur, creator, and investor, back on again to talk about this new Twitter thread, The most dangerous mental errors (you don't know you're making).Read the full thread here: https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1510249267352457223Visit 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.Thanks so much for listening! If you like this ep

How did China become the second-largest economic power in the world? What is China's video in war, and how it is different from us? What role did China play and their reaction to the Russian-Ukraine war? Are they benefit from it?In this episode, I was joined by General Robert Spalding, a retired United States Air Force brigadier general, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, this work focuses on U.S.-China relations, economic and national security, and the Asia-Pacific military balance,  to talk about his new book, War Without Rules, China's Playbook for Global Domination. I play devil's advocate throughout and he laid out this historical thing that's been going on about how China views wars, their idealogy, and how it's different from us! Also, we talked about why China is mostly exempt from environmental crisis discussion and so forth!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

Do you have a list of people, famous or not famous, in the US that you would love to meet one day? Who would they be?In this idea list of the day episode, we talked about the list that was created by Younes via notepd.com on People that I would like to meet while cruising the US!Check out the full list here: https://notepd.com/idea/03-03-from-tokyo-to-ny-10-people-i-would-like-to-meet-while-cruising-the-us-367Or 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.Thanks 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 RadioSpotify Follow me on Social Media:YouTube

It's really sad that Gilbert Gottfried, a great American stand-up comedian and actor, has recently passed away battling a long-time illness. I remember the first time meeting him, and talking to him on the podcast, I can feel his passion and love for comedy, and how he never gives up doing it!This is a re-release of the episode that I recorded with Gilbert where we talked about his passion for comedy, and how you can never please everybody in the world!-----------------------------------------------------Gilbert Gottfried started doing stand-up comedy when he was 15 years old. He dropped out of high school and within 10 years he was on Saturday Night Live. And he built his career up from there. But he's also been the center of a lot of controversies. People get upset at comedians for "going too far." But Gilbert does it for a reason... He said, "I remember, I did this show that was a tribute to Joan Rivers. It was right after there was that shooting at a gay nightclub. I started doing jokes about the shooting

Stockholm Art Museum robbed $4 million in artwork and 10 were under arrest! When you have this line at the top of the title of a book, you have to call the author up and find out every little detail about it!In this episode, a returned guest, Pete Stegemeyer,  an award-winning comedian, writer, and physical and cyber security expert, came on to  talk about his new book, Heist!Do you know smart thieves don't rob banks physically anymore? No one wants to carry a duffel bag full of cash! That's heavy and hardwork! So we talked about what are the craziest heists that Pete has seen, what, and how do thieves pull off a heist?Listen to this 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 j

Another Idea list of the day episode! Today's topic is The Japanese Concept that can help with Self-Mastery!We talked about Kaizen, Ikigai, Shin-Gi-Tai, and more!Check out the full list here:  https://notepd.com/idea/10-japanese-concepts-that-can-help-with-self-mastery-733Or 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.Thanks 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 RadioSpotify Follow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey tha

Do you know that "The Godfather" almost didn't happen?In this episode, Trung Phan, a contributor for SatPost, and Bloomberg, and co-hosted the Not Investment Advice (NIA) podcast, came on to talk about the obstacles and challenges that were faced by "The Godfather", and even Hollywood during that time faces a lot of challenges itself too! We also talked about the origin of  "The Godfather", how was it written, why was it written, and how did the casting go! Also, you can read his Twitter thread about The Godfather here: https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/thread/1502687845831503872Also, make sure you follow him on his substack! https://trungphan.substack.com/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 jamesalt

Do you ever have a strong attachment to something that  it's almost impossible for you to let go of? Well, this is the episode for you!In this episode, I invited the son (another) of don Miguel Ruiz, don Miguel Ruiz Jr., the author of the books: "The Five Levels of Attachment", "Living a Life of Awareness", "The Mastery of Self", and "The Don Miguel Ruiz's Little Book of Wisdom" on to talk about exactly that! We talked about my attachment to New York when I finally decided to leave, and he advised me on how to deal with it. Then talked about this origin story! How his father, don Miguel Ruiz, set up a situation for him, push him in that direction, and see what he can do, and his first-ever speaking gig, how he improved from that!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

Another idea list of the day episode! Today's topic is an interesting one, but tricky! Who are the most influential people in history?There are a lot of interesting suggestions or answers in the episode, however, how would you define influential? Is Elon Musk influential? Is Thomas Edison influential? If you're not from a region where Christianity is popular, then is Jesus influential?Check out the full list and posts here: https://notepd.com/challenge/posts/who-are-the-most-influential-people-in-history-109Or 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.Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherev

The Four Agreement is one of my all-time favorite and most inspirational books! In this episode, I am honored to joined by the son of the famous Don Miguel Ruiz, Don Jose Ruiz, the international best-selling author of The Wisdom of the Shamans and The Fifth Agreement, to talk about his journey, his origin story, his recovery from drug addiction, his belief, his practice and ultimately what led him to write one of the best selling books, The Fifth Agreement!Make sure you follow his Instagram account: @donjoseruizVisit 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.Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review where

Who doesn't love Doritos, they have been around since 1964! In this episode, I invite Trung Phan, a contributor for SatPost, Bloomberg, and co-hosted the Not Investment Advice (NIA) podcast, to come on to the show to tell me the origin of Doritos, and why are Doritos so addictive? Is it the chemical that they used to manufacture these products? The Flavors? The Brains? Or it's all three?Listen to the episode to find out! Also, you can read his Twitter thread about the Doritos here: https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/thread/1505575719211991040Also, make sure you follow him on his substack! https://trungphan.substack.com/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.Thanks so much for li

Another idea list of the day episode! Today's topic is one of the close and dear to me, since I have started multiple companies, and I have been through all of these problems, if not more! I was joined by Jay and Paolo, and we breakdown the list that was created by Kieroniusrex  on Notepd.com! I even added some more from my experience to the list as well!Check out the full list here: https://notepd.com/idea/10-problems-you-may-face-when-starting-a-small-business-and-how-to-overcome-them-784Or 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.Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your po

Some enjoy being a CEO, some enjoy being an entrepreneur, and some enjoy being an employee.In this episode, I was joined by Noah Kagan, the Chief Sumo, CEO, and Co-Founder of AppSumo, to talk about his experience as CEO, what did he learn during the hiring process, and how some employees are having two or three full-time jobs, and potentially make millions!We also talked about zoom meth, how to get on the dark web, and how to get out of your comfort zone!Here's the article about Zoom Meth! https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/internet-meth-underground-hidden-in-plain-sight/index.htmlVisit 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.Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, pl

Imagine, it's the 70s, and you're 20+ years old, and you have a huge passion for comics, and especially Batman. What in the right mind would you march up to DC's office, and say, I want to buy Batman's movie and tv right.That is exactly what Michael Uslan, American producer of the Batman films and was the first instructor to teach an accredited course on comic book folklore at any university, did! His passion and wanting to bring Batman back to its root (after the downfall of Adam West's Batman in the '60s), led him to his decision!Michael talks about his passion, his method of having plans B, C, D, and more, and also his determination, and persistence that led him to become the successful Executive Producer that he is today.We also talked about his book, Batman's Batman: A Memoir from Hollywood, Land of Bilk, and Money, (which Mark Hamil also gave a testimonial),  his journey of bringing Batman to the big screen, and the stories behind it!Also, here are the 10 things that I learned from Michael that I posted

No one knows how long Ukraine and Russia's war is going to go for, and the stock market doesn't like uncertainty at all, especially with all the sanctions on Russia and vice versa, you must adjust your portfolio and position yourself to make sure you're not losing any money!In this episode, I was joined by Robyn, Paolo, and Jay, to talk about Robyn's recommendation on the stock market. What should we look at, and why should we look at those!Check out the full list here: https://notepd.com/idea/the-doomsday-portfolio-384Or 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.Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and r