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  Speaker 1: A lot of them, fundamental principles of leedom, rational, self
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  Speaker 1: interesting and an individual wats this is the show? Oh right, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to you One Book Show on this December thirty first,
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  Speaker 1: it's New Year's Eve again.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what number New Eve you've show.
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  Speaker 1: This is for me, but these are always really fun shows.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great opportunity for us to.
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  Speaker 2: Just talk and interact.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be doing my review of twenty twenty five, some
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  Speaker 1: thoughts about twenty twenty six, but in the meantime I'll
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  Speaker 1: be answering questions, looking at the comments, looking at your chat.
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  Speaker 1: Just this is a this is a good time just
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  Speaker 1: to have a show where we really have a good time.
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  Speaker 1: And of course it's a big fundraising show. So this
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  Speaker 1: is the show in which we we we try to
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  Speaker 1: raise a significant amount of money for the One Book
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  Speaker 1: Show to keep us going into the next year and
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  Speaker 1: keep everything motivated and everything chugging along. And so that
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  Speaker 1: is you know, that is that is great? How much
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  Speaker 1: of a song review? One hundred dollars? Hundred dollars song reviews.
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  Speaker 1: So please consider using this opportunity to support the show.
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  Speaker 1: You can do it with a sticker. You can do
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  Speaker 1: it with questions. You can do many, many questions. You
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  Speaker 1: can ask as many as you want. I think the
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  Speaker 1: limit dollar wise is five hundred dollars persh show per person,
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  Speaker 1: so you can't go over five hundred dollars. The goal
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  Speaker 1: today is to raise a ridiculously high amount of money,
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  Speaker 1: which is fifteen thousand dollars, which would get us in
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  Speaker 1: line with the last couple of years, the last two
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  Speaker 1: years in terms of annual super chat super chat, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll keep me up there in the ratings of a
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  Speaker 1: really high, really high super chat on YouTube. So keep it,
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  Speaker 1: keep me in good, good terms with with youtubes. So
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  Speaker 1: it's a huge goal. The only way to get to
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  Speaker 1: this goal, the only way we're going to get to
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  Speaker 1: this goal is those of you who are so inclined
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  Speaker 1: and can afford it. If some of you out there
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  Speaker 1: can do five hundred dollars, just like John just did.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: John. It has been supportive all year and has put
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  Speaker 1: five hundred dollars. I still owe you a yes. The
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  Speaker 1: movie review better Man. It's coming on Saturday. So Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to review better Man and I will review
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  Speaker 1: Ford versus Ferrari. So those two movies will be reviewed
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday, and so if you guys want more reviews,
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  Speaker 1: I'm almost caught up. I've got two more things to
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  Speaker 1: review and I'll be completely caught up. So if you
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  Speaker 1: want to add stuff for me to review, please please
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  Speaker 1: do so. Anyway, we're not going to reach it unless
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  Speaker 1: some of you do five hundred dollars who can afford
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  Speaker 1: it and make it. You know, we've got a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of hundreds and fifties and that's fantastic. We got a
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty earlier today, were ready over one
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars towards the fifteen thousands, so keep it coming.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully people will join as we go through the show.
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  Speaker 1: We'll join and say hello and make a contribution.
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  Speaker 2: You can also if.
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  Speaker 1: You would prefer, If you would prefer, and certainly if
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  Speaker 1: you want to do more than five hundred dollars, you
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  Speaker 1: can use PayPal. I'm putting the PayPal link into the
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  Speaker 1: chat in YouTube.
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  Speaker 2: You can use the pet.
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  Speaker 1: Paal link to make PayPal link to make a one
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  Speaker 1: time a contribution on payper.
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  Speaker 2: I will count those.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm tracking PayPal and we'll count all those as well.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see what else did I want to say, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I know a bunch of you probably watching this on
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  Speaker 1: Twitter or on Facebook.
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  Speaker 2: Please come over to YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: Twitter and Facebook do not allow me to monetize the
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  Speaker 1: shows over there. It's harder to get to monetize over there.
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  Speaker 1: So come on over to.
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  Speaker 2: YouTube where you can come in.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, even if you do two dollars or
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  Speaker 1: five dollars or ten dollars, whatever you can do is
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  Speaker 1: greatly appreciated. It all adds up, It all chips away
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  Speaker 1: at at getting to getting to our goal. And let's see. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so so come on over again. You guys can also
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  Speaker 1: do PayPal. Just go PayPal you on book show, you're
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  Speaker 1: on book show, and make a one time contribution. There
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  Speaker 1: is a link on my Twitter feed. There's a us
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  Speaker 1: a link here in the to feed to be able
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  Speaker 1: to access it. On on PayPal, you can do more
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  Speaker 1: than one hundred dollars, so more than more than five
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars. So in that sense it is it is better.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see what else? What else do we want to cover? Yeah, so,
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  Speaker 1: before if I get into the twenty five kind of
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  Speaker 1: a review of twenty five and again, I want to
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  Speaker 1: thank everybody who is contributing right now, we are making
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  Speaker 1: really really nice progress. If we're going to go four hours,
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  Speaker 1: we need to do about, you know, four thousand an hour.
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  Speaker 1: So we're certainly on pace for the four thousand an hour.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see if we can keep that up for four hours,
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  Speaker 1: but we're on pace so far. We've already raised I
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  Speaker 1: have to constantly add in the amount of money that
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  Speaker 1: came in early and is not counted in my super
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  Speaker 1: chat track, but you know, we're getting close to fifteen
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Fifteen hundred dollars, so that's great, and that's
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  Speaker 1: that's a phenomenal start to today. So before I go
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  Speaker 1: into twenty twenty five, I want to talk about something
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  Speaker 1: happening right now. And there won't be resolved today, and
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  Speaker 1: it will be resolved next year in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: but is exciting and scary and inspiring. And I know
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  Speaker 1: I've talked about it in the last few shows, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm seeing more and more. I'm seeing more and more
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  Speaker 1: stuff online that is suggesting that this is growing and
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  Speaker 1: becoming more substantial, and that is what is going on
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  Speaker 1: in Iran, and the thousands of people are out in
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  Speaker 1: the streets and really for the first time, I think
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  Speaker 1: really calling for a revolution, calling for the end of
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  Speaker 1: this regime, even people calling for the return of the Shah,
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  Speaker 1: not as a dictator of it as a ceremonial position.
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  Speaker 1: People chanting in the streets, death to diatulas. And I
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  Speaker 1: want to put this in perspective of the courage this takes.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about a regime that has no problem shooting
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  Speaker 1: people in the street. We're talking about a regime that
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  Speaker 1: since since the war with Israel in June, they have executed,
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  Speaker 1: executed fifteen hundred people, fifteen hundred people, you know, fifteen
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  Speaker 1: hundred people, some of them probably just at random, just
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  Speaker 1: to scare the Iranian people, scare them so much that
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't dare, They wouldn't dare to oppose, to stand
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  Speaker 1: up and impose right and them says, I count twenty
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  Speaker 1: super chests, but only fifteen show on the goal. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. We've had this problem before.
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  Speaker 1: I've mentioned it to YouTube. They claim, no, no, everything's
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  Speaker 1: working fine. There's nothing I can do about that. So
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  Speaker 1: we're we're gonna stick to We're gonna just keep it going.
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  Speaker 1: So the other goal we're doing is is fifty super
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  Speaker 1: chats per hour, and it should include stickers and super chats.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty super chests per hour. We're on according to YouTube
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  Speaker 1: one seventeen. According to Nam, we're on twenty one or
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. But we'll go with super chat because they're
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  Speaker 1: counting and they're the ones that will make the goal
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  Speaker 1: either achievable or unachievable. So you know, one way to
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  Speaker 1: get help us get the goal. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: do five hundred, you can do five one hundred. You
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  Speaker 1: can do a bunch of twenties, you can do fifties.
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  Speaker 1: You can spread it out and you can ask that
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  Speaker 1: way a lot of questions with the amount of money
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  Speaker 1: that you contribute. So it is uh, it is great.
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  Speaker 1: So uh let me let me just go across. So, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to salute the Iranian people, uh, and
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  Speaker 1: the courage and the bravy to go out into the
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  Speaker 1: street against a murderous regime. To know that there is
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  Speaker 1: a real risk. Uh, there's a real risk involved in
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  Speaker 1: in going out into the streets and opposing this regime,
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  Speaker 1: in in standing your ground. Uh. A lot of students
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  Speaker 1: have now joined. So this was originally mainly shopkeepers. Now
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  Speaker 1: a lot of students have joined, a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: goals revolution goals have joined. You know, there are you know, again,
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  Speaker 1: there are reports, but these are a suspect. I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe these reports, uh that that at least one city
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  Speaker 1: is now occupied by the demonstrators. They they have toppled
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  Speaker 1: the h uh, the existing regime. But again I I
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  Speaker 1: don't really believe it. I think it's I think it's uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's too early, too soon.
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  Speaker 2: I'll also say that.
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  Speaker 1: The this revolution will not succeed, is almost for certain
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  Speaker 1: unlikely to succeed unless elements within the military join. You
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  Speaker 1: don't expect the Islamic revolutionary God to join, but elements
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  Speaker 1: within the regular military if they join, if they join,
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  Speaker 1: then this regime could easily be toppled.
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  Speaker 2: The people wanted gone.
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  Speaker 1: And now we need insiders with guns, basically insiders with
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  Speaker 1: guns to uh, you know, to go in and uh
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  Speaker 1: and and help them out, and and and and actually
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  Speaker 1: provide an armed defense for the revolution and and and
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  Speaker 1: armed action on the revolution. Anyway, this is this is
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  Speaker 1: happening as we speak. I'm watching some of the feeds.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like they, you know, the regimus sent some
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  Speaker 1: of the thugs to destroy the shops of the shopkeepers
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  Speaker 1: that have gone out to demonstrate, so they are literally
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  Speaker 1: ripping those shops parts and and and trying trying to
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  Speaker 1: destroy them. All right, let me just say it seems
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  Speaker 1: like YouTube doesn't count the stickers unless you put like
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  Speaker 1: an emoji in the sticker or you just instead of
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  Speaker 1: a sticker say happy New Year or just something, and
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  Speaker 1: then it all count it. So I think that's why
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  Speaker 1: there's a difference, a difference between them. Why the difference
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  Speaker 1: in the stickers. So with twenty super chats out of
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  Speaker 1: a goal of fifty for this hour, we've got another
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  Speaker 1: forty five minutes to reach our goal, so plenty of time,
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  Speaker 1: plenty of time to make it all right. Wes Wes,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, Thank you. Wes just came in
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  Speaker 1: with another five hundred dollars. This is what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to need in order to get our goal. Wes says,
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  Speaker 1: thanks to another great year of shows. I really don't
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  Speaker 1: know what I would do without your show. I also
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  Speaker 1: donated through PayPal. Thank you. I really really appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. The other five hundred it was from John
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  Speaker 1: who just said Happy New Year. Thank you. John, really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate that and thank you Wes also for the contribution
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  Speaker 1: through PayPal. I really really appreciate that. Wow, that's terrific.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. All right, let's see what else do we
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  Speaker 1: have here? Yeah, let me go through some of these
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  Speaker 1: just as they're coming in, so we clear out. So
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  Speaker 1: we're going to leave the questions for later. We'll do
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  Speaker 1: the questions later, but at least get some of the
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  Speaker 1: just the ones that are congratulatory you On, Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for being a continuing voice for reason and our culture.
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  Speaker 1: Happy new Year, Brian, Thank you, Brian, really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: That's fifty dollars. Jennifer, Happy new Year, Thank you, Jennifer.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see these are questions. We'll get to that. Apple
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  Speaker 1: Jack one hundred dollars, thank you, you On, Thanks apple Jack,
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  Speaker 1: Gee Bouda, thank you for being the best voice for reason.
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  Speaker 1: Happy new year, Thank you, Jay, Jay bouder R and
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  Speaker 1: b thank you for the inspiration to live with the
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  Speaker 1: capital L. I love that. Thank you, Yes, Capital L living.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're for here at the On Book Show.
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  Speaker 1: So do it, Just do it, Karen, I have a
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  Speaker 1: great twenty twenty six year on. Thank you, Callen and
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  Speaker 1: YouTube the Dumb and then Ryan says, I just resubscribed
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  Speaker 1: on Patreon. Not sure how my subscription got canceled a
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  Speaker 1: few months ago. Happy New Year, run and everyone. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean sometimes they get canceled. I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes they get canceled because maybe your credit card expires
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. But I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have an explanation for how these things just just go.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's see, I like I asked a couple
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  Speaker 1: of questions.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's I think one hundred and fifty five
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  Speaker 1: dollars or one hundred and seventy five dollars. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: As a long time viewer, I wanted to thank you
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  Speaker 1: for all that you do in adding value to my life.
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  Speaker 1: Happy a happy new Year, and I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: YBS twenty twenty six. Absolutely, it's unbelievable. The year is
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  Speaker 1: already here. It's already happening. Dan Ve, Happy new Year.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for being a voice of reason, helping to clarify
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  Speaker 1: my thinking. My pleasure equal to reality. Thank you you
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  Speaker 1: on for all the hard work. Happy New Year. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: real spark, real spuck is a real question. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: leave that, uh doum, and we've got uh Allie, Allie,
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  Speaker 1: Happy New Year, you on. Thanks for all the news updates.
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  Speaker 1: Uh and we'll get to that later. Get to that later.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Doug just came in with five hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: and he wants a book review. A book review American
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  Speaker 1: I can Allen Okay Ellen Ellen Malayley and the Fight
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  Speaker 1: to save Ford Motor Company. We listened to the audiobook
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  Speaker 1: though it was a pretty good I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good story of leadership and so much more excellent.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. I am copying pasted into my review list
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  Speaker 1: to start the I'm gonna I'm gonna try to I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna finish first all the reviews I owe everybody, and
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  Speaker 1: then uh and then we will do these. But thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Doug really appreciate the five hundred dollars. And and as
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  Speaker 1: we say, we are like over twenty five hundred already.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so, so that is great. I figured the first
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  Speaker 1: hour we're gonna have to get to I think well
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  Speaker 1: over five thousand dollars to to make to make it,
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  Speaker 1: because the first hour is always the best. I think
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  Speaker 1: although people coming in out during the during the show
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  Speaker 1: real spark, the way it goes is the lower them
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  Speaker 1: out the later in the show it gets answered. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's just the way you want it answered now, five
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars. I promise we'll get it answered now. All right. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I've got Ian, and Ian's got another movie review for me.
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  Speaker 1: Another song of you, sorry, song of you? All right,
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  Speaker 1: but one hundred dollars, one hundred dollars, please review the
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  Speaker 1: Night Watch by King Crimson. It's about the Rembrandt painting. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that'll be interesting, that'll be interesting. So I'm looking I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to that. I like there were a few
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  Speaker 1: songs about paintings. Starry Story Night of course is van
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  Speaker 1: Go painting. Here's another song with Youhammad says, also one
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Happy new Year, you on please review the
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  Speaker 1: song Starlift Fearless Part two by Crown Lands. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for all the great shows throughout the year. Wish you
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  Speaker 1: a successful year ahead. Thank you. Okay, copy paste. We'll
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  Speaker 1: copy of that song as well, and we will try
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  Speaker 1: to get to those soon. And all right, that is answered.
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  Speaker 1: Linda says, Happy New Year, Thank you. Askar says, Happy
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  Speaker 1: New Year. What sponsorship level would it take for you
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  Speaker 1: to complete a list and discuss on a show? The
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  Speaker 1: list of Trump's impeachable offenses. I mean there's so many,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard. Yeah, I mean generally sponsorship of a show,
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  Speaker 1: to sponsor a whole show is one thousand dollars, so
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  Speaker 1: given that that would be a whole show, I think
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  Speaker 1: that would be that would be one thousand dollars. So yep,
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  Speaker 1: all right, let's see. All right again, we are doing
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  Speaker 1: also PayPal, primarily PayPal for anybody who wants to do
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  Speaker 1: over five hundred, but anybody is welcome to do PayPal
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  Speaker 1: if it's easier, or if you're watching the show after
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  Speaker 1: the fact and you're not your life. Oh, if you're
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  Speaker 1: on Twitter or Facebook, a few people on Facebook, you
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  Speaker 1: can you can go to you can go to PayPal,
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  Speaker 1: and I later I will add up to PayPal and
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  Speaker 1: and see how much of the meaning on our list
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  Speaker 1: it it actually offsets, so that so that we counted
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  Speaker 1: towards the goal. All right, let me do I think
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  Speaker 1: a few stickers Gary, thank you, Darlene, thank you, these
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  Speaker 1: all stickers and laid back petal pusher thank you, Real Daniel,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Huayna Guy thank you. I'm probably mispronouncing that one.
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  Speaker 1: And oh, poker poker Jew, thank you. For the fifty dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Really appreciate it, Remo, thank you, and all right, there
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  Speaker 1: we the PayPal. The PayPal link is attached to the
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  Speaker 1: top of the chats, so at any point if you
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  Speaker 1: want that, you can you can get to it, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So twenty twenty five, what do we do with this year?
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  Speaker 1: So much happened in twenty twenty five. It was such
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  Speaker 1: a vulture, Tom, Thank you. Tom, really appreciated fifty fifty pounds,
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  Speaker 1: fifty British pounds, which sixty almost seventy US dollars, So
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  Speaker 1: thank you guys again, chipping away slowly at this we've
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  Speaker 1: already raised, Yeah, twenty seven hundred something like that, So
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  Speaker 1: keep it coming, keep it coming. So what do we
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  Speaker 1: make about this year? I mean, this is a year
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  Speaker 1: and it has to be the year of Trump. This
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  Speaker 1: is the year that Trump came to power second term, unabashed,
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  Speaker 1: with a team dedicated to his agenda, with no qualms
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  Speaker 1: about that gender, with no with no questions, with no
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  Speaker 1: adults in the room talking him off, you know, off
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  Speaker 1: of his more radical views. This is the year of
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  Speaker 1: Trump's agenda. It's really the first real year of Trump's agenda.
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  Speaker 1: Because I think Trump was always hampered during his first
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  Speaker 1: term by having a team around him that wasn't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: committed to his agenda. You know, people who talked him
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  Speaker 1: out of tariffs, people who talked him out of deploying
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  Speaker 1: troops into the streets. People talked him out of you know,
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  Speaker 1: really really really full on going after the legal immigration
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  Speaker 1: even though he wanted to. This is this is the
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  Speaker 1: first year of Trump administration where they really prepared, where
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  Speaker 1: they had remember Agenda twenty twenty five, which the Heritage
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  Speaker 1: Foundation put together for future Trump administration.
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  Speaker 2: They had a blueprint.
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  Speaker 1: Agenda twenty twenty five is a blueprint. They've got it
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: in writing. They've got something that guides everything that they
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: do and that can help them move their agenda, you know,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: significantly forward. So this term is dramatically different than the
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Trump first term. And I think really everything, everything in
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the news this year was dominated by Trump, by Trump's actions,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: by Trump's inactions, by his domestic policy, by his international policy.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: He is different, to say the least, than any president
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: in my lifetime in pretty much all of those agendas.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: The way he communicates his willingness to just say what
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: he thinks. The radicalness, if you can call it radical,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: you know, the the the the fact that he's willing
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: to just do stuff constitutional and we'll figure that out later,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: the quote or reversa, we'll figure that out later. Right. So, Uh, it's.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: This is the year of Trump.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: And uh, I think Time magazine made him Person of
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: the Year. And absolutely it's nobody else you could have
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: made this year person of the year. He dominated every
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: aspect of everything. And look he he he came in
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: swinging from from from day one. Uh he he immediately,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: you know, immediately started doing things that were.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: You know, unusual, right.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Uh. You know, if you remember that first few weeks,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: we was calling Canada the fifty estate. This is even
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: before inauguration and uh and and threatening the Canadians. Uh
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: he told us what exactly was going to do with immigration.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: So yeah, this is, without a doubt the year of
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: the Year of Trump. And so let's go through some
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: of the things that stand out in terms of what
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Trump has done. Uh, what Trump has done and what
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I think is going to be kind of a legacy
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: for for this administration moving into the future. Uh And
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and we're really going to break this down into a
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: domestic policy and and and then we'll talk about we'll
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: talk about phone policy, and we'll talk about the culture.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I think that has shifted significantly uh since Trump came
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: into office, uh and more broadly. And and yeah, and
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I've also got a whole section where we'll talk about
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: we'll definitely talk about some good news, right, some good news,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: good things that have happened this year. So hopefully we'll
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: get to that. We'll try to make sure that we
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: find time for that. So so yeah, all right, let
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: me let me see what I want to say. Yeah,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I want to remind you again if you want to
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: do more than five hundred dollars, you can do it
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: on PayPal. The link is right up there on the chat.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: If you're on another platform, please come over to to
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: YouTube so you can contribute and help out and to
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: get to our goals which are very very very very
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: very very very ambitious this year. You know, I'm going
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: to ask you, guys to stretch those of you can
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: afford it to stretch, and those of who can afford it,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you to consider doing five hundred dollars,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: which is the limit on YouTube, or if you can
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: do more than that, do some.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Of it on PayPal.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Wes has already done five hundred dollars on YouTube and
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: five hundred dollars on PayPal. So thank you, thank you,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: thank you, Wes T T Bizarre, T Bizarre, five hundred dollars.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Thank you really appreciate that. That is amazing. Jeremy, thank
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: you for the sticker. I really appreciate the support. Glenn
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: for two hundred dollars, just to thank you for a
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: great year. This has become my primary social news even
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: so I haven't been able to watch many shows live.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I get them after the live show. Keep up the fight.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Glenn, really appreciate the support. And Paul one
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Happy New Year, you on. Keep up the
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: great work. Thank you, Paul. Let's see if there were
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: other stickers that I missed. See Weed, thank you. It's
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: his third super Chat sticker. I can't try and find
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: did Tom. I'll thank Tom again? And I think Gary again.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I think I think then before and let's see. Gail says,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Happy New Year, you on, and to anyone who thinks
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: mediocrity sucks on your on Books show, we definitely think
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: mediocrity sucks. All right, So let's see where are we?
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: So we have now crossed the thirty five hundred dollars threshold,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: so we need about five hundred dollars to make our
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: first hour goal, which is, you know, we've got a
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: goal of four thousand dollars an hour. I laughed, because
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: it's hard to believe we can achieve it, and then
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: we do, and then you guys come through and we
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: actually do achieve it. So we're five hundred dollars short
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: basically making the first hour goal. We've got two hundred
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and seventy five dollars that were booked before the show
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: starteds are not really counted in what you see in
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the chat, so really it's only four hundred dollars to
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: make the first hour go, not even five hundred dollars.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: So maybe somebody can jump in and make it all
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the way. So it's hard to say where to start
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: with this year and where to start with Trump, right,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: so much has happened, so much has been done, and
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I'm sure whatever list I've made, there's a bunch of
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: things I am going to forget that you know, incredibly
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: powerful and incredibly important and have shaped the year, and
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: it probably probably contributes significantly to shaping this decade by
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the way, we're thirty four out of fifty super chats.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: To count a sticker towards the number of super chats,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: you have to put like any moji or something in
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the sticker so that YouTube knows how to count it.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know why they can just count a simple sticker.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: But so we've got to goal in terms of the dollars.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: We've got a goal in terms of the number of
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: uh just the just the sheer number of super chats,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: and that goal is fifty an hour. Fifty for the
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: first hour, so we need another sixteen. And make sure
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: if you do a stick up ad add like an
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: emoji or just to thank you or happy New Year
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: to it, and that way it accounts. And yeah, I'm
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna complain again to to the powers to
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: be at YouTube that they don't count straight stickers, all right,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: So again, thank you to everybody who's done five hundred dollars.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: That's amazing. Anybody who's done one hundred or more amazing.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, you're you're the people who are going to
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: get us to our goal or close to our goal,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: or as close to our goal as we get. So
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I think that probably the number one thing I would
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: note in terms of Trump is his use of execut power.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Clearly what Trump the goal of the Trump.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Administration is to buy through president and to basically establish
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: the executive as the most powerful branch of government, which
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: is already had become. But to basically push the envelope
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: and see how far you can get in terms of
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: what the executive can get away with, what the executive
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: can do without congressional approval. That has been a huge
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: thrust of this administration. And I would say aiding in
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: a betting, aiding and a betting the Trump administration is Congress.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: One of the horror stories of this year. One of
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: the really horrific parts of this year is the very
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: fact that Congress. We just don't hear anything from Congress.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: You know, they do almost nothing. They suddenly don't seem
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: to care about what Donald Trump does because the Republicans said,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: they're not going to investigate anything he does. They're not
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: going to challenge anything does, They're not going to question
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: anything he does. I mean, it's shocking how completely accepting
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Congress is of everything that Trump does. I mean, Trump
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: just today, I think it was this morning, vetoed something
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: that came through House and Senate, I think, unanimously, so
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Vita proof, veto proof in a veto proof way, and
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: he vetoed it because it's some project in Colorado that
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Congress once passed, and everybody's sympathetic to whatever. And Trump
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: is just pissed off in Colorado. He actually has a
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: long tweet that he put out about how horrible the
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: governor of Colorado is and how and wishing them ill
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: will and a horrible new year and all of that stuff.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: So he just vetoed something Congress passed. Now here's the test.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Congress passed this law unanimously. Will they overtone, the overturn
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: the veto? Will Republicans? Once Trump has vetoed something, will
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: they actually did overturn him? I don't know any other president,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: any other Congress, you'd say, but of course, no question.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I just don't know if they'll do it. So I
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: think this combination of a real shift, the shift that
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: has been happening slowly, probably for you know, suddenly from
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: George Bush, you know, suddenly from two thousand, probably earlier,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: the shift of power, actually quite a bit earlier, because
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: much earlier Congress was already giving the president the power
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: of tariffs. Congress was giving the president the power, you know,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: to kind of go to war, to engage in hostile activities,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: military activities without getting its permission. So Congress was already
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: defaulting on these things, but certainly over the last forty years,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: this is accelerated over the last twenty five years, accelerated fast.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Bush was terrible the number of executive orders he signed.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Obama was awful, horrible, worse than terrible in the number
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: of executive orders and the scope of those executive orders
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: that he signed. And then Trump is just taking it
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: to a new level, a completely new level in terms
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: of the in terms of the numbers that the number,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: and the scope, and the willingness to clearly bend the walls,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, the tariffs is exact example of this. And
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: will know probably early next year whether the Supreme Quote
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: will overturn those tariffs. But the attempt to use the
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: law that had nothing to do with tariffs to unilaterally,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: without any congressional approval, without anything from Congress, to go
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: out there and imposed tariffs willing newly on any country
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: at Trump's whim.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Is truly astounding.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Truly, Trump is trying to make this into an imperial president,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: and it has more power than ever. I mean, after
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: did a lot of stuff but also got a lot
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: of support from Congress. Actual bills got passed. They were
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: bad bills and suddenly wold returned by the Supreme Court,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: but they were bills that were passed by Congress. Trump
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: is not bothering with exception a big beautiful bill. Really,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: it's not bothering with Congress. He's just doing stuff. That's
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: the lesson he learned from the first term. If I
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: want to get anything done, I'm just going to have
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: to bulldoze forward and just get it done and not consider,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: you know, congressional approval. And Congress is allowing him to
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: do it. They're not questioning it, they're not challenging it,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: they're not investigating it. So what we're seeing is is
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: is a shifting power that's been happening for decades. Really
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: almost a real change now in a change that's not
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: going to be I think it'll be very very difficult
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: to reverse. I mean, Supreme courte can make stuff unconstitutional
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: and can say, you know, Trump's tabs unconstitutional. Trump will
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: just use other laws to reimpose the tariffs, and those
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: laws will be challenged and now go to quote. But
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: what he won't do is go to Congress and ask
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: for the authority to impose the taifs that he wants
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: to impose, that he won't do so. A system of
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: government there was constructed by Founders to have this very
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: very very important division of powers, and no part of
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: the government is too powerful. A relatively weak executive, a
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: relatively speaking in the history of mankind strong legislature, and
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: relatively speaking powerful judiciary. All of that has changed. We
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: now have an incredibly weak legislature, a very powerful, almost
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: imperial presidency, and a yet to be seen Supreme Court.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: A will the Supreme Court stand up to Trump? B?
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: When they do?
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: What will how will Trump respond? What will he do?
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: He's not afraid of being impeached if he chooses to
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: ignore the Supreme Court. Historically the response to that would
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: be impeachment. He's not afraid of being impeached. And even
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: if the Democrats win the House, he's still not afraid
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: of being impeached. He was impeached twice before with the
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Democrats control in the House, but the Senate checked it out.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: So the whole idea of checks and balances, the whole
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: idea of the vision of labor is dramatically. Trump has
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: dramatically weakened them. And this will be his legacy. I mean,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: his legacy will be regarding particular policies will probably also exist.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: But the lack of checks and balances, the weakening of Congress,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: that I don't know how you get I don't know
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: how you get back from that is. I don't know
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: how you will cover from Democrats democratic president who comes
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: into power. It's not like he's going to say no, no, no,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: I want to go back to Constitution. It's not like
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: a jet Evans becoming presidents say no, no, no, I
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: want to go back to the Constitution. I don't want
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: this stuff just not going to happen. So I think
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: his lasting legacy is an imperial presidency, and you know,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: you have to hope then did you get somebody reasonable
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: in power? Because the more power the executive have, the
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: more important is who the president is. And looking at
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: the potential candidates out there on both the Democratic and
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Republican side, how many people they are reasonable? How many
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: people there would you trust with the kind of power
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: that Trump is, you know, establishing within the presidency. I
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: would not all right, let me see, let me see
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: the dumb a biologist says, Happy new Year. Thank you, biologist,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Let's see some stickers out here.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: We did that blog, Oh we did biologist, and then
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: we've got big fed. Thank you for the stick of
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Big Fad and Apollo Zeus, thank you, Thank you for
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: the Happy new Year. Happy new Year to you two
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: laid back pedal pedal, thank you for the happy new year.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Free market capital, thank you for the
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: happy new year. And let's see right, all right, keep
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: them coming. All right, so we have we have one
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three watching right now, one hundred and
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: thirty three people. Our goal is to get to fifty
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: different super chats. So yeah, we should be able to
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: do that. So those of who you haven't yet, you
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: can do a two dollars super chat, a three dollars
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: super chat. Please put something into the super chat like
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: happy new Year or an emoji or something like that.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: So the YouTube counsel towards the total goal of fifty,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: we're out forty, so we just need ten, So ten
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: of you come on in with any any amount, it
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter, just to get to that fifty would be great.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: We are about.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Fifty about two hundred and fifty dollars short of the
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: first hour goal, which is about four thousand dollars, So
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: about two hundred and fifty short of that, so let's
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: see if we can make that up. So if some
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: of you who are coming in to reach the fifty
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: one to do one hundred or two hundred or five
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: hundred and get us get us through there, that'd be great. Also,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: don't forget before you leave. I know some of you
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: is just coming in for short periods of time and
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: just just a chat pass out like button passed out
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: like buttons as you go in and out. You know,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: having a lot of likes really helps the algorithm and
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: really really gets us more exposure. Jeff, Jeff says, happy
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: to you here. Thank you, Jeff, really appreciate it. And
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: all right, and we've got a bunch of questions. The
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: questions we'll get to in a little bit. We'll get
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: to the questions. Let me just give you stats on
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: the show a little bit. We did about two hundred
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: I couldn't ge an accurate number, but just under two
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty. I think maybe two hundred fifty eight
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: shows this last year, two undred fifty eight shows. So like,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: if you do two fifty two fifty in support of
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: the show, you're basically it's a bucket, a bucket show, right,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: So that would be a dollar for every show that
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I did live. That's just live shows. I'm not talking
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: about lectures that we put up. I'm not talking about
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: other videos that a cushion put up, splice stuff from
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: the shows. Just the live shows. I did just under
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty in terms of hours in twenty
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: twenty five, not including well, yeah, including today, we hit
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: five hundred hours, five hundred hours of shows over twenty
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: twenty five. So if you do five hundred dollars support
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: of the show, either here on PayPal or then you're
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: basically it's a bucket show. It's a bucket, sorry, A
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: buck an hour, one dollar an hour, So two hundred
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: and fifty would be a dollar a show. Five hundred
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: dollars would be a dollar for every hour that I streamed.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: I don't think many of you, some of you I
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: know listen to every hour I streamed, but you know,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know how many of you. But it's yeah,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: so a buck an hour is not not too bad now,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: so I appreciate it, particularly those of you who don't
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: do super chats during the year. This is a great
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: time to kind of pay pay for everything that you
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: listen to over the year. Pay for everything you listen
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: to over the year. All right, what have we got here?
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: We have RMK ninety one hundred dollars. Thank you, RMK,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Happy New Year, you're on. Thank you for everything you do.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: I enjoy your Hebrew shows as well. Oh excellent, haven't
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: done a Hebrew show in a long time. Couldn't really
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: attract a big audience as well, so we kind of
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: stop doing stop doing that show, huh? All right? For
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: some reason, YouTube is ending my first hour fifteen minutes early.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: I think I set up the goal too early. So
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: we've got three minutes and thirty eight seconds to get
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: six more super chats again, they could be one dollar,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: two dollars. As long as you put an emoji in
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: or Happy New Year in or something like that, they
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: will count. But it's down to three minutes. We need
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: over the next three minutes we need we need to
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: get what is it? Yees? Six? Six? Well now it's five,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: gone down to five, all right, Miko says, I can't
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: pronounce this in Italians anyway, Choo, you're on from Italy.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Mico. A real pleasure spending time with you
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: in modern this last year. I really really enjoyed that.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Nick Nick says, come on people, thank you Nick, all
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: pal tiers, Happy New Year. Thank you all.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: Peal TiO.
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  Speaker 1: The thumb. All right, all of those are comments. Oh
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: we got pocker Jew just at fifty dollars sticker. Thank
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: you pocker Jew. Let's see how we doing with this.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: We've got three left. Didn't count all the ones that
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: just came in. Jamavs did one hundred dollars. Happy New Year.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Jamavs. Really appreciate that. Thank you. And Martin Anderson,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: thank you, and Carolina thank you from Mexico. I think
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: I'm caught up. Yeah, we've definitely we've definitely reached a
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  Speaker 1: target a fifty super Chat. So we did that. I
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: will set another fifty super Chat target at the top
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: of the hour and see if we can repeat that
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: every hour to get fifty. And we actually got more
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  Speaker 1: than fifty because some of you did did stickers without
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: any any verbiage. We also raised a four thousand, two
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five. Actually two hundred and eighty five
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  Speaker 1: dollars now, so two hundred and eighty five dollars. Let's see,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: I wanted, could we get to five thousand? Could we
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: get to five thousand buy, you know, by the top
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: of the hour, So could we raise another thousand by
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: by three pm? By three pm? Just as a throwing
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  Speaker 1: out a challenge there, just to see what happens, all right.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: James Bond, James James Bond is a contributor to Iran
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  Speaker 1: Book Show. Just so you know, triple O seven at
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: double O seven, not TRIPLEO seven, Double O seven contributes
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  Speaker 1: to the Iran Book Show. And so thank you for
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: the hundred euro. Really appreciate that. String a bell, thank you,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Josh Voda, thank you, Josh Sea Weed,
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: thank you, Seaweed. And Andrew came in saying weis and
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: rocks just to try to get us to the fifty,
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  Speaker 1: to make the fifty super chat goal. I appreciate that.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: So thank you guys. And let's see did I catch it? Everybody?
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: We've got so, as I said, the executive power, there's
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: just so much more more executive voters than any presidents
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: in their first year by a big margin. I think
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: his first year is more than almost all president including
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: the last few, who've done a lot of executive voters
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: their four years. But his executive voters are really pushing
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: the envelope, not just in terms of quantity, but also
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: in terms of quality, the kind of executive voters. The
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: executive voters are really targeted to significantly, significantly, you know,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: increase explicitly increase presidential power and allow the presidents to
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: do things that in the past presidents have clearly hesitated
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: to do. Put troops into cities, you know, nationalize the
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: federal the national God, federalized the national God, even without
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: governor's support, things that other presidents have just been hesitant
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: to move forward on. He has just jumped in. So
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a he really has. I mean,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: think about I mean, as we speak, think about the
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: bombing of the boats off of the coast of Venezuela.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: No congressional approval sought, asked for, no congressional investigation into it,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: and yet he's bombing people. Now. You could argue that
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: the drone attacks against terrorists in Yemen and in places
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: in Africa in different places that previous administrations like Obama, Bush,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: Obama and even Biden did also didn't have explicit congressional authority,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: but they were all supposedly under the congressional authority that
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: basically declared a war on terrorism. And at least there
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: were some and these wald Islamist terrorists identified by the
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: intelligence services. But here we've now established a war on
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: the cartels in order to pretend that somehow is included.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: We've called the cartel's terrorists. This was the real evil,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: the real evil under George Bush of declaring a war
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: on terrorism rather than the war on Islamic terrorism, rather
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: than a war on Islamic totalitarianism, rather than a war
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: on Islam or fascism. Now we can expand the definition
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: of terrorism to include whatever we want, whatever we don't like,
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: now is a terrorist, and then we can go kill
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: people all over the world. I mean, that is a
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: this idea that you can just go blow people up
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: and now even attack a port in in on Land
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: in Venezuela without any even ask of you know, the uh,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: the of Congress, not even an ask of them. Is
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's just pretty it's it's just stunning. It's
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: it's stunning. Now again, it's all just an extension of
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: what existed, but now the quantity and the presumptuousness, the
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: presumption that he can do anything, and the use of
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: laws to do things where nothing in the law suggests
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: that you can do it, like with tariffs, it just
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: takes it to a new level, not only quantitatively, but qualitatively.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: Qualitatively.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: He is doing things and a scale and a scope
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: and with meaning that no presidents that I can think
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: of has ever done before. What is going on here?
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: One second? All right, okay, yeah, thank you Alex fifty dollars.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Really appreciate it. Thank you Colina from Mexico and another
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: five hundred Mexican basis. I appreciate that, Eppa, fifty dollars,
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you. I don't know if
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: I can get Alex. My fault. I didn't communicate with him,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: so it is my fault. I let that. I let
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: the whole idea of having Alex on slip, which is
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: not good. I see your Kim has done one hundred
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: dollars on PayPal, so so thank you your Kim. Moreno,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: I really really appreciate that. Neil asked me to get
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Alex on the show. I mean, if I would also
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: have to switch to YouTube to a different platform to
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: be able to do an interview, I can do an
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: interview with the with what I'm doing right now. So
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: next year I'll be better organized and get that get
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: that done for you. But we will have Alex sometime
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six, hopefully early in twenty twenty six
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: on to to talk about what he's doing and what
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: progress he's making and what he's focusing his time on
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: right now, all right, Caleb. Caleb says, being working in
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: a gold mine in Alaska. Wow, the last couple of
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: years and haven't been able to catch many live shows
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: thanks to another great year you're on. Well, that's that's amazing.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: He's probably the only person I know in the world
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: who's working in a gold mine in Alaska as human
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: pays well, you know, I think jobs in Alaska generally
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: generally pay well. All Right, So I don't know what
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: the typo trump total full for something. I don't know
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: what that means. Sorry, jjjes don't know what that means. Oh,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: it's from the previous question. Uh okay, So what I
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: said was not true. Uh. Trump's second term so far
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: in one year is two and twenty five. But that's
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: a lot less than if DR, so IFT are still
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: far surpasses him and uh in terms of in terms
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: of his executive orders. We'll see what happens by the
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: end of the term. But so far Trump is is behind.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Trump only had twenty executive orders in his first term.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: That seems hard to believe. That seems hard to believe. Oh,
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: for nuer in forty forty five total Trump, Okay, that's better.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say that doesn't make any sense. Fun
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: and forty five total two and twenty five in the
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: first in the first year of a second term. Uh,
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: so he's on pace. Even if he sticks to this pace,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: he not gonna have a reach the amount that FDR did.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: So yeah, so FDR, thanks for the correction. FDR was
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: worse and fdlay. Of course FDR was the real big,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: I mean the world first shift. If you look at
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: American history, the first real shift in terms of statism,
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: in terms of statism was Wilson. Wilson who you know
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: income tax shifted the Federal reserve and imposed and advocated
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: for progressive agenda for America. Then the really big shift,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: the shift that turned us into a welfare state, or
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: at least moved us towards the welfare state. The shift
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: that made the federal government significantly bigger, significantly more powerful,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: significantly more imposing, The shift that changed America in terms
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: of the beginning of the shift in the sense of
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: life that was FDR CEFT is.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: The biggest shift we've ever had.
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: I think Trump, and I think that's reflected in the
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: number of executive voters. I think Trump is the next big, significant,
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: dramatic shift that we've gotten, because you know, Trump has
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: shifted us towards an imperial presidency. He's also shifted us
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: towards a we'll talk about this, a kind of attitude
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: about America that is very un American, even more so
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: than FDR. I think, even more so than FDR. All Right,
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: let's see, we've got a number of people who who
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: who've done stuff on PayPal. So I'm thank you to
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: Barbara who did two hundred dollars on PayPal. Thank you,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: and Daniel, thank you for the PayPal. So yeah, so
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: you know, we're slowly slowly getting PayPal as well. Just
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: in terms of the goals on YouTube, I would just
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: say we are now basically, you know, at about forty
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: five hundred, almost forty five hundred, So we've got three
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: minutes if we want to get to five thousand, which
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: would be amazing, but five hundred dollars in three minutes
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: would require somebody to really jump in with five hundred bucks.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: But let's see how we do in the second hour.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: Let's see if we can match the first hour with
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: the second hour. We do have one hundred and fifty
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: three people watching right now, so who knows what will
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: happen the next three minutes and slatly who knows what
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: will happened in the next hour. So all right, let's
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: look at some of the policy issues. Well, Hans, Hans
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: just stepped in and got us to much closer to
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: that five thousand dollars goal, because now he did two
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars. Thank you, happy epping you ya Hants,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: says Mary Lou. And I Hi Mary Lou, thank you,
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: thank you for being here, Thank you for the support.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Hans and I are proud monthly supporters of
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: AOI and your show. Yes, I know, and I really
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: really appreciate that. But here's a Christmas bonus to kick
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: off a successful twenty twenty six. Thank you, thank you,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: thank you. Hans contributes regularly, monthly and significantly on PayPal,
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: so thank you, please a successful twenty twenty six. Please
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: welcome to your flock our son Charlie, who has over
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: the past year become an avid listener and student of objectivism.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: That's fantastic. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome Charlie. And thank you Hans,
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: and thank you Mary Lou. Really really appreciate the support
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: on that you do on a monthly basis, and thank
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: you for the Christmas bonus. I appreciate the Christmas bonus.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: All right, So we got two minutes to do. Two
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: fifty two fifty in the next two minutes would get
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: us the five thousand dollars basically in the first hour
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: of the show, which sets us up for Yeah, it
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: set steps up really well for the rest of the
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: rest of the show. Still a long way to go, guys,
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: Still ten thousand dollars still to go, so it's going
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: to be a long afternoon. Still, all right, let's talk
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: about some of the policies. Oh, thank you, let's see
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: flood and Nick says, thank you for the show's and
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: happy new Year, Thank you, Floyd, and Nick Cook says,
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: happy new Year for the twenty twenty five is the
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: last year of the Islamic Republic exists? That would be amazing,
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: amazing Otsman. Some did a gift, a membership gift, so
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: thank you for doing Oh became a member. I can't
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: count the memberships towards the goal, but you know, but
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: I know, I know it's there as well. So I appreciate.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that because you appreciate you becoming a member.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: Richard just came in with two hundred dollars a Happy
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: New Year. He's the best realistic case scenario for the
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: what's the best realistic case for the future of the
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: United States and Israel? Are there any countries besides John
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: Jentina that you are optimistic about? Uh? I mean, what's
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: the most optimistic scenario about the US? I think the
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: most optimistic scenario about the US is that after four
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: years of Donald Trump, America's just fed up. America's just
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: fed up with his style of governing. It's fed up
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: with what the right is becoming. We'll get to that
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: maybe later in the show. What the right is becoming?
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: UH is fed up with the authoritarianism, is fed up
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: with all of that, and that the Republican Party somehow,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: and I don't see this happening, but maybe somehow comes
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: together under if you will, a new banner, a banner
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: that is far more classical liberal than what they have today.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: Maybe they learned the lesson of of the of the
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: implosion of Heritage Foundation. Maybe if Trump stays really unpopular,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: and maybe if if the Republicans lose significantly lose the
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: uh you know, if if the Republicans significantly lose the said,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: I'm just setting up another goal, Uh, the fifty super chats.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: I can't do more than fifty, So fifty over the
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: next hour. I just started it. So if the Republicans
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: lose the midterms, I mean resoundingly, not just a little bit,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: really badly, they lose the midterms, and then the Publican
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: Party reassesses and maybe find some new young leaders.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: The problem is young are more nutty than old have been.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: But they find new leaders, then I think you can
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: start seeing maybe they nominate kind of a m classical liberal,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: a more classical liberal leader to run to presidential candidates
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: to run in twenty twenty eight, they defeat JD Vance
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: and you know, if it's maybe it's Sneaky Hayley, although
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: I doubt it. I think she's she's done for. But
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: somebody in that kind of Republican rather than what we
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: have now. And they went in twenty twenty eight under
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: a new banner, different banner, a much more poor market banner,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: much more poor American banner, a banner that is, you know,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: pro American, pro constitution, Profounding Fathers. Maybe the fact that
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: Mike Pence is stink Tank is doing better. I don't
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: like Mike Pence because he's way too religious, but again
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: bringing back kind of a or not bringing back as
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: much as you know, creating a new Republican energy around
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: the funding fathers rather than around the culture personality that
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: is Trump, or around kind of Christian nationalism which is
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: JAD events. They need to reject national conservatism, they need
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: to reject Christian nationalism. And if they can reject that,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: then that is the best outcome I think, you know,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: for the future in terms of let's see, in terms
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: of Israel, you know, I don't know. I mean, the
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: best thing for Israel right now is to get Ramas disarmed,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: whether it's Israel doing an international force to find a
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: way to secure demilitarization of Gaza. The best thing for
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: Israel right now is the revolution that he want succeeding.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: I think, as I've said many times, Nintaille has to
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: go and he needs to be replaced by somebody else.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: And is there any other place to be optimistic around
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: in the world. Not really, not that I can see
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: of other than Argentina, not in that kind of way
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: that Argentina is. I mean, it's good to see Latin
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: America turning away from socialism, so with exception of Mexico,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: the big exception of Mexico and Brazil turning away from socialism,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: but they're not turning towards free markets yet. I don't
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: see anything dramatic happening in Asia. Sadly, While the new
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: Prime Minister in Japan is very good in phone policy
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: and on standing up to China, I don't think she's
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: very good on liberalizing the economy and making the economy free.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: So yeah, real, you know, I don't know of any
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: other place, all right, Nathaniel, Happy, Thank you, Richard, really
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: really appreciate that. And I think you got us to
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: the five thousand for the for the first hour. We're
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: ready about two hundred and fifty dollars into the second hour.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: Of course, we need in the second hour, we need,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: you know, at least three thousand dollars to keep us
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: on pace. Ideally we do it and better than that.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: Right now, just under ten thousand. We need to still
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: need to make, you know, something like ninety five hundred dollars,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: so about ninety five hundred dollars short about total goal.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: It's maybe a little bit better than that, because I
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: do have money in PayPal that I'll calculate ultimately and
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: let you know and let you know, you know what
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: that adds up to. But for now we are just YouTube.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: We're nine five hundred away. Let's see, we've got here,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: all right. Just to remind up that if you yeah,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: the counter and again the counter is not working exactly right.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know how to fix it.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: But keep putting emojis, keep putting text in it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll do the best that we can with a counter.
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  Speaker 1: It is what it is. It is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Let's see where we are. Oh, Nathan came
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: in with six hundred Norwegian ConA. Thank you, Nathaniel, and
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: he says, Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you too.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: On smack Sam, one hundred dollars, Happy new year, thanks
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: for all you do. Really really appreciate that. Thank you.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: One hundred dollars is very generous. And let's see Mike
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: Dalla asks which gives a larger percentage to you? Super
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: shout of PayPal? Actually PayPal does. PayPal gives a higher
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: percentage to me. So but yeah, but there's a there's
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: a value in monitoring here and motivating you and getting
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: you guys excited. So there's a value to doing that. Simon,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Thank you, Simon. Appreciate the support. There's questions.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: Richard has another question, Thank you Richard. With one hundred dollars.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: Ryan has a right here's Ryan. Ryan says, twenty twenty
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: six is going to be great for my life. I
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: can't make an addiction for anyone else. I like annual shows.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: But people should not wait for should not wait for
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: a new year to make changes. The clock is sticking
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: every day and uh oops, every day and every day.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: You have the power to improve your life through reason. Absolutely,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: so don't wait. Make your life better, make your life
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: better today. Do small things. Do start start making the
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: changes to make your life as great as it can be.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: Today's a great day to do that because it is
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow is New Years and you can start a new year.
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  Speaker 2: Fresh with a kind of a newer end.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. But but don't wait, just just get it done,
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  Speaker 1: get it done, and and make make life, make life better,
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  Speaker 1: make life significantly better. All right, let's see what do
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  Speaker 1: we I think we're caught up on all the non questions.
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  Speaker 1: I will get to the questions in a little bit
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  Speaker 1: and open those up, and we've got more there. All right,
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  Speaker 1: All of that is good. All right. Uh, let's get yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's get back to some of these issues. So one
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  Speaker 1: of the big things, some of the big policy issues,
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  Speaker 1: maybe the biggest policy issue the Trump affected because I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he you know, because this is a dramatic
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  Speaker 1: change relative to anything else that's ever been done in
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  Speaker 1: this country. And that is an immigration you know, remember
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  Speaker 1: when for a long time in the first term, in
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  Speaker 1: Trump's first term and then throughout a Biden's term, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Republicans were talking about the evils of illegal immigration and
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  Speaker 1: legal immigration is terrible and bad, and they were distorting
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  Speaker 1: the stats to make it look that way, and they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to throw all the immigrants out and send them
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  Speaker 1: away and get rid of them. And when Trump was running,
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  Speaker 1: he told us that he would deploy ice into the
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  Speaker 1: streets of America and round them up and create camps
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  Speaker 1: and send them to hell holes all around the world.
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  Speaker 1: And people said, oh, you know, that's just campaigning. He
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  Speaker 1: won't actually do it. He won't actually, you know, actually
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  Speaker 1: deploy ice in that way. What we discovered is that
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  Speaker 1: he absolutely will. One of the most shocking things about
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  Speaker 1: trump presidency. One of the most shocking things about Trump's
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  Speaker 1: presidency is the fact that he is full on deploying
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  Speaker 1: ice to harass illegal immigrants, legal immigrants Americans. The fact
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  Speaker 1: that we have and we've talked about this a lot
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  Speaker 1: on the show, the fact that we have armed, heavily armed,
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  Speaker 1: masked police officers supposedly but often not even in uniform,
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  Speaker 1: in unmarked cause, roving around America and taking people into
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  Speaker 1: custody based on i mean, really based on their whim,
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  Speaker 1: based on no objective standard. The fact that you know
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  Speaker 1: this is going on daily in America, and that they
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  Speaker 1: are breaking into workplaces, dragging people away from their jobs,
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  Speaker 1: deporting many of them but many of them are putting
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  Speaker 1: camps that are run by private businesses, in private prisons
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  Speaker 1: until they can find deportation. How many, how many? Who
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  Speaker 1: knows how many years they'll be in these camps. The
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  Speaker 1: fact that at the beginning, uh, these Ice monsters, you know,
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  Speaker 1: deported two planeloads of people to the most monstrous jail
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  Speaker 1: in El Salvado, where they spent four months. Luckily they
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  Speaker 1: were ultimately freed, but where they spent four months under
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  Speaker 1: horrific conditions, including including torture. That fact, the fact that
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  Speaker 1: that has been happening is just so mind blowing, It
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  Speaker 1: is so horrific. I remember, years and years and years ago,
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  Speaker 1: George Reasman, some of you might remember George Reasman. George
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  Speaker 1: Reason called ice and this is I don't know, thirty
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  Speaker 1: years ago, called the Ice because you know George who
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  Speaker 1: lived I think in Orange County, California. And when you
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  Speaker 1: drive south to San Diego, or when you drive north
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  Speaker 1: from San Diego, Orange County, on the way, there is
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  Speaker 1: this station where immigration, the immigration cops ice people are
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  Speaker 1: there and the cars passed, and once in a while
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  Speaker 1: that's stop a car and they'll force you to show
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  Speaker 1: ideas and stuff like that, and they'll pull you out
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  Speaker 1: and that arrest people. And you know, if you're driving
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  Speaker 1: from San Diego to North, you know, you can't but
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  Speaker 1: see this place. And sometimes sometimes they will actually there
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  Speaker 1: will actually be huge traffic jams because they're stopping people.
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  Speaker 1: They've they've got suspicions that illegals are trying to cross
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  Speaker 1: into you know, from San Diego County North, and they'll
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  Speaker 1: stop a lot of cars. And I remember George Reason
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  Speaker 1: called them the SS. They called them, you know, Gestopo,
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  Speaker 1: and I always thought, Okay, I hate ice and I
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  Speaker 1: hate that they're doing this, and I hate this whole
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  Speaker 1: attitude towards immigration. But that's an exaggeration. They're not the Gestapo.
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  Speaker 1: They're not their says. But that's when they had a
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  Speaker 1: stationary location and just once in a while they'd stop
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  Speaker 1: a car. Now they're driving around, walking around American cities,
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  Speaker 1: harassing people, harassing citizens and addiction in addition, are hard
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  Speaker 1: working immigrants where they're legally illegal. They're using the worst,
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  Speaker 1: most horrific tactics against them. I mean, I still don't
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  Speaker 1: think somebody asked if I thought they were like the SS.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they're like the SS. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: yet we've reached that point. Who asked that asked that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to look for this question. I can't find it.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody asked this question. I don't think that like the SS.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, here it is.
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  Speaker 1: Halper Campbell did similarities between ICE and the SS. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 1: the similarity is that they're armed thugs roaming the streets.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the reality of it is, though, that.
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  Speaker 2: The ASS had a lot more power.
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  Speaker 1: The SS could torture, kill people, really with no accountability.
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  Speaker 1: The SS ultimately was responsible for, you know, the killing,
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  Speaker 1: the murder of six million Jews and another six million
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  Speaker 1: of other people. You know, the SS actively was engaged
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  Speaker 1: in burning business is, in destroying businesses, and in again
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  Speaker 1: outright killing people. We're not quite there, but who would
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  Speaker 1: have thought that we would have masked law enforcement agents
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  Speaker 1: out in the streets, fully armed.
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  Speaker 2: With regard to illegals, a lot of power.
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  Speaker 1: But even with the got Americans, I mean, I've heard
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of American citizens who being basically, you know,
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  Speaker 1: being taken into custody and for days, no attorney, no papist, corpus, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: nothing applies to them, and then ultimately the release because
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, you're an American citizen. We don't have any
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  Speaker 1: jurisdiction over you. But that is horrific. That is horrific
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  Speaker 1: that something like that would actually be real in America.
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  Speaker 1: So they're not ss, but that's still something I would
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  Speaker 1: have never imagined in the streets of America. All right,
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  Speaker 1: where was that? And swered? Okay, let me go through
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  Speaker 1: some of these Stephen Harper, thank you for the sticker.
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  Speaker 1: Really appreciated. Let's see Alex, Alex four hundred and fifty dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Alex. Where is that? Alex? Happy New Year.
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  Speaker 1: You are my primary source of news. Your clarity and
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: perspective help make sense of what is happening in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your hard work, consistency, and principal approach
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  Speaker 1: analyzing current events. Genuinely appreciate it. You truly embody the
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  Speaker 1: objectives ethos. Keep up the great work, Alex. Thank you, Alex.
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  Speaker 1: I really really appreciate your support throughout the year and
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: your support here now that is great. Let's see. I
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: know we've got a bunch of others. Jonathan Honing says
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  Speaker 1: Yan after twenty five years, thank you for being such
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: a great teacher and friend, your continued good health and success.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Jonathan very much enjoyed being your friend so
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: and really really appreciate the support, both spiritual and financial.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, we'll get to these. These are questions. I
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  Speaker 1: will answer those. I'll answer that as well. Adam has
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  Speaker 1: one hundred dollars, thank you, but with a question, so
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  Speaker 1: we'll get to the question in a little bit. And
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  Speaker 1: Steve and I already thank for the sticker, okay, and
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  Speaker 1: now do you have a j I'll go with the
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: fifty dollars also with a question that I'll answered a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, but thank you. In the meantime, let's see
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  Speaker 1: how we're doing just generally, generally well over six thousand now,
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  Speaker 1: so we're solidly over six thousand if you count to
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  Speaker 1: two entred and seventy five that came in earlier that
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  Speaker 1: is not in the counting machines, so we still have
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  Speaker 1: eight seven hundred and sixty six dollars to go, so
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  Speaker 1: we're not quite at halfway mark, which always, I mean
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: always during these shows, I'm like, is there any way
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  Speaker 1: to really make this? I mean, really, how is that
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  Speaker 1: going to happen? And then Alexi like comes in or
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  Speaker 1: somebody like Alexis comes in and does two hundred pounds,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, it makes a significant dent, and we slowly
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  Speaker 1: start creeping towards there, and we get there, so we
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  Speaker 1: will see, we will see, it's still still a long
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  Speaker 1: way to go.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, let me remind everybody.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a big, humongous, unbelievably hard goal to reach,
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  Speaker 1: which is fifteen thousand dollars on YouTube, and we are
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  Speaker 1: about sixty five hundred dollars there, so a thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: away from halfway mark. So we're definitely, we're definitely chipping
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  Speaker 1: away at it, and we're definitely getting close to get there.
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  Speaker 1: To get there, I'm really you know, I'm really going
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  Speaker 1: to ask for those of you who value it and
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  Speaker 1: can afford it, to do kind of the max that
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  Speaker 1: YouTube allows, which is five hundred dollars, because we're going
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  Speaker 1: to need a few more.
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  Speaker 2: We've had quite a few already.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to need a few more five hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: bytes in order to really make the goal and make
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  Speaker 1: real progress in achieving that goal. So we've already had
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  Speaker 1: quite a few of those. One two, three and one
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  Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty will count that as as four
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, so I already had four of those up
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  Speaker 1: on the five hundred range, and some of you might
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  Speaker 1: be a combination of ones that will get you there.
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  Speaker 1: But we're gonna need, you know, more than that. We're
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: gonna need a bunch more in order to get you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna need at least four more to get to uh,
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  Speaker 1: to the target. We do have one on I know,
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  Speaker 1: we do have one on PayPal. We'll count the PayPal
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  Speaker 1: ones later on. And don't forget that you can join, uh,
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: you can go on PayPal and and uh, actually we
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  Speaker 1: have we had two on PayPal because WestEd five hundred
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  Speaker 1: and five hundred, so we've got two on papal. So
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  Speaker 1: we've had six already. If we get another six five
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars contributors, yeah, I mean, I think I think
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  Speaker 1: we'll make our goal. We'll have a really good shot.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: So there's there's one. Steve Rogers Day. Thank you, Steve.
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  Speaker 1: I really really really appreciated Steve, one of my oldest friends,
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: one of my best and oldest friends from Austin, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Uh goes back to the days when I lived in Austin.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, Thank you, Steve. Happy New Year.
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  Speaker 1: Can't wait to see where you'll go in twenty six.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: All right, see here's here's another something else that I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to see if maybe we can dedicate this show too,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: and see if you guys would help me out, help
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  Speaker 1: me out with I'm looking for ideas, like ideas for
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  Speaker 1: how to get this show, how to things to do
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  Speaker 1: on the show that could dramatically expand a switch. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about, you know, splitting up and making
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: show showed videos and things like that. But what can
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  Speaker 1: I do in terms of the content the kind of shows?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're doing these new shows. Do you value
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  Speaker 1: the new shows? I think you do. You're showing me
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  Speaker 1: right now that you value the new shows with all
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: the support, so thank you, so you know, But what
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  Speaker 1: other kind of videos would you like me to be producing?
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know, Short up monologues on things. Do you
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  Speaker 1: want me to do? You think those would be successful?
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  Speaker 1: Topics that I haven't covered and you think I should cover?
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  Speaker 1: Are there any topics that I haven't covered that you
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: think I should that'd be great if you if you so,
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  Speaker 1: Maybe one of the things you can do in your
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: super chats that you're doing and again, you can do
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  Speaker 1: this with two dollars. Good for any amount. Just put
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  Speaker 1: in an idea, if you have an idea for things
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  Speaker 1: that the Iron Book Show is not yet doing and
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: couldn't should do. If we want to dramatically expand the
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: reach of the show, really really take it the next
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: next level in terms of the reach of the show.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: Let me know, you know what that what that looks like,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: what you think that looks like? So you can just
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: stick that into one of the super chests and thank
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: you for the sticker. Really really appreciate that. Let's see
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  Speaker 1: we yes, let's look down here. Yallo says, Happy new year.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you a yall. And that's that's some shikel. And
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  Speaker 1: that's a question. That's a question. That's a question, all right,
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: Mike says. Mike says, I think you mentioned an o
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: PAC course in twenty twenty six. Yes, I'm thinking about
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: how to structure the OPAK course. But Opark course is
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: definitely something I'd like to do. Need to think about
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: how to fund it, that is, how much to charge
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: for it and how often to do it. But yes,
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  Speaker 1: I think I think that covering nine man's essays, you
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: know on the members only shows. I will I will
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: do that, but those are all kind of more insider things.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: They're great, but those are insider things. What I'd like
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: is outside of things, Outside of things, Capitalist spy says,
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: reach to think tank people around the world. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I have contact with think tank people all around the world.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: I mean I know people in the think tanks pretty
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: much every country in Europe, in some places even in
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: outside of Europe and Asia. That hasn't really given me anything.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't gotten much. I haven't gotten much, all right,
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  Speaker 1: Graham Graham one hundred dollars or one hundred Canadian dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you another full Ye have YBS shows in the books.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for the time and effort. I appreciate it
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: so much. Here's the golden age of YBS show. It
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  Speaker 1: will be the biggest, the best, the most beautiful show
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube. We're looking forward, We're looking into it. We're
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: looking into it. Free economy one oh one, value for value.
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  Speaker 1: Happy New Year. Here's a great twenty twenty six. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for another hundred dollars. That's great. Ryan's twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six prediction. Okon twenty twenty six will be the biggest
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  Speaker 1: and best yet New Orleans, Stephen Pinker and poker see
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  Speaker 1: you all there. I will definitely be there at the
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: poker table. Alexi says two hundred British pounds. Really appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for another amazing year of content. What are your
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: market views for the next year? All right, I'll answer
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: that in a second. Gail says, show imagining a capitalist world.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: I've done some shows like that, but maybe we can
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: do more of that. But I like that positive and
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: kind of giving, giving an ideal, giving people an ideal
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: to strive towards. We have. We are twenty seven out
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: of fifty super chats. We've got a half an hour,
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: so we're doing great. We're doing great in terms of
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: you know, moving in that in the right direction in
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: order to get there. So I appreciate that. Let's see, alexis,
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: I will get I will get to answer your question
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: in a second. Let me just catch up here. Ryan
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: has a list of shows to do. I'll take that
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: up in a minute. Just call me. Zeff says, I
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: thank you for inspiring and with your inspiration, I look
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: forward to being able to increase my contribution in the future.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: That'd be great. It'd be great, not because I get
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: the contribution, but because you will be able to afford
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: to do more, because your life, you will maturely be
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: far better off. Michael dal says, even when you rant,
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: you don't exaggerate. Thanks for being a sane voice for
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: the news. All the best in twenty twenty six. Two
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars. Really really appreciate that we have passed the
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  Speaker 1: halfway mall guys, we have made the halfway mark already.
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  Speaker 1: So now everything we do is is uh, you know,
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: going towards achieving the actual goal. We've We've Wow, we
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: passed a halfway monk in just under an hour and
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: a half, which is pretty spectacular, pretty amazing. So thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you to all of you. Uh we'll
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: get to those ideas in a minute. Matthew says, Happy
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: new Year, and thank you for all you do. I
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: appreciate that. Matthew and Mary Ellen, thank you, mary Ellen,
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: one hundred dollars. You on your news coverage and analysis
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: are the best anyway, Thank you so much. Thank you,
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: Mary Ellen. Really really appreciate that. It took me, I
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: don't know, three years to figure out how to say
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: Mary Ellen. I used to butcher her name for years
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: but we finally got it right, and and I'm happy
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: about that. I'm still working on some of your other names,
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: some of you guys, I'm still butchering your names. I'm hoping,
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: I'm hoping to fix that over the years, over time,
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 1: that I'll get done. All right. So we have officially
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: passed the halfway mark, and we into the second half.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: We're getting very close to the eight thousand dollars mark.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: Uh and but you know we've got Yeah, we're getting
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: close and close as we go. Pakajou another fifty dollars sticker.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I remember you did a fifty dollars sticker
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: a while, you know, an hour ago or so. So
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you. I appreciate that. All right,
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: let me just take a le sais in terms of
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: the markets. God, I mean, if I if I knew,
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: if I knew, you know, I would be I would
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: be super rich. I mean, I you know, I I'd
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: be way past my I few money if I could
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: time the market. I am terrible at timing the markets.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: Anything I say, please take with a significant grain of
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: a grain of salt. What what is likely to happen
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: over the next year that could affect markets one, interstates
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: coming down, interestates are coming down. That that's pretty much guaranteed,
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: given that Trump is going out points and new Federals
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: of Chairman, and Trump has basically made it a condition
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: for whoever it's going to be that he lower interest rates.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: So it's it's very, very very likely that interstates are
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: coming down next year. It's in the Fed minutes, they're
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: even predicting it. How much is how to tell that
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: you're going to see interstates come down? As I've said
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: many many times in the show, and as you should
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: know by now, all else health constant, which it never is.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: But we still to simplify, when interstates go down, acid
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: prices go up, everything else goes up. Any income producing
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: acid its value goes up. So you can expect stocks
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: to go up and and and you know bonds will
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: go up as interstate's decline, and you know, commercial real
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: estate is likely to go up a value as interest
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: rates declaim. Now, of course that's all else health constance.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: So inter state's going down is definitely you know, bullish
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: on for stocks and and for other financial assets. On
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: the other flip side of that, consumer prices I expect
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: are still going to keep going up. How much is
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: how to tell, But I don't think they're going to
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: change much from where they are today, so somewhere close
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: to three percent now. It could be that everybody just
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: gets used to that and nobody worries about it. And
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: even though interstates are going to come down into really
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: negative territory on a you know, from a real rate perspective,
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: I think if interstates go below three and inflation is three,
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: then basically you're getting zero for your money, and an
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: inflation adjusted again we're talking about price inflation adjusted basis,
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: it would still be true that acid prices will go up.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: The flip side of that is the possibility of recession. Now,
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: as I think I've told you many times, I've been
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: predicting recessions for years now, and they don't happen. The
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: American economy is unbelievably resilient, unbelievably flexible, unbelievably able to
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: deal with even the most irrational policy possible, like tariffs.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: Supply chains adjust people stop buying from one place, they
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: start buying from another place. For example, our importation from Mexico,
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: which has relatively suffered less from Trump tariff mania, has
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: gone up a lot because a lot of the supply
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: changes have changed and instead of being stuff in from China,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: we're being it in from Mexico. So, you know, the
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: economy is adjusted. There's still a whole pipeline of massive
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: investments that are going to occur over the next few
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: years into AI, into building AI infrastructure that is not peaked,
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: that is not over, that is you know, that is
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: still going to play out. The the kind of the
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: infrastructure play for AI, and that drives economic activity, It
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: drives economic growth, so it it it It helps puts
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: a bottom on any kind of potential potential recession, any
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: kind of potential uh you know, uh, shrinkage of the economy.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: I don't see that going away. So AI investment is
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: still going to continue. I mean the big uncertainty is
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: and look, deregulation is happening. There's no question deregulation is happening.
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: So and more deregulation will happen. There's a bill going
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: through Congress now to reduce the time for permits and
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: a number of permits and all this stuff.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 2: That is all going to be good.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: And the regulatory agencies under Trump are not applying the
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: regulations quite as much. That is going to help businesses generally.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: So I think the economy will do okay next year
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: with the big caveata of you never know what Trump
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: would do. Trump is a wild card and it's very
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: very difficult to assess what he will actually do and
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: what is possible and and what kind of impact that
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: we'll have on markets. So Trump could cause of accession,
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: could make things a lot worse. But he you know,
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: he he he might not, and as he moves into
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: the second, third, fourth year, he might not be in
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: a position where he does incredibly damaging things to the economy.
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: So I predict the economy will do okay next year.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: Won't do great, they'll do okay. I think the biggest
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: thing of the US economy, the US economy at least,
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: is that what you're seeing is big businesses are.
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 2: Doing very well.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: That's the stock market, and yet if you look at
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: small to medium sized businesses, they're the one struggling.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 2: And that's why employment is not doing great.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: So bankruptcy is in twenty twenty five were at really
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: one of the highest levels in the last a few years.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: And they're at that high level because let me just
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: see if I can get you that yeah, I mean,
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: because so seven hundred and seventeen companies fall for bankruptcy
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: through November, right, that's roughly fourteen percent more than the
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: same eleven months in twenty twenty four, and the highest
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: since twenty ten coming out of the Great Recession. So
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: small businesses and medium sized businesses are really struggling, but
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: the big companies in the stock market are doing okay.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: The big companies, the really big companies, have also figured
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: out how to play Donald Trump, how to bribe him
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: to leave them alone. So in that sense, I think
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: the stock market is going to go up next year.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: I think the economy will do okay next year. What else,
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: I think employment is going to be tough next year,
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: particularly incident sectors of the economy. But AI is going
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: to increase productivity, and the investment in AI is going
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: to increase economic activity. So there are a lot of positive,
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: you know, directions the economy is going to go in
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: in spite of the headwinds that are massive governments spent
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: and UH.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: Tariffs and tariffs.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: You know, some of the tax provisions in the big
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: beautiful bill are going to kick in in twenty twenty
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: six and again will help business, particularly the bigger businesses,
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: so all of that is moving positively. So generally, I'm
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: not negative about the US economy next year. Again, it's
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: not gonna be it's not gonna grow it four five
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: six percent, which I think is a golden age, which
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: I think is the potential that it could grow. But
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: it's doing okay, it's it, It's going to do okay.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: Other financial markets, I can't imagine gold not declining next year,
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna predict gold goes down, not a lot,
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: but stay abilizes. It goes down a little bit. I
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: think I don't know about silver, because silver there's an
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: added dimension of real demand. I think that you know,
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: who knows what happens with bitcoin, but bitcoin struggling right
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: now to break out of kind of a band underneath
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: ninety thousand and even today I'm just looking quickly at bitcoin. Yeah,
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: it's at eighty seven, it went up to eighty nine.
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: It's over the last you know, over the last over
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: the last one month that's been between eighty four and
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: ninety three, and it keeps buying, bouncing around in that range.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know where it goes from here. I would
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: not be surprised at all. If bitcoin was lower than
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: it is right now, and I would also not be
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: surprised or shock the bitcoin was dramatically higher than this
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: right now, so that doesn't help you. In terms of
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: long term rates, I think I think ten and thirty
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: year going to be stickier. While the Federal lower short
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: term rates, I don't know that they'll be able to
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: really get those longer rates down given the amount of
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: a debt that the US government has given the prospects
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: for price inflation in the future, I think that the
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: ten year and the thirty year are going to stay
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: elevated in spite of short term rates going down. So
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: that's my market prognosis for what it's worth, probably not
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: a lot. And bet alexis if you make a lot
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: of money trading off of my predictions, then please consider
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: coming back next year with a large contribution for the
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: Iran bookshow. I'm kidding, but bet Yeah. All right, I
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: see a bunch of you have done super chats since
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: since I started answering that question, So let me go
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: back and figure out who I've who. Yes, Okay, Nature
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: Observer two hundred American dollars two hundred and eighty Canadian
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: dollars thank you, Happy New Year, keep up the good work.
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Andrew has a question mark one hundred dollars,
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: has a question, so I'll take that soon. Espen has
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: a question and that was a one ninety Norwegian krona,
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: so one hundred and twenty seven dollars, so I stole
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: a good amount. Thank you, Thank you, bed pants. Yeah
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: this I like this. Sorry, Happy New Year. You on.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: You've saved me hours waiting through new shlock.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: I like that new shlock.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: When I find myself doom musing, I hear your voice yelling,
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: live your life, achieve your values, and I changed course
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: to what really matters. Cheers all excellent. I'm so happy
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: to have that impact. I'm curious, you know, should I
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: repeat the rules of Life videos? Should I go back
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: to the Iran Rules for Life videos and redo them? Right?
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm repeating myself. But maybe that repetition
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: will get to some new people, and maybe you don't mind.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 2: The repetition, you know, I don't know.
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: All Roland, thank you. Two hundred Swiss fangs at two
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: hunred and fifty dollars. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: I really appreciate that. Andrew has a question. Let's go
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: over here, Da dam I think I did the gael one.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: Thank you Gail. Those ideas will get to those, okay,
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: and then let's see, all right, let me see if
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: there were any stickers that I haven't thanked. Yes, David,
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: David King fifty fifty pounds, I think fifty English pounds,
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, David, really appreciated David another twenty pounds,
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: so seventy pounds total, thank you. And then we've got
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: Steven Holmes home something Stefan homely anyway, thank you fifty pounds.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: Really appreciate it. Sorry I butchered your name just now.
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: Thank you to you guys. I got David, I got Yeah,
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: all right, we're making fantastic progress. We're now under six
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: thousand to go, less than six thousand to go to
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: make a fifteen thousand dollars goal. So remember fifteen thousand
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: is the goal. You know, I'm willing to stay here
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: for a while longer, but hopefully, you guys, more people
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: will come in who are willing to to do the work.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: We're forty seven out of fifty super chats to three
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: super chats or stickers with an emoji. Well, we'll get
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: us we'll get us to achieve another one of YouTube's
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: superchat goals. This is great, This is great. My goal
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: today is to try to get to I don't know
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: how many hours are we on today, four hours. Let's
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: say we can get a three hundred super chats, just
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: three hundred individual super chests. I think right now we're
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: at you know, we're at one hundred and let's call
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: it one hundred and twenty and we'll go from there.
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: I think I missed about twenty super chats in between there.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: But what does what does it mean? Come on? People? Oh?
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: Come on people, Hey, people out there, come on. That's
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: what it means. Okay, thank you Nick for inspiring people
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: to come on. Jacob, thank you for the sticker. I
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: really appreciate it. Also, the stickers without the emojis. Well, no, no,
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: I think j it counted, Jacob, So maybe it didn't.
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't know what it's counting and what's not.
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: But we reached our fifty. Let me start up a
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: new challenge with another fifty. We'll set another another fifty
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: for the next hour. That's on the fifteen. All right,
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: we just started another goal. This is great. Matt has
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: a question Jacob, thank you. All right, Let's see, let's
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: see how many questions do we have with a lot
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: of questions, A lot of questions, all right, and we've.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 2: Still got a way to go. So let me start
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 2: answering questions.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: And like every year, I don't actually ever kind of
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: do my New Year review because land up doing the
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: fundraising and answering your questions and all of that, which
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: is a lot more fun. So let me go through
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: the questions and answer them. Let me remind you we're
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: at under six thousand, so about five thousand. I'm just
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: looking at how much we raised a f line around
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: eight hundred left, eight hundred left, so you know, ten
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: people doing five hundred dollars each would get us there.
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: Remember five hundred.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 2: Is the limit of what.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: What YouTube would allow you to do, so you can't
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: do more than five hundred. If you want to do
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: more than five hundred, and some of you might want
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: to do over the five hundred, or if you want.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 2: To do a match. We never got a match this year.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: Usually we get a match, so if you'd like to
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: do a match, you can or do more than five hundred,
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: or you can go to PayPal the link for PayPal
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: is right at the top of the chat. If you're
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: on Twitter or if you're on Facebook, come on over
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: to YouTube. It truts more fun over here on the chat,
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: and you can also support the show over here. Ways,
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: you can't do it on YouTube or on Facebook, but yes,
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: if anybody's like on Facebook, on Twitter, if you want
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: to put in the PayPal link on Twitter and on YouTube,
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: and if you want to post that we'll live right
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: now and encourage people to come and join us, that
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: would be really, really really great, And so that would
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: be fantastic. Tarn Taran one hundred dollars. Thank you, Twan,
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: very appreciate what you do. Thank you, Thank you, Tayan,
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: really appreciate the support. Claddie Clade, Clade, thank you for
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: all you do. Happy New Year, Thank you Claide. Really
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: appreciate it. All right, chipping away, chipping away, all right?
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: We need yeah, we need fifty seven more people do
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: to one hundred dollars each, and we're it right, that's doable.
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: We've got one hundred and seventy nine people watching right now,
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: Come on over do something. Two dollars, five dollars. It
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: all adds up, It really does add up. By the
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: end of the by the end of the day today,
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: we'll look at it and it's all added up to
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: something really substantial or something really significant. Why didn't it
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: take those two? Right? Those two were significant supershats, and
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: it didn't count them. That just doesn't make any sense. Right.
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 2: The super chet counter doesn't.
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: Work very well. I have no idea the dollar amount
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: counts every dollar at an exchange rate favorable to me,
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: not so much to YouTube, so it will actually be
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: a little less. But the counter works great because of
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: Miroslav Mial's Love, who's on here. I should thank miss
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: Love for all the work he has done and does
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: uh to moderate the chat? Uh to create Uh? What
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: is that channel?
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 2: The challenge on something?
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: There's a euron book show channel that Miss Love created
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: on the name of the platform escapes my mind because
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: stuff escapes my mind. And Millis Love's created this unbelievable software.
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, basically a web page that I
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: have that keeps track of all the super chat dollars
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: and keeps track of of all the questions. In addition,
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: I used to do copy paste copy paste, couldn't keep
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: track of how much money was coming in discord and
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: he's got a discode channel. There's a discord youon book
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: show channel that Miss Love has created. He just he
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: just posted up on top. Uh. He the PayPal thing.
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: So Mills Love, thank you for everything you do. Uh,
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: there's the Miss Love linked to the disco channel. Thank
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: you for all you do to support the One Book Show.
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: Really really appreciate everything you've done in twenty twenty five
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: and of course the years before twenty twenty five. All right,
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: let's jump in with some of your questions. We've got
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: I like, ike, four hundred dollars, right, and don't forget
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: we've got let's say we've got ten minutes. Let's try
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: to get to only five thousand dollars left in the
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: next eight minutes. So that would mean raising eight hundred
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: and sixty one dollars in eleven minutes. Eight hundred and
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: sixty one dollars in eleven minutes, actually less than because
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: as I said, we got to Yeah, no, that's right.
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: You know, let's try to get in on sixty one.
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: That'll leave only five thousand left for the final two
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: hours of the show, right, so we will raised If
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: we can do that, we will have raised two thirds
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: of their amount, two thirds of the amount in two hours,
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: So we need eight hundred and sixty one dollars in
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: the next eleven minutes. I don't know. I don't know
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: if that's possible. I leave it in your hands all right.
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: By the way, Jacob, thank you for the contributions on PayPal.
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that, all right. I like FO one hundred dollars.
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: Why is the Israeli Palestinian issue easy? Every time I
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: tried to discuss it, I met with a lot of emotionalism, evasion,
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: and ignorance. What is the best argument for why is
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: those actions in the cause of war? Recently I'm modeling justified.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for all that you do.
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: So why is it easy? I mean it's easy for
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: one main reason. Now, it's easy if you're honest, it's easy.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: If you're willing to open your eyes and look, it's easy.
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: If you're willing to actually engage with actual reality, then
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: it's easy. And what does that mean? If you look
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: at Israel and if your standard at all is you know,
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: human life, it's civilization, it's success and prosperity for human beings.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: It's health and wealth and just a good life. And
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: the opportunity to live a good life. If your standard
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: is freedom, in other words, if your standard is civilization,
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: then you look at the Israel and you see a
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: western free, basically good country. It's goddess words, it's got
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: a lot of them, I know, most of them, right,
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: but in the context it's.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 2: It's it's it's a pretty good country.
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: And then you look at Gaza, or look at any
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: of its neighbors, including Dubai and Katu in Saudi Arabia
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: and Egypt. And we're talking about unfree countries. We're working
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: about countries that don't care about the well being of
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: their own citizens in terms of the protection of their
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: individual rights. You're talking about countries that are still in
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: many respects primitive and barbaric and not civilized. Now they
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: can fake it like they do in Dubai by building
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: beautiful buildings and spending their money on creating skyscrapers and
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: and you know, giving people a huge tax bake to
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: to you know, to be there and encouraging people to
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: encouraging the oligous to to move to uh uh, you know,
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: to uh Dubai. But they don't have freedom, not in
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: any meaningful sense. And they don't have conception of individuals.
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: There's no few speech. Imagine being a imagine being a
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: a atheist in Dubai. I mean, if you stay silent,
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: you find, and probably if you're a fauner, you find
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: because I'll leave you alone because they want the founders
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: to stay there because they being in the money. But
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: if you're a resident, if you if you'll live there,
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: if you're an Arab from there, you go to jail
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: for a very long time, same as Saudi Arabia atheists
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: get jailed for their opinion, for their views about God.
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: So if you just compare that now, and if you
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: look at the Palestinians, you look at pastinating authority, if
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: you look tramas how they live, if you look at
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: their value system, if you look at what they care about,
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: if you look at how they raise their kids and
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: raise them to be suicide bombers. This is no comparison.
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: One's a good country and one's a bad country. The
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: best on this is elonz Jouno in his book called
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: Justice Demands. I mean, that's this key argument into what
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: justice demands is when you face civilization versus barbarism, you
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: go with civilization. That's what makes it easy, and the
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: history doesn't change that. The history just confirms that. The
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: history is a history of a civilized people versus a
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: non civilized people. And I know it's not politically correct
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: called people not civilized, but that's what they are. Our
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: standard is human flourishing. Tramas is not engaged in human flourishing. Yeah,
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: all right, I'll get to the rest of your question
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: a second. Let's see. Thank you, Carolina, I really appreciate that.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: And uh, and then we've got we've got cook. I
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: think that's cook maybe k one Okay, thank you for
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: your work and being one of the few voices of
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: reason and freedom. I appreciate that. Thank you, Cook. And
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: then we've got a number of other contributors. Uh, and
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: we'll get to them. They were asking questions. Uh, we
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: still have six hundred and ten dollars. You know, I'm
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: probably asking for the impossible, but we have five minutes,
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: five minutes, six hundred and ten. If somebody wanted to
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: do a five hundred dollars but was waiting for the
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: right moment to do it, now's the time. If somebody
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: wanted to do one hundred and ten, or if somebody
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: wanted to do two fifty. Now's the time to do it.
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: To get us to the beyond the five thousand mark
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: and two thirds of the way to our final goal.
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: That would be huge, humongous, fantastic, So please please consider
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: consider doing it now. All right, let's see the counter
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: is kind of I don't know, Sometimes it counts, sometimes
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: it doesn't. All right, here they come copy to the rescue.
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: We just we just demolished the six hundred dollar goal,
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: just all all at once. Author, thank you five hundred dollars,
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 1: you know, really appreciate it. I'm going to leave that
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: up there. I can answer the question in a few
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: minutes and then Hunter brush us two hundred dollars. Thank you,
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 1: and again we'll leave that to answer the question in
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: a few minutes and really appreciated. Guys. All right, guys,
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: we now have over you know, we have two hours
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: now to basically raise the final forty nine hundred dollars,
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: right to find a forty nine hundred dollars. We're ready
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: over ten thousand. We've already raised more than ten thousand dollars.
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: So that's amazing. I really really really appreciate it. That's fantastic,
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: and that's not even counting yet the money that we've
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: raised on PayPal. Of course, there's no reason to stop
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: at fifteen thousand, right, So don't worry about the being
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: an up abound My stretch goal and I might stop
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: if we reach the stretch goal is twenty thousand.
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 2: That's a stretch goal.
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: And we're halfway there, and we're half the time that
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: I've said I dedicated to this, so and you know,
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: we will see. For those of you, I mean, really,
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 1: I think that I have I have the best, most committed,
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: most supportive listeners in all of YouTube.
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 2: I get more super chats poor.
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: Subscriber, I think than anybody, or at least in the US,
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: you know, lifetime. I'm number five in the US in
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: terms of for political shows. For political shows, I'm number
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: either four or five all time over the history on YouTube.
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: Four five And if you divided by the number of subscribers,
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: I blow everybody out of the water. There's just no
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: question about it. So you guys are amazing, amazing, Thank you,
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you to all of you. I have
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: a much you contribute the two dollars to five hundred dollars,
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: the one thousand dollars that a couple of people have done.
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you. I really really really
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: appreciate it. And and you know, in past years we've
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: had matches to reach it and everything to this year,
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: no match, and we're still chipping away at it. Forty
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: nine hundred dollars to go. The sooner we get there,
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: the better, Let's do it. Okay, I'm gonna now take
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: the five hundred dollar questions first, and then we'll go
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: backwards from that. Let's see. It might be Author is
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: the first five hundred dollars. I think if all the
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: other five hundreds didn't have a question on them, all right,
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: five hundred dollars, author says, thank you. Jiroon would love
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 1: to hear your thoughts on AI's impact on productivity in
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six and beyond. Well, AI outpace the statistic,
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 1: the status political trends.
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 2: Can we accelerate past doomers?
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. There is certainly immense, immense
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: promise in AI, and with the massive investments that are
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: being made right now, AI is going to get, you know,
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: significantly better. I don't know if it's going to get
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 1: exponentially better, because I think there's something inherently there's an
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: inherent cap to how good llms can get. Lms are
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: great and they can do a lot, but there's only
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 1: so much you can do by manipulating woods. This is
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: why I'm not I don't think you know, all these
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 1: people thinking that, you know, computers are going to compete
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: with human beings and all this stuff. Not really, not
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: not anytime soon, not as long as you know. AI
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: is lllms. But lms are going to contribute a lot
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: to increased productivity. So, for example, we're already seeing that
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: in software lllms are making writing software significantly easier, faster,
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: more effective, more efficient, and that is increasing the productivity
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: of software engineers, and that means they can be more
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 1: done faster, And I think that is already happening, and
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 1: that's only going to accelerate.
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 2: The tools are only going to get better to do that.
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: We're still kind of waiting for the big breakthroughs to happen,
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: but they happen very slowly and then all at once.
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 2: I think in.
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 1: Things like the medical space, you know, AI can analyze,
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: can go through massive quantities of data that would take
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: a human being centuries. It could do it can do
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: it very very fast. And summarize the results or find
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: patterns and convey that information. And it is it is
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: truly astounding, and it's going to have profound impact. I mean,
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: for example, you know, uh protein folding, which is a
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: big deal in uh in uh you know biotech and
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: uh you know other things that for human beings without
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: AI is just science fiction. AI is going to make
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 1: those things possible. Now how quickly that happens, given the
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: regulatory nature of biotech, and how quickly that gets you know,
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: implemented into drugs and treatments, I don't know. Uh l
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: lms can also I mean, these AI can also look
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: at big data sets and find patterns and relate I
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: don't know, medication to cueuing diseases, to any kind of
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: studies that have to do with cololations and things like that.
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: It's going to be massively helped by the existence of AI.
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: So yes, I think is software you're going to see
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: increasing productivity. I mean, my productivity is higher. I can
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: go to an LLLM and say, you know, summarize this
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: in this phenomena, and then I can find the resources
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: and ask it more questions and do get a little deeper,
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: and it makes my shows better and I guess quick
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: O easier to produce. So productivity is definitely going to
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: increase in twenty twenty six and even more so in
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: the future, right particularly once these new data centers come
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 1: online and they're just the ship power that people are
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 1: going to throw at. It is pretty stunning and pretty
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: amazing as we move here into the future. So massive potential, massive, massive,
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: massive potential, and I think it's going to start being
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: realized in twenty twenty six out pay status political trends.
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 1: I think it very well could. In a sense that
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: I've said for a long time, I don't think we're
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 1: going to go into a dark ages. I think we're
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: going to go into an era of stagnation where you
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: in certain fields you will get significant innovation and progress.
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 1: Those fields that AI touches and other fields will stagnate completely.
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: And you know, that might create some issues with regard
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: to jobs and you know, jobs prospects for people. AI
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 1: might wipe out categories of jobs, and they might be
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: real recession in certain parts of the economy. Other parts
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 1: will accelerate in terms of prosperity. So you're going to
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: see more of this. I don't like. I wouldn't call
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: it inequality, but more of this divergence between tech and
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: the rest, which you already see in the market. In
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 1: a market way and places where you can apply AI
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: will increase productivity and become significant better. And this is
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: kind of a longer term, five to ten year trend.
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: Places that don't might you might see real stagnation, and
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: you might see unemployment increase, not because capitalism can't deal
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: with it, but because we don't have capitalism, and as
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: a consequence, labor markets are not dynamic and affluent enough,
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: not enough on to know activity to actually create enough
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: jobs to soak up all the people who are going
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: to be let go because.
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 2: Of the introduction of AI.
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: All right, sor F says, Happy New Year, thank you,
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: and happy New Year to you two. Jerry says, I
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 1: wish I could do more, but he has another twenty
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: dollars for the second half. Thank you. Jerry really appreciate that. Yeah,
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: I mean if anybody everybody did exactly what they did
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 1: the first half and the second half, we'd be done.
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: Our Pnox says, Happy New Year. I achieved top point
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: four percent of viewers on your channel. Wow, I can
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 1: only give pennies not dollars. Hours watched. Your shows are
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: tremendous value. I intend to give more at some point.
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: Thank you really appreciate that a dollar five hundred dollars.
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 1: I streamed five hundred dollars, so that's that's that's not bad.
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: That's twenty cents hour that I streamed, GGF YG whatever,
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: ten dollars. Thank you for the stick. I really really
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 1: appreciate the stick. Okay, questions, that's one hundred dollars. Somebody
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: did more than one hundred dollars here, let me find it. Yeah,
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: let me it was. Yeah, two fifty Roland did two
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: fifty Swiss Fanks. That's a lot. I second Gale's idea
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: of having more shows about what true capitalism might look like,
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 1: a positive vision is very much what the world needs.
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 2: Happy New Year, looking forward to seeing you in Porto.
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 1: Excellent. I'm glad you're coming to Porto. Look forward to that.
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 2: And yeah, I get it. I've written that down.
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: I will definitely take that into account imagining what capitalism
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: looks like.
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, I've done those shows.
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 1: I did a show on environmentalism, how capitalism would do
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 1: with environmentalism, and other shows. It didn't get that much viewership.
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's frustrating. It's it's you want the positive
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 1: vision out there, but if I to talk about anti Semitism,
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get more views than if I talk
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: about something positive about capitalism.
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 2: You know that's the reality, all right.
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: Hunter in twenty seven eight, in a tiny port town
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: in the Stixon, Missouri, taught anthem as part of Airys
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  Speaker 1: Free Books for teachers. It started me in a dramatically
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 1: better direction. Wow, and you personally with YBS have helped
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: me achieve major success. Thank you sincerely. Here's the most
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 1: success in twenty twenty six. Wow.
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 2: I mean I love those stories.
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 1: By the way, even if you you know, the best
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: way to repay me, if you feel like you need
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: to repay me for the values I've provided you, is
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 1: to tell me stories like that, send me emails or
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: post here just how the show or how AARI have
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 1: impacted your life. I mean, it's great when I meet
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 1: people who were introduced by two in Rand through our
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: books to teachers program at AARI or YBS introduced them
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: or anything like that. I love those stories. They make
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: my day the why I do what I do. It's
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 1: it's just it's really, really really heartwarming and inspiring and
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 1: exciting for me personally to get those stories and to
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 1: hear about those stories. So keep them coming, keep them coming.
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Hunter, I really appreciate that. All Right, that
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: was Hunted did two hundred dollars, Now we got one
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty. What is your prediction of how Ukraine
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: War will play out in twenty twenty six? And why
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 1: love this show and your books. Thank you for what
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: you do. Happy New Year, God. I mean, these questions
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: are really really hard. Predictions are really really hard, primarily
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 1: because the big you know, the big thing here is Trump,
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 1: and Trump is is just this. I mean, how do
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: you predict what Trump is going to do? How do
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 1: you predict how Trump is going to behave? How do
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: you predict what Trump? You know what Trump will do?
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, so I'm going to predict that. A year
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: for now, we're in a very similar situation that we
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 1: are right now. A year for now. You know, Russia's
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: made very little advance. They're bogged down, The Ukrainians have
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 1: probably not recaptured any territory back. They're bogged down. They're
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: bombing each other's territories in different ways. Trump is still
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 1: trying in some way to bring about some kind of
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: piece deal, or maybe he's given up. But he's also
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: not dramatically supporting Ukraine. Because if I think Trump actually
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: decided to support Ukraine, to give them the missiles, to
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: give them the weapons they need, then I think Ukraine
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 1: could be making ground against Russia a year for now.
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: So I think we're very much in the same position
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 1: as we are right now. I don't see any dramatic change.
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're in a situation of a war of attrition.
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: The one the ground is just a grounding war. Ukraine
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 1: makes a little bit of advances in some places and
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 1: Russia makes a little bit of advances elsewhere, but nothing
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: that new territory is gained. Russia is poor a year
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: from now than it is now. Its economy is worse.
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 1: It keeps getting worse. It has to, and it does.
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: Putin maybe is in a more precarious position. Maybe they're
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: closer to a deal because Trump is been bugging them
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 1: and Putin sees no outs. I don't know, but that's
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 1: the best I can do. You know, if Ukraine got
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: all the weapons it wants and needs it can use,
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: I think he could make real progress against Russia. I
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 1: think Russia is very weak and has been throughout. On
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: the other hand, if Trump decides to withdraw all intelligence
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 1: from the Ukrainians intelligence assistance in addition to not sending
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 1: the weapons, which he's not, then Ukraine might the Eastern
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: Fund in Ukraine might collapse, and Russia might gain significant territory.
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 1: But I think neither of those will happen, and I
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: think we'll get a kind of a continuation of the
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: stale meat that exists right now. All right, let's see
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 1: who's next. Let's do the Norwegian kuna and then we'll
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 1: go to Ryan. All right, Espen, when you visited Ostlo
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 1: in December twenty twenty four, I offered to pay for
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 1: your meal, but someone else had already covet it. I
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 1: then pledged to pay for your meal another time. Consider
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: this payment for that pledge. Keep your promises happening here yet,
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Espen. I really appreciate that. I do remember that,
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 1: and that is great, Thank you, thank you. And I
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: hope to make it back to Oslo maybe this summer.
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 1: Maybe this summer, and that's okay, you know, hopefully, hopefully
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 1: we can organize another meal. And I can't hang out
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 1: with you guys in Oslo. Tessa, thank you for all
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: you do. Happy New Year, Thank you, Tessa really appreciated.
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 1: That's fifty dollars, and let's see where we Yeah, paces
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 1: definitely slowed down, so we're now at about we're now
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 1: we're still four thousand, six hundred dollars short, forty six
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars. We're well over ten thousand, heading towards ten
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: to five. So keep it coming again. As I mentioned,
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 1: not gonna make it unless some of our wheels out
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: there are willing to do a five hundred dollars YouTube
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 1: YouTube chunk chunk, we'll call it, to really chip away
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 1: at this very very very aggressive goal, or we get
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 1: forty six hundred dollars contributors, which might happen as well,
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 1: or we might get some combination of both. We might
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 1: get a bunch of two hundreds or whatever. So yes,
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 1: stay tuned. We've got about one hundred and sixty three
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 1: people watching. Let's see how we're doing in terms of
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 1: fifteen of fifty. So we're a little lagging in terms
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 1: of just a shin number of super chats. So please
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 1: consider just coming in with some super chat. Yeah, for example,
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 1: Jonathan just did one. He did a sticker with an emoji,
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 1: and it didn't count it. So sometimes it counts it,
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 1: sometimes it doesn't. And I have no idea what determines
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 1: what is what. I just don't know. But anyway, we're
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 1: still looking for thirty five more super chats. So even
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 1: if it's two bucks, so Jonathan just did five dollars,
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 1: any super chat would do to get us to the
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 1: fifty super chats for the hour, and we probably got
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 1: about a half an hour to make it, so thirty minutes.
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: We need more than one super chat a minute, more
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 1: than one super chat a minute. All right, let's see Ryan,
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 1: Ryan's the shows to do. One way to expand your
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 1: reach is to do dedicated shows analyzing videos from the
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 1: biggest names in the culture. I know you do this
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 1: occasionally and have trouble avoiding long rans. However, I think
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: that if you polish this format you can get more exposure. Yeah,
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 1: I agree, I agree, it's and I'll repeat I'll repeat
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 1: what I've said in the past hasn't always worked. But
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 1: I'll just say, if you guys see a video of
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 1: somebody out there in the culture that you think I
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 1: should be commenting on that you think I would have
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: something interesting to say about. Send me the link. You're
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: on it, You're on bookshow dot com, you run at
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 1: you run brookshow dot com.
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 2: Send me the link.
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 1: It's you know. I I appreciate it. I don't watch
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 1: a lot of these podcasters, and I don't know who
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 1: is necessarily influential at any given point in time. You
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 1: guys know more lot more than I do, So please
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 1: consider just sending me a link and letting me know
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: that there's something you think I should be I should
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 1: be supported, I should be commenting on. I should be
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 1: commenting on, and I'm happy to do it. I'm happy
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 1: to do it. And the more you send me, the
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 1: more choices I'll have, the more I'll do. So all right,
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 1: so thank you. All right, I remind you of PayPal.
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: The link to PayPal is on top if you want
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 1: to do large amounts. If anybody out there would like
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 1: to challenge people on a match, I think challenging people here,
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Ryan.
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 2: Appreciated. Matches really work.
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 1: Just like when I tell people there's fifty to go go,
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 1: you know, people get excited and they want to participate.
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 1: So if anybody wants to participate in a match, you
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 1: can do that. You can let me know in a
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 1: super chat that you'll do a match. What else? Yeah,
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 1: I think that's good. Okay, one hundred dollars questions Andrew.
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know if philosophy can cure all psychological issues,
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 1: but if the young were schooled in accord with objectives principles,
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 1: they would be much greater mental health. That is, integrating
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 1: the principle of existence would largely cure the modern scooge
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 1: of narcissism. Yes, I think there's no doubt. There's no
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: doubt that if our educational system was better, if people
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 1: were taught how to think, use their mind, if they
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 1: were taught how to think and use their mind, then yeah,
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 1: you know, the irrationality would be you know, much dramatically reduced.
• 2:17:04
  Speaker 1: The narcissism, the hedonism, the suddenly, the the the nihilism
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 1: would all be reduced. The key is education. And uh,
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 1: you know, if we could get kids just to just
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 1: to be taught how to think with good content and
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 1: and taught history and what really happened in the world,
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 1: that would change. That would change everything. That that would
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 1: change the world. That is what changes the world. Thank you, Andrew.
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 1: All Right, Ryan says for another one hundred dollars, thank
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 1: you Ryan. In twenty twenty six, he says, sending your
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 1: own links for shows every week. He says, I'm on
• 2:17:56
  Speaker 1: it excellent. So if if anybody else wants to be
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 1: on it as well, go for it. It'll be great.
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 1: Send me links and I'll do the commenting. Adam, Adam
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 1: and Adam in a long time. Adam is here, excellent.
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 1: Adam says, Happy New Year. You on. I'll contribute more later,
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 1: but for now, I want to add Rand's quote that
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 1: influenced me most this year. Quote in any compromise between
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 1: food and poison, it's only death that can win. Yes,
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 1: I know a little bit about Adam's context, and that
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 1: is a powerful quote. And it's a quote that you
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 1: can apply and implement in your own life to great effect,
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 1: to avoid compromising, to avoid compromising on virtues, on what's important,
• 2:18:50
  Speaker 1: on what's valuable in life.
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 2: So thank you, Adam. I really really appreciate that.
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 1: Let's see, thank you for the one hundred dollars, and
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 1: let's see we've got WCZN. Happy New Year's you on
• 2:19:07
  Speaker 1: onwards and upwards.
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 2: Thank you for all that you do.
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that WCZN for fifty New Zealand dollars. We're
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 1: getting them from all over the world, which is fantastic.
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 1: Let's see exits exit s already done, you know quite
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 1: a bit, so one hundred dollars. This is from Robert
• 2:19:29
  Speaker 1: Fowler formally called r DF YouTube. Decided to change me
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 1: to exit one two five four for some reason. Thank you, Robert,
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 1: really appreciate it. You'll have to I apologize in advance
• 2:19:44
  Speaker 1: that I won't remember every time I see XI t
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 1: that that is really Robert, But I really really appreciate it,
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: and thank you. And yeah, we're very close to getting
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: oh to getting below the four thousand. Actually we are
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 1: below the four thousand because Troy has showed up as
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 1: he always does. Troy, thank you, Thank you, Thank you,
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 1: Troy with five hundred Australian dollars. Happy New Year. Thank
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 1: you for your work this past year and looking forward
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 1: to the next. You constantly change lives and save minds.
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 1: Also PayPal two hundred dollars. Thank you really appreciate that.
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 1: So that rounds it up to just over five hundred
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 1: US dollars with the PayPal, so greatly appreciate it. All right,
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 1: Oh no, that wasn't let me just see what is
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 1: that SD It wasn't two hundred dollars. It was two
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. So Troy just did two thousand dollars on PayPal.
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I mean, you do so much all year round.
• 2:21:01
  Speaker 1: I really really really appreciate it. Thank you, thank you,
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 1: thank you. That is amazing. And you know we'll still
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 1: have to get me out to Australia and I left
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 1: it buy your dinner one of these days. Let's see,
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 1: thank you choice again. Just counting, just counting PayPal, we're
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: down to only needing three thousand dollars to make out
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 1: fifteen thousand dollars goal. Gary, thank you for the sticker.
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 1: Let me see where are we I'm losing. I'm losing.
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 1: Let's see I did Adam. Wait a minute, okay, let's
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 1: see what I would follow Gary. Thank you. Okay, we'll
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 1: get to that question in a minute. And thank you,
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 1: thank you for that, and he says, thanks for all
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 1: the videos. Troy. We thanked Hammad nine to one one.
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 1: Let's keep going towards the goal. Thank you. Hammad, really
• 2:22:17
  Speaker 1: appreciate that. We're really chipping away, okay. Shasbat shaws about
• 2:22:22
  Speaker 1: five hundred dollars. Please review Star Trek Original Series. Well,
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 1: I love original series. Good Star Trek the original series
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 1: series one episode twenty one, the was it the Return
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 1: of Archons? And one Star Trek Original Series episode of
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 1: your choice. Thanks, Also, did you finish watching? And oh, yes,
• 2:22:47
  Speaker 1: I thought I told you. I thought we talked about that. Yes,
• 2:22:50
  Speaker 1: I so I thought Ando started out the second season
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 1: started out week and really picked up, and I thought
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 1: by the end it was really really good. So I
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 1: think it picked up maybe episode three and kept getting better,
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 1: and by the end it was it was really good.
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 1: So I really enjoyed it. But yeah, I was disappointed
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 1: in the first two episodes. I thought they were pretty
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 1: weak and divergent stories that didn't have anything really to
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 1: do with the heart of it. And yeah, all right,
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 1: thank you Shazbat. That helped a lot to get us
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 1: to where we need to be. Parker ju at a third.
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: I think this is a third fifty dollars if I'm
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 1: not mistaken. Stika, thank you really appreciate that. Oh you
• 2:23:40
  Speaker 1: will get to that, Gail, thank you for the sticker.
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 1: Mario says, Happy New Year, you're on looking forward to
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 1: meeting you and Poto Idea for a show. Do something
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 1: on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 1: of the Deck. Yes, I mean definitely we will do.
• 2:24:04
  Speaker 1: As July approaches, we will do a bunch of stuff
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 1: on the founding of America and its significance, and specifically
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 1: in the Declaration of America, which is Declaration Independence, which
• 2:24:14
  Speaker 1: is my favorite political document of all time.
• 2:24:17
  Speaker 2: So thank you, Mario the biz.
• 2:24:20
  Speaker 1: Thank you for the sticker most she kill I'm getting
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: shekels here, oh e ermisms from a young gen Z viewer.
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of gen Z viewers, so
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 1: this is great. From a young gen Z viewer, thought
• 2:24:37
  Speaker 1: i'd help you are making an influence on the culture.
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 1: Thank you for everything to do. Thank you, and it's
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 1: good to know that I've got gen Z viewers. I
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 1: know there's some. I can see the stats on YouTube.
• 2:24:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know how many of them listen on podcasts.
• 2:24:53
  Speaker 1: I don't get age stats there, and even on YouTube,
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know how reliable the age stats are. But
• 2:25:01
  Speaker 1: you know, the younger group there eighteen to twenty four
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 1: is the smallest group at least according to YouTube stats.
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 1: So I value each one of them, and that's the future. Guys,
• 2:25:11
  Speaker 1: We've got to got to have an impact on the future.
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 1: I'm curious, ermus LEMI ask how you discovered I Rand?
• 2:25:19
  Speaker 1: How how did you get to my show? That is,
• 2:25:22
  Speaker 1: if even if you don't do a super chat to answer,
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 1: put it into the chat. Uh, the BIZ thank you for.
• 2:25:29
  Speaker 2: The sticker, really appreciated.
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 1: All right, We're down to basically three thousand dollars, three
• 2:25:35
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars and twenty six three twenty six dollars and
• 2:25:40
  Speaker 1: we've got an hour and a half to make it.
• 2:25:42
  Speaker 1: And the the BIZ did another sticker, so more shekels
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 1: are just flowing in. Thank you guys. All right? Were
• 2:25:51
  Speaker 1: there any one hundred dollars? Yes, rich it uh is
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 1: enough to really Bennett better than a Tanyao. Would it
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 1: be possible to form a coalition with the write and
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 1: sent to secular parties to pursue a pro market agenda,
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 1: especially privatization of land, which Wikipedia says as ninety percent
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 1: owned by the government, while being solid on defense.
• 2:26:10
  Speaker 2: So I don't know if Bennett will be better than Antennio.
• 2:26:16
  Speaker 1: But what do I know? I know the Netaniao needs
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 1: to go. I know because he was Prime Minister during
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 1: October seventh and in the fifteen years leading up to
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 1: October seventh. I know it because he's been Prime Minister
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 1: for the last fifteen years or longer, and there's been very,
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 1: very few market reforms. There were a lot more market
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 1: reforms before him, before he was Prime minister, when he
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 1: was Finance minister. So I don't see much of a
• 2:26:48
  Speaker 1: downside in replacing him, and I think Justice demands that
• 2:26:51
  Speaker 1: he goes in terms of and says that could we
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 1: could there be a coalition of writers center yes, you know,
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 1: particularly if Natanio, If Natennio resigned and left the Liquorde,
• 2:27:09
  Speaker 1: then there's definitely a center right majority in Israel that
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 1: could exclude the religious parties and implement liberal in a
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 1: sense of free market policies, significant liberal policies in Israel.
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 1: So it is all possible. Will it happen, It's hard
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 1: to tell, and they would be solid on defense. Absolutely,
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 1: Will it happen. Nataneo is not leaving is one second.
• 2:27:43
  Speaker 1: Even if he leaves, you know, will they have the
• 2:27:46
  Speaker 1: guts the courage to actually engage in significant free market reforms. Now,
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not that worried about land. Land should be sold.
• 2:27:57
  Speaker 1: More importantly, it should be freed up for development. Look,
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 1: Hong Kong, ninety plus percent of the land in Hong
• 2:28:03
  Speaker 1: Kong is owned by the government. Ninety plus percent of
• 2:28:06
  Speaker 1: the land in Singapore is owned by the government, and
• 2:28:09
  Speaker 1: yet those are the two freest economies, or at least
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 1: Hong Kong before the Chinese. In spite of that, you
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 1: can do a huge amount even without selling the land,
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 1: as long as you free up the land for development,
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 1: which is what Singapore and Hong Kong do to some extent.
• 2:28:29
  Speaker 1: And in Singapore most housing is owned by the government.
• 2:28:33
  Speaker 1: The people live in the houses owned the condo buildings
• 2:28:36
  Speaker 1: owned by the government. So you can do a lot
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 1: of freedom without doing real estate, although real estate is
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 1: a good start, should be done as well once you're
• 2:28:47
  Speaker 1: Once you're liberating an economy, all right, Adam, growing up
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 1: multi lingual seems good for separation, for separating reason from
• 2:28:56
  Speaker 1: just syntax. Einman grew up multi lingual. Also, many US
• 2:29:01
  Speaker 1: tech heroes real or just my impression, some US parents
• 2:29:05
  Speaker 1: pay extra for bilingual montssory in Poland, three languages by
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 1: age five is expected. Your opinion, Yeah, no, I definitely
• 2:29:13
  Speaker 1: think that being bilingual helps with concept formation. You get
• 2:29:18
  Speaker 1: a an I. E. Man talks about this, I think
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 1: an introduction of objectives and pistemology or somewhere else. She
• 2:29:23
  Speaker 1: definitely talks about the fact that having two languages helps
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 1: you get that that that these woods are more than
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 1: just woods and more than just sounds, they are actually concepts. Uh.
• 2:29:41
  Speaker 1: And and and because you you get them, you get
• 2:29:44
  Speaker 1: two different sounds that mean the same thing.
• 2:29:48
  Speaker 2: Okay, so what is it?
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 1: What's the meaning? You go to the meaning rather than
• 2:29:52
  Speaker 1: just the syntax. So yes, absolutely, I think having at
• 2:29:57
  Speaker 1: least two languages is a good is definitely a good
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 1: thing for developing an appreciation for for for for concepts,
• 2:30:08
  Speaker 1: And it's just a good just in terms of the
• 2:30:11
  Speaker 1: mind is working, it's comparing comparing concepts, it's it's it's work,
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 1: which is which is good? Uh? All right, let's see
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 1: who else do we have here? Oh, let's do fifties?
• 2:30:29
  Speaker 1: Start with the fifties? Uh? I like I How does
• 2:30:33
  Speaker 1: one best think about understanding and apply the trade of
• 2:30:36
  Speaker 1: principle to relationships, especially romantic relationships? Thank you well? I
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 1: mean the fundamental there is that you can't expect to
• 2:30:46
  Speaker 1: have a healthy relationship that's one sided, that is you
• 2:30:49
  Speaker 1: can't expect to have a healthy relationship where one party
• 2:30:53
  Speaker 1: is a giver and another is in a sense a taker.
• 2:30:56
  Speaker 1: Where and that could be emotionally give a taker. It
• 2:31:01
  Speaker 1: can be uh, you know, existentially in terms of actions
• 2:31:05
  Speaker 1: in the world out there. It can be in sex,
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 1: It can be in a lot of different aspects. In
• 2:31:11
  Speaker 1: every aspect of your life. There needs to be a
• 2:31:14
  Speaker 1: back and forth. Now, it's not moneted. You don't monetize it.
• 2:31:18
  Speaker 1: That that is, it's not something that you put a
• 2:31:21
  Speaker 1: monetary value to, uh in order to make the exchange.
• 2:31:27
  Speaker 1: But you know, if you if you know, listening and
• 2:31:34
  Speaker 1: being emotionally available, being available to your partner is important.
• 2:31:40
  Speaker 1: And it can't be one sided, you know, Uh, Saying
• 2:31:46
  Speaker 1: nice things and positive things about your partner can just
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 1: be one sided, you know. And then it goes all
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  Speaker 1: the way to doing chores in the house and and
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  Speaker 1: and you know, having some kind of division of labor
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  Speaker 1: around the house, and having some kind of division of
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 1: labor in terms of bringing in the income, and having
• 2:32:08
  Speaker 1: some kind of division of labor around raising kids, and
• 2:32:11
  Speaker 1: all of that has to be thought of as a trade.
• 2:32:16
  Speaker 1: Not I take out the garbage, you do the dishwasher,
• 2:32:18
  Speaker 1: but that there's some kind of equilibrium that doesn't have
• 2:32:21
  Speaker 1: to be monetarily adjudicated, but there has to be a
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  Speaker 1: sense that, yeah, this is a this is a relationship
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  Speaker 1: of equals, and it's fundamentally about value for value win win.
• 2:32:35
  Speaker 1: Everything we do is win win. Hopefully that is helpful.
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  Speaker 1: But that could be a whole show. We could talk
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  Speaker 1: our whole show about that. All right, let's see somebody
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  Speaker 1: could sponsor that show for a thousand dollars a good
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  Speaker 1: sponsor show on that. James Taylor, you say evil might
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  Speaker 1: not be a choice for some people. I find that
• 2:32:59
  Speaker 1: hard to believe. I don't think anyone is born evil
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 1: or psychopath. What evolutionary advantage would they be in being
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 1: born evil? You'd figure that gene would die out pretty quickly. Well,
• 2:33:13
  Speaker 1: maybe maybe evil allows you to take control of the
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 1: tribe and rule it. Maybe evil allows you to be
• 2:33:20
  Speaker 1: the witch doctor and witch doctors and Attila's to use
• 2:33:25
  Speaker 1: ivans terminology, you know, the evil leaders of the tribe.
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  Speaker 1: They perpetuated the DNA, they continue to survive genetically. So
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  Speaker 1: it's not clear that evil is such an easily easy
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  Speaker 1: to dismiss evolutionarily that it is so easy to dismiss
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  Speaker 1: evolutionarily evil. I don't actually think that is that is
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  Speaker 1: the case, But what else did I want to say
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  Speaker 1: about that? Also? I mean, I think it's possible that
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  Speaker 1: you could be born with something very wrong in your
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  Speaker 1: mind that I don't know, somehow the chemical imbalanced there
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  Speaker 1: is all messed up, and you get a rush of
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  Speaker 1: chemicals that cause you to feel pleasure at evil things.
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it's possible, right, And even
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  Speaker 1: if evolution weans that out of us, it's still possible
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: for errors, right, for mutations to happen, So any particular
• 2:34:42
  Speaker 1: person could have a mutation that leads something this evolutionarily bad.
• 2:34:49
  Speaker 1: Evolution doesn't work in that sense on every particular case.
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  Speaker 1: So look, I don't think most evil is I think
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  Speaker 1: most evil is at some level chosen by default because
• 2:35:06
  Speaker 1: people choose not to think and evade. I mean, evasion
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 1: is the root of all evil. So the choice to evade,
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 1: the choice not to think, that is almost all evil.
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 1: And it could be done by the way at a
• 2:35:21
  Speaker 1: very young age where you don't even know that you
• 2:35:25
  Speaker 1: made that choice as an adult, and it's very hard
• 2:35:29
  Speaker 1: to come back from all. Right, some more fifty dollars questions,
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  Speaker 1: not your j algorithm. If things keep going the way
• 2:35:37
  Speaker 1: they're going, I think Trump and MAGA will be extremely
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  Speaker 1: unpopular by the end of this term. In Jdvan's, who
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  Speaker 1: have no chance, have an incredible New Year. You've changed
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  Speaker 1: really appreciate that. And I think there's a good chance
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  Speaker 1: that you're right. I think that I think Jdvan's probably
• 2:35:57
  Speaker 1: doesn't win because people are fed up with Trump by
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 1: the time we get to that point. All right, let
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  Speaker 1: me all right, I see more super chats are coming.
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 1: Let me see what's the timer like. We've got seven
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  Speaker 1: more super chats. I think in the next eight minutes.
• 2:36:16
  Speaker 1: We need seven super chats. Seven super chats in eight minutes.
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  Speaker 1: We should be able to do that. One a minute.
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  Speaker 1: One super chat a minute could be any amount. Let's
• 2:36:25
  Speaker 1: let's get to that fifty goal. Uh, and then we
• 2:36:29
  Speaker 1: can we can re examine where we need to be
• 2:36:31
  Speaker 1: in terms of in terms of the dollar amount for
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 1: the next hour and twenty minutes, hour and twenty minutes,
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  Speaker 1: we're still it's still gonna be ambitious. Right. Anytime we
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  Speaker 1: talk about thousands of dollars. It's ambitious, but it's a
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  Speaker 1: lot less than it was a couple of hours ago.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Mark, Oh, I skipped that. That's one hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry Mark. Mark says, do you follow or have any
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 1: opinions as to if there's an over investment in AI
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 1: by companies? So many have thrust a lot of money
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 1: into the technology, do you have any thought as to
• 2:37:08
  Speaker 1: how it will play out? Not seeking investment advice, just
• 2:37:10
  Speaker 1: to experience, experienced observation. See here's my sense of what's
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 1: going on there. I think the answer is yes. Now,
• 2:37:18
  Speaker 1: note most of the promised investment hasn't actually happened, so
• 2:37:23
  Speaker 1: we will see how much of it actually gets done,
• 2:37:26
  Speaker 1: actually happens.
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  Speaker 2: But my answer is.
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, we have seen significant, we are seeing significant. We'll
• 2:37:39
  Speaker 1: call it over investment. And here what do I mean
• 2:37:42
  Speaker 1: by over investments? To more important to understand what I
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 1: mean by over investment. What I mean by over investment
• 2:37:47
  Speaker 1: is that the return on the investment, the profit made
• 2:37:52
  Speaker 1: on this money invested, is going to be very low.
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 1: On the other hand, I think that all of the
• 2:38:03
  Speaker 1: AI centers that are being built, all the AI investment
• 2:38:07
  Speaker 1: will be utilized Ultimately It's just that the investors themselves
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 1: are not going to reap a huge financial reward from it.
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 1: The rest of us will reap the reward from the
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 1: existence of AI at a very high level down the road,
• 2:38:23
  Speaker 1: you know, when when it all comes into reality, when
• 2:38:26
  Speaker 1: it matures. Here's my and analogy. It's not a great
• 2:38:30
  Speaker 1: it's not a bad analogy. I think there was a
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 1: massive you could argue over investment in fiber optic cable
• 2:38:43
  Speaker 1: in the nineteen nineties. Everybody was laying fiber optics across
• 2:38:47
  Speaker 1: the country in the nineteen nineties, and there was and
• 2:38:54
  Speaker 1: you couldn't even imagine that that would be used. And
• 2:38:58
  Speaker 1: indeed much of the fiber optics, so the people laying
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 1: it didn't make a good return of investment for laying it.
• 2:39:06
  Speaker 1: But the reality is that about ten years later, suddenly
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 1: all that fiber optics was indeed in use, even though
• 2:39:15
  Speaker 1: you couldn't imagine how. Maybe it was more than ten years,
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 1: maybe it was fifteen twenty years because of Netflix. Netflix
• 2:39:23
  Speaker 1: suddenly made that fiber optics. You know, it seemed like
• 2:39:30
  Speaker 1: there wasn't enough of it, even though there was. It
• 2:39:33
  Speaker 1: was plentiful, right, because fiber optics used up so much bandwidth,
• 2:39:39
  Speaker 1: so much bandwidth. I think the same thing will happen
• 2:39:43
  Speaker 1: with AI. The investors might not to return, but it
• 2:39:46
  Speaker 1: will all be used up and we will all benefit
• 2:39:49
  Speaker 1: from it, just like all the consumers of Netflix benefited
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 1: from the fact that all that fiber optics was laid
• 2:39:58
  Speaker 1: down in the nineties. So it's over investment in infrastructure.
• 2:40:06
  Speaker 1: It's not the worst type of over investment. It's actually
• 2:40:08
  Speaker 1: quite good because you ultimately use that infrastructure unless it's
• 2:40:13
  Speaker 1: useless infrastructure, and I don't think in this case, building
• 2:40:15
  Speaker 1: more data centers is useless. All right, test assist. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: all you do, Happy New Year, and let's see what
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 1: else do we have here? M call me M. Thank
• 2:40:35
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  Speaker 1: h wcc answers. Last year was very good. This year
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• 2:41:00
  Speaker 1: that's a long time ago. It's about twenty I mean
• 2:41:02
  Speaker 1: it's about when I started my show twenty fifteen, so
• 2:41:05
  Speaker 1: it's over ten years now. It's eleven years. It'll be
• 2:41:09
  Speaker 1: next month, It'll be eleven years. Let's call it ten years.
• 2:41:12
  Speaker 1: It's eleven years. When will we see a Iran's Rules
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  Speaker 1: for Life book? Happy New Year. I don't know about
• 2:41:19
  Speaker 1: the Iuron's Rusolie book. I'm working with Don on a
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 1: different project and we will be coming out with a
• 2:41:24
  Speaker 1: book soon, but it won't be the Rules for a
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 1: Light book. By the way, we did make the fifty
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  Speaker 1: fifty super Chat target, so thank you guys. Really, you
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  Speaker 1: guys are amazing today amazing, and we are under three
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  Speaker 1: thousand to make our goal. We're approaching twenty five hundred
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  Speaker 1: to make the goal twenty six, five, nine, six and
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  Speaker 1: fifty nine. If people can afford in and if it's
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  Speaker 1: a value to them of five hundreds, make getting to
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  Speaker 1: that goal so much easier, so much quicker. Today's the
• 2:41:58
  Speaker 1: day to do it. Today's the day splurge and support
• 2:42:01
  Speaker 1: the show. So I don't know when we'll see a book.
• 2:42:06
  Speaker 1: One of the things we've done is we've transcribed all
• 2:42:08
  Speaker 1: of them and trying to get Ai to turn them
• 2:42:12
  Speaker 1: into essays and then edit those essays and see if
• 2:42:15
  Speaker 1: we can turn it into a book. That way, it's
• 2:42:17
  Speaker 1: going to be a lot of work, but it's definitely
• 2:42:20
  Speaker 1: something I'm thinking about and we'll be working on in
• 2:42:24
  Speaker 1: the year years to come. John. It's great to see
• 2:42:28
  Speaker 1: you John here. Happy New Year. Thank you for your
• 2:42:31
  Speaker 1: uncompromising standard issues of the day. I appreciate that. Thank
• 2:42:34
  Speaker 1: you for being such a strong supporter of the show. Andrew. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: let's see Andrew fifty dollars on expanding your reach. People
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  Speaker 1: like series do most series include news maybe on two
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  Speaker 1: three x a week, but change so that they're doing
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  Speaker 1: one in each series everyday. Idea d Yaran Ybe's personal advice,
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  Speaker 1: the history of capitalism, objectivist virtues and vices. All right, well,
• 2:43:11
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to do some of that with the Saturday shows.
• 2:43:15
  Speaker 1: Uh so, but but good advice. I'll I'll think about
• 2:43:20
  Speaker 1: how to do that as well, all right, Andrew. Also,
• 2:43:27
  Speaker 1: Christianity's attachment of shame to pride cannot be good for
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 1: man's sexual psychology. Even if he develops a healthy masculinity
• 2:43:36
  Speaker 1: separate from religion, to the extent he takes that emotional
• 2:43:39
  Speaker 1: dismisconnect seriously, he will injure his masculinity. I think that's right.
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  Speaker 1: I think you know, I think that making pride advice
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 1: in Christianity is incredibly damaging, incredibly damaging.
• 2:43:58
  Speaker 2: So uh, exactly how it all plays out?
• 2:44:06
  Speaker 1: You know again, it's it's you know, the whole point
• 2:44:10
  Speaker 1: of sex is there's a sense of which sex is
• 2:44:13
  Speaker 1: a the experience of a pleasure of existence, a pride
• 2:44:19
  Speaker 1: of your existence, a pride of being successful. And shame
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  Speaker 1: associated with sex and associate with pride undermines that and
• 2:44:30
  Speaker 1: undermines your your full ability to experience it, but it
• 2:44:34
  Speaker 1: undermines the whole notion of masculinity. I agree completely right
• 2:44:39
  Speaker 1: more Andrew Andrew's doing five hundred in small Doses A
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  Speaker 1: suggestion based on Rand's writing on getting more reach for
• 2:44:47
  Speaker 1: objectivist intellectuals teach them to put more psychological psychology in
• 2:44:51
  Speaker 1: their content. I don't think one needs to be a
• 2:44:53
  Speaker 1: psychologist to analyze it. If if kept general, I g
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  Speaker 1: altruism and resent and among men. Yeah, it's very very
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  Speaker 1: hard to be objective about it. It's very hard to
• 2:45:05
  Speaker 1: be objective about it. Ironrand was the master at that,
• 2:45:08
  Speaker 1: and of course she had to know psychology because she
• 2:45:11
  Speaker 1: had to write characters. A novelist has to be a
• 2:45:15
  Speaker 1: psychologist or not a psychologist, but has to know something
• 2:45:19
  Speaker 1: about human psychology, and iron Ran certainly did. And what
• 2:45:23
  Speaker 1: makes her essays so compelling is there's a philosophical dimension,
• 2:45:28
  Speaker 1: and there's a psychological dimension above and beyond maybe economics
• 2:45:32
  Speaker 1: and history and everything else that she brings in. All right, Jonathan,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for some stickers laid back pedal ip. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Exit.
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  Speaker 1: Who else did a sticker that I miss? Andrews's reality
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  Speaker 1: is cool? Thank you, Andrew. All right, let's go back
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  Speaker 1: to our fifty dollars questions, Espun. How do you see
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  Speaker 1: the outlook for Norway culturally, politically, economically. Some predict war
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  Speaker 1: between Russia and NATO within just a few years. How
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  Speaker 1: do you think Norway will far? Then? Could no Way
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  Speaker 1: be a target like kyushimnagasakiin forty five? I mean, I
• 2:46:29
  Speaker 1: don't know enough about Norwegian society. No Way is economically
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  Speaker 1: very much buffet from the consequence of bad policies by
• 2:46:39
  Speaker 1: the fact that it has so much oil. So Norway's
• 2:46:44
  Speaker 1: oil reserves are definitely a buffer that protects it from
• 2:46:48
  Speaker 1: economic downturns. But it's certainly the case that you know,
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  Speaker 1: no Way struggles on the one hand relatively wealthy society.
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  Speaker 1: It has entrepreneurs, you know, it has highly productive people,
• 2:47:10
  Speaker 1: but also has the consequence of a welfare state, which
• 2:47:14
  Speaker 1: is people are not productive and people who you know,
• 2:47:18
  Speaker 1: are not engaged economically and culturally and fully, and that
• 2:47:25
  Speaker 1: tension cannot be healthy and eroads, you know, will continue
• 2:47:30
  Speaker 1: to erode the culture and will continue to roade politics.
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  Speaker 1: It's you know, it's a small country population wise, and
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  Speaker 1: it's again shielded because of the money from the oil,
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  Speaker 1: and it shielded because it doesn't it didn't take in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Muslims and it doesn't have to deal
• 2:47:51
  Speaker 1: with that as much, although it does have some So
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  Speaker 1: I think it just grinds on. I think it generally
• 2:47:58
  Speaker 1: culturally declines and it grinds on. There are some very
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  Speaker 1: positive elements within Norway. Norway has more objectives of capita
• 2:48:06
  Speaker 1: than most places. One of the highest in the world
• 2:48:09
  Speaker 1: would be my guess. So there's definitely some people pushing
• 2:48:14
  Speaker 1: for the positive and that could have a positive effect
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  Speaker 1: on a small country like Norway.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about war with NATO. I doubt that's
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  Speaker 2: gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: Russia is so occupied in Ukraine, and it's going to
• 2:48:26
  Speaker 1: be so depleted by the war in Ukraine, it's going
• 2:48:29
  Speaker 1: to become so poor and a ward NATO. If it's
• 2:48:33
  Speaker 1: going to do a world with NATO, it's gonna have
• 2:48:35
  Speaker 1: to be while Trump is in office, because I think
• 2:48:39
  Speaker 1: any other president would come to NATO's defense. And if
• 2:48:42
  Speaker 1: the United States participated in such a war, Russia would
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  Speaker 1: be crushed in a matter of days, literally really in
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  Speaker 1: a matter of days. So yeah, I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: that Russia would be is going to be very hesitant
• 2:49:02
  Speaker 1: to gauge in such a war. I don't expect nukes
• 2:49:04
  Speaker 1: to be dropped on Norway. Why Norway? And if you're
• 2:49:08
  Speaker 1: going to drop a nuke, if you rush and you
• 2:49:10
  Speaker 1: want to drop a nuke, you would drop it on Germany,
• 2:49:12
  Speaker 1: on industry, on the hard industry, on even Sweden produces
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  Speaker 1: more weapons systems than Norway does. I just don't see
• 2:49:19
  Speaker 1: why Norway it would be a target. All right, let's
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  Speaker 1: do this. We are getting very close to the twenty
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  Speaker 1: five hundred mark, right, which is what's going to be
• 2:49:35
  Speaker 1: left for the last hour. So we've got ten minutes
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  Speaker 1: now to get under twenty five hundred. Twenty five hundred
• 2:49:41
  Speaker 1: is what we raised in this last hour. It wasn't easy,
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  Speaker 1: and it's going to be a challenge to make the
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  Speaker 1: last hour get the twenty five hundred so we can
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  Speaker 1: make the fifteen thousand. We're going to be pushing it, right,
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  Speaker 1: So let's at least get fifty nine dollars in the
• 2:49:59
  Speaker 1: next ten minutes so we can be under twenty five hundred.
• 2:50:05
  Speaker 1: Let's make sure that of the five thousand we had
• 2:50:08
  Speaker 1: to left to raise, we raised half this first hour,
• 2:50:12
  Speaker 1: and we're going to raise half the the in the
• 2:50:14
  Speaker 1: second hour or this will be the fourth out, but
• 2:50:17
  Speaker 1: let's just leave twenty five hundred for that. So fifty
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  Speaker 1: nine dollars is the challenge to raise in the next
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  Speaker 1: nine minutes nine minutes. To raise fifty nine dollars, you
• 2:50:26
  Speaker 1: can do it. Stickers, you can do it in any
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  Speaker 1: form you really want. Superchats, A lot of small level
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  Speaker 1: of superchats or a lot of small level of stickers work,
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  Speaker 1: so you can just do two dollars, ten dollars, a
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  Speaker 1: few ten dollars and we're there.
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  Speaker 2: So jump in.
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  Speaker 1: We've got one hundred and fifty five people watching right now.
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  Speaker 1: Shouldn't be that hard to do, the fifty nine dollars.
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm more worried about when am I going to
• 2:50:53
  Speaker 1: finish answering all the questions. This is going to go
• 2:50:57
  Speaker 1: over four hours. So yeah, so well we've got time.
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  Speaker 1: But let me just encourage you. Let's let's just use
• 2:51:05
  Speaker 1: the time well and in the nine minutes that are left,
• 2:51:09
  Speaker 1: let's uh, let's get the fifty nine dollars raised? All right? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Where were we? Uh? OHI?
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  Speaker 2: Oh wait, Happy New Year.
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  Speaker 1: Show ideas deep dive into topics you love, including history, art,
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• 2:52:22
  Speaker 1: Maybe we're working on something around that. Maybe you'll come
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  Speaker 1: to Puto. That'll be fun. It'll be great to see you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Jimmy, thanks for the thanks for the support.
• 2:52:33
  Speaker 1: Really appreciate that. Let's see, so we now only need
• 2:52:40
  Speaker 1: nine dollars, nine dollars because how do you how do
• 2:52:45
  Speaker 1: you Finian? I just came in with fifty bucks. Fifty
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  Speaker 1: bucks and he says, thanks you on Also a quick
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  Speaker 1: shout out and thanks to Jeffrey and the team at Rosella,
• 2:52:56
  Speaker 1: New York City. All right, Yes, definitely shout out to Rosella.
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  Speaker 1: Brilliantly distinctive cuisine paired with the refreshingly relevant, relaxed, irreverent ambiance,
• 2:53:09
  Speaker 1: a rare balance done right. Looking forward to visiting Bar
• 2:53:12
  Speaker 1: Miller as well. Yes, definitely do Bar Miller. It is exceptional,
• 2:53:18
  Speaker 1: you know, really really exceptional. And this is from somebody
• 2:53:20
  Speaker 1: who eats at a lot of exceptional restaurants. Bar Miller
• 2:53:24
  Speaker 1: is superb. Brosella is amazing and Jeffrey and his team
• 2:53:28
  Speaker 1: are amazing. Thank you, Finnion appreciated. Okay, normative Randroid, this
• 2:53:35
  Speaker 1: is the last fifty or above question being on more
• 2:53:40
  Speaker 1: because we need them to chip away at the last
• 2:53:42
  Speaker 1: twenty five hundred. We've now got six minutes to raise
• 2:53:46
  Speaker 1: seven dollars. Seven dollars and six minutes. Normative Android, Happy
• 2:53:51
  Speaker 1: New Year. Wanted to share my favorite rand quote from
• 2:53:54
  Speaker 1: my essay The Inexpiable Personal Alchemy, which is a great essay.
• 2:54:00
  Speaker 1: There is a fundamental conviction that some people never acquire,
• 2:54:05
  Speaker 1: some hold only in the youth, and a few hold to.
• 2:54:10
  Speaker 2: The end of their days. And where do you continue that?
• 2:54:14
  Speaker 1: The conviction, all right, the conviction that ideas matter, That
• 2:54:20
  Speaker 1: ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that
• 2:54:25
  Speaker 1: one's mind matters, and the radiance of that certainty in
• 2:54:31
  Speaker 1: the process of growing up is the best aspect of youth. Absolutely,
• 2:54:37
  Speaker 1: it's a great quote. It's one of Ironman's greatest quotes.
• 2:54:41
  Speaker 1: It's exactly that I'm gonna gruad it again because it's
• 2:54:44
  Speaker 1: so good. There is a fundamental conviction which some people
• 2:54:48
  Speaker 1: never acquire, right, that's the missing link.
• 2:54:51
  Speaker 2: If you will never acquire.
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  Speaker 1: Some hold only in the youth, and a few us
• 2:54:58
  Speaker 1: hold to the end of their the conviction that ideas matter.
• 2:55:05
  Speaker 1: The ideas matter means that knowledge matter, the truth matters,
• 2:55:09
  Speaker 1: that one minds matters, and the radiance of that certainty
• 2:55:14
  Speaker 1: in the process of growing up is the best aspect
• 2:55:18
  Speaker 1: of youth. It's so beautiful, so beautiful, all right, Jean,
• 2:55:25
  Speaker 1: I should have prepared for this Geene Walter's assd movie
• 2:55:30
  Speaker 1: of the Year. God, can anybody give me some options?
• 2:55:36
  Speaker 1: What were movies this year? I can't hold what movies
• 2:55:40
  Speaker 1: I saw. What movies were in the theater that I
• 2:55:42
  Speaker 1: saw this year? I didn't see in the theater. I
• 2:55:44
  Speaker 1: saw streaming all good movies that I really enjoyed this
• 2:55:50
  Speaker 1: year in the movies. All right, I'm gonna answer this.
• 2:55:55
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna see. Okay, let's do this best movies twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six. Let's see what the internet gives me. And
• 2:56:08
  Speaker 1: if any of these movies, if I've seen them, or
• 2:56:10
  Speaker 1: if I think any of them any good. Oh, I
• 2:56:14
  Speaker 1: put twenty twenty six instead of twenty twenty five. Anybody
• 2:56:17
  Speaker 1: see good movies in twenty twenty five? Anybody want to
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  Speaker 1: chime in? I didn't see a lot of I have
• 2:56:24
  Speaker 1: to say I didn't see a lot of movies this year.
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  Speaker 1: All right, here's Rotten Tomatoes best movies of twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see didn't see that, didn't see that, didn't see that,
• 2:56:39
  Speaker 1: didn't see that, didn't see that, didn't see that. God,
• 2:56:44
  Speaker 1: this is depressing. I should catch these movies. There's there's
• 2:56:48
  Speaker 1: a lot of movies I never saw. Maybe, yeah, all right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm curious what you guys think are the best movies
• 2:57:03
  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five, and maybe I'll be able to
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  Speaker 1: pick something out of that. It's amazing how many movies
• 2:57:17
  Speaker 1: I didn't see that on this list I'm looking at.
• 2:57:20
  Speaker 1: It's it's stunning and disappointing. I usually see what I thought.
• 2:57:24
  Speaker 1: I usually see a lot more movies, but I've gotten
• 2:57:28
  Speaker 1: down on movies. I've watched a lot more television shows,
• 2:57:34
  Speaker 1: and we don't go to the movie theater anymore or
• 2:57:37
  Speaker 1: almost never. Yeah, it's too long of a list. Let's
• 2:57:42
  Speaker 1: see Lila and Stitch, The Long Walk. I didn't see
• 2:57:45
  Speaker 1: the Muti Supreme. I haven't seen, but I have a
• 2:57:48
  Speaker 1: feeling we'dn't hate Maudi Supreme, so I'm you know, we'll
• 2:57:52
  Speaker 1: see Sinners I heard is really good, but I won't
• 2:57:54
  Speaker 1: see it Nuremberg. I want to see, but again I'm
• 2:57:58
  Speaker 1: skeptical about what I think think of it. We'll see.
• 2:58:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's good. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not
• 2:58:08
  Speaker 1: seeing Of all the movies people are mentioning here, I'm
• 2:58:11
  Speaker 1: not seeing ones that. Okay, I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna.
• 2:58:15
  Speaker 1: I owe you an answer, Jane, So I will. I
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  Speaker 1: will try to get you. Oh, I'm in.
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  Speaker 2: Came in with five hundred dollars.
• 2:58:21
  Speaker 1: I'm in. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Really appreciate that.
• 2:58:25
  Speaker 1: That that goes a long way to getting us to
• 2:58:26
  Speaker 1: where we need to be in an hour. So thank you.
• 2:58:29
  Speaker 1: I'm in appreciate it. All right, it's the Yeah, those
• 2:58:35
  Speaker 1: five hundred really chop away at a whole thing.
• 2:58:38
  Speaker 2: So really, now.
• 2:58:40
  Speaker 1: We've got let's see, it's almost top of the hour,
• 2:58:46
  Speaker 1: and we have basically one thousand and eight hundred and
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  Speaker 1: what fifty one, let's make it one thy eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty dollar to go in this last and final
• 2:59:03
  Speaker 1: hour of the marathon. It might not be the finale
• 2:59:06
  Speaker 1: because I'm nowhere nia finishing, uh, the the the super chats,
• 2:59:13
  Speaker 1: and and I fear that I'm going to get another
• 2:59:16
  Speaker 1: question like movie the like somebody asks me the best
• 2:59:18
  Speaker 1: TV show V or something. I'm gonna answer these, just
• 2:59:21
  Speaker 1: maybe not today because I need a I need a
• 2:59:25
  Speaker 1: I need to actually think about it and review what
• 2:59:27
  Speaker 1: movies I've seen. Uh to get back read the chat? Yeah,
• 2:59:36
  Speaker 1: not Superman again. I haven't seen Leila and Stitch Chainsawman.
• 2:59:42
  Speaker 1: I didn't see that Event Horizon. I don't think I
• 2:59:45
  Speaker 1: saw that Downton Abbey the Grand for now. Yeah, but
• 2:59:48
  Speaker 1: it wouldn't be my best my favorite movie fun but
• 2:59:51
  Speaker 1: not not one battle after another. I want to see that,
• 2:59:56
  Speaker 1: but I haven't seen it yet. Yeah, not sure. Anyway,
• 3:00:02
  Speaker 1: we'll we'll, we'll, we'll see. Uh uh, you know, I
• 3:00:06
  Speaker 1: just watched the movie that was pretty good this this week.
• 3:00:09
  Speaker 1: But again I can't remember the name. That's a problem.
• 3:00:11
  Speaker 1: I can't remember names. So I need a list of movies.
• 3:00:14
  Speaker 1: But god, I'm looking at this list of movies and
• 3:00:17
  Speaker 1: they literally it is so many and how did I
• 3:00:22
  Speaker 1: miss all of them? I need to start moving watching
• 3:00:26
  Speaker 1: movies again. All right, let's see, all right? I like uh.
• 3:00:35
  Speaker 1: I like thoughts on the count usage of generative AI
• 3:00:38
  Speaker 1: and why do a lot of people hate AI slop. Well,
• 3:00:42
  Speaker 1: I'm really excited about the generative A. I am looking
• 3:00:46
  Speaker 1: forward to seeing how it develops and what it becomes,
• 3:00:50
  Speaker 1: what manifests from it, how people use it, how artists
• 3:00:53
  Speaker 1: use it, how other people use it.
• 3:00:55
  Speaker 2: I think it's super exciting, it's super interesting.
• 3:00:58
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people, uh, you know, worry
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  Speaker 1: about it, uh, upset by it, by by the kind
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  Speaker 1: of the images that it creates.
• 3:01:08
  Speaker 2: UH worried, and I worried.
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  Speaker 1: I I worry about not being able to tell whether
• 3:01:14
  Speaker 1: something is real o AI. Uh. I think that is
• 3:01:17
  Speaker 1: a real concern. I think AI is going to have
• 3:01:20
  Speaker 1: to this AI video are going to have to create
• 3:01:23
  Speaker 1: some kind of watermark or something. Uh. And and and
• 3:01:26
  Speaker 1: to to indicate that it is an AI video. Uh.
• 3:01:31
  Speaker 1: But it's very difficult today to differentiate and to tell.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that's a challenge. Uh. And I think
• 3:01:39
  Speaker 1: people are people are just people just don't like technology.
• 3:01:43
  Speaker 1: They don't like advancement, they don't like progress, so they
• 3:01:45
  Speaker 1: were afraid of right. Samuel Paul Zieri is my favorite
• 3:01:51
  Speaker 1: fashion brand. The company is owned by a Katala's World family.
• 3:01:55
  Speaker 1: I've stopped stopped buying from them over concerns of indirect
• 3:02:00
  Speaker 1: supporting Islamist groups? Am I overthinking this? Is it useless?
• 3:02:04
  Speaker 1: Is it a useless sacrifice? I mean, I really I
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  Speaker 1: think it a lot of It depends on to what extent.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have alternatives?
• 3:02:14
  Speaker 1: That is, so, what extent is giving this up is
• 3:02:16
  Speaker 1: really hooding your life? And and to what extent is
• 3:02:20
  Speaker 1: is giving it up is you know you you can
• 3:02:25
  Speaker 1: you can find another brand that is not so uh
• 3:02:30
  Speaker 1: compromised and and support it, support and and and embrace it.
• 3:02:36
  Speaker 1: If it really is that big of a difference, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I would try.
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  Speaker 1: I would really make an effort in life not to
• 3:02:44
  Speaker 1: buy things from Kata and and given that lots of
• 3:02:47
  Speaker 1: other fashion brands, it's probably not that big of a
• 3:02:51
  Speaker 1: of a of a of a trade off. If it
• 3:02:58
  Speaker 1: was the only one, then yeah, okay, then you don't
• 3:03:01
  Speaker 1: want to be a sacrifice.
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  Speaker 2: You have to make that evaluation. How big of a
• 3:03:05
  Speaker 2: deal is it?
• 3:03:06
  Speaker 1: Indeed? All right, guys, we're in the last hour and
• 3:03:12
  Speaker 1: I have a hard stop at five point thirty East
• 3:03:14
  Speaker 1: coast time, so maximum hour and a half we have,
• 3:03:18
  Speaker 1: and we have one thousand, seven hundred and ninety four
• 3:03:20
  Speaker 1: dollars to raise that is still a lot of money.
• 3:03:25
  Speaker 1: There's still a lot of money. Like in a normal show,
• 3:03:28
  Speaker 1: we raised two hundred and fifty dollars in an hour.
• 3:03:30
  Speaker 1: Now we have to raise one thousand and seven and
• 3:03:32
  Speaker 1: ninety four in and hours. I'm asking if there are
• 3:03:35
  Speaker 1: you know, people out there who could do what I'm
• 3:03:39
  Speaker 1: in just did five hundred dollars, then that you know
• 3:03:42
  Speaker 1: three of those and it's over right, and we've made
• 3:03:45
  Speaker 1: the numbers, so it makes it very very easy. Of course,
• 3:03:49
  Speaker 1: you know, eighteen people doing one hundred dollars each, or
• 3:03:52
  Speaker 1: or a bunch of people doing fifty dollars each, we
• 3:03:54
  Speaker 1: can make the numbers even without a five hundred, but
• 3:03:56
  Speaker 1: five hundred makes it so much, so much easier. So
• 3:04:00
  Speaker 1: if there are people out there, this is my call
• 3:04:02
  Speaker 1: to you, this is the time. Remember, five hundred dollars
• 3:04:06
  Speaker 1: is a dollar per hour I stream this year. I
• 3:04:09
  Speaker 1: streamed five hundred hours of content this year. So yeah,
• 3:04:15
  Speaker 1: but maybe people are coming and going. I know nobody's
• 3:04:19
  Speaker 1: a few of you are probably staying through the whole
• 3:04:20
  Speaker 1: four hours as new people come on board. If any
• 3:04:24
  Speaker 1: of you can indeed afford and you value and you
• 3:04:28
  Speaker 1: can do a five hundred, then that would be amazing,
• 3:04:34
  Speaker 1: and that will really really chip away at what we
• 3:04:39
  Speaker 1: need to achieve. In the meantime, we're getting a lot
• 3:04:41
  Speaker 1: of twenties and that's great too. Twenties, fifties, hundreds, five hundreds, Yeah,
• 3:04:47
  Speaker 1: it all, it all makes a difference. All right, let's
• 3:04:52
  Speaker 1: see we just got a couple of fifties Jeffrey, Jeffrey
• 3:04:57
  Speaker 1: Miller who we just talked about, right, can't listen, lie,
• 3:05:00
  Speaker 1: But thank you for tremendous twenty twenty five. Hoping for
• 3:05:03
  Speaker 1: more essay shows next year, Yes, one coming soon. And
• 3:05:09
  Speaker 1: we did mention you. Somebody made a contribution in a
• 3:05:12
  Speaker 1: sense honoring you and your team at Rosella. So thank you,
• 3:05:19
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Athena R V. Jan You first recommended Mister Sunshine
• 3:05:26
  Speaker 1: back in twenty eighteen. My husband and I are currently
• 3:05:28
  Speaker 1: watching it for the eighth time. Eighth time. WHOA. Thank
• 3:05:33
  Speaker 1: you for that and all the other values that you
• 3:05:35
  Speaker 1: bring to our world. Would you say this is the
• 3:05:38
  Speaker 1: most who go ask show movie? Yes, it's exactly right,
• 3:05:43
  Speaker 1: You've nailed it. I mean, it is the one that
• 3:05:47
  Speaker 1: both in terms of the fight for values, the scale
• 3:05:51
  Speaker 1: of the fight for values, and in terms of sense
• 3:05:54
  Speaker 1: of life. I think it is the most who go
• 3:05:57
  Speaker 1: ask show or movie that I know, and it's why
• 3:06:01
  Speaker 1: it's probably my favorite TV show.
• 3:06:03
  Speaker 2: So so yes, yes, thank you, Athene. I'm eighth time.
• 3:06:09
  Speaker 2: That's great.
• 3:06:10
  Speaker 1: I mean my wife and I are considering starting our
• 3:06:14
  Speaker 1: third time. So all right, all right, we're down to
• 3:06:20
  Speaker 1: thirteen hundred bucks, guys, partially because my music, my music
• 3:06:26
  Speaker 1: savvy came in with two hundred and fifty. Thank you
• 3:06:30
  Speaker 1: for making twenty twenty five a bit more fun, informative
• 3:06:34
  Speaker 1: and interesting, and for welcoming my help along the way.
• 3:06:40
  Speaker 1: Keep up the good work. Thank you. I really appreciate
• 3:06:43
  Speaker 1: and thank you for the help. And it was good
• 3:06:46
  Speaker 1: to seeing you in person as well. Moulten Splendor says
• 3:06:49
  Speaker 1: Happy New Year. Thank you, moulten Splendor. He says it
• 3:06:52
  Speaker 1: Happy New Year twice each for twenty dollars. I appreciate that,
• 3:06:59
  Speaker 1: Andrew says. LP reports that Ran made a point. Lenard
• 3:07:03
  Speaker 1: Peacock reports that Ran made a point to tell him
• 3:07:06
  Speaker 1: that after long days of mental work that disrupted her writing,
• 3:07:10
  Speaker 1: she would openly weep. She wanted him to know how
• 3:07:15
  Speaker 1: much her writing meant to her, and that her crying
• 3:07:17
  Speaker 1: was a rational way to express it. Yeah. I mean,
• 3:07:20
  Speaker 1: that's powerful. It's a powerful expression of emotion. It's powerful
• 3:07:24
  Speaker 1: what she was weeping about. It wasn't a weeping of weakness.
• 3:07:28
  Speaker 1: It was a weeping of carrying, of valuing. Yeah, that is,
• 3:07:33
  Speaker 1: that is. That is a great story. Thank you for
• 3:07:36
  Speaker 1: sharing that, Andrew. I don't remember hearing that from Leonard Man.
• 3:07:41
  Speaker 1: There's so many questions still left. See how we get
• 3:07:47
  Speaker 1: through all of these in the next hour and twenty minutes.
• 3:07:53
  Speaker 1: And let me write We've got thirteen hundred exactly one,
• 3:07:58
  Speaker 1: two hundred and ninety nine dollars to make it on YouTube,
• 3:08:04
  Speaker 1: to make it to fifteen hundred dollars on YouTube, fifteen
• 3:08:09
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Fifteen hundred dollars, fifteen thousand dollars on YouTube.
• 3:08:14
  Speaker 1: Very very exciting, very exciting. All right, Josh, what am
• 3:08:20
  Speaker 1: I doing here? One second? One? All right? Cool? Thank you, Yeah,
• 3:08:33
  Speaker 1: thank you, Daniel, Thank you, doctor Hilda Height. Thank you
• 3:08:39
  Speaker 1: for the five hundred dollars on PayPal. Really appreciate that.
• 3:08:42
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Mark, Mark for the fifty dollars on PayPal.
• 3:08:47
  Speaker 1: Really appreciate that. Thank you, thank you, thank you. So yep, excellent,
• 3:08:54
  Speaker 1: all right, let's see Josh says, and an article recently
• 3:08:59
  Speaker 1: in the World Journal said that the Supreme Court isn't partisan,
• 3:09:02
  Speaker 1: they are ideologically constitutionalists. Do you agree. I think some
• 3:09:08
  Speaker 1: of them are partisan. I do think sadly that Thomas
• 3:09:12
  Speaker 1: and Alito become more partisan over the years, and they
• 3:09:17
  Speaker 1: rule in favor of Trump in places where I think
• 3:09:21
  Speaker 1: if they really just stuck to their originalism and constitutionalism.
• 3:09:26
  Speaker 2: They wouldn't.
• 3:09:28
  Speaker 1: I think the leftist also partisan in some of their rulings,
• 3:09:31
  Speaker 1: and there's some of them are constitutionalists. So I think
• 3:09:34
  Speaker 1: My bottom line is I think it depends on the
• 3:09:35
  Speaker 1: issue and depends on them. Now again, none of them
• 3:09:40
  Speaker 1: understand the Constitution, I think properly because they don't understand
• 3:09:44
  Speaker 1: the concept of individual rights properly. But it's not a
• 3:09:49
  Speaker 1: bad court. It could be much worse and has been
• 3:09:53
  Speaker 1: much worse. Andrew, Happy New Year, Yon, obviously love the show.
• 3:09:58
  Speaker 1: Have you been said on your show the rejecting the
• 3:10:01
  Speaker 1: arbitrary can get one far? Rejecting the arbitrary can get
• 3:10:06
  Speaker 1: one far in philosophy. He didn't expound if you agree
• 3:10:11
  Speaker 1: with his statement, Can you expound on why? Well, because
• 3:10:16
  Speaker 1: so much of there's so much wasted time. I mean
• 3:10:22
  Speaker 1: this is me.
• 3:10:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know if this is what having meant.
• 3:10:25
  Speaker 1: So much waste of time is wasted on the arbitrary,
• 3:10:30
  Speaker 1: on having to deal with obituary, and you know, whether
• 3:10:34
  Speaker 1: it's trying to deal with the existence of God or
• 3:10:37
  Speaker 1: whether it's all the myrid arbitrary statements that philosophers make.
• 3:10:44
  Speaker 1: Just being able to wipe that out and not having
• 3:10:47
  Speaker 1: to deal with it and and recognizing its non cognitive
• 3:10:51
  Speaker 1: status saves a huge amount of time and and and
• 3:10:57
  Speaker 1: and would would further you dramatically in in your philosophical pursuits, right,
• 3:11:04
  Speaker 1: all right, Richard and Molten's splendor. Thank you guys. Richard
• 3:11:08
  Speaker 1: came in with another two hundred dollars, So that make
• 3:11:11
  Speaker 1: four hundred for Richard today. I think so so, Richard,
• 3:11:16
  Speaker 1: thank you for all you do. You're on. It's a
• 3:11:18
  Speaker 1: few years away for us. But my wife and I
• 3:11:20
  Speaker 1: would like to have kids, would selfishly love, would selfishly
• 3:11:26
  Speaker 1: love more parenting content. How would did you choose a
• 3:11:30
  Speaker 1: school for your kids? Also, do you think having kids
• 3:11:33
  Speaker 1: share a bedroom implicity teaches collectivism? So in the last part, no,
• 3:11:38
  Speaker 1: absolutely not. Collectivism is not a question of how close
• 3:11:44
  Speaker 1: up you are. I mean, I grew up with my
• 3:11:46
  Speaker 1: brother in the same room for many years. I think
• 3:11:49
  Speaker 1: my first fourteen years we shared a room. That didn't
• 3:11:52
  Speaker 1: make either of us collectivists. I did rebel against that
• 3:11:56
  Speaker 1: when I was I think fourteen or fifteen, because I
• 3:11:59
  Speaker 1: started fighting with my brother and it just became unpleasant.
• 3:12:02
  Speaker 1: So they moved me into the dining room I think,
• 3:12:07
  Speaker 1: into another room, and and so no my sharing a room.
• 3:12:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, until people were incredibly wealthy, very few families
• 3:12:19
  Speaker 1: could afford to have a room for each kid, and
• 3:12:21
  Speaker 1: that didn't make them collectivists. And there's nothing about sharing
• 3:12:24
  Speaker 1: a room that makes you collectivists or would would encourage collectivism.
• 3:12:28
  Speaker 1: As to school, you know, the primary farce was we
• 3:12:32
  Speaker 1: started out with we wanted Montssori for the early years. Uh,
• 3:12:38
  Speaker 1: we're big. I'm a big fan of Montessori. I Ran
• 3:12:42
  Speaker 1: was a big fan of Montessori. Everybody I know who
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  Speaker 1: has investigated education is a big family of who studied
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  Speaker 1: education is a big fan of Montsoi. So it's just
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  Speaker 1: a matter of finding a good Montessori school, which is
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  Speaker 1: a good Montsouri school. There is a school that follows Montssori.
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  Speaker 1: So we read a lot of Montissori books to understand
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  Speaker 1: her ideas and then found a school that I thought
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  Speaker 1: was consistent with those ideas, or ask consistence one could
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  Speaker 1: get keep them a Moneysori. You know, depending on the school,
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  Speaker 1: you might be able to keep them until third grade
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  Speaker 1: in a good Montessori school, and then you've got to
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  Speaker 1: find the best alternative.
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  Speaker 2: We send us our kids for the.
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  Speaker 1: Years for the primary and middle school to Lisa van
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  Speaker 1: Damn School, and then they went to kind of regular
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  Speaker 1: high school. But you got to find or move to
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  Speaker 1: place or they might be an objective school. They're more
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  Speaker 1: and more objectives out there in education, trying to do
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  Speaker 1: stuff in education. So you just got to go out
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  Speaker 1: there and try to find an objectivist and if you
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  Speaker 1: can't so if you can't move to where they are,
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  Speaker 1: then just find the best school available within wherever you
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  Speaker 1: live that you can do. That you can do Moulten splendor.
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  Speaker 1: Am I being secondhanded? If I am embarrassed for my country,
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  Speaker 1: if Pots says does stupid things about US or other countries,
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  Speaker 1: not at all. Your president represents you, whether you like
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  Speaker 1: it or not. He is in some way speaking for you.
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  Speaker 1: He speaks for America for it's citizens, and when he
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  Speaker 1: says embarrassing things. It's embarrassing to you because that's the
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  Speaker 1: person representing you speaking. So absolutely, it's not secondhanded to
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  Speaker 1: feel embarrassed by Trump's utterances.
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  Speaker 2: All right, okay, let's try to make all questions.
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  Speaker 1: You can do stickers any amount that you want, but questions,
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  Speaker 1: make them twenty dollars or more. I just don't have
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  Speaker 1: We're just not going to have the time to answer
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  Speaker 1: all the questions if they're going to be five, ten dollars,
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  Speaker 1: twenty dollars a more, and again preference to fifty and above.
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  Speaker 1: We've got exactly nine hundred and ninety seven dollars to
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  Speaker 2: We got goal.
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  Speaker 1: We've got more than an hour, so we've got plenty
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  Speaker 1: of time. Time is not an issue. Hopefully we'll get
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  Speaker 1: some new fresh blood coming in, people coming in and out,
• 3:15:09
  Speaker 1: fresh blood coming in who want to contribute to the
• 3:15:12
  Speaker 1: show and want to support it. It might be worth
• 3:15:14
  Speaker 1: letting the world know that we're on Live right now,
• 3:15:19
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna I'm gonna do that at least on Twitter.
• 3:15:21
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna post on Twitter. Just ups. Let me
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  Speaker 1: just do that live now. Come support the show, So
• 3:15:40
  Speaker 1: put that up there and and hopefully we'll get some
• 3:15:45
  Speaker 1: some new people to come and keep this, keep this going.
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  Speaker 1: But but we are chipping away, chipping away, nine and
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven to go. Maybe a little bit, like some
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  Speaker 1: money just came in, so maybe nine hundred and eighty five,
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  Speaker 1: there we go, and now we've got fifties. So these
• 3:16:06
  Speaker 1: fifties help a lot. The fifties help a lot, all right,
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  Speaker 1: Andrew thoughts on this. Thoughts on this advice as a
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  Speaker 1: rule not principle, one suggest to ignore minor aggravation aggravations
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  Speaker 1: in life. Focusing on minor negative magnet magnifies their significance
• 3:16:25
  Speaker 1: to one's psyche beyond the existential significance. Absolutely, I mean
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  Speaker 1: to the extent that you can. Uh, just just was
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  Speaker 1: it something about the small stuff? Just don't pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to small stuff. It's just not worth it. Now. Knowing
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  Speaker 1: what's small and what's not is part of the man,
• 3:16:42
  Speaker 1: you know, part of of what you need to develop
• 3:16:45
  Speaker 1: in life. But yeah, life is too short to get
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  Speaker 1: upset and to get worried, to get stressed and too
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  Speaker 1: about every little negative that happens in life. Just too short,
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  Speaker 1: too short.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, even thank you for the.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty dollars stick I really really really appreciated. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. All right, Moulten Splendor another fifty
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  Speaker 1: dollars Multen keeps coming back. You make my life so
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  Speaker 1: much easier. Thank you for not letting me get lost
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  Speaker 1: in all the negative happening in the world. I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: that a huge amount. Moulten Spender, thank you, thank you,
• 3:17:24
  Speaker 1: thank you. That is that is great? All right? Liam?
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  Speaker 1: Are many people broken are just underdeveloped?
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  Speaker 2: Happy New Year? I think that I think both.
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  Speaker 1: I think many people are broken in many people underdeveloped
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  Speaker 1: and stay underdeveloped. And that's what maybe broken means is
• 3:17:47
  Speaker 1: is the break makes it hard or impossible for them
• 3:17:51
  Speaker 1: to develop. But both. You see both out there in
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  Speaker 1: the world. Savannas good to see a savannahs Hello you
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  Speaker 1: on glad I could make it. I was out shopping
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  Speaker 1: for celebrating tonight. Excellent, excellent to celebrate. That's why I
• 3:18:08
  Speaker 1: have my heart stop because I have a restaurant reservation
• 3:18:11
  Speaker 1: to take going with my wife too. I was shopping
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  Speaker 1: celebrator tonight. What are your thoughts on tech companies pivoting
• 3:18:18
  Speaker 1: away from selling you hardware and software to preferring only
• 3:18:22
  Speaker 1: to lease you access to the goods and services. I
• 3:18:25
  Speaker 1: think it's probably a business model that makes a lot
• 3:18:27
  Speaker 1: of sense for the software companies and for companies more broadly.
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  Speaker 1: The reality is that you know, it's a great model
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  Speaker 1: to get recurring revenue. They've learned that from sell the
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  Speaker 1: raiser for cheap and make the money off of the Blades,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, it's worked for Microsoft over the years.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's probably the right model given the cloud,
• 3:18:54
  Speaker 1: given you can get these services from a cloud. And
• 3:18:58
  Speaker 1: again it's going back to the Blade strategy of selling
• 3:19:02
  Speaker 1: services and benefiting that way, making money that way. Recurring
• 3:19:07
  Speaker 1: revenue is something that businesses value enormously. All right, Lewis,
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  Speaker 1: it's great to see you. Thank you for being here
• 3:19:16
  Speaker 1: one hundred dollars, really really appreciate that. Happy New Year,
• 3:19:21
  Speaker 1: and thank you for the amazing event you put together
• 3:19:25
  Speaker 1: in San Francisco last year this year, and I'm looking
• 3:19:30
  Speaker 1: forward to doing at least one event in San Francisco
• 3:19:32
  Speaker 1: next year, so I will definitely let you know the
• 3:19:35
  Speaker 1: dates and all of that.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, that was a great event that debate.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately we didn't get a videotape of it, because I
• 3:19:44
  Speaker 1: think the videotape would have done really, really well. I
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  Speaker 1: also think that we would have gotten a lot of
• 3:19:49
  Speaker 1: good clips out of it, like little monologues out of it.
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  Speaker 1: But maybe next time we can arrange that. But that
• 3:19:58
  Speaker 1: was a great event where we debated religion is Catholic?
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  Speaker 1: Is the Christianity going to destroy the world? That was
• 3:20:05
  Speaker 1: so much fun. I enjoyed it. I think everybody in
• 3:20:07
  Speaker 1: the audience enjoyed it. And hopefully we can have we
• 3:20:10
  Speaker 1: can do something like that again in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: All right, methish something like that. M thanks for a
• 3:20:22
  Speaker 1: great year of YBS. The recent in depth shows and
• 3:20:26
  Speaker 1: guests were amazing. In twenty twenty six, how many World
• 3:20:29
  Speaker 1: War threes do you think we will have? What will
• 3:20:33
  Speaker 1: be the cause? And why will the Mosad be behind
• 3:20:36
  Speaker 1: all of them? Just asking questions. I think we'll have
• 3:20:39
  Speaker 1: many World War threes. You know, you could think of
• 3:20:42
  Speaker 1: one in Asia, well, one in East Asia, one in
• 3:20:47
  Speaker 1: South Asia, one in very very far West Asia, and
• 3:20:51
  Speaker 1: certainly one in Venezuela. Lots of World War threes, lots
• 3:20:55
  Speaker 1: of panic, lots of hysteria, lots of people being upset,
• 3:21:00
  Speaker 1: and and and yet we will and not any of
• 3:21:03
  Speaker 1: the Mossada behind most of them. The ones the Mosat
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  Speaker 1: is not behind. It'll be the Jews. It'll be the Jews.
• 3:21:09
  Speaker 1: But yes, we're just asking questions and and and not
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  Speaker 1: to imply anything about anybody with those questions. Thank you
• 3:21:20
  Speaker 1: for a little bit of humor here that that's great?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Uh, what happened here? All right? Anyway? That worked?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
• 3:21:35
  Speaker 2: How about Campbell?
• 3:21:37
  Speaker 1: Whenever you feel depressed or discouraged, doesn't you eve show
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  Speaker 1: ever blow you away that you've impacted so many people
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  Speaker 1: so positively and passionately as you generate twenty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: in a few hours. Yeah, it's inspiring. I mean, here's the.
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  Speaker 2: Thing about my audience is it's small. It really is small.
• 3:21:58
  Speaker 2: We have to acknowledge that.
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  Speaker 1: But it is loyal and dedicated and passionate and engaged
• 3:22:05
  Speaker 1: and you know, and and committed. And yeah, it's the
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  Speaker 1: best audience in the world. So while it's a small audience,
• 3:22:17
  Speaker 1: it's definitely the best audience. Lewis asks, does a man's
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  Speaker 1: for one hundred dollars? Doesn't man's work define him? I
• 3:22:29
  Speaker 1: don't think the work in it of itself defines him. Now,
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  Speaker 1: his character and at the end of the day's values
• 3:22:37
  Speaker 1: define him his moral values and his values. More broadly,
• 3:22:41
  Speaker 1: and given the centrality of Korea to a man's values,
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  Speaker 1: the centrality of corea not just work to his values,
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  Speaker 1: because it is, you know, the integrating value. It's super
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  Speaker 1: important in defining him. But it's not the only thing.
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 2: A man is defined by his values.
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  Speaker 1: By his Yeah, but by starting with his moral values,
• 3:23:12
  Speaker 1: starting with with with the kind of person he wants
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 2: That that is all defined.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you build your soul's by by choosing the
• 3:23:21
  Speaker 1: values to pursue and the method by which to pursue them.
• 3:23:26
  Speaker 1: Which are your virtues. Your virtues are the method you
• 3:23:30
  Speaker 1: use to pursue your values, and and uh and you
• 3:23:33
  Speaker 1: know the values of what comprises your character and your
• 3:23:37
  Speaker 1: soul and what you are and who you are. And
• 3:23:40
  Speaker 1: in that sense it defines you. All right, thank you,
• 3:23:44
  Speaker 1: less really appreciate it, James. The left has been calling
• 3:23:48
  Speaker 1: people racists who aren't for so many years. Now that
• 3:23:52
  Speaker 1: the genuine, genuine Nazis are here, no one believes them.
• 3:23:58
  Speaker 1: Happy New Year. This could be outlast. It won't be
• 3:24:01
  Speaker 1: out last. Don't worry, We'll still be around. But yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you completely and it is indeed very
• 3:24:13
  Speaker 1: difficult to make the case, make any kind of case
• 3:24:18
  Speaker 1: at you know, about racism, because of your people still
• 3:24:27
  Speaker 1: pey conditions to dismiss it, because of how the left
• 3:24:30
  Speaker 1: used it in the past. That Dudo Bani says, you said, quote,
• 3:24:37
  Speaker 1: don't focus extensively on changing the world. Change yourself. But
• 3:24:42
  Speaker 1: if the world sucks, even if you change yourself for better,
• 3:24:46
  Speaker 1: it can only take you so far. On that cheering note,
• 3:24:49
  Speaker 1: have an amazing New Year. Yeah, but once you change yourself,
• 3:24:54
  Speaker 1: once you're optimized, then you can maybe focus on the world.
• 3:24:58
  Speaker 1: But first make you the best that you can be.
• 3:25:04
  Speaker 1: All right, guys, five hundred and sixty five dollars in
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  Speaker 1: the next hour, and we're looking for twelve more super
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  Speaker 1: that on them. No fighting them out, just so we
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  Speaker 1: get those additional twelve so we meet YouTube's whatever goal.
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  Speaker 1: I think, I think it enhances anytime you meet you
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  Speaker 1: do what YouTube ask you to do. It's a good thing. Call.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see if it counts yours I don't know. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: that emoji is not powerful enough. We're looking for twelve.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know when it counts it
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  Speaker 1: wind doesn't. But anyway, bring him on newly Dan. If
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  Speaker 1: someone is against Zionism, whether they know what it means
• 3:26:01
  Speaker 1: or not, are they against the idea of immigration? No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't see why. I'm not sure what the relationship is,
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  Speaker 1: but no, I think you can be against Zionism and
• 3:26:14
  Speaker 1: pro immigration or against Zionism and anti immigration. I don't
• 3:26:18
  Speaker 1: see a cause of relationship there. Matt says, your appearance
• 3:26:24
  Speaker 1: on lex Friedman changed my life. Wow, I didn't know
• 3:26:28
  Speaker 1: of Ran before that. Thank you for all that you
• 3:26:30
  Speaker 1: do to make my life better. I know it's not easy,
• 3:26:34
  Speaker 1: but please try to book more appearances on other large
• 3:26:37
  Speaker 1: platforms in twenty twenty six. I will definitely try. Thank you,
• 3:26:41
  Speaker 1: Matt Andrew. What do you make of the conservatives glorification
• 3:26:46
  Speaker 1: of manual labor and the notion that a real American
• 3:26:48
  Speaker 1: workforce is filled with plumbers, mechanics and welders. Is that
• 3:26:52
  Speaker 1: marks labor theory value other causes? I think it's mars.
• 3:26:56
  Speaker 1: It's also the very anti intellectual nature the right, the
• 3:27:01
  Speaker 1: conservatives have become much more anti intellectual and uh, and
• 3:27:06
  Speaker 1: thus diminish the value of the mind, and and and
• 3:27:11
  Speaker 1: an emphasis on work. It also comes with religion, which
• 3:27:16
  Speaker 1: is of course anti intellectual. So add all that up
• 3:27:19
  Speaker 1: and this is what you get. All right, Josh, do
• 3:27:29
  Speaker 1: you have a top five books of twenty twenty five?
• 3:27:32
  Speaker 1: My top two reads for the year are Mania by
• 3:27:37
  Speaker 1: Lion You No Schreiver and Coddling of the American Mind
• 3:27:42
  Speaker 1: by Greg Lukian. I. Yeah, Coddling of the American Mind
• 3:27:44
  Speaker 1: is excellent. I read a number of really good books
• 3:27:47
  Speaker 1: this year. Let me let me give you a few,
• 3:27:51
  Speaker 1: A few here quickly. Let me give you a few
• 3:27:56
  Speaker 1: here quickly. Once. Then I need to bring up my
• 3:27:59
  Speaker 1: audiobooks because that's where most of the books are. Library,
• 3:28:04
  Speaker 1: all right, So God, why can't I see all the audiobooks? Uh?
• 3:28:16
  Speaker 1: Lost Enlightenment. I really enjoyed Lost Enlightenment by Frederick Starr
• 3:28:20
  Speaker 1: st A r. R. The Closing of the Western Mind
• 3:28:24
  Speaker 1: and The Reopening of the Western Mind, both by Charles Freeman,
• 3:28:28
  Speaker 1: are excellent. I enjoyed how the Scots invented the invented
• 3:28:32
  Speaker 1: the modern world. I thought it was really good. Yeah,
• 3:28:39
  Speaker 1: those all on a similar theme. And then there's one, Oh,
• 3:28:45
  Speaker 1: the Corporation and the twentieth Century.
• 3:28:47
  Speaker 2: I loved that book.
• 3:28:48
  Speaker 1: I thought it was fantastic. It was really, really, really amazing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: those those are the books that come to mind off
• 3:29:02
  Speaker 1: of that list. And then let me just see if
• 3:29:05
  Speaker 1: I can find my kindle on my phone. There's one
• 3:29:09
  Speaker 1: book on the Renaissance that I highly recommend. I'm reading
• 3:29:12
  Speaker 1: right now. It's got a great name, the best name
• 3:29:15
  Speaker 1: you could possibly think of for a book on hips.
• 3:29:19
  Speaker 1: And it disappeared. Where was it from your library? Yes,
• 3:29:24
  Speaker 1: here's the book. It's called The World at First Light,
• 3:29:29
  Speaker 1: The World at First Light, which is such a great
• 3:29:32
  Speaker 1: title for book on the Renaissance. It's an amazing book.
• 3:29:35
  Speaker 1: It's massive, thousand pages, the whole lead up to the Renaissance,
• 3:29:42
  Speaker 1: the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, what they were like,
• 3:29:45
  Speaker 1: what was going on. Amazing book. I'm learning so much
• 3:29:48
  Speaker 1: reading that book. Just stunning. All right, while we were gone,
• 3:29:52
  Speaker 1: you guys basically erased the whole thing. I mean basically
• 3:29:56
  Speaker 1: basically we're at goal. We're at fifteen thousand. So all
• 3:30:02
  Speaker 1: I can say is, wow, wow, that was amazing. All right,
• 3:30:08
  Speaker 1: So let you know we're gonna keep going because the
• 3:30:11
  Speaker 1: goal just moved. As as as goals do on you,
• 3:30:15
  Speaker 1: We're now going for the full twenty thousand because that's
• 3:30:18
  Speaker 1: my stretch goal. And I'm not even counting the PayPal.
• 3:30:20
  Speaker 1: We'll get to that later, but we'll we'll just we'll
• 3:30:24
  Speaker 1: just we'll just put it in there just to see
• 3:30:26
  Speaker 1: how close we get. But that's wow, that is amazing. Guys.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let me recognize I was saying we got
• 3:30:36
  Speaker 1: we got called we got called it a couple of stickers,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you called Dan, Thank you Dan, and then Silvanos
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  Speaker 1: with four hundred dollars, Thank you Sylvanos. God, that's amazing.
• 3:30:48
  Speaker 1: With one hundred dollars, that's five hundred dollars from Silvanos. Hey, Ron,
• 3:30:51
  Speaker 1: happy to help support you and the continued progress of
• 3:30:54
  Speaker 1: objectivism in general.
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  Speaker 2: Would you kindly read these back?
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  Speaker 1: Oh God six seven la boo boo fey Nor did
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  Speaker 1: nothing wrong. I said a hip hop the hippie, the
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  Speaker 1: hippie to the hip hip hop, and you don't stop
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  Speaker 1: the rocking one flew the sloppy toppy mountain. Thank you again.
• 3:31:26
  Speaker 1: Oh hopefully you'll create a clip of that and put
• 3:31:28
  Speaker 1: it up there online and I'll be remembered for that.
• 3:31:34
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Silvan. Honest I'm not sure what that was,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll take it. Ginger, Happy forty five squared plus
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  Speaker 1: one or just playing happy twenty twenty six. Wish you
• 3:31:53
  Speaker 1: a happy productive year. Your show is always provoking for me.
• 3:31:57
  Speaker 1: Thank you. It's from Ginger. Thank you Ginger. And I
• 3:32:01
  Speaker 1: think Andrew took us over the top with the goal
• 3:32:05
  Speaker 1: with fifty dollars. I think I've learned this from the show.
• 3:32:10
  Speaker 1: Is this true? Platonism led to the fall of the
• 3:32:13
  Speaker 1: Roman Empire, which led to the Dark Ages. Platonism also
• 3:32:18
  Speaker 1: led to Christianity, which led to the Dark Ages. Platonism
• 3:32:21
  Speaker 1: is the essential cause of the Dark Ages. Yes, I
• 3:32:24
  Speaker 1: think that's right. I think that's right. The relationship of
• 3:32:30
  Speaker 1: Platonism to the Roman Empire is something I don't have
• 3:32:34
  Speaker 1: fully worked out, which I couldn't tell you exactly what
• 3:32:37
  Speaker 1: that relationship would be. But yes, I think fundamentally, bad
• 3:32:41
  Speaker 1: Greek philosophy is what led to the fall of the
• 3:32:44
  Speaker 1: Roman Empire. And at the core of bad Greek philosophy
• 3:32:47
  Speaker 1: is Plato. I mean bad in a sense of wrong.
• 3:32:51
  Speaker 1: I mean Plato is one of the great philosophers in
• 3:32:56
  Speaker 1: the sense of asking all the right questions but not
• 3:32:59
  Speaker 1: giving the right answer. All right, we've got a lot
• 3:33:04
  Speaker 1: of questions still, and we have made our fifteen thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 1: So thank you, thank you, thank you. If we can
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  Speaker 1: get another and twenty one dollars in the next fifty
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  Speaker 1: five minutes, that will be amazing. Whatever we do, you know,
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  Speaker 1: from this point on is amazing, given that we already
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  Speaker 1: made the goal. I'll keep talking and if you want
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  Speaker 1: that would be amazing. Again. Yeah, come on over, come
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  Speaker 1: of content. Consider Lynn Olden as a guest in twenty
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  Speaker 1: six to talk about all things finance and money. Although
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  Speaker 1: she may disagree with you on bitcoin, she is polite,
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  Speaker 1: intelligence and interesting guests. Yeah, I mean, I like Lynn Olden.
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  Speaker 1: I actually listen to her book. I can't hearn the
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  Speaker 1: name of the book right now. And yeah, we disagree
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  Speaker 1: on bitcoin, but I found her analysis a bitcoin the
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  Speaker 1: most convincing of all the people presenting analysis of bitcoin.
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  Speaker 1: I thought shers was most convincing. I disagree with other
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  Speaker 1: things in terms of monetary history with her, She's got
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  Speaker 1: too much of a libertarian streak in terms of understanding
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  Speaker 1: wars and understanding what happens, not enough understanding of the
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  Speaker 1: role of ideas in history, and too much focus kind
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  Speaker 1: of on you know, money is the cause of or
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  Speaker 1: bad attitudes those money is the cause of everything. But
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  Speaker 1: I find her incredibly intelligent and well spoken. The biz
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  Speaker 1: a great reach. Idea republished a live show in a polished,
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  Speaker 1: polished version after some editing, cleanup, ad promo, etc. A
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  Speaker 1: IT tools can help a lot here. Human in the
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  Speaker 1: loop is still needed. All right, let me let me
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  Speaker 1: take that into account. Thank you. I appreciate that. Andrew
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  Speaker 1: ran to a photole Forum audience quote. All your rights
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  Speaker 1: rest on reality, on reality and your use of reason,
• 3:35:23
  Speaker 1: which is your means of observing reality. This is a
• 3:35:27
  Speaker 1: This is a very import point to remember. Absolutely absolutely
• 3:35:30
  Speaker 1: rights politics depends on ultimately epistemology and metaphysics, reality and reason. Uh, Leonid,
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  Speaker 1: thank you Roan for all your work. I definitely missed
• 3:35:45
  Speaker 1: the regular podcast while you are traveling.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great new year. Thank you, Leonid.
• 3:35:52
  Speaker 1: You know I'm going to try to keep up when
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• 3:35:58
  Speaker 1: a molten splendor has an of the question fifty dollars
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  Speaker 1: Am I evading if I say I'm too old and
• 3:36:04
  Speaker 1: yet a very young.
• 3:36:05
  Speaker 2: Objectivest student.
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  Speaker 1: And don't want to devote my remaining time to additional
• 3:36:13
  Speaker 1: objective studies? No, I don't know that you're evading. You
• 3:36:17
  Speaker 1: might be. It's hard for me to tell just from
• 3:36:20
  Speaker 1: what you're the information you're giving me whether you aren't.
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  Speaker 1: That is, if you're too old, right and yet? So
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  Speaker 1: anytime you say you're very young and then you argue
• 3:36:34
  Speaker 1: you're too old for something, it's not evasion, but it
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  Speaker 1: could be an error. It could be innocent error, it
• 3:36:40
  Speaker 1: could be an evasion. So don't want to devote my
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  Speaker 1: time remaining time to if I'm too old and yet
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  Speaker 1: a very young objective student. Oh, I see you're old.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, scrap all that. You actually are old. I'm assuming.
• 3:37:01
  Speaker 1: And you've only got so much time left in life,
• 3:37:05
  Speaker 1: and you've encountered objectivism relatively late in life, and you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to devote your many time to additional objective study.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's fine.
• 3:37:16
  Speaker 1: You have to live. Objectivism is about living capital l
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  Speaker 1: and the only reason to study objectivism is to live better.
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  Speaker 1: And there's only so much time in life, not only
• 3:37:27
  Speaker 1: so many things in life, so you have to prioritize
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  Speaker 1: your values, and you might no objectivism enough to be
• 3:37:34
  Speaker 1: able to go out then make the most of the
• 3:37:36
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  Speaker 1: feel guilty, and I certainly don't think you're evading to
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  Speaker 1: think that restalone something like that. Two hundred dollars, Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: five thousand to go for the twenty thousand, John, Thanks
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  Speaker 2: Keep them coming.
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  Speaker 1: We need we need twenty five fifty dollars. Twenty fifty dollars.
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  Speaker 1: twenty five anyway, Yes, twenty fifty dollars, fifty twenty dollars.
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  Speaker 1: it is, if it was objectively painful for man to
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  Speaker 1: focus on reality, we'd have to be living in an
• 3:40:26
  Speaker 1: alternative universe to the one man evolved to exist within. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: evolution would never make that possible, because to be focused
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  Speaker 1: on existence is what's required to survive. Steph, Happy new
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  Speaker 1: Year and looking forward to what comes in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: New supporter on Patreon. Thank you, thank you, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for that. What is your favorite nonfiction essay of Ironman's
• 3:40:50
  Speaker 1: Wow nonfiction essay of Ironman's I think it's objectives ethics,
• 3:40:58
  Speaker 1: because that makes it so clear. If not that, then
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  Speaker 1: it would be for the new intellectual because it's such
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  Speaker 1: a guide map to be an intellectual and what kind
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  Speaker 1: of work needs to be done and what needs to
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  Speaker 1: happen to make the world different. JP Miller, Paul Ave,
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  Speaker 1: whom you mentioned yesterday, strength widely known weaknesses. He's not
• 3:41:28
  Speaker 1: a leader despite sixty years of grooming. He's a king.
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  Speaker 1: Need I say more. I mean, hopefully he can become
• 3:41:35
  Speaker 1: a ceremonial guy who doesn't actually rule anything, but is
• 3:41:39
  Speaker 1: a symbol, a symbol of an alternative. So all he's
• 3:41:43
  Speaker 1: supposed to do, all he needs to do is just
• 3:41:46
  Speaker 1: be there as an inspiration and it is a symbol
• 3:41:51
  Speaker 1: for an alternative. He doesn't have to do much. Indeed,
• 3:41:55
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's competent enough to do too much. Linda.
• 3:42:03
  Speaker 1: Part one, New Year's Toast by Quinn Code Happy New
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  Speaker 1: Year from the codeas we valueybs and this is the quote.
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  Speaker 1: I guess our glass is filled with cheer. We do
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  Speaker 1: raise the solemn toast. Here's to allthough we hold dear,
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  Speaker 1: and to these, to those we treasure most very nice.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. That's perfect. Now is there part two? I'm looking, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: there's part two. May you take all you can find,
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  Speaker 1: May you keep all you can make. May your heart
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  Speaker 1: follow your mind. May you live for living's sake. I
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  Speaker 1: like that a lot. Particularly, May you live for living sake.
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  Speaker 1: I like that. And then may you reap all that
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  Speaker 1: and well. May your heaven be on earth and your
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  Speaker 1: enemies in hell. Quin Code code Queen code fine arts. Excellent,
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  Speaker 1: that was I really liked that. That was a great toast,
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  Speaker 1: A great short poem that serves as a toast. Perfect excellent.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Marra beans, let's see excited for twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six New spouse, Oh congratulations. Is it this spouse the
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  Speaker 1: any credit for this? New spouse, new job, new dog,
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  Speaker 1: new cat, new house, same awesome Gracie, Hey, Gracie, same
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  Speaker 1: amazing friends. And new experiments in the inductive history of biology. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's so exciting. All of those exciting. I'm particularly excited
• 3:43:50
  Speaker 1: about inductive history of biology and looking forward to really
• 3:43:54
  Speaker 1: seeing you work that out and work that through. Hopefully
• 3:43:59
  Speaker 1: you should be in touch with somebody at the Institute
• 3:44:00
  Speaker 1: to talk about that, maybe Keith Lockett, who does science
• 3:44:04
  Speaker 1: at the institute. No, just came in with one hundred
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  Speaker 1: Canadian dollars, so you're on. How much would you charge
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  Speaker 1: to review the movies Dumber and Dumber and ace Vent
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  Speaker 1: I know how you feel about these movies. Happy New
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  Speaker 1: Year and thanks for your wisdom. Yeah, I mean I
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  Speaker 1: hate dumb and dumba ace Vent too. A bet to
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  Speaker 1: take Avery that I can tolerate because there's some really
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  Speaker 1: funny scenes in it. Bet, Dumb and Dummer is just
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  Speaker 1: dumb and I can't tolerate it. But to her, there's
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  Speaker 1: there's some funny scene, so I can I can.
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  Speaker 2: Get through that somehow, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Four thousand, six hundred and seventy seven dollars left to
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  Speaker 1: go to reach our twenty thousand dollars goal. Four thousand,
• 3:44:50
  Speaker 1: six hundred and seventy seven. That is a lot. Ugh,
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  Speaker 1: all right, we do what we do, We do what
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  Speaker 1: we can, right.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, anybody want to do five hundred bucks? Anybody?
• 3:45:06
  Speaker 1: Anybody going once, going twice going for We've got to
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  Speaker 1: We've gotta we got another forty five minutes, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Raphael came in a bit late just to wish you
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  Speaker 1: great new year this year, this year from Cologne. Oh
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  Speaker 1: that's why you can drive to hambook. Always a pleasure
• 3:45:24
  Speaker 1: to be here and help move objectivism forward on one
• 3:45:27
  Speaker 1: mind at a time. Look forward to seeing you in Poto,
• 3:45:31
  Speaker 1: my friend, Looking forward to that event. Carl, please go
• 3:45:35
  Speaker 1: off on the evils of religious philosophy, specifically metaphysics, on
• 3:45:43
  Speaker 1: on a kid being raised religious powerful unseen forces for
• 3:45:47
  Speaker 1: good and evil after life. God plans warm the young
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  Speaker 1: future parents, warn the young future parents, God, you want
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  Speaker 1: me to go off, you know, uh, three hour, forty
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  Speaker 1: five minutes into the show.
• 3:46:02
  Speaker 2: On my energy level is tapped out.
• 3:46:07
  Speaker 1: You know, the idea, the idea of raising a kid,
• 3:46:14
  Speaker 1: raising a kid to believe that what he that real
• 3:46:18
  Speaker 1: reality is not real though what really matters is some
• 3:46:21
  Speaker 1: fictitious afterlife, someone heaven, a hell that he is maybe
• 3:46:26
  Speaker 1: even predestined to go to. That there is an all
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  Speaker 1: knowing God who is sitting, who is everywhere and knows
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  Speaker 1: every one of his emotions and every one of his thoughts.
• 3:46:40
  Speaker 1: And if he thinks an evil thought, God knows it.
• 3:46:44
  Speaker 1: If he thinks something negative, God knows that, and he
• 3:46:47
  Speaker 1: will be punished, maybe by going to Hell and boding
• 3:46:50
  Speaker 1: forever in that hell. I mean, that is so horrific,
• 3:46:54
  Speaker 1: so damaging psychologically and motivationally for any child, for any
• 3:47:00
  Speaker 1: human being. It is so evil evil to you know,
• 3:47:08
  Speaker 1: inculcate in a child a belief in something that is
• 3:47:12
  Speaker 1: unknorable is arbitrary. Think about the pistemology of arbitrary. That
• 3:47:19
  Speaker 1: is what you're teaching your child. You're crippling their mind,
• 3:47:24
  Speaker 1: or sabotaging at the very least, and crippling his ability
• 3:47:30
  Speaker 1: to enjoy his life. Against sabotaging, because the reality is
• 3:47:34
  Speaker 1: that parents don't have that much influence in their child.
• 3:47:37
  Speaker 1: Children can outgrow whatever it is their parents say or do.
• 3:47:43
  Speaker 1: Happer Campbell ideas for the show, considering scouting regular correspondence
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  Speaker 1: from air Rise Intellectual Incubator for once weekly segments on
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  Speaker 1: this special topic of interest. Pay them whatever access to
• 3:47:58
  Speaker 1: the hourly goal in the EP so they are in. Yeah,
• 3:48:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, I have a lot of the people on
• 3:48:06
  Speaker 1: I could have I certainly could have more people on,
• 3:48:09
  Speaker 1: and I will try. I would like to do an
• 3:48:10
  Speaker 1: interview every week. It's more logistic problems than anything else,
• 3:48:17
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I will be using more of the people
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  Speaker 1: from Meising Cubator in those interviews in the future. All right, now,
• 3:48:25
  Speaker 1: we have a lot of two and five and ten
• 3:48:28
  Speaker 1: dollars questions. I will go over these fairly quickly and
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  Speaker 1: again prioritize the higher valued questions as they come in,
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  Speaker 1: and talk about as they come in. Here comes Adam
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  Speaker 1: with another four hundred dollars. That'll make Adam another five
• 3:48:47
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars contributor on today's shows. Total. Thank you, thank you,
• 3:48:52
  Speaker 1: thank you, Adam. Adam says thanks, I was able to
• 3:48:55
  Speaker 1: finally thank you in person this year. Yep. Adamated ocon
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  Speaker 1: which was true and share a final poker table thanks,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for unsabotaging. Unsabotaging minds. Yeah, the culture and people
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  Speaker 1: do it to themselves, and then the culture and parents
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  Speaker 1: do it to their kids, and then I guess my
• 3:49:19
  Speaker 1: job is to unsabotage them. I like that. I like
• 3:49:22
  Speaker 1: that phrase. Thank you, Adam. Really really appreciate the support
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  Speaker 1: that that is really fantastic. All right, we are four
• 3:49:30
  Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty four dollars away from the goal.
• 3:49:34
  Speaker 1: Let's at least get under four thousand. So let's get
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  Speaker 1: to sixteen thousand as the total raised for today's show.
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  Speaker 1: That would be amazing. All right, Carolina, thank you for
• 3:49:49
  Speaker 1: another contribution. She's done a bunch of Mexican pesos. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Zamora has a stick. I thank you him for that.
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  Speaker 1: Really appreciate all the support from everybody. This has been amazing.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have come through in spades today. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not yet even counting the the the PayPal.
• 3:50:23
  Speaker 1: I'll add that at the end and let you know
• 3:50:26
  Speaker 1: what the total is. So but it's uh, yeah, all right,
• 3:50:34
  Speaker 1: let's see real spark sanction means to be full or
• 3:50:40
  Speaker 1: against something. No sanction is I mean, let's start with
• 3:50:48
  Speaker 1: the dictionary. It's always good to starve with the dictionary.
• 3:50:53
  Speaker 1: Section means to approve of something. It's not just a
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  Speaker 1: before against it. It's the proof of it. It's to
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  Speaker 1: give it permission. It's to okay it in some way.
• 3:51:12
  Speaker 1: So for example, in a context of way we have
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  Speaker 1: to talk about it. To be on stage with somebody
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  Speaker 1: is to sanction that person as a reasonable person worthy
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  Speaker 1: of having a discussion with. It's to prove of them
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  Speaker 1: in some way at some level. No, don't care. Have
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  Speaker 1: you ever thought about writing nonfiction? I couldn't. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have the imagination for it. I don't have the writing
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  Speaker 1: style for it. There is no way well nonfiction about
• 3:51:43
  Speaker 1: writing ever thought about writing? I do write nonfiction. Oh
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  Speaker 1: I got that confused. I said, you're asking about fiction.
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  Speaker 1: I do write nonfiction. Right equals Unfair and female co
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  Speaker 1: Revolution and mar case of Finance. And of course the
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  Speaker 1: new book that's coming out, Christianity versus the West. It's
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  Speaker 1: tentative title Noakain another one hundred dollars. Thank you, Tom,
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  Speaker 1: Hi you on Happy New Year twenty twenty five. Frankly
• 3:52:16
  Speaker 1: has been quite dark from political perspective, yes, it has.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very worried about.
• 3:52:20
  Speaker 2: The state of the US.
• 3:52:22
  Speaker 1: While I live here, I have chances to move back
• 3:52:25
  Speaker 1: to Canada or to Germany. Is the US still our
• 3:52:28
  Speaker 1: best hope for liberty? I think in a short run
• 3:52:32
  Speaker 1: it still is. I just don't see any other place
• 3:52:34
  Speaker 1: doing better other than maybe than Argentina. Certainly Canada is
• 3:52:37
  Speaker 1: not doing better. In Germany is in big trouble. In Germany,
• 3:52:41
  Speaker 1: you've got Russia breathing down the neck, so I would
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that either one of those alternatives are
• 3:52:50
  Speaker 1: better than the United States. As dark as it is
• 3:52:53
  Speaker 1: right now in the United States, it's still true that
• 3:52:58
  Speaker 1: this is the most important place in the world and
• 3:53:02
  Speaker 1: where we win or lose. Thank you, Thank you, Tom.
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  Speaker 1: Really appreciate the support trullly to the beauty in the world,
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  Speaker 1: especially Vosh X nine symphony. Love that symphony, one of
• 3:53:16
  Speaker 1: the really really great symphonies, really beautiful, real. Daniel Wellington,
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  Speaker 1: what's a movie and series of the year? God? I said,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't remember movie, and now you're can ask me
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  Speaker 1: a series? I have the same the same problem. Let
• 3:53:37
  Speaker 1: me just see twenty five what comes up? And if
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  Speaker 1: it reminds me of anything. I mean, not the best,
• 3:53:48
  Speaker 1: but I like Department Q on Netflix. Pluribus is really interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Glorybus on Apple TV is really interesting. Again, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I liked I think I watched it this year, even
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  Speaker 1: though it's not a series.
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  Speaker 2: FuMB this year.
• 3:54:12
  Speaker 1: Eighteen eighty three and nineteen twenty three, I really liked those.
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  Speaker 1: I did not like Yellowstone, but I especially liked eighteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty three, and then I second to that is nineteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. I'm trying to see what else there is
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  Speaker 1: best fifty TV shows of probably don't know any of these. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know any of these.
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  Speaker 2: Depart mcke was good.
• 3:54:50
  Speaker 1: Let me see what else here that I know of? No,
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  Speaker 1: and it was excellent, and it was probably my favorite
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  Speaker 1: or close to my favorite. So and it was very good.
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  Speaker 1: And on Disney Plus Hacks was pretty funny on times
• 3:55:13
  Speaker 1: not always. Let's see if there's any slow hosses. I
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  Speaker 1: really like Slow Hosts on Apple TV. Slow Hosts is
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  Speaker 1: really good. What else I think that's it? I think
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  Speaker 1: that's it all right, Volta, thank you for the twenty
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  Speaker 1: uh pounds. I appreciate that. So slowly chipping away another
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and seventeen to get under four thousand, which
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  Speaker 1: would be which would be cool. Under four thousand to go,
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  Speaker 1: so another one hundred and seventeen to get over sixteen thousand.
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  Speaker 1: Actually we're already over sixteen thousand, so technically because we've
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  Speaker 1: got that. All right, let's just keep it coming at
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  Speaker 1: whatever pace you think worthy works for you. All right,
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  Speaker 1: I'll think in the next few days about series and
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  Speaker 1: movies that I really like this year.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll talk about in one of the other shows.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, ac Action Jackson says, thanks for being a great
• 3:56:45
  Speaker 1: boss and for teaching me so much over the years.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for all the videos you made and for
• 3:56:52
  Speaker 1: getting all those shorts and videos and that have resulted
• 3:56:55
  Speaker 1: in increased subscribers and just more content out there for
• 3:57:01
  Speaker 1: the world. Please interview Nicholas Kusk about composers. That's a
• 3:57:08
  Speaker 1: good idea. I'll do that. I need I need to
• 3:57:11
  Speaker 1: add Nicholas to my to my list of people to
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  Speaker 1: invite to interview. Thank you, real spock uh silvanos Hey
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  Speaker 1: you on. Have you covered the possible SpaceX public IPO
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  Speaker 1: next year? Four hundred twenty one dollars a share, eight
• 3:57:29
  Speaker 1: hundred billion total value insane to think what Musk's value
• 3:57:34
  Speaker 1: will be after that happens. To be honest, Labuba is
• 3:57:39
  Speaker 1: pronounced l boo boo, le boo boo in quick succession
• 3:57:43
  Speaker 1: leboo boo. I don't know what that represents anyway, I
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  Speaker 1: haven't talked about it. I'm waiting to see that it
• 3:57:51
  Speaker 1: materializes on what exactly happened. I haven't looked at the financials,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't know what the valuation is based on.
• 3:57:59
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know what percentage of that company
• 3:58:02
  Speaker 1: must owns. But space X is an amazing company. There's
• 3:58:05
  Speaker 1: no question it makes money. It's profitable, so it's going
• 3:58:10
  Speaker 1: to be a really really interesting IPO. Yeah, I mean,
• 3:58:16
  Speaker 1: Musk is amazing in his business world life. E G says,
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  Speaker 1: first ever super Chat, first time, long time, excellent. Thank you.
• 3:58:29
  Speaker 1: I really appreciate you doing it and participating and yeah,
• 3:58:34
  Speaker 1: participating in today's show. This is great in this historical show,
• 3:58:39
  Speaker 1: which is going to get us to way over sixteen
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  Speaker 1: thousy maybe sixteen five, we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna do this.
• 3:58:47
  Speaker 1: I need to do this. I need to pick up
• 3:58:49
  Speaker 1: the pace. What do you think about a p article?
• 3:58:51
  Speaker 1: The Nation's turn and fifty anniversary arrives with a call
• 3:58:55
  Speaker 1: for a year round community service. I mean, I think
• 3:58:58
  Speaker 1: that's despicable. That's our tourism, that's anti American. It goes
• 3:59:02
  Speaker 1: against the very nature of the Declaration of Independence, which
• 3:59:05
  Speaker 1: is inherently individualistic and even egoistic. Pursuit of happiness. In
• 3:59:13
  Speaker 1: Aliable write, pursuit of happiness doesn't get much much more
• 3:59:17
  Speaker 1: egoistic than that. Captain Chandler. Check out Dan Norton's show
• 3:59:22
  Speaker 1: second only to YBS. That's Captain Chandler said, Josh, it's
• 3:59:28
  Speaker 1: almost unbelievable that Majorie Taylor Green was the first to
• 3:59:31
  Speaker 1: break rank. Is insanity in Magaaland yes it is. Of
• 3:59:36
  Speaker 1: all the people, she would be the one to go
• 3:59:38
  Speaker 1: after Trump first Porto nineteen sixty eight.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for the sticker, Really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Pete Gupta, please help explain why Trump's sphar grab Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I did that? All right?
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  Speaker 2: Real spark?
• 3:59:54
  Speaker 1: Can you show us photo of you and idf army uniform?
• 3:59:59
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't know that I have one. As
• 4:00:01
  Speaker 1: ridiculous as that might be, I don't know if I
• 4:00:03
  Speaker 1: have one. I remember, those are the days of film,
• 4:00:06
  Speaker 1: not digital I'm sure there is some way, maybe if
• 4:00:09
  Speaker 1: my mom has someone in a box some way, but
• 4:00:12
  Speaker 1: I don't have one accessible. Put it that way, I
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  Speaker 1: don't have one with me in any way, Dan, thank
• 4:00:19
  Speaker 1: you for all the shows. It's my favorite, most rabble,
• 4:00:22
  Speaker 1: most listened to podcasts. Do you have a favorite topic
• 4:00:26
  Speaker 1: to discuss on YBS? Happy New Year?
• 4:00:31
  Speaker 2: I like the shows about imagining a capitalist world.
• 4:00:34
  Speaker 1: I like the I like the euron Rules for Life
• 4:00:39
  Speaker 1: for though I don't feel like I have a lot
• 4:00:42
  Speaker 1: more to say about that, but I like those shows.
• 4:00:44
  Speaker 1: I like the positive shows I definitely like. And then
• 4:00:46
  Speaker 1: I like the ones where I rant. I like my
• 4:00:49
  Speaker 1: ranting shows where I just go out all out on something.
• 4:00:54
  Speaker 1: Those are fun, okay, Moon Rock. Do you think if
• 4:00:57
  Speaker 1: Trump gets impeached, Vance would not be impeached with him
• 4:01:02
  Speaker 1: and Advance and Trump are impeached and Mike Johnson becomes
• 4:01:04
  Speaker 1: it takes over? Would that be sustainable substantially better? So, first,
• 4:01:09
  Speaker 1: I don't think Trump will be impeached. That's one second.
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  Speaker 1: If he's impeached, he won't be impeached with Vance. I
• 4:01:14
  Speaker 1: don't think that will happened. Dvance hasn't done anything, He's
• 4:01:17
  Speaker 1: not in a position to do anything to justify impeachment,
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  Speaker 1: so that won't happen. So no, I don't think Trump
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  Speaker 1: will be impeached. If he's impeached, Vance will become president. Smazing,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you fifty dollars, you're the best. You're on. Absolutely
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  Speaker 1: love how your mind works. And wish the late miss
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  Speaker 1: rand was around to hear you. Thank you. That's a
• 4:01:38
  Speaker 1: that's quite a compliment. Quick observation for comment. Public funded
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  Speaker 1: education is a form of intellectual welfare and lagardless two
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  Speaker 1: material version of traditional warfare. Yes, and even more damaging.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't like to call it it's publicly funded.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even like to call it publicly government funded.
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  Speaker 1: Government funded education, government education, public educations, government for education.
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  Speaker 1: And it's government corruption. It government corrupts the wealth, Government
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  Speaker 1: corrupts the recipients of welfare, and and it makes yourself
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  Speaker 1: right for corruption. And government corrupts the minds of the young.
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  Speaker 1: And there's nothing worse than that. It's the best mediocre,
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  Speaker 1: at worst, crippling the minds of young people. I think
• 4:02:24
  Speaker 1: I'm too generous to call it mediocre, all right, real respect,
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  Speaker 1: How did Christianity rue Rome Roman Empire?
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  Speaker 2: When did they when they.
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  Speaker 1: Had a psycho like Nero, Caligola, Commodus, Diasclearian and all
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  Speaker 1: these others. Christian wan apiece. Christians want a peace. You
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  Speaker 1: should tell that too. The to the Emperor Constantine, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't want piece. None of these emperors want a piece,
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  Speaker 1: and none of the Christian emperors want a piece. Christianity
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want piece. It wants to convert. And indeed it
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  Speaker 1: spent uh two tho, you know, fifteen hundred years, sixteen
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  Speaker 1: hundred years converting people by the sword, a crusade after crusade,
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  Speaker 1: but even before the Crusades, and under the Roman under
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  Speaker 1: Christian Roman emperors, it was it used the sword.
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  Speaker 2: Now Christianity didn't.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't the only And I said this, I said
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  Speaker 1: this over and over again. It's not the only cause
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  Speaker 1: of the decline of Rome. It's one of the causes.
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  Speaker 1: As somebody said, bad Greek philosophy, including Platonic philosophy, brought
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  Speaker 1: about the decline of Road and made brought about the
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  Speaker 1: decline of Roman made emperors like Nero and Calligular possible
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  Speaker 1: because nobody would stand up to them, because the system
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  Speaker 1: had been weakened so badly. Doctor van Helsing, what grade
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  Speaker 1: do you give Scotus in twenty twenty five? What do
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  Speaker 1: you expect from them in twenty twenty six? I'd give
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  Speaker 1: them a I don't know, BNS, maybe a C plus.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five, I thought twenty twenty four was
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  Speaker 1: better in some regards, and I am because that's when
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  Speaker 1: they got rid of I forget the name. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, I'm hoping for B. That would require
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  Speaker 1: them to basically say that tariff's on that tas, that
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  Speaker 1: half the tas the Trump Institute at a gilgro against
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  Speaker 1: the Constitution were legal.
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  Speaker 2: How about coalition building hn Y.
• 4:04:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know what h and Y means, and I
• 4:04:34
  Speaker 1: don't know what coalition building means in what context, with whom,
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  Speaker 1: for what, for what purpose? I don't know. Happy New
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  Speaker 1: Year h and Y is Happy New Year, all right?
• 4:04:46
  Speaker 1: Adjacent idea people could call in number and leave a
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  Speaker 1: message and you get paid, but just play their thirty
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  Speaker 1: second sixty second message. I don't know, twenty five fifty
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  Speaker 1: bucks one week one and you apply to it some
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  Speaker 1: rules to avoid troll calls. Interesting. Interesting, I'd have to
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  Speaker 1: figure out how to do that, but it's possible. I
• 4:05:15
  Speaker 1: was thinking of just taking you know, should I just
• 4:05:18
  Speaker 1: take calls? Should I connect this the phone number and
• 4:05:22
  Speaker 1: take calls on some of my shows? All right? Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Jason Gene fifty dollars. Thank you, Gene. What's your YouTube?
• 4:05:36
  Speaker 1: Spotify twenty twenty five recap? Number one song? Oh God,
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  Speaker 1: you guys do these things to me? And I can't remember.
• 4:05:47
  Speaker 1: In terms of song YouTube Spotify twenty twenty five recap
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  Speaker 1: the one that I reviewed?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't remember. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to get back to you because I
• 4:06:00
  Speaker 1: I just can't remember, and I don't know. If you're
• 4:06:05
  Speaker 1: asking about a popular song out there in the culture,
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  Speaker 1: then the answer is none, because I don't know any
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  Speaker 1: of them, so so I just wouldn't know. Thank you,
• 4:06:19
  Speaker 1: Gene for the support for the fifty dollars. H flawed
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  Speaker 1: and nick A recruited a recurring segment called why why
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  Speaker 1: BS Why BS? Where you take something in the news
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  Speaker 1: that is BS and unbs it okay, interesting, okay, okay. Trillu,
• 4:06:48
  Speaker 1: Japan's new Prime Minister Takachani quoted attack on Titan quote,
• 4:06:55
  Speaker 1: shut your mouths and invest everything in me? What do
• 4:07:00
  Speaker 1: you make of her?
• 4:07:01
  Speaker 2: In that quote?
• 4:07:02
  Speaker 1: I'd have to figure out the context of the quotes.
• 4:07:06
  Speaker 1: I don't want to comment on the quote. I think
• 4:07:10
  Speaker 1: she's mixed. She seems tough, strong and from policy, but
• 4:07:17
  Speaker 1: not very pro free markets, which is what Japan needs.
• 4:07:20
  Speaker 1: Japan needs a real free market government that really liberalized
• 4:07:26
  Speaker 1: the economy and restructures it.
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  Speaker 2: That's what's needed.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I don't know whether they're going to
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  Speaker 1: get it, and that it doesn't seem like they're going
• 4:07:34
  Speaker 1: to get it from her. Well, Okay, mindspan, Which bolkage account, Fidelity,
• 4:07:41
  Speaker 1: schwab do you recommend for new investors and how to
• 4:07:43
  Speaker 1: start learning to invest effectively?
• 4:07:46
  Speaker 2: I think any of them, it doesn't really matter.
• 4:07:49
  Speaker 1: The key to investing effectively is not to get the
• 4:07:51
  Speaker 1: right bookage account. It's basically to invest in a diversified
• 4:07:55
  Speaker 1: but for you of mutual funds that cost very little,
• 4:07:58
  Speaker 1: so SWA it's probably better than the lot fidelty only
• 4:08:02
  Speaker 1: because you'll get access not only to fidelty funds, but
• 4:08:05
  Speaker 1: to all funds. And you can get vanguard funds, which
• 4:08:08
  Speaker 1: are typically the cheapest. And and then and then you've
• 4:08:11
  Speaker 1: got to you've got you index and you know, try
• 4:08:16
  Speaker 1: to get take a basic finance course I think I've
• 4:08:19
  Speaker 1: done a personal finance show and you know, so try
• 4:08:25
  Speaker 1: to find my old personal finance show and give it
• 4:08:28
  Speaker 1: a listen. But you want to be diversified, cheaply diversified.
• 4:08:35
  Speaker 1: Mike wants to show discussing sink and handles in Atlas. Shrugged. No,
• 4:08:40
  Speaker 1: we're not fountain it in the fountain it Peter Keating
• 4:08:43
  Speaker 1: for example. Okay, good idea. Uh y'all, what's your take
• 4:08:48
  Speaker 1: on impeachment? Talk about Pam Bondy. It won't happen. It
• 4:08:52
  Speaker 1: won't happen. Uh, Caleb leverage the live unrespected aspect of
• 4:08:58
  Speaker 1: the show with love have calls. Heah, I've thought about this,
• 4:09:02
  Speaker 1: et cetera. Or adds segments with other personalities. Maybe get
• 4:09:07
  Speaker 1: a young part producer. That's how these popular white YouTube
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  Speaker 1: shows seem to work. Yeah, I mean, if somebody knows
• 4:09:15
  Speaker 1: of a young producer, let me know. I'm willing to
• 4:09:18
  Speaker 1: consider a young producer. So Martin, thank you fifty dollars,
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  Speaker 1: fifty four dollars, thank you for the support. Really appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: Me cockup.
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  Speaker 1: I'm planning to attend my first concert featuring bronze second
• 4:09:39
  Speaker 1: piano concerto and Schubert's ninth Symphony. Do you like these
• 4:09:42
  Speaker 1: works Happy New Year? Yes, both of them fantastic, particularly
• 4:09:46
  Speaker 1: Broms second, But Schubert's fifth, No, they're both spectacular. Love
• 4:09:50
  Speaker 1: them both, particularly Broms second. I think you'll enjoy that
• 4:09:54
  Speaker 1: a lot. If it's your first come, well, hopefully, hopefully
• 4:09:58
  Speaker 1: you've heard the music before. You should get your ear
• 4:10:03
  Speaker 1: tuned to new pieces that you've never heard before before
• 4:10:06
  Speaker 1: you go to a concert and see them live. An
• 4:10:10
  Speaker 1: idea for spreading objectivism. This is equal to reality. We
• 4:10:15
  Speaker 1: need more stories and objectivist rational heroes. I am already
• 4:10:19
  Speaker 1: working on my own version, just can't figure out K three.
• 4:10:22
  Speaker 1: I agree, need more more stories, absolutely real spark. Did
• 4:10:26
  Speaker 1: you ever see Avengers Infinity War? For the villain Thanos's
• 4:10:32
  Speaker 1: big goal was to sit on the front porch and relax.
• 4:10:35
  Speaker 1: He seems like a conservative. Yeah, absolutely, I did watch
• 4:10:39
  Speaker 1: it years ago. I didn't love it, but I didn't
• 4:10:42
  Speaker 1: particularly like it. But but yes, that that it sounds
• 4:10:45
  Speaker 1: like exactly a conservative. P GUPT opinion on how AI
• 4:10:49
  Speaker 1: has changed industry this year. I think the biggest way
• 4:10:53
  Speaker 1: it's changed the biggest the industry has changed its programming.
• 4:10:56
  Speaker 1: I think that AI. People use it AI actively in programming,
• 4:11:03
  Speaker 1: and that has really changed the productivity of programmers and
• 4:11:07
  Speaker 1: it's going to become even more so. Ohie, what a
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  Speaker 1: time to be alive. Thank you for being a great
• 4:11:13
  Speaker 1: model of virtue. Appreciate that. Please tell a story about
• 4:11:17
  Speaker 1: an adventure you had in your twenties early thirties. Can
• 4:11:20
  Speaker 1: be brief. I've already heard idf and high hitch hiking stories.
• 4:11:26
  Speaker 1: Hitch Hiking was teens, wasn't twenties. I don't know what
• 4:11:31
  Speaker 1: an adventure would be a god. Anything where you require
• 4:11:37
  Speaker 1: me to recollect stuff from my memory is difficult. An
• 4:11:44
  Speaker 1: adventure in my twenties and early thirties. I mean, look,
• 4:11:50
  Speaker 1: a big adventure in my twenties was basically, together with
• 4:11:57
  Speaker 1: my wife, basically uprooting our life in Israel, which was
• 4:12:01
  Speaker 1: quite comfortable. I had a good job. My wife was
• 4:12:04
  Speaker 1: just finished a bachelor's degree. I had a good job.
• 4:12:07
  Speaker 1: I was going to I was going to become a
• 4:12:08
  Speaker 1: partner in a construction management company. I liked the work,
• 4:12:14
  Speaker 1: I liked the guy who had hired me and was
• 4:12:17
  Speaker 1: going to make me his partner. And yeah, life was
• 4:12:21
  Speaker 1: going to be good. And we uprooted and moved to
• 4:12:24
  Speaker 1: the United States to go to school and to a
• 4:12:27
  Speaker 1: place I'd never been to, Austin, Texas. My wife had
• 4:12:30
  Speaker 1: never been on an airplane and had never been outside
• 4:12:33
  Speaker 1: of Israel, and you know, she came with me, and
• 4:12:37
  Speaker 1: you know that that whole We're going to America and
• 4:12:40
  Speaker 1: we're going to try to figure this out and try
• 4:12:42
  Speaker 1: to create a life there. That's the big adventure of
• 4:12:45
  Speaker 1: our was in my twenties and in the thirties. The
• 4:12:47
  Speaker 1: big adventure was having kids. That was also late twenties. Actually,
• 4:12:52
  Speaker 1: my first kid was when I was twenty eight, So
• 4:12:57
  Speaker 1: those were the big adventures. To turn them into stories
• 4:13:01
  Speaker 1: hard for me. After a four and a four hours
• 4:13:03
  Speaker 1: plus of doing the show, challenging all right, Aaron says,
• 4:13:11
  Speaker 1: best way to improve the show is to change the host,
• 4:13:15
  Speaker 1: and he has some winks and nods. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, philosophy at work with all four of my
• 4:13:23
  Speaker 1: beloved goals. I'm here celebrating the holidays in our third year.
• 4:13:28
  Speaker 1: Thank you, jan never stop singing your song.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Thank you Jeff.
• 4:13:35
  Speaker 1: When I post the Malay meme quote if prienning money
• 4:13:39
  Speaker 1: would end poverty, printing diplomas with add stupidity. I get
• 4:13:44
  Speaker 1: the recurring trope. Oh but the but the bailout? How
• 4:13:50
  Speaker 1: would you answer the bailout condemnation? The bayou was more
• 4:13:56
  Speaker 1: political than economic. It wasn't about economics. It was about politics.
• 4:14:00
  Speaker 1: The bail I had no effect economically, It hadn't affect politically,
• 4:14:04
  Speaker 1: and I wish they hadn't done it. But the bailout
• 4:14:07
  Speaker 1: has nothing to do with me Lay's achievements. It did
• 4:14:11
  Speaker 1: not affect does it in economy? Fandop I algorithm boosting
• 4:14:16
  Speaker 1: idea I got from another show. Read five star reviews
• 4:14:21
  Speaker 1: wherever they are posted, encourages leaving reviews, and shares people
• 4:14:27
  Speaker 1: people's positive experiences. Interesting. Okay, MCP here's another thank you Carolina,
• 4:14:38
  Speaker 1: Happy New Year. Thank you, Thank you Carolina. Aaron again
• 4:14:42
  Speaker 1: forget forgot to wish you happy New Year. Thank you. Aaron.
• 4:14:46
  Speaker 1: Andrews says mister Sims irrational. It certainly is my span
• 4:14:52
  Speaker 1: as an educator. What objective is teaching? Material? Are most
• 4:14:55
  Speaker 1: missing today? Slides, curriculum, case studies, et cetera. That independent
• 4:15:01
  Speaker 1: creators could build with real demand. Also, what topics and content?
• 4:15:06
  Speaker 1: That is a big question and it's not clear what
• 4:15:10
  Speaker 1: you mean by demand, demand by whom. But I'd say
• 4:15:13
  Speaker 1: all of the above it's all missing. I'd say a
• 4:15:16
  Speaker 1: lot of real world examples are missing, but curricular case studies,
• 4:15:23
  Speaker 1: all of that is missing. So just building courses beyond
• 4:15:27
  Speaker 1: what is being done by the Ironman Institute for AOI
• 4:15:31
  Speaker 1: Live and other AI programs, there is none out there
• 4:15:35
  Speaker 1: and they should be. So yeah, I mean that's a
• 4:15:39
  Speaker 1: big topic that we should come back to ask me
• 4:15:42
  Speaker 1: during another show and we can talk more about it. Dan,
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  Speaker 1: my iran promoting YouTube channel at Dan Norton was recently monetized,
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  Speaker 1: so now I can start taking super chats too. But
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  Speaker 1: I'll keep contributing to your show too. Value for value.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Dan, appreciate it. Aaron in I'm gen z
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  Speaker 1: you previously talked about economic pressures for electric cause what
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  Speaker 1: about insurance companies putting pressure to buy them for safety reasons?
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  Speaker 1: I mean that is possible, but the problem is only
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  Speaker 1: if they're self driving. Yes, if they're self driving, know
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  Speaker 1: if they're just electric, so the pressure would be on
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  Speaker 1: self driving, not un electric now self driving, all electric,
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  Speaker 1: So that's the link. Mary Eleen IINRAN talks about the
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  Speaker 1: value of knowing multiple languages in global balcanization, probably elsewhere too,
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  Speaker 1: all right, thank you, Yes that makes sense. There would
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  Speaker 1: be in global gup balconization. I'm losing my voice. Are
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  Speaker 1: those fearing robots I taking all jobs soon? Rationalists? No?
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  Speaker 1: Not necessarily. They could be ignorant. There could be a
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  Speaker 1: lot of different things. There are lots of different ways
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  Speaker 1: in which you can be wrong. Pretty much only one
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  Speaker 1: way to re write, lots of ways to be wrong. Ryan.
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  Speaker 1: When people say any day above ground is a good
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  Speaker 1: gay day, they are right. But it's a pretty low Bob.
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  Speaker 1: Is this a form of nihilism. No, it's a form
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  Speaker 1: of cynicism, but not necessarily nihilism. But it's a very lowbill,
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  Speaker 1: very lobile. What you need is a day above ground,
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  Speaker 1: living capital l laid back.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, says, here's for the second hour. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Norton Again, super chatsity one book show have helped
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  Speaker 1: me get many new subscribers to my I RAN themed
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  Speaker 1: nine hundred and eighty subscribers almost one thousand. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Dan is using the super chests to market his own show, Miroslav.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you again. Who's this big rep? I can't see anymore?
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  Speaker 1: My eyesight is fading with my energy. Thank you. Philip
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  Speaker 1: Hopkins just came in with one hundred dollars. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Happy New Year, thanks for keeping me company for my
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  Speaker 1: three mile walks. Excellent, Thank you, Lucretian objectivist, Hey gen
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  Speaker 1: z here, excellent. I think there are others like me
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  Speaker 1: that as early teens created YouTube accounts, with some that
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  Speaker 1: exaggerated dates of birth, it might shift some of the numbers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I've heard that. I hope that's true. I hope I
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  Speaker 1: have many many more young people out there listening to
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  Speaker 1: the show, Samaronik. Is there validity to the Nitagnell corruption trial? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there is. I'm pretty sure there is not
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  Speaker 1: certain high probability, mind span, would you consider hosting Amen
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  Speaker 1: Navabi Atheist Republic on YBS. He's a leading Uranian voice
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  Speaker 1: in English, also has a Persian channel with unique insights
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  Speaker 1: on Iran and secul liberal perspective. I'll definitely look into it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll definitely look into it, particularly if these demonstrations continue.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel says, I send a one hundred dollars on PayPal,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, but it's being reviewed. You should have Richard
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  Speaker 1: Hanania on the show. That'll be interesting. Neo Your Neo
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  Speaker 1: Conservatism book is two thousands, three hundred dollars on Amazon
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  Speaker 1: and Apple Books. Anything you can do about that, huh.
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  Speaker 1: I'll have to talk to Brad, my co author, about
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  Speaker 1: contacting the publisher. Is there no kindle version or some
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  Speaker 1: other version that's significantly cheaper, because that would be the
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  Speaker 1: way to go. All right, we got ten minutes to
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  Speaker 1: go through these questions, okay. Rfel also wanted to mention
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  Speaker 1: what I've watched The Aviator for the first time and
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  Speaker 1: highly recommended. Yes, good movie. Leonardo DiCaprio playing Howard Hughes.
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  Speaker 1: If anyone needs a movie recommendation, super inspiring story of
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  Speaker 1: Howard Hughes. Absolutely. Oh, by the way, on Saturday, I'll
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  Speaker 1: be reviewing two movies. I'll be reviewing. I'll be reviewing
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  Speaker 1: the two movies left better Man and Ford Versus Ferrari
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  Speaker 1: This Saturday Better Man of Ford Versus Ferrari, and the
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  Speaker 1: follow Saturday I'll be reviewing Write the Tiger by Evola,
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  Speaker 1: and the Saturday after that I'll finish up my review
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  Speaker 1: of Folks in the Road. So I should be done
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  Speaker 1: with all the reviews in a few weeks. In a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks, quit Abaya on books for Kindle. There editions
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  Speaker 1: Does Aari approve such books? Are they aware? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'll have to check look into it. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: pointing it out, Trevor, thank you for the sticker. Really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you. First super Chat twenty dollars. Really appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Stephen. I wish I
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  Speaker 1: was in a position to give more this year. Loyal,
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  Speaker 1: longtime listener. Here show means a lot to me. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for keeping it going happy twenty twenty six. Thank you, Steven.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see Exit supporting a philosophy for Living on Earth
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  Speaker 1: formerly ADF.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, audif.
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  Speaker 1: Nz. Let's make twenty thousand happen. Probably not, but we're it.
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  Speaker 1: Huh why did this stop? Stop doing it? With sixteen
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  Speaker 1: three point thirty sixteen three fifty sixteen with sixteen three
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  Speaker 1: fifty right now, so we'll take three thousand, you know,
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  Speaker 1: six hundred and fifty. I don't think that's happening in
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  Speaker 1: the next seven minutes. Mindspan. Have you tried notebook l
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  Speaker 1: lam at grounds AI strictly in user provided resources, letting
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  Speaker 1: study your essays, generate, slide deck, summarize, and even podcast
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  Speaker 1: style audio without hallucination. No, I will check it out.
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  Speaker 1: I will check it out. Thank you. Let's see chrowe
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  Speaker 1: we something. We're getting richer and life is getting easier.
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  Speaker 1: Yet we seem to be in a philosophical decline. Is
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  Speaker 1: the Western world faltering or can it rebound? It's faltering
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  Speaker 1: and it can rebound. Mind Span. Have you explored Google's
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  Speaker 1: anti gravity software. It's AI agent software that can plan task,
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  Speaker 1: build website apps, interact on the web, and execute workflow automatically.
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  Speaker 1: Not just answer the question, no, I have not. I
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  Speaker 1: have not. I need to. I need to get on
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  Speaker 1: top of all this, all right, Thank you, mind Span,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Jackson, thank you Ron for a great year of talks.
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  Speaker 1: Happy new year from Paris. Keep up the good work,
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  Speaker 1: enjoy keep enjoying Paris. Thank you, Ben Michael. What is
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  Speaker 1: some of your best advice for teaching kids to think?
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  Speaker 1: I fol kids seven to thirteen. Oh wow, I mean math, science.
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  Speaker 1: Teach them science through experiment, through through actual experimentation, concrete,
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  Speaker 1: you know, induction. Demonstrate induction for them through experimentation, and
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  Speaker 1: teach them history. History and science and math are the
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  Speaker 1: things that are the best way to teach them how
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  Speaker 1: to think. Daniel, the Pentagon seems to think China will
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  Speaker 1: make a move on Taiwan by twenty seven. You should
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  Speaker 1: have Scott McDonald on again. I missed the first time
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  Speaker 1: he was on. Well, you can go back and watch
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  Speaker 1: him now. I'll try to have Scott on again. That's
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  Speaker 1: a good idea. You know, he's really good and China
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  Speaker 1: is definitely in the news. Daniel. I was on the
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  Speaker 1: bench press when you made fun of Matt Walsh and
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  Speaker 1: I laughed out, loied and almost killed myself. You should
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  Speaker 1: give a warning next time. You can't listen to your
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  Speaker 1: one book show while you're bench pressing.
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  Speaker 2: That's insane. I wouldn't listen to myself while bench pressing.
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  Speaker 1: God, particularly if you've got dumbells, those are really dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: You could really kill yourself. Andrew. Funny thing about conservatives
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  Speaker 1: who claim the mantle of masculinity is they're always whining. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I noticed that. Not very masculine, all right, flawed and
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  Speaker 1: Nick says, well, the ominous parallels ever be an audible.
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  Speaker 1: I'm certainly trying. It's not up to me. Sorry, all right, guys,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: This has been amazing.
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  Speaker 1: We've raised sixteen thousand, six hundred, sixteen three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty two. That is just from that's just from YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: You can add to that another five thousand dollars on PayPal,
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  Speaker 1: so pretty amazing, pretty amazing. Over twenty one thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: raised today. So no, sorry, and I think I exaggerated
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  Speaker 1: on people. Yeah, five thousand, five thousand dollars on people,
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  Speaker 1: so pretty amazing, pretty amazing, Thank you guys. Oh, and
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  Speaker 1: Ian just came in with another fifty dollars to kind
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  Speaker 1: of help wrap it up in a good mood. Yes, okay,
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  Speaker 1: So I had this thing. I had this news article.
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  Speaker 1: Had this news article. It's titled one thousand and eighty
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  Speaker 1: four reasons the world isn't falling apart all the good
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  Speaker 1: news stories of twenty twenty five, and of course I
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  Speaker 1: never got to any of it, never got the bad news,
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  Speaker 1: never got to any of it. So we will do
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  Speaker 1: a show about the good news from twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after tomorrow. We will do that,
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  Speaker 1: so we will get to the news. We will get
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  Speaker 1: to the good news as well. Ooh, aniks do fifty dollars,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, So that's another one hundred sixteen four fifty two,
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  Speaker 1: sixteen four fifty two, so amazing, guys, Thank you, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. And will we do a show tomorrow Tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. I might have to let these the vocal
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  Speaker 1: codes rest for day, but definitely a show on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely a show Saturday, and we'll re view those two
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  Speaker 1: movies on Saturday. And next week we're back to normal
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  Speaker 1: and no holidays and no travel until the end of
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  Speaker 1: the month. Oh, another one hundred dollars. Zachary came in
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  Speaker 1: greeting from Salt Lake City. Let's see what he writes.
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  Speaker 1: God so screwed up greeting for sat Lake City. Despite
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  Speaker 1: the cold and silly moments. This place is amazing. It
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  Speaker 1: is beautiful. Thankfully I get to spend all day tomorrow skiing.
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  Speaker 1: Good for you, Thanks for all your hard work this year,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Brook. I appreciate the effort you put in. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph says, Happy New Year. Anybody ELSEO wants to jump in,
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  Speaker 1: But yes, this is amazing. Sixteen thousand, five hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty two dollars on YouTube alone and another five thousand
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  Speaker 1: or so on PayPal. And I will see you all
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  Speaker 1: on Friday. I'm gonna go and take my wife to
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  Speaker 1: dinner and have a great, great, great have a great
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, have a great vacation day tomorroworro wherever
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  Speaker 1: you are, whatever you're doing, be your best, live a
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  Speaker 1: great life, make the most of it. Have you know,
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  Speaker 1: just go all out tomorrow, you know. I Randa had
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  Speaker 1: said on New Years that she always wrote on New
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  Speaker 1: Years because she wanted to do on the first day
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  Speaker 1: of the year what she intended to do for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the year. So think about what you want
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  Speaker 1: to do the rest of the year and do a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of it Tomorrow. Set the tone, have fun.
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  Speaker 1: Bye and thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Bye.