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Speaker 1: H a lot of them folded oft and loss. This
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Speaker 1: is the show. Oh right, everybody, welcome to your one
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Speaker 1: book show, a special edition. Happy Thanksgiving to everybody. I
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Speaker 1: hope you're all all of you in America. At least
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Speaker 1: it is an American holiday. We'll talk about that. I
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Speaker 1: hope you're all all your Americans having a fantastic day.
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Speaker 1: Opportunity to get together with people you love, whether they
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Speaker 1: be family, friends, and uh and have a great meal.
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Speaker 1: I think I think a big part of Thanksgiving is
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Speaker 1: is eating is eating good food with great company, having
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Speaker 1: lots of conversation. Don't fight about politics. It's not worth it.
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Speaker 1: It's just not worth it. Walk away, walk away. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, Thanksaving. This is great holiday, great time of year.
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Speaker 1: I said before, I love the period between Thanksgiving and
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Speaker 1: New Years. It's it's really things seem to slow down
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Speaker 1: a little bit, and particularly this year where I'm not traveling,
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Speaker 1: they're going to slow down. And it's a time for reflection,
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Speaker 1: a time for planning for the future, a time of
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Speaker 1: catching up and all the stuff you didn't do the
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Speaker 1: whole year and you need to get done, so it's
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Speaker 1: a time to do that. And it all starts with Thanksaving.
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Speaker 1: It starts with this day where again you celebrate with
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Speaker 1: people you love, hopefully and you eat a big meal.
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Speaker 1: What better way to celebrate than big and tasty Hopefully, hopefully,
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Speaker 1: hopefully you guys know how to make tokey tasty. That
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Speaker 1: takes extraordinary skill, very very rare in my experience to
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Speaker 1: get tasty turki. It would be good if Thanksgiving changed
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Speaker 1: the centrality of the turkey and brought in something a
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Speaker 1: little bit more, more flavorful, more juicy to the table.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, good food, good company, It is great. Jennifer
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Speaker 1: loves toki. Yeah, here, we're gonna here, We're gonna massively disagree, Jennifer.
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Speaker 1: I just don't get the attraction of turkey. It's pretty
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Speaker 1: flavorless and usually quite dry. But uh but yeah, So
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Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit about this holiday called Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the the holiday was made. The holiday was
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Speaker 1: made officially a government holiday, a holiday of the United States,
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Speaker 1: by a first president, by George Washington. It was very
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Speaker 1: much imbued with a with religion at the time. There
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Speaker 1: was really a lot of in the proclamation that he makes.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot about thanking God and thinking providence and
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Speaker 1: God and God makes many many appearances in this and
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Speaker 1: even if you go back to the to I guess
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Speaker 1: the Pilgrims. The first Thanksgiving dinner supposedly is about thanking
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Speaker 1: God for the harvest, but I don't think that's how
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Speaker 1: it's moved. I think it's very much adopted kind of
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Speaker 1: a very secular perspective on being thankful and on the
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Speaker 1: bounty which one celebrates, which one celebrates during the meal.
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Speaker 1: If you've ever seen a movie called Shenandoah, if you
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Speaker 1: haven't seen a movie called Shenandoah, definitely worth seeing, particularly
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Speaker 1: the first half. The second half is quite depressing, but
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Speaker 1: it's a good movie. I mean it it. Even the
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Speaker 1: depressing part has value, and it's the first part is
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Speaker 1: is amazing. And there's a scene where Jimmy Stewart, who's
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Speaker 1: the patriarch of the family, his his wife has passed away,
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Speaker 1: and his son's at the table and I guess his
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Speaker 1: daughter in law and the same grace and this I
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Speaker 1: always remember this doing Thanksgiving and the saying grace over
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Speaker 1: the over the meal, and you know, he says, you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't really want to say grace, but but you know,
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Speaker 1: my my my wife before she died she she she
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Speaker 1: had me promise that that I would raise you guys
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Speaker 1: as as Christians. I guess as religion with religion, and
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Speaker 1: clearly he is not religious. And the grace goes something
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Speaker 1: like this, you know, and and and this is this
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Speaker 1: is I think, really what thinks is all about, and
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Speaker 1: what grace should be all about. To the extent that
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Speaker 1: anybody says grace, it goes something like this. You know,
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Speaker 1: we we we plowed the earth. We got up in
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Speaker 1: the mornings and we planted the seeds, we harvested the crops,
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Speaker 1: and and and sold it at markets, and we you know,
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Speaker 1: raised the chickens and and you know, got the whatever.
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Speaker 1: You know, we did this, we did this, We did this,
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Speaker 1: We did this. It is a product of It is
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Speaker 1: a consequence of all of our actions of what we
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Speaker 1: have done. All the food on this table is a
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Speaker 1: product of what we have done out productive work. I'm
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Speaker 1: putting maybe a little bit of woods into his mouth,
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Speaker 1: but basically that's what he's saying. And then it ends
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Speaker 1: with and God, thank you. Anyway, So I think it
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Speaker 1: captures captures I need to get. I need to get
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Speaker 1: the actual language of the of the Uh. Let's see
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Speaker 1: if I can pull it up. Uh, I wonder if
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Speaker 1: we could, you know, this video of it, but let's
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Speaker 1: see if you let's see if if we've got the text. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're not going to get the text for it. Uh,
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Speaker 1: well maybe this is it. Here here, here you go, yeah,
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Speaker 1: here here, this is this is good Lord. We cleared
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Speaker 1: the land, we plowed it, sold it and harvested it.
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Speaker 1: We cooked the harvest. It wouldn't be here. We wouldn't
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Speaker 1: be eating it if it hadn't been if if we
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Speaker 1: hadn't done it all ourselves. We work dog bone hard
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Speaker 1: for every crumb and morsel. But we thank you just
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Speaker 1: the same anyway, Lord for the food we're about to eat.
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Speaker 1: I'm in I it's perfect. I think it's perfect. I
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Speaker 1: think it captures, it captures you know, Thanksgiving. So, yes,
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Speaker 1: there's a religious element. Yes they all want to thank
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Speaker 1: God for everything. But the reality is that to the
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Speaker 1: extent that you have built at home, that you that
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Speaker 1: you have bought a home, and you have created a
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Speaker 1: life and uh and and Thanksgiving is to celebrate all
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Speaker 1: of that. It's it's the home that you have, the
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Speaker 1: life that you have created, whether it's it's with a partner,
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Speaker 1: with a loved one with kids. But but it's something
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Speaker 1: you created, you worked on, you produced, And then it's
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Speaker 1: about the bounty on the table, the plenty on the table.
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Speaker 1: There's always too much food during Thanksgiving. And there's a
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Speaker 1: reason there's too much food, because it's a celebration of plenty.
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Speaker 1: It's a celebration of the bounty of our own production,
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Speaker 1: of what we have earned, of what we've created, of
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Speaker 1: what we have produced. And of course, beyond the food,
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Speaker 1: it's the place. It's the ability to sit and eat
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Speaker 1: in comfort and everything that goes into that. It is
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Speaker 1: ultimately a celebration of successful production. This design rand on Thanksgiving,
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Speaker 1: and I think she really does, she really does capture it.
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Speaker 1: She says Thanksgiving is a typical American holiday. She italicized
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Speaker 1: American Thanksgiving is a typical American holiday. In spite of
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Speaker 1: its religious form giving thanks to God for good harvest,
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Speaker 1: it's essential secular meaning is a celebration of successful production.
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Speaker 1: It's a producers holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol
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Speaker 1: of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and
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Speaker 1: reward of production. Abundance is, or was and ought to
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Speaker 1: be America's pride. Just that it is the pride of
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Speaker 1: American parents that their children need never know starvation. I
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Speaker 1: mean that is a beautiful capturing of what I think
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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving is about. It is linked to production, because it
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Speaker 1: is linked to the harvest. It is linked to the
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Speaker 1: food on the table. It is linked to one's ability
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Speaker 1: to feed one's family and feed when kids one's kids,
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Speaker 1: and to produce and to enjoy the bounty of one's production.
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Speaker 1: It is a consumer's holiday. It's it's we're consuming what
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Speaker 1: we've produced. We're eating it. Eating is consumption. Generally, consumption
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Speaker 1: is destroying the stuff that you've produced, right, So in
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Speaker 1: that sense, it really is it's a beautiful holiday. It's
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Speaker 1: a holiday to contemplate the things that you are thankful
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Speaker 1: for that have made it possible for you to sit
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Speaker 1: and enjoy the meal and enjoy the company of the
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Speaker 1: people around you. And it is an opportunity to contemplate
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Speaker 1: your success in life, or your future success in life,
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Speaker 1: your plans to be successful. But it's about being successful.
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Speaker 1: It's about you know, abundance, abundance, And of course, there's
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Speaker 1: no country in human history with more abundance than the
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Speaker 1: United States of America. There's no country in human here
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Speaker 1: that is produced as much as America. America is the
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Speaker 1: land of abundance because it is the land of production,
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Speaker 1: and therefore it is very much a American holiday. We'll
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Speaker 1: talk more about that in a minute, but it's a
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Speaker 1: great time to celebrate capitalism in many respects. This is
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Speaker 1: Capitalism Day because production, production, at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: is really abundance. Abundance in production. I mean, remember the Pilgrims. God,
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Speaker 1: I mean, the Pilgrims tried socialism, right, and what half
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Speaker 1: of them died? I mean, there was some horrific number
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Speaker 1: died they. I mean, the Pilgrims had a horrible time.
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Speaker 1: And it's the abundance that we have today, the abundance
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Speaker 1: that America has had since really it's founding. The amazing
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Speaker 1: quantity and quality of production that is America is a
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Speaker 1: consequence of whatever freedom has been allowed, whatever capitalism has
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Speaker 1: been embraced. We live in one of, you know, probably
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Speaker 1: historically the fierce country in human history. We live in
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Speaker 1: the country that's come closest to abiding by the principles
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Speaker 1: of capitalism. We live in a country that has respected
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Speaker 1: for the most part on and off property rights. We've
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Speaker 1: lived in a country that has, relatively speaking, left individuals
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Speaker 1: free in their productive endeavors to pursue their own values,
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Speaker 1: their own ideas, their own dreams, to fail and to succeed.
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Speaker 1: And it's that it's that freedom, it's that element, that
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Speaker 1: bit of capitalism in our culture, in our world, in
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Speaker 1: our country, in America, that we should be celebrating on
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Speaker 1: this day with a goal, a goal looking into the future,
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Speaker 1: of having more of it, a fighting for it, of
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Speaker 1: establishing it as the way in which the way in
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Speaker 1: which we all live, and the way in which recognizing
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Speaker 1: the value of it so that we can expand it
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Speaker 1: and not shrink it. But yeah, this is a day
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Speaker 1: to contemplate capitalism, to contemplate the beauty, the beauty, yes, beauty,
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Speaker 1: the esthetic beauty, and that it has, that it is
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Speaker 1: that the system is, and the abundance wealth that it
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Speaker 1: is made possible. And in that sense, it's a it's
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Speaker 1: a data contemplate America and and and what this country
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Speaker 1: is and what it stands for, particularly in these stormy,
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Speaker 1: difficult times when the notion of America is slowly slipping
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Speaker 1: through our fingers and disappearing and and uh and being
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Speaker 1: taken over the notion of America by elements that are
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Speaker 1: just wrong, worse than wrong, fundamentally anti American. So what
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Speaker 1: makes this un impossible, What makes this un impossible is
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Speaker 1: the American principles, the principles that that define this country.
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Speaker 1: The principles of individual rights of all men, idea that
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Speaker 1: all men are created equal, equal not in their opportunities,
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Speaker 1: not in their outcome, equal in their rights, equal in
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Speaker 1: their freedoms, equal in their liberties, equal before the law,
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Speaker 1: the law being that which protects their rights and their liberty.
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Speaker 1: The ideal of America is the capitalist ideal, in which
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Speaker 1: government protects the right to life, liberty, property, and the
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Speaker 1: pursuit of happiness and otherwise leaves us the hell alone.
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Speaker 1: And Thanksgiving, where we are benefiting from the abundance created
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Speaker 1: by being left alone, is the time to remember that
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Speaker 1: and to celebrate it, and to tell our kids that
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Speaker 1: story and to emphasize it out there, you know, without
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Speaker 1: getting into political arguments. Start a time for politics, it's
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Speaker 1: a time for principles. It's a time to remember and
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Speaker 1: resurrect and bring back those great principles of America. So
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Speaker 1: there is a you know, Thanksgiving I think is multi
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Speaker 1: multi leveled. I for example, am an incredibly thankful to America.
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Speaker 1: I am an immigrant to this country, and I came
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Speaker 1: here young, married but with no kids. I've had kids here,
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Speaker 1: I built my career here, I did my education here.
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Speaker 1: I have flourished in this country, flourished in this country,
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Speaker 1: and I intend to have an abundant meal today, abundant consumption, yes,
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Speaker 1: as a consequence of the fact that I have flourished
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Speaker 1: in this country. And I'm thankful to the founders. I
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Speaker 1: can't say I'm particularly thankful to any politician that has
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Speaker 1: governed this country since I came. They've all been h
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Speaker 1: they've all been, you know, dramatically less than good. But
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Speaker 1: I'm truly thankful. And this is a good day to
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Speaker 1: remember this to the founders and a system of government
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Speaker 1: they created that has lasted now coming up to two
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years. And yeah, it seemed perfect. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, certainly in modern times that has descended and
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Speaker 1: moved away from what they created. But they created such
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Speaker 1: a beautiful thing, such a powerful system of government, such
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Speaker 1: a you know, an amazing, an amazing constitution and declaration
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Speaker 1: and spirit, maybe more than anything else, a spirit this
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Speaker 1: has allowed this country to continue to be the land
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Speaker 1: of abundance, to continue to be the land of successful production,
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Speaker 1: continue to be the land of thanksgiving. They continue to
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Speaker 1: be the land that you know, we all as individuals
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Speaker 1: can actually in spite of all the bad we all
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Speaker 1: can't flourish in, can't succeed in, can raise families in,
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Speaker 1: build careers in produce, create, build and consume, have great
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Speaker 1: meals in and buy fun stuff in Tomorrow's black fighting
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Speaker 1: more consumption. Just you know, I'm really happy with black
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Speaker 1: fighting that you can do stuff online because you know,
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Speaker 1: one of my one of my commandments in life is
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Speaker 1: thou shalt never go shopping on black fighting. Nothing is
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Speaker 1: worth it. No discount in the world is worth going
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Speaker 1: to mall or store on black fighting. So yeah, we
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Speaker 1: live in a country where you can still consume, you
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Speaker 1: can still create the wealth that makes it possible for
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Speaker 1: you to consume a plenty and and and live well,
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Speaker 1: live well, and Thanksgiving, and I guess black fighting are
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Speaker 1: good reminders and illustrations of that, good reminders and illustrations
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Speaker 1: of that. So I'm thankful to the founders and thankful
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Speaker 1: to Americans who have built this country, particularly the great producers,
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Speaker 1: the great innovators, the nineteenth century, so called Robert barons,
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Speaker 1: the people who built great industries, the people who went
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Speaker 1: out there into the prairie, into the unknown and built
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Speaker 1: a life and then built a country. And you know,
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Speaker 1: the great industrialists who made this country. There is no America.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I love the funny fathers, and they created
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Speaker 1: this country, no question. But what makes America America? What
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Speaker 1: makes American America? What makes America the land of production
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Speaker 1: and a line of abundance and the line of consumption
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Speaker 1: and all of this, what makes it all possible are
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Speaker 1: the great producers and what makes it You know, everybody
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Speaker 1: loves the funny fathers, but what makes it important to
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Speaker 1: remember the great producers is that they've always been hated.
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Speaker 1: They've always been despised, they've always been put down, they've
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Speaker 1: always been ridiculed. They were called, and still are called
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Speaker 1: the rubber barons, robbers, barons, aristocrats, when they're the opposite
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Speaker 1: of robbers and the opposite of barons. Many of them
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Speaker 1: started with nothing and rose up and created All of
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Speaker 1: them created the wealth. They didn't steal it, they didn't
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Speaker 1: take it, They created it, and by creating it, they
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Speaker 1: made so many people around them wealthy. As well that
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Speaker 1: to call them rubber barons is one of, if not
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Speaker 1: the greatest injustice in all of history that I can
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Speaker 1: think of. I mean, these great men of industry and
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Speaker 1: men of business really because it's it's bankers and merchants,
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Speaker 1: and you know, imagine the guy you know, the Sears
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Speaker 1: and Roebuck and and how that make life in the
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Speaker 1: late nineteen six you early twentieth century so much easier
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Speaker 1: for Americans when they could get a catalog and they
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Speaker 1: could all this stuff by mail, they wouldn't dependent on that,
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Speaker 1: you know, little hardware still down the road or miles
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Speaker 1: and miles and miles away from where they lived in
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Speaker 1: the case of the Prairies, right, I mean, Sears Roebuck
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Speaker 1: are just as productive as any industrialists. We worship manufacturing
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Speaker 1: in this country. We worship industry in this country, but
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Speaker 1: the reality is that it's business. We should worship any
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Speaker 1: kind of business, including who God forbid services like Sears
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Speaker 1: Roebuck is services. I don't think they've ever gotten the
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Speaker 1: credit they deserved, just like Amazon never gets the credit
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Speaker 1: they deserve. You're making our life so much better. So
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Speaker 1: I'm thankful to all the great businessmen in American history,
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Speaker 1: from JP Morgan to see Us to a singer who
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Speaker 1: built the sewing machines and made a fortune off of
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Speaker 1: sewing machines, to Carnegie Steele to Rockefeller Oil, to what's
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Speaker 1: his name Carrier who designed the first air conditioning. I
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Speaker 1: benefited enormously. Couldn't live here in Puerto Rico without that one.
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Speaker 1: And you could go on and on. It's a great
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Speaker 1: day to remind yourself of all the people who made
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Speaker 1: the modern world possible. And we or I encourage you
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Speaker 1: at least not to think of the people who made
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Speaker 1: the modern world possible as politicians or generals or the
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Speaker 1: great Greatest Generation or any bs like that. The people
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Speaker 1: who made the modern world possible are the billionaires or
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Speaker 1: their equivalent in American history. They are the people who, yeah,
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Speaker 1: who created the wealth that made America, created the wealth
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Speaker 1: that made the West the West. There's nothing if not
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Speaker 1: for the wealth that it has, whatever spiritual values associated
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Speaker 1: with that, ultimately the result of the wealth that was created.
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Speaker 1: So who built America? Who made America? It's the wealth producers,
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Speaker 1: the wealth creators, the builders, the makers. You want inspiration
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Speaker 1: in life, and there's too little inspiration. You want heroes,
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Speaker 1: You want to admire people as this young generations search
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Speaker 1: us for meaning. Well, one place you can find that meaning.
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Speaker 1: One place you can find heroes. One place you can
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Speaker 1: find find role models, find people who found their purpose
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Speaker 1: and pursued their purpose is in the great business leaders
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Speaker 1: of America, from Jeapizos to Steve Jobs to to you know,
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Speaker 1: there's a whole mid century there with lots of business
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Speaker 1: men whose whose name names unfortunately have been forgotten. Uh
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Speaker 1: to Ford and uh and and again Carnegie and and
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Speaker 1: and Melon and uh at JP Morgan. Oh, you know,
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Speaker 1: Michael Milkin. There's another one. There's another banker. We need,
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Speaker 1: we need some bankers in this, but definitely Michael Milkin.
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Speaker 1: These are real heroes. You want a role model for masculinity. Again,
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Speaker 1: we're we're on the theme of meaning. Generation they cannot
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Speaker 1: find meaning, or a generation that's been told that the
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Speaker 1: only way to find meaning is by looking out there,
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Speaker 1: over something bigger than yourself. No, No, you want to
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Speaker 1: find meaning, you know, explore the lives, particularly in in
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Speaker 1: in their careers of these great innovators, great builders, great creators, building, creating, making,
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Speaker 1: doing producing that gives life meaning. Edison, Yeah, I mean
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Speaker 1: you guys, can add names. I'm just rattling off on
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Speaker 1: the top of my head, so happy to add names
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Speaker 1: that that you guys can come up with on the chat.
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Speaker 1: You know, I think of the founders of of of Intel,
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Speaker 1: and and and and and the creators of the of
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Speaker 1: the micro processor, and the builders you know, feach Out Semiconductor,
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Speaker 1: the first the first building. You know, I have a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a love relationship with with Tesla and Moss.
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Speaker 1: But I mentioned Jeff Bezos, Ronald McDonald. Some of you
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Speaker 1: like fast food, but you know good it's these This
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Speaker 1: is the time that people behind Costco Walmont is Sam Walton,
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Speaker 1: I mean Sam Walton, God, he has he changed America,
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Speaker 1: made reduced the cost of living for so many Americans,
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Speaker 1: allowed them to take to allowed them to benefit from
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Speaker 1: and and and embrace abundance even when they're not rich,
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Speaker 1: wealthy Vanderbilt. Yeah, I mean, I mean, there's there's a lot.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot. These are and and these are many
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Speaker 1: of them, not all of them, but many of them
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Speaker 1: start with nothing. That like Harrasiology's stories, but in real life,
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Speaker 1: they start with nothing and they make something of their lives.
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Speaker 1: And then you get whiny gen zas and millennials and
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Speaker 1: a lot of boomers just who can't stop to complain
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Speaker 1: about their life, can't stop to complain about the world,
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Speaker 1: can't stop to complain about the lack of meaning and
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Speaker 1: the lack of this and the lack of that, and that.
27:33
Speaker 1: Go make it. Go create your world, Go build it.
27:39
Speaker 1: Stop sitting on your bumb get up and do stuff.
27:45
Speaker 1: Use your mind, use your reason to make a life,
27:52
Speaker 1: to build a life, to create a life. Nothing, nothing
27:56
Speaker 1: in this life is not just going to be handed
27:59
Speaker 1: to you on a silver platter. And if you wait
28:02
Speaker 1: for it to be handled on a silver platter, yeah,
28:07
Speaker 1: you will not go anyway. You will be miserable and
28:11
Speaker 1: suddenly you're not gonna find meaning sitting and doing nothing. Well,
28:17
Speaker 1: Disney off at Hitchcock. Yeah, I mean, these are producers,
28:23
Speaker 1: people who made something of their lives. Lucille Ball, she
28:31
Speaker 1: was funny, she was so hysterical, and uh yeah, she
28:37
Speaker 1: was amazing. There's there's some scenes from the Lucille Ball
28:41
Speaker 1: Show that they're just classics. So be thankful to the
28:47
Speaker 1: great producers, including the producers who produce today. And yeah,
28:51
Speaker 1: we don't live in a free market. And yes, the
28:53
Speaker 1: FED distorts prices, and maybe in a free market they
28:57
Speaker 1: wouldn't have quite as much money as they do today.
28:59
Speaker 1: Maybe they'd be more. I don't know. But in spite
29:04
Speaker 1: of all the hardship, in spite of the craziness of
29:07
Speaker 1: the world, in spite of the insanity, in spite of Washington,
29:11
Speaker 1: d C. They build and create. So celebate Thanksgiving. It's
29:23
Speaker 1: a great day to celebrate producers, to celebrate in innovators,
29:28
Speaker 1: and be thankful. I'm thankful to the founders, and I'm
29:32
Speaker 1: thankful to the producers who built America, to the business
29:36
Speaker 1: people who built America. This is the anti Marxist day.
29:40
Speaker 1: I think we can all be thankful to the great
29:43
Speaker 1: geniuses who created and led great companies. Even they've employees
29:53
Speaker 1: who sit with abundance on their table, not as as
30:01
Speaker 1: as people being exploited, but as traders as traders, So
30:10
Speaker 1: you know, I'm thankful to this country, to its founding,
30:13
Speaker 1: to its uh, to its producers. Of course, I'm thankful
30:16
Speaker 1: for tyn Man, without whom I have no idea what
30:21
Speaker 1: my life would be like. Hard for me to exactly say, uh,
30:26
Speaker 1: and but it would not be anywhere near what it
30:29
Speaker 1: is today. She helped me shape a fantastic life. She
30:34
Speaker 1: gave me the inspiration to go out and live with
30:38
Speaker 1: the capital of l to pursue knowledge, to pursue UH,
30:43
Speaker 1: to pursue my own happiness, to pursue you know, individual flourishing,
30:51
Speaker 1: to pursue success, success at living, success in what you do.
30:59
Speaker 1: So so I'm I'm deathly thankful to man who taught
31:12
Speaker 1: me what I know, and and to to Lenin Peacock,
31:14
Speaker 1: whose students and my teacher. So I'm thankful to everything
31:19
Speaker 1: he his friendship, but even more importantly in many regards
31:24
Speaker 1: the fact that he was a great teacher and and
31:27
Speaker 1: and taught me this philosophy and and and taught me
31:29
Speaker 1: to all of that son Lendipeacoff, Where would all of
31:33
Speaker 1: us be without them? You know, thankful. This is a
31:37
Speaker 1: date to say thanks to to the people who've shaped
31:40
Speaker 1: your life or or helped your life, or made life possible,
31:47
Speaker 1: made successful life possible, made that abundance possible. And you know,
31:50
Speaker 1: thankful to everybody at the Ironman Institute who's again helped
31:55
Speaker 1: me become who I am, helped me to do what
31:59
Speaker 1: I do, and UH taught me and educated me and
32:05
Speaker 1: inspired me. There were a lot of them. So I'm
32:08
Speaker 1: not gonna name them, but but they're all they're all
32:12
Speaker 1: in in my thoughts. Uh. So, yeah, this is this
32:18
Speaker 1: is a holiday to exactly reflect on that who's had
32:21
Speaker 1: an impact on your life, who who really shaped what
32:25
Speaker 1: you've become. I mean you obviously you should thank yourself,
32:28
Speaker 1: thank yourself, thank you me, But then you should think about,
32:33
Speaker 1: you know, the people around you, the people in your life.
32:38
Speaker 1: You know, your your your parents may be they might
32:41
Speaker 1: be super important. You know, a teacher, somebody who's inspired you,
32:46
Speaker 1: somebody who's changed your life in many way. I mean,
32:50
Speaker 1: if you really wanted to make a list, it's very
32:52
Speaker 1: difficult to to make it comprehensive. It includes the artists
32:56
Speaker 1: who inspired you. It includes the novelists who who wrote
33:00
Speaker 1: the great books that you know made you feel a
33:04
Speaker 1: particular way and shape who you are. The makers of
33:08
Speaker 1: movies and of course, as we said, producers in the
33:11
Speaker 1: realm of aesthetics and the realm of philosophy and the
33:14
Speaker 1: realm of ideas, as well as anybody everyone else. So
33:26
Speaker 1: people with Diego says, thank you Gate Gamegate feminists who
33:31
Speaker 1: pushed me away from the left, which eventually got me
33:34
Speaker 1: to find Lennapeac Coth that's pretty funny. Yeah, sometimes I
33:39
Speaker 1: used to thank you should be thankful for the for
33:41
Speaker 1: the for the people who who shook you into realizing, uh,
33:47
Speaker 1: maybe that you're on the wrong path, on a wrong
33:49
Speaker 1: path in life. Of course. You know, I'm incredibly thankful
33:54
Speaker 1: to my wife who has been by my side, wow,
33:59
Speaker 1: for very long time, for over four decades now. We
34:04
Speaker 1: got married pretty young and has Yeah, being a partner,
34:10
Speaker 1: an essential partner in everything that I've done, everything that
34:14
Speaker 1: I've done. So again, this is the day make a list.
34:21
Speaker 1: You know, being thankful is really important. It's important for
34:26
Speaker 1: a number of different things, right, It's important for it's
34:32
Speaker 1: an active justice. It's an active justice even if the
34:36
Speaker 1: other other partner never even hears you make the things right,
34:41
Speaker 1: even if you're just doing it in your own head.
34:45
Speaker 1: The very fact that you are doing it, you know,
34:48
Speaker 1: you are acting out justice. You're saying thank you with
34:51
Speaker 1: thank you belongs and you know that, Yeah, that is
35:01
Speaker 1: an immense act of justice. It's a you know, it's
35:05
Speaker 1: a it's an act of integrity. Uh. And it just
35:09
Speaker 1: you should feel good about yourself just going through in
35:12
Speaker 1: your mind the people that you are thankful too, even
35:17
Speaker 1: though like the Fanni fathers, I'll never be able to
35:20
Speaker 1: say thank you to them. I say thank you to
35:24
Speaker 1: len It when if I see them, But the many
35:26
Speaker 1: people you're never going to be able to say thank
35:28
Speaker 1: you too. And yet just going through it and recognizing
35:32
Speaker 1: that in your mind, it's a huge boost to you.
35:37
Speaker 1: To you, it's an active justice, and it's an act
35:43
Speaker 1: of just recognition of reality. It's it's a it's a
35:47
Speaker 1: rational thing to do because you know, while you do
35:51
Speaker 1: build it yourself, you do create yourself, you do make
35:54
Speaker 1: choices yourself. All of us, all of us basically stand
36:01
Speaker 1: on the shoulders of others. Again, we wouldn't be a
36:06
Speaker 1: whare we were without Aristotle, without the founders, and without Ironman.
36:12
Speaker 1: And recognizing that is just again act of objectivity, being
36:17
Speaker 1: objective about your own life and being objective about the
36:20
Speaker 1: world in which you live. So again, things that are
36:27
Speaker 1: good to reflect on on this day of Thanksgiving. You know,
36:33
Speaker 1: I've had I've had great business partners in my life.
36:38
Speaker 1: I never understood, you know, people always tell you in
36:41
Speaker 1: business never never partner with a friend, never go into
36:46
Speaker 1: business with a friend. And that is the most bizarre
36:51
Speaker 1: piece of advice I can think of just a bizarre
36:56
Speaker 1: piece of advice because the reality is, who would you
37:02
Speaker 1: rather go into business with than a friend? I mean,
37:06
Speaker 1: the business does to make sense, and your friend has
37:09
Speaker 1: to have the skills to contribute to the business. But
37:12
Speaker 1: who would you want to go into business with other
37:15
Speaker 1: than a friend? Who would you want to go through
37:17
Speaker 1: that rough times that businesses always go through, other than
37:21
Speaker 1: somebody you expect and share basic fundamental values with because
37:25
Speaker 1: you're friends. So you know, Robert Handa Shott, who some
37:33
Speaker 1: you know, is being my business partner. Why is my
37:37
Speaker 1: business partner? We finally dissolved the business last year, but
37:40
Speaker 1: we were business profits for twenty six years and good
37:44
Speaker 1: friends for probably thirty years. Still good friends, still good friends,
37:49
Speaker 1: not business partners anymore. And he's going through really rough
37:53
Speaker 1: times right now. And yeah, I mean, this is a
37:59
Speaker 1: great time to be thankful for having great business partners
38:03
Speaker 1: and having great friends, and that combination is just important
38:13
Speaker 1: and emotionally so gratifying. So recognize it, you know, think
38:19
Speaker 1: about the friends you have. You know, I'm grateful for
38:23
Speaker 1: a number of friends that I have and that I've
38:25
Speaker 1: had for a long time. The friends that I have,
38:29
Speaker 1: particularly my close friends. You know, one of them goes
38:32
Speaker 1: back to Israel, and another one goes back to the
38:34
Speaker 1: days in Texas, and you know, it goes back a
38:36
Speaker 1: long time. And that's that's incredibly valuable. Funnily enough, I
38:41
Speaker 1: have no friends, literally no friends. I have no contact
38:45
Speaker 1: with anybody from like high school or middle school or
38:49
Speaker 1: primary school or any school. And I've really no I
38:56
Speaker 1: no desire for that. All my friends are kind of
38:59
Speaker 1: post adulthood, post discovering I man, post becoming you know
39:07
Speaker 1: who I am, I guess, and then becoming who they are.
39:11
Speaker 1: It is kind of funny that I know a lot
39:13
Speaker 1: of people who have friends going back to middle school
39:15
Speaker 1: and primary school or whatever. It's not me, not me,
39:24
Speaker 1: So yeah, be thankful to your friendships, all right. So,
39:31
Speaker 1: but more than anything, I want to return to the
39:34
Speaker 1: essence more than anything, be thankful to the producers, and
39:39
Speaker 1: be thankful to yourself and to the people in your
39:43
Speaker 1: life that make production possible, whether you are the producer,
39:46
Speaker 1: whether you're supporting the producer, or whether you're a child
39:50
Speaker 1: of a producer. Today is the day where abundance is
39:56
Speaker 1: put on the table, where we enjoy that abundance. Tomorrow
40:00
Speaker 1: is the day where we use our credit cards to
40:02
Speaker 1: make our abundance clear on Black Friday. But it's a
40:06
Speaker 1: couple of days of abundance and we should celebrate, celebrate,
40:11
Speaker 1: I mean, really make an effort to celebrate successful production,
40:19
Speaker 1: abundance and wealth wealth creation moved broadly. This is a
40:24
Speaker 1: great day to celebrate your life, what you've made of
40:28
Speaker 1: it or what you are going to make of it.
40:31
Speaker 1: It's a day to celebrate wealth creation, the creation of wealth,
40:36
Speaker 1: the creation of that abundance. So happy thanksgiving all of you,
40:42
Speaker 1: and of course my last thank you is to all
40:44
Speaker 1: of you. Thank you for listening, for participating, for asking questions,
40:51
Speaker 1: for challenging me, for you know, being who you are
40:56
Speaker 1: and supporting the show making it possible. Could couldn't exist
40:59
Speaker 1: without you, whether you know those of you particularly who
41:02
Speaker 1: support it financially, whether it's on a monthly basis, whether
41:06
Speaker 1: it's once in a while, whether it's super chats so stickers,
41:09
Speaker 1: however you ultimately do it. The very fact that you
41:13
Speaker 1: guys support the show is what makes it possible. It
41:18
Speaker 1: is your recognition of what I am producing, which is
41:21
Speaker 1: the show and my talks and things like that, and
41:25
Speaker 1: I greatly greatly appreciate it. So thank you, thank you,
41:29
Speaker 1: thank you, you guys who represent an immense value to me.
41:34
Speaker 1: I couldn't be just. I mean, one of the things
41:37
Speaker 1: I like about doing live shows right as compared to
41:39
Speaker 1: tape shows and then they just go up, is in
41:44
Speaker 1: spite of the fact that most of you listening have
41:46
Speaker 1: never been on a live show and so on, the
41:48
Speaker 1: fact that the our people live inspires me and helps
41:51
Speaker 1: me and motivates me to do these things. It makes
41:54
Speaker 1: it much easier than if I was just speaking to
41:56
Speaker 1: a camera and it would go up online some point.
42:00
Speaker 1: So thank you all for tolerating uh, you know, my
42:04
Speaker 1: technical problems and my you know, once in a while
42:08
Speaker 1: saying something that's not true. Hopefully I try to always
42:11
Speaker 1: correct it after the fact, you know. Thank you for
42:15
Speaker 1: for for tolerating my indulging some of the widows who
42:22
Speaker 1: appear on the chat and and uh and I get
42:27
Speaker 1: into arguments with I know some of you cringe when
42:32
Speaker 1: that happens. I appreciate. I appreciate you being you, you
42:37
Speaker 1: having the patience and sticking around. I know some people
42:39
Speaker 1: didn't stick around. They're gone. Yeah, thank you for being
42:43
Speaker 1: a great audience. You couldn't have couldn't do it without
42:46
Speaker 1: the audience. Couldn't do it without the audience. And Jennifer
42:49
Speaker 1: thanks me for blocking Scott. I'm thankful for blocking Scott
42:52
Speaker 1: as well, and a few others. There are a number
42:55
Speaker 1: of them now that are that are blocked. Although Scott
42:58
Speaker 1: might be here under a pseudo name, you always get
43:01
Speaker 1: a sense that maybe he reappears out of the dol
43:04
Speaker 1: rooms over there, so somewhere, maybe coming to get a
43:09
Speaker 1: little educated. All right, Well, happy Thanksgiving to everybody. We've
43:14
Speaker 1: got a bunch of questions. You can keep asking them,
43:18
Speaker 1: you know, some of the questions on this, and the
43:19
Speaker 1: questions on other things, and and you know, we've got
43:25
Speaker 1: some questions on Gaza and questions and other stuff. I'll
43:28
Speaker 1: take I'll take questions on anything, I guess, so feel
43:31
Speaker 1: free to jump in with any questions you might have.
43:34
Speaker 1: We've got we've got plenty of time. I don't have
43:37
Speaker 1: to I don't have to go to dinner for a while. Still.
43:40
Speaker 1: I did the show a little earlier than usual because
43:42
Speaker 1: I figured you guys all had dinners you had to
43:45
Speaker 1: get to. I hope you do. I hope you all
43:47
Speaker 1: have dinners you have to get to. So I appreciate that.
43:49
Speaker 1: All right, let me be particularly thankful right now too,
43:52
Speaker 1: you know, to some of my biggest uh some of
43:55
Speaker 1: my biggest regular finance supporters. You know, Troy is here
44:03
Speaker 1: with five hundred stallion dollars as he is every month
44:07
Speaker 1: more than once usually, Plus he's a monthly contributor. So
44:11
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, Thank you, Troy. Really thankful to you.
44:14
Speaker 1: And you're consistent, consistent support and generous and consistent support.
44:19
Speaker 1: So thank you. Troy writes, I may be an Aussie,
44:25
Speaker 1: but I love and try to live that original American spirit.
44:29
Speaker 1: I am truly thankful for Iinrand and now Yuran who
44:31
Speaker 1: encourages me to live that benevolent life. Thank you, Troy,
44:35
Speaker 1: and absolutely and and here's the thing, and this is
44:39
Speaker 1: what you know I keep emphasizing during this assault by
44:46
Speaker 1: those who would want to turn America into a blood
44:49
Speaker 1: and soil country, you could be an American and live anywhere.
44:57
Speaker 1: America is a spirit. America's a sense of a set
45:01
Speaker 1: of ideas that manifests itself in a certain spirit, in
45:06
Speaker 1: a certain spirit for living, in a certain sense, that
45:10
Speaker 1: everything is possible to you, that the world is open,
45:13
Speaker 1: that it's yours for the taking, and life is to
45:19
Speaker 1: be embraced and lived fully and and you know, and
45:24
Speaker 1: and and and it's you are going to do that.
45:26
Speaker 1: It's it's it's this idea that you are going to
45:29
Speaker 1: step out there and and and and you know, uh,
45:33
Speaker 1: engage with the world and be successful. It's that benevolence
45:39
Speaker 1: all based on understanding where that comes from. It comes
45:42
Speaker 1: from a particular political principles that make it possible to
45:45
Speaker 1: live in such a world. And that's America. And if
45:50
Speaker 1: you hold those ideas, even if America won't let you
45:52
Speaker 1: in for a variety of reasons, or even if you've
45:54
Speaker 1: chosen to stay where you are for a variety of reasons, family,
45:59
Speaker 1: you know, business, you know, it could be a lot
46:02
Speaker 1: of things where you stay where you are and don't
46:04
Speaker 1: come to this country, particularly as it descends into into
46:08
Speaker 1: what it is becoming. You are still an American, at
46:12
Speaker 1: least in spirit, and in my mind, you're still an American.
46:15
Speaker 1: And and and to me, that is what America is
46:17
Speaker 1: really about. That's why I should be, you know, as
46:20
Speaker 1: open as as possible, uh to new Americans coming here
46:24
Speaker 1: and new people manifest that spirit coming here. Uh. And
46:31
Speaker 1: you know, maybe we can still save this country and
46:33
Speaker 1: still bring that all that spirit back, and and and
46:35
Speaker 1: and and and bring all those people who believe in
46:38
Speaker 1: this UH to this wonderful country, whether to visit or
46:42
Speaker 1: to UH or to stay. Thank you, Troy, really really
46:46
Speaker 1: really appreciate it. Let's see, Andrew, who God you know
46:52
Speaker 1: is there every single show basically with a bunch of
46:56
Speaker 1: questions and you know, a bunch of dollars. So really
47:01
Speaker 1: really appreciate it, Andrews says. Rand was asked what's wrong
47:05
Speaker 1: with giving God gratitude? She says something like, you mean,
47:09
Speaker 1: if you do something wrong, it's your fault. But if
47:11
Speaker 1: you do something good, you owe God. See what it
47:15
Speaker 1: does to your self esteem, take credit for your achievements. Yeah,
47:19
Speaker 1: I mean I think I always noticed this in sports, right.
47:22
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a great it's a great thing for
47:25
Speaker 1: her to say. And of course, I mean another problem
47:28
Speaker 1: with it is you're giving gratitude to a non being,
47:31
Speaker 1: somebody that doesn't exist. But think about think about you know,
47:36
Speaker 1: all these athletes who are kicking a goal or catch
47:41
Speaker 1: a touchdown pass or hit a home run and they
47:44
Speaker 1: immediately thank God or Jesus or something like that. They
47:47
Speaker 1: don't blame God. When they strike out. They don't blame God.
47:51
Speaker 1: When they drop the pass, they don't blame God when
47:54
Speaker 1: they missed the penalty cake. They don't blame God for
47:57
Speaker 1: their failings that they take on themselves. But their success
48:01
Speaker 1: is that somebody else did That's and it's not even
48:05
Speaker 1: that they believe that their failures are like, oh it's
48:07
Speaker 1: the devil, the devil did it. I mean, at least
48:09
Speaker 1: then then neutral. They're not participating God, you know, but
48:13
Speaker 1: they take on the failings themselves, which is destructive to
48:17
Speaker 1: self esteem. When you're not willing to take on the achievement.
48:21
Speaker 1: I mean, you should take on the failing when you fail,
48:29
Speaker 1: but only if you're willing to also accept the achievement.
48:33
Speaker 1: You have to be objective about yourself and your soul
48:36
Speaker 1: and who you are and what you are. So absolutely
48:41
Speaker 1: not taking credit for your achievement is destructive to your
48:44
Speaker 1: self esteem. Self esteem ultimately comes from having values, achieving them,
48:53
Speaker 1: recognizing the achievement. In a sense, it comes from a
48:57
Speaker 1: little pat on the back that you give yourself, not
49:00
Speaker 1: other people. Other people can't give your self esteem. Other
49:03
Speaker 1: people recognizing your achievement won't do anything. You literally have
49:06
Speaker 1: to take the act of saying I did that cool.
49:12
Speaker 1: I'm capable, I'm competent, I can achieve stuff. I got
49:17
Speaker 1: my values. This is great, Michael. Who might be probably,
49:26
Speaker 1: I mean that might be is I'm, without any question,
49:30
Speaker 1: the person who's done most super chats dollar wise and
49:34
Speaker 1: maybe just quantity wise, just in terms the number of questions,
49:37
Speaker 1: and anybody on my channel ever and maybe given super
49:46
Speaker 1: chat out there in the world. Maybe you know, in
49:48
Speaker 1: all of YouTube's history. I don't know. They have to
49:51
Speaker 1: ask YouTube if they can produce such a list for us.
49:55
Speaker 1: But Michael, thank you. You know you've been here for
49:58
Speaker 1: a long time now, and you're there every day almost
50:02
Speaker 1: and you ask a ton of questions, and you put
50:05
Speaker 1: your money where where your your values are, and you
50:09
Speaker 1: you you you fund this show. So thank you, thank you,
50:12
Speaker 1: thank you. So let's see now that the one godz
50:17
Speaker 1: is over, has anti Semitism reached its apex? Will things
50:21
Speaker 1: start calming down? It's hard to know if Mega phenomena
50:24
Speaker 1: is an arbitrary blip or the beginning of the end.
50:27
Speaker 1: On the cheering on the cheery note, happy thanks on
50:30
Speaker 1: that cheery note, every thing, saving every thanks, saving you. Michael,
50:35
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to go away on the right,
50:38
Speaker 1: and I think it's going to be on the left.
50:41
Speaker 1: It'll still be there, It'll just be buried a little
50:43
Speaker 1: bit because they won't have an excuse. On the right.
50:47
Speaker 1: It is very much now part of a culture that
50:51
Speaker 1: views users controlling this country as manipulating politicians, uh as
51:00
Speaker 1: controlling industry, whether it's Wall Street or the places I
51:03
Speaker 1: mean for interest talks about this. Tucker costs and implies
51:07
Speaker 1: it all the time. And it's also connected on the
51:10
Speaker 1: right with Christianity, and that is not going to go away. Right.
51:14
Speaker 1: This idea that and this is the idea I think
51:17
Speaker 1: motivates Tucka in his Christian mode, and it's the idea
51:22
Speaker 1: that motivated Christian anti Semitism from the beginning. And that
51:26
Speaker 1: the idea is that Jews have been exposed to Jesus,
51:35
Speaker 1: they witnessed his miracles, they've had an opportunity to read
51:40
Speaker 1: the New Testament, and yet they reject him. They rejected
51:47
Speaker 1: and that makes them particularly evil, right, And if you
51:50
Speaker 1: go back to the beginning, they were there when he
51:54
Speaker 1: was crucified and that didn't wake them up. They didn't
51:58
Speaker 1: They refused to see the truth. The truth is right
52:01
Speaker 1: starving them in the face, and they refuse it, and
52:03
Speaker 1: that makes them bad, that makes them evil in some way,
52:06
Speaker 1: and that really is the beginning of real anti Semitism,
52:10
Speaker 1: that conception and in that sense that is still hardened
52:16
Speaker 1: on the right, that is getting harder, more hard You're
52:19
Speaker 1: seeing more and more pastors out there kind of saying
52:22
Speaker 1: things like, yeah, Jews can still live here and peacefully,
52:24
Speaker 1: but they shouldn't be able to hold public office, which
52:28
Speaker 1: is you know, going back to old Christian, old Christian
52:32
Speaker 1: views they you know, and they shouldn't be allowed to
52:34
Speaker 1: be so successful. On the left, it's just not going
52:39
Speaker 1: away because You's are successful. Israel's not going away. So
52:43
Speaker 1: Israel will keep being there. It just won't have the
52:48
Speaker 1: same energy behind it, because the particular concrete on television
52:53
Speaker 1: that gets people out to the streets will disappear. That
52:55
Speaker 1: is Gaza. But the philosophy of left and right is change.
53:00
Speaker 1: The fundamental ideas have not changed, and those fundamental ideas
53:04
Speaker 1: placed Jews in opposition to Maga, in an opposition to
53:09
Speaker 1: the fall left. And therefore it's it's going to continue,
53:13
Speaker 1: it's going to exist. Isoe would have to disappear for
53:16
Speaker 1: it to be mitigated a little bit. But as long
53:20
Speaker 1: as Israel's around, yeah, it's right there in their face,
53:24
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna let go of it. Thank you, Thank you,
53:28
Speaker 1: Michael Wes. Who Wes, who's also almost every day with
53:35
Speaker 1: with with a sticker usually and and uh once in
53:39
Speaker 1: a while a comment or question. Uh, one of the
53:42
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53:47
Speaker 1: on at least in super Chat. Thank you, Thank you, Wes. Uh.
53:51
Speaker 1: Wes says, happy Thanksgiving. I'm thankful for you and your shows.
53:55
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53:59
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54:03
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54:06
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54:12
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54:16
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54:19
Speaker 1: what makes me sane. It helps my sanity because otherwise
54:24
Speaker 1: I just be yelling at myself inside my head. This
54:27
Speaker 1: way I can yell into a microphone and you respond,
54:30
Speaker 1: and that that makes that makes it so much easier
54:34
Speaker 1: to cope with the insanity that is the world in
54:37
Speaker 1: which we live. Being alone inside your own head makes
54:41
Speaker 1: it much harder having in a sense of community, having
54:45
Speaker 1: somebody you can talk to about it, Having somebody who
54:47
Speaker 1: shares your perspective, uh, shares your perspective and is willing
54:53
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55:01
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55:10
Speaker 1: guys make it. Make me, help me stay safe, help
55:15
Speaker 1: help me not get you know, uh down the rabbit
55:20
Speaker 1: hole of of how depressed this how depressing the global
55:25
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55:28
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55:32
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55:36
Speaker 1: whatever it is that you do again, you know, you
55:40
Speaker 1: make this show possible. But also you make my sanity possible.
55:44
Speaker 1: If I didn't have an audience. You know, I don't
55:47
Speaker 1: know what I do yelling. You know, what's that the Tempest?
55:54
Speaker 1: The Tempest Shakespeare play where where the lead character is
55:58
Speaker 1: yelling into the storm right nobody can hear you. There's
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Speaker 1: a storm going on. You guys are hearing me. That's
56:08
Speaker 1: an immense value to me, So thank you. Molten Splendor.
56:14
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57:10
Speaker 1: for my time in research answering emails is suggested. Even
57:14
Speaker 1: written generosity is lacking ideas. What I mean? I'm curious
57:20
Speaker 1: where your customers are. Predominantly are the Americans Europeans where
57:24
Speaker 1: they're from? But I think we live in a We
57:29
Speaker 1: live in a this is a downer, but we live
57:32
Speaker 1: in a very in a culture that takes stuff for granted.
57:38
Speaker 1: It takes suff for granted all over the place. You know,
57:44
Speaker 1: we've become accustomed to producers producing and then us throwing
57:50
Speaker 1: them in jail and not really caring about it or producing, producing,
57:54
Speaker 1: and then riling about how evil they are and how
57:57
Speaker 1: they're destroying our youth and they're destroying everybody else and
57:59
Speaker 1: everything else and uh and and and and you know,
58:07
Speaker 1: the opposite of gratitude hate hate hate towards those who
58:11
Speaker 1: produce well. Also become accustomed to getting stuff for free.
58:15
Speaker 1: I mean, this is part of the value of all
58:18
Speaker 1: you guys on Patreon and the super chat and everywhere else,
58:21
Speaker 1: is this is free. You could just listen and and
58:23
Speaker 1: and not contribute at all, right.
58:27
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58:32
Speaker 1: So there, you know, there's we've just become used to
58:36
Speaker 1: just having values thrown at us. This is kind of
58:39
Speaker 1: the the phenomena of wealth and success. Being wealthy a culture.
58:45
Speaker 1: Wealthy in terms of culture makes it possible. So one
58:48
Speaker 1: of the things I value about you guys is most
58:51
Speaker 1: of you, uh, you know, recognize the fact that you're
58:54
Speaker 1: getting a value and a trade is and want to
58:56
Speaker 1: trade value for value. You want to contribute because you're
58:59
Speaker 1: getting some thing. And I think a lot of people
59:02
Speaker 1: out there don't. Their sense of justice involves criticizing people
59:10
Speaker 1: when they're wrong, criticizing people for bad stuff they do.
59:17
Speaker 1: But there's no symmetry and the more important part of justice,
59:20
Speaker 1: which is which is thanking people for the good that
59:26
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59:32
Speaker 1: your own life, recognizing the good, the productive, the good
59:38
Speaker 1: things that they do. With a simple thank you, sometimes
59:41
Speaker 1: just a simple thank you that is out. You know,
59:45
Speaker 1: we live in a cynical world where people just just
59:48
Speaker 1: accept stuff and they have no concept of justice. And
59:54
Speaker 1: this is the thing. It's all about justice. And since
59:59
Speaker 1: in our culture, justice is only about the negative, overwhelmingly
1:00:03
Speaker 1: about the negative, blame, ridicule, accusation, and what we need
1:00:09
Speaker 1: to teach people and it's crucial to their own self esteem.
1:00:12
Speaker 1: And this is my point. You need to be just.
1:00:16
Speaker 1: You need to know that you're just. To know that
1:00:18
Speaker 1: you're just, you need to not only go after people
1:00:23
Speaker 1: who have wronged you, but much more important, much much, much,
1:00:29
Speaker 1: much much more important. You need to go find the
1:00:33
Speaker 1: people who've contributed to your life and thank them and
1:00:39
Speaker 1: thank them. And yeah, simple thank you when you provide
1:00:45
Speaker 1: an answer to somebody or in an email or a
1:00:48
Speaker 1: chat or in whatever, it is, just a simple thank
1:00:51
Speaker 1: you is so appreciated, it's so valuable. It's to the
1:00:57
Speaker 1: other person, but to you yourself, so Malden Spendler, I
1:01:03
Speaker 1: think it's just a sign of a decaying culture, a
1:01:05
Speaker 1: culture that's lost a sense of what justice actually means
1:01:10
Speaker 1: and the importance of justice for your soul. Objectivists believe.
1:01:15
Speaker 1: Objectivism believes that you make your own soul. You build
1:01:18
Speaker 1: your own soul, and the way you make your own
1:01:21
Speaker 1: soul is through acts like acts of justice. It's living
1:01:27
Speaker 1: by your values, and one of those is justice. So
1:01:31
Speaker 1: to be just is to recognize the values people provide
1:01:36
Speaker 1: to you at the very least, to say thank you, yeah,
1:01:48
Speaker 1: and and and so. You know, somebody says it's also
1:01:50
Speaker 1: hard to have that thankful personality when you feel like
1:01:53
Speaker 1: people owe you stuff. Yes, and we live in a
1:01:56
Speaker 1: in an altruistic society generally is a society where everybody
1:01:59
Speaker 1: thinks you owe them. You owe them, Mark another fifty
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Speaker 1: dollars super Chat, Thank you, thanks for the run book show,
1:02:08
Speaker 1: Happy Thanksgiving. Thank you, Mark, really appreciate that. Thank you. Guys.
1:02:14
Speaker 1: Let's see, we'll go back to the questions. Well, let
1:02:16
Speaker 1: me see, there's a bunch of stickers. I saw a lot, Margaret,
1:02:19
Speaker 1: thank you for the sticker. Paul Feris, thank you for
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Speaker 1: this sticker. Let's see, yes this.
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Speaker 2: Paul do.
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Speaker 1: There was Roland. Thank you, Huntsman, thank you, Dallene, thank you,
1:02:41
Speaker 1: laid back pedal pusher, thank you. I think I've cut everybody.
1:02:46
Speaker 1: I think I cut everybody. Yes, all right, Yula, ask
1:02:50
Speaker 1: what is the difference between a Palestinian and the other
1:02:53
Speaker 1: Arabs in the Middle East? Why do some advocate a
1:02:56
Speaker 1: Palestinian state instead of suggesting that Gaza live in one
1:03:00
Speaker 1: of the other gardens, live in one of the other
1:03:02
Speaker 1: Islami countries. I mean, there are a couple of things.
1:03:04
Speaker 1: One is people don't want to move. They many gardens,
1:03:10
Speaker 1: can link their home to many, many, many, many generations
1:03:14
Speaker 1: of people who've lived there. They're connected to the place.
1:03:16
Speaker 1: They like the place, I guess, and they don't want
1:03:18
Speaker 1: to move. Why should they move? So telling people you
1:03:22
Speaker 1: share the same ethnic background as these other countries, go
1:03:27
Speaker 1: live over there, give up your home is not a
1:03:30
Speaker 1: particularly compelling thing to say. But it is true that
1:03:37
Speaker 1: many Palestinians, actually, you know, they don't have roots in
1:03:44
Speaker 1: the place. Although it's not about how deep the roots are.
1:03:48
Speaker 1: It's just the fact that you live somewhere and you
1:03:49
Speaker 1: might want to stay there. But it is true that
1:03:54
Speaker 1: Palestinian nationalism, the idea of a Palestinian nation separate from
1:03:59
Speaker 1: other Arab nations and that should have its own state,
1:04:03
Speaker 1: is a new phenomena. It's probably a phenomena from the
1:04:05
Speaker 1: really from the nineteen sixties. As a popular phenomenon when
1:04:12
Speaker 1: Isel was founded, The dominant view among Arabs and in
1:04:17
Speaker 1: the decades afterwards, even in the fifties, even in the
1:04:19
Speaker 1: sixties was pan Arabism. You know, one big Arab state.
1:04:24
Speaker 1: Now they'd want to have Israel as part of it,
1:04:26
Speaker 1: because what the hell, what the Jew's doing here. It's
1:04:30
Speaker 1: kind of an iore to the dominance of the Middle East,
1:04:35
Speaker 1: the Arabs dominant of mi in the least. You know,
1:04:38
Speaker 1: why are the Jews there? Why are the Jews dominating
1:04:42
Speaker 1: that particular place. So they're offended by that. But there
1:04:48
Speaker 1: was pan Arabism. Islam is doesn't believe in states. Islam
1:04:52
Speaker 1: is not statist. Islam believes in khalifas in an empire
1:04:58
Speaker 1: that rules the entire world. Now, in Islamic history, every
1:05:03
Speaker 1: califight has always broken down into states. Every empire is
1:05:07
Speaker 1: ultimately been fragmented into states. And because the empires are
1:05:13
Speaker 1: too big to manage, and religion is not a good
1:05:17
Speaker 1: basis for a large state. But the reality is the
1:05:21
Speaker 1: ideal for them is one state ruling over the whole world.
1:05:25
Speaker 1: It's a global state. So yeah, it's a good question.
1:05:28
Speaker 1: But in the nineteen sixties, during the heyday of the
1:05:32
Speaker 1: PLO sixties seventies, eighties, Arab nationalism rose up, secular Arab
1:05:38
Speaker 1: nationalism and came to dominate the Palestinian cause. The Palestinians
1:05:43
Speaker 1: are Arabs, but Arabs who lived in this area called Palestine,
1:05:47
Speaker 1: and they thought they want their own state. They don't
1:05:49
Speaker 1: want to share it with Jews. Jews came there, the
1:05:53
Speaker 1: quote colonizers, so you know, they want a state. Nationalism
1:05:59
Speaker 1: came to that world relatively late. And again all of
1:06:06
Speaker 1: this was ruled by the Ottoman Empire. There were never
1:06:08
Speaker 1: states in this area before states, you know, states like
1:06:14
Speaker 1: Syria and Jordan and Iraq. All modern inventions post World
1:06:19
Speaker 1: War One, modern inventions really inventions of the fun powers,
1:06:23
Speaker 1: who the French of the British, who defeated the Ottoman Empire,
1:06:29
Speaker 1: and at some point they figured why not also Palestinian.
1:06:33
Speaker 1: There's no such thing as a Jordanian really in history,
1:06:36
Speaker 1: there's no such thing as Syrian. In history, Syria was
1:06:39
Speaker 1: a province of the Romans. It was the base from
1:06:44
Speaker 1: which the initial Islamic Empire was ruled from before it
1:06:49
Speaker 1: was Bagdad. This was under the Umayads, the first dynasty
1:06:53
Speaker 1: to rule over Islam, but it wasn't a state in
1:06:57
Speaker 1: any kind of real ways. So anyway, uh, Lourie, thank
1:07:03
Speaker 1: you for the show today. Thank you Lowie, think appreciate it.
1:07:06
Speaker 1: Appreciate the support. Michael. When expressing your thank you thanks
1:07:12
Speaker 1: to someone for what he means to you, remember to
1:07:15
Speaker 1: be as specific as you can about what he did
1:07:18
Speaker 1: and how it affected you. Thank you, Michael. It is
1:07:22
Speaker 1: that's great advice. That is great advice because otherwise it's floating.
1:07:27
Speaker 1: You want to be concrete. You want to make it personal,
1:07:30
Speaker 1: and to make it personal, you want to make it concrete,
1:07:33
Speaker 1: and it's more meaningful that way, and it's it doesn't
1:07:39
Speaker 1: sound like a bow mite. Jennifer Oops, what did I do?
1:07:44
Speaker 1: Jennifer Lucille Ball fought against racism. She once pulled her
1:07:50
Speaker 1: whole entourage out of a Southern hotel because they didn't
1:07:54
Speaker 1: want to a blackmaid there. Thank you for everything you're on.
1:07:57
Speaker 1: I'm so glad I met you nine years ago. Thank you, Jennifer.
1:08:01
Speaker 1: And I'm glad you met me nine years ago as well.
1:08:04
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean, I think Lucille Ball's hysterical, funny
1:08:08
Speaker 1: and a tough lady who fought to have a career, fought,
1:08:15
Speaker 1: you know, because she became a star, but fought to
1:08:18
Speaker 1: kind of control the productive, the production process, even though
1:08:22
Speaker 1: she was a woman and often relegated to kind of
1:08:26
Speaker 1: a sick in class. And I didn't know she fought
1:08:30
Speaker 1: against racism, but this doesn't surprise me. She was a
1:08:32
Speaker 1: woman of principle. Thank you, Thank you, Jennifer. Jeffrey Jeffy says,
1:08:38
Speaker 1: left my phone in an uber a couple of days ago,
1:08:41
Speaker 1: just got a new one. Please recap last seventy two hours.
1:08:44
Speaker 1: I don't want to miss a thing. Yeah, everything Trump
1:08:48
Speaker 1: does sucks, and it's pathetic incompetence and anti American. And
1:08:57
Speaker 1: yet in spite of all of that, you you should
1:09:02
Speaker 1: go for that second star and live the best life
1:09:05
Speaker 1: that you can and embrace the good in the world
1:09:08
Speaker 1: and be thankful for living in this amazing country that
1:09:14
Speaker 1: will probably be able to even survive Trump, which is
1:09:18
Speaker 1: quite an achievement. I think that sum raises the last
1:09:21
Speaker 1: seventy two hours. Thank you, Jeffrey, and again congratulations for
1:09:26
Speaker 1: renewing the star. All right, all right, this is a
1:09:32
Speaker 1: question that is a holdover from yesterday, came in late yesterday.
1:09:37
Speaker 1: If a Democratic president is elected in twenty twenty eight,
1:09:41
Speaker 1: should they engage in law fe to try to imprison
1:09:43
Speaker 1: Trump for everything he did? Or should they instead try
1:09:46
Speaker 1: to be a unifying figure that helds in u in America?
1:09:51
Speaker 1: I mean, god, I don't. I mean, there's a sense
1:09:55
Speaker 1: in which you want them to be a unifying figure,
1:09:58
Speaker 1: but what does it mean to be a unified figure.
1:10:00
Speaker 1: To be unified, you have to unify around values. You
1:10:03
Speaker 1: have to unify around ideas, you have to unify around content.
1:10:07
Speaker 1: It's useless, useless to say, let's unite around what What's
1:10:11
Speaker 1: what's the unity that's embraced here? And if you don't
1:10:14
Speaker 1: want to be a nationalist, it can't be blood and
1:10:16
Speaker 1: soil and country because we're Americans. It has to be
1:10:19
Speaker 1: about something. What are we going to unite around? So
1:10:25
Speaker 1: and that's a problem for Democrat. So I don't know
1:10:28
Speaker 1: how the Democrat can unite us because what values are
1:10:30
Speaker 1: they going to unite us around? What is it going
1:10:33
Speaker 1: to be And of course it could very well be
1:10:36
Speaker 1: that going after the corruption of the Trump administration is
1:10:40
Speaker 1: necessary for unity, because it's necessary for justice. So I
1:10:44
Speaker 1: don't call it law fair. Law fair suggests that it's
1:10:47
Speaker 1: it's wrong to do. I would call it justice. And
1:10:51
Speaker 1: we need to re somehow, And I don't know how
1:10:54
Speaker 1: to do this because it's it's there's so much entangled here.
1:11:00
Speaker 1: There is we have to get back to the idea
1:11:05
Speaker 1: of the rule of law, and men are not above
1:11:10
Speaker 1: the law. Politicians, presidents, nobody's above the law, and that
1:11:15
Speaker 1: you know, people should be should suffer the consequence of
1:11:17
Speaker 1: their actions, and if they do something criminal, if they
1:11:20
Speaker 1: literally actually violate the law, they should reprosecute it for it.
1:11:25
Speaker 1: I don't believe that that's going to happen anytime soon,
1:11:28
Speaker 1: because you need a lot of colorage and a real
1:11:31
Speaker 1: conception of what America is and a real conception of
1:11:34
Speaker 1: justice to do it. But that's what I'd like to do,
1:11:38
Speaker 1: So I'd like to see both unity and justice. Andrew,
1:11:43
Speaker 1: I'm pro participation trophies in youth sports, so long as
1:11:48
Speaker 1: trophies for winning a bigger better than those for the losers.
1:11:52
Speaker 1: Trying to gain values is an achievement of will, and
1:11:55
Speaker 1: you deserve self esteem for thoughts. I mean, I don't know, trophies,
1:12:00
Speaker 1: ridiculous ribbons, maybe as long as there's a big difference
1:12:04
Speaker 1: between a winner and everybody else. So I think you're right.
1:12:07
Speaker 1: Participation is important, and just trying sometimes is enough for
1:12:12
Speaker 1: self esteem, but recognizing the skill, the effort that winning
1:12:21
Speaker 1: requires is really important. So the difference has to be substantial.
1:12:26
Speaker 1: And we probably have too many trophies. Again, self esteem
1:12:31
Speaker 1: comes from within, not from without, And once you realize
1:12:34
Speaker 1: it comes from within, how many trophies you have becomes
1:12:38
Speaker 1: less important. What's more important is you being able to
1:12:41
Speaker 1: recognize your own achievements. Robert Happy, thanksgiving everyone. In Objectivism,
1:12:48
Speaker 1: we might not discuss gratitude as a separate virtue, but
1:12:51
Speaker 1: it's there in the fiction, the concept of productivity, trade,
1:12:55
Speaker 1: just as benevolence and more. Well, it's definitely a big
1:12:58
Speaker 1: part of justice. I mean, if you read if you
1:13:01
Speaker 1: read Leonard Peacock's Objectivism and the Philosophy of Iron rand Opah,
1:13:08
Speaker 1: the section on justice is dominated by in a sense,
1:13:16
Speaker 1: gratitude in recognition of the good rather than just recognition.
1:13:22
Speaker 1: You know, penalizing the evil or bad. So it's definitely, definitely,
1:13:27
Speaker 1: definitely in opah. So it's it's but it should be
1:13:30
Speaker 1: emphasized more. Diepa with Diego, Happy Thanksgiving, everybody, Happy Thanksgiving, Diego, Simon, thanks,
1:13:39
Speaker 1: thank you to youran, Thank you, Simon, really appreciate it.
1:13:43
Speaker 1: Gary so thankful, Yuran so thankful. Your hon is here
1:13:48
Speaker 1: to spare me from drudging through the daily news to
1:13:51
Speaker 1: stay aware of current events. I'm glad you find it
1:13:55
Speaker 1: helpful and that it saves you that drudgery, because it
1:13:58
Speaker 1: really is. It's not play, Jason. I just like being around.
1:14:04
Speaker 1: I'm in many places. I'm thankful to have residency in
1:14:08
Speaker 1: three countries. But here on this show, in some is
1:14:12
Speaker 1: some structure. Shoot us a few Thanksgiving movies to check out.
1:14:17
Speaker 1: Happy holidays, ooh, Thanksgiving movies. Let's let's let's look this
1:14:21
Speaker 1: up on Google and then I can I can share
1:14:24
Speaker 1: from the list Thanksgiving movies. All right, uh to aren't
1:14:34
Speaker 1: they usually thinks giving you movies? I give you one Shenandoah.
1:14:37
Speaker 1: Shenando is a good movie for that sense. Yeah, ten
1:14:42
Speaker 1: best Thanksgiving movies. Let's see what they come up with, planes, trains,
1:14:46
Speaker 1: and automobiles, super funny, super funny. I don't know what. Ah,
1:14:50
Speaker 1: he's trying to get back to Thanksgiving dinner, to Thanksgiving
1:14:53
Speaker 1: with the family, and he's struggling. It's it's from the
1:14:56
Speaker 1: days where American comedies were actually funny. I don't know
1:15:01
Speaker 1: about that, Charlie Brown, Thanksgiving. Don't know Rocky. There's a
1:15:06
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving seen in the original Rocky, and it's not exactly
1:15:09
Speaker 1: full of family fun and fuzzies. But yeah, Rocky is
1:15:13
Speaker 1: a good movie, so worth watching. Yeah, Rocky's fun, Rocky's fun.
1:15:17
Speaker 1: Let's see what else do we have? Yeah? No, I
1:15:24
Speaker 1: don't know. Center a Woman, Center of a Woman is
1:15:28
Speaker 1: that I did a I did a thing. I did
1:15:29
Speaker 1: a review of Center the Woman on here. Yeah. Oh,
1:15:39
Speaker 1: over Thanksgiving dinner, he tells him how he got blind,
1:15:42
Speaker 1: how he was blinded. That's right, So there is a
1:15:44
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving dinner there, So a Center a Woman I think,
1:15:47
Speaker 1: I guess is considered the Thanksgiving movie.
1:15:50
Speaker 2: You know.
1:15:50
Speaker 1: I still come back to to Shenandoah for the for
1:15:54
Speaker 1: the Let's see what else do we have? All right,
1:16:02
Speaker 1: let's see what this What this list has? Uh has
1:16:06
Speaker 1: Rockies playing trains and automobiles again, sent of a Woman again, Um,
1:16:13
Speaker 1: knives out. That's a fun movie, right. I mean, they're
1:16:19
Speaker 1: not a lot of Thanksgiving movies. More Christmas movies. I
1:16:21
Speaker 1: guess seventy seven zero best Thanksgiving movies seventy seventy God,
1:16:29
Speaker 1: the gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin, love the gold Rush. I
1:16:32
Speaker 1: love Charlie Chaplin movies. Uh so you don't try that
1:16:36
Speaker 1: out that that that that the gold Rush. I'm just screening. Uh,
1:16:41
Speaker 1: Hannah and her Sisties. That's that's. Uh, that's Woody Allen
1:16:44
Speaker 1: from the from the nineteen seventies, uh, eighties in ten
1:16:51
Speaker 1: eighty six, eighty six, so eighties. Let's see. You don't
1:16:57
Speaker 1: like that one. Uh uh yeah, I'm trying to see movies.
1:17:03
Speaker 1: I like. Send of a Woman makes this list as well.
1:17:06
Speaker 2: Uh, I don't know that, don't know. Uh eh, God,
1:17:16
Speaker 2: a lot of.
1:17:17
Speaker 1: These movies are mediocre. Butt You've Got Mail. You've Got
1:17:20
Speaker 1: Mail is based on my favorite Christmas movie, which is, Yeah,
1:17:30
Speaker 1: a very young Jimmy Stewart is in that movie. God,
1:17:38
Speaker 1: somebody will remind me of the Ernst Lubach movie that
1:17:42
Speaker 1: You've Got Mail is based on, which is I think
1:17:44
Speaker 1: my favorite Christmas movie. And You're gonna you're gonna tell
1:17:48
Speaker 1: me what the what the name of that movie is,
1:17:50
Speaker 1: because somebody has to know out there is your run Mosade? Definitely,
1:17:58
Speaker 1: I mean, is there any question? Mm hm, definitely Mossade.
1:18:04
Speaker 1: Let's see, somebody asked that in the chat. I don't
1:18:07
Speaker 1: know why we're talking about Christmas Thanksgiving movies. Doesn't look
1:18:11
Speaker 1: like there's a lot of Thanksgiving movies. I mean I
1:18:14
Speaker 1: just went down the list of seventy movies and yeah, no,
1:18:21
Speaker 1: not much, not much. The number one Thanksgiving movie is
1:18:25
Speaker 1: gold Rush, according to this list, The gold Rush nineteen
1:18:29
Speaker 1: twenty five by Charlie Chaplin recommend it shop around the Corner.
1:18:34
Speaker 1: I knew it would come to me, all right, Jimmy Stewart,
1:18:36
Speaker 1: Chop around the corner. It's my favorite Christmas movie. It's
1:18:40
Speaker 1: just a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful movie. So Ernst Lubich Chopper
1:18:43
Speaker 1: around the corner, Jimmy Stewart, and and I forget the
1:18:49
Speaker 1: actress's name, but Ernst Lubag is the Ernst Lubich is
1:18:54
Speaker 1: the director. Alright, let's see, Okay, we answered that, all right,
1:19:09
Speaker 1: laid back Petapusha. Thankful for Jennifer because she sees me here,
1:19:15
Speaker 1: even though I'm usually too slow to respond. Here you go,
1:19:20
Speaker 1: Jennifer mc because I'm truly thankful for your visit in Modena.
1:19:31
Speaker 1: Me too. That was fun. It was one of the
1:19:33
Speaker 1: coolest days of my life. I appreciate that, Milko. I
1:19:36
Speaker 1: really enjoyed it. That was a lot of fun. And
1:19:39
Speaker 1: we need to connect about doing something in Italy in
1:19:44
Speaker 1: March or April. So if you're still interested in doing
1:19:49
Speaker 1: an event somewhere in Italy in marcho April, let me know.
1:19:53
Speaker 1: I've got I now have dates when I'm going to
1:19:55
Speaker 1: be in Europe and could make it out there alternatively
1:19:57
Speaker 1: in the summer, but those March of April are going
1:20:00
Speaker 1: to be are going to be good sceneric. Thank you,
1:20:05
Speaker 1: Jon for bringing the ideas of objectivesm to life. I
1:20:07
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Okay, Raymond, he had Okay, it's a three
1:20:14
Speaker 1: part question. My sources and news articles which often don't
1:20:17
Speaker 1: cite stats or research studies which I have no idea
1:20:20
Speaker 1: how to validate, or just casual arguments. Thus I feel
1:20:24
Speaker 1: impotent evaluating medical studies on news like the Uga genocide,
1:20:29
Speaker 1: CIA more trustworthy than the CCP. But I'm not a
1:20:32
Speaker 1: satellite analyst. How do you read a study, no, if
1:20:37
Speaker 1: you can trust it? Also, how do you decide in
1:20:41
Speaker 1: domains you aren't expert in whether it's to take doctor's advice.
1:20:46
Speaker 1: I mean a number of things. One is, like doctors,
1:20:49
Speaker 1: you want second and sometimes third or fourth opinions. You
1:20:53
Speaker 1: want to get a flavor of what's out there, what
1:20:55
Speaker 1: people are thinking, So you don't just follow one doctor.
1:21:02
Speaker 1: You want to follow more than one doctor, and you
1:21:05
Speaker 1: want to get a bunch of different opinions, and then
1:21:08
Speaker 1: you at the end have to judge it based on
1:21:10
Speaker 1: whether it makes sense given your knowledge of your body
1:21:12
Speaker 1: and your knowledge of the issues. You can I mean,
1:21:15
Speaker 1: the beauty today is you can do a lot of
1:21:17
Speaker 1: research online. You can read stuff even if you don't know.
1:21:20
Speaker 1: You can at least get a sense of what's going
1:21:22
Speaker 1: on so that you can make a more educated assessment
1:21:26
Speaker 1: of the different recommendations you're getting from doctors. It's hard
1:21:30
Speaker 1: to evaluate studies. Most people don't know what they're doing.
1:21:34
Speaker 1: They really, really really don't, and they screw it up
1:21:36
Speaker 1: because statistics is hard. So one of the things to
1:21:39
Speaker 1: do is to find resources, find people who seem to
1:21:45
Speaker 1: approach these studies objectively. I don't know p dot T.
1:21:50
Speaker 1: I think it is quite good his analysis of statistics
1:21:54
Speaker 1: and wife example, it's really difficult, almost impossible to do
1:21:59
Speaker 1: a good study on nutrition. Uh. The fact that he
1:22:04
Speaker 1: goes through this in his book at least, and he
1:22:06
Speaker 1: goes through sometimes on his podcast on the extent to
1:22:10
Speaker 1: which these studies are hard because because because of designing
1:22:15
Speaker 1: them and then how you interpret the statistics suggest to
1:22:18
Speaker 1: me that he's doing the work and he's thinking about it,
1:22:25
Speaker 1: and the you know, the the reality is that you
1:22:32
Speaker 1: need to find people like that, people who actually do
1:22:34
Speaker 1: the work. There are a lot of Charlatans out there
1:22:38
Speaker 1: who sell you a story that is not backed by
1:22:43
Speaker 1: scientific evidence. Indeed, I think I think most of the
1:22:47
Speaker 1: people doing nutrition today or who claim absolute knowledge and
1:22:52
Speaker 1: nutrition are Charlatans who don't know what they're talking about,
1:22:57
Speaker 1: who don't have the statistical acumenym to actually review the studies,
1:23:02
Speaker 1: or who are just lying to you. Many of them
1:23:05
Speaker 1: are just ignorant, but some of them are lying. And
1:23:10
Speaker 1: you know, so if somebody is making a strong claim
1:23:13
Speaker 1: about something, they need to have strong evidence for that claim,
1:23:17
Speaker 1: and you know that's hard, and they need to show
1:23:22
Speaker 1: their work, and most of these people don't. So I
1:23:25
Speaker 1: want to see people who show their work and reference
1:23:28
Speaker 1: to studies and and tell you what their approaches to statistics.
1:23:34
Speaker 1: And now I happen to know statistics some because I
1:23:39
Speaker 1: used to do statistical stuff. I've got a number like
1:23:43
Speaker 1: six published papers and academic journals to do statistics K
1:23:49
Speaker 1: And so I know something about statistics. And most studies
1:23:55
Speaker 1: can't be replicated. I mean, you know, it's hard. So
1:23:58
Speaker 1: you got to find people who who approach the data
1:24:02
Speaker 1: objectively and approached the results objectively. And I think to
1:24:06
Speaker 1: my number of doctors for example, on YouTube that seemed
1:24:09
Speaker 1: to do that. They show you the studies, they look
1:24:12
Speaker 1: at the stats, they show you what's going on. They
1:24:14
Speaker 1: mentioned if the study contradicts other studies. They mentioned the
1:24:18
Speaker 1: fact that studies some studies are bad, so other studies
1:24:20
Speaker 1: are good. I mean, I remember when Ivan Mechtin was
1:24:23
Speaker 1: a thing right during COVID, and Scott Alexander did this.
1:24:28
Speaker 2: Long, long, long, long.
1:24:30
Speaker 1: Essay analyzing every study that was done and giving, you know,
1:24:35
Speaker 1: and coming to a conclusion about Evamictin and then he
1:24:39
Speaker 1: was challenged by a bunch of people. So a year
1:24:41
Speaker 1: later or something, he did a follow on where he
1:24:44
Speaker 1: reviewed all the new studies about evermictin. It came to
1:24:46
Speaker 1: the same conclusion that don't take it for COVID. But
1:24:51
Speaker 1: that kind of detailed analysis was it blew me away.
1:24:55
Speaker 1: I mean it was really impressive, and I think he
1:24:58
Speaker 1: was right or based on kind of his analysis of
1:25:03
Speaker 1: the difference, he literally threw up the study. So if
1:25:06
Speaker 1: you have cancer and you think about, Okay, who should
1:25:09
Speaker 1: I listen to? What kind of treatment should I get?
1:25:11
Speaker 1: Should I just go on a paleo you know, on
1:25:14
Speaker 1: on a kido diet and that also of it. You know,
1:25:19
Speaker 1: find doctors who know the literature, who willing to share
1:25:25
Speaker 1: their analysis with you and actually actually show you the
1:25:31
Speaker 1: work and why they hold the view that they view,
1:25:35
Speaker 1: and ask them questions. If you've heard about I don't
1:25:38
Speaker 1: know now it's I guess the latest greatest treatment for cancers.
1:25:43
Speaker 1: I've emercican, so asked Tim about it. You know, don't
1:25:47
Speaker 1: be shy if you if you think there's any validity
1:25:51
Speaker 1: to it. I happened to nothink there's any validity to
1:25:53
Speaker 1: do it, So I'm not gonna even ask. But if
1:25:55
Speaker 1: you if you thought that there was because you watched
1:25:57
Speaker 1: what's his name that that brilliant, brilliant science by the
1:26:00
Speaker 1: name of mel Brook, mel Gibson, mel Gibson. Yeah, I
1:26:05
Speaker 1: mean anybody who writes doctors of idiots as Nate just
1:26:09
Speaker 1: did idiots, I mean, that is an idiotic, stupid things
1:26:15
Speaker 1: to say. It shows unbelievable, unimaginable ignorance of doctors. And
1:26:24
Speaker 1: you know you, I hope you don't need them, because
1:26:28
Speaker 1: you're going to need them some point in your life
1:26:30
Speaker 1: and having that attitude is not going to help you,
1:26:33
Speaker 1: not going to help you at all. And it's exactly that.
1:26:37
Speaker 1: I'm incredibly grateful for all the amazing, great doctors that
1:26:42
Speaker 1: exist out there. General practitioners are idiots. Another stupid, ignorant
1:26:48
Speaker 1: generalization that is based on not a nothing, based on
1:26:52
Speaker 1: a cult that worships its sudden view of nutrition, I
1:26:56
Speaker 1: guess and diet and stuff. But it's it's just stupid.
1:27:00
Speaker 1: I know so many great general practitioners. It's just stupid,
1:27:06
Speaker 1: you know, to have these kind of generalizations. All right, Raymond,
1:27:12
Speaker 1: I'm a second generation Chinese immigrant to Canada. It is
1:27:16
Speaker 1: common for my relatives like my dad to deny the
1:27:19
Speaker 1: Uga genocide. Oops. They argue it doesn't exist is a
1:27:26
Speaker 1: Western media conspiracy, and most journalists have gone or you
1:27:30
Speaker 1: aren't a satellite expert, so you don't know. I know
1:27:40
Speaker 1: it about as certainly as World War Two. I read it.
1:27:44
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not going to Normandy. But at the
1:27:48
Speaker 1: historical event cites, how can I know? Now? I mean
1:27:53
Speaker 1: world War two you know more than you do the
1:27:55
Speaker 1: uga and and you should have more certainty around because
1:27:59
Speaker 1: there's just more used to verify it. And the more
1:28:01
Speaker 1: people who verified and the people who lived through it
1:28:03
Speaker 1: that can that are witnesses that you could you could
1:28:06
Speaker 1: fly and interview them if you wanted to, if you
1:28:08
Speaker 1: if you weren't so sure, and uh, you know, uh,
1:28:15
Speaker 1: the the uh uh The thing with the ugas is
1:28:21
Speaker 1: you would really have to do a lot of research
1:28:22
Speaker 1: to get to the level of certainty is world War two.
1:28:25
Speaker 1: So you have to recognize that there's someone certainly around it.
1:28:28
Speaker 1: What do they mean exactly by genocide? What is actually
1:28:31
Speaker 1: going on? Are they re education camps? Are they killing them?
1:28:35
Speaker 1: That is, are they literally wiping them out like the
1:28:38
Speaker 1: Nazis did in World War Two? That I don't know.
1:28:42
Speaker 1: I have a highest level of confidence that they're sending
1:28:46
Speaker 1: into re education camps and and uh, they're imprisoning a
1:28:50
Speaker 1: lot of people, and that that is going on. Whether
1:28:52
Speaker 1: you consider that genocide or not, I think genocide is
1:28:55
Speaker 1: an overused, overused, overused statement. But look, it's a it's
1:29:03
Speaker 1: a question of research. You could find Chinese dissidents who
1:29:09
Speaker 1: who are Ugas, who live in the United States, and
1:29:12
Speaker 1: you could could go and get first hand accounts from them. Uh.
1:29:16
Speaker 1: And so all the evidence suggests that something really bad
1:29:19
Speaker 1: is going on with the Ugas. Whether it's out and
1:29:21
Speaker 1: out genocide, the eradication of a people, I don't know,
1:29:26
Speaker 1: but I know that something really bad is going on,
1:29:29
Speaker 1: and it is given the history of terrorism on behalf
1:29:32
Speaker 1: of the Ugas, I'm not surprised that China's really clammed
1:29:36
Speaker 1: down on them and trying to trying to re educate
1:29:40
Speaker 1: them and trying to get them away from religion. The
1:29:43
Speaker 1: Chinese are very afraid of Islamism and and they're trying
1:29:46
Speaker 1: to reorient towards uh, you know, towards I don't know,
1:29:51
Speaker 1: secular communism or whatever whatever their ideology happens to be
1:29:54
Speaker 1: at the moment. But it's hot. You have to do
1:29:57
Speaker 1: a lot of research, read first hand accounts, and then
1:29:59
Speaker 1: you then you have to be honest with yourself about
1:30:02
Speaker 1: the degree to which you are confident in something. Here's
1:30:06
Speaker 1: what Nate writes, right, because this is important. I think
1:30:09
Speaker 1: if the world is so irrational, like Jan says, what
1:30:12
Speaker 1: are the odds science and medicine use pop epistemology. Well,
1:30:16
Speaker 1: I mean, here's the reality. Reality is that you live
1:30:19
Speaker 1: in a world in which every single day people are
1:30:22
Speaker 1: producing things based on new knowledge that are producing things
1:30:27
Speaker 1: that work and that function that don't break down immediately.
1:30:34
Speaker 1: People are constantly pushing the envelope on knowledge, on technology,
1:30:38
Speaker 1: on innovation, on new things. If the world is irrationalist
1:30:42
Speaker 1: you pretend to claim that I claim, then none of
1:30:47
Speaker 1: that would happen. Silicon Valley couldn't exist, you know, science
1:30:51
Speaker 1: breakthrough that are happening all the time, we're learning new
1:30:54
Speaker 1: scientific facts all the time couldn't exist because scientists couldn't
1:30:57
Speaker 1: do their job. Indeed, if people were that irrational, how
1:31:02
Speaker 1: is it that we can drive on the highways at
1:31:03
Speaker 1: eighty miles an hour and have so few accidents. I mean,
1:31:06
Speaker 1: you'd think that they be stupid enough to try to
1:31:09
Speaker 1: cut each other off and cause mass casualty events on
1:31:12
Speaker 1: a regular basis. You know, how do people do anything?
1:31:17
Speaker 1: So you're misinterpreting the way I think about the way
1:31:21
Speaker 1: the world is irrational and the degree to which people
1:31:24
Speaker 1: are compop bandalized. But I am incredibly thankful to those
1:31:28
Speaker 1: people out there who are using their minds creating great products, innovating,
1:31:35
Speaker 1: building new stuff, and using their mind effectively in order
1:31:40
Speaker 1: to do that. Some of them are doctors, some of
1:31:43
Speaker 1: them are scientists, some of them are technologists. You know,
1:31:47
Speaker 1: next native is going to tell me that man never
1:31:49
Speaker 1: landed on the moon, because how could you land on
1:31:51
Speaker 1: the moon. The culture is so irrational they could never
1:31:54
Speaker 1: do that kind of technology and actually get people in
1:31:56
Speaker 1: the moon. And my guess is that stalling doesn't exist,
1:31:59
Speaker 1: and neither of there's what are those rockets that land
1:32:02
Speaker 1: back and are caught, you know, the whole, the whole,
1:32:06
Speaker 1: the whole, uh, you know, elon musk thing. So I
1:32:14
Speaker 1: don't know what you know, I don't know what anybody's
1:32:17
Speaker 1: talking about. So the idea that the world's irrational, we
1:32:22
Speaker 1: can't trust scientists, we can't trust doctors, we can't trust technologists,
1:32:26
Speaker 1: we can't trust entrepreneurs, we can't trust innovators or inventors
1:32:30
Speaker 1: or anybody. I mean, because the world's irrational. I mean,
1:32:34
Speaker 1: that's just dumb. It's just dumb. You should rethink your
1:32:42
Speaker 1: perception of the world. If you buy, if you if
1:32:46
Speaker 1: you if you buy into that life expectancies doubled last
1:32:51
Speaker 1: hundred years. Somebody is responsible for that. You know. Uh,
1:32:58
Speaker 1: treatment of cancers get better every day. I mean, there's
1:33:01
Speaker 1: so many things of science and and medicine are doing. Uh.
1:33:05
Speaker 1: And and there's some excellent, excellent you know, what do
1:33:11
Speaker 1: you call it? What do you call it? General physicians
1:33:14
Speaker 1: out there? Uh, family doctors, however you want to call
1:33:17
Speaker 1: it generalists, some excellent ones. You know you probably have
1:33:22
Speaker 1: to pay more to get access to them, but they're
1:33:24
Speaker 1: out there. So you know, these generalizations are silly, just silly.
1:33:31
Speaker 1: You got you got to stop them. And again, look around,
1:33:33
Speaker 1: Smell the roses, Look at the beautiful world in which
1:33:35
Speaker 1: we live. Be thankful, thankful all the amazing stuff that
1:33:42
Speaker 1: we have. Don't gloss over it because I don't know.
1:33:47
Speaker 1: You've read something that you become excited about. You at
1:33:51
Speaker 1: iron Rand, or you had some doctor's website that tells
1:33:54
Speaker 1: you he has the truth, that nobody else does. Beware,
1:33:58
Speaker 1: think you your mind and be thankful, Go out, smell
1:34:03
Speaker 1: the roses, and then come back in and eat a
1:34:05
Speaker 1: big meal. Happy Thanksgiving everybody. I will see you guys tomorrow.
1:34:11
Speaker 1: And yeah, thank you. Thank you for being here, thank
1:34:14
Speaker 1: you for putting the show, thank you for giving me feedback,
1:34:18
Speaker 1: thank you for making it interesting for me. Thank you.
1:34:23
Speaker 1: Bye everybody,