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Iran; Israel; Ukraine; Venezuela; Milei; MN Fraud; H1B in FL | Yaron Brook Show · Yaron Brook Show

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  Speaker 1: our let's start a discussion with the news out of Iran.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I don't have instant news out of Iran, sadly,
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  Speaker 1: although although it would be it would be good to
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  Speaker 1: have like somebody there, like a spy there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sending me messages and letting me know. But the reality
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  Speaker 1: is that there are massive demonstrations in Iran, out in
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  Speaker 1: the streets, and these are different and then the demonstrations
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  Speaker 1: in the Goals Revolution, because these are much more widespread
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  Speaker 1: across Iranian society. It is not just young people, it
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  Speaker 1: is not primarily it's not primarily Goals. This is across
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  Speaker 1: white swaths of Uranian society going out into the streets
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  Speaker 1: and demonstrating against the regime.
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  Speaker 2: There are thousands of people in the.
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  Speaker 1: Streets, not just in Tehran in the main city, but
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  Speaker 1: in other significant cities around the country. The cause of
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  Speaker 1: this or the particular impetus for these particular.
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  Speaker 2: For this particular uprising.
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  Speaker 1: Is the out of control inflation and the complete collapse
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  Speaker 1: of the US dollar. I think one real the local
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  Speaker 1: Iranian country is worth one point four one point four
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  Speaker 1: million reals is worth one dollar, and where the official
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  Speaker 1: rate is something like forty thousand.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, this has just exploded.
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  Speaker 1: The economy of struggling unemployment is high quality of life,
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  Speaker 1: stand up living and declining costs a skyrocketing. They have
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  Speaker 1: a real affordability crisis and people are just fed up.
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  Speaker 2: And the difference between this.
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  Speaker 1: And what happened a couple a few years ago with
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  Speaker 1: the Goals is that this time the bizarre the marketplace,
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  Speaker 1: the merchants of Iran shutting their stores, are striking and
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  Speaker 1: going on to the streets. Now, this is very similar
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  Speaker 1: to what happened in nineteen seventy nine when the Iranians
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  Speaker 1: rose up against the Shaw and ultimately invited Romani from
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  Speaker 1: Paris to come back to Iran and.
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  Speaker 2: Take over from the show.
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  Speaker 1: It was the merchants, It was the merchant class, and
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  Speaker 1: to the students, it was the merchants who went out
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  Speaker 1: of the streets. It was the merchants who crippled the
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  Speaker 1: Inanian economy. In those days they had an economy. It
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  Speaker 1: is the called middle class, the heart of Persian society,
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  Speaker 1: shopkeepers that rebelled against the shop that brought his regime down.
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  Speaker 2: Now they've come out into.
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  Speaker 1: The streets before in two thousand and nine, in particular
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  Speaker 1: against the Islamic regime, but at that point it was
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  Speaker 1: mostly about economics and there was not a lot of
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  Speaker 1: support beyond that, for example, among students.
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  Speaker 2: I think now a.
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  Speaker 1: Number of things have come together, the economies and shambles,
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  Speaker 1: So the economic that the people who are suffering from
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  Speaker 1: the economic collapse.
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  Speaker 2: Out in the streets, the students out in the streets.
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  Speaker 1: The Goals revolution is still very much alive in people's minds.
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  Speaker 2: They're not just had it.
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  Speaker 1: With this regime from economic perspective, they've had it with
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  Speaker 1: this regime from a personal freedom perspective. They want to
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  Speaker 1: be free, they want to go out there, they want
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  Speaker 1: to live in a free society, and they're willing to
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  Speaker 1: risk their lives. We saw that with the Goals three
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  Speaker 1: years ago. Now much more widespread, they're coming out as well.
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  Speaker 1: So now it's it's much more substantial and affects many
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  Speaker 1: parts of Uranian society. On top of that, this is
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  Speaker 1: the first time I've seen the son of the Shah,
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  Speaker 1: who lives in the United States get involved as an
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  Speaker 1: opposition leader anyone in anyone in a public way during demonstrations.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't really he wasn't that vocal during the Ghost Revolution.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't suggesting at that time, let's overthrow the regime
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  Speaker 1: and I'll come and I'll facilitate an interim regime until
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  Speaker 1: we can have proper election.
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  Speaker 2: But that's what he's suggesting now.
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  Speaker 1: All of a twit das all over social media, is
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  Speaker 1: doing prest conferences and press releases, and he's communicated directly
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  Speaker 1: with people in Iran and expressing the fact that he
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  Speaker 1: is behind him. He is willing to lead a transitional government.
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  Speaker 1: He's willing, you know, to take on if the ranging
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  Speaker 1: people want to, a ceremonial position as Shaw, and he
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  Speaker 1: is supportive of this.
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  Speaker 2: So you've got three elements.
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  Speaker 1: You've got economics, You've got the Ghost Revolution, and the students.
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  Speaker 1: You've got the son of the Shaw. And of course
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  Speaker 1: the fourth element, which I think is the impetus for
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  Speaker 1: much of this, is the Twelve Day War with Israel,
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  Speaker 1: which was a massive embarrassment to the regime. It showed
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  Speaker 1: how weak the regime was. It shows how vulnerable they are,
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  Speaker 1: and it it showed the radiant people that maybe the
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  Speaker 1: regime is a lot weaker than they believed there was.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that is part of the impetus for
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  Speaker 1: why now. So you know, we still haven't seen for example,
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  Speaker 1: over the last few days, and again I don't have
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  Speaker 1: minute by minute info coming out of Tehran, but at
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  Speaker 1: least from what we know, we have not seen the
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  Speaker 1: regime be willing to shoot people in the streets yet.
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  Speaker 1: While they are massive demonstrations, we have not seen we
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  Speaker 1: have not seen, you know, people getting killed as they
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  Speaker 1: were in previous demonstrations in two thousand and nine, the
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  Speaker 1: regime was brutal. Hundreds, maybe thousands of people died in
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  Speaker 1: those demonstrations. We haven't seen any deaths yet. We also
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  Speaker 1: have an iconic photograph. I don't know if you guys
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  Speaker 1: have seen it. Let me see if I can show
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  Speaker 1: you this. Let me let me see if I can
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  Speaker 1: pull this up. Huh, whe would that be?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? There we go. I don't know if you can. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: let me just resize this. Okay, there we go, but
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  Speaker 2: we have to recize it. There's the photo.
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  Speaker 1: The photo is of a single demonstrator sitting in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the road with regime.
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  Speaker 2: Thugs on motorcycles right.
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  Speaker 1: In front of him, daring them, I guess, to run
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  Speaker 1: him over. A little reminiscent of this photo the photo
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  Speaker 1: of course in tene And Square of the Chinese student
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  Speaker 1: standing smack in front of the tanks daring them to
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  Speaker 1: run him over. Now, Tenneman Square did not end well
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  Speaker 1: for the demonstrators. The military ultimately opened fire, killing thousands
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  Speaker 1: of pout thousands of young people in Tenement Square, but
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  Speaker 1: also all over China in a complete suppression of that
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  Speaker 1: attempted uprising. And really we haven't seen another uprising in
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  Speaker 1: China since then, I think as a consequence of how
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  Speaker 1: Bruto the uprising was crushed by the by the Chinese regime.
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  Speaker 1: But that is that is a pretty cool photo. That
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  Speaker 1: is a photo out of that is a photo of
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  Speaker 1: you on there was taken I think yesterday on the
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  Speaker 1: twenty ninth.
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  Speaker 2: Uh and you didn't see the photo? Yeah, you can
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  Speaker 2: see the photo photos right there?
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  Speaker 1: Did they see the photo for some kins Ki says
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  Speaker 1: didn't see the photo for some reason.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see, Yeah, they saw the photo.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, as I said protests has spread. One of the
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  Speaker 1: things that the Iranians don't have access to right now
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  Speaker 1: is in past demonstrations, one of the things that the
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  Speaker 1: Iranians did, the regime did is brought in thugs from
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  Speaker 1: Chrismalala and elsewhere and some of the malicious in Iraq
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  Speaker 1: to suppress the local Iranians, not necessarily, not necessarily trusting
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  Speaker 1: the Iranian police or the Iranian Revolutionary god actually shoot Uranians.
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  Speaker 1: They used foreigners as well as basically stopped that ended
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  Speaker 1: that right. Krisbala is too busy licking its wounds. They transport,
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  Speaker 1: they wrote to Iran has been cut off by the
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  Speaker 1: revolution in Syria. Nobody's coming to Iranian aid. The dominance
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  Speaker 1: they once had in the Middle least is gone. They're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to do this themselves. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: Israel Is killed hundreds, maybe thousands of Iranian Revolutionary guards
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  Speaker 1: in the Twelve Day War, so they're being weakened significantly.
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  Speaker 1: Many of their commanders are dead. The Shah has also
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  Speaker 1: been rumored to have made contact with certain people in
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  Speaker 1: the military who might be supportive of a revolution here.
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  Speaker 1: So we will see how that plays out. And finally,
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  Speaker 1: I'm seeing more and more, like you know, stories that
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  Speaker 1: are suggestive of no proof, really no evidence, but just
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  Speaker 1: suggestions that the mossade and that they Israeli the Mosad
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  Speaker 1: is already helping the demonstrators.
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  Speaker 2: Is willing to help them even more.
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  Speaker 1: And they're actually calls for the Israeli government to get
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  Speaker 1: involve on the side of the demonstrators to help them out.
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  Speaker 1: The demonstrators uh uh shouting slogans of support for the Shah,
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  Speaker 1: for Israel, for the US.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: They're shouting for the death of Hominy. They're shouting for
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  Speaker 1: the downfall of the regime. This is all new. This
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  Speaker 1: never used to happen. This is now explicit out there.
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  Speaker 1: They want the regime toppled. They don't just want economic reform,
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  Speaker 1: they don't just want things to improve.
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  Speaker 2: They want the bastards out.
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  Speaker 1: Israeli intelligence is concerned that Iran might use this opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to divert attention away from the demonstrations by launching some.
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  Speaker 2: Attack on Israel. You know, So, so you know, the
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  Speaker 2: the that this instability, uh, they'll need to divert attention away.
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  Speaker 2: I'm I'm skeptical. I doubt that will happen because the
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  Speaker 2: last thing, the.
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  Speaker 1: Ranian regime wants is to Israel for actually Israel to
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  Speaker 1: engage with them and to explicitly, unequivocally and militarily from
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  Speaker 1: the air at least side with the demonstrators and take
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  Speaker 1: out the regime. I mean, Israel could from the air
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  Speaker 1: basically take out regime targets, take out regime leadership.
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  Speaker 2: And basically encourage encourage the demonstrators to take over.
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  Speaker 1: You know, according to the latest Islamic Republic is the
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  Speaker 1: create a state of emergency. It's shut down entire provinces.
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  Speaker 1: Schools are closed, universities are closed, markets are closed. But
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  Speaker 1: they were closed I think, but by the merchants. The
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  Speaker 1: stock market is closed, people out in the street, and
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  Speaker 1: the regime is panicking. At least that's anti regime forces
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  Speaker 1: are saying that. Yeah, it's interesting. Interesting pictures from Isfahan
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  Speaker 1: University of Technology joining the mass protests against the regime,
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  Speaker 1: with chance targeted at the Islamists and Communists who toppled
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  Speaker 1: the Shaw in nineteen seventy nine.
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  Speaker 2: This is good. You know, they've actually explicitly stating, you
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  Speaker 2: know who they want gone.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean the videos are pretty it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: look like the Regima is really trying anything, and they
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  Speaker 1: demonstrators every time they do try standing up against them,
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  Speaker 1: that people armed in the streets, but they're not shooting,
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  Speaker 1: and demonstrations are continuing. We will say, now, let me
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  Speaker 1: just say this. I said this during the Twelve Day War,
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  Speaker 1: and I will say this again. The fall of the
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  Speaker 1: Iranian regime would be the most significant geopolitical event certainly
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  Speaker 1: of the twenty fourth century, and no significant geopolitical events
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  Speaker 1: since the fall of the Berlin Wall and potentially since
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  Speaker 1: the end of World War Two. This would basically take
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  Speaker 1: all the air out of the Islamist cause Islamism, and
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  Speaker 1: I've documented this over and over again over the years
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  Speaker 1: in various talks and in articles.
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  Speaker 2: Islam isn't the islam.
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  Speaker 1: Mysts get their inspiration from the one country ruled by
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  Speaker 1: sharia law, the one country that's gotten away with it,
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  Speaker 1: the one country that has developed nuclear weapons or threatened
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  Speaker 1: the West with nuclear weapons, the one country that has
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  Speaker 1: been ruled by mulas since nineteen seventy nine, and that
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  Speaker 1: is Iran. Iran has since by it generation after generation
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  Speaker 1: of Islamists from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the
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  Speaker 1: early nineteen eighties, going after Saddatan killing him to the
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  Speaker 1: Mudiahideen in Afghanistan with Bin Laden kicking the Russians out
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  Speaker 1: and then helping the Taliban to take control over the country.
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  Speaker 1: You know, to a Kaieda and isis and ramas and
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  Speaker 1: Islamic jihad and risbala, all not only funded and supported
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  Speaker 1: in a variety of different ways by the Iranian regime,
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  Speaker 1: all inspired by the Iranians.
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  Speaker 2: So even.
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  Speaker 1: Islamist organizations in Europe, even Muslim brotherhood organizations Muslim brotherhood
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  Speaker 1: is Sunni, not shit, but even Muslim brotherhood organizations all
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  Speaker 1: over Europe will see the fall of the Mulah regime
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  Speaker 1: in Iran as a huge loss and it's proof or
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  Speaker 1: at least evidence to suggest that they cannot win. Even
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  Speaker 1: within the Muslim world. That people rise up against you,
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  Speaker 1: it will take the energy out from much of the
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  Speaker 1: Islamist cause in Europe and the terrorists in Europe. The
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  Speaker 1: one thing, you know, radical political causes do not abide
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  Speaker 1: bias failure. When they fail, nobody wants to commit suicide
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  Speaker 1: for failed cause. Nobody wants to blow themselves up and
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  Speaker 1: to kill a bunch of people for cause that has
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  Speaker 1: no chance of ever succeeding and Iran falling.
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  Speaker 2: There is geen in Iran falling would clearly indicates.
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  Speaker 1: To the Muslim world that Islamism, Sharia law, Islamic political
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  Speaker 1: agenda is a failure and that could have massivemmifications for
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  Speaker 1: the entire world, the gademorifications for the Middle East. It
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  Speaker 1: would completely change the dynamics that Israel faces. It would
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  Speaker 1: take out the number one support of terrorism. It would
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  Speaker 1: it would make it would be Frisblat completely naked in Lebanon.
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  Speaker 1: You could see then the Nebunese state actually standing up
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  Speaker 1: to Risballa without a Truanian support. Kata Kata would still
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  Speaker 1: be there. But Kata at the end of the day
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  Speaker 1: is small. It is it is small and relatively in
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  Speaker 1: you know, insignificant. They will continue with the Muslim brother
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  Speaker 1: they will continue to preach this. But Katau doesn't inspire
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  Speaker 1: the Islamists. It funds these Slamists, it doesn't inspire them.
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  Speaker 1: They don't rule over millions of people using Sharia law.
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  Speaker 1: It's a tiny little emirate which has a tiny population,
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  Speaker 1: and do they really have Sharia law? And they suck
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  Speaker 1: up to Westerners constantly. Katak does not serve as inspiration.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, Kata will continue. But Kata will be easy
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  Speaker 1: then to isolate once you take the big nine hundred
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  Speaker 1: pound gorilla in.
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  Speaker 2: The Muslim world, which is you won.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna have implications for Indonesia and Malaysia and how
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  Speaker 1: secularly they can.
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  Speaker 2: Become, and and and and how.
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  Speaker 1: Powerful the Islamic forces you know within I'd say, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Southeast Asia are. It's gonna have implications from the Middle East.
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  Speaker 1: It has massive implication for Israel, but it has significant
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  Speaker 1: implications for Europe, where the Islamists are clearly a clear
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  Speaker 1: and present danger. This will take a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: wind out of their sale. And not just a danger,
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  Speaker 1: but a motivated danger.
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  Speaker 2: People who are really pushing forward and uh and uh
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  Speaker 2: uh you know, have a lot of energy to.
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  Speaker 1: Hope that they can establish a real law in Europe.
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  Speaker 1: This will kill much of that cause. All right, Well,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: I mean all I can say is I I I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: wish the best to the Ranian people.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is their time. Uh. This is uh.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: This again could be massive. Of course, if it happens,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: I will I will do a special show to cover it.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Uh as it happens. Uh, there's no indication the regime
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: is fleeing. There's no indication the regime is collapsing yet,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: but there's no indication they're willing to do what is
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: necessary to suppress and stop these demonstrations.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: And yeah, you know, uh, I'm enthused about following this
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and and and and I really really really do hope
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: that what we see is uh uh is real change.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, the photos coming out show thousands of people
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: on the streets how to how to tell exactly what's
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: going on right, And it's every aspect of every significant
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: aspect of Runian society is involved, which is good news. Yes,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: it would be a good New Year development. It would
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: be a good new you know, it would be the
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: best thing to happen again from a geopolitical perspective, certainly
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: in the twenty first century and for.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: And probably since.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: The fall of the Bilin Wall, though already by the
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: fall the Soviet Unior was no longer a threat.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: But what it's symbolized, I guess. All right, let's.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: See over the weekend. Trump has been busy, He met,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: he met Zelenski, will talk about that in a minute.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: He bombed Venezuela, we'll talk about that in a minute.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: And he he met when Nitenios. He met with Nitennio yesterday,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: and you know the meeting. I was worried about this
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: meeting in a sense that I thought Trump would place
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: his desire for peace at all costs above everything else.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: At least from what.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: We're hearing coming out of the meeting, that doesn't seem
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: to be the case. It does seem that he is
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: supporting and completely behind the idea the Ramas must disarm.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: He comes out with all kinds of weird and incorrect,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: incorrect as being generous, statements like there are fifty nine
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: countries that are willing to go in there and this
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: armed Hamas. Actually, there's not a single country on the
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: planet willing to go into Gaza in this arm Ramas
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: except for Israel. So he's still living in a fantasy
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: world in which something to national force is going to
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: go into Gaza and somehow managed to disarm this arm
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Hamas and do the work for Israel. That is not happening.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: It's just a very very unlikely that something like that
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: would happen. Bet at least he recognizing and repeating and
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: emphasizing that his next phase of the deal can't happen
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: until Ramas is indeed disarmed, and he did say something
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: about and you know he's used this language before. If
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: they don't DIU quickly, then all hell would break loose.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, hell has broken loose so many times according
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: to Trump, it's hard to keep track. He also claimed,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: of course, that he he Donald Trump is responsible for
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: all the hostages being released and that Biden did nothing. Well,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: not exactly. There were a number of hostages released during
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the Biden administration, one hundred and five of them released
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: in November twenty twenty three. Another thirty three hostages, including
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: eight bodies, in early twenty twenty five, still under Biden.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: And yes, Trump managed to get all the other hostages released,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: and that's great, but he, as usual, takes credit for
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: anything and everything that happens. You know, they were very
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: chummy Netanell and Trump. I thought Trump would be a
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: little bit.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: More reluctant to embrace Nethanielle to the extent that he did,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: given maga's sharp turn against Israel. So you know, that is.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Uh, that is interesting that he still thinks that this
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: is the path to take. You know, I don't think JD.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Van supports this, but Michael Ruby is very poor isral
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Hegseth is not clear. I think he is, but I'm
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: not sure. But clearly Magas turned against it. And we'll
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: see how that affects US US policy visa VI as well.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Did I mean this is the way to deal with Trump?
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: You know? Israel has something called the Israel Prize.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: It gives it to Israelis who have achieved something phenomenal scientists, artists,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: politicians in rare occasions.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: But it is the most the.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Greatest honor Israeli, Israel can bestow upon an individual.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: I guess is the Israel Prize?
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Well in n Atenniel announce during the press conference that Israel,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: for the first time in its history would give the
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Israel Prize to none Israeli and that that, of course
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: would be given to Trump. So everybody's kind of figured
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: out Trump in a sense that if you want to
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: get on Trump's good side, you know, better him up
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: a compliment. And remember Natenniell nominated Trump for a Nobel
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Peace Prize, and I'm sure nomine him again next year. Uh,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: everybody's learned the best way. I mean, Zelenski learned the
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: hard way right the first time he came. He didn't
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: say thank you enough. Now He's just thank you all
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: the time, thank you, thank you, thank He kisses the feet,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: he kisses o ing, who knows what else he kisses.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: But it's very clear. Uh, his thank you is a
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: very very very clear. Uh just a just a there's
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: no you know, nobody can accuse him of not being
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: thankful and not sucking up to Donald Trump.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: So Nataniel did that, he gave him Israel prize. That's
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: that's a big deal for Israel.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: So uh, you know, one maybe that is why Donald
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Trump was so warm towards ntoniell uh uh nat Nataniel
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Trump also mett uh day two days earlier or day earlier,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: was Zolensky. Uh Zelinsky was met with Trump. This is
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: all in Mala lago in in uh In has Olynsky
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: met with Trump in order to try to finalize the
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: US Ukrainian peace proposal that would then go to Russia
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: and try to get Putin's sign off. I suppose he's
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: a fifteen point deal that Zelenski and Jared Kushna and
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Witkoff have have put together. There's still some questions about
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the concessions, territorial concessions. There's still some questions about demilitarization,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: and Zelensky supposedly came into the meeting with Trump hoping
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: to get a security guarantee for fifty years five zero,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: and suppose he trumpon he was willing to do fifteen.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: But anyway, the meeting happened in order to try to
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: solidify some of these issues before the proposal was sent
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: to Putin. As has become a habit, Putin called Trump
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: just before the meeting, I guess to suck up to
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: him and remind him that his commitment is to Russia,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: not to Ukraine.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: And nothing really came of the meeting.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: So the conclusion from the meeting is, and this is
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: true of the last few meetings, was Alinsky a lot
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: of hope going into the meeting, a lot of high
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: expectations for Trump to really back the Ukrainians, and then
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Putin calls Trump before the meeting, and then the meeting
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: doesn't go well and nothing comes to the meeting, and
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: that's become a patent now. And it happened this time
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: as well. There was a lot of expectations of this meeting,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: and coming out of the meeting, nothing was agreed on,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: nothing has been finalized. Everybody said, good progress have been made,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Everything's moving in the right direction, but nothing concretely was
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: agreed upon.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: After the meeting.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: I think a day after the meeting, Trump called Putin
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: again to talk about the meeting, and this time Putin
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: added a little twist to get to Trump. And this
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: time the twist was Putin complained to Trump that you know,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Ukraine was trying to assassinate him, and it actually tried
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: to bomb his home with drones. And this made Trump
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: really upset. He was very unhappy. You know, you don't
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: assassinate foreign leaders under Trump's watch, and unless, of course
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: it's the Russian's trying to assassinate the Ukrainian leader, and
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: then it's okay, Zelenski doesn't really count.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: But you can't assassinate Putin under Trump's watch. That would
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: that is unacceptable. I mean, Putin is being is a
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Trump protectorate. So Trump got very upset, very upset to Ukrainians.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Now Ukrainians will come back and said that you know this,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: this did not happen. They did not talk Putin's.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Home, uh, you know, and and and Trump police don't
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: believe Putin.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: But you know, who's who's Who's Trump gonna believe, of
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: course on on online, all the anti all the anti
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Ukrainian pro Russian right wingers all out there, you know, uh,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: put out there.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Ukrainians are trying to kill Putin and and
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: no evidence, zero evidence.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: The the Russian fran secretary has been asked for evidence,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: and while he affirmed that Ukrainian Ukraine tried assassinate Putin,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: provided no evidence of that.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Putin provided no evidence. Nobody's provided no evidence. And even Trump,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: when asked about it, uh said yeah maybe maybe maybe
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: what Putin said is not true. Yeah. Anyways, So it's
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: the consequence of all this is, of course that Russia
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: now is saying that given that Putin was targeted, they
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: will now be assessed whether they want, whether they're willing
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: to do this deal at all. So Putin's just looking
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: for excuses to turn down the deal, but to keep
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Trump on his side, keep Trump on his side. It's just.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, Trump is such a dim wit when it
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: comes to international stuff.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: It really is pathetic.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: As good as he is, as many Israelis would argue,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: as good as he is for Israel, he generally really
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: has no clue.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: What is going on.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: It is easily manipulated by people like Putin and Hi.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I mean people thought that when Trump came into offer
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: he would be tough on China.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, she is walking all over Trump. Just it's
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: just embarrassing.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: It really is embarrassing, all right, So let's see, yeah,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: all right. Also over the weekend, the CIA reported to
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: conduct at a drone strike on a Venezuelan port facility.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Now the attack was revealed by Trump during a radio interview.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: And this is this is of course, the first.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Time that we know of at least that the United
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: States has attacked a land position, something on the land
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: in the country of Venezuela. This is all part of
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: suppose he's continued mounting pressure on Venezuela and on Venezuela
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: President Maduro to to leave the country.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Supposely this doc was.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Being used to uh to storm narcotics and prepare them
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: to be shipped elsewhere by boats. Uh you know, that's
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: again what what news outlets are claiming. I supposely nobody
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: was killed in the operation, the doc was empty. Uh
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: and uh yeah, cias declined to comment. Uh you know
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Trump Trump boasted about it, and uh yeah, it's now
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: being confirmed by I guess other sources that it actually
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: did happen. Again, not clear what the endgame here is
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: still not clear whether the United States is getting ready
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: to actually engage.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: In war with with Venezuela. War.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Would that means just bombing from the air? Would that
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: mean ground offensive? Would that means special forces?
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: What does actually mean if if Aduro offers to leave
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: with the United States, let him or are they going
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: to insist on an armed assault? You know, I don't know.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure the Pentagon, and I'm not sure Trump
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: knows what his endgame really is here. For now, it's
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: just pressure and it's just a lot of march or bullshit.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: To try to rally his people. So he promised not
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: to go to wars, not to start new wars. He
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: promised all that.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: But given that this is in the name of stopping
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: immigration and stopping drugs, MAGA is all gung ho about it,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: because they would argue America first, right, this is America first,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: This is not for Israel. Israel has no interest in Venezuela.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Although what could argue it's probably all Israel, right, I'm
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: sure there's really a Macade plot here. The Mossada is
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: really influencing Trump to do this, because we all know
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: the United States is Israel's puppet, and I'm sure there's
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: some secret is really interested in the overthrow of the
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Venezuelan regime.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Of course, there is the question.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Of what legal authority President Trump has to attack Venezuelan
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: territory or to blow boats out of the water in
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: international waters.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Not clear.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: I don't think Trump cares, again part of the macho.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: I don't care if I have legal authority. I'm just
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: gonna do it because I'm a tough guy, and you
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: guys elected a tough guy, and this.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Is what you wanted.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: You wanted a tough guy, so I'm giving you a
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: tough guy. I think that's I don't think he cares.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: But there is no Congress has not approved this. This
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: is not legal authority to.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Do it, all right.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: We talked about me Lay a couple of days ago,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: a few days ago, about somewhat to look forward to
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: in the next year, labor reform, tax reform, and others.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: In the meantime, just on Friday, I think it.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Was me Lay actually got Congress to pass some two
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: major bills.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: One is a budget.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: This is the first budget that Melay has gotten Congress
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: to pass. They refused to pass the budget he actually wanted,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: so he couldn't get He couldn't get what he wanted passed.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: He still doesn't have enough votes for that.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: They insist on in keeping some of the increases to
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: things like pensions that they passed last year, and indeed
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: those were keppt. Melet decided that instead of vetoing this
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: budget in spite of the fact that in some areas
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: of the budget they are spending increases, that he would
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: negotiate and figure out how to get it past Congress
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: in spite of not getting everything that he wanted, and
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: indeed he did that. This is probably an anticipation of
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: mo negotiations going into next year with some of the
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: big bills that we talked about, the labor bill, the
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: tax bill, and other bills that that he is going
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: to need to get through Congress and need to get
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: there they sign in. The budget is still a budget
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: with the sour plus, it's still dramatically cuts gum and
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: spending as compared to the past. It's just certain programs
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: that Mile would have liked to have cut actually seeing
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: an increase in spite of his uh if.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: His uh desires.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: But as I said, uh, you know, much of this
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: was done through a negotiation rather than uh you know,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: veto is of being the tough guy. Uh he's he said,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Melay actually said, quote, I've made several adjustments.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: This is in his governing style.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: I've begun to get actively involved in politics. That is
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: no small thing. So actively involved in politics is doing
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: the the trade offs, the the negotiating with Congress in
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: order to get.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: His stuff passed. So we now they have a budget.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: It passed a Senate with an overwhelming majority forty six
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: to twenty five. But in despite whatever concessions as I said,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Melee made, the new budget still translates into spending cuts
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: for nearly all the ministries, so continues the shrinking the
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: government agenda of Melaya. In addition to that, the government
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: also Congress also passed a bill called Fiscal Innocence Bill.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: This is a bill that is a combination of things,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: but that includes, in a sense, without being explicit about it,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: amnesty for people.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: So what has.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Happened in Argentina for decades is there is a vast
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: black market in Argentina of income and wealth that go
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: undeclared by the population, so they don't have to pay
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: taxes on it. So it's under the table, and we're
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: talking about billions and billions and billions of dollars, and
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: this underground market is all done in dollars. You don't
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: transact in pacos. You're transacting dollars any cash, and the
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: consequence of this is that people have massive quantities of
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: undeclared cash sitting in their mattress, or in their backyard,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: or in their safe buried somewhere.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Uh. You know.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Again, we're talking about billions of dollars, not small change
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: at all. The idea here is that the bill states
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: that the equivalent of the Irs.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: And Argentina will not if you will not tax any.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: New wealth you might have suddenly discovered somewhere in your mattress.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: It will only tax you income, just as it always has.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: So it's not going to look at changes in wealth
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: when it looks to tax you. It's not going to
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: look at how you spend the money and how much
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: is in your bank account in order to determine how
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: much you made.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: They're just going to look at income.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: With the The idea here is to try to get
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: people to take their dollars out from their mattress and
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: put it into the bank, put it into the banking system.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: And this, they hope would boost their found colency reserves,
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: It would provide more capital into the market for investment.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: And you know it would it would you know, allow.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: The Argentina is to spend money, to invest money rather
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: than to hide it. I mean, the worst kind of
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: the worst thing that happens in the economy is when
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: people really hold what he means, take the money out
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: of circulation and stick it into the mattress. That suppresses
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: economic activity. You want that money circulating, You want that
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: money being used by melody for investment. That is what
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: creates economic activity. Savings is what creates economic activity. And
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: what MILAA wants is to take the money out of
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: the mattress and put it into productive savings. So this
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: is huge. In addition, and this is why the bill
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: is called innocence. The presumption of guilt in the Argentina
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: tax system today is that the tax payer is guilty
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: until he proves his innocence. The presumption of guilt is
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: going to shift to presumption of innocence and a bunch
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: of other reforms that have to do with the relationship
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: between the taxing authority and taxpayers that are in favor.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: Of the taxpayers. So this is again to try to
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: change the dynamics, change to change the relationship between taxpayer
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: and the government before he has a massive tax reform
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: which is on their jennit for twenty twenty six. Remember,
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven is an election year, so he's going
• 45:33
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• 45:36
  Speaker 2: can into twenty twenty six to read the benefits of
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: without creating too much controversy in twenty twenty seven when
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: he's up for reelection. So it will be it will
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: be interesting to see.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: How this develops and how much he can get done
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. But the fact that both these
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: bills which were higher on the priority list formulae both
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: past Congress after the congressional elections that Milay did so
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: well in Malay's political party did so well in these
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: are good signs, hopeful signs.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: In terms of what's to come next.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, with Midley by the way, a lot
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: of this, a lot of the amnesty and stuff that
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: are doing, they're doing for for small denominations of you know,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: of of dollars. So you know, they're not doing this sadly,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: I think for the very wealthy who who might have
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: you know, they typically don't put it in the matress.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: They typically put it they stuff it away overseas. Let's see,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: they also raised the threshold for criminal offenses of simple
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: tax evasion. Uh, so they're trying to trying to you know, taxava.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: It's not a criminal offence if it's done in small,
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: small measures.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: They're also reclassified aggregate tax evasion as again they've raised
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: a threshold for that. So they make it so that.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Again it's the the most people in Argentina stop having
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: to fear the text authorities as much as.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: They used to. All right, let's see, Yeah, Minnesota fraud. Uh.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: You know Mega is on a you know, on this.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Frenzy right now about Somalian fraud in Uh in Minnesota.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: I guess there was an investigative reporter, not a very
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: trustworthy investigative reporter, investigative reporter who has a history of
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: making stuff up and not doing a very good job,
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: but investigative reporter went and and uh to these daycare
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: centers that have received huge amounts of government money and
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: discovered that they're all empty and there's nobody there.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: And I mean there's some evidence that suggested even that
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: was the sceft of what he was doing. Anyway, MEGA
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: has figured.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Out, or certain people influences within MEGA figured out that
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: they can milk the story of some Alians, you know,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: defrauding the US government for all its work.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: Because look at the bottom.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, there's only one issue,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: one issue that really gets Republicans and MAGA excited about,
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: that really gets their juices going, that really unites the party,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: and that is hatred of immigrants. The one thing they
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: really don't question is the evil of immigration. They hate immigrants,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: and it used to be illegal immigrants. But now you know,
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: the disguise is gone, the pretense is over.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: We know that what they don't want immigrants.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, Milla is out there saying we need negative
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: immigration in this country. We need no immigrants coming into
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: this country. Right, So that is basically what it's all about.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: They don't want immigrants. So to then extent that they
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: can make a big deal out of the Somalis, they
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: make a big deal and it's also an opportunity to
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: make fun of or to discredit the democratic government of Minnesota.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: So it's great, you go off to the left, and.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: You know, you discredit a group of immigrants, you get
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: a double whammy. Now, there's no question there's been massive
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: fraud related to COVID, related all other welfare programs in Minneapolis.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: In Minnesota, we've done this. We talked about this in
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: the past. Many of the people of Somalis and all
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: of them, and many of.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: The ring leaders actually the just whites.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: This fart has been going on for years, really since COVID,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: primarily since COVID when the government started throwing a huge
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: amount of money with very little oversight. It started under
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: Trump one in twenty twenty.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: My guess is.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: That fought at various levels like this exist in every
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: city around the country. You know, again, COVID was such
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: an opportunity for fraudsters that many, many, many, many many
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: people took advantage of it, many many, many people all
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: over the country, immigrants and non immigrants and regular Americans
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: took advantage of the free money the US government was
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: handing out. And generally welfare and welfare programs run by
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: an inefficient government.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: Corrupt incentives is you're gonna have a lot of faught.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Magus freaking out of course and making this all about
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Finally the Trump administration, Republicans are shutting this down.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: But that too is all a lie.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: The reality is this thought started under Trump with the
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: first stimulus package. What is a June of twenty twenty.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: It was investigated under Biden. The biggest prosecutions and the.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: Sending to jail of the most people handed happened under
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: Biden's Justice apartment.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: And yes, the justice governament under Trump is continuing the
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: effort and they're finding more fraught And my guess is
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: again if they went to any city, they would find
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: the same thing in terms of welfare programs and in
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: terms of old COVID programs.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: So don't be too excited about the story.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: It is true, fought on a mass of scale has happened,
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: and many of the perpetrators of Somali, but there's fought
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: going on all over the country. Why is Meggie getting
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: excited about this one more than any other place? Because
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: it's immigrants, and they're black immigrants, so it's even better
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: because they're easily identify, the easy to filify, and of
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: course they've got a horrible representative in Congress to you know,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: to make them even look even worse.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: What Meg is forgetting, and what I will not allow
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: you to forget, is the fact that Republicans don't care
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: one iota about fought one iota.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, Musk is out there now today saying twenty
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: percent of government spending is fraudulent.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: He ran doge.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: He had all the power in the world to show
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: that and to bring prosecutions and to actually do something
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: If that's the case, it's dubious. But if that's the case,
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: why was nothing done? And why is Megan not upset
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: that nothing was done? Because they don't care about fraud.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: They care about immigrants.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: What about what about the case of Phil s Forms
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: who committed one point two billion dollars billion b billion
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: a Medicare fraud and were sitting in jail.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: And Donald Trump pardoned him, So not in jail anymore?
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: Does Megan care about fraud?
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: When Donald Trump keeps releasing all these faudsters out of jail,
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: and of course he's not.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: The only one. We've got a number of these uh
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: uh you know people, We'll say, yah, number of these
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: criminals that Trump has let go Uh, it really is amazing.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: So yeah, this far in Minnesota, the trumpetverstations isn't really care.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're pardoning frauds left and right and and
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: letting on in a prison. One of the things that's
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: happening is because he's pardoning them, in some cases, they
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: don't have to pay their victims.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: Back, which is pretty stunning, pretty stunning. Anyway, you know,
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: we're seeing Uh I'm just looking through this story.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean you're gonna see more of the
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: he is uncovered. Yeah, there's no institution. I guess I
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: have to pardon or a commuting of a sentence. If
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: you can meet a sentence, you don't go to jail,
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: but you don't have to pay the penalties. You don't
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: have to pay the restitution. From what I read today,
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong, Maybe that's wrong. I'll have to I'll
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: I'll have to verify that. But he's letting all these
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: fosters out of jail. It's just unbelievable.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: And I haven't heard a single maga.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, influential Mega spokesman upset about it. Even
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: Ben Shapiro has many shape upset about the level of
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: corruption of this administration. I mean the whole thing about
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: you can if you if you're willing to pay a
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: lawyer X number of millions of dollars, they will go
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: to Trump, figure out what charity to give them money to,
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: and Trump will right apart to whoever you want freed.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: There is a whole now corrupt infrastructure going on working
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: the Trump administration for pardons.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: And I don't see Magat carrying when iota. I don't
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: see I don't see Ben Shapiro making a big deal
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: out of this. I don't see any of the people
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: who care so much about Somalian fraud, how much do
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: they care about Trump fraud?
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: How much they care about Trump corruption? Zero? Zero?
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: All right, finally, quickly another case of just god, you know,
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Republicans caring only about one thing, and that is immigrants,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: hating immigrants, and in particular now it's become H one
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: B is like this, It triggers Republicans.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: It's like H one b. Oh, that's evil. We got
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: to get rid of H one B.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: H one oh, bad people, bad program, horrible, destroys American jobs.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: We've got to stop H one b's and and what's
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: happened is over the.
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: Last few days in Florida.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: Ron the Santis has been making a big deal about
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: ending H one B programs in Florida. And the guy
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: you're running for governor of Florida to replace the Santis,
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: I guess the Santis has turned out has made ending
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: H one B visas in Florida like a central theme
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: of his campaign. Now, how many of the people in
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Florida actually on H one b's Of the ten point
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: seven million people they are ten.
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: Point seven million people.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: Employed in the state of Florida, how many of them
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: H one B holders? Well, first, when asked to say,
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: over the ten point seven million, you know, it's it's
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: you know, it's probably over eight million are US citizens.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: You've probably got undocumented immigrants maybe a million and a half,
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: and then some permanent residents like Greek cut holders another
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: half a million, you know, six hundred thousands, So maybe
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: that combined is two million. Then there's all kinds of
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: temporary visas together, that's eighty five thousand. So that would
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: be what eight percent of not eight percent, sorry, eight
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: ten percent of all the people working in Florida are
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: on temporary work visas.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: Of all the people.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: In Florida working in Florida right now, how many are
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: in H one B'SIWO hundred and forty five, two hundred
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: and forty five.
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: So of ten point seven million people working in Florida,
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: tundred and forty five are H one be holders. And
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: that is a central feature of the governatorial campaign in Florida.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: Those are the jobs they want to kill, the hundred
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: and forty five because they hate H one B so much.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: That is less than one ten to one percent. It's
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: six one hundred seven percent. That's how much they hate
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: immigrants is they're willing to give it all.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: For six thousand to get rid of six thousand people
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: who are working, by the way, probably good jobs, probably
• 59:53
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• 1:00:00
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• 1:00:03
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• 1:00:05
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  Speaker 2: Andrew James.
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  Speaker 1: Is objectivism's lack of dissemination due to bad philosophy and
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• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: Less to do with that, and more to do with
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  Speaker 1: the mindlessness of the culture, the lack of switching on,
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  Speaker 1: so many unintellectual and unseerious about thinking.
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  Speaker 2: I think it has to do more with the bad
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  Speaker 2: philosophy that encourage more people to switch off, to not
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  Speaker 2: be engaged.
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  Speaker 1: So it's bad philosophy that brings about so much of
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  Speaker 1: the mindlessness. And when you have a culture that deemphasizes
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  Speaker 1: the mind and emphasizes emotion, emphasizes feeling, then that is
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  Speaker 1: a mind that cultivates mindlessness. I'm sorry, that's the culture.
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  Speaker 1: The cultivates mindlessness. So if you had better ideas in
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  Speaker 1: the culture, like during the Enlightenment, for example, more people
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  Speaker 1: were switched on, more people were interested, more people were engaged,
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  Speaker 1: more people were thinking, and then you could have a
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  Speaker 1: real intellectual revolution. Today it's hard because of those bad ideas,
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  Speaker 1: so many people have turned it off. Harpercambell fifty dollars,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you James Elser.
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  Speaker 2: For the fifty Everything Hopper Campus is everything is so inverted,
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  Speaker 2: Like nineteen eighty four, the left promotes socialism intellectually, but
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  Speaker 2: blue cities where all the capitalism takes place.
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  Speaker 1: The right espouses rugged individualism, but much of their base
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  Speaker 1: a white trash living off benefits. Yeah, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't say I mean, I agree with you, but I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't say that that's why the capitalism takes place. It's
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  Speaker 1: not capitalism, right, that's why the production takes place. You
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  Speaker 1: can say that, but you know, capitalism involves property rights,
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  Speaker 1: the rule of law, it involves lack of regulations. And
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  Speaker 1: you can't say that about blue cities or blue states.
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  Speaker 1: There's plenty of regulations, there's plenty of violations of the
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  Speaker 1: rule of law and the property rights.
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  Speaker 2: There's plenty of taxes and of the like.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, don't give them too much credit, but it is.
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  Speaker 2: It is. The world is upside down.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: The world is upside down because both the left and
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  Speaker 1: right are completely corrupted. And what is actually happened is
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  Speaker 1: that the producers, just like an Adlie Shrugg, the producers,
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  Speaker 1: in spite of the total corruption of a political class,
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  Speaker 1: the total corruption of our culture visa v. Producers keep
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  Speaker 1: producing because they love what they do. They they love it,
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  Speaker 1: that motivated it by it. They remain greedy. If you
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  Speaker 1: will they remain selfish, at least in part of their lives,
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  Speaker 1: and they're not willing.
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  Speaker 2: To give it up.
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  Speaker 1: In spite of the corruption, in spite of being land blasted,
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  Speaker 1: in spite of being penalized, they keep on working. They
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  Speaker 1: keep on being digny at whatever level they can, and
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  Speaker 1: that keeps the world going. And it's you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's horrible to experience. It's horrible to see in a
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  Speaker 1: sense the injustice of it, the real injustice of it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let me thank some stickers. We've got Oily,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Uh, let's see, we had a few others.
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  Speaker 2: Where they are.
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  Speaker 1: those questions as well. Stephen Harper, thank you, CP Milkin,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: thank you, Gail, thank you. I think I caught all
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: the stickers. Yeah, I got all the stickers, So thank
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  Speaker 1: you guys. And and by the way, feel.
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  Speaker 2: Free to do most stickers.
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  Speaker 1: We're seventy two dollars away from our second hour goal.
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  Speaker 1: We should be able to cover the seventy two hours
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  Speaker 1: in the next fifty minutes forty five minutes that we've
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  Speaker 1: got for the show, so hopefully, hopefully we make it.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: Mary Ellen, thank you for your hopeful update on Iran YouTube.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't let me wish for collapse. Why am I seeing
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  Speaker 1: so little about Iran in print media? You so almost
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: know nothing about Iran during the Goals revolution. For whatever reason,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: print media doesn't believe it's that and newsworthy they're afraid
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  Speaker 1: of overblowing it. And then nothing happens in Iran. It's
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  Speaker 1: happened before, and the regime doesn't change. But of course
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  Speaker 1: they might miss the regime change. They must mis ask
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  Speaker 1: cull story. There's no great excitement among.
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  Speaker 2: The media and the elites.
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  Speaker 1: In America and our politicians and just generally among Americans.
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  Speaker 1: For there's not great excitement about the fall of Iran,
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  Speaker 1: even though it's a hugely important event. There's very very
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  Speaker 1: coverage of And if I look at the top stories
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  Speaker 1: out of Google News, you know, you just you just don't.
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  Speaker 1: You're just not getting it. Nothing about Iran. Nothing there,
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  Speaker 1: nothing there, Let's see, Yeah, it's just you know, even
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  Speaker 1: if I search world, let's see world News, there's something
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  Speaker 1: about Saudi Arabi and Uee British Egyptian dissident, you know, yeah,
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: all this other stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You really have to scroll down and down and down.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Israel's deal with Somali land gets presence, and
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  Speaker 1: then Gaza and Turkey, Yeah, and Iran Bailey Mians mikes
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  Speaker 1: a mention. I mean, the mainstream media just doesn't care,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: and and maybe they don't offend the Kataris or or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to comprehend. Now, American media generally is not
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: very good at fun affairs, but this is pathetic. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: three days now you've had massive demonstrations in Iran and
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: very very very little coverage, very very little coverage even
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  Speaker 1: on the international scene' it's just not elevated very high,
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  Speaker 1: even when I look just for world events.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty pathetic, Liam.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: How can human beings be so different yet fundamentally the same? Well,
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: I mean human beings are fundamentally the same in the
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: sense that they all have the same basic means of survival.
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  Speaker 1: That basic means of survivals the use of their mind.
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  Speaker 1: Because we have free will, and because our mind is
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  Speaker 1: so powerful.
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  Speaker 2: And can do so many things.
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  Speaker 1: We all take it in different directions and do different
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  Speaker 1: things with it, and some of us just copy everybody
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  Speaker 1: else and never use our minds. So the consequence, it's
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: a consequence of free will and a very powerful tool, which.
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  Speaker 2: Is the human mind. Shasbud the C.
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  Speaker 1: Montgomery Burns Award for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence.
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  Speaker 1: And that's standing achievement in the field of excellence.
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  Speaker 2: That's great.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a made up award given to Homer
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  Speaker 1: Simpson to prevent him from suing his boss.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we should. You know, if you ever
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: get in trouble with Trump, just make up a make
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  Speaker 2: up an award and offer to tell him he's the
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: first human being to ever get their word, first human
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: ever get their world. I mean, he will be so thrilled.
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  Speaker 2: Clock Will there.
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  Speaker 1: Be another iron Rand every hundred years or so, or
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: someone of her capacity only comes around every thousand years.
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  Speaker 1: When technology advances to the point where everyone's at Q
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: can be raised to two hundred, will utopia materialize? I wish,
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  Speaker 1: But the fact is that Kant and Hegel and Marx
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: probably all had very high IQs. I don't think it's
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: an IQ issue. It's an honesty issue, and it's not
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: an IQ issue. So will there be another iron Rand
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  Speaker 1: every hundred years or so?
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I have no idea, just no idea. I
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: don't know why and how. I do think some extent
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: to the extent that the environment has an impact on you.
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  Speaker 2: She is a.
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  Speaker 1: She may be is partially possible because she was born
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  Speaker 1: very close to nineteenth century. She obviously was genius level
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  Speaker 1: i Q or genius level of intelligence.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like IQ as a measure, but I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what the combination is that makes an iron man
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  Speaker 2: possible and would make an objective of society possible.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's like Q. I don't think it's
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: just being smartest enough. Think about how many smart people
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: you know who are completing and utter idiots. Mike, thank
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: you for the sticker. I really appreciate the support. Harpercampbell
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  Speaker 1: is the reason people can't shake altruism due to how
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: deeply altruism is rooting in people's identity. Yes, the ability
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: to tell themselves they're a good person. The idea of
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: rejecting something so fundamental is unacceptable. Yes, yes, yes, yes, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: it's morality is about good and evil. It's about what
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  Speaker 1: path to take in life. And it's deeply rooted that
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: altruism is morality. Morality equals to altruism, and that is
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: almost impossible to shake off, almost impossible to shake off
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: because everybody wants to be good, and particularly with no
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: alternative or you know, particularly if you've grown up with that,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: the alternatives sounds so bizarre. Live for yourself, use reason.
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  Speaker 1: There's no context for them to accept something so radical
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: when everybody around them supports this agenda and they have
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: been brought up with it and inculcated with it. And
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: you see that in your own development, probably in that
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: the tug of altruism is there, or was there as
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: you were learning objectivism, and it's hard to get rid of.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: It's hard to get rid of. Andrew, is this a
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  Speaker 1: fair inference made from certain things you've said? A major
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  Speaker 1: driver of widely reported fear and anxiety among young adults
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: in our society is you to content influence and education
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  Speaker 1: which devalues reason, Yes, and I would say and elevates emotion,
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  Speaker 1: particularly in its progressive.
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  Speaker 2: Deweys James Dewey.
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  Speaker 1: Version of it, of of the particular contentism if you will.
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  Speaker 1: But but yes, absolutely elevates emotion and and uh and
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  Speaker 1: uh devalues reason. And as a consequence, people can't think,
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  Speaker 1: they can't think, they can't develop self esteem. Uh, they
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: don't feel like they belong in this. Well, they don't
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: know how to manage, they can't be successful. They they
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: they are fearful and depressed and and afraid, afraid and angry,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: angry because they don't know what's going on in the world.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: They don't understand the world. And that leads them to look.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: For groups and look for tribes and look for easy
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: answers that somebody can just feed to them.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, this is not my original analysis.
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  Speaker 2: I take all of this.
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  Speaker 1: I rand not that I not that I'm saying she
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  Speaker 1: would agree with that particular formulation, but generally that was
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: who I think that was the way she viewed it. Mike,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Roland, thank you for the sticker. I appreciated.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: That's rolland second sticker today. All right, we're just thirty
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  Speaker 1: six dollars away from our kotography.
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  Speaker 2: Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: If one uses one's objectivism to try and fail to
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  Speaker 1: save the world, one may still suffer from altruism and
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: the resentment of a mate. Helping others is a bad
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: primary motive. The basic point of Rand's deserves emphasis. Yes,
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: if you're going to save the world, you have to
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  Speaker 1: save it out of a real understanding on how that
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: is selfish. Helping others needs to be understood in the
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  Speaker 1: context of why it's good for you. The primary is you,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: The focus is in you. For those who need a
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: real refresher on all this, I highly recommend my Rules
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: for Life series. You can find I think there twenty
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  Speaker 1: two videos in it. You can find it in the playlist.
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  Speaker 2: There's a whole playlist of Rules for Life where really
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  Speaker 2: emphasize a lot of these points. Really emphasize a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these points. Robert says, I'll see your five bucks
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  Speaker 2: Robert writing to Andrew Yep. Today could be low dollars
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  Speaker 1: Robert Notchavi As algorithm Part one, Plato thought and e
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  Speaker 1: leite of intellectuals should be the ones who move humanity forward,
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  Speaker 1: whereas Rand believed an elite few of entrepreneurs atlases move
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  Speaker 1: humanity forward. Both Playto and Ran recognized it in the
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  Speaker 1: leak Few of What Drives Progress. Plato just identified their
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  Speaker 1: own category of elite. Both rejected egalitarianism. Yeah, but Plato
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  Speaker 1: does a lot more than that. Plato believes that everybody
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  Speaker 1: except the philosopher kings, cannot know truth, cannot discover anything.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that they move the world forward, is that
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  Speaker 2: they must dictate the actions of everybody else, because only
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  Speaker 2: they can know what's good for you. So imagine I
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  Speaker 2: told you I because I can see the world of
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  Speaker 2: forms and you cannot.
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  Speaker 1: I know what real reality is like I know what
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  Speaker 1: real truth and real goodness is. And if I will
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  Speaker 1: tell you what career to have, I will tell you
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  Speaker 1: who to marry. I will guide your life in every aspect.
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  Speaker 1: Because you don't have access to reality, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: access to reason. Not fully, Rand says, everybody access to it, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: And if the great people who move civilization forward aren't
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: there to dictate to you what your value should be,
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  Speaker 1: how to live, how you should live your life, they
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  Speaker 1: just produce and then they rely on your reason rationality
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  Speaker 1: to trade with them.
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  Speaker 2: If you do not possess reason, I rishonality.
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  Speaker 1: You can't produce enough to actually be able to trade
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  Speaker 1: with them, and they leave you free to live your
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  Speaker 1: life as you see fit because you have the capacity
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  Speaker 1: to reason, which Plato denies you.
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  Speaker 2: Rand says everybody has it.
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  Speaker 1: So in the sense of capable of being rational, I
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  Speaker 1: Ran believes everybody has that capability, has that capability Plato
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  Speaker 1: does not. For Plato, the true is only accessible to
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  Speaker 1: a very small minority philosopher kings.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a very very different approach Liam.
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  Speaker 1: How's the phenomena of Nick Fointes style cyber fascism found
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: a way to attract broken men? Yes, all collectivist movements
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  Speaker 1: centered around gratifying resentful young men, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think to a large extent. Yes, men are the ones
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  Speaker 2: who got and act.
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  Speaker 1: Men are the ones who typically wrought and commit the
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: viole acts of violence. Men are the ones who land
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: up marching primarily in the streets. Are not always see
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: the goals revolution in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: So it's.
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  Speaker 1: It is often playing on the resentment and anger and
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: the fear that men experience that makes these kind of
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: revolutions possible. Well, there was a story yesterday in the
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal growing Iran protests put new pressure on
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: an embattled regime. So it does seem like, at least
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal picked up on it. Unrest is
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  Speaker 1: triggerd by dropping Iran's currency as frustration with persistent economic
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: crisis rises, and they Mike Pennce tweeted, no oppressive regime
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  Speaker 1: can last forever. Inside every human heart is an unquestionable
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: fire that burns to be free.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's true at all, Absolutely not true.
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  Speaker 1: Just as the Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: its own sins, so too will the fate of their
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  Speaker 1: presses of Iran. Six will be the year that sees
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  Speaker 1: the dawn of a newer democratic Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, he's naming he's naming dates. Naming dates? Well? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I give credit to Mike Pence for standing with the
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  Speaker 2: Ranians and calling it. It's good fa him Hauper Campbell.
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  Speaker 2: How did you overcome your fear of flying? Would you
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 2: buy your own private jet if you could afford it?
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: How did I overcome it? I just fly. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's not dominant enough. I don't sit in window seats.
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  Speaker 1: Once in a while, I do, and it doesn't really
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  Speaker 1: it's not that oppressive, but you just do it, and
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: you think about it, and you realize that flying is
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: one of the safest things you can do. Would I
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  Speaker 1: buy a private jet if I could afford it? Absolutely
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  Speaker 1: so I wouldn't fly it. I have no desire to
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: pilot it, but yes I would. I would fly in
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: a private jet if I could afford it. Clock there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of implicit selfish ness out there which makes
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  Speaker 1: me optimistic. Yes, there is. They couldn't be the progress
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  Speaker 1: we have today. They couldn't be the material wealth that
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  Speaker 1: we have today if there wasn't that doodo bunny. People
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: used to be afraid of being labeled in anti semite.
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  Speaker 1: It is it now a badge of honor. It's a
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  Speaker 1: badge of honah.
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  Speaker 2: Among a small, small group of crazy right and left
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  Speaker 2: wing nutcases.
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  Speaker 1: But no, it's not a cultural phenomena, a broad cultural
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  Speaker 1: phenomena yet and maybe never will be. The reality is,
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: how many gropers are they really in the world? How
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: many people who are embraced anti Semitism?
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  Speaker 2: Are they? Millions?
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: But you know, we live in a world of America
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: is just three hundred and fifty millions, So I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it's quite mainstream yet. Michael Ice is relentless. Deportations
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: continue despite backlash. Yes, they don't stop. Evil of it
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  Speaker 1: does not stop. Talk about that more tomorrow, Andrew, do
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: you feel disrespected by people who don't listen to you?
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  Speaker 1: And Mosquito you misquote you when you repeatedly make a
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  Speaker 1: point clearly? Or do you not care? I only care
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  Speaker 1: because they extented the misquoting me, and people might read
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  Speaker 1: it and think that.
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  Speaker 2: I hold that. It doesn't bother me that people is
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: an idiots or stupid or evasive, or or ignore it that.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: No, it doesn't. I don't feel disrespected. I don't feel
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: much at all.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: I don't care, other than it pisses me off that
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 2: other people are exposed to it when I didn't say that.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: Why you know, I'm.
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: Accused of things I didn't do. It's unjust to dudele bunny.
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  Speaker 1: How long will it take you to teach to reach
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: ten million? If you money retirement go, will you still
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: do show after? I don't know if I'm ever going
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: to reach it. I thought I was going to reach it.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: I thought I would have reached it by now if
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: my hedge fund had gone well, I would have. But
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three and twenty four were not good years,
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: and I ended up shutting down the hedge funds, So
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: my real opportunity to make that kind of money has gone.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: So unless I can find a way to dramatically increase income.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: From the show from this show, I'm never going to
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 2: reach that number.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: So you know, it's not that I haven't made progress
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: towards it, but those to get there is just now
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: realistic without another source of income other than my intellectual activity.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: But even if I did reach it, yeah, I definitely
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: still do the show. I might not do as many,
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: but I would still do the show definitely. Carl, please
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: go off a minute on the bad implications of kids
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: being raised with faith and feeling and believing. As a pistemology,
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: you're trying to artificially make me go off. You're telling
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: me to go so it can go off. I mean, look,
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: when you are, when you are, from a very young
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: age taught to believe that that knowledge does not come
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: from reasoning, does not come from science, does not come
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: from investigation, does not come from using your mind, But
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: knowledge comes from ancient books or preachers who stand up
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: there and yell at you, or parents or authorities out
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: there and from ancient authorities, and ultimately the ultimate authority
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: comes from something called God that nobody can really explain
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: to you, that has no real meaning, and there's no
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: real significance and has no real meaning to you, right
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: because you can't see if, you can't touch it, you
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: can't reason it, you can't imagine it, there's no evidence of.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: It in reality.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: Then you're basically creating an epistemology built on faith, built
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: on authority, built on accepting things on faith, instead of
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  Speaker 1: an epistemology built on reason, built on thinking, built on
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: an epistemology built on evidence, built on reason. And you know,
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: in a pistemology built on faith, there's an epistemology that
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: sets you up for authoritarianism. It sets you up to
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: be told what the truth is, to be told what
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: to do, to be told how to behave. So it
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: is incredibly damaging because it's damaging, destroying, undermining your basic
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: means of survival, your tool for achieving all values, and
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: replacing it with something that is going to lead you
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: to fail.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 2: Now, most people are mixed.
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: They have some they use reason in some parts of
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: their life, and they use faith in others. And many
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: people resist it, But even in resisting it, it only
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: goes so far, and they have to expend a lot
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: of energy on the resistance, which is energy they can't
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: spend on making their life better, on discovering new truth
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: and using reason more ficaciously. So it's incredibly instructive, and
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: it makes it makes it possible for thiritarians to rise
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: up because religion faith is an epistemology of authoritarianism.
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  Speaker 2: All right, that dudo, bunny.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: Do you think they'll still be motivated and sharp enough
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: mentally to keep doing shows regularly?
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 2: Oh? Do I think I will be.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: Sharp enough mentally to keep doing shows regularly in your
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: eighties and nineties? I don't know how am I supposed
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: to I am I supposed to answer that? I have
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: no idea. I certainly hope, so, I don't know about nineties.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: Nineties seems like a reach. But yeah, eighties, early eighties, Yeah,
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: I think so.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. By then I'll be so big, you know, people
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 2: will people will.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: You know, I'll be paid, you know, hundreds of thousands
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: of dollars to do an episode of my show, too
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: massive audiences. In my eighties, I'll be like a wise goo,
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: a wise goo. I have no idea, I, you know,
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: working hard to make sure that I stay shop and
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: each shape full of energy. But whether it works or not,
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: you know, and whether I make it into my eighties
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: and nineties, who knows.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's not completely in my control. Liam.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: What are some issues in philosophy that haven't been resolved yet?
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: Is anyone in the ari on the verge of solving them?
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm sure there are a lot. I know,
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: the whole theory of propositions.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: There's a great elaboration on the theory of induction that
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: that Leonard Peakop has done. There's a lot more chewing
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: to do in terms of ethics and politics, although a
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: lot of that is being some of that is being done.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know. You'd have to ask the philosopher. But
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 2: you know, my view is.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: We've got so much new content, so much revolutionary content,
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: so much content that would dramatically change the world in
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: what Rand has already developed that I don't think.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: I don't think the priority is.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: To solve one more issue in philosophy. I think the
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: priority is to educate people about what we already know.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: Andrews says did see part of the press conference with Trump,
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: standing next to Zelinsky, said that Putin wants best for Ukraine.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 2: The guy's delusional and sick.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: Pussolinsky muted yet astonished gasp was rich with meaning.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: Trump is just you know, yeah, you'll just call me,
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: uh Trump, do agement syndrome, do age whatever. But he's
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: just clueless and mindless and yeah, just offensive, just the
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: hoppable hupa Campbell. Do people want to promote altruism intellectually
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: but live selfishly so they could stud feel sophisticated enlightenment
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: while simultaneously enjoying the fruits of materialism to some extent,
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: But it's not like they enjoy the fruits of materialism
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: because they it's not. You see people talk about virtue signaling,
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: but the real virtue signaling is to themselves. And what
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: actually happens is they they advocate for altruism in order
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: to show themselves that they're good people, and so they
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: live selfishly much of their lives, and then they vote
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: to single to themselves their altruism, and that makes it
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: impossible for them to ultimately completely enjoy the fruits of
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: their selfishness, because it's not that they're not convinced that
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: they should be altruistic.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 2: They are, it's just that they can't live up to it. Michael.
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: If determinists understood what their determinism costs them, they would
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: choose differently. Maybe maybe I'm not sure what understand applies
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: to here, but yeah, determinism incredibly destructive. Andrew Thomas Massey
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: seems a little kookie, but I respect that he said
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: the Republican congressman and nothing more than a rubbistemp for Trump.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: And he didn't come to Washington to be a rubostamp.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, but he is.
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: He's suddenly cookie when he comes to faun policy, but
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: is very good at standing up to Trump on certain issues.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 2: Michael. What kind of soul hates immigrants?
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: A soul that hates itself, A soul that lacks confidence,
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: that lacks a soul that is afraid, or maybe a
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: soul that doesn't exist. Not everybody has really a soul.
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: People who are driven by the emotion of fear. Fear
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: makes you help hate the other. The other is what
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: you're most afraid of. If people are born psychopaths, isn't
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: wrong to say evil is a choice.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know that people are born psychopaths.
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know how you're born with ideas to see
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: a psycho path Maybe it's not ideas. I mean, we
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: would have to ask a psychiatrist, a psychologist that question.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: But evil might not be a choice for some people.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 2: It might not be a choice. It doesn't matter. It's
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: still evil and therefore needs to be taken.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: Care of because the rest of us, the rest of
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: us choose to prosecute people like that and put them
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: behind bars so that they don't they don't hurt us.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: It's an active self defense. Jeannette Eloyer on thanks for
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: your mission. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Thank you
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: for the support. Jason, silver dropped seven percent, highest dropped
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: in four years, and then seem to have rebounded. Theories
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: are technical reason. I mean, I think that silver has become,
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: or people fear it's become a speculative asset, and people
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: are trying to figure out where the top is. You're
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: trying to figure out if this is driven by real
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: demand or just speculative demand which will evaporate tomorrow. They're
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: trying to figure out where this speculation is based on
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: real information or just on emotion, whether it's.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 2: A bubble or not. A bubble.
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: What happens when people don't know if something is a
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: bubble or not is you get a lot of volatility.
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: And I think what you're seeing is volatility because people
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: don't know if it's backed by a solid economic foundation
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: or not. And for silver, there's a lot of real demands.
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: It's used in a lot of things, much more than
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: in gold. Gold there's a lot less real demand, and
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: most of it is speculative demand. With silver, it's not
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: clear because there's a lot real demand. It's for solar panels,
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: for electronics, for jewelry, for a lot of things. Stevo say,
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: one is very bad at his job, finding other work
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: that pays enough will be impossible. Should he keep going
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: and try to be less bad or quit? Well, you
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: know you're making some really big assumptions finding other work
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: that pays enough will be impossible. That sounds like a
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: rationalization and does I don't know if that's right reality or.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 2: An attempt to justify.
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: But if that's true, you really will not be able
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: to find other work, Then you should keep going and
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: try to be less bad at it. Really work to
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: figure out why you bad at it and get better
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: at it. We're all capable of getting better at the
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: work that we do. Steve O whose version of originalism textualism?
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: Do you prefer Thomas and Scalia? Do you know the difference.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: I don't like originalism and textualism. I don't believe in
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: original textalism, so I don't like either.
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 2: One of them.
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: From my limited understanding of them, I prefer Thomas. And
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: the reason is that Thomas not the way he applies it,
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: because I don't think applies it well.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 2: But the theory.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: Thomas's theory is at least supposedly based on individual rights.
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 2: Based on the idea of individual.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: Rights and the importance of IndividualIDs, Scalia claimed the individual
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: rights to a nonsense on stilts, you know, basically quoting Bentham.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: I don't trust anybody who thinks individual writes a nonsense
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: well and stelts to interpret the Constitution, So I don't
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: trust Gala.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: Andrew Rand had a guttoral reaction when she.
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: Told Tom Snyder that the highest educational institutions were teaching
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: those disgusting anti self doctrines. Why do you think she
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: had the reaction of disgust, Well, because she understood that
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: altruism is the destructive force and the culture, It destroys
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: human lives, It destroys the world, It destroys.
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 2: Everybody around her.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: And these people who are smart, who are educated, who
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: know stuff, are teaching this. I mean, it's one thing
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: for I don't know, a primitive, barbaric preacher of a
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: religion to teach altruism, but for intellectual, for somebody who's
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: at the Universe City who is a so called thinker
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: to do it. She thought was so disgusting, so offensive,
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: and altruism is so ultimately evil that that combination she
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: found just you know, just terrific disgusting. Oh right, guys,
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: thank you to all the superchato is really really appreciate it.
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 2: Thank you for helping me achieve the goal for today.
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: Let's see if we can take it to tomorrow and
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: achieve the goal for tomorrow.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 2: That's going to be something, and it's not gonna be easy.
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 2: It's going to be tough. I'll be surprised if we
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 2: actually make it. But let's see, fifteen to twenty thousand
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 2: bucks that's the goal.
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: Hopefully you'll all come and participate at whatever level you can,
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: of course, and it should be a fun show.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 2: Again. I'll be on for over four hours.
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: I hope a lot of people join, even if for
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: ten minutes, even if half an hour, coming over, say hello,
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: make a small or large contributions, and you know, and
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: you can stay or go, ask a question or ask
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: lots of questions.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: You can play it as you see fit. So I
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 2: will see you all tomorrow.
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: Let your friends know, retweet it on Twitter, let the
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: world know that this is the show. This is the
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: place to be on New Year's Eve between one pm
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: Eastern time and I don't know five pm Eastern time.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 2: See you tomorrow. I have a great rest of your day.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 2: Oh Raphel says, I'm considering a too hour drive to
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 2: Frankfort just to see the Geographer by Vimea. Have you
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 2: been to the Startup Museum. I have not been to
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 2: the museum in Frankfort.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: I saw the Geography Geographer when it was at an
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: exhibit years ago, and I think it was in Washington,
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: d C. It's one of my favorite paintings. It is
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: a great, great, great, great painting, of course. So yeah,
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: have fun.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 2: To our drive. It's not bad. To our drive is
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 2: not bad. Where are you because.
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: You know Lisbon is not two hours in Frankfort, all right, everybody.
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 2: Come on with lots of questions tomorrow. Thank you Phil. Bye,