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Iran; Canada; Netanyahu; UK vs Israel; Mertz vs AfD; DSA; AI; Tucker; Achievement | Yaron Brook Show · Yaron Brook Show

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  Speaker 1: The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Yaron Brook Show. All right, everybody, welcome
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  Speaker 1: to Yaron Brook Show on this Wednesday, September 9th. Everybody's
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  Speaker 1: having a great weekend. I'm sorry, I'm sorry to Interrupt
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  Speaker 1: for some of you the viewing of the Apple event.
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  Speaker 1: This is the September Apple event. This is a big
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  Speaker 1: time where they are releasing the latest phones. And indeed,
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  Speaker 1: just as I went live, just as I went live,
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  Speaker 1: Apple was for the first time presenting the new iPhone Duo.
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  Speaker 1: iPhone Duo, which is the foldable iPhone. And I have
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  Speaker 1: to say, it looks really cool. Really, really cool. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if somebody wants to buy me a Christmas gift, iPhone Duo.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it is. Anyway, yes, new watches, iPhone 18 Pro,
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  Speaker 1: 18 Pro Max, and a new health app that will
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  Speaker 1: help the Apple Watch. compete with a whoop so they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to catch up with whoop uh maybe they'll succeed
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  Speaker 1: maybe finally i'll be able to dump one of these
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  Speaker 1: and and keep keep just one uh maybe the battery
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  Speaker 1: life on the apple watch will improve uh this after
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  Speaker 1: charge once every two weeks this i have to charge
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  Speaker 1: three times a day so um yeah i'm excited i'm
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  Speaker 1: excited for the duo the foldable phone finally And to
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  Speaker 1: see how it compares to other foldable phones out there,
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  Speaker 1: I suspect it's going to be better. But as Remo says, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I am now competing with Apple's live unveiling of its products,
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  Speaker 1: which is happening right now in Cupertino, California, streaming all
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  Speaker 1: over the web. So that is it. All right. Reminder,
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  Speaker 1: there won't be a show tomorrow. Just a quick reminder,
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  Speaker 1: we will be back on Friday. And I realized, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't really sink in, but I realized that Friday is 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: So I will not be doing a Capitalism Critics show
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  Speaker 1: on Friday. I'll be doing a show on 9-11 25
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  Speaker 1: years later. I know I did it with Elon and Ankar,
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  Speaker 1: but this will give me an opportunity to lay out
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  Speaker 1: my whole argument all at one place and for you
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  Speaker 1: to ask questions. And yeah, what else? Saturday, there's no show.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to opera. If I do a show, it'll
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  Speaker 1: be early, early in the morning for you guys. And
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  Speaker 1: if I do a show on Saturday, it will be
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  Speaker 1: a show on capitalism's critics, but probably won't do a
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  Speaker 1: show on Saturday. Sunday, I'm traveling. Unlikely that I do
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  Speaker 1: a show when I get to where I'm going. So
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  Speaker 1: the next chance for a show is Monday, right? Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Rob says, nothing about the Republican convention. No, not talking
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  Speaker 1: about the Republican convention today. Maybe tomorrow. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow there's no show. So, no, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about the Republican convention. It seems like just a
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  Speaker 1: circus and, you know, where Trump is pretending he's incredibly
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  Speaker 1: popular and going out there and being the front man
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  Speaker 1: for the Republican Party with the hope that they, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that they can hold on to the Senate and the House.
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  Speaker 1: Although I think the chances of them holding on to
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  Speaker 1: the House are slim and the chances that the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: take over the Senate are actually growing And I don't
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  Speaker 1: think a midterm Republican convention, which as far as I know,
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  Speaker 1: this is the first time ever it's being held. It's
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  Speaker 1: just an opportunity for Trump to stride around while he's
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  Speaker 1: still president and boss people around and pretend that he's
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  Speaker 1: as important and as significant as he was in the past.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the news. And we'll start
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  Speaker 1: with Iran. Oil prices are back trading above $ 100 a
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  Speaker 1: barrel today. And these are above the early, 25% above
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  Speaker 1: the early August levels. And this is a direct consequence
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that the risk of war in the
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  Speaker 1: Gulf and the risk of further disruptions above and beyond
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  Speaker 1: what we already have in the Gulf and in the
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  Speaker 1: Saudis in the Red Sea have only increased. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: Iran and the United States are doing the tit-for-tat thing, tit-for-tat,
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  Speaker 1: but they're doing it differently this time. So the United
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  Speaker 1: States is like, I mean, maybe this is what they're saying.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Like, we've destroyed all the military capabilities.
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  Speaker 1: What else is there for us to do? Which is
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  Speaker 1: a little ridiculous, very ridiculous. But anyway, Iran has launched
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  Speaker 1: twice now. It has tried to to actually hit an
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  Speaker 1: American warship with ballistic missiles. And those missiles would be
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  Speaker 1: knocked down. The Iranians claim they hit the boat, they
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  Speaker 1: hit an American ship, but that is unverified and almost
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  Speaker 1: certainly just not true. Ian said in 74 and 78,
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  Speaker 1: there were midterm, there were midterm, it didn't help them
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  Speaker 1: in 74. And, you know, I don't know what happened
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  Speaker 1: in the, in terms of the election afterwards. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if it helped them in 74 and 78,
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  Speaker 1: but anyway. Anyway, the Iranians tried to, well, they shot
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  Speaker 1: ballistic missiles at two U.S. Navy warships and those missiles
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  Speaker 1: were knocked down. There is growing fear in the United
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  Speaker 1: States that the Iranians are developing, with the help of
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  Speaker 1: the Russians and the Chinese, more missiles that are going
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  Speaker 1: to be more difficult for the U.S. Navy to shoot
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  Speaker 1: down in order, their goal is to strike a warship,
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  Speaker 1: one of America's warships. They believe that they can strike
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  Speaker 1: a warship, cause American casualties. Ultimately, that'll lead Trump to leave.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. We'll see if they have their capabilities and
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  Speaker 1: we'll see how well the United States is able to
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  Speaker 1: defend its own military assets in the Gulf of Oman.
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  Speaker 1: As a consequence of that, what the U.S. is doing
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  Speaker 1: now is a new strategy. Instead of attacking military targets
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  Speaker 1: within Iran, like radars and missile, places where they store
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  Speaker 1: missiles or missile launchers or whatever remnants there are of
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  Speaker 1: the Navy, the United States has started just attacking Iranian tankers.
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  Speaker 1: They let the tanker know in advance so that the
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  Speaker 1: crew can evacuate. And then they either decap, you know,
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  Speaker 1: actually make it impossible for the ship to function, destroy
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  Speaker 1: the engine, or actually blow the ship up. So they
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  Speaker 1: have done this to 10 Iranian attackers in a week.
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  Speaker 1: And this is consistent with like economic war, though these
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  Speaker 1: tankers are not doing anything right now. Remember, because of
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  Speaker 1: the blockade, none of these tankers are leaving or entering
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  Speaker 1: Iranian ports. So it's not clear exactly what damage this
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  Speaker 1: is doing to the Iranians, in the short run at least.
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  Speaker 1: In the long run, it'll make it very difficult for
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  Speaker 1: the Iranians to recover once the Strait opens, once the
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  Speaker 1: blockade is lifted. Maybe that's the goal, take out all
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  Speaker 1: the tankers so Iran is, even if the United States leaves,
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  Speaker 1: Iran can't ship oil in and out because none of
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  Speaker 1: its tankers are available. They can lease tankers from other countries.
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  Speaker 1: Other countries can bring them oil, take oil. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure. I don't understand the strategy. You'd think that
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  Speaker 1: given that the Iranians continue to shoot ballistic missiles at
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  Speaker 1: American warships and they continue to shoot ballistic missiles at
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  Speaker 1: American bases all around the Middle East, that the whole
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  Speaker 1: focus of America's strikes back, this ta-ta-ta, would be to
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  Speaker 1: destroy the capacity of the Iranians to launch these missiles,
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  Speaker 1: to destroy whatever inventory of missiles they have, and destroy
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  Speaker 1: the launches. I mean, Iran today fired 18 ballistic missiles, no,
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  Speaker 1: 20 ballistic missiles, towards a U.S. military base in Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: Jordan says it intercepted 18 of them. Two fell in
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  Speaker 1: unpopulated areas and no casualties were reported. to knock down
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  Speaker 1: 18 ballistic missiles cost a fortune and continues to deplete
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  Speaker 1: the limited number of, for example, Patriot missile interceptors. So
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  Speaker 1: why isn't the United States using its fighter jets and
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  Speaker 1: the ability to strike anywhere in Iran pretty safely why
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  Speaker 1: aren't they using that to go after ballistic missile launchers
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  Speaker 1: and ballistic missile inventories I do not know and I
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  Speaker 1: don't understand it and uh It's pretty ridiculous. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Tommy says 100% interception, like always being cynical and skeptical.
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  Speaker 1: No basis for that. When ballistic missiles have hit the
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  Speaker 1: American Jordanian base, that was reported. When the United States
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  Speaker 1: has taken casualties in the Jordanian or Iraqi military bases,
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  Speaker 1: that has been reported. It's very hard to hide these things.
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  Speaker 1: you very quickly get medical airplanes taking casualties to military
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  Speaker 1: bases in Germany. So, no, I mean, the fact is
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  Speaker 1: that this reporting is pretty accurate, at least after a
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  Speaker 1: few days. Maybe you don't get the exact number the
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  Speaker 1: day of, but pretty accurate longer term. And look, when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to Israel, the ballistic missile damage that was
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  Speaker 1: caused in Israel, I just was in Israel. I witnessed
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  Speaker 1: whatever was going on with my own eyes. The damage
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  Speaker 1: was minimal. Yes, there were casualties. Yes, some residential buildings
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  Speaker 1: were hit, primarily in the broader Tel Aviv area and
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  Speaker 1: some in Haifa. But, I mean, trivial and minor, not
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  Speaker 1: to the people who lost their homes and not to
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  Speaker 1: the people who lost their lives, but in terms of
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  Speaker 1: The threat Israel faced with regard to Iran, insignificant. So
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  Speaker 1: the damage was nonexistent. Let's see. I mean, the Iranians
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  Speaker 1: have also attacked ships in the Gulf. For example, Iraqi
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  Speaker 1: officials confirmed that a tank had carried two million barrels
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  Speaker 1: of fuel. was struck by a drone in Iraqi waters.
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  Speaker 1: Crew was on a hood and no oil leak in
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  Speaker 1: this case happened. One of the things that's going on
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  Speaker 1: in the Gulf is there's so many oil leaks right
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  Speaker 1: now from these attacks that, yeah, it's just become a
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  Speaker 1: nightmare in terms of dealing with all the oil in
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  Speaker 1: the Gulf. As we've talked about, the Houthis yesterday attacked
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  Speaker 1: Saudi cities and energy sites. And Saudi Arabia has not responded,
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  Speaker 1: as far as I know, yet to those strikes. You
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  Speaker 1: can expect some kind of retaliation, maybe, or maybe they'll
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  Speaker 1: do something different. I don't know. In addition, the IRGC
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  Speaker 1: has announced that it's expanded the maritime zone that Iran
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  Speaker 1: will control. They're extending it beyond the Hormuz Strait towards
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  Speaker 1: the Gulf of Oman. They haven't published exact maps and
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  Speaker 1: operating rules. but they are very ambitious and they're basically
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  Speaker 1: taking control of the whole area. Of course, that area
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  Speaker 1: right now is mostly controlled by the U.S. Navy, some
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  Speaker 1: by the Iranians, and this is what the tit-to-tat constant
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  Speaker 1: dispute is going on. I mean, the effect of all this,
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  Speaker 1: beyond just the craziness of it and the insanity of it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that we won't win, we refuse to win,
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  Speaker 1: we do everything we can not to win, is the
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  Speaker 1: ultimate effect of this is all prices going up, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not just oil. You're seeing refined fuels, particularly in Europe,
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  Speaker 1: and natural gas prices rise significantly. Britain is reporting higher
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  Speaker 1: gasoline and diesel prices at the pump. We know that
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  Speaker 1: in the United States, diesel prices are really high because
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  Speaker 1: we have limited refining capacity. in the United States for diesel.
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  Speaker 1: So this is continued. You know, in a sense, there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing new, but every day there are bombings. Every day
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  Speaker 1: the United States is knocking out some random Iranian ship. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why. I don't understand it. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make any strategic sense. But then, of course, we are
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  Speaker 1: governed in the United States by a president who has
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  Speaker 1: no sense of strategy. So why would it make strategic sense?
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: Talk about Donald Trump, our president. The trade war with
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  Speaker 1: Canada continues. Tit for tat, tit for tat. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's good at tit for tat. This is what he's
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  Speaker 1: really good at sometimes. Unless he surrenders and then the
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  Speaker 1: tit for tat is over. But beginning, supposedly, announced today,
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  Speaker 1: beginning September 29th, the United States plans to prohibit, not tariff,
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  Speaker 1: not tax, not limit, not restrict, prohibit, prohibit the sale
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  Speaker 1: in the United States, the importation into the United States
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  Speaker 1: of most Canadian alcoholic beverages. Now notice, it's September 29th.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what's happening in the next 20 days? In the
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  Speaker 1: next 20 days, Canada is going to flood the United
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  Speaker 1: States market with Canadian alcoholic beverages because the prohibition only
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  Speaker 1: goes into effect September 29th. So anyway, it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be alcoholic beverages from Canada. So I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: you're going to survive without sparkling wine from Canada, but
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  Speaker 1: you'll have to. Select dairy products and motorcycles with engines
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  Speaker 1: above 800 cc. I guess we still want Canadian motorcycles
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  Speaker 1: with engines below 800cc, but we don't want Canadian motorcycles
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  Speaker 1: with engines above 800cc? What the hell? Anyway, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Trump knows what he's doing, so trust Trump. Don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to affect malt beer, sparkling wine, Did
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  Speaker 1: anybody know that Canada made sparkling wine? I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: a new one for me. Vermouth. There goes your martinis.
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  Speaker 1: But you can get vermouth from other countries. Maybe Mexico
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  Speaker 1: makes vermouth and we can import it from Mexico. Cider. Ooh, cider.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's to help New Hampshire and Maine and
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  Speaker 1: Vermont that probably make cider that competes with the Canadians.
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  Speaker 1: And several distilled spirits. Other restricted products include whey proteins.
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  Speaker 1: All of you supplementing protein in order to get strong
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  Speaker 1: and build those muscles, I'm not sure how you're going
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  Speaker 1: to survive without Canadian whey protein and molasses. These, again,
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  Speaker 1: are prohibited, banned, embargoed. Now, this is in addition, of course,
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  Speaker 1: to the 50% tariffs on categories that include dairy, wood, metals, furniture,
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  Speaker 1: and paper. And... U.S. federal agencies have also been directed
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  Speaker 1: to restrict Canadian goods in long-term procurement. So don't buy
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  Speaker 1: stuff from Canada if you're the government. Unless Canada offers
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  Speaker 1: equivalent access. Not exactly clear what that means. Now, no.
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  Speaker 1: Here the president is not just taxing Canadian goods. He's
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  Speaker 1: prohibiting them. Now, I don't know the law well enough
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  Speaker 1: in this area. But is this allowed for the president
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  Speaker 1: to do unilaterally without congressional approval? Can the president establish
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  Speaker 1: an embargo, not for national security reasons, not because of
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  Speaker 1: a war, without congressional approval? Can he prohibit goods from
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  Speaker 1: other countries? I mean, if he can, without any limitation, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that gives Trump a power that goes way
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  Speaker 1: beyond tariffs. That's a way to onshore stuff Just prohibit imports.
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  Speaker 1: Just make it illegal to import anything from anywhere. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we've got retaliation, retaliation, as we know from Canada. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see if Canada retaliates to these prohibitions. Trade wars, insane things.
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  Speaker 1: Canadian Prime Minister is saying that they're going to try
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  Speaker 1: to double non-U.S. exports within a decade? How about just, well,
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  Speaker 1: I've said it so many times, it's boring even to
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  Speaker 1: say it, but how about just reducing tariffs to zero
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  Speaker 1: and making Canada a free trade place? Anyway, what the hell?
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  Speaker 1: And so that is Canada. The United States remains Canada's
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  Speaker 1: largest and geographically closest market. Canada and the U.S. are
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  Speaker 1: each other's largest trading partners. Mexico and Canada are the
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  Speaker 1: two largest trading partners of the United States. It's interesting
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  Speaker 1: that Trump has chosen Canada for his signature trade war
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  Speaker 1: and not Mexico, for example. I'm not sure exactly why,
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  Speaker 1: what it is about the Canadians that really rubs him
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  Speaker 1: the wrong way. Maybe he wants to take over Canada,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: but he's not that interested in taking over Mexico. Too
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  Speaker 1: many gangs, too much crime. Yeah, who wants Mexico? Canada's quiet.
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  Speaker 1: They're mild people. I mean, would they even notice if
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: America took them over? Oh, yeah, they'd have to pay
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: health insurance and their taxes would go down. Maybe they'd notice.
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  Speaker 1: All right. We talked yesterday about the story about Netanyahu
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  Speaker 1: getting a warning from the UAE before October 7th. This
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  Speaker 1: was published by left-wing newspaper Ha'aleitz. that during a 45-minute call,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: the Mohammed bin Zayed of the UAE's president warned that
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Sinoir was preparing some major operation. Netanyahu's office today says
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  Speaker 1: that it has reviewed his telephone logs and found no
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: such call. It also says visitor records show no entry
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: by the Emirati representative. who would ordinarily deliver the encrypted
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  Speaker 1: telephone used for a private leader-to-leader call. So they're denying
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: this call ever happened. Haaretz is, as of this afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: standing by the report. The UAE says it doesn't comment
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: on private conversations between leaders and has neither confirmed nor
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: explicitly denied the alleged call. Netanyahu is also claiming that
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  Speaker 1: he is preparing a defamation action. He plans to sue
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Haaretz over this disclosure and claims that it's all politics,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: given that there are elections in a month. Now, Netanyahu has,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: in the past, claimed that he's preparing a defamation action.
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  Speaker 1: He did that with regard to a story in the
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: New York Times a few months ago. He did it
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: with regard to another story by Alex, I think, a
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  Speaker 1: few years ago. This is, you know, popular unpreparing. No
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: defamation lawsuits have been filed, but he is preparing. And,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: of course, he has to deny the whole thing. It's
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: a month before the election. This is why you need
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: an actual, actual, right, investigation, which nobody has done. somebody needs,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: some third party needs to look at the telephone logs
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  Speaker 1: and their visitor records and see if they'd be tampered
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: with and see if they're real. As I said yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprise me at all if these warnings, if
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Netanyahu received these warnings and chose to ignore them, chose
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: to ignore them because he valued his own strategic assessment
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  Speaker 1: of the situation higher than anybody else's alleged intelligence. A
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: separate allegation, also made yesterday by a different newspaper, not
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  Speaker 1: one necessarily affiliated with the left, says Netanyahu received, that Netanyahu,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: you know, was warned by the ancient bed chief, about
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: a possible Hamas earthquake. We talked about that yesterday. That
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: claim I haven't seen the Netanyahu office deny or reject.
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  Speaker 1: So heart attack. It is interesting that they went after
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Haaretz because it's an obvious target because it's a leftist newspaper,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: but they did not go after the Jerusalem Post and
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: they did not go after the Shin Bet chief, although
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: he has not commented directly on this either. Former Prime
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Minister Bennett, Naftali Bennett, says Netanyahu received multiple domestic and
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  Speaker 1: foreign warnings, but he has not, Bennett has not released
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: any evidence establishing the Emirati call or any of the
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: other allegations. Again, my view is I would not be
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  Speaker 1: surprised at all if Netanyahu received these warnings and chose
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  Speaker 1: to ignore them and chose not to take them as
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: seriously as they should be taken. The military also claimed
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: in months past that they had submitted reports to the
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: prime minister's office and they were told that these were
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: not serious and none of this rose to the level
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  Speaker 1: for Netanyahu to order the military to increase its vigilance
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  Speaker 1: before October 7th. So, I mean, look, any way you
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: turn this, and I don't want to repeat too much
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: what I said yesterday, but any way you turn this,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: any way you twist it, any way you look at this,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Netanyahu was the prime minister when it happened. And Netanyahu
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: was the prime minister almost exclusively for the 15 years
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: before it happened. You cannot erase his responsibility for this.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: And again, I urge anybody voting in the Israeli elections
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: to vote against Netanyahu. And by the way, that means
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: also not voting for political parties that would align themselves
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: with Netanyahu. Not voting for political parties that are going
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: to create a coalition with Netanyahu. It means... making sure
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Netanyahu will not, cannot lead a government in Israel's future, hopefully.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think this would be a major positive
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: event in Israel and for Israel's future is if Netanyahu
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: just retired from politics after this election and let a
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: new generation of Likud leaders take his political party I
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: think that will also make possible a right of center,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: a political union, and a majority government in Israel that
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: excludes the crazy, nutty nationalists, the religionists, the ultra-Orthodox party,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: and basically forms a secular right of center, right of center, big,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: without significant majority. in the parliament. So for that to happen,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: for that to happen, Netanyahu has to be out and
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: he has to lose and hopefully then retire. The idea
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: that Israel knew it and let it happen is insane.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: It shows a lack of any understanding of Israel. of
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the politics of Israel, but also of just the Israeli people.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: The idea that they would let 1,200 of their own
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: citizens die for the sake of some political goal or
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: some ambition about taking Gaza. You know, Netanyahu had very, very,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: very many opportunities to go in and take Gaza. Netanyahu
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: had no interest in taking Gaza. There was no political
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: goal he was going to achieve. His political coalition was
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: stable and strong at the time. You know, this is
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: just an ignorant conspiracy theory that is perpetrated by people
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: who either don't understand and have no idea about Israel,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: know nothing about the country, or just hate Israel for
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: whatever reasons and want to smear it any way that
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: they can. But there's just zero. There's just zero. possibility
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: that this was done on purpose. It was not done
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: on purpose. It was done because Netanyahu was arrogant about
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: his own assessment of Hamas, which he believed wanted to
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: be left alone because it cared more about money than
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: it wanted to actually go after Israel. It was his,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: you know, ignorant and disastrous and wrong strategic strategic perspective.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: He was dramatically wrong. And so it was that plus
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: a specific intelligence failure or a specific failure of the
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: military authorities once they saw the intelligence to insist, to
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: fight Netanyahu. But that's part of his character. His character
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: was such that people did not want to challenge him
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: and go up against him. All right. So nothing I
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: said should be implied to suggest that China knew it
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: was happening and decided to let it happen for political reasons.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: It's not what I said. I said he ignored the
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: warnings because he was convinced of his own assessment of
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Hamas's motivations and Hamas's nature. Remember, this is the same
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: prime minister who allowed Qatar and Iran to funnel billions
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and billions of dollars into Gaza. Same prime minister who
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: sat aside while Hamas attacked Israel with missiles, year over
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: year over year, the same prime minister who sat on
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: the sidelines while Hamas built a massive network, massive network
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: of underground tunnels, smuggled weapons in from Egypt, everybody knew it,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and through some of those tunnels and built up a
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: cache of weapons, you know, that was a real threat
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: to Israeli security. And he sat on his hands while
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: all of this happened. That is not a prime minister
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: that wants Israel to be attacked. That is a prime
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: minister that is either a coward. Well, these are not exclusive.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: It could be all of the above. A coward, a
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: completely bad strategic assessment of what was going on in
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: the mind of Sinois and Hamas. Of course, this is
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: also the prime minister that freed Sinois in the prison
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: exchange for one Israeli soldier, freed 2,000 terrorists. This is
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: a prime minister that has to go. He has to go.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I've been saying that for years. And I've been saying
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: he's wrong and weak for years. All right. So Britain
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: and Israel are going at it right now. The new
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: prime minister in Britain has got to appease his very
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: anti-Israeli left and is moving the country significantly to the
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: left on everything related to Israel. than its predecessor was
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: already pretty much anti-Israel. So Britain is moving to prohibit
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: imports and selected services connected to Israeli settlements in the
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: West Bank. The measure tries to distinguish settlement-linked commerce from
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: trade with Israel generally, and this is going to be
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: difficult to do. It's going to require legislation, which the
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: ruling government is trying to push forward, And yeah, I mean,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: the British package covers sediment goods and services, including financing, construction,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: infrastructure support, real estate transactions, and advertising for sediment property.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: This is going to cover a lot of goods that
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: do not originate in the sediments, but have some link
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: to it. Implementation, and of course, the sediments, they're not
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: differentiated in which zone they are, their various zones, depending
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: on who controls the zones. This is the entire West Bank,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: where it used to be Jordan. Implementation is expected within
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: six to nine months. France and Canada and other governments
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: are pursuing similar measures and trying to coordinate together to
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: do this. you know, the foreign secretary said that violent
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: settlers were coming out, ethnic cleansing with government support. Now,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: violent settlers are doing some horrible things on the West Bank,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: and they should be stopped. And another reason why this
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: government needs to be defeated is the fact that they're
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: not implementing the law, the law of the land, that
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: they are allowing nationalist religious fanatics to run roughshod on
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: the West Bank, my nephew, my nephew who was serving
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: in the West Bank, has been serving in the West
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Bank for a while. He was in reserve duty for
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: two or three months in the West Bank. And it
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: turned out that almost most of the conflict he was
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: engaged in was with settlers, not with Palestinians, but with settlers. Actually,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: broke his finger, had to have surgery because of what
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: a settler did to him. It's just horrible. My other nephew,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I've got another nephew, younger nephew, who's doing his compulsory
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: military service, and he's also in the West Bank, also
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: dealing with the settlers. It's just horrible. It's disgusting. And Israel,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: if it wants to preserve its designation as a country
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: that respects the rule of law, needs to stop this.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: It needs to end it. Anyway, Israel has responded. And again,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: a tit-for-tat situation, right? Israel responded by closing the British
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: consulate in East Jerusalem, removing British representatives from Gaza ceasefire
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: monitoring center, and ending British training for Palestinian Authority security forces,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: and barring a group of British lawmakers and citizens from coming,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I guess, to the West Bank. I mean, the funny
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: thing is, why does Britain have a consulate in East Jerusalem?
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: to facilitate all the aid that they are providing the
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Palestinian Authority. And they are training Palestinian Authority security forces.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Think about this. Britain is a country that is facing
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: huge economic problems, economic challenges. It's running deficits. The NHS
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: is a disaster. England is struggling right now financially and economically.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: But they have plenty of money to fund the Palestinian Authority.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, altruism in politics manifests itself more in foreign
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: policy than in any other domain. And this is a
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: good example. What is Britain doing funding the Palestinian Authority? Why?
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: What interest does Britain have in funding the Palestinian Authority?
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: None other than altruism. Oh, the poor Palestinians are suffering. So, yeah,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, you can see this again and again and
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: again in foreign policy, the realities of altruism manifesting in
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: how countries, how governments choose to spend their money, you know,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: pretty amazing. The chief rabbi of the UK called the
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: measures that Britain placed on Israel a dark day and
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: argued they would make British Jews less safe. Miliband, who
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: is the foreign secretary, I guess, rejected that connection and
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: said the criticism of Israeli policy is not a judgment
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: about British Jews. Yes, but anytime the British government is
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: going to attack Israel, it's going to be interpreted by
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: certain people within Britain as, you know, walking away from
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: British Jews, particularly British Jews who support Israel, and going
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: to encourage violence. There's no question. And given the police
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: stance and the general stance not to protect Jews and
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: to allow the anti-Israel, anti-Jewish voices in England, you know,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: all the freedom, not just of expression, but of action. Yeah,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: the situation of Jews in England is not good. And
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: many of them are leaving. Many of them are leaving
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: and going to Israel. As violent as as the area
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Israel lives in, European Jews are slowly discovering that maybe
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: it's better than where they live. Tells you a lot
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: about the state of the world, the state of the world.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: All right. So we talked about the, so today is
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of kind of cleanup for yesterday. a lot
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: of the same stories and kind of fleshing them out
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: a little bit more. So today, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: responded to the victory, I mean, the significant victory of
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: the AFD in Saxony and Halt and to his own
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: party's massive defeat. Merz said that re-immigration a cinema for
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin color. He argued
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: that mass expulsions would also remove workers essential to hospitals,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: care homes, trades, and restaurants. He also said that Germany
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: should deport more people who lack a right to remain
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: while distinguishing them from migrants who work and have legal residency.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Here's the elephant, the 700 pound, is that right, 700 ton,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: 700 something ton, What is the reference to the weight
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: of the elephant? Here's the elephant in the room that
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: nobody wants to talk about. The AFD doesn't talk about it.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: And Chancellor Mertz doesn't talk about it. But it's on
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: voters' minds. And it's why I think the AFD is one.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: And the elephant in the room is Islam. It's not
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: just any immigrants that are problematic here. It's Muslim immigrants.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: In particular, Islamist Muslim immigrants. Muslim immigrants committed to changing
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: German society, committed to Sharia law, committed to not assimilating,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: and some of whom are committed to violent actions. Instead
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: of just talking honestly about Muslim immigrants in Germany, and
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: it's not all Muslims, but it's the Islamist element of
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: the Muslim immigrants to Germany. Instead of facing up to
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: that and talking directly about that, It's all about ethnic
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: cleansing and skin color for moots and AFD. It's all
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: about foreigners and re-migration. Now, it could be that AFD
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: just doesn't care if you're Muslim or not. They just
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: want you out of there. And it could be that
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: they're just plain racists. Probably the case. But the voters
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: are voting because there's real angst. And the angst, I
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: don't think, is motivated just, although some of it is
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: motivated by racism, some of it is motivated by You know,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: the ongoing kind of relatively small-scale terrorist attacks that happen,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: a stabbing here, a stabbing there, a car running over
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: a Christmas market or whatever. And it's always the same.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: It's always an Islamist, an Islamist immigrant in Germany that
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: was maybe suspected of Islamist ideas that is in Germany
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: illegally and has not been deported. So just say it.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: If you're affiliated in any way with an Islamist cause,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: if you're a supporter of any way of the Muslim
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Brotherhood and of other organizations, and maybe I don't know
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: their names up, but that are committed to jihad, we
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: are going to deport you tomorrow. If Mertz did that,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: he would completely defuse the appeal of the AFD. The
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: AFD is painting a broad brush Mutz is using no brush,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: you know. And instead, make it surgical. Make it count.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Talk about what the real issue is. I mean, it's
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: September 11th in two days. 25 years after September 11th,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: we can't actually bring ourselves to say the enemy is
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Islamic authoritarianism. The enemy is Islamism. The enemy is fundamentalist Islam,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: however you want to call it. Jihadism. That's the enemy.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: And the enemy cannot be allowed to just live freely
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: in our midst and choose when to attack us. We
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: will be proactive. Find them and deport them. Or put
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: them in jail. Whatever is appropriate. So, for the ruling party,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: which Mutz represents, to evade the issue, evade the fears,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: the legitimate fears that Germans have regarding Islam, to pretend
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: they don't exist, is, you know, leaves the door wide
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: open for AFD and a lot worse to storm in
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: and take control of Germany. I mean, Mutz deserves to lose.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Any politician who can't actually talk about it deserves to lose. Now,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: the thing is about the AFD is they're just as bad.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: They want to devote everybody. They won't narrow it either.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Nobody wants to talk about the actual issue, what's actually
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: going on, the actual threat that Europe faces. Not from Islam,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: but it begins with Islam. But from a subsection of Islam,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: it might be big, it might be small. Each country
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: is a little different. That subsection... committed to jihadist ideas. Now,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: to remind you, the AFD won 43.8%, and by far
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: the largest party in Saxony and Holt. It got 39
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: of 83 seats, so it's three short of a majority.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: All other political parties have rejected having a coalition with it.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: So who's going to rule Saxony and Holt is going
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: to be really interesting. AFD co-leader Alice Wiedel said the CDU,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: that's Merz's party, has been pulverized. It was. And framed
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: the result as a rejection of Merz. It was. National
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: polls are now placing AFD on a national basis in
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Germany at 28 to 29 percent, with Merz's party closer
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: to 21, 22 percent. Mutz canceled the planned call with
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: President Trump after Trump publicly praised AFD victory and criticized
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: German immigration policy. Why are we not surprised? So again,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: politicians in the center, right center, left center, who continue
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: to ignore the issue of Islam are going to pay
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: a price. People really care about this issue. They really do.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: All right. Like yesterday, I'm going to remind you that no,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: there's one question, one super chat, one question. Remind you
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: that these shows are made possible because of you, your support.
• 44:31
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• 44:34
  Speaker 1: chats or stickers, value for value, and ask questions. That's
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: how you get to decide what I talk about. It's great.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Very few live commentators have a basically AMA every single
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: show and allow you to ask questions about anything related
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: to the show or not and answer every single question asked,
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: even the $ 2 ones and even the ones that are
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: obnoxious and rude. So ask, even if it's obnoxious and rude,
• 45:08
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• 45:12
  Speaker 1: in and help continue to fund this show. All right. DSA.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: This was funny. I mean, we got two very funny,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: very funny ones. The Tucker one is world-class funny. Don't
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: miss the Tucker segment I'm going to play you. It
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: doesn't need commentary. It doesn't mean, it doesn't require anybody
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: saying anything. It's world-class comedy. And this guy's going to
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: run for president. So this is a clip to save
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: for when he does. Anyway, DSA, the New York City chapter,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: this is the chapter that supported Mamdani, from which Mamdani came,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: of the Democratic Socialists of America has approved paid positions
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: for its two co-chairs. Wait a minute. I mean, the
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: whole thing about the Democratic Socialists is that you don't
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: have salaried employees. Everything's communal. Everything is voted on by
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: all the members. And nobody is a boss and nobody's
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: an employee because everything's voted on. And nobody works for
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: an organization. Salaries, employment, not accepted. And this is, so
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: they've approved these paid positions for two co-chairs. which has
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: exposed an internal dispute over professional leadership, doesn't quite sit
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: well with the democratic socialists, budgets, and member control. Their
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: proof compensation is reported at approximately $ 95, 000 for each co-chair.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: That's not bad. It's not great. It's not bad. It
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: is New York, so it's an expensive city. Opponents inside
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: the organization argue the chapter lacks a sufficiently transparent budget process,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: and then members of limited control over meeting agendas and
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: leadership decisions. I don't understand how that can be. This
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: is democratic socialism, where everything is put to the vote. Everything.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: And businesses are supposed to run based on a democracy.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, all businesses. So how can the political party
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: itself not have votes on everything? Really bewildering. that this
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: is how it functions and that they're hypocrites. It's, wow, surprising, right?
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: There's also a strategic split between members who are focused
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: on winning elections and governing and other members, you know,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: who are opposed to any compromise and any coalition policies.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: They want the revolution. and they're not willing to compromise
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: one iota before they get it. Now, supporters of the
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: paid leadership argued that running a large political organization requires...
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how many of you know
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: the details of the DSA, but this is really funny.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: Running a large political organization requires full-time work and should
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: not be restricted to people who can afford to volunteer.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, does it require more or less skill, thought, work,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: but primarily mental work, than running a large corporation, I wonder?
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: Because we're constantly told that running a business is just exploitative,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: that running a business adds no value, that all value
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: is created by labor. We're constantly told that. And yet here,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: The volunteers are not producing all the value. Actually running,
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: being CEO, being co-chair of a political organization actually is work.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: But being the CEO of a company is not. I'm
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: going to have to think about this, ponder this. This
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: is quite a contradiction. I wonder, I wonder if they
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: will ponder it at all. All right. Let me just
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: take a look here. We have been covering in the
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: last few days, I guess yesterday we covered this, the
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: stories of different AI executives warning us that the world
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: was going to come to an end. Well, today is
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: no exception. More, more, more. Evan Hubbinger, Anthropics Alignment Science Lead,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: alignment of the AI with human values, I guess. Anthropics
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: Alignment Science Lead says he personally assigns a greater than
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: 10% probability that AI could kill all humans within the
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: next decade. Somewhere else I read, this decade. So I'm
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: not sure if it's within 10 years or by the
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: end of this decade. Over 10%. That's pretty high probability
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: of a life on Earth or human life on Earth
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: ending event. Now, his statement has followed the resignation of
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: an anthropic researcher, Jacob Coxer. Just one second. I have
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: to do something here.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: Where is that?
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: I think that caught it. Okay. That follows the resignation
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: of Seth Knopp, a Greek researcher. Coxon, when he resigned,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: said he had spent three years doing pre-training research at
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: OpenAI and Anthropic and resigned because he believed both companies,
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: We're racing towards self-improving superintelligence irresponsibly. Hubinger wrote that Anthropocene
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: is trying to address the problem, but does not yet
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: have a plan to solve human extinction, the alignment problem
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: for superintelligence, and is not clearly on track to obtain one.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: The feared mechanism is future recursive self-improvement, the AI improving itself.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: by a still theoretical superintelligence system, not a claim that
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: current deployed models can exterminate humanity. So the idea is
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: that this is where we're heading, but within a decade. So,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: you know, in this particular story that I read, British
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: politicians and researchers are pressing for international controls or even
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: a prohibition of creating artificial intelligence. Super intelligence. I don't
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: know what super intelligence means. I mean, I'm using Claude
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: and ChatGPT quite a lot. Wow, are they already super valuable,
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: super intelligent in some way? I mean, not human intelligence,
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: but some kind of intelligence. The tasks that they do, unbelievable.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: They save me hours and hours and hours of work.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: It's truly amazing. You know, a lot of other experts
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: argue that kind of the near-term harms, we understand and
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: we know and we're working on fixing them. These ideas
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: of extinction events are mainly a distraction at this point.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: But people are taking this seriously. We're talking about senior
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: people at Anthropic and AI. And indeed, the CEO of
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: Anthropic and the CEO of AI, Anilon Musk, have all
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: argued that that human extinction is a high probability event, high,
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: I'm saying over 10%, probability event in the future. No
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: wonder people are afraid. No wonder people oppose data centers.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: When the people in the industry, the leaders of the industry,
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: are saying we're all going to die. Stop us, please,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: do something. Stop us. We're about to kill you all,
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: but we don't want to kill you all, so please
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: stop us from killing you all. Yeah, sad, crazy. It's
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: the reality we live in. In the meantime, the FBI,
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: the NSA, and the CISA. What's the CISA? I'm not sure.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: But anyway, I know the FBI and NSA, I know.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Accused several Chinese developers of systematically extracting capabilities from leading
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: American AI models through large-scale distillation since at least 2024.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: The names of the Chinese developers are DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot, AI, Minimax, StepFun,
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: and Z.AI. It says that these companies targeted Anthropix, Cloud,
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and XAI's Grok. U.S. agencies allege
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: that companies use bulk premium accounts and other techniques to
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: make large volumes of requests in violation of providers' user
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: agreements probably with the complete awareness of the Chinese government. Now,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: here's the thing. Distillation itself, distillation is the process of,
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: you know, having your model learn from other models. That's
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: my understanding. It's a common method in which smaller models
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: learn from larger model outputs. And Meta has said that
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: it's open source AI is going to use distillation. The
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: question is, was the conduct of these Chinese companies an
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: evasion of access control and contractual restrictions? The technique itself
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: is widely used. It's a question, did they indeed violate
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: the terms of agreement? Would anybody be surprised if they did?
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: Chinese Commerce Secretary, Minister, says the claims lack factual and
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: legal support, notes that American firms also distill Chinese models,
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: and warns of countermeasures if the allegations are used to
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: restrict Chinese companies. I think it's going to. My expectation
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: is the Trump administration will ban Chinese models from the
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: American market, claim national security reasons, but really the reasons
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: are going to be to protect the U.S. industry from competition.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: And then it'll be interesting if the United States and
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: then China will ban US models, which it probably already does,
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: given that it bans YouTube, nevermind ChatGPT. And then I expect,
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: then the question is, what will US open source platforms do,
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: and will they be allowed, which will be interesting. Now,
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: all of these disputes with China are happening as the
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: United States is getting ready for the Trump-Xi talks. She
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: is coming to the United States this month. Go figure.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Go figure. He wants to meet Trump. So, yes, I'm
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: sure they'll be discussing AI open source models at the meetings.
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: It's something they both have deep knowledge and understanding of.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: I am convinced. All right, let's see. Before we get
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: to Tucker... One more quick story. So, you know, those
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: of you flying international know London's a huge airport. I
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: think it's the busiest airport in the world. And yesterday,
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: I guess it was, yes, yesterday, there was a four-hour
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: failure in the flight processing system at all London-based airports,
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: all four airports, Heathrow, Gatwick, STN, I forget what STN
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: stands for, and all four airports suffered from a massive
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: crash of the flight processing system, which cascaded into cancellation
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: across all British airports. At last I saw, they counted 2,093
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: canceled flights or non-operated flights. I'm not sure what non-operated is,
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: if they were something like canceled to me. Across yesterday
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: and today, including about 1,750 of 5,800 scheduled flights on Tuesday.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: Heathrow accounted for 541 cancellations. I'm flying to London soon,
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: to Luton. Is it Luton or Stansted? I'm not sure
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: what I'm flying to. I'm flying to one of those airports,
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: which are in the middle of nowhere. But anyway, the
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: air traffic control system in the United States is run
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: by a semi-private, entity called NATS, N-A-T-S. It provides air
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: traffic services to 15 UK airports. It's a government-granted monopoly.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: That's why I said pseudo-private. It said that the problem
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: originated at its Stanwyck site, and it was not a
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: cyber attack, and it was not the same thing that
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: caused a similar outage in 2003. People are pretty pissed
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: off at this. I wouldn't be surprised if there'd be
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: a call for this so-called private entity to be nationalized.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: Let's involve the government even more. I'm sure it'll improve.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there'll be no outcry to creating, to allowing
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: other companies to compete. There are going to be reviews.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: People are going to look at this. Ryanair and Wizzair,
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: the two discount flyers who fly a lot out of
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: Stanwyck and Luton, big airlines, demanding that the guy who
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: runs the NATS resign. Downing Street, prime minister. No, the
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: government continues to have a confidence in him. Remember, he's
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: been granted a monopoly by the government. So hopefully, hopefully
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: all this mess in London airports goes away by the
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: time I fly there, because the last thing I need
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: is to be stuck either coming into London or leaving
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: London to be stuck in one of these airports. All right,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: still a lot of space for more questions. Otherwise, it'll
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: be a very, very, very short show today. All right,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: let's go to the Tucker video. Tucker, this is going
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: to be so much fun. Oh, my God. Is anybody
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: still watching, Tucker? You know, it's, yeah, it's hard. He's
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: interviewing here, just so you know, somebody by the name
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: of Jesse Ilofsson. Jesse Olofsson. Uh, I'll tell you more
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: about Jesse Olofsson, uh, you know, a little bit about
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: Jesse Olofsson, who he is, uh, in, uh, you know,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: in a bit. Um, I mean, I, I think this
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: interview with Jesse Olofsson has, um, probably a lot of gems,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: a lot of incredible gems. Um, But this is, I think,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: it can't be beat. This one can't be beat. And no,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: it doesn't even have demons, and it can't be beat.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: That's how good it is. Now, just to give you
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: a sense, Jess Elofsson is an artist known for his sculptures.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: I think that's pretty generous. With different materials and figures,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: he also creates fine arts, whatever the hell that means,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: at times and carves designs on ceramics. He appeared on
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson's show on Monday. They talked about history and arts.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: You know, he's an expert. You'll see how much of
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: an expert he is. All right, let's do this. Let
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: me line it up. All right, there you have it.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: All right, I'm going to press play. Let me know
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: if there's an echo. Let me know if you can't hear. Yeah,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: let me know what is going on. I need to,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: so I can track your comments. Let me move this
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: window over here. But let me, you know, yeah, let
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: me know if there's sound issues. Here we go. This
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: is better than anything he said about Islam even. Here
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: we go.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: Why does algebra put letters into numbers?
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: I think letters into numbers. Why does algebra put letters
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: into numbers? I don't even know what exactly that means,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: just grammatically and English-wise. Why does algebra have letters representing numbers, maybe?
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: But put letters into numbers. Weird way of expressing it.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: But this is what Jess, who is obviously an expert
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: in mathematics and in the theory of math, this is
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: his answer.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: Put letters into numbers.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: I think just to fuck with you. It's just the
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: F with you. That's why they put letters. You know,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: X equals 3 plus Y. There's no reason to do that.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Literally no reason to do that. It's just a mess
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: with you. I mean, I can't even imagine what they
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: think of calculus or differential equations that also use letters
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: where you put numbers into the letters.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: So you deal with math in your job every day.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: You've already, I think, demonstrated your... Grasp of math is high.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: This guy's grasp of math is high. I mean, even
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: he's scary. I mean, functional math. Functional math, for sure.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: He can edit.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: Well, if you can build a wood-fired kiln, you understand math.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: If you can work... I don't know. I mean, we
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: might as well just stop the show right now and
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: end the Iran book shows forever. I mean, this is
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: being watched by millions of people. Millions of people are
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: watching this. Millions of people have subscribed to this channel,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: to Tucker Carlson's channel. I mean, the guy can build a,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: what was it? What was it? Let me just go
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: back a second.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 4: A wood-fired kiln. And therefore, He must be an expert
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 4: in math, not sending rockets to the moon, not designing
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 4: a bridge, not using advanced math to write algorithms for AI. No,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 4: he built a wood-fired kiln. Indeed, people built wood-fire kilns.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: Before there was algebra. Before there was algebra. So you
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: don't indeed need to be an expert in math to
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: build a wood-fired kiln. And this is, what I'm saying
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: is not profound. But to send rockets to the moon,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: you do. To figure out the laws of motion, you do.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, algebra existed, has existed since the medieval mid-ages.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: It was developed in India and further developed under the Islamic, under,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: you know, during the Muslim golden era and arrived in
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: Europe sometimes during the Middle Ages. And Newton and Leibniz
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: developed calculus, but you can't develop calculus without a basis
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: in algebra. But here you're talking to a guy who
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: built a world fire, Kyung, and he is going to
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: tell us why algebra is just messing with you. Just,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: nobody Nobody needs to learn algebra because, hey, you can
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: build a wood-fired kiln without it. So why would you
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: need it? I mean, we might as well all shut
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: down and go home because this is what's popular in
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: the culture right now. I mean, I think Mary Benz
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: is absolutely right. Math is such a profound value in
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: our family, she writes. This aggressive ignorance is next level offensive.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: And this is the thing. It can't be ignorance. Again,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson never used to be this dumb. This is
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: massive evasion, massive cognitive deterioration because of evasion. This is
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: self-caused madness. This is what happens when you put yourself
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: on a diet of conspiracy theories. This is This is
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: what happens to a mind when it is infected nonstop
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: with conspiracy theories. I mean, I didn't, you know, we'll see.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, we'll see if Tucker blames the Jews. I
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: don't think so. I don't think in this video he
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: blames the Jews, but I'm sure at the back of
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: your mind, he is convinced. Yeah.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: Um you understand math so but what so you didn't
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: add letters to numbers in the process of doing.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 5: That's the weirdest thing nowhere did i find any letters
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 5: in my math to calculate the size and structural integrity
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 5: of a cantonary arch isn't that weird oh that was
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 5: weird because everybody every math teacher was always like you
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 5: need to know some algebra i've yet to encounter a
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 5: single person in my life that uses algebra actually have you.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: So like you, but you would know.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I mean, I live in a fake world.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: um first honest thing you said you use fake math
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: with letters congratulations everybody out there in the matrix good
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: job you're good little goy slaves fake math with letters
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: i you know and and you know I bet there
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: are thousands, hundreds of thousands of Tucker viewers who just think,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: oh my God, yeah, absolutely. That's right. Why did we
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: study algebra in school? What a waste of frigging time.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: By the way, the equations, For a Canterbury curve, cantonary, sorry,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: cantonary curve, the equation for a cantonary curve, which he mentioned,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: is y equals a times the cosine of x divided
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: by a, where cosine is cosine h parentheses z equals
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: open parentheses e to the power of z plus e
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: to the power of negative z close parentheses, close parentheses,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: divided by two. Hmm. It looks like it has algebra
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: and calculus unneeded to actually calculate or describe a catenary curve. Now,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: it's true that to build a kiln with such a curve,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: it's probably not exactly that curve, but to build a kiln,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: you probably don't have to run that equation. But that's
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: why I mean, Tucker's not this dumb. Is he? I mean,
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: you guys tell me, is it even possible that he's
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: this dumb? Now, also in the interview, Jess also explained
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: that he could not pass college algebra because he could
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: not understand why we were putting letters into numbers. In
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: other words, he could not abstract. I mean, the whole
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: point of a letter, of a letter instead of a number,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: is to abstract. It's the whole methodology of abstraction. And
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: he said his algebra teachers were very lacking in intelligence.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: So this guy is a true example, a real example.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: Real example. of a perceptual level mentality, of somebody who
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: cannot rise above perceptions. Now, he says that in order
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: to pass the class, he got drunk with the lady
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: who signs you up for classes at a party. He
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: never had an advisor, skipped every freshman requirement at graduation.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: They were like, how the fuck? You've never, you've taken
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: none of these freshman classes. And his defense was, algebra's dumb.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: I'm an art major. I want to build cool shit.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: This is the kind of people Tucker Carlson interviews. That's
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: how he found finite math, the class. they had hidden
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: from us. Why did they hide finite math from students?
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: Because it explains to you how much you will pay
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: on any loan for interest and how fast you could
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: pay off a loan if you just pay $ 50 more.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: He made it through a week of the class before
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: cutting up his credit cards. So he took a... you know,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: personal finance class. And he thinks that's math. Yeah, I mean,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: it was a personal finance class for really, really, really dummies.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: Not for dummies, but for really, really, really dumb people.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: All right. The world out there is even dumber than
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: I thought it was. All right, let's do some good news,
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: some positive news. We've earned some human achievement points, right?
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: We've earned some human achievement points. Okay, where am I going?
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: Wait one second. Let me get this all straightened out.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: Let me move the windows around. Let's see.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: Take your waffle and recover from that taco video. Okay,
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: so a few quickie good news stories. Mexico. Mexico's homicide
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: rate is declining dramatically, consistent with a phenomena all over
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: the world that's not well understood. Mexico's reported homicide decline
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: now appears in both a broad independent index and the
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: latest preliminary government data. The scale is large. The Mexico
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: Peace Index reports that the homicide rate fell 22.7% in 2025,
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: equal to nearly 7,000 fewer deaths and the largest annual
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: decline in the indexed history. Preliminary government data record 10,309
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: intentional homicides during the first seven months of 2026, the
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: lowest comparable total in roughly a decade. The government says
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: daily homicide count has fallen sharply from 2024 levels, and
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: we'll see what the final figures show, but that's where
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: we are today. Now, disappearances and extortions still remain high
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: in Mexico. A lower homicide count can only reflect reduced
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: you know, open conflict between cartels. And we don't know
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: why that's happening. It's probably not a result of stronger
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: law enforcement or not alone. Why are the drug cartels
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: fighting less? Maybe because they consolidated. Maybe because there's one
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: big bully that's running everything. So we don't know exactly why.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: But it's still, you know, a good thing that fewer
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: people are dying of homicide in Mexico. So it's definitely
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: on the good news side. All right. Some AI-related ones.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: Washington State University researchers used an AI-guided search to identify
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: lower power settings for an additive manufacturing with GRCOP42, whatever
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: that is, a heat-resistant copper alloy developed for rocket engines.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: So the system evaluated more than 100 million possible combinations
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: of printing parameters before researchers selected candidates for physical testing.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: 40 physical trials produced six workable parameter sets, including one
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: using a 500-watt laser, which is the lowest reported power
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: for printing this alloy by the tested process. Now, lower
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: laser requirements could make the alloy usable on a wider
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: range of metal printers and reduce the cost of exploring
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: new manufacturing settings. Now, what's the point here? The point
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: is that AI can be used to iterate across hundreds
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: of millions of possibilities and optimize manufacturing processes in ways
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: that would be way too expensive, almost impossible to do
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: without AI. I mean, these are the kind of little
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: uses that there are going to be thousands of them,
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: millions of them. It's going to apply to every manufacturing process,
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: every scientific process, and every other productive activity in the economy. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is exciting. And it's, again, you can,
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: the number of data points, the quantity of data, and
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: the quality of the analysis is It cannot be matched
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: by anything else. Here's another one. DeepMind. Google's DeepMind has
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: released a one petabyte. One of you techies can tell
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: us what a petabyte is. One petabyte research atlas predicting
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: the molecular effects of every possible single letter substitution in
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: the human reference genome. This is a Mary Ben's one, right?
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: So they're putting an atlas together, predicting the molecular effects
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: of every possible single letter substitution in the human reference genome.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: The atlas contains predictions for roughly 9 billion variants across
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: both protein coding and non-coding DNA. Researchers can access the
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: resource through a free academic web portal and API, using
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: an aggregate score to rank variants for follow-up. In one
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: rare disease collaboration, Alpha Genome highlighted an abnormal splice site
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: associated with epileptic encephalopathy. Laboratory screening supported that specific prediction.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: So the thing is now, You know, think with gene editing,
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: gene splicing, with CRISPR, and this just opens up the
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: world in terms of possibilities. A UK biobank analysis reported
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: more associations in non-coding regions than variants were grouped using
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: predicted function effects, including candidate loci connected to body mass index. So, yeah,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, people are going to find so many different
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: applications for this. This is going to make Everything's so
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: much easier. Okay, a petabyte is 1,024 terabytes. Why? Why
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: would it be 1,024? Why wouldn't you stick to the decimals?
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you stick to 1,000?
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: Why the 24?
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: What's a 24 playing in there? And what's a terabyte? Anyway,
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: AI doing amazing stuff, and it's just the beginning. It's
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: just a very, very, very, very beginning. All right, here's
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: another one. Age reversal. Age reversal for optic nerve disease.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: Life Biosciences has begun the first human trial of ER100,
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: a gene therapy designed to partially reset epigenetic programs in
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: surviving retinal ganglion cells. The study targets open angle glaucoma
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: and non-arteritic anterior ischematic optic neuropathy. I shouldn't be doing these.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: I can't pronounce any of these words. ER100 delivers three
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: programming factors, three factors using a viral vector, The therapy
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: is injected into the eye and is intended to rejuvenate
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: existing cells without converting them into stem cells. So this
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: would be the first treatment ever, if it was successful,
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: to rejuvenate a human cell. The first participant was dosed
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: in June, 2026, after FDA authorization of the phase one study.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: The trial plans to enroll about 18 adults. The primary
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: endpoint of safety and tolerability Visual function measurements are exploratory,
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: and participants will be monitored over several years. The company
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: reports improvement in neural signaling and aspects of vision in
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: a non-human primate model of optic nerve injury. These primate
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: results have not yet been established through a peer-reviewed clinical publication,
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: but supposedly it happened in mice. So it's going to
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: be interesting. But if they can rejuvenate a retinal cell,
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: why couldn't they rejuvenate any of these, you know, any cell?
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: And thus make us younger again. Remember, Ben says she'd
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: love to join me on a human achievement segment. That
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: would be fun, actually. Yeah, let me think about how
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: to do that. But we could have you. waiting and
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: you could actually do some of the human achievement ones,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: particularly the biology ones, you could do the biology ones. Right.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: So it's exciting research. It's exciting research. It's from David
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: Sinclair's lab. I'm a little skeptical about David Sinclair himself.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: But this is one of his junior scientists came up
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: with this. He did the experiments on mice. And it
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: sounds promising. Sounds promising. All right, my friends. That is
• 1:23:48
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• 1:23:53
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• 1:23:58
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  Speaker 1: Khan says, I'm considering voting against Democrat. I'm sorry. I
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  Speaker 1: get acceleration no matter what. Look, Democrats will get elected.
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  Speaker 1: They'll do their insane stuff. The American people will rebel
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  Speaker 1: against that. They'll vote in some crazy Republican statist theocrats,
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  Speaker 1: and they'll do their crazy stuff. And we'll kind of
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: bounce between the far left and the far right, and
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: so somebody will figure out an agenda that can consolidate
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: both the far right and the far left and some
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: people in the center to establish kind of a much
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: more authoritarian state, which is, I think, the end game.
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  Speaker 1: Neither one of these parties right now can rule for
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  Speaker 1: very long by themselves. But with the right combination of
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  Speaker 1: ideas and the right demagogue and, you know, demagogue and
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: the right policy agenda, you could probably create and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sustain an authoritarian system in the United States in the future.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: And I think that's where we're heading as we get
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  Speaker 1: more and more disgusted with the left and the right.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: We just want somebody to take control and do what's necessary.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: Somebody is going to do that. I think right now, voting,
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: penalizing Republicans should be a main agenda item. Next, we'll
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: have to penalize the Democrats. And then it'll depend on,
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: have the Republicans learned anything from being penalized? Probably not.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: That's a sad thing. It's, I mean, I just prefer
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: not to vote, right? A pox on both their houses.
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• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: energy you need in order to go and vote, to
• 1:31:04
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  Speaker 1: do you say to people who say they only focus
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  Speaker 1: on USA and Israel's killing of citizens? Because our tax
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: money and support are used in those situations. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: why is it a problem if my tax money are
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  Speaker 1: used to kill people who belong to the enemy? And
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  Speaker 1: why is it a problem if my tax money is
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  Speaker 1: used to execute wars of self-defense? And if wars of
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: self-defense require and necessitate, really, that some civilians will die.
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  Speaker 1: Accidents happen, mistakes happen, and also sometimes the bad guys
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  Speaker 1: and the terrorists hide amongst the civilians, so they're going
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: to die, and it's going to be in the hands
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: of the terrorists. Why be apologetic about that? Why not
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  Speaker 1: just say, this is a war self-defense, your tax money
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: are being used really, really well to defend you, and
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: part of defending you requires civilian casualties. The more you
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  Speaker 1: apologize for it, the more there seems to be, the
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: more people are going to get upset by their tax
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: money being used this way. Stop apologizing. Face up to it.
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: It's completely 100% legitimate. And acknowledge its legitimacy. So, yeah.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: And that goes for Israel and the United States. Israel
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 1: is fighting. A war that is part of America's war.
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  Speaker 1: And it's self-defense. It's part of America's self-defense. Of all
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: the stuff your tax money is going to do, the
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: money given to Israel is the least of your problems.
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  Speaker 1: It really is. And I'm not just saying that because
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  Speaker 1: I'm pro-Israel. I'm saying that because it's the least of
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: your problems. The amount of money going to destroy our
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: own country right now. Directly. The amount of money going
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: to exploit America's enemies. Far, far, far, far, far, far
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: exceeds the amount of money America sends to Israel. And yet,
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: that's what people focus on. Sharzbut says, there was a
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: mix-up apparently with my TV review request. Here is the alternative. Well,
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: you know, was there a mix-up? Now I'm confused, but
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: I think there was. I think you requested the same
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: thing of me that you requested of me and Nikos.
• 1:34:28
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• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: please review Police Squad Episode 1. A substantial gift, the
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: broken promise. Police Squad is a comedy. I've never seen it, right?
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: But it's a comedy. All right. Police Squad Episode 1,
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: I guess Season 1? Season 1, Episode 1? All right.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: I'll find it. Thank you, Shazbat. Always appreciate the support. Roman,
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: who would you vote for in the next Israeli election
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: and why? I don't know. I don't know. I can't
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: vote for anybody who would form a coalition with Netanyahu.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: I can't vote for anybody who is affiliated with the
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: religious nuts and the religious fanatics and the religious nationalists.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: I can't vote for, what's his name? Oh, I forget
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: his name. But, you know, so I can't vote for
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  Speaker 1: anybody kind of on the extreme right. I would probably,
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: and I don't know this for sure because I'm not
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: engaged in the day-to-day Israeli politics. I don't follow what
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: they say. And I'd probably vote for Naftali Bennett just
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: because I think he is best of the lot. He's
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: right of center. He strikes me as rational. He hates Netanyahu.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: He resents the ultra-Orthodox. He's not a fanatic religionist. He
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: is generally pro-free markets. He's right at the shrug. But,
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: you know, if I listen to him a lot, I
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: might change my mind. Right? So this is based on
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: the knowledge I have right now. I don't like the
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: guy who's probably going to be prime minister. Isaac Carr,
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: he strikes me as a nothing, a zero. He was
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: also the head of the Israeli military, the commander in
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: chief of the, what do you call it, the general
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: in charge of the Israeli military. You know, in some
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: period in the decade before October 7th, I think any
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: senior military leader during that period should not qualify because
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: they all made grave mistakes in how they dealt with Hamas.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: And I don't think he would bring a new perspective,
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: a new way of thinking about it. So I'd probably
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: vote for Bennett, but I don't know without being there
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: and listening more closely to what they have to say.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: Philosophy at Work says, would you retain a yearly cost
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: item of $ 100? If it saves you 24 hours of driving,
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: even while having to make serious personal budget cuts, would
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: you attain a yearly cost item of $ 100 a year
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: if it saves you 24 hours of driving, even while
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: having to make serious personal budget cuts? I mean, it
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: really depends. 24 hours of driving, that's 24 hours I'm
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: spending $ 100 to save 24 hours. You know, 24 hours
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: straight of driving, 24 hours of driving, two hours a day.
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, that matters because it matters.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: So 24 hours, but that would say what? It's $ 4
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: an hour. You know, do I want to... $ 100 seems
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: like a very... low amount of money in order to
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: save $ 25. My time is worth more than $ 4 an hour.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'd be willing to put $ 100 in to
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: do that. Now, if my time is worth less than
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: $ 4 an hour, that is, if, you know, if I'm
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: really struggling and I have no money, then sure, you know,
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: I'm willing to work at $ 3 an hour, then I
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: would do the driving, right? So you really have to
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: think about what your time is worth and so on.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: But it also depends on whether the 24 hours of
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: driving are straight, dispersed. If it's straight, yeah, definitely $ 100
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: because it's dangerous and you're risking your life and you're
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: going to be tired and you can't do anything else
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: productively while you drive. If it's dispersed, you can listen
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: to books. At least it's not dangerous. But yeah, I mean, absolutely.
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: I would retain that cost. But even to make serious
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: personal budget cuts, because again, it's valuing your time at
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: $ 4 an hour. Your time is worth more than that,
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: I assume, by any measure. Not if the time saving
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: cannot be converted into money. Well, but it can always
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: be converted into money in one way or the other, right?
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: There's always an odds and end job you can do
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: for 24 hours that will earn you more than three
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: or four bucks. I mean, I think if you exercise
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: your imagination just a little bit, can you think of
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: things that you could do for 24 hours that would
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: generate more than $ 100? Yes. Am I in the middle
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: of a family dispute? I feel like I'm in the
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: middle of a family dispute. If your income is fixed,
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: adding $ 100 to your deficit just makes you poorer. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: But spending 24 hours driving makes you poor as well.
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  Speaker 1: It makes you poor spiritually. It makes you poor in time.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the most valuable thing you have in life
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  Speaker 1: is time, not money. Now, again, it really depends on
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  Speaker 1: your situation, how big of a financial hole you're in. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's really a question of the time value,
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  Speaker 1: the dollar value of your time. It's 24 hours you're
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  Speaker 1: not spending with your kids. Is that worth 100 bucks
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  Speaker 1: to you? Not to spend 24 hours with your kids?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I can think of a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: you would do with those 24 hours that are worth
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  Speaker 1: more than $ 100 to you. I'm big on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you have to take into account the fact. That, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I am risk-taking when it comes to money, right? I,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I had a negative net worth most of
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  Speaker 1: my life, most of my adult life. I've carried a
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  Speaker 1: huge amount of debt. I've lived on the edge. When
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  Speaker 1: I was the CEO of the institute, I ran the
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  Speaker 1: institute on a credit line. You know, I'm comfortable with
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  Speaker 1: financial scarcity, financial minimalism. I don't know what you want
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  Speaker 1: to call it, financial risk. But time is valuable. Time
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  Speaker 1: is valuable. Time is all you have. And if it
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  Speaker 1: was $ 1, 000, yeah, okay, now you're talking. Now it's $ 50,
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  Speaker 1: it's $ 40 an hour. Now that's real money. $ 100? over
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  Speaker 1: a year, there's got to be ways you can make
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  Speaker 1: $ 100 during a year and not have your income fixed.
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  Speaker 1: Sell something. I don't know. Mow somebody's lawn for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks. I mean, there are lots of ways
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  Speaker 1: to make $ 100. And it's far preferable than driving for
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  Speaker 1: 24 hours, I think. Anyway. I'll leave that for you
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  Speaker 1: to think about. Matt, being uneducated, ignorant, and overall just
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: dumb gives you more popularity in this country. It makes
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: you relatable. Trump leveraged in both elections. Yeah, I guess
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: that's true. It's discouraging and sad and makes it frustrating
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: for somebody like me who's trying to make a living
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  Speaker 1: off of attracting people thoughtful people, people who think. And
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: I guess it's just not enough to make a significant living.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not complaining. I'm making a good living. But really,
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  Speaker 1: to grow and to, yeah. I mean, how can he
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: make millions, millions, tens of millions a year? I just
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: want one million from the show. One. I'd be really, really,
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: really happy. All right. Michael says, was Hector coming out
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: from behind the wall to fight Achilles' honorable or foolish
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  Speaker 1: altruistic duty? Well, in the context of the culture of
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: the time, it's the honorable thing to do. It's what
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  Speaker 1: you do. Otherwise, you're tainted as a coward for the
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: rest of your life. And that has a lot of
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: implications for what kind of life you can live and
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: what kind of life you can have. Hector has no
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  Speaker 1: choice but to come out. You can't evaluate him. He's
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: not doing it altruistically. You might say it's irrational, but
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: it's not altruistic. There's nothing altruistic about it. You might
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: say that view of honor is foolish. And irrational. But
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: none of it is altruism. And, you know, Greece was
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: not altruistic. Rome was not altruistic. None of this is altruistic.
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  Speaker 1: This is what, if you were a man, if you
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  Speaker 1: were a warrior, this is what you did. And this
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: is how you lived. There was no other conception of
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  Speaker 1: honor possible. Roland. Addict me more. My pleasure. We'll keep
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: addicting you. Working on it. Henry. Hi, Iran. Hope you're well.
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  Speaker 1: Hope all well. I'm off on sabbatical December through to July.
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  Speaker 1: Planning Canada, then South and Central America, maybe Japan at
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: the end. Any must-go places you do command outside of that? Oh, wow.
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: That's pretty... That's a pretty heavy schedule. Canada is beautiful.
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: South and Central America, pretty amazing, particularly South America. And
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: Japan is beautiful and interesting and fascinating. I mean, if
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: you can go to China, I would definitely recommend going
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: to China. Shanghai and Huangzhou, which is a little south
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: of Shanghai. If you like scenery, the Yellow Mountains are amazing.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: Lijiang and better than Lijiang is even, God, I forget.
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: I forget the place. Anyway, beautiful places all over China.
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  Speaker 1: I would definitely, if you're doing a trip around the
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: world anyway and you're in Japan, might as well go
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: to China and check it out. Who knows if in
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: five years we'll be able to go, if it won't
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: become authoritarian. Now they're still open to foreigners and you
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: can still travel there. Now's the time to go. Hong Kong.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: Go see Hong Kong. Go to Singapore. And finally, my
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: final recommendation, New Zealand. Southern island, southern island of New
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: Zealand is one of the most beautiful places on planet Earth.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: It's just gorgeous. Take five days, rent a car, drive,
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: do a loop, drive around the island. Just stunning scenery.
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: Anywhere from rainforest to glaciers that touch the rainforest. It's
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: a tropical and glaciers to the most stunning... you know,
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: mountains and sheer cliffs and fjords, or they call them
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: their sounds, very much like Norway. All the scenery you
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: saw in Lord of the Rings, that's the southern island
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: of New Zealand. So there's some additions I would recommend
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: if you're on that side of the world already. Anomalous.
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: Thank you. How can you avoid becoming a second-handed objectivist?
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: That's good. Well, you can't be a second-handed objectivist. You
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: can only one or the other. But anyway, sometimes I think,
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: what would I say? Is this a shortcut? Yes. Where's
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: the line between applying the philosophy first-handed and applying it second-handed? Well,
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: the line is your own understanding, your own integration, and
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: your own commitment to making it first-handed. So you can
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: ask yourself, what would Ayn Rand say, but then say,
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: why did she say it? Why would she say it?
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: So it could be a quick shorthand, but then it's
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: your responsibility to go and say, okay, do I understand
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: what she's saying? How would I say it? What is
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: what she's saying based on? I mean, you want to
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: be able to reduce, to bring down to reality, Any
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: abstract statement, abstract terms that Ayn Rand used, you want
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: to make it yours. And a big part of that
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: is putting it in your language. But what would Ayn
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: Rand say is a good starting point. But it can't
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: be the end point. If it's just what would Ayn
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: Rand say, then you're being second-handed. You're being unthinking. But
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: to be a thinker means, what would Ayn Rand say? Huh,
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: why would she say that? What is it about in
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: reality that would justify her saying that? Do I understand
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: the concept she's using, these words that she's using? What
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: do they pertain to? What are the concepts? How do
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: I reduce those concepts to reality? What is it in reality?
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: That's the fundamental question. That's what makes it first-hand. Your
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: ability to reduce what Ayn Rand says to something you
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: understand in reality. All right, guys. Thank you to all
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: the Super Chatters. I appreciate the support. I will see
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: you guys on Friday, on Friday, and then next week,
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: hard to tell when we'll do shows. I'll try to
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: do as many shows as I can next week. There
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: won't be a Nikos and Yaron dialogue, but I'll try
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: to do shows next week. What else do I want
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: to say? Yeah, so Friday will be a 9-11 show,
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: 25 years, 9-11, 25 years later. and with all the
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: implications of that. And what else? Yeah, I think that
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: we'll call it a night. I will see you on Friday. Tomorrow,
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: I'm going to a concert, Camina Buruna by Carl Ulf.
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: Should be fun. It's a fun call-all piece. Yeah, really dramatic, dynamic,
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: and fun. I used to want to use a portion
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: of Camina Buruna as my opening music for the Iran
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: Book Show. Everybody I tried that on recommended I not
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: do it. But I wanted to. I still want to.
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: See you. Bye, everybody.