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Michelangelo’s David, Jordan Peterson on Maturity, Gold & Life’s Forks | Yaron Brook Show · Yaron Brook Show

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  Speaker 1: Fundamental principles. I love READO, rational, self interest, and individual lost.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Ran Brook Show. Oh right, everybody, welcome
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  Speaker 1: to your Welcome to your own Brook show. On this
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  Speaker 1: h last day of August. It's Sunday, August thirty first.
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  Speaker 1: I hope everybody is having a great weekend and uh
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to September. It's hard to believe, right, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, going back like that anyway, as you can see,
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  Speaker 1: I am still in Flaant, still in uh doing my
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  Speaker 1: shows out of the airbnb. We'll be moving to my
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  Speaker 1: office starting tomorrow, So tomorrow we'll get uh to a
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  Speaker 1: regular location. Office times will still be changing kind of
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  Speaker 1: day to day, anywhere between two I think and two
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  Speaker 1: and five pm East Coast time will be the shows
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of the week. And as I said,
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  Speaker 1: they will be from my office that I rendered especially
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  Speaker 1: to do the shows. So, as many of you know,
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  Speaker 1: I am in fluence, and today I did something I've
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  Speaker 1: been here a couple of days, and today I did
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  Speaker 1: something I always do influence And as I went to
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  Speaker 1: see Michaelangelo is David. I don't think that surprises any
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  Speaker 1: of you. You know, you know the real love I
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  Speaker 1: have for that that sculpture, and as always, it is
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  Speaker 1: all inspiring. It is just it's just a fantastic experience
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  Speaker 1: to be with, to be with David, And I thought
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  Speaker 1: I talk a little bit about David at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the show today. Then we will we'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: the question yesterday. I think that Michael asks about maturity
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  Speaker 1: and Jordan Peterson. I found some video of Jordan Peterson,
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  Speaker 1: two different videos of Jordan Peterson talking about maturity.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Then I not necessarily aligned one and with the other.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll talk about both of those and we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more about maturity, about time perspective on
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  Speaker 1: time and uh uh you know, so we'll just we'll
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  Speaker 1: just dig in a little bit on that issue. And
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  Speaker 1: again I'll show you a couple of videos of Jordan's
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  Speaker 1: talking about this. Uh. And then on a completely different tangent,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about inflation. U a place inflation.
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  Speaker 1: And so somebody wrote a lengthy critique of my analysis
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  Speaker 1: of gen z And and the the wealth that they
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  Speaker 1: have and you know, the income over the last forty
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  Speaker 1: fifty years or whatever, and and what they did is
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  Speaker 1: they critique was based on, well, if we measure everything
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  Speaker 1: in gold, then we're not better off than we were
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  Speaker 1: forty years ago. So I want to I want to
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  Speaker 1: comment on that because I think it's an interesting issue
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  Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people can have real
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  Speaker 1: confusion about the role gold plays today in our economy.
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  Speaker 1: And then finally, I have a long olde review of
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  Speaker 1: a book, Folks on the Road by Larry red Key,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe I'm mispronouncing his name, by Larry that he
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  Speaker 1: paid me to do a review I don't know, a
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  Speaker 1: year ago, and I haven't done it. So we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna do three quarters of it today. So it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a book of short stories. We'll cover the first
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  Speaker 1: three short stories from the book in the review today,
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  Speaker 1: So that that's the program. It's not hugely intense. It's
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  Speaker 1: a Sunday It's it's a little light and fun and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully interesting for all of you guys. And maybe these
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  Speaker 1: also make some good showed videos. Anyway, let's jump into
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  Speaker 1: Michael and Angel's David, and let me just say this.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot, you really cannot have an appreciation for any sculpture,
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  Speaker 1: any sculpture. But suddenly, for David, without seeing it in person,
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  Speaker 1: that is photos don't do a sculpture justice because the's
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  Speaker 1: two dimensional and and and you don't get to see
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  Speaker 1: it in life. Most so, I think than painting, because
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  Speaker 1: painting are two dimensional, two dimensional, Seeing a painting life
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  Speaker 1: still matters because you get the texture, you get the
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  Speaker 1: real colors, you get the effect of the lighting. Like vermia,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot appreciate vermia from a book. Seeing the paintings
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  Speaker 1: in person is a different experience because the projection of
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  Speaker 1: light in the painting is is what the painting is
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  Speaker 1: about to a large extent with romia, and that you
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  Speaker 1: can really only appreciate when you see the painting. And
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  Speaker 1: with a sculpture, it's three dimensional. It's it's in a space,
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  Speaker 1: and you can't really appreciate it without experiencing it in
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  Speaker 1: real life. Now, after you experience it in real life,
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  Speaker 1: you can really admire the photographs. And the photographs often
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  Speaker 1: provide you with details that you would you didn't see
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  Speaker 1: when you saw the sculpture up close, Dramatic lighting, all
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  Speaker 1: of that can add hugely to the experience, but it's
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  Speaker 1: it's never the same as actually seeing the sculpture in person.
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  Speaker 1: So that's some one second is size matters size matters.
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  Speaker 1: It's it has. Michelangelo's David has a presence because of
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  Speaker 1: the quality, but also because of just the shift size
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  Speaker 1: of the sculpture that you cannot get from a small replica,
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  Speaker 1: even if it's a great, really really good, perfect replica,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it was the whole sculpture is sculptured to
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  Speaker 1: be this particular size and to be looked at looking up.
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  Speaker 1: So again, you can't appreciate it by seeing small replicas,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and most replicas are really bad. And then finally,
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  Speaker 1: what's really amazing is I've seen many replicas of many
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  Speaker 1: I've seen four four replicas michelangel As David in real
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  Speaker 1: life size, in the size of the original. There's one
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  Speaker 1: in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace. If you're in Las Vegas,
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  Speaker 1: it sees the palace is worth going to see it.
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  Speaker 1: There's one at the Victorian and Albert Museum in London,
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  Speaker 1: again if you're there. There's also a replica of Moses
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  Speaker 1: real life at the also Michelangelo's Moses at the Victorian Albert,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what we're seeing. And then there are two
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  Speaker 1: in Florence. In Florence itself, there's one at the piazza
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  Speaker 1: where the original used to be until they decided, i think,
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  Speaker 1: very very smartly to protect it from the elements the
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  Speaker 1: weather by putting it indoors and really creating a space
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  Speaker 1: for it. And then there's a fourth one in Florence,
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  Speaker 1: up on a hill overlooking overlooking the city. So there
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  Speaker 1: are actually four replicas and they're all magnificent and they're
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  Speaker 1: all amazing, and they're all beautiful and they're all stunning
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  Speaker 1: and all of that. And when you walk into that
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  Speaker 1: Kademia and see the original, it's just a different experience.
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  Speaker 1: There's something about the marble that comes alive. All the
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  Speaker 1: other replicas are casts in I think some kind of
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  Speaker 1: marble dust or something like that. This is the original
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  Speaker 1: carved sculpture in Carebra marble that Michelangelo worked on, and
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  Speaker 1: even if you don't know all that, it just has
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  Speaker 1: a completely different feel to its sense to it. It
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  Speaker 1: just it's like it's it's also beautifully placed and beautifully
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  Speaker 1: lit right at the Academia in Florence, but it is
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  Speaker 1: it just has a life of its own, and it
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  Speaker 1: really it's as if it's projecting light and marble is
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  Speaker 1: just a beautiful material and when you see marble, and
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  Speaker 1: you compare it to like a casting of marble dust
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  Speaker 1: or some other kind of stone. There's a huge advance.
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  Speaker 1: The Mobel itself is very good. So there are very
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  Speaker 1: few artworks but literally worth traveling just to see, just
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  Speaker 1: an artwork, going around the world to see it. This
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  Speaker 1: is one of them, right And now, of course it's
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  Speaker 1: in France, where there's probably another fifty to one hundredth worth,
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  Speaker 1: you know, worth expending significant time to see. But it's
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  Speaker 1: worth traveling to Florence just to see the michelangelost David
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  Speaker 1: and then you can also go and see all the
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  Speaker 1: other great stuff that's here. Rome is another destination. It's
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  Speaker 1: worth it. The Louver maybe, you know, but they are
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  Speaker 1: not many. There are many that are worth just traveling
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  Speaker 1: just for that, and this suddenly is one of them.
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  Speaker 1: It is. It's stunning. The sculpture itself is you know,
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  Speaker 1: Michelangelo carved it, you know, when he was in his
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  Speaker 1: early twenties. He was born in fourteen seventy five and
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  Speaker 1: this was called between fifteen oh one and fifteen oh four,
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  Speaker 1: so in his a kind of late twenties. He was
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  Speaker 1: twenty five when he started it. It is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously heroic, dramatic, but it has a calm to it,
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  Speaker 1: a resoluteness to it that is truly inspiring. This is
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  Speaker 1: a young, beautiful, beautiful man. I mean, the muscles, the
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  Speaker 1: tone of the body, everything about the body is just magnificent.
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  Speaker 1: It's not super detailed. There's detail there like that. You
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  Speaker 1: can see the veins and the arms and stuff, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not super intricate. It's just stylized. You know enough
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  Speaker 1: you see these powerful muscles and you can you know,
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  Speaker 1: and they and everything. The whole body is tense and
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  Speaker 1: ready for action. And he's got this beautiful, beautiful pose.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's got one leg leaning uh, stretch off
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  Speaker 1: forward is uh. A weight is on the back leg Uh.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's relaxed, tense at the same time and ready
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  Speaker 1: for action, ready for action. The the uh, the tosso,
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  Speaker 1: the abs, the back, it's just all beautifully perfectly done,
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  Speaker 1: not not you know, it's not like what is it.
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  Speaker 1: You know some of the sculptures you see, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: like the Atlas in New York. You see all the
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  Speaker 1: muscles and super stylized and no, this is this is
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  Speaker 1: a real human being, you know, powerful human being. A
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  Speaker 1: you know, the image of a perfect human be, you
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  Speaker 1: know physically, and then you've got this. But again, the
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  Speaker 1: way he stands, the way you know, the way, the
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  Speaker 1: way to shifted, the way his body is tense and
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  Speaker 1: ready for action. All of that conveys values, conveys ideas,
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  Speaker 1: and you see that face, the face of concentration, determination, commitment, readiness.
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  Speaker 1: There's no fear there there is, but there is focus,
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  Speaker 1: intense focus on the task at hand. And even if
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  Speaker 1: you know nothing about David and Goliath and the story
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  Speaker 1: of David Goliath, it doesn't matter. You get everything you
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  Speaker 1: need to know from the sculpture itself, as you do
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  Speaker 1: from every great work of art. You get it from
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  Speaker 1: the work of art itself. You don't need too much
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  Speaker 1: of the backstory. This was a commission David. It was
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  Speaker 1: a commission that was Michelangelo took from the from the
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  Speaker 1: city of our Florence that wanted a sculpture of a David.
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  Speaker 1: It was a block of marble that had come from Carrera.
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  Speaker 1: Two other sculptors had tried to cove it and started
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  Speaker 1: coving it, and they deemed a marble to flawed to continue.
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  Speaker 1: Michelangel in spite of that in spite of obvious flaws
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  Speaker 1: in the marble that these two other two sculptors, experienced
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  Speaker 1: sculptors are identified, decided to go ahead with the project,
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  Speaker 1: and indeed he did. He carved the whole thing. Originally,
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  Speaker 1: the statue was supposed to be at the top of
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  Speaker 1: the duomo, you know, was supposed to be way up
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  Speaker 1: and once but once you know, people saw the sculpture itself,
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  Speaker 1: they said, oh no, you don't want it up there,
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  Speaker 1: and they basically put it right at center, at the
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  Speaker 1: heart of public life in Florence. And it was basically
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  Speaker 1: it was basically there for three hundred years until the
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  Speaker 1: nineteenth century when it was when they decided to move
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  Speaker 1: it indoors somewhere, and they ultimately picked the location where
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  Speaker 1: it is at today for preservation and protecting. It's amazing
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  Speaker 1: that it turns out that it's sat in a box
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  Speaker 1: of twenty five years before it was ultimately installed. For
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  Speaker 1: twenty five years nobody had access to the day. Now
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  Speaker 1: a cast was made of it. And the reason a
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  Speaker 1: cast was made of it is that they lugged the
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  Speaker 1: cast around different places in Florence to see how it
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  Speaker 1: would look in order to figure out where it should
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  Speaker 1: be ultimately placed, and they used a cast for that,
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  Speaker 1: leaving the original in the palazzo. And once they decided,
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  Speaker 1: of course, they created it up moved it. It's not
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  Speaker 1: that far. It's a what a fifteen minute walk maybe
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  Speaker 1: twenty minutes fifteen minute walk I think, from the Academia
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  Speaker 1: to the palazza what it originally was, and it's been
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  Speaker 1: there since kind of the late nineteenth century. Again, the
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  Speaker 1: cast that they originally used in order to figure out
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  Speaker 1: where to put it is used in that palazzo. And
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  Speaker 1: the two other casts were made that I know of,
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  Speaker 1: one for the Victorian Albert Museum and the other one
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  Speaker 1: for the other David up up in the in the hills,
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  Speaker 1: overlooking overlooking flows. What else can I take? You tell
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  Speaker 1: you about Michaelangelo's David Again worth being here to see it?
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  Speaker 1: Easily spend a half an hour forty five minutes just
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  Speaker 1: looking at the David, just being inspired by it. There's
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  Speaker 1: so many angles, so just going around, luckily you can
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  Speaker 1: get a three hundred and sixty a view of the sculpture.
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  Speaker 1: I have my favorite angles that I like to look
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  Speaker 1: at it. I've been there so many times, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure how many I mean five six times. I think,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's right that and I'm so familiar with
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  Speaker 1: it because my wife actually said at some point it's
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  Speaker 1: like visiting a relative. You know, we know him. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we got pictures of it all over our house, and
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  Speaker 1: we visit every time we're in Florence, and we visit,
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  Speaker 1: try to visit often. So it's very and it's still
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  Speaker 1: in spite of all that familiarity when you take the
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  Speaker 1: corner from the entrance and you walk and you take
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  Speaker 1: the turn and there were he is at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the corridor in front of you, full size, in
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  Speaker 1: his full magnificence. It's breathtaking. So encourage everybody, Uh you're
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  Speaker 1: on wolves for life. Go see Michaelangelo's David. Make it
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  Speaker 1: a point in your life to uh to check him out.
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  Speaker 1: Check him out. Let me see something on second. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: During the my wife just reminded me that during the
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  Speaker 1: Second World War, you know, the Italy was being bombed
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  Speaker 1: by the Allies, and a lot of effort was put
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  Speaker 1: to the to the credit of the people preserving the
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  Speaker 1: arts all over Italy, a lot of effort was put
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  Speaker 1: and this is true in other parts of Europe as well,
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  Speaker 1: but in Italy, especially as the Allies were bombing, A
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  Speaker 1: lot of effort was put in into preserving the odd
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  Speaker 1: works and to protecting them. This was a high priority
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  Speaker 1: for the Italians. I don't know if this was voted
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  Speaker 1: from the top. I don't know if this was the
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  Speaker 1: initiative of the curators. My guess would be it was
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  Speaker 1: the initiatives and museums and the curators, and they made
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  Speaker 1: her warwak efforts to save out all over Italy. And
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  Speaker 1: during the war they created a special protective casing was
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  Speaker 1: built around it just in case the building was bombed
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  Speaker 1: or if the building was damaged. They didn't try to
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  Speaker 1: move him, but they so they built kind of a
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  Speaker 1: bunk up around him to protect him, to protect the
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  Speaker 1: sculpture from the bombing. I don't think the building. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that much of Florence was bombed. I know
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  Speaker 1: Rome was definitely bombed. Naples, we were in Naples, was
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  Speaker 1: definitely bombed. Some buildings will completely destroyed. Some churches with
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  Speaker 1: some magnificent artworks were definitely destroyed. But I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, and I don't think Florence was bombed.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the Vatican was bombed, and that's why
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  Speaker 1: those artworks have all survived. But I do know those
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  Speaker 1: bombing going on in Rome itself. Anyway, with the trip,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: if you're in Europe, it's easy, it's cheap. Get on
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  Speaker 1: a train, get on an airplane. Airplanes tickets in Europe
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  Speaker 1: are amazingly cheap if you're willing to fly coach. But
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  Speaker 1: if the United States, you know, make the effort of
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  Speaker 1: putting together, taking some time aside and traveling to Italy
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  Speaker 1: and spending a few days in Florence, and and David
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  Speaker 1: of course should be on the list of things. And
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  Speaker 1: as we explore Florence, I'll give you other other places
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  Speaker 1: I recommend going. The other thing that's amazing in the
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  Speaker 1: Academia is there are six unfinished sculptures by my Elangelo,
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  Speaker 1: four from Julius, the second Pope Julius, the seconds tomb,
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  Speaker 1: those plan and two other unfinished works. And it really is.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's tragic and sad that they were never finished,
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  Speaker 1: because they would have been magnificent. Uh there are four uh,
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  Speaker 1: four sculptures that are sculptures of slaves, of which the
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  Speaker 1: two that were actually finished are at the Louver. Dying
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  Speaker 1: slave is one of them at the Louver Museum, so
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  Speaker 1: we know the quality of the ones that were finished,
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  Speaker 1: and they just magnificent, just absolutely magnificent, so stirring, so emotional,
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  Speaker 1: so revealing of the artists values. But I'll say in
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  Speaker 1: a turmoil, uh, and these would have been the same.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the bodies are twisted in interesting, interesting ways
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  Speaker 1: that the mus the muscles that you can see what
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  Speaker 1: they could have and would have been, and of course
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  Speaker 1: you can appreciate, you can appreciate what they are even unfinished,
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  Speaker 1: just the kind of power and strength, but also the
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  Speaker 1: torment there was involved that Michaelangelo is conveying in these cultures.
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  Speaker 1: Michaelangel had a particularly later in life, had a very
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  Speaker 1: very different sense of life than Michelangelo as David, in
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  Speaker 1: a sense that his religion and a sense caught up
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  Speaker 1: with him, I think, and he struggled between he had
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  Speaker 1: a real mind body that dichotomy, and there's a real
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  Speaker 1: struggle between the physical nature of reality and the nature
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  Speaker 1: of the soul that wants to escape the body and
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  Speaker 1: his in his you know, in a Christian terminology. But
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  Speaker 1: it's so beautiful, it's so magnificent, you could I think
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  Speaker 1: anybody can appreciate it, even if not holding a similar
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  Speaker 1: philosophical view, and which you can also yet is you
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  Speaker 1: can actually see the chisel marks on the unfinished work
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  Speaker 1: and you can get a sense. I mean, you have
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  Speaker 1: to be really good at this, but my wife is
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  Speaker 1: so she figured she saw in it, she learned from
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  Speaker 1: it kind of his technique of how we actually did
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  Speaker 1: these sculptures, and it's it's truly fascinating. Anyway, highly recommend
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  Speaker 1: seeing those as well, seeing the tour it the Louver.
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  Speaker 1: Anything by Michaelangelo is worth seeing. But is David and
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  Speaker 1: his Pieta and the two Dying Slaves those in the
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  Speaker 1: Two Slaves at the Louver. I think those are the
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  Speaker 1: four sculptures that are absolute musts in a lifetime. So
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  Speaker 1: and the Pieta is sad because you can't get very
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  Speaker 1: close to it. They put it behind bulletproof grass and
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to get to it's hard to really see.
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  Speaker 1: That's one way you should see it. But then look
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  Speaker 1: at pictures because there's some really good photographs of it
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  Speaker 1: where you really to get to appreciate the details of it.
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  Speaker 1: But again encourage you to check out check out David David.
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  Speaker 1: You can get up pretty close, pretty close all right, Yeah,
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• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Yesterday we had a question but for Mike about maturity
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: and what maturity is, and he quoted Jordan Peterson as
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: talking about maturity as involving responsibility for another human being,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: and in particular, you know something about maturity, and this
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: is actually a quote from Jordan, as we'll see in
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: a minute, like maturity can only be achieved by being
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: a parent. Only when you take responsibility of a child
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: can you actually achieve maturity? And I thought, you know,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: and I think that's wrong. And we talked about it
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: a little bit yesterday, and so I went and looked
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: for the Jordan Peterson video, and while looking for that,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I find another Jordan Peterson video about maturity. And this
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: one's actually pretty good. That is, I think this one
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: is while he doesn't use the language that I would use,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that. I'll play it for you.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: It is. It's quite good in terms of what he
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: thinks maturity entails, and I actually agree with it. So
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I thought i'd show you that because and then I'll
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: show you a video where he talks about maturity being
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: requiring if you are having children. But so we'll watch
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: both of those and see kind of the difference. I
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: guess sometimes Jordan, depends on the context, has approached a
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: particular problem. I'm not sure it's as a when these
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: two were made, I do think that, Yeah, I don't
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: know which one was made first. I could guess I
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: could guess that the one we're gonna watch first was
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: made a while ago, and the other one is a
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: more recent one where you see a little bit of
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: a change in Jordan's perspective on things. So let me
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: see if I can play this for you. Now, let
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: me know about sound if the sound is coming across. Okay,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: this is one of those short videos. It's got a
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: its dimensions, a kind of step. So this is Jordan predecients.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Just talking about maturity. I'm gonna play I think I'll
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: play the whole thing. I think I'm gonna mute my
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: microphone so you don't hear it twice once coming out
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: of Although I should have won headphones and then we
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have had this problem. But I don't actually like
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: doing the show with headphones. But anyway, I'm gonna mute
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: my mic so you don't hear it twice, and we're
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna play it, and we'll play it and
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: then we'll comment on it once it's done. Let me
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: mute my mic.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: It's the difference between a mature person and an immature person. Well,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: first of all, hope that we can all agree that
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: there is a difference between like a toddler and a
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: responsible adult, you know, because otherwise.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Why would we grow up? Okay?
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: So what characterized is a toddler? Well, a toddler is
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: characterized by is that by a sequence of wins?
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: So why is that character productive?
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Well, because the dogglar wants what he wants right now,
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: no matter what.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, So what does that mean, no matter what you means,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: no matter what it costs his futureself and know what
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: matter what it costs other people. Okay, so why is
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: that bad? Well, if you betray your future self, you die.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: And if you can't get along with other people, then
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: well then you don't.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: You can't engage in reciprocal altruism for example.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: So what do you try to do when.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: You socialize children is that you extend their purview so
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: that as their cortex integrates, they're able to regulate their
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: impulse with in accordance with their future self and with
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: other people.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Right, So that's like.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: The definition of maturity. What's the difference between a mature person?
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: All right? So he just gave us what he believes
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: is the definition of maturity, and uh, you know, for
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: the most part, I agree a todd Love At Todd
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Love places his immediate gratification immediate gratification as his primary.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Maturity involves being able to delay gratification. Maturity involves being
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: able to look into the future, think about future consequences,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and adjust your behavior in the present based on future consequences.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Maturity involves having a hierarchy of values, understanding that one
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: must give up a lower value to get a higher
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: value in a trade. I think immaturity. You want the
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: higher value without the low giving up anything without giving
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: up the lower value. So for example, you want to
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: have the nice a car or the nice home without
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: having to do the work to earn the money to
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: be able to achieve the nice car the nice home.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: So you're not involved. You don't see the value in trade.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: What he calls reciprocal altruism, I'll just call it trade.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: It's not recipical altruism that involves other people. It's the
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: issue of trade, and it's the issue of earning things.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Earning things that requires time. So maturity is really the
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: ability to project oneself into the future, think rationally and
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: basically decide on actions in the present, taking the future
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: into the account. So you know they've done these I
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: think tests with children. And if you put a piece
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: of chocolate in front of a child and you say,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: you can have this piece of chocolate anytime you want,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: but if you can wait and not eat it for
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: half an hour or an hour, whatever, you get two
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: pieces of chocolate. See if you can resist your impulse
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: to eat it right now. It's tasty, it's good, then
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: you will be rewarded with an extra chocolate. Most children
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: will eat the chocolate right now. They cannot project into
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the future and control themselves based on the idea that
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I will have two in the future. It's the burden
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: in the hand. I want the burden ad right. But
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: it's not an issue of trust, it's an issue of
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: cognitive ability. Projecting into the future requires cognition. Maturity involves
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: being able to project into the future, being able to
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: consider future outcomes and consider what he calls your future self.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: It's about being able to control your whims. So maturity
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: involves being able to control your whims and being able
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: to be a rational being. And again, children, you know,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: there's certain capacities that they don't have, and one of
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the roles of a parent is to teach them and
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: to guide them, and to show them.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: The value of waiting, the value of delayed gratific the
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: value of trading, the value of seeing life over time,
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: not just in an instant, and of course the value
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: of not living by whim but living by reason, living
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: by thought, living rationally.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I think Jordan captures some of that, at least in
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: his what he calls a definition. It's not really a definition,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: you know. It's in this minute video that he presents.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: I think that's a much better presentation of maturity than
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: what we heard that Michael quoted yesterday, and we'll see
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: we'll see another version of it today. So again, maturity
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: is the ability to be rational, the ability to project
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: into the future and to guide one's actions in the
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: present based on a higher che values with the future
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: taken into account. That is, future outcomes, the thought of
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: future outcomes, including the ability to trade with other people
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: and the consequence of that trade. It is immature just
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: the one stuff without thinking about the cost, without thinking
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: about the cost, or without thinking about the work required,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: the values required in order to attain that stuff. Maturity
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: involves understanding that wanting something doesn't make it happen, that
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: wanting something achieving something requires certain steps. Those steps have
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: to be taken in order to achieve the thing once
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: one desires. Right, let me show you the other video,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: because this one's I think in some senses this is
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: maybe a later shout and Peterson chi more mature. I'm
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: just going to resize the window. I think that's good,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Joan Peterson, and I think this is now very different
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: and it's I I I it's interesting that that the
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: his perspective is so different within a few years, it
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: would be my guess this is a year ago. I'm
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: not sure when that other video is made.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: One of the things I've got trouble for saying, which
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: is true anyways, is that you don't grow up till
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: you have kids. And people who don't have kids who
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: think they're growing up take exception to them.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: And I can understand why, but I.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Don't really care, because you're not mature until someone matters
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: more than you do. And that unless there's something wrong
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: with you, like seriously wrong, and that happens to people.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: If you have kids, that will happen to you. You know,
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: you might say you could be committed to something else
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: with equal intensity. It's like, yeah, maybe I doubt it,
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: but maybe you know, there might be one person in
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: a thousand who's capable of taking on a burden that's
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: equivalent let's say, to care for a child in some
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: other form, care for an ailing relative, for example, or
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: or maybe even sacrificial love for a husband or a wife.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Fair what maturity does that give you?
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think this is quite a different Jordan.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: This is a Jordan that's much more focused about burden
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: much more focused about the other. Again, maturity is about
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: loving somebody else more than you love yourself. It's about
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: placing other people above you, or somebody above you. And
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: he recognizes that's such anybody, and he actually qualifies it
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: is He thinks it's only it can only be possible
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: with a child, and therefore only a child. Only by
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: having a child can you achieve maturity. He's gone away
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: from the differentiating immature for mature through this prism of uh,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: whim worshiping instant gratification versus being more rational and taking
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: into account time and time preference and the rewards of
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: adult groups. All right, I forgot to put the volume
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: on right there was no audio. Sorry, I'm muting myself
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: and didn't unmute myself. God, So this is a very
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: different Jordan Peterson. This is a Jordan Peterson much more
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: interested in in in burden, in in difficulty, in you know,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: the struggle. Also Jordan Peterson that's much more focused on uh,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: the idea of the other, that is of you know,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: you've got to you reached a higher form of life.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: You will the highest form of maturity when you love
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: or you care about somebody else more than you care
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: about yourself, and since he doesn't believe you could really
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: do that unless it's with a child, you can never
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: really achieve that level of maturity. Now, I given credit
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: for not thinking that we should all go around loving
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: our neighbor, you know, as much as we do ourselves,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: and more so that he limited just with children. But
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: it's all other focused, responsibility, burden focused. He's gone away
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: from the idea. The maturity is about this, the difference
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: between being a wim worshiping, instant gratification creature and a
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: creature capable of rational, long term thinking and taking into
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: account the future and taking into account delayed gratification and
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: the benefits of the layed gratification. That is. That's a
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: very kind of different place of emphasis, which is interesting.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know why that change happened, but it is
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: a significant change. I think I prefer the first Jordan
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Peterson significantly. I think I think basically in much of
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: what he said in the first he's wrong against some
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: other terminology. He's right in terms of kind of the
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: emphasis in terms of what maturity means, in terms of
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: his intent is to a large extent right on right.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: So you know what we're seeing now is this more
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: You got to go through the rough and gritty. You've
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: got to really you know, And if you don't have children,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: you can never attain maturity. That just is wrong, That
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: is just makes no sense. And it's this idea that
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: you have to there's some elevated state that you reach
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: when you care for somebody more than you care for yourself.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: And I mean this is this is him recommitting to altruism,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: recommitting to to an altruistic philosophy and altruistic ideology, which
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: I don't think was fun and center for him in
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: in his I guess original uh you know when you
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: originally originally became famous. So he has changed, he has
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: he has changed.
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: So Yeah, I think maturity is an important concept. It's
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: obviously something that we expect adults to achieve. It's something
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: that we definitely, uh have the capacity to achieve. I mean,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: children don't have the frontal you know, the the QUOTEXT.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: They don't have that part of the brain that allows
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: them to think into the future and to really plan
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: and to consider, and they can't be fully rational. But
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: once you achieve a certain age, this is the expectation
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: that should be placed on you. That is what maturity
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: engage evolves and to a large and I think an
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: educational system that does not emphasize that does not emphasize thinking,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: does not emphasize values higher keyre values, how to deal
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: with values, that does not emphasize trade in the assets
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: of trade, does not emphasize thinking long term about your
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: own wellbeing, about your own values, which is what your
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: own well being means, your own values, and figuring out
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: what's more important, what's less again, higher kere of values.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: It shouldn't be surprising that as we emphasize more and
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: more emotion, more and more whim we get we get
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: kids that are less and less able. We get people
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: who are less and less able in our culture to
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: achieve maturity, or that it takes them longer to achieve
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: that maturity or I mean this is the sense in
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: which Jodan Peterson is right about the children. Children force
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: you into that recognition, at least to some extent. I
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: think work does as well. Like if you don't feed
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: your kids, something really bad is going to happen, and
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: it's pretty obvious, and it's pretty quick and it's pretty instant,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: and you figure it out if you know I think
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: the same thing is true at work. If you fail
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: in your work, nobody cares about your feelings, your emotions,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: your state of mind. I mean, you fail enough times,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: you fail you out. So there is a you know,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: kids who grow up and enter their twenties and they're
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: still immature, and that many of them Americans are very
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: immature in the twenties. Reality kind of knocks them over
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: their head. And the reality of having kids, and the
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: reality of the reality of getting fired from work, the
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: reality of life, the kind of burdens and struggles that
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Jordan Peterson talks about. They will knock sense into you,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: that is true, and people become mature in a sense
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: that they start taking into account the future. In that
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: sense of maturity. Yeah, you know, having kids will knock
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: sense into you, but that's not ideal. That's not the
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: purpose of having kids, and that is not the only
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: way to achieve the maturity. You can achieve mature just
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: by being a rational human being and by taking your
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: value seriously. All right, let's see what do I want
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: to do? Yes, we've gotten another topic, all right, So, yeah,
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: maturity is an interesting issue. Time is an interesting issue.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Attitude towar it's time my interesting issues. We'll talk about
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: those issues more in the future. I want to talk
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: about gold. A lot of people have this perception that
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: gold is a measure of inflation. The price of gold
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: is a measure inflation. So, for example, the price of
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: gold when the US went off the gold standard final
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: for the final time in nineteen seventy one, was thirty
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: five dollars an ounce. Today it's four hundred and sixty four.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: It's basically one hundred times more than it was back then.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: And what people say is that's a real measure inflation,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: and that means that the dollar is worth one hundredth
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: of what it was worth in nineteen seventy one. Now
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: that's just not true in terms of purchasing power. It's
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: just you know, luxuality. The price of gold does not
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: match real inflation. Now, how do you measure real inflation
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: and in terms of inflating of the money supply? I
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: don't know, but maybe it's empt two. But it's not gold.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: If what you mean by inflation is price increases, inflation,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: you know, gold does not match price increases. So somebody
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: took somebody who believes that gold is the real measure
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: of the value of money. The real value measure of
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: the value of dollar is how much gold you can buy.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: If you do that, and you take wages today, like
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: I've shown you graphs of average wages going up, all
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: the wages going up, and they've gone up since the
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: mid nineteen nineties, really since nineteen ninety four, they've gone
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: up steadily, according to according to pretty much every measure.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: But what he was saying is, look, that's using conventional
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: price inflation measures like the PCE, which is what I
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: was using, the personal Consumption indicts personal consumption expenditure or
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: something like that. Anyway, and he was saying, you should
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: use gold. And if you use gold, people are a
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: lot poorer today, a lot poorer today. They make a
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: lot less money then they made back then. And yeah,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: that's true, and things are a lot more expensive, a
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: lot more expensive than they were back then. And I
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: was like, okay, but that can't be right. I mean,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: it's just not it just doesn't reflect reality. Gold is
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: not a measure of the inflation we've had. It's priced
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: dy does not reflect the inflation we've had. It's a
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: speculative asset. It's not money today. It's a speculative asset
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: and has a specultive asset, a lot of factors going
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: to the valuation of gold. So I figured, Okay, why
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: don't we make this personal. I know how much money
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: I made in nineteen ninety four, nineteen ninety four, yes,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: and I know how much money I made today, you know,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: And I can divide the amount of money I made
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety four, buy the price of gold, and
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: that'll give me how much ounces of gold I made
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety four. And in nineteen ninety four, you know,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: I basically made one hundred and sixty seven ounces of gold.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: That was my annual salary. One hundred and sixty seven
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: ounces of gold, right, Yes, one hundred and sixty seven
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: times three hundred and eighty four gives you sixty four thousand,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: which is about my salary in nineteen ninety four. Well,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: if I take the price of goal today, let me
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: just do this, one said, if I take the price
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: of goal today, what would my salary today have to
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: be for me just to have the same lifestyle, right,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: the same purchasing power as I did back then, I'd
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: have to have, you know, one hundred and sixty seven
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: ounces times right, three thousand, four hundred and sixty four
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: dollars pounds. So in order for me not to just
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: stay the same same purchasing power over the last since
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one, which is what thirty one years ago, right,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: I would have to make today five hundred and seventy eight,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: four hundred and eighty eight dollars just to have the
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: same standard of living as I had back then. Now
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: that's nuts, that's completely insane. Five hundred and seventy four
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty eight dollars buys me a ton more,
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: I mean not even close a ton more than it
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: did than sixty four thousand dollars did in nineteen eighty four.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: The cost of living has not gone up ten x.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: It's gone up two x, but it's not gone up
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: ten x. Housing maybe's gone up three gs, it's not
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: gone up ten x. Gold has gone up ten x.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: It's gone from three hundred and eighty four dollars an
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: ounce to four hundred and sixty four dollars an ounce.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: So gold is not tracking my cost of living. It's
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: not tracking cost of housing, it's not tracking the cost
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: of groceries. It's certainly not tracking the cost of computers.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Which has gone down dramatically. How many ounces as a
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: gold does a computer cost today less than one? How
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: many ounces does a gold do the computer cost back
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety four ten gone down by ninety percent
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: of gold terms. So, you know, the idea that you
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: can measure the cost of living and the value of
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: your wages by turning it into you know, the gold
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: equivalent is just nonsense. Gold is a hedge, Gold is
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: a protection. Gold is a speculative asset. Gold is an
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: emergency fund. Gold is not a measure of inflation, either
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: monetary inflation or price inflation. And it's not a measure
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: of you know, the increase in the cost of living.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: It's just bogus to think of it that way. So, yeah,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: you know what. I read his critique of the thing.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: It didn't seem right, and then I ran my own numbers,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: and it's obvious it was obviously just nonsense. So for
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: all you gold bugs out there, I'm sorry, it's just
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: not what you think it is. You know, I'm all
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: for gold, you know, a huge respect for gold, and
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: you should have some gold in your portfolio. It's a
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: great investment. It's an important investment. It provides obviously in
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: inflation hedge, but it does much more than just inflation
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: because it's gone up much faster than inflation. Inflation has
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: gone up. Price inflation has gone up about one hundred
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: percent since nineteen ninety four, eighty nine percent or ninety
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: percent on the PCE basis, one hundred and eighteen percent
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: on the CPI and basis I'd take ninety percent. And
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: generally people think inflation is higher than it really is
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: because they don't take into account the increased qualityity of goods.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: As we saw, the price of television's basically gone down
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: ninety percent. The price of computers has gone down much
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: more than that. If you're take innock on quality and
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: the price of an iPhone, well, you couldn't have an iPhone,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: So how do you even measure that in terms of
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: in terms of standard living, quality of life? So, yeah,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: it is what it is, all right, let's see, so
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: hopefully that is that is useful. But again, things are
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: not as bad as you think they are, you know,
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: in terms of in terms of finances, in terms of
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: cost of living, inters of all these things. By the way,
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: housing house prices are gone up in the United States
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty four till today. On average average across
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: the entire country, it's one hundred and thirty seven percent.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: So that's higher than CPI, which is one hundred and
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: eighteen percent, higher than PC which is basically ninety percent.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: But it's not like it's basically house prices are more
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: than doubled. If you live in California, home prices have
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: gone up two hundred and seventy six percent. And this
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: is why the whole housing issue, and that means it's
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: gone up more than double, you know, just called it inflation,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: price inflation. The entire housing problem is a problem of
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: the coasts. It's a problem of lack of supply in California,
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: in Washington, Oregon, in New York, in Boston, in some
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: other countries, other counties and cities where zoning is restricted
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: building that are desirable to live in. I don't know,
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: maybe maybe Denver, but I don't think prices have gone
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: up that much in Denver. But it's a huge California issue.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: But that's all initiative supply. All right, Hopefully that was helpful.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: All right, let's jump in with my review of Folks
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: in the World. So Folks in the Road was written
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: by a support of this show. It is you can
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: get on an Amazon It's Folks in the Road. It's
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: actually that's a good title. I mean generally a good
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: title choices, right, folks in the Road representing choices. It's
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: a book of short stories, the basically four short stories,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: and in the book I've read three of the four.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: So this is not a review of the fourth. I'll
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: try to read the fourth next few weeks and provide
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: a review of it. So let me first say that,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: you know, this is just my and I'm going to
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: say subjective and I really do you mean subjective response
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: to these short stories. I'm not an expert on literature.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: I'm not an expert on writing, you know. Indeed, I
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: don't think of all the arts, this is one I
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: have probably the least I mean the least knowledge of.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Put it that way, So take it for what it's worth.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: Larry wanted me to do this in spite of I've
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: given that caveat many many times, and people are still
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: wanting me to do this, maybe partially because this is
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: advertising for the books. And I did review mirra Ben's
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: short story. Was it a year ago? It's been a
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: long time. I think maybe two years ago. So I
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: agreed to to do Larry's. But again, literature not my
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: strong suit. Not my strong suit, so take that into account.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: All right, So three stories we're going to talk about today.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: The first is called the Picture Hitter, the pinch Hitter,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: and the Trout And this is really like a falling
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: in love story. It's a romantic story. Man and woman
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: just basically two characters in the whole in the whole thing.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's another character, but really the whole
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: story is just two people. It's about a kind of
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: a a baseball player at the end of his career
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: going trout fishing and falling for a woman who's there
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: trout fishing. And I think the story is really this video. Okay.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: By the way, all right, let me know if the
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: video is okay. I'm getting some signals here that it
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: might not be. But you guys are the final arbiturs
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: of where the video works or not. Where you are anyway,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: I found that the story quite, you know, quite well written. Interesting.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: I think you have to have some appreciation for baseball
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: and fly fishing. I have no appreciation for fly fishing.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: I think if you did, you would probably enjoy the
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: story even more. I do know and appreciate baseball, so
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: I think that at least resonated with me that part
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: of it, the fly fishing pot less. But still I
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: still found the story quite engaging and believable in terms
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: of the kind of the love angle, the falling in
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: love original. I'd never read anything like it. I don't
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: know if a story like it, I think it worked again,
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: it would work more if I knew more about fly fishing,
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: because some of it's the intricacy of that. But yeah,
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: I think it's really it's well written, an original and
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: entertaining and kind of gives you a nice warm feeling
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: at the ends. So it's it's it's good. I like
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: it the I think the characters are well drawn, again,
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: particularly if you know baseball and you kind of know
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: the pinch hitter end of Korea, what that entails. If
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: you know a little bit about baseball, I think that
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: gives it. It gives it color, and I think Larry
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: does a really good job of characterization both both the
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: baseball player and the woman he falls for. She's a
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: little bit more abstract, you get to know her a
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: little bit less, but still I think characterization is good
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: and and I found it and entertaining and you know,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: worthwhile story to read again. The Folks on the Road
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: by Larry Radkey are a d t k E R
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: A d t k E. You could find the book
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: of short stories on Amazon. It's self published by Larry.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: The second story is about two homeless guys, both of
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: them homeless for different reasons. I won't give it away.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: It's another part problem with literatures. You don't want to
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: give you don't want to give the story away. I
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: think the first one it's easy because anyway, this is
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: a story of two homeless guys who go on to
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: kind of a quest like a like an adventure. Uh.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: And they they're both there. So there's there's a little
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: bit of a political message here, or maybe a lot
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: of a political message here about COVID and and this
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: is this is a story about two homeless guys during COVID,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: and COVID plays a role in one of them becoming homeless.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: The other one is homeless because or just just giving
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: up on life in a sense because of government regulation
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: of medicine. So so there's that angle. There's a kind
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: of a clearly uh, anti authoritarian government angle to all
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: of this. Uh. I found the story itself, like the
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: the the quest, the adventure they go on, and and
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: just the characters, the two characters, quite interesting and fun.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: I'm curious where Larry got the idea for this, and
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: and the details, all the details of it as well
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: are quite entertaining and interesting. Uh. And I don't know
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: where he got the idea, way he got all of that?
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: They you know where you got all of that from?
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: They go uh uh uh try to hunt ducks in
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: in the in the in the Los Angeles River, uh,
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: you know. And and the sense of desperation, in the
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: sense of kind of homelessness, of giving up on life,
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: I think is well captured. And of course this quest
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: is a quest that teaches them both about life and
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: about the values and causes them to rethink, rethink their values,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: and recommit to living if you will. And I think
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: that's done fairly effectively. And I think it's convincing that
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: this adventure question on how it evolves, would have a
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: real impact on their lives. It's not just frivolous, that
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: it would really cause them to rethink it and turn
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: their lives around. So I enjoyed that aspect. I enjoyed
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: the characterization. The two men are interesting. I found the
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: politics a little bit like, you know, I don't know.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say preachy, because it's not it.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just sensitive to trying to convey a political
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: message in a good story. I think that could be
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: and this will be a theme because I think that's
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: a problem with the story as well. I think it
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: be toned down a little bit it and you still
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: get the same effect, and you still get the same
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: impact on the fewer in terms of in terms of
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: the characters, because that's what matters here. It's the characters,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: the adventure and their ability to change their life. I
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: mean that value judgment is so much more important than
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: you know, the political causes that are being discussed here.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: I think that goes over people's heads. And for non
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: objectives reader it would be confusing and maybe they'd missed
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of the point. They'd get maybe upset at
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: some of the political statements and then miss I think
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: the story and the interest in the story, but again,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: it's much of it is really well written. And the
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: descriptions of La and of the adventure in the La
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: River and the ducks and I mean really good. UH
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: and and the character is interesting, So again I recommend
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: it's called Blind Wager. It's like a blind wager, a bet.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: And then finally Old Man on Old Rebellion. UH. This
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: one's more explicitly political. It's about a rancher who's who's
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: dealing with the California regulators. He's trying to preserve his property,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: and you know, he kills he kills a wolf, and
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: of course the wolf is uh is an indigered species
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: and the government's coming after him. And it has really
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: at the very end it has elements of science fiction
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: and UH and the beginning of kind of a big
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: battle for freedom and liberty and UH an inspiration. I
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: found it a little bit too much in that respect,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: in in in the if you will science fiction part
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: of it, I think they are again. The best writing here,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: I think is when there's a description of the values
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: at stake, the description of the individuals and the struggles
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: they are facing, the choices that they have to make.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: Like the description the early part of the story where
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: the guy shot the wolf and now realizes he's in trouble,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: I think is I think is the best part of it.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: So you know, so again super originally way it comes
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: up with these ideas, it's super original. It's a little,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: you know, a little bit I think difficult to really
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: get into in terms of believability, in terms of the characters,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: in terms of what happens, particularly in the final parts
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: of it, to really get too excited about this, to
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: get you know, to really get in into the story itself.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: But I think it's enjoyable. Again, original, interesting characters and
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: although a little less developed than I think the previous two.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: And if you're in for you know, the good guys
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: fighting back against government bureaucrats and government regulations and government controls. Yeah,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: this is a story for you, the beginnings of a revolution,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: just the very, very very beginnings of a revolution. This
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: might get you excited. There's a little bit of a
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: John gold skulch you know hints in there as well.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I think I think a lot of people
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: would enjoy it. I found it less esthetically pleasing than
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: the first two, all right. In other words, you know,
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: i'd recommend folks in the road try it out, give
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: it a shot. You might like it. Let Larry know.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: You can get it on an Amazon, so yeah, check
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: it out. All right, let's see we're oh, I think
• 1:04:10
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  Speaker 1: we can get to our targets. Andrew Reps haven't been
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  Speaker 1: swearing up to ain Rand. Do you feel that you
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  Speaker 1: are always maturing? She said no, a bit shocked. He
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  Speaker 1: do you feel that you are constantly learning more about life?
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  Speaker 1: She yes? And wonder hol ever survived not knowing what
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  Speaker 1: I know? Now? How do you interpret this? Well that,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, maturing is not gaining you knowledge. Maturing
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  Speaker 1: you reach a certain level of maturity and you're done, right,
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  Speaker 1: It's not an ongoing process. And that level of maturity
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  Speaker 1: I think most of us gain it in our late teens,
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  Speaker 1: early twenties, or maybe later twenties, depending on who you are.
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  Speaker 1: And that level of maturity is again the ability to
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  Speaker 1: think long term, the ability to defer, you know, defer rewards,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: the ability to save in a sense, the ability to invest,
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  Speaker 1: but the ability to think about the future, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of that just means being rational, because what does
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  Speaker 1: being rational mean. Being rational means, among other things, being
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  Speaker 1: able to project into the future and understand the consequence
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  Speaker 1: of your actions in the future and take that into account.
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  Speaker 1: So once you reach a certain level of maturity, you're done.
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  Speaker 1: It's not something you keep growing in it. So once
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  Speaker 1: you can do that, once you can do that function,
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  Speaker 1: you're done. But you're never done learning. There's always new stuff.
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  Speaker 1: There's always new stuff that you didn't know before. You're
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: never ever ever done learning in life, never ever done
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  Speaker 1: growing in life. But it's like, is your rationality growing? No?
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  Speaker 1: Rationality is I'm rational? Is your maturity growing, no, I'm mature.
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  Speaker 1: Achieve maturity. And the only reason we have a concept
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  Speaker 1: for maturity is because we can contrast there with immature
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: both immature adults and certainly immature children. And we can
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  Speaker 1: see the evolution of children as they gain the rational capabilities,
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  Speaker 1: as they gain the ability to resist instant gratification, to
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  Speaker 1: resist the passions, to resist a whims and and to
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  Speaker 1: than about the short term and about whim worshiping. That's
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  Speaker 1: the process of maturity. Thank you Andrew for the fifty dollars.
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  Speaker 1: That is very generous. Clerk, are you not the author
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  Speaker 1: author of your thoughts? Well, then who is the author
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  Speaker 1: of my thoughts? I mean, there's a there's a sense
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  Speaker 1: that your thoughts are delivered by your subconscious without your
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  Speaker 1: direct control. What you're doing is prompting for the thought
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  Speaker 1: author of your thoughts. Ultimately, maybe not in real time,
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: but you are the one who caused and caused these
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: particular ones. That's a good question to ask a philosopher
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: friends when they hear Andrew cliche. But true art is
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  Speaker 1: nourishment for the soul. Just went to a sculpture garden
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  Speaker 1: that had technically great work of people and modern sculpture
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: plain or mangled shapes in space. The people much more interesting. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but the people. But was the sculpture of people technically
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  Speaker 1: great works of people? Yeah? I mean, it's not even
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: interesting that the mango shapes are nothing. They're zeros. They
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  Speaker 1: mean nothing, they say nothing, they convey nothing, They impact
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: you nothing. They're just not They don't have anything whereas figurative.
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  Speaker 1: At least it has something to say. It's not always interesting,
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: it's not always good, but it has some teeth to say.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you found the people more interesting. Hopefully they
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: were also nourishing. Michelangelo or David is nourishing and inspiring.
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  Speaker 1: But it really is nourishment for the soul, it really is.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: It gives you energy, it gives you focus. It gives
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: you a sense of what is possible. Andrew says, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: sculptures of people. Yeah. I mean. The other thing about
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: a lot of modern figurative sculpture is that it tends
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  Speaker 1: to be very naturalistic. It tends to be I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: a person sitting on a bench or a child playing along,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, fully dressed, just like a you cast
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  Speaker 1: a child. You know, in in bronze, there's nothing, there's
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: nothing there. There's no stylization, there's no there's no added element,
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: there's no value projection other than this is life. This
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: is what it's And there's some some you know, interesting
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  Speaker 1: aspects to that, but but most of it is pretty boy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, one of the things you notice here in
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: Florence when you look at the sculptures is, uh, you know,
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: the intense drama of it all. I mean, there's a
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: beautiful sculpture at the Palazzo Vitio Riccio of Chillini, which
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: is a Theuseus holding the head of Medusa, and it's
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: just a gorgeous sculpture. And again it's it's not in action,
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: but it's right after he chopped Medusa's head off, holding
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: Medusa's head in front of him, standing with the sword proud.
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  Speaker 1: It's dramatic, it's strong, it's powerful, and it's it's I'm
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: pretty sure it's in the nude. I think it's in
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  Speaker 1: the nude, as sculpture I think should be. I think
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  Speaker 1: sculpture should always be in the nude, almost always be
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  Speaker 1: in the nude. And so much a modern and oh
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: in Balazzo Vecchio. Uh, there's a modern sculpture they put
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  Speaker 1: up of a figurative modern sculpture of a woman looking
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  Speaker 1: your iPhone with headphones on and you know, fully dressed
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  Speaker 1: and everything. It's like they missed the whole spirit of
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  Speaker 1: the place. It's like the whole spirit of of of
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  Speaker 1: of all the sculptures there, you know, is lacking in
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  Speaker 1: this completely naturalistic, unbelievably boring sculpture of a woman doing
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  Speaker 1: what everybody else does. And you know, not everybody is Michael,
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  Speaker 1: Not everybody is David with a sling getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: fight Eliath. Not everybody is Theseus. Who's just Perseus, pertheous
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: Perseus who's just chopped the head of Medusa, the feared Medusa,
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  Speaker 1: and still can't look at it because I think if
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: he looks at it, he's still will turn into stone. Uh,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: it's not real life. What the what they're sculpting. It's idealized,
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: and it's dramatized, and it's a projection of you know,
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: man as he could be. And this woman right in
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: the middle of the plot. So looking at the iPhone uninteresting.
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  Speaker 1: It could be just a human being. Look at the
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: iPhone fully dressed. At least make make a you know,
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  Speaker 1: make a nude or at least you know, nudity essentializes
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: things by clothing, I mean, just make them look like
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  Speaker 1: everybody else. It's it's it makes it boring. And you know,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: even in the in the where the David is in
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  Speaker 1: the room next door, there is a sculpture and I
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: forget what the theme is, but it's it's a man.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: He's he's holding a woman. He's way up there above him,
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: and he's stomping on it. There's another woman below and
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: it's all dynamic, in a in a circular motion, twisted bodies.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: Everything's twisted, everything's in action. Everything's dramatic. Something life and
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: death is happening here. And then you go out and see,
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: you know, man at a bench sitting there. I mean
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  Speaker 1: that is what so much of kind of modern figurative.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: It's just dull and boring and uninteresting. The drama, the excitement,
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: the the is gone, the heroism is gone. It's just gone.
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  Speaker 1: You almost never see it, Richard, I thank you, Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: I disagree with Jordan Peterson's assertion and maturity requires parents
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  Speaker 1: with it. I've known immature, irresponsible parents whose kids have
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: grown up struggling with life. Yeah, no, I agree with you.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, And I think Jordan would even agree that
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: some parents resist maturity even after they have kids. He's
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: saying it's necessary. I'm not sure he's saying it's the
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: only requirement that is. I'm not sure he's saying by
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  Speaker 1: having kids you automatically mature. It is a wake up
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: call if you're immature. And there are a lot of
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: comedies about this, right A bachelor finds himself with a
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: little baby for a few days and has to you know,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: irresponsible whim worshiping guy suddenly finds himself what there's three
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: min and a baby and movies like that where suddenly
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: you've got to change tapers and you've got to feed
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: the thing and it's crying at nights and you go
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: you gotta reality is just in your face constantly. Babies,
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: don't let you forget about reality for one second. Now,
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: people who are immature screw it up quite a bit,
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: but people who have any symblance of responsibility. This is
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: a wake up call to become more mature. But it's
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: not necessary, and I don't think it's sufficient. It's neither
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: necessary nor sufficient, So I agree with you. Liam says
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: maturity is taking more pride in the process than in
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: the outcome. I don't know if that's true. I mean,
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: certainly it's good to take pride in the process. Outcomes
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: of good too, appreciating the process, but I wouldn't define
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: maturity that way. It certainly maybe part of maturity. It's
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: part of this appreciating the time aspect of action, of
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: the pursuit of values. But I don't know if that
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: is the way I would define maturity. I don't think
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: that's true. It's much more related to the ability not
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: to live in wim by wim. Raphael says, please try
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: trut to read Giovanni in Florence. Try to read Giovanni.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: I'll have to write that down. I'm not familiar with
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: that one. So if I recommend Giovanni. Okay, thanks RFL.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: Let's see Harper Campbell. When reading online comment sections, it
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: appears the culture is saturated with racism and hatred. Is
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: this due to immaturity fear of taking the risks necessary
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: to make your life something? Well, it's a few things. First,
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't use the comment section on online platforms as
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: a reflection of the world out there. It's a reflection
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: of a subculture within that world. It's a reflection of
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: certain people, but not I don't think it's I don't
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: think it's it's a reflection of the world generally out there.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: There are plenty, plenty of people who have never made
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: a comment on a chatboard in their life, a vast
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: majority of people. So that's one. But why are they racist.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: It's a product of tribalism. It's a product of the
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: negation of reason, which has made them afraid, fearful, and
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: insecure about their own future. They have to blame somebody.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: Racism is a way to blame the other that belongs
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: to another tribe. You remember, we've talked a lot about this.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: The tribalism is the consequence of people's inability to think
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: for themselves. They struggle in life. As a consequence, they're
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: therefore drawn to a group. They can tell them what
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: to think, they can tell them how to face life.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: Tribalism is the refuge of fearful, unthinking human beings and
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: it you know, tribalism means the people in another tribe
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: are bad, and often the tribes are. One of the
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: most obvious, most primitive, most barbaric forms of forming tribes
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: is around racial groups, around the appearance of race groups,
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: and that results in racism. Again, hatred comes from fear
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: and is again a product of irrationality. It's a product
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: of not knowing how to deal with the world, not
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: knowing how to deal with reality, not knowing how to
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: deal with with life, and therefore lashing out at the
• 1:26:24
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• 1:26:27
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• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: saying Hyek was right about the past, but AI changes
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: the game. The calculation problem solved. Modern AI sypocompedis can
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: handle what Soviet planners couldn't. Yeah, they are saying that
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: I'll do a show on this because it's a big issue.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: But it's partially a problem of not understanding Hyek, and
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: it's prosibly a problem of Hyak himself not properly I think,
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: defining what he meant by the calculation problem. The calculation
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: problem is not a calculation problem. It's a metaphysical problem.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: It's a problem of not being able to know the
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: values of individuals. That is, what is something worth to me?
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: A central planet cannot know that. It can once you know, say,
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: it can trying to as to me or average out
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: what is important to people and how much people are
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: willing to pay for something, But it can't literally get
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: inside my brain at least not without you know, a
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: neurallink and figure out what's important to me at this
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: particular moment, what I'm willing to pay and what I'm
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: not willing to pay, how far I'm willing to drive
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: to get something, how I'm not willing to drive what
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: job I find appealing my job, but don't try it
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: all the millions of little decisions you make on a
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: data dayasis AI cannot predict that. It's not an issue
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: of the data is there. I don't know how to
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: calculate it that AI could solve. The problem is it
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: doesn't have the data. The most important data is people's values,
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: which are changing constantly and are being updated constantly. There's
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: no way, again without a chip in our brain that
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: sends all their data to central AI to figure that
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: out and therefore to be able to adjust supply and
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: demand and anticipation of that. So the problem is that
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: it's not an issue of the enormity of the calculate.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: Tell It's not how big and powerful the calculator is.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: It's an issue of does the calculator have the right data,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: And in this case no, And it can never have
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: the right data because the data is the choices, but
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  Speaker 1: fundamentally the values of individuals. Andrew, you've said metaphysics came
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  Speaker 1: easy to you. I think it's why rand was shocked
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  Speaker 1: at the idea of constantly maturing. Early on, she got
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  Speaker 1: a key metaphysical principle, the primacy of existence, which is
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  Speaker 1: the foundation of maturity. Yes, I think that's right. I
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  Speaker 1: think the primacy of existence is the foundation of maturity.
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  Speaker 1: It's to recognize what is metaphysical, recognize what you can
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  Speaker 1: change what you can't change is a big part of maturity.
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  Speaker 1: And that your wishes do not are not a claim
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  Speaker 1: on the world, a not a claim on reality. Your
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  Speaker 1: wishes count for nothing. What counts is your values and
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  Speaker 1: your actions in pursuit of those values, guided by reason.
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  Speaker 1: That's what counts. Your whims count for nothing. Can you
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: go over some of Patrick Bindavit's capitalist answers from today's
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  Speaker 1: show on Jubilee. Yes, I'm going to look at that
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  Speaker 1: and review it. It's too bad they didn't have me
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  Speaker 1: on that show. I should have been the guy doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Roland says, so jealous. I mean to Florence once. Now
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  Speaker 1: I know I have to visit again. Yes you do,
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  Speaker 1: and there's so much good stuff to see here. Definitely
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  Speaker 1: worth a visit. Gulag okay, would you address private investors
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  Speaker 1: buying property and developing areas. They're therefore increasing property tax
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  Speaker 1: and pricing people out. Thank you? Why are they pricing
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  Speaker 1: why are they increasing property tax? So, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: I have no problem with private investors buying property and
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  Speaker 1: developing areas. That's progress, right, we want more development, not
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  Speaker 1: fewer development. But I'm not sure why that increases property taxes.
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  Speaker 1: Property taxes in California are not, for example, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: determined by what other people are doing. They're determined by
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  Speaker 1: the last price you paid a particularly on the house
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  Speaker 1: that you own. So and I'm not sure why it
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  Speaker 1: prices people out if they are developing areas, which means
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  Speaker 1: they're building stuff that actually will lower the price. Right,
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: most apply given a fixed demand, will decrease spaces. The
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  Speaker 1: more they develop, the lower prices will be. So maybe
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand the question. Maybe you need to give
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  Speaker 1: me more information for me to be able to answer
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  Speaker 1: it better. But based on that, I just think is
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  Speaker 1: upside down. Peter, who writes Marrabins love you YouTube channel,
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: Love your YouTube channel, God, love your YouTube channel. Don't
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  Speaker 1: love immigrants coming in bringing their uncles with weird sounding names.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna take a bobs. Who's Bob? I don't get
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  Speaker 1: that all right, But Peter and Mirrabins have their own language,
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  Speaker 1: coming in bringing their uncles with weird sounding names they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna take out Bob's all right, Michael, Can you try
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  Speaker 1: and get on Graham's Stephens show. He has a huge
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  Speaker 1: audience in his very open to new types of guests.
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  Speaker 1: Sure I can. I can slowly try to do that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know Graham Stevens, but I'll look him up
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  Speaker 1: and see, let's see. Yeah, all right, thanks Michael Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's dangerous to care for your children more
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  Speaker 1: than yourself. What happens when your child doesn't need or
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  Speaker 1: want that level of care anymore? Yeah? I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: think I think that whole conception is is strange. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you care about your children because you care about yourself,
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  Speaker 1: And I yes, and and and what happens when they
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  Speaker 1: grow up and they leave? Right?
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  Speaker 3: So?
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  Speaker 1: But I think you're caring changes over time as well. John,
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  Speaker 1: always trying to get your question on me. Eighty percent
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  Speaker 1: of pakistanis products of first cousin marriages. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: that is in part? In part? I guess do you
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  Speaker 1: think this is in part their high crime rate? Pakistanis
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  Speaker 1: in the UK. So do I think that's why they're
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  Speaker 1: more likely to be criminals or hi criminality? You know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know first cousin marriages tend to cause all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of birth defects, and I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these children do have birth defects. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: kind of impact it has on intelligence. It's very it's
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  Speaker 1: very hard to tell. There are other communities where there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of in breeding for lack of a different word,
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  Speaker 1: because they're just small communities which have done fine in
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: the world. So I doubt that that is the cause
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  Speaker 1: of crime in particular. I mean, I think the cause
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  Speaker 1: of crime in England with Pakistani is pretty straightforward, and
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  Speaker 1: that is the lack of enforcement. That is, the British
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  Speaker 1: police and the British legal system treat them with kid gloves.
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  Speaker 1: They're afraid of being called racist if they sentence them
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  Speaker 1: to jail terms, so they identify them as bad actors
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  Speaker 1: or as criminals, and therefore they get there's a two
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  Speaker 1: chier justice system in the UK. If you're a white
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  Speaker 1: brit and you commit a crime, and if you're a
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  Speaker 1: Pakistani you commit a crime, you don't get punished the
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  Speaker 1: same amounts. The first, the police are not doing their job.
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  Speaker 1: I'd say that's number one. Second, the British culture is
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  Speaker 1: not demanding assimilation. And part of that is welfare and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that they're not expected to work and they're
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: not expected to become Brits. And that's a problem throughout
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  Speaker 1: Europe where you don't get assimilation, you go and the
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  Speaker 1: main fault in that is with the warfare state. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if, if, to what extent cousin weddings have
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  Speaker 1: to do with crime. I mean, that's an empirical question,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm skeptical. It does have to do with a
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: lot of health problems and a lot of both defects
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  Speaker 1: and maybe lower IQ and maybe then being qualified for
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  Speaker 1: lower end jobs. But you could still do those lower
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  Speaker 1: end jobs without being a criminal. So I'd say the
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  Speaker 1: criminality is much more an element of culture and the
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  Speaker 1: unwillingness of the Brits.
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  Speaker 5: To demand demand and demand and the assimilation and the
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  Speaker 5: number one did two ways which you demand a simulation.
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  Speaker 1: One is the law, you enforce the law one hundred percent,
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  Speaker 1: and second is work. You have to demand people work
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: freedom first says. I've watched your show Heroes and Art Today,
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  Speaker 1: highly recommended watching, recommend watching the movie Flash of Genius.
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  Speaker 1: It's about a real hero based on a true story. Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I've heard of that movie. Thank you.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: I always am looking for good movie recommendations. Flash of Genius,
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  Speaker 1: all right, thank you, feeda first. Ben Jackson. Do you
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  Speaker 1: think people are able to have multiple careers in life.
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: I'm an ad copywriter. I love my work, but I
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: also do architecture design on the site. Yeah, I do
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  Speaker 1: think you can have multiple careers. I think it's hard.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: I've certainly had multip careers in parallel and sequentially, and
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: you can do both. It's difficult. Not everybody can do it,
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: but it's certainly possible. So and you have to realize
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: that you're giving up something. You're never going to become
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  Speaker 1: as good of an architect as you would be if
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: you devoted full time to it. You'll never become as
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: good at copywriter as you could be if you devoted
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: your full time to it. So as long as you're
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: willing to live with that, with the fact that you'll
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: never be the best that you could be in one
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: of those, yeah, you could probably juggle to careers at
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  Speaker 1: the same time. Simon, would it be justified to displace
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  Speaker 1: the Gusans and have Israel just absorb the land in
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: order to keep Israel Israeli safe. I mean, where do
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: you displace them? Two? Right, So it could be justified
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  Speaker 1: if there was some way to do it, But it's
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  Speaker 1: not necessary, right, It's not necessary to do it, and
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: there's no way to send them they don't want to go,
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: the people who nobody wants to accept them. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the obvious solution would be for Egypt to take the
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: Gauza script and make it proud of egypt Is or
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  Speaker 1: would love that. But you know, it could be justified
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  Speaker 1: if it was done right and it was thoughtful. I
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  Speaker 1: think the option right now of giving them the ability
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: to voluntarily leave if they want to leave and finding
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: them places where they could go is a good option,
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: and that would reduce the population in Gaza. So we
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: use the problem somewhat, but it still needs a solution locally,
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  Speaker 1: and that means first winning the war. All right? Final
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  Speaker 1: two questions, guys, unless you want to ask something before
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: I finish these, hap a friend, Harper. I contrast maturity
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  Speaker 1: from child from child childishness, which is characterized by a
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  Speaker 1: lack of impulse control, that's right, plus a lack of
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: agency yep, and emotionalism. Yes, maturity is impulse control plus
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  Speaker 1: personal responsibility plus reasoning. Yeah, I mean, I think that's right.
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  Speaker 1: But you have to think about what impulse control means
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: and how it manifests itself, and how all of those
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: evolve over time as you grow in childhood. That is,
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: by the time you're in your twenties, though, should all
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: be gone. You should have shifted to becoming mature. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's pretty good. I like that inpo keep, if
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  Speaker 1: someone films me in public and post it online for clicks,
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: isn't that using my image property without consent? Why should
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: free expression in this context override image rights? I mean,
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: it's a complicated question. If we live in a world
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: in which the expectation is that when you're outside, given
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: that the cameras everywhere, that you know, when you're walking
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: down the street, when you're doing things in public, you
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: have no you have no expectation of privacy, then you
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: have no expectation of privacy. Then then people can do
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: what they will with any images they catch. But generally
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  Speaker 1: I think that you're right. I think that your image
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  Speaker 1: is you. And this is why, for example, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know when I film my talks, I often have to
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  Speaker 1: ask the consent of the students to use the video
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  Speaker 1: or announce you are now enging a space where we
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: are filming and we will be using this video. By
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: entering the space, you're granting consent for us to use
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  Speaker 1: this video, and I think you should have to. This
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  Speaker 1: is why in a lot of videos you see faces
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: are blurred out because they haven't received consent, and I
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: think that's how it should be. I think we live
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: in a culture now where people can throw up a
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: camera and live stream anything anytime anyway, that all of
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: that has gone out the window, and we really need
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: to think about. But live streaming really creates an issue.
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: But you can't get consent live maybe we can create
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: software that can. Maybe it already exists as you're live
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: streaming blurs out certain faces. I mean, this is something
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  Speaker 1: that needs to be thought through in terms of property
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: rights and in terms of your image rights versus the
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: fact that you're in public versus the technology that now
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: enables this so easily. How do we draw the lines?
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: It's something that we should ask like Adam ourself when
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: he's on the show next time, to talk about, because yeah,
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: it is interesting where you draw the line exactly? All right, guys,
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  Speaker 1: thank you really appreciate the supports from all the super
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: chatters and the stick of people. Thank you for all that.
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: I will see you guys tomorrow, probably around the same time,
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: maybe an hour later, maybe an hour earlier, but sometime
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: in the range of this time. Nick, I think I
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: assume that tomorrow I'll be in an office. It'll be
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: a different setting, maybe more boring, I don't know, but
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: it'll be a little easier, and it'll be my home
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: for the show for the next three weeks. All right, everybody,
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