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Tariff Lies Exposed; Xi, Modi & Putin Unmasked; Tourism Scams & UK Asylum Chaos | Yaron Brook Show · Yaron Brook Show

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  Speaker 1: This is my new location for the next three weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Really uh in in Florence. This is the office I rendered.
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  Speaker 1: we have I guess a lot to cover. I as
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm still in fall in Florence, Italy and
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  Speaker 1: really amazing city. Did a lot of walking around town today.
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  Speaker 1: No new museums today. I'll fill you in as we
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  Speaker 1: go through the different museums in Florence and give you
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  Speaker 1: accommodations around those. But a lot of walking. It's fun
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  Speaker 1: to just walk through the little alleyways and the streets.
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  Speaker 1: And as we're walking, we're like, oh, we need to
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  Speaker 1: It really is a lot of fun. So I encourage
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  Speaker 1: you again visit Florence, come see the David, and stay
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  Speaker 1: to see everything else. All right, let's let's get rolling.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, in the beginning we're going to talk about tariffs.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the White House today celebrating Labor Day.
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  Speaker 1: So happy Labor Day. I'm not sure why we need
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  Speaker 1: a labor day, but there you go. We've got a
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  Speaker 1: labor day in the United States, at least in the US.
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  Speaker 1: We don't celebrate on the first of May, which is
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  Speaker 1: kind of the common labor day we celebrate it, I
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  Speaker 1: guess the first Monday in September or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: But it would be great to have an entrepreneur day,
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  Speaker 1: a businessman day, a capitalist day, capitalist day, a banker's day,
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  Speaker 1: a Wall Street day, those will all be really good.
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  Speaker 1: So but right now we have labor Day. I'll remind
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  Speaker 1: you that labor with our capital can produce nothing zero
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  Speaker 1: zoach subsistence. And look, labors needed. Labor needs, you know,
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  Speaker 1: capitalists and need labor to put in place the plans
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  Speaker 1: and and to actually do the physical labor required. And
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of physical labor that is required to
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  Speaker 1: make our lives good. And that is good. So there's
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  Speaker 1: no harmage celebrating labor. It's just disproportionate in a sense
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  Speaker 1: that we never celebrate anything else. So today the White
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  Speaker 1: House announced that.
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  Speaker 4: That this is the white House Twitter accounts that.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump's trade policies have helped drive more than eight
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  Speaker 1: trillion dollars of new US investments, creating hundreds of thousands
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  Speaker 1: of jobs, and this You can add this to the
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  Speaker 1: four trillion dollars of net deficit reduction that tariffs are
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  Speaker 1: responsible for. You know, the eight trillion dollars of investments
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  Speaker 1: of new business, five trillion of new business investments, hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of thousands of jobs.
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  Speaker 4: Record low gas prices.
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  Speaker 1: I think Trump today tweeted this is this is traumpa prices.
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  Speaker 1: Prices generally are way down in the United States with
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  Speaker 1: virtually no inflation, with the exception of ridiculous, corrupt politicians
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  Speaker 1: approved windmills which are killing every state and county that
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  Speaker 1: uses them. Energy prices are falling big time. Gasoline is
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  Speaker 1: at many years lows. All of this despite magnificent tariffs
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  Speaker 1: which are bringing in trillions of dollars from countries that
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  Speaker 1: took that took total advantage of US for decades, and
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  Speaker 1: am making America strong and respected again. We'll get to
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  Speaker 1: the making America expected again later. But this administration, you know,
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  Speaker 1: lies with bombast. They don't just do the two we goal.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a politician lie, They lie big trillions of dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Prices are going down. Haven't you noticed every time you
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  Speaker 1: get to go see store, the basket of goods that
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  Speaker 1: you buy is actually costs less every time you.
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  Speaker 4: Go since Trump got elected.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's amazing how he has not only reduced
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  Speaker 1: the level of inflation, he's actually made it negative. Now
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  Speaker 1: prices are going down. I mean, it's all just fiction, fantasy,
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  Speaker 1: bold face lies. It's not ignorance, it's not stupidity. It's
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  Speaker 1: you know what, you say it and it will become
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  Speaker 1: true because if you say it, and you say what convict,
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  Speaker 1: and if you make the numbers big enough so that people,
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  Speaker 1: you know, once you talk to trillions, people can't even
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  Speaker 1: comprehend the numbers. You know, people just are going to buy. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's not a trillion, but it's something. He wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: say a trillion if itels zero. So maybe it's not
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  Speaker 1: a trillion. Maybe tony four trillion, maybe tony two trillion,
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  Speaker 1: A trillion here, a trillion? They who cares? But it's
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  Speaker 1: all a lie. The tariff revenues are there, but they're
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  Speaker 1: not in the trillions. They're in the billions maybe, and
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  Speaker 1: they're still small. And given that they're hooting in the
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  Speaker 1: economy and reducing tax revenue elsewhere, the net effect is
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  Speaker 1: probably negative. There is no real new business investment in
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  Speaker 1: the United States as we'll see, businesses are hesitant to
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  Speaker 1: invest in the US. They don't know tariffs are gonna hold,
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  Speaker 1: They're not gonna hold. They don't know what the full
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  Speaker 1: consequences of this to the economy is going to be,
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  Speaker 1: So there's no real new investment net. People will really
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  Speaker 1: just rephrasing investments that are gonna make any way. Is
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  Speaker 1: as these are new investments. Who not to suck up
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  Speaker 1: to Trump deficit reduction? The Big Beautiful Bill was a
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  Speaker 1: massive deficit increase and hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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  Speaker 4: Hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the latest job numbers clearly show that very
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  Speaker 1: few jobs are being created right now in the economy.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll see with the next few numbers if that holds.
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  Speaker 4: Says, if we.
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  Speaker 1: Get negative numbers now, the reality is that the next
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  Speaker 1: few numbers that we get about employment out of the
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  Speaker 1: Bureau of Labor Statistics are going to be made up
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  Speaker 1: because Trump fired the guy responsible for the numbers and
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  Speaker 1: delivering those numbers and appointed somebody who is going to
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  Speaker 1: report numbers that Trump tells him. I mean, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be surprised if we hear next month that true millions
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  Speaker 1: of jobs have been created. Trillions of jobs have been
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  Speaker 1: created in the United States since Trump it took office.
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  Speaker 1: They need. All the jobs ever in the entire history
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  Speaker 1: of the United States were created because of Trump's policies.
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  Speaker 1: This administration lies like no other administration ever has. That
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  Speaker 1: I think is pretty clear. It lies boldly, It lies big.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't believe in small lies, big lies, big bold lies,
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  Speaker 1: And when confronted with facts, they don't care. They just
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  Speaker 1: ignore them. They keep on going.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, think about eight trillion entire revenue, eight trillion
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  Speaker 5: terira revenue, all of the inputs into the United States
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  Speaker 5: in twenty twenty four, all of the inputs entire inputs
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  Speaker 5: into the United States in twenty twenty four, we're three.
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  Speaker 1: Point seven trillion. If you teariff that at twenty five
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  Speaker 1: percent and they put their own change, you still have
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  Speaker 1: the same amount of inputs. Then it's twenty five percent
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  Speaker 1: of through very seven trillion. That's a quarter. That's maybe
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  Speaker 1: one trillion. How can it be eight trillion, eight trillion?
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  Speaker 1: You have to have to have two hundred percent and
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  Speaker 1: assume that nobody changes their behavior as prices go up
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  Speaker 1: two hundred percent, or that foreigners are willing to basically
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  Speaker 1: take huge losses on the stuff they sell Americans so
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  Speaker 1: that they pay the tariff. It's just so stupid. It's
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  Speaker 1: not even sophisticated lies. It's not even lies that you
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  Speaker 1: can somehow vaguely moderate, you know, defend.
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  Speaker 4: It's just sheer, bold lying.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you know, Secretary Scott Bessett was on Fox News.
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  Speaker 1: I was asked by Laura Trump. I guess law of
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  Speaker 1: Trump is a Fox News who knew? I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: because and if always Fox News. But anyway, Laara Trump,
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  Speaker 1: she asks him about, you know, these claims the tariffs.
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  Speaker 1: I hidden tax on Americans? Is that possible? A hidden
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  Speaker 1: tax on American consumers? Tariffs? Really? And this is this
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  Speaker 1: is uh, this is his response. This is Scott Bessett.
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  Speaker 3: He is one of the smarter people and woman would
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  Speaker 3: have thought, maybe one of the more honest people in
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  Speaker 3: the administration.
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  Speaker 4: And this is what he says.
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  Speaker 1: Why do we hear the European companies or the Chinese companies, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, complain about tariffs if it's all being born
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  Speaker 1: by the American people, It's just not happening. Now. Scott
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  Speaker 1: Bessett is a smart guy. He's not an idiot. He
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  Speaker 1: knows economics, he understands. So even if it's born one
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  Speaker 1: hundred sent by Americans, which it mostly is, why would
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  Speaker 1: Chinese and European companies still complain? Why would they be afraid?
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  Speaker 4: Why would they be worried for their.
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  Speaker 1: Businesses even if they didn't pay any of the tariff?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is an econ one on one question
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  Speaker 1: to any one of you who understands supply and demand.
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  Speaker 1: What happens when tariffs cause prices to go up, demand
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  Speaker 1: goes down, People buy few of that good. It's just
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  Speaker 1: a basic rule in economics, and it's one of those
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  Speaker 1: rules in economics which.
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  Speaker 4: Is absolutely true. So if a toy.
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  Speaker 1: Manufacturer in China, he's still selling the product of the
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  Speaker 1: American imported at the same price, he's not burying any
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  Speaker 1: of the tariff. And then the toy rides in the US.
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  Speaker 1: It says one hundred dollars toy and it's marked up
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  Speaker 1: by fifty, which is the terriffun China right now, I think,
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  Speaker 1: so it now cost one hundred and fifty dollars to
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  Speaker 1: you know, plus the profit and whatever to the American consumer.
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  Speaker 1: Why is the Chinese manufacturer complaining or because the number
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  Speaker 1: of Americans buying this toy is going to go down
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  Speaker 1: because they're paying fifty percent more than they used to.
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  Speaker 1: His sales are going to go down, and therefore he
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  Speaker 1: is going to make less money, which is the reason
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  Speaker 1: he's complaining. Now, this is not hard, and Bessett knows this.
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  Speaker 1: He's not ignorant. He's just bold faced lying to the
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  Speaker 1: American people. And he's lying on Fox News, and the
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  Speaker 1: people listening to Fox News are inclined to believe the liar. Ready,
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  Speaker 1: then maybe they're not maga, maybe they're not bought into everything.
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  Speaker 1: But look at Scott Bassett. He's not a maga good guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's a pretty reasonable guy, he seems, and he's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna lie both facely to us.
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  Speaker 4: So there must be something true here.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe those Chinese companies aren't paying the theF Maybe the
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  Speaker 1: Chinese aren't paying it after all. Maybe maybe that's true.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe all these economists have just been lying to us.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he my professor, and he kind of one on
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  Speaker 1: one was lying to me. Scott Bessett wouldn't lie. And
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  Speaker 1: it's just the scale of this is just horrific. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you keep lying, you keep making numbers up, and then
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  Speaker 1: you appoint people to the Bureau of Statistics, who are
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  Speaker 1: going to keep making stuff up. And basically the United
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  Speaker 1: States has turned into Argentina of you know, twenty years ago,
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  Speaker 1: where you can't believe anything the government says. You can't
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  Speaker 1: believe any numbered by the government. And over time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you get the kind of despotism that you get that
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  Speaker 1: you got an Argentina. And I think it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: worse here. Trump is really laying the foundation again. He
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  Speaker 1: won't be laying the foundation for complete authoritarianism. The government
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  Speaker 1: will just tell you what the truth is, not your experience,
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  Speaker 1: not you going to the grocery store and seeing prices
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  Speaker 1: go up. I mean inflation, price inflation. The prices of
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  Speaker 1: the goods you buy in a regular grocery store. Visit.
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  Speaker 1: They're going up every year. This year by three percent.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be higher three percent now than it was
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  Speaker 1: a year ago. That's worth complaining about. That's not good, right,
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  Speaker 1: So costs going up across the board, and Trump has
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: not changed that. Price of gasoline is low, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not the lowest. It's being that in years and years
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  Speaker 1: and years, and it's low. It has nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with Trump. It's it's low because Saudi Arabia has opened
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  Speaker 1: up the spigots and is pumping oil out in large quantities,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore on global markets prices have come down. But
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  Speaker 1: Trump is going to take credit for that, and he's
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: gonna take he's gonna invent credit for the drop. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to invent the fact that prices have gone down
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  Speaker 1: and then take credit for his invented fact.
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  Speaker 4: But again, it's all a lying.
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  Speaker 1: It's just not true.
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  Speaker 4: He's lying to you.
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  Speaker 1: And if he's lying to you about this stuff that's
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: just plain, straightforward obvious, it's obvious. Then he's lying about
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  Speaker 1: it anything and you can't trust a word that comes
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  Speaker 1: out of his mouth. And you'll say all politicians lie, yes,
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  Speaker 1: but he lies more, he lies more boldly, and he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't care he is. There is no conception of reality
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  Speaker 1: for him, and there's no loyalty to really to anything
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  Speaker 1: except whatever his whim is right now. It's a really
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  Speaker 1: unique human being we've elected president.
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  Speaker 4: By the way.
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  Speaker 1: People have done some research over the last few months
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  Speaker 1: and looked at tariffs and looked at okay, well, Chinese companies,
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  Speaker 1: particularly in China, a Chinese companies willing to you know,
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  Speaker 1: take a hit how much of the tariffs are they
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  Speaker 1: willing to absorb in order to you need to sell
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  Speaker 1: into the United States, And they are willing terms of
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  Speaker 1: some of it. So about nine percent of the total tariff,
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  Speaker 1: nine percent of the total taff so fifty per tariff,
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  Speaker 1: nine percent of that is like four and a percent
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  Speaker 1: is like, uh, you know, yeah, four and a half
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  Speaker 1: percent they're willing terms of that.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, the Chinese companies are paying for some of.
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  Speaker 1: The tariff, if you can call it that, by giving
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  Speaker 1: discounts to the American exporterers. But that's it, and it's
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  Speaker 1: not can increase, if anything, it will decrease over time.
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  Speaker 1: But that's data, that's actual facts. God forbid, we have
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  Speaker 1: data and facts. We do not want data in facts.
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  Speaker 1: Please save me from data in facts. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: is one thing that seeds to be common across the
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  Speaker 1: board in America today.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody actually wants to know the truth.
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  Speaker 1: They want to reaffirm their preconceived notions. They want to
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  Speaker 1: reaffirm the tribal truth, the tribal beliefs. They want to
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  Speaker 1: reaffirm what the witch doctor is telling them. Here's Trump
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  Speaker 1: about the core decision on Friday with our tariffs and
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  Speaker 1: all the trillions of dollars we have already taken in
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: trillions of dollars. I mean, if you said billions, he'd
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: add some credibility, but trillions, big, bold lies we have
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  Speaker 1: already taken in our country would be completely destroyed, and
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  Speaker 1: our military power would be instantly obliterated again, a completed
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  Speaker 1: and out of lie. You mean, we'd be back to
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  Speaker 1: the way we were three months ago, six months ago,
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  Speaker 1: nine months ago. Was our military power obliterated at that point?
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  Speaker 1: Was our country completely destroyed? At that point? What has changed? Lie?
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Make grainiose, absurd statements, but then keep doing it, keep
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  Speaker 1: doing it, keep doing it until people cannot tell what
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  Speaker 1: the truth is. They cannot tell what a lie is,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: they cannot differentiate anymore. And when people give up on
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  Speaker 1: their own reason, they give up on the data, they
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: give up on the experts, they give up on whatever
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  Speaker 1: sources of news they have, as Americans have, on the
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: mainstream media and pretty much all media and not without justification, right,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: and then all they hear from the authorities are lies
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  Speaker 1: and bumb bast and lies and bumbasts and lives and
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  Speaker 1: bomb bass. Ultimately, they're gonna give up, They're gonna give
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  Speaker 1: up and trying to figure out what the truth is,
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  Speaker 1: and they're just gonna become passive, accepted of whatever the
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  Speaker 1: authorities want them to believe. And this is the way
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  Speaker 1: fascism works. This is the way fascists take control. And
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: you know, while I don't think Trump is the ambitious dictator,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: he is playing by their book.
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  Speaker 4: He is playing by their book.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I read. I was on Facebook, big mistake.
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  Speaker 1: I hate Facebook. Anyway, I was on Facebook and I
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  Speaker 1: read a bunch of people who are called themselves subjectivists
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  Speaker 1: and who a big not just you know, little supporters
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  Speaker 1: of Trump, but big supporters of Trump.
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  Speaker 4: And it really is stunning.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it basically is the same phenomena that I've noticed,
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  Speaker 1: you know, then noticed in twenty sixteen, and I've noticed
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  Speaker 1: since then. Basically the primary motivation they have is fear.
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  Speaker 1: Primary driver in their life is fear. It's fear of
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  Speaker 1: in this case, in politics, of the left, of the communists,
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  Speaker 1: of the takeover, of destroying your life, of men playing
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  Speaker 1: goals best, you know, sports, which is the issue for everybody,
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  Speaker 1: much more important than you know than bryce inflation, much
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  Speaker 1: more putting than tariffs. Those are technical, stupid economic things.
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  Speaker 1: Who cares about economic liberty, you know, much more important
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  Speaker 1: than than you know, betraying Ukraine and cozying up the dictators,
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  Speaker 1: you know, much more important than than any of that,
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  Speaker 1: or mass deportation and militarized ice roaming the streets rounding
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  Speaker 1: people up. That that is not important.
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  Speaker 4: What's really importants men playing women's.
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  Speaker 1: Sports, which I'm against, but it's not the most important
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  Speaker 1: issue defining the world right now. And yet all they
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  Speaker 1: have is fear of the fear of the transgender people
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  Speaker 1: are coming for us, They're gonna take us, and it
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  Speaker 1: really is striking.
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  Speaker 4: It's all negative.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: And in the fear, they're latching on to Trump as
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: a hero, a hero who's come to save them, a
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: hero who is you know, slamming the left, is turning
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: the tables on the left. And it doesn't really matter
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: to them how he does it. It doesn't matter to
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: them what he actually does. He's not the left, and
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: he's anti left, and he slams the left all the time,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: so nothing else matters. It's sad and a little pathetic
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: after me, the extent to which they worship Trump and
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: extent to which they you know, they just accept all
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: this stuff all this stuff without a second thought, without
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: thought period.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: So yeah, fear, fear is a Beware of fear as
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: a motivator, Beware of fear dominating your epistemology, Beware of
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: fear dominating the way you think about the world, because almost.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Everybody I know who supports Trump is ultimately dominated by fear.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: And yeah, fear is legit.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: There's something to be afraid of, if there's something objectively
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: to be afraid of. But what is the solution, what
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: is the alternative? What are you proposing in it's fear
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: can lead you down very dark alleys, and it is
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: it's leading us down in the dark alley of Trump anyway,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: you know, it's just Trump doing the lying. And of course, uh,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Secretary Bessett, it's it's of course the chief liar of
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: all of them, a man who knows better, but has
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: been lying for so long he probably doesn't remember the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: truth and and and couldn't probably find it in the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: recesses of his mind.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: He's been veading for so long.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: And that fetnav peed a naval one of the real, real, horrible,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: you know, the worst economists in the United States. And
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I said that way back before even Trump hired him.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: This guy was was peddling his BS economics anyway. He
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: he said that it would be the end of the
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: United States if the tariffs were done away with ecoin
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Trump's But he also said this was kind of interesting.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: He said, look, because the appellate court, the Pelt Court,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: that ruled the tariff's unconstitutional. They said one of the
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: problems with it is that they were permanent and that
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the emergency law did not allow the president, not give
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: him the power to put on anything permanent. So he
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: is now going out there and making a big deal effect. No, no, no, no, no, no,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: they aren't permanent. Of course they are. There's no provision
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: for eliminating them. There's no mechanism for eliminating them. There's
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: no time frame or time line or anything else for
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: eliminating them. And I guess when the trade deficit goes away.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: But again, economical teacher, the trade deficit is not going
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: to go away because of these tariffs. It's not how
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: tariffs and trade works. Now. Part of the effect of
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: all of this, part of the effect of all of
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: this is the business has no idea how to price stuff.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: They have no idea what's coming down the Pike. Are
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: the tariffs constitutional?
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Are they not? Are they going to be in place?
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Are they not?
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Is Trump going to change? Is the old China? And
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: with Mexico there's still on ninety day moving whatever every
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: day or not every day, but every certain period of
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: time the government comes out with whole lists of new
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: products that are being tariffed. You know, how does a
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: business deal with that? How much inventories should it keep?
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Should just try to sell everything? Now?
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: So this is a headline.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: From the Wall Street Journal and the Retail section. Six
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: North Carolina company says tariff uncertainty has given it way
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: to a new problem what to charge. Everyone is struggling
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: to figure out what to do. Yeah, it's you know,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: this is what happens when you give one person, one person,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: complete authority at his whim to raise taxes on three
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million Americans whenever he feels like it,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: to whatever level it can be, and change it and
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: lower it and increase it whenever he happens to want
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: to completely one hundred percent, with no nobody checking him
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: at his discretion. This is the power that Donald Trump has, which,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: to their credit, the appellate court ruled was unconstitutional. M
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I'm just looking at the chat here for a second.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Joshua Rizzo is asking who promotes you on Brook? Ask
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: yourselves who promotes in? What institutions does your on Brook
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: work with and associates with?
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: So what group is he a mouthpiece of?
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Hmm? I mean, does anybody know? Do you want to
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: ask me in the super check what groups sponsor the show?
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I think Alex Epstein does, and Hendershot Wealth does, and.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: I'm an institute does. Those are the institutions.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Who else? Who else?
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: So?
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Who else am I affiliated with? Maybe? Maybe I think
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: this is what he's getting at. He's probably getting at
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: all that money that.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Judge sol As much must give me.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, ah, I I love a good conspiracy theory,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: all right. And of course all of this is leading
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: to some really juicy opportunities for tariffs for tariffs right.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: He is a story in the Wall Street Journal American
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: made businesses are.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: Clamoring to get on the tariff list. Uh, this is
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: a story about I'll read you some of this.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Greg Owens, chairman of Eryl Manufacturing, was at home skimming
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: through emails on a recent Friday, when he got a
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: text message that made him stand up in his shan
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: raise his arms in triumph. As co founder of Cheryl,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: which builds itself as America's last manufacturer of stainless steel flatware,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: owing to been fighting for years to keep his business
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: afloat in a market flooded with cheaper inputs. Now he
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: felt that Sherriff stood a fighting chance. Why because the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: text in question said imported stainless steel flatweight products would
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: be hit with a fifty percent tariff on their steel content.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: This was the news Owens had been waiting for.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Alan Boyle was just saved by the governments. The Tumba
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Demistration's tariff policies are creating headaches on suddenly and extra
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: costs for scores of US companies, from automakers to clothing inports.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Is But for some companies, some companies, not the companies
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: supporting the Urine bookshow, obviously, but for some companies that
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: rely on American manufacturing, like Sheer, this new era of
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: tariffs could give them a shot in the arm. And
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: of course that means they're going to raise prices on you,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: so you're going to give them a shot in the
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: arm by paying more for flatware and lots of other things.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: On the list released by the Commics Department, more than
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: four hundred items imported to the United States would be
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: hit with tariffs on the steel and aluminum content, from
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: farm equipment, bulldozers, and industrial robots to the dumbbells, infant swings,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: and infant walkers. Now note that these tariffs are not
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: under the emergency powers one that were ruled on constitutional
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: These tariffs, particularly the ones on the infant swings and infant.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: Walkers, these terriffs are part of.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Section two thirty two of the Trade Expansion Act of
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty two. These tariffs, in other words, have been
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: placed for national security reasons. So these tariffs, even if
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: they're court rules that the that the tests on the
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: constitutional they wouldn't apply to this. This is all steel,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: these four hundred tows, including children's swings and infant walkers.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: These tas u national security towns because God forbid it,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: we lose the ability to make flatware, knives and folks
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: and spoons, spoons to dig those ditches. If we lose
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: the ability to produce those in the United States, our
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: national interest is a steak. The Chinese are going to
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: conquer us because we won't have spoons to defend ourselves. Yep,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: this is uh uh, this is where we are today, guys.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: It's corneyism happening. Uh It swamp, animal feasts, it's the
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: swamp is bigger than it ever was. If you think
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: that Democrats had a swamp, this swamp is much bigger,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: and it is bigger and filled with businessmen rushing to Washington,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: DC to beg for protection. You know, those guys got
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: into the four hundred items. What about us? We want
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: tariffs and our competitors. We want to score our competitors anyway.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: But Taff says, I told you really, as Madison told
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: us all at the beginning of the Republic. Madison realized
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: very early that tariff was only going to generate conyism,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: that it was a terrible means by which the rage
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: revenue because of the because it was built into it,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: into it, the very nature of TAOS is the incentive
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: for businesses to try to lobby and influence Congress in
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: this case the president, to shield them, protect them with
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: this powerful new tool called a tariff. So nothing new
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: under the sun in that sense.
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: Uh M, all.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Right, I'm just trying to I'm trying to keep track
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: of the of the conspiracy theory about who is influencing
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: might take Oh but then he you know, then there's that,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: all right, all right? Anyway, tariffs suck.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: And what they do at the end of the day
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: is they.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Create a situation where in order to protect the interest
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: of your shareholders and in order to protect the interests of.
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: Your business, you have.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: To go to Washington, you have to hire out your
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: man in Washington, you have to go lobby, you have
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: to go try to manipulate. It's a sad it's a
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: pathetic day. And what we're seeing is nobody really, nobody
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: in politics, certainly nobody really standing up for markets, for freedom,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: for economic limity. There's just a zero constituency for that.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Everybody wants government controls, government regulations, government involvement, government ownership, government, socialism,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: and one degree on one form or another.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: And that is the state of America today.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: That's where we are, and this is where Trump has
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: brought us.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: And this is why it is so shocking to me
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: to see people celebrate Trump. I get that they hate
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: the left. I get that they fear the left. Although
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: fear as I said, is a dangerous emotion. I get
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: that they hate the left, but that hatred has blinded
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: them to what they have chosen as an alternative.
• 37:32
  Speaker 8: What they've picked, what they support, what they cheer, what
• 37:38
  Speaker 8: they endorse as an alternative, because it's not true that
• 37:41
  Speaker 8: it's just oh, it's a binary choice.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Now they had a primary, and even it's a binary choice,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: you don't have to then cheer and support everything the
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: guy you voted for does. But that is what is happening.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: And it's because they want this. They want authoritarianism in
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: the name of freedom. The only way to get us
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: back to freedom is to impose it on the American
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: people by force, through authoritarian means.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: By crushing the left, whatever it takes.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, remember that Trump constantly says to us
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: an expression of America's strength in American vitality and America's
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: respect America has in the world. And of course it's
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: a tool of foreign policy. It's it's gonna put us
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: in a better position geopolitically. Well, we got some really
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: great images right now from the what is it the
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Shanghai Security Conference. There is a corporation organization going on
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: right now in Shanghai, China, which is hosted by Chinese
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: president excheesing pain.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: Where it's hosting, you know.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Most of the photographers of their capturing his one relationship
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: with Putin. Of course, Trump has a one relationship with
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Putin as well. I mean, all these thugs have one
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: relationship with one another. Well, it's interesting, we've seen Putin
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: and she together for a while now. But what's interesting
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: is Modi is the Prime Minister of India. The Prime
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: minister of India, which should be an ally of Trump,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: a country that should be our alternative to China, which
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: shouldn't be geopolitically allied with US on protecting the sea
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: lanes and protecting world trade from Chinese dominance. India that
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: there should be both a military and economic ally of
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: the United States is closing up, not just a Russia.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: They already had a.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Close relationship, but that relationship seems to be intensifying getting closer. Indeed,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Modi and Putin rode in the same car to the
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: hotel where the conference was being held, just like Trump
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: and Putin road in the same car are symbolic and mody.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Is and Putin are basically saying Trump, you know not
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: think special and we're not going to jump every time
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: you dictate. And if America is going to turn its
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: back on us, which America did on India by placing
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: fifty percent tariffs on their.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: Goods, we've got other options.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Now. China and India and our friends, they don't like
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: each other. They've got a boarder dispute. You know, India
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: now is the largest by population country in the world.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: They overtook China.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: There's real competition there, but there's also military dispute. China
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: also supports the enemy of India, which is Pakistan. It
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: supports it militarily, it sells its arms. So Modi is
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: very hesitant when it comes to China, but he's on
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: this trip very warm to the Chinese. He's sending a
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: message to Trump, You're not the only game in town.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: We don't need you, and you betrayed us. We are
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: going to look elsewhere. I mean, seeing Modi Putin and
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Chi together does not suggest to me that tariffs have.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: Increased the strength of the United States.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: It doesn't suggest to me that tariffs have made the
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: United States, you know, put them in a United States
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: in a better position from a geopolitical perspective.
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: Quite the contrary.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: We've alienated the South Koreans, the Japanese, the Vietnamese, the Filipinos,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: the Indonesians, the Malaysians, and more than anyone else, the Indians,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: all potential allies in whatever struggle might come with China.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Tariffs and Trump's policies have alienated our potential allies, certainly
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: alienated Europe and Canada and Mexico. I'm not sure who
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: in the world right now is positive about the United States.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: It's friendly and eager to work with the United States.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Quite the contrary. And this is all the consequence of
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Trump's policies. So Trump is doing real damage to the
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: United States on a geopolitical sense, on a global sense.
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: And has been for a while.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: And so his excuse for taris is strengthening the US Again,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: it's a lie. It's exact opposite, exact opposite. They've wakened us,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: and they've made it so that our people should be
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: our friends, actually tuning to our enemies and align with them,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: or at least presenting themselves as aligning to them. I
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: don't think you're going to see much friendship long term
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: between India and China. I think the differences. They are
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: deep and significant, and I don't expect that to change,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: but it's it's it really is damaging. You know. I
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: keep part of your remind I think I should always
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: remind you guys, and I guess the world out there.
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: Freedom is the right strategy.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Freedom is the right strategy. It's the right strategy when
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: it comes to geopolitics. It's the right strategy when it
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: comes to economics. It's the right strategy when it comes
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: to wealth. It's the right strategy when it comes to
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: you know, the world being of your people. It's the
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: reason we have government is to protect our freedom, freedom,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: protection of rights. A government that moves in that direction,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: even if it moves slowly, is a government I can support.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: A government that works away against freedom, against individual rights,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: shows this respect to individual rights, taxes its own people,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: obstructs trade. Is a government working against my interests, against
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: your interests, and therefore is going to lose in the
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: geopolitical game. Freedom works. Freedom works, and it doesn't matter
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: if the president moving away from freedom as a Democrat
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: or the president moving away from freedoms of a republican.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: The movement away from freedom hurts all of us. In
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: many many different dimensions, usually in many.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: More subtle ways than we would expect.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: Dave says on the chat, freedom is exactly what Trump
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: and is support us think they're giving us.
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: I don't think that's true.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: I don't think they care when iota about freedom. They
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: are primarily motivated not by a positive not by a
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: positive motivation or our freedom. And I certainly don't think
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Trump cares one iota about freedom. But I don't think
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: my Good does either. I don't think they know how
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: to define their word. I don't think they know what
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: it means. What they care about is the things they hate.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: They hate foreigners, so they're very happy when.
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: Fun trade is disrupted.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: They hate fonners, so they're very happy when the freedom
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: of those foreigners is taken away from them by masked
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: thugs with US badgers, you know, rounding them up in
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: the streets and shipping them out of the country. They
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: hate the Left, and it's not like they care about
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: DEI in particular or any of these things.
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: These are just slogans for them.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: They don't really understand what it all means because they
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: have their own kind of DII. But they hate the left,
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: and di I was important to the left, so shutting
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: down DEI they support that. So it's all about what
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: they hate. It's allbout getting rid of what they hate.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: It's not about anything positive. This vague you know, it's
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: going to make America great again, which to them means
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties, even though they have no clue what
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties meant it was about. It wasn't left.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: That's all they know, or they think they know, because
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: in many respects it was it. So I don't think
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: that Trump or Mega think that they're giving us more
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: freedom because I don't think they think in terms of
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: freedom or they think in terms of positive values at all.
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: I think they think in terms of.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: Really again, negative values, what they don't like, what they
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: want gone. Anyway, this general attitude that is manifest in tariffs,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: it's manifest in ice, it's manifest in the border wall,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: it's manifest in hatred for foreign students and denial of
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: visa visa requests across the board.
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: Is having an impact.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Not just on the geopolitics but on the kind of
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: local politics of people all over the world. And it's
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: manifesting itself in the fact it's manifesting and film from
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: the fact that tourism to the United States is dramatically down.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: It's pneumatically down from countries like India, the UK, Canada, Canada, hugely, Mexico, Germany, Brazil.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: These countries are seeing significant drops in travel to the
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: United States. And it's not just this summer, it's every
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: indication and every sign that this has sustained, at least
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: as long as these kind of policies make them feel
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: unwelcome in this country. It's taking longer to get tourist
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: visas much longer. US embassies around the world are much
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: less inclined to provide visas. But even for countries that
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: don't require visa to come into the United States, you're
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: seeing us significant decline in people coming here from there. Now.
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: Part of it is that people are choosing to go elsewhere.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: America is a relatively expensive place to visit, and and
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: there are places like Spain, Fans, Italy, Thailand where they
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: can get a lot more bang for the buck, if
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: you will. But a lot of it has to do
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: with attitude. So tourism is taking a hit across many
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: of the church locations, whether it's Disneyland or hotels in
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: New York or hotels in Miami and resorts and other
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: things in the in the Florida area. You know, Brazilian
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: tourism is down about five percent this year, but so
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: is tourism across the board. Miami, New York, Orlando all
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: have taken a hit recently. And this is you know,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: for example, German visitors to the United States have declined
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: by tw twenty eight percent.
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: Uh and Giman spent a lot of money when they come.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: The relative for Europeans fairly well off. So this is
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: across the board. Another impact of them make America great
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: again by alienating the rest of the world and by
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: basically renegging on our own values, on undermining everything that
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: we stood for, undermining everything we stood for, not just
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: in our own minds, but for the world itself. America
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: is a shining city in a hill to some extent
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: still is it was perceived to be, and now it's not.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Now with ice going around the streets with masks rounding
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: people up, somewhat you do in a shining city in
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: a hill, and the US is is now making it
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: harder to come. So we talked about the fact that
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: visas are harder to get, but now the US is
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: adding on a two hundred and fifty dollars visa integrity
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: fee which is imposed on travelers to the United States
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty dollars, which makes travel to the
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: United States turning fifty dollars more expensive and again likely
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: to reduce tourism significantly to the US. But just to
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: give you a sense of how, you know, inconsistent, random,
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: bizarre Trump ares, Trump is now approved approved six hundred
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: thousand student visas for China. Chinese students are going to
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: find it relatively easy to come to American universities with
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: student visas. MAGA is flipping out right Mega's like pissed off.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: Fox News host Laura Ingram says, I just don't understand
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: it for the life of me. Those a six hundred
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: thousand spots that American kids won't get, American kids won't get.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's bs, that's nonsense, And of course it's
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: six hundred thousand paying customers. Laura Luma. Laura Luma wrote, quote, nobody,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: I repeat, nobody wants six hundred thousand more Chinese students
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: aka communist spies in the United States. So why does
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: Trump want six hundred thousand student visas. Why is he
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: so sympathetic to the Chinese? Why is he's shutting down
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: and making it more difficult to get visas in every
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: other front? Student visas for Chinese students is something he.
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: Is an advocate for. It's fighting for.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: What is the issue he's sucking up that she's a
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: xi jinping, He's sucking up to a dictator, he admires,
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: he respects. Here's what Trump said, I have a very
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: good relationship with Chinese president. I think it's very insulting
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: to a country when you say you're not going to
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: take your students.
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: You know, I get along with China.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: China's paying us a lot of money right now, they're
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: paying us hundreds of millions of dollars, he continues, you
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: know he detty caller asks him if he expected anything
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: in return for allowing students into the country, and Trump says, no,
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: I just think it's I think it's I think we're
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: doing the right thing to do. It's good to get
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: along with countries, not bad, especially you know, nuclear powered countries.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, the guy is a running joke, is a
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: running contradiction, an ongoing constant contradiction. They suggest that maybe
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: the Chinese have been buying Trump meme coins, and he's
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: trying to please them that way. Maybe the parents of
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: the students applying for the visas are buying meme coins
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: and bribing Trump to do this. It's just beyond comporhension
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: how this guy emotes and turns those emotions into actions
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: as president of the United States President, it's mind boggling.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: Trump is mind boggling. Anyway, six hundred thousand Chinese students,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: and I'm all for that. I'm big on student visas.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: I let them in, they pay, they wait, they pay
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: out of state tuition, they come here, they get a diploma.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll allow them to stay and they can work,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: and they can immigrate to the United States. It's great.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: They're incredibly productive. So I'm all in favor of all
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: of that. But so in this I agree with Trump.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: But he's doing this to please chi that's the amazing thing.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: And then he says, oh, it's the right thing to do.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: If he ever came in his life about doing what
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: the right thing to do is. But it's basically, I'm
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: sucking up to a nuclear powered nation. This is the
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: right thing to do. This is how you treat a
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: nuclear powered nation by sucking up to them. I keep
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: shrugging because I don't know what to do anymore about Trump.
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: And you know, again, I know a lot of you
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: already convinced, and I'm just repeating stuff that you already
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: agree with. But there's so many people out there who
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: admire this guy. Anyway. I don't know if you've seen
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: the data, but the data suggests that since Trump deployed
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: the National God out of state National God to wasn't
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: in d C and give them weapons and have them
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: patrol around different neighborhoods around d C, violence is way
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: down in d C.
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: Isn't that a shock when.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: You put lots of people out into the streets with
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: arms that again patrol and going to you know, potentially
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: catch you if you commit a crime. Crime is down,
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: in particular, you know, crime that is easy to observe
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: and easy to catch.
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: I guess homicides are down.
• 57:06
  Speaker 9: We've got robbery is down, Booglooya is down, motor vehicle
• 57:13
  Speaker 9: theft is down, and the biggest one, I mean eighty
• 57:16
  Speaker 9: seven decline in carjacking.
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: Because you've got a cop in the corner.
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: How you in a contract? Not a cop? A federal
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: agent with a gun. So yes, there's lots of ways
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: to reduce crime. And indeed, you know an obvious one
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: is to spend more money on police and have more
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: police in the streets. And that's what every city in
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: America should do, increase policing. But if you put almored vehicles,
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: if you put you know, men with similar Americans at
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: the corners, I mean Boukel figured it out. Basically, round
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: out all young men if they have a tattoo. If
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: they don't have a tatto, they're fine, But if they
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: have a tattoo, round up all young men and throw
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: them in jail. That will reduce crime. Absolutely reduce crime.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: I've often said, you've heard me say on this show.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: If you want to reduce crime in particular, I'd say rape,
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: then all you have to do is have a co view.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: Men are not allowed out of the house after six pm,
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: and they can leave home at seven am, and I'll
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: make it seven pm, twelve hours. They have to stay
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: at home. They can't be in the streets. If they're
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: the streets, they'll get arrested. Crime will plummet, and make
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: it only men under sixty five, because that's Crimit bost
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: the crimes and crime will plummet. If that's your standard,
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: then do it. My standard is freedom and liberty, and yes,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: crime is going to be higher in freedom and at
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: least crime between individuals. Take the state out of it,
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: crime is going to be higher. And the way to
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: deal with crime underfreedom is to increase the police, but
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: not have them militarized and armed in every corner. Have
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: But you know, crime is too high in many parts
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: of the United States. By the way, everybody talks about
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: la in Chicago and New York. New York crime is
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: way down, but everybody talks about crime in those cities.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: And Chicago just had a horrible weekend. Labor Day weekend
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: was just has just been horrible in terms of the
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: number of motives in Chicago. And that'll that'll give a
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: lot of fuel to Trump wanting to send in troops
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: to Chicago. But the reality is that the most violent crime,
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: the most violent cities in the United States and the
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: Midwest are in the South. Many of the most violent
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: areas in the United States are rural areas. Do you
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: know that the most violent city in the United States
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: is Anchorage, Alaska? I didn't know this Anchorage, Alaska is really,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: really is a pro capital per hundred thousand more motives
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: than any of the place in the US. Anchorage, Alaska,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: I would think it would be too cold to commit crimes,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: and Anchorage. Maybe cold and darkness enhance criminal activity. I
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: don't know. But in the South, almost every major city
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: in town and many rural areas in the South very
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: high crime rates. Indeed, New York City is safer than
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: many many, many rule.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: Counties in the United States.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: The idea that crime is only a city focused thing
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: is just untrue. And yes, militarizing, militarizing law enforcement, placing
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: police everywhere. Yes, that war would use crime, There's no
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: question about it. Whether it's what you want, whether it's
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: the kind of place you want to live, is a
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: good question.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: I'd rather reduce crime with a better culture.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: I think doing things like you know, eliminating the warfare
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: states and increasing the number of cops. But a culture
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: of freedom, a culture of liberty, is going to be
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: a culture with a lot less crime than we have today.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: A mixed economy I think generates crime. One second. My
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: challenge with Europe and air conditioning continues.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: My air conditioning just shut.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: Down without notice, and it won't go below twenty four
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: degrees centigrates. I can't. It's centrally controlled to never be
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: colder than twenty four centigrades. Go figure that. But that's
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: Europe and a conditioning. It is not geared towards increased productivity.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: It is not geared towards comfort. It is geared towards
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know, some green energy target. Or maybe it's
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: geared towards the discomfort.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: Maybe that's the motivation.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: All right, let's see. So, yes, crime in d C
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: is down, which is not surprising. Criminals are to wait
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: it out until Trump leaves office. An interesting article on
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: slow Boring. Slow Boring is the blog or the sub
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: stack of Matt and glacis the kind of left of
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: center economist, left of sund economists.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: Yes, in my vacyard economist.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: And U Matt has a guest writer, Helena Bennett, writing
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: this article. And it's the title of the article I
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: think is is really interesting. It's it's Denver's restaurants are dying,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: and we examine why Denver's restaurants dying?
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 4: What is it? Why in Denver?
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: It turns out, and I didn't know this, that the
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: city of Denver has the highest minimum wages in the country.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: It has unbelievably high minimum wage and it has you
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: know how they calculate the minimum wage because in restaurants,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: waters get tips. They give you an allowance for tips,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: so you can let's say the minimum wage is twenty,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: and then you get a three dollars an hour allowance
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: for tips, so you can pay seventeen under the assumption
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: that they're going to get the three dollars from tips.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: Now they get a lot more than that, but they
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: get three dollars, so you as a restaurant have to
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: pay the seventeen, not to twenty. Anyway, Denver has a
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: very small allowance for tips, so restaurants are forced in
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Denver to pay their weight staff much much higher wages
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: then is typical around the country. It's not just wait staff,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: it's everybody who works in the kitchen, everybody who works
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: in the restaurant.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: So Denver is losing the restaurant business.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: People are literally shutting down restaurants basically saying the reason
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: is costs. And this is primarily full service restaurants, owner
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: operated restaurants, independent restaurants, not the big corporate restaurants.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 4: They can, they can kind of manage the costs, and
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 4: the number of Denver area.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: Full service restaurants is slowly declining. It's been declining for
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: a decade now. And the argument is, you know, a
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: lot of it kind of hit them hard with COVID
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: like everywhere else. But then beyond that, it's costs. And
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: the biggest cost here, beyond taxes and regulations and all
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: of that, is minimum wages. Now bring this up because
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: I think it's important for us to constantly harp on
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: the idea minimum wages are destructive. Minimum wages are destructive.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: People pay a price. The price is unemployment. The prices
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: less restaurants. The price is less, you know, less employment. Now,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: on top of this, what's interesting is there's a massive
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: shortage of employees. There's about twenty six thousand open positions
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: in the restaurant business for wages, servers, you know, people
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: in the kitchen and so on, and a lot of
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: that is a consequence of the fact that, well, we
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: don't have enough of immigrants coming into this country, and
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: the ones that have come into this country and tend
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: to work in Denver restaurants are being rounded up and
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: center of the country deported, and many of them are
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: leaving of their own free will. By some estimates, between
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: a million and two million illegal immigrants have left the
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: country since Trump was elected. Because they don't want the
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: hassle of dealing with ice, they just pack up and leave.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: So Denver, for example, I think this is true of
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: a lot of cities, but Denver in particular, property taxes, utilities, insurance,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: food and drink price is rent, and of course one
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: of the highest minimum wage is in the country are
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: killing Denver restaurants. And then on top of that just
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: a shortage of labor. So even though they're paying these
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: really high wages, if you take into account what they
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: really get on tips, they cannot get people to come
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: into work. So much for the all those kids sitting
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: in the basement, just waiting for the illegal immigrants to
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: leave so they can take their jobs. Another one of
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: those bold face, unequivocal lies that the Trump administration and
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: MEGA keeps telling you, Oh, there are plenty of people
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: in America to take those jobs, plenty of people all
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: in their mother's basement. Just wait until the illegals leave
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: and these companies have to pay the higher wages and
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: all these people will rush to take those jobs. Oh no,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: by the way, the story actually says that, for example,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: in Houston, where there is no you know, where there's
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: a very low minimum wage and where the cost of
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: living is very low, they're very low regulations, the very
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: low controls. The restaurant business is booming and the city
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: continues to grow. There's no end to how fast Houston
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: is growing, and property prices are not going up. That is,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: it's not super expensive to live in Houston, and yet
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: nobody learns. Nobody learns. They still believe in the minimum wage.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: The minimum wage is the way to go. All right,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: talking about illegal immigrants, let's talk about what's going on
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: in the UK. So the UK has basically abided over
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: the last decade or so, probably longer, but suddenly over
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: the last decade by these crazy international rules to basically
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: say that you have to admit asylum seekers, you have
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: to bring them into the country. And the reality is,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: and this is true in the United States as well,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: what the Bide administration was doing is you don't just
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: have to admit them into the confry, but you also
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: have to feed, clothes, and house them. You have to
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: provide them with the means by which to live. They're
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: not coming to work, and indeed, in the United States
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: then our louder work as their paperwork is being.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 4: Processed, so they're out of the workplace.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: So the only way to live is to be wards
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: of the state, to live off of the state, to
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: be part of the warfare state. Now, since there'd been
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: a flight of these asylum seekers into the UK, I
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: think people around the world have figured out, oh.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 4: Just announce asylum, just to clear asylum.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: And there are plenty of horrible places around the world
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: where you can easily claim that you're being persecuted and
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: justifiably that you really are running away from persecution, and
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: you can go to confry like the UK and be admitted. Yeah,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: they have follows you, feed you clothing, and they do
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: in the United in the United Kingdom, just like in
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: Manhattan and in other places around the country under Biden.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: And I don't know what's happening to these people right now.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: I think many of them are being deported. But in
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: the United Kingdom, the government, you know, basically rented out
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: hotels and put the asylum seekers into hotel rooms. Now,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: this is a complete abuse of what the government is
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: there to do. I mean, it's fine if you want
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: to come to the UK. You can want to come
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: to the US as an asylum seeker, but you have
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: to pay your own way. You have to be able
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: to work, you have to be able to make a living,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: and if you can, then leave. But under no circumstances
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: should the state be providing these people with welfare with funds.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: And of course the fact that they're providing them with
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: housing and funding only provides an incentive for everybody else
• 1:11:12
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  Speaker 1: a mixed economy. In the United Kingdom, the government is
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  Speaker 1: an Ethiopian asylum seeker housed the local hotel in Epping, Epping, UK,
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  Speaker 1: Now this incident just you know, inflamed the residence of Epping,
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  Speaker 1: accommodate asylum seekers. They're doing apping, but they're also doing
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  Speaker 1: in the other places, the thirty thousand of them in
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  Speaker 1: different hotels. At some point the Epping Forest District Council
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  Speaker 1: got a High Court injunction a high court is the
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  Speaker 1: local court, not the Supreme Court, to vacate the Bell
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  Speaker 1: Hotel by mid September. But then that injunction was overturned
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  Speaker 1: by a Court of Appeals and the Court of a
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  Speaker 1: Bill allowed the one hundred and thirty eight asylumn seekers
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  Speaker 1: at the hotel to stay there, which is just inflamed
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  Speaker 1: the people even more so. Now you get protests constantly
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  Speaker 1: residents and of course many many right wing groups from
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  Speaker 1: a variety of the political parties. But of course reform
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  Speaker 1: is the biggest one egging this on. This is their issue.
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  Speaker 1: Immigration is their issue. Many of these demonstrations have turned confrontational,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they've banned face covering, they've they've and and
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  Speaker 1: there's there's been some violence initiated. And of course this
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  Speaker 1: is representative of something going on on a nationwide scale,
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  Speaker 1: that is the resentment that the British people feel towards
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  Speaker 1: I think part of it legit, part of it not
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  Speaker 1: towards these immigrants. It's it's also lumped in with the
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  Speaker 1: whole issue of you've got all these Muslim immigrants in
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  Speaker 1: the UK who are not assimilating and who are demanding
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  Speaker 1: Sharia law, who demanding, you know, Britain become a Muslim state,
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  Speaker 1: and the.
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  Speaker 4: Brits are offended by that, as they should be.
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  Speaker 1: And it's all connected, right, because these people couldn't come
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  Speaker 1: to the UK if they weren't funded by a warf
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  Speaker 1: estate and if they had to work for a living,
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  Speaker 1: if they weren't on welfare, then they wouldn't be.
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  Speaker 4: Able to stay in the UK.
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  Speaker 1: So the mixed economy makes it possible for immigrants, many
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  Speaker 1: of the Muslim to come to the UK, not assimilate,
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  Speaker 1: non integrate, and you know, spout this Sharia Islamist hollor.
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  Speaker 4: Which only causes because it always does.
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  Speaker 1: This is exactly what happens. The local population to go,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, that's not acceptable, and as a consequence
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  Speaker 1: you see parties like Reform Niger Farage seize on that
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  Speaker 1: to push anti immigrant legislation.
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  Speaker 4: So they want mass infotation among other things.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and nobody blames the warfare state because nobody wants
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: to challenge the office state. Niga Farage suddenly doesn't want
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: to challenge the warfare state. They want to just make
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: it about this limited issue of immigration instead of looking
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: at the wider question.
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  Speaker 4: The left purely motivated by.
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  Speaker 1: Altruism, I mean, these are suffering people. I mean literally,
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  Speaker 1: Today the UK Home Secretary announce that the UK will
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  Speaker 1: streamline the process of Garzen from Gaza students to come
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  Speaker 1: to the UK, along with granting gozens generally permanent resid
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  Speaker 1: and see in the UK, now we can explain that
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  Speaker 1: other than altruism there suffering.
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  Speaker 4: We're not we're rich.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore we must we must take care of them. It
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  Speaker 1: is amala judy am responsibility. Anything else will be damn
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  Speaker 1: right evil. They have rights, after all, that's what Eupean
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  Speaker 1: declaration of rites us. Everybody has all these rights to
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: housing and living and clothes and all the stuff which
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: the government has to provide if you can't provide for yourself.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: And this is going to explode. I've said this for
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: twenty plus years that ultimately what will happen is whether
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: it's the Brits, of the Germans or the French. Probably
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: the Germans, they will one day to wake up and
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: they'll say, we've had it, We've had it with the Muslims.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: It's time to get rid of them. And if they're
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: ever concentration camps in Germany again, they will be concentration
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: camps of Muslims and they will kill them, innocent, guilty.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 4: Europe will not become Muslim.
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  Speaker 1: It might become fascist hell, but it will now become Muslim.
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  Speaker 1: But the Muslims are egging these racist nationalists on. They're
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: poking them up, poking them, and many good people, many
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: honest people, many non fascist people, are coming to the
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: conclusion these you know, these Muslims, they want to impose
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: Sharia law. We don't want that, So we better support
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: the people who want to get rid of them, and
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: we'll turn a blind eet how they get rid of them.
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  Speaker 1: We won't pay too much attention to how they do it,
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  Speaker 1: as long as they get rid of them. And if
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  Speaker 1: it's part of that, I lose my freedom and liberty.
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  Speaker 1: Well I was going to lose it on the Sharia
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: law anyway, might as well lose it to people I know,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: people who are like me. The logic of this is
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: just I mean.
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  Speaker 4: One of the things that is happening in the UK.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: Is in response to the asylum seekers and the issue
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: of Muslims and everything like that, is people in the
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  Speaker 1: UK have announced a campaign called Operation Raised the Colors,
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: where people go around and they put up Union jacks
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: and so Georgia's crosses, these British flags, the flags of England,
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: the flag of the Union in all kinds of different places.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: Now you know this is viewed by the mainstream media
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: and by the Labor Party and by many of the
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: local council governments. As you know, this is offensive to
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: the immigrants, and you know this is the fall right
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  Speaker 1: in doing this. And the funny thing that's happening is
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: that you've got police and local officials going around in
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: rural England all over the place tearing down British flags,
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  Speaker 1: and of course they're not They're citing safety concerns, unstable ropes,
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  Speaker 1: risked the vehicles or the lamps where the flags happen
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  Speaker 1: to be hanging, which is bs Obviously, I bet you
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: nobody's tearing down Hamas flags, but British flags, since you're
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: just Crosses flags.
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  Speaker 4: Those are being torn down.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: And people are even more upset because of that. Again,
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: the government is siding with the Muslims. The government is
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: siding with the anti Brits. I see, I have a
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  Speaker 1: me and they really encourage him YouTube. The people at
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• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: set goals for super chats. Now they can't set dollar goals.
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  Speaker 1: Those have been doing for a long time because of
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  Speaker 1: do that separate from YouTube. But YouTube have built in
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  Speaker 1: a goal for the number of super chats. So we're
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  Speaker 1: going to do a thirty minute challenge. A thirty minute
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  Speaker 1: challenge is going to be ten super chats a five
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  Speaker 1: euros or more, so I don't know seven dollars or more,
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  Speaker 1: the next thirty minutes, five years or more to meet
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  Speaker 1: I just did ten because a lot of super chats
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  Speaker 1: already came in. The goal was actually running on the
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  Speaker 1: first thirty minutes, and we got fourteen out of I
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  Speaker 1: think thirty that I set it up.
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  Speaker 4: So let's go for the goal. We're looking for.
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  Speaker 1: Ten superchats are five dollars a more. Anyway, You've got
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  Speaker 1: local councils in Birmingham, York Tower removing flags from public
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  Speaker 1: infrastructure against citing safety concerns. You've got the Brits being
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  Speaker 1: super upset about this You've got the Epping thing where
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  Speaker 1: the local council says we want to shut down the hotel,
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  Speaker 1: and some courts, some higher court saying no, you can't
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  Speaker 1: do that. They have rights, rights to your money and
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  Speaker 1: your time and your effort.
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  Speaker 4: And this is all.
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  Speaker 1: Boiling up in England, and I really think there's elections today.
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  Speaker 1: I think Labor would lose in a landslide. I think
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  Speaker 1: Reform would win big, I mean big, and immigrants would
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: be in big trouble, and I think so would the
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: UK generally, because I don't think Reform actually has a program.
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  Speaker 1: And just like right wing parties all over Europe, the
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  Speaker 1: very left wing when it comes to economics. I mean,
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: Naja Faraz might not be but he plays to the
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  Speaker 1: left wing because he understands that his ultimate constituency is
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: right wing on socially shoes and left wing and economic issues.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: So you get the worst of all wolves. So you're
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: getting a real conflict in England. Supposedly there's going to
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: be a big demonstration next weekend over this flag issue
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: that is.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 4: Going to happen in Yeah, I'm not sure where London.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: Maybe the authorities are going to bring out the police
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: enforce they're going to label this right wing crazy thing,
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: but this is people just frustrated, and it is indeed
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: the right wing capitalizing on their frustration.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 4: But it really is a situation.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 3: Where until you get rid of the mixed economy, until
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 3: you get rid of.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: The incentive for people who don't want to work necessarily
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: to come to the country because you're providing for them.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 4: Until you get rid of.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: These incentives, the problem is going to continue to exist.
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  Speaker 1: And the problem is that I think the right wing
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: wants to get rid of the immigrants, but they don't
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: want to get rid of the warfare state. And that
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: just means you'll get different manifestations of the issue. You'll
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: get different problems, different challenges, but the problems and challenges
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: will still be there, all right. As for this thirty
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: minute goal, we now have five of the ten, five
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: out of ten, so I'm still looking for five more
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: super chats. I guess stickers count. I'm pretty sure stickers counts,
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: although I don't know when to Yeah, I think yeah,
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: stickers definitely count. So stickers all super chats. We've got
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  Speaker 1: three to go to get our goal. This will be
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  Speaker 1: in a lot shorter time than the the thirty minutes
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: that I signed to it, but which would be great,
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  Speaker 1: and then I can report back to YouTube. Yes it worked.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: It's great because there he got. I have asked them
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  Speaker 1: to give me. The thing that I want is a
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  Speaker 1: list from them of who gives the most money in
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  Speaker 1: any particular month, so that I can compliment Michael on
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: always being at the top of that list. And then
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  Speaker 1: then the real battle is for second place, because I'm
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: pretty sure that Michael gives the most because he gives
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  Speaker 1: every single show, and he gives often very large amounts
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: in any particular any particular show. So I'm pretty sure
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: Michael would win the monthly competition. But I think you
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: would get some people's competitive juices going, and we might
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: get some increased revenue because of the competitive jewises. All right,
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: we made the goal. I think Dave independently, Dave Dean
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: just independently got us there. He did one, two, three, four,
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  Speaker 1: four of the stickers. We're just Dave, so thank you. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so now I'm not allowed to mention super chat for
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: thirty minutes, so until five PMS Coast time, I won't
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: mention super Chats. If I do, then scold me. But
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: that was it we achieved the goal. We achieved it
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  Speaker 1: like that. I'll have to do this more often. This
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  Speaker 1: is fun, all right, Dave, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: That's very generous. Yeah, I mean it would be good
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: to see who the top five super chat supporters are
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of questions, a ton of the super
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: chat questions, and we have, let's see a few of them,
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  Speaker 1: a fifty dollars. So let's start with the fifty dollars questions,
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: go to the twenties, and then work our way down.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see not you have a.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: Algorithm analyzing crime statistics to figure out whether the rights
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: authoritarianism is really just concern about crime.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 4: It's like analyzing poverty statistics to.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: Figure out whether the lefts authoritarianism is really just concerned
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  Speaker 1: for the poor. I like that, you know. I like that.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: It is useful though, to analyze statistics anyway, because it's
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: interesting to know it's poverty rates going down they were
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: before the worn poverty was instituted significantly.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 4: In the black community. Poverty rates were.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: Going down from significantly during the fifties and sixties, and
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: they halted, they stopped going down significantly because of the
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: worn poverty.
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 4: And the same is interesting about crime. But I agree
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 4: with you, the essential is the.
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  Speaker 1: Authoritarianism, and yes, the right is authoritarian in one way
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  Speaker 1: in some ways, and the left is authoritarian in other
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  Speaker 1: night ways, and.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, it's it's it's a sad world we live in.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: And the while the stats are interesting, the stats are
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: not the defining They're not what should determine whether we
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: should engage.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 4: With the authoritarian actions.
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: Authoritarian authoritarianism is never warranted. I mean, you could argue
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: in times of unbelievable emergencies, you know, maybe a temporary
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: kind of authoritarian measures, like in El Salvado, which had
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: motivates the highest in the world, you do something to
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: lower them, and then but there's no there's never a
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: Then authoritarianism doesn't lead to freedom or theotianism just leads
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: to more authoritarianism always.
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  Speaker 4: Always, Liam, Oh, this is part two. Let me find
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 4: part one. Where's part one.
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  Speaker 1: To do? It's difficult if you do the higher one
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: as a You've got to do the.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 3: Higher dollar one as a part one always, because then
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 3: I have to find the part one.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Liam, Part one. I get what you mean when
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: you say there's no one game changing event to alter
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: the culture. But you didn't mention that if an obil
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: price winner in physics were to credit rands and pistemology,
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: and he continues how that would be a big lead
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: forward towards when being taken more seriously. The same could
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: be said for Blake Souls if in twenty years the
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: whole world is flying in supersonic planes and he became
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: a major celebrity and credits rans publicly, Yes, I mean absolutely.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, imagine if all the Silicon Valley, the guys
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: who were influenced by iron Rand in the nineteen eighties
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: and nineteen nineties had given her full credit for it,
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: had talked about it and talked about it well, had
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: defended her well and talked about it rightly. I think
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: she would have. It would be a big step forward,
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: There's no question about it. And I do think Blake
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: Scholes has opportunity here if he's willing, right, I mean,
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: if he's twenty years, everybody's writing around in Boom and
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: Blake is a celebrity, you know, I hope he he
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: talks a lot about Ironmand at that point. That would
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: be huge for the movement. Any successful person. Look, John
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: Allison did that. Now you know, John wasn't a CEO
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: of a cool industry, but he was maybe the most
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: successful bank CEO of the later twentieth century. He was
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: incredibly influential and incredibly successful. He talked a lot about Iran,
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: and there's no question that had a huge impact. And
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: now if you take somebody in a very cool industry,
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: on the cutting edge of technology, on something everybody is
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: paying attention to, and they credit Iran, Yeah, that would
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: have a big, big step forward, that would be that
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: would be big. I hope it happens, Amen. I just
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: came in with one hundred dollars. Thank you almen, really
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: really appreciate that got us really really close to our
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: dollar goal for the third hour, which we.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 4: Haven't answered yet. So we're in great shape.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Amen. Good to see you. Shoot me you're
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: back home, all right. Richard says, one of the most
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: positive trends in the world today, What gives you greatest
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: cause for optimism? Well, I mean not many, particularly if
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: you think about trends, because trends are a different than
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: one off phenomena. I mean something AI is something that
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: gives me a lot of cause for optimism, you know, AI.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: I still think we're going to see a lot of
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: biotech breakthroughs, maybe not at the speed I we'd like,
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: Maybe not at the speed at which my life depends on.
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: But we will see a lot of I think biotech breakthroughs,
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: and maybe not in the United States, not an RFK
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: has his way, those bakthroughs won't be in the US.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: Maybe they'll be in China, which is you know, investing
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: a lot more money and in some extent giving it
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: scientists a lot more freedom that we're willing to do
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: here in the United States, and so AI biotech potentially,
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: and then me Lay in Argentina. Those are really the
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: only really things that causes for optimism. Now the question
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: with me Lay is is he well, I'll give you
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: one more. Is he a trend? Is he a trend?
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: I think the are the cause for optimism. And this
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: is trick here because we'll see, we'll know in the
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: next few months. So many has been the courts. I
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: do think we still have a court system. We still
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: have courts that are rational, that are reason based, and
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: then seemed to be willing to reign in government power.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: We saw that with reversing Chevron. You know, we've seen
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: that with a lot of kind of economic liberty issues
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: over the last few years and also separation of powers
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: issues over the last few years now that the real
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: question is going to come down. Are they willing to
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: reign in Trump? Be willing to reign in Biden? Remember
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: one of the reasons they the Spreme Court repeatedly knocked
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: down Biden's efforts to do student debt. Uh, you know,
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: waive student debt, eliminate student.
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 4: Debt was a separation of powerization. It wasn't. Congress did
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 4: not authorized.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 1: The president to do that. He needed Congress to pass
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: a law that eliminated student debt. He couldn't do it,
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: you know, unilaterally. Will they be willing to hold Trump
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: to the same standards, for example on tariffs? But the
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: courts generally, and you know, when I've had Larry Larry
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: Salizman on and I've had Steve Simpsons on, They've been
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: very optimistic about the courts. And I think generally there
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: is a tendency in the courts to have a high
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: respect for property rights, much higher than any of the
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: other branches of government. So the courts assigned a sign
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: of optimism or optimistic reason for optimism if it holds,
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: and will know if it holds in the next the
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: next few months whether this is it wasn't just under
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: Biden that they were willing to do this, But are
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: they willing to do it under Trump? Even if it
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: means alienating Trump? All right, let's go to the twenty
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: dollars questions. Quite a few of those today, Thank you guys.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: You guys have been very generous. Chasbatt The vegan crowd
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: is very similar to the anti abortion crowd. One thinks
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: that chicken are people, the other things that embryos are people.
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: One wants you to stop eating meat, the other wants
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: you to stop having sex. Yeah, I think that's right.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: Although I wouldn't call them the vegan crowd. I know
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: vegans who not like that, many vegans or not like that.
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 4: I would rather call them animal rights.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: People, the animal welfare people.
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 4: By the way, the.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: One of the short stories, the short story, the final
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: short story Onnold's War from Folks in the Road that
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: I talked about yesterday was very much about kind of
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: the animal rights people.
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 4: Very critical of the animal rights people.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: So that's good. So yes, But I agree they think
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: that animals have rights, and they think that embryos have rights,
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: that they're just like adult people. And one wants you
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: to stop eating meat, the other wants you to stop
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: having sex. I think stopping having sex is a bigger
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: deal than to stop eating meat. Sex more valuable than
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: eating Michael, maturity is more than just a late gratification
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: of taking the future into account. It's just sign of
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: maturity is when a person could admit they've done something
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: wrong and tell others about it before they discover it.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, sure, but that is you know, that's a
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: pretty high ball. There are a lot of people I
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: know who never do that.
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  Speaker 4: And who are mature in every other aspect.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: Again, I think basically maturity is about being rational and
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: about having the capacity to be rational.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 4: But I think that what is the.
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: Contrast, right, The contrast is people are super defensive about
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: being wrong. But I know a lot of adults are
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: super defensive generally mature, But the defense are about this
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I still think that maturity is primarily
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: about not being whim driven, not being instant gratification driven.
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: I think that is. And again, if you think about
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: the contrast, what is it about a child that's immature
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: His unwillingness to admit the mistakes, that's very sophisticated. It's
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: his desire to have what he wants right now, without
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: any question, it's his.
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 10: The fact that he's driven by win okay, chas vot.
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: What if somebody told Trump that his chance of getting
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: the Nobel Prize would dramatically increase if he eliminated all tariffs.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: I think that would place him in a real dilemma
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: because of all the things that Trump does, of all
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: of them, the thing he believes in the most is tariffs.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: He really had it. It's as if his life depends
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: on it. This is the one thing that he really,
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: really really loves.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 4: So I don't know, like immigration, he would give.
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: Up ice for a noble price, no question, he doesn't
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: care that much. You can see that with the visas right.
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 4: No, that he's willing to allow six.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: Hundred thousand Chinese students to come to the United States
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: in order to appease she. He's not willing to lower
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: tariffs to piece she. So it's where priorities lie. You
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: notice in the one country that's getting away without really
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: paying high tariffs and everything is Russia. Isn't that interesting,
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: It's gone under the radar that Russia. It's not part
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: of the specipical tariff thing. We still buy stuff from Russia,
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: even though there's sanctions, Hopper Gamble existed.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 4: Her ideas still do.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: While her movement is young, its success is inevitable. Her
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: ideas are right, and they will correct the course given time.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: What we see capitalism in our lifetime. No, but it
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: will happen.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I agree with all of that. I
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 4: think that's right. It will happen. I don't think it's inevitable.
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: I don't like to use terms like that, because as
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: long as people actually will.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 4: Nothing is really inevitable.
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's I think it will happen. It
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: will happen in my lifetime. No, but it will happen.
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: Truth wins out in the end. Mike is looking at
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: how many hours a person must work to afford an item,
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: a better way at looking at prices today compared to
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: prices in the past. Yes, absolutely, it's I want to
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: do a show on that. But absolutely the time price
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: instead of a dollar price, put a time price on things.
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: How many how many hours does it take you to
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: work an average person to work in order to gain stuff?
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: And if you look at it that way, then you know.
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 4: A stand of living.
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: And that's that kept us standard of living, that kept
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: us quality of life because it captures how.
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 4: Much hours you work.
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: It's not gonna capture inflation because inflation is a monetary phenomena.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: We've taken money out of the equation, and what you
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: will see is, in terms of hours, almost everything has
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: gone down in price. It costs less of your time,
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: and therefore your standard living, quality of life has gone up.
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: And it is a much better measure than measures that
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: have money involved, because the money is how do we
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: measure it's inflation? How do we measure the inflation? How
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: do we measure what is money? How do we measure
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: the quantity of money? All of those things go away
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: when you just look at time. How much time does
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: it take me to work in order to afford a
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: three star Michelin restaurant less today than thirty years ago.
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: Thirty years ago, it would have taken me out because
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: I earned a lot less. It would have taken me many, many,
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: many hours to earn enough to go and eat at
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: the three star Micheline restaurant. Today not that much. And
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: you can you can look at product after product or
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: a product, so you measure the value of the product
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: in terms of how many hours you have to work
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: to attain it given its price, and given how much
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: you earn. And what you'll see there is that you're
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: making a lot more money today, and you're making a
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: lot more money relative to the cost of goods. And
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: that's reflected in the fact that you have to work
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: less and less and less for the goods that you'll consume,
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: me even housing now housing maybe not housing, maybe after
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: work more today in order to consume because your wages
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: have not kept up with the house of price of housing.
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: But that's the exception. And if you've if your income
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: has gone up a lot, then probably housing as well.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, most of us live in much bigger houses
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: today than we did thirty years ago. I certainly do
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: much much bigger house, much much nice house, much much
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: much much much much much much more expensive house. And
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: that's a reflection of fact. And my income has grown
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: much much, much much higher. D you see, So you
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: measure the house house costs a million dollars, How many
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: hours do I have to work to make a million dollars?
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 4: How many hours did I have to work.
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: Twenty years ago to make enough money to buy the
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: same house, whatever the price.
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 4: Was twenty years ago. And you compare those so.
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: Yes, I'll do a show on that, and I'll bring
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: some examples.
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 4: Shasbat fear is the mind killer.
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: Lady Jessica in Dune Part one, Chasbat has all these
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: great lines out of movies. I am very jealous. Yeah,
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: I mean it's a great it's a great line, and
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: it's absolutely true. Fear is a mind killer. It destroys
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: your capacity really to think. It doesn't destroy it, but
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: from a lot of people, it makes it very difficult
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: for them to think, and they choose not to They
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: choose to evade instead or to be motivated by but
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: to be driven by the emotion. Wes, thank you for
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: the sticker that got us over the target. I really
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: really appreciate that. Andrew, back to the issue maturity, how
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: do you explain the phenomena of the degree of immaturity
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: of the Trump administration, the lying, careless mistakes, boot licking,
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: a Panacea's push ups, pull ups, could go on.
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 4: I mean, they're driven by women. They're not long term
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 4: rational thinkers.
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: There's no rationality, there's no strategy, there's no long term thinking.
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 4: They act like children.
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: I've talked often talked about the fact that they are
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: driven by and I think it's basically because Trump is
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: a child mentally. He is not mature. He is a
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: wim worshiper. He has a little self esteem, which you
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: know is consistent with kind of Michael's definition of lack
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 1: of maturity in that he will never admit a mistake
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: and he will always attack and attack when he feels insulted.
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: They they're just, you know, a lot of them are
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: just there to appear, and some of them have real
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: bigger goals, like jd Vance of really bringing America into
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 1: a new age of authoritarianism, a new age of Christian nationalism,
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: however you want to define it. And Trump is a
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: vehicle and they will say and do anything in order
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: for Trump to keep them on track to achieve their
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: ultimate goal, which is this, you know, authoritarian future. I mean,
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: it's hard to explain the irrational Richard interesting hotoical in
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal on the gap between US and Europe. Yeah,
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: I saw that article, and I've talked about this many
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: times on the show. With a read ac only owned
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: by one fifth to one third of Europeans compared to
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: eighty five percent of Americans, and salary of UK specialist
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: doctors is less than the US welder.
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, I mean it's it's again.
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: I've talked about this many times, and I've given you
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: concrete examples. The United States, particularly over the last twenty
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: years or particularly since the financial crisis, has become significantly
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: richer than Europe. And Europe is held back by to
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: leg extent regulations, but many of those environmental regulations. That's
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: what keeps down air conditioning, and of course by socialised
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: medicine is what keeps down doctor's pay. But yeah, Europe
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: is in trouble. It has to find a way to
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: let go into to shrug off all these all these
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: kind of innovation entrepreneurship killing regulations, and all these regulations
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: that dramatically increase the cost of energy that reduce the
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: incentive to have a condition. Andrew I also think there's
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: a kind of a sense in which Europeans have that
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: they're suffering for the cause.
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 4: This is a good sacrifice.
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: This is the secular altruism speaking by not having a condition.
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: Andrew Ran diagnosed most people is having a fear of independence.
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: I think that's right. Whatever one feels about being independent,
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: one's metaphysical independence is a biological fact. Why would one
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: form a fear to acknowledge that fact of nature, because
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: that fact bears with it a significant responsibility that it's
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: up to you. You have to face reality, you have
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 1: to think for yourself, you have to deal with all
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: the problems. There's nobody else, there's just you and people
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: afraid of that. People are afraid of confronting that, people
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: are afraid of dealing with that, and people don't know what
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: to do with it. So the fact that we're metaphysically
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: independent requires action, requires thinking, requires reason, requires rationality. But
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: that requires effort and responsibility and confidence and self esteem.
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 4: And people don't have those.
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 1: And.
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 4: They know they don't have it, and they fear their
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 4: inability to deal with it.
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: And they again, they haven't been trained, they haven't been educated,
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: they haven't been shown the way our educational system should,
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: in many respects give people the confidence that they can
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: deal with it independently, that they have an independent mind
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: that is capable of dealing with the world, and therefore
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: they're metaphysical independence is something to be celibated, not to
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: be feared. But our educational system evades all that and
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: therefore abrogates this responsibility to all these people. Adam asks
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: are drones making armored fighting vehicles obsolete.
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 4: I mean they are for now, but I'm not sure
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 4: that a hold that is.
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if Israel and the United States
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: and other countries are working on all kinds of technologies
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: that will cripple drones, incapacitate them, and allow for ground
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: vehicles to move about. They might have different ways to
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: mask their presence from the drone. So, I mean, it's
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: a technological battle, but it's not clear to me the
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: drones have won. That is their winning right now, but
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: it's not clear to me that they will win in
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: the end. At the end of the day, wars about
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: occupying territory, you can't win it from the air alone.
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, we will have in our future drone tanks.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: There's no reason why tanks cannot be drones. There's no
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: reason why tank needs to have human beings inside of it.
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 1: And it can be remote control operated. It can have
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 1: all the benefits. And imagine you can have a white
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: mind sweeper moving ahead of a drone tank and you
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: won't mind sending a tank into enemy lines because you know,
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: if it gets hit, if it gets destroyed, at least
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: people won't die.
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean we are heading towards a world.
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: Of robots fighting our wars for us. Whether's robots are
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: going to be in the air or on the ground
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: both and air dominance will count for a lot. Uh,
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: but we'll be equipping soldiers and robots on the ground
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: with anti drome technologies shoot them down to obstruct them.
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: So yeah, Ian mentions that they you know, when anti
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: tank missiles were first introduced in the nineteen seventies, really
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: and there was there was a real sense that, yeah,
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: that was the end of tanks, armored personnel carriers because
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: these these missiles could be carried on the shoulder of
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 1: a soldier, shoulder of a soldier and could take out
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: a tank or armored vehicle from distance.
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 4: And yet there were technological solutions for that. There will
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 4: be technological solutions for drones.
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: But it's an ongoing battle, an ongoing technological battle.
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 4: Dave just came in with a fifty dollars super chat.
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Dave really appreciated.
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 4: And that's after.
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: Dave did all those ten dollars ones to get us,
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 1: to get us to the goal. Would you agree that
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: to learn, an individual has to revise a previously held
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: belief except being wrong is a path to learning and
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: accept being ignorant about some topic information honesty learn from
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: a position of ignorance.
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 4: Okay, so what you're saying is one way or the other.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: What's quiet and not to learn is honesty either the
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 1: acknowledgement that one was wrong and now there's new information
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: and you have to revise your views all the acknowledgement
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: that was ignorant, That is, I didn't know this before.
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's true, But it's also true
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: that I don't know if you'd call it ignorance. For example,
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: when a child learns one plus one equals to he's
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 1: not acknowledging his ignorance. It's not like he thinks, oh,
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that, Now I know it. You know,
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: I can only know it if I acknowledged that I
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: didn't know it before. So I certainly think honesty is key.
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 1: But if it's new material, if it's new information, then
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: I don't think. I'm not sure that you have to
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: acknowledge your ignorance. I mean, it's an interesting question. I
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 1: have to think it through. So if some present here
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: is something I completely new I never knew about, I
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: don't think it requires any big act of honesty to say, yeah,
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 1: I didn't know it, now I know it, or now
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: I've got information that suggested that leads me towards knowledge.
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: But look, there's no question that honesty is key to learning,
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: because you've got to be constantly open to good ideas
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: and better ideas and new ideas, otherwise you stop learning. Yeah,
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 1: so honesty is crucial, but not to everything, but it
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: is certainly crucial to revising one's knowledge.
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 3: All right, let's see, I still got a lot of questions.
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 3: That doodo, bunny. It's what's the time here? Eleven o'clock
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 3: in Fierence in Florence.
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: I'm sympathizing with all the Europeans who have to stay
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 1: up late to listen to Iran book show Life. I
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: have to deliver the Iran book show Life late at night,
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: all right, that dudo, bunny. The problem I have worth
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: waiting until seventy to collect sel security is if I
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 1: died before then, I can't leave it to anyone. It's
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: an evil system. Forty years of peace into a Ponzi
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: scheme for nothing. Yeah, it's an evil system, that's right.
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about dying. If I die, I die.
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: I mean no, I don't worry about dying, and I
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 1: don't expected that before the age of seventy. So I
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: have no problem waiting until the age of seventy to collect.
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: And if I need the money, I'll collect before, like
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: super chats dry up completely, I'll have to collect my
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: social Security before. James, the optimist in me thinks we
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: survived Trump's first term will survive the second. He's a
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 1: celebrity culture personality. The fifteen minutes are almost up and
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: things will go back to normal. I don't think that's
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 1: gonna happen. I don't think that's gonna happen. I think,
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: as I warned you, his second term is very different.
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: It's very different. It's much more focused, it's much more
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: geared towards authoritarianism. It's on steroids. It's a first term
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 1: on many, many steroids. And this time he has a
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: VP who is who is authoritarian. It's not Mike Pence,
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: who was religious and I opposed him and didn't like him,
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: but it was basically a traditional conservative.
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 4: Now he has a Christian conservative.
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: He has a nationalist conservative conservative nationalists, however you want
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 1: to call.
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 11: Them, and so yeah, I think this is much worse,
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 11: and I don't think it is going back from a
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 11: lot of what Trump is doing.
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: Even if the Democrats win, they'll take advantage of all
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: the things, all the precedence he's created. There's no going
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: back to normal. There is no normal. The Republican Party
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 1: will never be the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan. It
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: will never be that. Maybe there'll be a third party
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: one day that will capture that spirit, but that's gone.
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: That is, it's just it's not there. The people who
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: are normal in the Republican Party on principled don't care
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 1: about anything. They're are passionate that our fighters, the people
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: who fight as a manga, the Christian Conservatives, the National Conservatives,
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 1: they're the fighters. They're the intellectuals now, they're the ones
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: that will set their gender. We are very much on
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 1: the road to athraitarianism in this country. And I don't
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 1: think there's going back to normal unless something dramatic happens,
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: unless there's a real rise of an intellectual alternative to
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 1: what's going on right now. No Trump two point zero,
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: there's no going back. There's no going back. This is
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 1: a new standard, a new world, and it's we're moving
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: towards authoritarianism left right.
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 4: I don't know what it's.
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: Going to look like in the end.
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 4: I think I have a clue what it's going to
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 4: look like in the.
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 1: End, but I don't know for certainly. But it's going
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: to be athiritarianism, and it's we're not gonna have a
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: bout of freedom suddenly out of this. There's just nothing,
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 1: nothing in the culture, nothing in the world, nothing in
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: the Republican Party, nothing in the Democratic Party that suggests that.
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: And again Trump is by orders of magnitude worse than
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 1: the second time than what he was on the first time.
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 1: And I told you he wouldn't be given the people
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 1: he surrounded himself, and he learns. He learned from the
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: first time. He learned what not to do and what
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: kind of people to surround himself with. Liam Is it
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 1: really fair to say that the smart people are in
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: blue cities? Is it because of common democratic policies or
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: relics of pastimes? Well, the reality is that I don't know.
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 4: I think this is true.
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 1: The most engineers, most people in finance, most people in
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: profession most professionals are Democrats.
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 4: Now why is that?
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's because Republicans have failed. Those
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: have alienated those people by the Republicans being so stupid religious,
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 1: anti evolution, anti science, post COVID that if you're smart
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: and if you know something about the world, then you
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: can't support the Republicans. And many of them are electing Democrats. Now,
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 1: some are committed Democrats. They're the ones who got who
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: bought into the whole guilt thing and the whole leftist
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: agenda of guilt and intersectionality at some level or another.
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 1: But I don't think that's the dominant number of them.
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: I think most of them are just alienated by the
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: Republican party. They can conceive a voting Republican and it's
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: only getting worse because you know, smart people. Person is
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 1: somebody who has to deal with abstract concepts and can
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 1: deal with them. Well, that's a smart pill. So you
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: have to be smart to be a doctor, if they're
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 1: smart to be an engineer, if they're smart to be
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: a scientist, I mean a decent one. Right, you have
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: to be smart to do finance. It's an issue of
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: a level of abstraction. You don't have to be particularly
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: smart to be a plumber. You can be I'm not
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: saying plumbers are not smart. Some plumbers are smart. But
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: you don't have to be smart to be a plumber.
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: You can be averaged below average and still be a
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 1: plumber or cor mechanic or a.
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 4: Lot of other things.
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: But to be a brain surgeon, you better be. You're
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: gonna be smart. To be a hedge fund to we'll
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 1: get a edge fund, you're going to be smart, super
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 1: smart usual. So that's what I consider a smart person,
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: somebody who deals with abstract knowledge in his professional dealings. Yes,
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: I think it's a repulsion from the Republicans more than
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 1: attraction to Democrats, although many of them are being corrupted
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 1: by guilt, by altruism, by they take their ideas seriously.
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: And but again, if you associate the Republican Party with religion,
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: this is the big tragedy of the of the of
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 1: the Reagan presidency, is that he brought religion firmly into
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 1: the Republican Party. Please do a show on Patrick Bindevine's
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: Jubilee debate with twenty anti capitalist kooks. Also, can't Trump
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: really force buildings to be done in Greek Roman style?
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: He can force government buildings to be done in Regroment style. Yes,
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 1: and he is.
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 4: He tried to do that at first.
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: He started doing that in the first term, and he's
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: doubling up on it this time. Well, we have dumb
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: people with degrees, but you have to look at the
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 1: kind of degree they have. You don't have a lot
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 1: of dumb doctors. You don't have a lot of dumb
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: finance people. You don't have a lot of dumb masters
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: in finance. I bet you you don't have any dumb
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 1: people with a master degree in finance. You don't have
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: a lot of dumb engineers. You don't have a lot
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: of dumb scientists. You just don't have it. You can
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: have dumb English majors, you have dumb you know, I
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: don't know ethnic studies majors. This is why I didn't
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 1: mention degrees I mentioned in particular fields that require abstract thinking. Yeah,
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, Patrick Grindavi cannot defend capitalism. He's not a capitalist.
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: He don't believe in capitalism. He thinks he believes in capitalism.
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 1: What he believes in is kind of a mixed economy.
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: Neither here nor they're dogmatic bs. He has no idea
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 1: what capitalism is right in my view, So you know, yes,
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: I'm not surprised he didn't do a good job against
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 1: the communists, and he doesn't really have the knowledge to
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: deal with them because he doesn't know where they're coming from.
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: He doesn't understand them. It's not what he's studied, it's
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 1: not what he knows. He's a sales guy. He's a
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: sales guy. He's not a capitalist. I mean, he's not
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: a defender, an intellectual defendi of capitalism. He's not intellectual.
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: He's a sales guy. He's good at sales. That DUDEO
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: bunny does. Should in Peterson know while he is paying
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: you tons of money to do these lectures, you are
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 1: simultaneously making shows critical of him. I don't know. I
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if he knows. I mean, he's got
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of people working for him, and he's not
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: paying me to be his accolades. He's not paying me
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: to to, you know, to agree with him. He's paying
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 1: me to give courses on things that I'm an expert
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: on that he thinks I'm have an expertise and he
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 1: might not agree with a lot of what I say
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: during those courses. I know he doesn't. I mean, my
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 1: capitalism courses comes out against religion, so does in some
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 1: ways my finance course suddenly against altruism. So in the
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 1: morality of finance is a very different case than what
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 1: he would mean. My whole conception of morality is different
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: than his. So I'm not teaching courses for the Peterson
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: Academy that are consistent with Jordan Peterson's philosophy. And he
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: knows it. It's not what he hired me for. And
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: he claims he wants a plurality of voices, he doesn't
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: want just one voice. So I don't think he'd be
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: surprised by me being critical of him. Michael, Donald Trump
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 1: represents a terrible fascism and socialism with enough strength to
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 1: unite both camps against the few of us who care
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: about American principles. He can't unite people.
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 4: He's a divide. He's a divide.
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: He's not a uniter. And that's the one thing going
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 1: for us is that he can't unite people. Somebody maybe
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 1: could at some point, but not Donald Trump. Not Donald Trump.
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 1: But he is. I agree that he combines. But if
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: god fascism is in a sense a form of socialism,
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 1: fascism socialism already united you don't need Trump to unite
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: them anytime. You could debate Sam Cedar again. And when
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 1: are you having Jason Ryan's back. I'll have Jason on
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 1: in the fall, in the early winter. He'll definitely be
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 1: on once I get back home. At some point, debate
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 1: Sam Cedar again, I mean again, I will try when
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 1: I get back, I'll try to arrange some debates and
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 1: getting on people's at some point here, Michael, both MAGA
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: and the left pushing the VIA message, learn that you're
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: a victim and deserve to be angry all the time.
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: Is a victim mentality a sign of immaturity. I don't
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 1: know if it's a sign of immaturity, but it's certainly,
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 1: you know they victim mentality is everywhere in our culture.
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 1: That is, it's both left and right. It's it's dominant.
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 1: It's a sign of lack of self esteem. It's a
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 1: sign of looking for somebody else to blame for things
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 1: that you're responsible for, not taking responsibility for yourself, all
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 1: of that. It's a sign of lack of self esteem,
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: a lack of personal responsibility. Crypto fanatic. If the state
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 1: and economy are separated, do you think that would entail
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: the abolition of bankruptcy laws, and what would the consequence
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  Speaker 1: of abolishing those laws. No, I don't think it would
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 1: intel abolishing bankruptcy laws. You still have to have a procedure,
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  Speaker 1: a process that governs the disposition of assets on the
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 1: bankruptcy and that is not all contractual. It cannot be
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  Speaker 1: all contracted in advance. There has to be a system
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 1: of law to government what happens when you know. Yeah, So,
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  Speaker 1: whether the bankruptcy law will look like it does today,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, although I think the US bankrupcy.
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  Speaker 4: Law is pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: But you need some mechanism by which you bing together
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  Speaker 1: all the different claimholders, You figure out who has more
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  Speaker 1: seniority than others, You figure out what assets and what
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  Speaker 1: liabilities actually exist, and you settle all that.
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  Speaker 4: And that is what bankruptcy law is.
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 1: You need a process in front of a neutral party,
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 1: a judge, you call it, to deal with all that.
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 1: And I think that's what bankruptcy love is. So yes,
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 1: I think there would be still bankruptcy law. Again, it
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 1: might be different than what it is today, but there
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 1: would be something. Roland says, since the minimum wage is
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 1: working out so well, you might want to consider introducing
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 1: a minimum super chat. Anyone that can't afford twenty dollars
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  Speaker 1: a more doesn't get to pay you anything. Wonderful idea.
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  Speaker 1: Huh No, I don't like it. It would juice income.
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  Speaker 1: It's bad, no good, not good, not good, and it
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  Speaker 1: would reduce your participation.
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  Speaker 4: It would be bad for everybody. Lose, lose, No, we're
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  Speaker 4: against lose lose.
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  Speaker 1: Ian question for super cask or maybe sup CASKI anyway,
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  Speaker 1: do you consider Japan koreas I wanted to be Western
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  Speaker 1: or maybe semi Western? I consider them to be Western
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  Speaker 1: parts of Western civilization. If you think about the political systems,
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  Speaker 1: if you think about their economy, if you think about
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  Speaker 1: the way they address they have, you know, the kind
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  Speaker 1: of attitude towards work, office hours, even architecture.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe not all oughts, maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: Everything they do, but yeah, I definitely think that I
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  Speaker 1: consider Japan and South Korea and Taiwan part of Western
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  Speaker 1: civilization today. They've adopted Western values to such a degree
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  Speaker 1: that they're part of the Western civilization. Again, I think
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 1: Western serviliation is primarily individualism, which I think in those
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  Speaker 1: countries having spade relative to what they were in the past.
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  Speaker 1: Reason respect for reason, which I think again, all these
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 1: countries have respect for science and thinking, and engineering and
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 1: entrepreneurship and finally political liberty. And I think they have
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 1: all three of those. And then if you look even
• 2:17:04
  Speaker 1: beyond that too, again they close. They wear the kind
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 1: of family structure, they have a lot of their attitudes
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 1: towards life, and again, the buildings they build their very western,
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 1: in some ways more western than many Western countries. Chout
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 1: about says and what will YouTube do if you meet
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: the goal? Nothing other to say, odds, we great by
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 1: providing you another tool that incentivizes your people to Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's basically it. I have a meeting one
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 1: seventy two weeks with a somebody on YouTube to tell
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  Speaker 1: me about the latest features and to encourage me to
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 1: find new ways to increase revenue equal to reality. Thank
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 1: you for covering this, even when UK objectivist channels are
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 1: ignoring it completely in favor of Israel. I wonder who
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  Speaker 1: those people are. I don't know who those people are.
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  Speaker 1: Oh hear all the Deans with the smiley face. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Dave Dean, thank you, thank you, thank you. Five of them,
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 1: five of them. That's a lot of contributions today. I
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 1: appreciate it. Okay, Paul, glad you mentioned the Facebook discussion
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 1: about Trump supporters.
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  Speaker 4: I've been arguing against them. Yeah, I noticed.
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  Speaker 1: It's futile, can I say that? But it's good because
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 1: at least it represents that somebody, you who's looking through this,
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 1: that not everybody has become a you know, a Trump accolade.
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: That is not objectivism necessarily. So you're representing the voice
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 1: of reason on these chats, and I think that it's
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 1: less to convince anybody the chat and more to convince
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  Speaker 1: the innocent read of the chat. Somebody YouTube objectives tube stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Here is AC support cash, thank you, thank you, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: a AC set to seventy degrees twenty degrees centigrades. Have
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 1: you read Constantine's Sword by James Caroll? I have I have.
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  Speaker 3: I assume you want to know what I think of it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I really enjoyed it. I learned a lot
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  Speaker 3: from it, a lot. I thought it was really really interesting.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a difficult book to read, partially because it's
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 1: interwines his personal story with the historical story, and his
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 1: personal story is I don't know, it's weird. I mean,
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: he's obviously got it. He's got a I think for
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  Speaker 1: his mother. He's got a bit of an Oedipus complex.
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 1: He's he's struggling with his Catholicism, he's struggling with the history.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a weird mixture of history. I wish it
• 2:20:13
  Speaker 1: was just a history. I enjoyed more. But still there
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  Speaker 1: was so much new there, so much interesting there, that
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  Speaker 1: it was worth struggling through the more personal bits that
• 2:20:24
  Speaker 1: were less interesting. Albert Camu's absurdism thoughts.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not a fan of Albert.
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 1: Camu's too pessimistic, too negative of humanity, to anti reason.
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 4: It's this whole existentialism.
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure exactly about absurdism what that means refers to,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not a big fan of Camu because of
• 2:20:49
  Speaker 1: all that. Again, he's primarily driven by well, thinks we
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 1: are should be driven by emotion rather than reason. I
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: think that's true, Philip. Earlier, you said that Germany will
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 1: probably be the first to turn against its Muslim population.
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 1: What makes you think that? What is it about German
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 1: culture that makes them so prone to tribalism?
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's their contient. They've taken
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 1: contost seriously than the rest of the world. They're more
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 1: in it towards duty. They definitely have a history now
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 1: of tribalism going back a long time. They've got a
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 1: mythology of tribalism around what it means to be German. Yeah,
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know enough about German culture to get other
• 2:21:46
  Speaker 1: than what Lennapeacock has written in nominous parallels to give
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 1: you a detailed analysis. But it strikes me that given
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 1: the history, that probably the place where it starts. But
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 1: it's not necessarily. It could be the UK, it could
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 1: be Fans, it could be somewhere else. I just think
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  Speaker 1: it's the it's the Kantian Hegelian influence in Germany is
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  Speaker 1: stronger than anywhere else. They're the origin of all this
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 1: bad philosophy and they take it more seriously than other
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 1: people do.
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  Speaker 4: Not that you have a goal going at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Making twenty seven dollars twenty two dollars, Thank you, Thank you, Greg,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: Hecta ken An objectives to appreciate the beauty and the most.
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 1: Power of gospel music while separating it from a religious message. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I absolutely think that that's true. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: you can. I have an appreciation for masses, for Christian mass,
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 1: you know the ones written by great composers. You know,
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 1: a Mass by Beethoven, a mass like Mozart. I requreems
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 1: are some of my favorite works of music. Vodie's Requiem,
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 1: motav Recreem, billios As Requiems, three of the most magnificent
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 1: pieces of music ever written. You have a huge appreciation.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's also true of gospel music. I think
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  Speaker 1: there's beauty's amazing harmony. There's a certain reverence that it
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  Speaker 1: expresses that I think can be absolutely secularized.
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  Speaker 4: So yes, absolutely, the art.
• 2:23:32
  Speaker 1: Transcends music, and particularly transcends the particularly words that they're saying,
• 2:23:39
  Speaker 1: and often transcends the intent of the composer. Kim says,
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 1: really great restaurants, but they support Palestine.
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  Speaker 4: Is it wrong to still ortify on them? I think so.
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, if they were Communists, it would be wrong
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  Speaker 1: to support the restaurant because you know the money is
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 1: going to promote a cause that is destructive to your
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 1: life and therefore harmful to you. So it's non egoistic
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 1: to support them, even though they're a good restaurant.
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 4: What was your army strategy with anti tank weapons?
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: I mean this is the early nineteen eighties, and the
• 2:24:27
  Speaker 1: strategy was basically to invent and then utilize the double
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 1: plated armor, which both protected you against anti tank missiles
• 2:24:36
  Speaker 1: and missiles from other tanks.
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 4: So it's a double coding of armor.
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 1: And when the weapon hits the armor, it sets off
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 1: an explosive that's inside the armor, and therefore the explosive
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 1: kind of explodes against the missile coming in.
• 2:24:58
  Speaker 4: And reduces the energy.
• 2:25:02
  Speaker 1: Required to penetrate the tank itself.
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  Speaker 12: So there's a layer of explosive armor on the tank
• 2:25:09
  Speaker 12: that implodes when hit by a projectile and creates a
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 12: counter force to that protects the inner layer of that
• 2:25:22
  Speaker 12: protects penetration.
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 1: That was what we used, and particularly the modern tanks
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 1: in those days, we're using it. Uh. Blaze guitar lessons.
• 2:25:34
  Speaker 1: I'm going to Spain in a for a week in
• 2:25:36
  Speaker 1: two weeks. Any recommendations. Also, what do you think will
• 2:25:39
  Speaker 1: happen to us economically as a versus peers in the future.
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, Spain is a big country. You have to
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  Speaker 4: tell me where you're going.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, it's it's almost impossible to to give you a
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: recommendation about Spain across Spain, Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Seville, where
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 1: you're going, sons of a Diana. As for the US
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  Speaker 1: economically versus peers, I don't know. I mean it's going
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  Speaker 1: to do badly. It's going to stagnate. But I think
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 1: so is Europe. So I don't know who the peers are.
• 2:26:13
  Speaker 1: Russia is a mass, China is gonna It's economy is
• 2:26:18
  Speaker 1: going to start. I think global economy broadly as the
• 2:26:21
  Speaker 1: global economy, as the global As the globe moves towards
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 1: more authoritarianism, we'll see a reduction in economic growth and
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 1: economic prosperity. You're going to the south, I mean civil
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  Speaker 1: is beautiful, definitely, you know, walk around. Seville has good restaurants,
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 1: It is an interesting history, fascinating interesting. I would go
• 2:26:48
  Speaker 1: to try to go to Alohambra. Alahamba is magnificent. It's
• 2:26:51
  Speaker 1: our Moorish castle. Uh. Cordoba is beautiful, old city of Quodoba.
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 1: I mean the south is I mean, what do you
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  Speaker 1: call it? Uh so definitely Seville definitely, Uh what do
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  Speaker 1: you call it?
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  Speaker 4: Alohambra, Quartoba.
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  Speaker 1: I think if we just do that, you'll have done
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  Speaker 1: a lot. Spend a few days in Sevilla, a few
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 1: days in Quartoba, you know, spend a day going to
• 2:27:21
  Speaker 1: the Alahambra. But yeah, I mean there's a lot to see.
• 2:27:26
  Speaker 1: The Moorish history is fascinating. Basically that that is the
• 2:27:31
  Speaker 1: area when when the Christians conquered it, they discovered these
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 1: massive libraries, including all the lost works of Aristotle, that
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 1: basically made the European Renaissance possible. So Andalusia is the
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 1: birthplace of Western civilization in a sense that it was
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 1: those books translated that what Thomas Aquinas and even before him,
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 1: what's his name god anyway, all University of Paris, everybody,
• 2:28:06
  Speaker 1: that's where they got their stuff. That that that's where
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  Speaker 1: the works of the Greeks were preserved. So it very
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 1: much saved Western civilization. So it's it's really interesting. Flamengo
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 1: if you like flam Ango, Yeah, I mean the south
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  Speaker 1: Seville is a great place to go.
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  Speaker 4: Go see Flamengo.
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 1: We always do it. We're there in Flamengo's really intense
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 1: and interesting and fun. Not of as not but not
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 1: of a center. Those are those are from that culture.
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 4: I'm talking about the University of Paris. I'm thinking of
• 2:28:46
  Speaker 4: ad Abald at the University of Paris.
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  Speaker 1: They read books that will be translated from the libraries
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 1: of that part of Spain. So it's it's a great
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  Speaker 1: area in the history, an important area, a cruciali area
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 1: and the history of Western civilization.
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 4: What is the latest book you're reading. I'm reading a
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 4: book right now. What's it called. It's about the Scottish Enlightenment.
• 2:29:17
  Speaker 1: How the Scots created the modern world or something like that,
• 2:29:20
  Speaker 1: how the cross Scots created something.
• 2:29:23
  Speaker 4: It's good, it's really interesting. It's not true, it's.
• 2:29:28
  Speaker 1: Exaggerates the world of the Scots, but it is interesting
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 1: and it's interesting about the Scottish Enlightenment. I've read a
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 1: lot about the French Enlightenment. We know about the British
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 1: Enlightenment with John Locke and Newton, and this is kind
• 2:29:40
  Speaker 1: of the Scottish Enlightenment, going all the way to Adam
• 2:29:44
  Speaker 1: Smith and Read and Hutchinson and a bunch of thinkers
• 2:29:48
  Speaker 1: that are crucial, and then the influence on America and
• 2:29:53
  Speaker 1: the founding of America. It turns out Scotland had Scottish
• 2:29:56
  Speaker 1: intellectuals had a huge impact on the founding of America,
• 2:29:59
  Speaker 1: which I didn't know, which is really interesting.
• 2:30:04
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 2:30:05
  Speaker 1: Stephen asked, what do you think about really silly movies
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 1: like Zulander and Command Scary Movie, Don't Miss with the
• 2:30:10
  Speaker 1: Sohan and The Hangover. I hate them. I can't stand
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 1: these movies. I can't stand it. I mean, there's certain
• 2:30:16
  Speaker 1: silliness I don't mind, like The Max Brothers, but I
• 2:30:20
  Speaker 1: never liked The Three Stooges because it was too silly.
• 2:30:23
  Speaker 1: But I like The Max Brothers because I thought this
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 1: silliness was smart, if that is possible, there there was
• 2:30:29
  Speaker 1: cleverness to it. I find these movies just celebrating stupidity.
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 1: It started with dumb and dumba and it just got
• 2:30:40
  Speaker 1: dumber and dumber Since then, it's only gotten dumber than
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 1: dumber and dumba dumb and dumba whatever. Right anyway, Yeah,
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 1: I don't like I don't like any American comedies made
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 1: in the last twenty years, thirty years.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 2:30:57
  Speaker 1: Stephen says, what do you say or do if you
• 2:30:59
  Speaker 1: screw up work? I imagine you can't really apologize. Oh me,
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 1: I have nobody to apologize to except you guys. So
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 1: if I sometimes do apologize to you or like I like,
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 1: do a corrective, I say, yeah, I screwed up. I
• 2:31:15
  Speaker 1: got sloppy, I wasn't accurate. Here's the accurate information. I
• 2:31:19
  Speaker 1: do that.
• 2:31:21
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I beat myself up.
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 1: Why did I do that?
• 2:31:24
  Speaker 4: And I go on research and I try to make
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 4: sure I don't do it again.
• 2:31:30
  Speaker 1: How did it is? What become such a wealthy country?
• 2:31:32
  Speaker 1: I think primarily because by liberating its economy, you know,
• 2:31:36
  Speaker 1: the nineteen late seventies, eighties, and nineties all the way
• 2:31:41
  Speaker 1: into the early two thousands is all spent. ISO did
• 2:31:44
  Speaker 1: a lot of liberalizing a lot of thing up, not enough,
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 1: but liberalizing and then unleashing the entrepreneurial spirits, allowing tech
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 1: innovation to take hold, and having great, great educational institutions
• 2:32:02
  Speaker 1: like where I got my undergraduate degree. There is really
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 1: institutive of technology. The technily produced some great engineers who
• 2:32:10
  Speaker 1: then started companies. But Israeli culture is very entrepreneur friendly,
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 1: it's very failure friendly, it's very debate and disagreement friendly.
• 2:32:21
  Speaker 1: And so Israel has a culture that if you liberate it,
• 2:32:25
  Speaker 1: it's going to produce.
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 4: A lot of wealth.
• 2:32:27
  Speaker 1: And what happened starting in the late seventies is a
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 1: slow but steady process of liberalization, of freeing up, which
• 2:32:35
  Speaker 1: unfortunately kind of stopped under Ntennio in the last fifteen years,
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 1: but had gone through at least until the mid two thousands.
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 1: But it's already got the cultural essence now, it just
• 2:32:56
  Speaker 1: needed the liberty, needed the freedom. All right, guys, two
• 2:33:01
  Speaker 1: and a half hours, having gone two and a half
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  Speaker 1: hours in a while, So this is good. We're back
• 2:33:05
  Speaker 1: to kind of a normal, normalized schedule. I would be
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 1: back with you tomorrow at about the same time, in
• 2:33:11
  Speaker 1: the same office, same equipment, same setup. This is working great.
• 2:33:16
  Speaker 1: So WiFi hear is unbelievably stable. This is good, very fast.
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 1: Hopefully that'll stay that way. And what else. Yeah, thanks
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  Speaker 1: to all the superchats. You guys are great. I know
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 1: there were a lot of people who did stickers. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Hector says, I'm a foodie. What is the dish that
• 2:33:36
  Speaker 1: represents Israel? Oh God, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean homos.
• 2:33:43
  Speaker 1: Falafel dishes that represent Israel, but they represent a certain
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 1: style of Israel or a certain part of Israel. But yeah,
• 2:33:52
  Speaker 1: I think holmos falafa all right, Drewsky, thank you, Mary Eleene,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. H oh skipped the head, and of course
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  Speaker 1: Dave Dean we've said thank you is a dichotomy, and
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  Speaker 1: who else.
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  Speaker 13: The Thundy is all the stickers wes thank you as
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  Speaker 13: almost always I'm in I said one hundred dollars that
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  Speaker 13: that was great, and Dave of course several.
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  Speaker 1: Times, and Frederick, Mary Eleen, John Bales, and in the
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  Speaker 1: meantime we're getting more more questions. I don't know if
• 2:34:39
  Speaker 1: I caught everybody a capitalist spy. I don't know if
• 2:34:43
  Speaker 1: I got everybody, but hopefully they got most of you.
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  Speaker 1: Mary Ellen again, all right, pbe asks. I haven't read
• 2:34:51
  Speaker 1: Folks in the Road, but you.
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  Speaker 4: Said po legal messages.
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  Speaker 1: Literature could be kind of productive at the strugg there's
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  Speaker 1: many How is that different from what you critiqued. It's
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  Speaker 1: just atlashopic is, I guess, better written, better integrated into
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  Speaker 1: the plot, just better executed. It's not that you can't
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  Speaker 1: do it. You can. I mean Atlas Shrugged obviously as
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  Speaker 1: an example. The Phonehead is an example of Leobblers is
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  Speaker 1: an example.
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  Speaker 4: But it's it's it's just better integrated. It's hard to do.
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  Speaker 1: It's really hard to do. It's really, really really hard
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  Speaker 1: to do. I give.
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  Speaker 4: Larry credit for.
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  Speaker 1: Trying and for coming up with original stories in order
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  Speaker 1: to do it. I think the storytelling is more important
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  Speaker 1: than the political message. Of course, Ironman is conveying a
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  Speaker 1: whole philosophical message, and to some extent every piece of
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  Speaker 1: literature is.
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  Speaker 4: The question is how explicit do you want to be?
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  Speaker 4: And Atlas Shrug is explicitly philosophical. Not all stories, not
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  Speaker 4: all stories.
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  Speaker 1: Need to be explicively philosophical, much more important as the
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  Speaker 1: flicit message in the sense of life that they portray.
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  Speaker 1: But again I'm not an expert on literature at all,
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  Speaker 1: so beware, buy every ware, read everywhere. All right, guys,
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  Speaker 1: have a great night. I'm gonna go off. I have
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  Speaker 1: to walk home and then go to sleep. I will
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  Speaker 1: see you wal tomorrow, same time. Buye everybody,