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  Speaker 1: before we get to the fun stuff Christmas and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that, let's do some of the you know, depressing stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So I was, I'm reading this book. I'm reading a
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  Speaker 1: book about the Andalusia, Andalusia that is in the Spain,
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  Speaker 1: the Muslim conquest and everything happened between the Muslim conquest
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  Speaker 1: and the reconquest by the Christians, and what happened to
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  Speaker 1: the Muslims after the reconquest by the Christians. And they
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  Speaker 1: mentioned something that reminded me, reminded me of something that
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  Speaker 1: I knew but kind of hadn't really made the connection
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  Speaker 1: into kind of the stuff that we've been talking about
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  Speaker 1: around racism and collectivism and tribalism and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So so, and it's a fascinating historical fact that I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that you guys know, so I figured we
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  Speaker 1: talked about it a little bit today, but it is.
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  Speaker 1: It is a historical fact about Spain, about Christianity in
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  Speaker 1: Spain after the Christians basically successfully defeated the Muslims in
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  Speaker 1: the Iberian Peninsula, and actually this started even before they
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  Speaker 1: completely fully defeated the Muslims in that area. Historically, if
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  Speaker 1: you were a Jew or Muslim living under Christianity in
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  Speaker 1: Spain or pretty much anywhere else. So there are a
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  Speaker 1: few that weren't that many Muslims living under Christianity anywhere
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  Speaker 1: else other than Spain, But in Spain, really throughout the centuries,
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  Speaker 1: they were Muslims living under Christian rule. There were population
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  Speaker 1: movements constantly between the Christian and Christian monarchies and Muslim territories,
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  Speaker 1: and and and there were Christians living under Islam, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them, and then there were Muslims living out
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  Speaker 1: of Christianity, and depending on who conquered what when, this
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  Speaker 1: constantly evolved anyway, but there were a lot of Jews
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  Speaker 1: living under Christianity. So if you are jere Christian living
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  Speaker 1: under Christianity pretty much anyway, in the Christian world, including
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  Speaker 1: Spain pre fifteenth century, you you typically couldn't hold a
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  Speaker 1: significant office. You certainly couldn't, you know, hold a senior
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  Speaker 1: position let's say, at universities, professions, although again there were
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  Speaker 1: some exceptions. There were always exceptions, always places and times
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  Speaker 1: where they were exceptions. You couldn't hold military positions, so
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  Speaker 1: you you were second classicism in the Christian world. Jews
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  Speaker 1: and Muslims were second class citizens in a variety of
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  Speaker 1: different ways. And this would always be true. But here's
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  Speaker 1: the key. If you converted to Christianity, that is, once
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  Speaker 1: you were baptized, you now became a Christian. And by
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  Speaker 1: becoming a Christian, you could now join religious orders, you
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  Speaker 1: could take on government military posts, you could be joining
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  Speaker 1: universities and the various professions, and you could hold church
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  Speaker 1: offices and coming out offices, and the second nd citizenship
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  Speaker 1: went away. So there were basically two types of I mean,
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  Speaker 1: these cultures were very hierarchical, but there were basically two
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  Speaker 1: types Christians and people who are not family Jews, Christians
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  Speaker 1: and people who are not And if you convoted to Christianity,
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  Speaker 1: you were treated as a Christian. What happened in the
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  Speaker 1: fifteenth century when Christians started taking big chunks of Muslim
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  Speaker 1: Spain and suddenly had many Muslims and Jews living under
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  Speaker 1: Christian rule, is they first of all, you know, again
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  Speaker 1: different places, at different times, they tried to force the
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  Speaker 1: Muslims and the Jews to convert to Christianity, and they forced.
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  Speaker 1: There was huge forced expulsion of Jews and Muslims from
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  Speaker 1: the Iberian Peninsula, both in Spain and Portugo. In Portugal,
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  Speaker 1: whether it was to northern Africa or even northern Europe.
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  Speaker 1: Portuguese Jews, for example, Spinosa was a was a Jew
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  Speaker 1: originally who had whose parents had been expelled from Portugal.
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  Speaker 1: It up in Amsterdam, so they were expelled. Some Jews
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  Speaker 1: ultimately landed up in Ottoman Empire, so in even as
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  Speaker 1: far places as far east as Romania and all across
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  Speaker 1: northern Africa and Intinumal East. But then you had so
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  Speaker 1: they expelled the Jews and Muslims, although some you know,
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  Speaker 1: remnants of those communities remained in certain pockets within their
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  Speaker 1: being finished. Mostly they were expelled over time. But then
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  Speaker 1: you had the problem of what about these Jewish converts
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  Speaker 1: or these Muslim converts. And the issue was much bigger
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  Speaker 1: for Muslims because there were a lot more of them,
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  Speaker 1: many many, many many Muslims converted to Christianity. They were baptized,
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing. And there was a real suspicion of them, right,
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  Speaker 1: they were suspicious, were they really converting? Did they in
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  Speaker 1: their hearts really still hold to Muslim beliefs? Did you know?
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  Speaker 1: Were they now competitors in a in a decomp competing
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  Speaker 1: with the Christians for these senior positions that were only
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  Speaker 1: available to Christians. And now you had a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: of new Christians. And many of them, many of these
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  Speaker 1: Muslims were very well educated and came from established families
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  Speaker 1: and and uh, and and we're just as competent as
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  Speaker 1: the Christians. There was also a suspicion of many of
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  Speaker 1: these who maybe lived in remote areas and where yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they'd given up on Islam and they supposed to embraced Christianity,
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  Speaker 1: but they were probably practicing some mixture of of these things.
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  Speaker 1: And so what you got is the creation of a
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  Speaker 1: of a third class Christians, Muslims and Jews, and then
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  Speaker 1: a class in between that was a converts, Jewish converts
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  Speaker 1: and Muslim converts who were suspect, spiritually suspect and loyalty suspect.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it relates to kind of the Nick Foyt says,
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  Speaker 1: we don't trust those Jews, they have spiritts loyalty. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we don't trust these converts because maybe they still maybe
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  Speaker 1: they're still loyal to the old religion, old religion, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe the political loyal to the to the to the
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  Speaker 1: Ottoman Empire, to the Arabs in North Africa, whatever, the
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  Speaker 1: Muslims in North Africa. So what happened was that they
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  Speaker 1: baptism no longer was enough. And what Christians in Spain
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  Speaker 1: embraced was something called and this is the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the Fifth beginning in the fifteenth century, but lasted really,
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  Speaker 1: you know, well into you know, lasted almost the twentieth century.
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  Speaker 1: They are. What they embraced is something they called blood
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  Speaker 1: purity laws. Blood purity laws, and what they basically, what
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  Speaker 1: the laws basically said was if your ancestors would Jews
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  Speaker 1: a Muslims, if you had converted, but even your children
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  Speaker 1: and your grandchildren, if we can find an ancestor who
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  Speaker 1: is a Jew a Muslim, even if you were baptized
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  Speaker 1: into Christianity. Even if you're not living as a Christian.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot hold church office, you cannot become a priest,
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  Speaker 1: I'm uncle bishop, you cannot serve at a university. Many
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  Speaker 1: professions a block to you. Governor military post a block
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  Speaker 1: to you. And of course you can join some of
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  Speaker 1: these religious orders. So you could be a devout Catholic,
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  Speaker 1: a devout Catholic and in a Catholic kingdom and still
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  Speaker 1: be treated as a second ance citizen if it was
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  Speaker 1: known that you had Jewish and Muslim ancestry. Now what's
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  Speaker 1: interesting about this is that this is really as far
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  Speaker 1: as I can tell, and if I'm wrong, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: one of you will tell me. As far as I
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  Speaker 1: can tell. This is the first time will you get
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  Speaker 1: this idea of blood of hereditary. I mean this hereditary
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  Speaker 1: in the sense of aristocracy and kings and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: But the first time you get heredity as determining your
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  Speaker 1: status as a citizen, it's the first time hereditary overrules
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  Speaker 1: Christian theology, because according to Christianity, according to the theology,
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  Speaker 1: baptism makes believers spiritually equal before God. I mean, one
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  Speaker 1: of the things about Christianity is its universal character. And
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  Speaker 1: indeed most people convert to Christianity in the Dark and
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  Speaker 1: Middle Ages. Right as Christianity was growing, it was growing
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  Speaker 1: through conversion. It was taking territory and Pagans and Jews
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  Speaker 1: and Muslims and Muslims later of course, and others were converting.
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  Speaker 1: This is where Christianity grew. And yet this is the
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  Speaker 1: first time in Christianity and the first time in the
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  Speaker 1: West that I know of, that this is overridden. And
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  Speaker 1: now it's not about whether you con voted Christianity. That's
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  Speaker 1: not enough. Now we keep track of your bloodline, of
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  Speaker 1: your genealogy. Jews and Muslim ancestry permanently taints you, permanently
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  Speaker 1: taints you, and faith cannot overcome lineage. Baptism cannot overcome
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  Speaker 1: lineage effectively. This is the first time we've really used race, bloodline,
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  Speaker 1: genealogy as close to race as we have, even though
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  Speaker 1: in terms of really the genes, they're all everybody in
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  Speaker 1: Iberian Peninsula is pretty much the same type of mutt,
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  Speaker 1: because they're all a combination of a lot of different things.
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  Speaker 1: But this is the first time we've dealing with excluding
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  Speaker 1: people because of their ancestors, and it really created a
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  Speaker 1: kind of a caste system in Spain and Portugal. And
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  Speaker 1: that kind of caste system that was established in Spain
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  Speaker 1: and portug on the fourteenth century, they then exported to
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  Speaker 1: Latin America where racial issues, issues of lineage became super important.
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  Speaker 1: People were categorized based on how pure their blood was
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  Speaker 1: as originating from Spain, whether they were tainted by Jewish
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  Speaker 1: Muslim ancestors, whether they were Indians who had converted, whether
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  Speaker 1: the Indians were not converted, whether they were slaves who
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  Speaker 1: had converted, whether they were slaves who were not converted.
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  Speaker 1: And there was a real caste system in Latin America
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  Speaker 1: that survived for a very long time. And really this
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  Speaker 1: became this provided a template for secularized racial ideologies that
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  Speaker 1: came about in the eighteenth century and then later in
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  Speaker 1: the of course nineteenth and early twentieth century. It helped
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  Speaker 1: normalize the idea that there was something like collective guilt
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  Speaker 1: associated with hereditary and it changed the perception of Jews
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  Speaker 1: from being just a different religion to now being a
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  Speaker 1: different race, a different type of human being, a different
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  Speaker 1: category of human being. It's the first time Jews are
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  Speaker 1: racialized versus just treated a second Answerizen, because they're a
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  Speaker 1: different race. So a lot of a star view this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this idea of blood purity and the blood
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  Speaker 1: purity laws that existed in Spain as a bridge between
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  Speaker 1: medieval religious antisemitism anti Semitism based on religion they turned
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  Speaker 1: their backs to Christ and modern racial antisemitism, which views
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  Speaker 1: you somehow as a race that needs to be discriminated against. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this blood laws were not adopted widely in the Christian Church. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: you know, many places and Protestants for example, rejected this completely.
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  Speaker 1: If you were baptized, you became a Christian, it didn't matter,
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  Speaker 1: it didn't matter. But you know, for a while, but
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  Speaker 1: there were some places in Italy where it was embraced,
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  Speaker 1: and it was never really dealt with directly by the
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  Speaker 1: Church because they didn't want to offend Spain. If you
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  Speaker 1: think about Spain and the Catholic Church Spain, once Protestantism
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  Speaker 1: rises up, Spain becomes the most powerful force within Catholicism. Right,
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  Speaker 1: Spain is the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg's who later
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  Speaker 1: also rule over you know, Austria, Germany coming out of
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  Speaker 1: coming out of Spain. So there's opposition to it theologically
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  Speaker 1: in Italy among the popes, but there's no explicit condemnation
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  Speaker 1: of it. In fifteen thirty seven, the Pope firms that
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  Speaker 1: all human beings are capable of faith and they for
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  Speaker 1: baptism is enough, but he doesn't repudiate explicitly the Spanish
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  Speaker 1: law is the Council of Trent again reinforms the transformation
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  Speaker 1: power baptism, rejects any ideology implying inhabited spiritual corruption, but
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  Speaker 1: didn't abolish blood purity statutes, and indeed local church authorities
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  Speaker 1: within Italy start using discrimination against converts as well. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't go beyond Italy, but certainly in Italy it exists. Now,
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  Speaker 1: these laws are slowly abandoned between the seventeenth and the
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  Speaker 1: nineteenth century. By the eighteenth century, you know, blood laws
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  Speaker 1: are widely seen as you know, non model truths, customaries, laws,
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  Speaker 1: and they're slowly being repudiated. The laws are only really
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  Speaker 1: explicitly unequivocally repudiated by Vatican two Betican two in the
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  Speaker 1: nineteen sixties, in the post post Holocaust period, where the
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  Speaker 1: Vatican rejects collective or inhabited guilt, explicitly affirms the ongoing
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  Speaker 1: spiritual dignity of Jews and condemns religion and racial discrimination outright.
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  Speaker 1: But that's in the nineteen sixties, after the Holocaust. So
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  Speaker 1: I just found it fascinating. You know, people like what's
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  Speaker 1: his first name now, Holland something Holland who owe Dominion?
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  Speaker 1: The book Dominion would claim that Christianity is responsible for
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  Speaker 1: the abolition of slavery, and no, not just abolition of slavery,
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  Speaker 1: but but the abolition of racism because of the whole
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  Speaker 1: idea of baptism. And well maybe not maybe maybe in
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  Speaker 1: its modern form, it is actually Christianity that's responsible for
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  Speaker 1: this idea of discriminating against people based on heriditary based
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  Speaker 1: on these blood law you know what your blood is,
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  Speaker 1: what your blood is, of course, I mean the Spanish
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  Speaker 1: and Portuguese inquisitions really helped enforce these and spread these
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  Speaker 1: and make sure they were implemented. Just itters in Latin America,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, the Spaniards born in Europe ranked above
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  Speaker 1: Spaniards who were born in Americas. Converts, indigenous people, and
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  Speaker 1: Africans were placed in very rigid high keys within each group,
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  Speaker 1: again depending on whether they were converts or not. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Church and civil authority in Latin America were quite proof
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  Speaker 1: a pure ancestry and a whole cast system was established
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  Speaker 1: in in both the Portuguese and the particularly the Spanish Empire.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, I thought that was interesting if you if
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  Speaker 1: you compare the blood purity laws to like the Nuremberg laws,
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  Speaker 1: the Nazi laws, you know, they're very similar. Uh. You
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  Speaker 1: know again, now the target group for the for the
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  Speaker 1: for the Nazis were Jews, but not Jews, not practicing Jews. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: not even technically Jews. That is, in Judaism, you're only
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  Speaker 1: a Jew if your mother was a Jew. Uh. But
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  Speaker 1: the Nazis didn't care about that. They cared if you
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  Speaker 1: had an ancestor who was a Jew. That is what
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  Speaker 1: mattered to them was not belief, not even technicality, i e.
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  Speaker 1: Mother Jewish, But if you had a grandparent who was
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  Speaker 1: a Jew, you were Jew. Uh, same thing. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the Christians even went further than a grandparent, any any ancestor,
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  Speaker 1: any ancestor. You can imagine that before marriages were ranged
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that, people had to prove what their
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  Speaker 1: genealogy was. I mean you can you can just imagine
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  Speaker 1: the the the various distortions and perversions that happen all right,
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  Speaker 1: So that's a little bit of history about the origins
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I think of of racism, of racism in the modern
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  Speaker 1: world at least. All right, yeah, well Christmas there show.
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  Speaker 1: The Free Press had a good article on this today
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  Speaker 1: and oh yesterday, really yesterday, pointing out that the one
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  Speaker 1: Christmas is not you know, people are not saying Merry Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: so not I don't know, you know, celebrating what is it,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: you know, some African holiday or or something instead of Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: The real one Christmas is happening right now in Europe.
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  Speaker 1: So in Germany, for example, Christmas markets are festumed with
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  Speaker 1: concrete barriers and police armed with automatic rifles. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you've ever been to a Christmas market in Germany.
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  Speaker 1: These are very festive events, full of light, big Christmas tree,
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  Speaker 1: very traditional kind of German stuff, a lot of food,
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  Speaker 1: German food so not that great, but human food, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, just fun markets. And because of past terrorist
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  Speaker 1: attacks and threats of terrorist attacks, we now have concrete
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  Speaker 1: barriers and again police armed with automatic weapons all over
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  Speaker 1: the place. The famous Christmas market in Saltzburg in Austria
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  Speaker 1: has thirty three surveillance cameras and twenty four hour security guards.
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  Speaker 1: Same in France, and indeed authorities in France have canceled
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  Speaker 1: the city's New Year's Eve party because a fear of terrorism.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Fear of terrorism. There be numerous foiled attacks at Christmas
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  Speaker 1: markets this year, from Bavaria in southeast Germany to Leipzig
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  Speaker 1: in the east central part of the country to and
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: this was a shock. I don't know if John's on
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  Speaker 1: right now, but John Davies, who constantly asks me about
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  Speaker 1: why are there no terrorist detection in Poland, wanting me
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  Speaker 1: to say because because they banned Muslim immigration in there,
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  Speaker 1: so they don't have any terrorist attacts in Poland. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's a good idea to ban Muslim immigration. You
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  Speaker 1: won't get, I mean, that's what he wants. Anyway, It
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  Speaker 1: sounds it seems like there was a foiled attack on
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  Speaker 1: a Christmas market in Lublin, Poland. Yeah, I looked it up.
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  Speaker 1: In Lublin, polar Poland. Polish authorities foiled Islamic state inspired
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  Speaker 1: Christmas market attack plot. It turns out, I know this
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  Speaker 1: is to be a shock to you. The terrorism is
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  Speaker 1: not committed by a only by a particular ethnic group.
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  Speaker 1: Terrorism is not in the blood tourism is not in
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  Speaker 1: new genealogy. In Poland, a nineteen year old law student
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  Speaker 1: at Poland's Catholic University of Lublin who was a Polish
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  Speaker 1: citizen from a Catholic family with a Polish name, I
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  Speaker 1: assume white as snow, well not as snow, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: like dirty white. He you know, he basically decided to
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  Speaker 1: attack a public place in support of ISIS because he
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  Speaker 1: got radicalized by ISIS. You know, he had watched videos
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  Speaker 1: from them, and he was he or so was had
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  Speaker 1: purchased a bunch of objects related to Islamic religion, and
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  Speaker 1: he was really excited about representing the Islamic state because Islam,
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  Speaker 1: like Christianity, is a universalist religion and you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to be born a Muslim to be a Muslim. You
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  Speaker 1: can convert, and you don't have to be even a
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  Speaker 1: practicing Muslim right now to commit terrorist attacks in the
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  Speaker 1: name of Visis. That'll take you a nihilism. It turns
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  Speaker 1: out is not unique to Muslims. So maybe ISIS needs
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  Speaker 1: to be defeated. Maybe the Islam missed cause needs to
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  Speaker 1: be defeated before you even before you get terrorist attacks
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  Speaker 1: in places like God forbid Poland, which doesn't have any
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  Speaker 1: Muslims in it. Anyway, I thought that was fun when
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  Speaker 1: I came across it, because, you know, I assumed that
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: there were no terrorist attacks and no attempts to terrorist
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: attacks in Poland, and that's why John was using it.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: But I guess John doesn't read widely enough. He's not
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: as knowledgeable as he pretends to be. Quite shocking. I anyway,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: this is horrific, you know, allowing you know, taking this
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: for granted, allowing this to happen. And this doesn't involve
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: rounding up all the Muslims and putting in camps, but
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: it does involve recognizing Islamism is a real threat, rounding
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: up the preachers who preach it and deporting them, rounding
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: up the immigrants who involved actively involved in some of
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: these you know, pro sharia prosis. I don't know po
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Islam asked groups, running them up and depoting them. Basically
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: declaring Islamism unwelcome in Europe. And if you're involved in it,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: even if you're not picking up a gun, but if
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: you're involved in it, that's like being involved in the
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Nazi movement during World War Two. You're unwelcome. You could
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: ban the Nazi Party in America during World War Two.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: You can ban Islamism right now in Europe and in
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: the United States and make it a criminal offense to
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: be involved with him. I mean isis isis IS continues
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: to recruit online. It has a newsletter. Why is a
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: newsletter blocked? You know it's again, it's it's it's it's
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: enemy propaganda. Why isn't a stand taken against the enemy.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: On its September eighteenth edition of its online newsletter, it
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: urged Muslims and I guess also non Muslims to target
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Christians and Jews and kill by all means. We know
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: that the body Beach was inspired by ISIS. We know
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: that in Manchester, England, just a few days ago, a
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: jury found two Muslims guilty planning what could have been
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the deadly stars attack in UK history. They were targeting Jews,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: but reportedly viewed Christian victims as well as you know,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: that's okay, we kill a few Christians, that's cool, all right?
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: So yeah it. You know, it's been time since nine
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: to eleven and all the terrorist attacks that have happened
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: since nine to eleven in Europe, it's time to take
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: this seriously, and taking it seriously does not mean you
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: know TSA. Taking it seriously does not mean you know
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: police force and concrete barricades. It's just unbelievable to me
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: that So last week when it was two American soldiers
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: were killed in Syria by ICE by this guy who
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: was affiliate with ISIS, and then America went in with
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: airplanes and they bombed dozens of ICEIS targets. Why did
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: these targets still exist? Like we'd be fighting ISIS for
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: over ten years? Why does ICE still exist? Got the
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: mightiest military force in human history, and it allows ISIS
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: to still exist. Europeans who have the direct interest in
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: destroying ISIS and no way to be seen in terms
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: of trying to destroy it. All this recruitment is happening
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: by a group called ISIS. That group is still based
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: in parts of Iraq and Syria. Well, why doesn't Europe
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: send their planes and maybe even troops to destroy them
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: and kill them once and forre. Somebody must be publishing
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: this newsletter it's coming out of somewhere. How about finding
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: where that location is and destroying it. I mean, this
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: is what I mean by war. You gotta go to
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: war against the Islamists. It's not about immigration, It's about
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: defeeding the enemy. Defeat the enemy. Immigration becomes a lot
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: less of an issue. There's nobody to radicalize them. And
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: if it turns out it's not Isis, it's the Muslim brotherhood,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: then fine, it's time we went to Doha and cleaned house.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: You know, some people think that Ben Shapiro is a
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: wollmonger up. I mean, they've obviously not never met me, right,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's an enemy out there advocating for and
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: training people and equipping people and financing people to kill
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Jews and Christians and Americans and Europeans, and America and
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Europe are sitting in their hands, humming a song with
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: noise canceling headphones and pretending, you know, none of this exists.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: And yeah, while they've got their head cancing headphones though,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: holding a semi automatic weapon in the hand. But the
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: point is, even if you bann Muslim immigration, it won't
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: solve the problem. And you won't ban Muslim immigration. Nobody
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: bans Muslim immigration. Well, look at what Trump has done.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: A Trump banned Muslim immigration. No, and even when he
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: does a pretend ban on Muslim immigration, he doesn't include
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: half or actually he doesn't include the most populous Muslim countries.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: So it's just a it's a charade. You could instead
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: of and much cheaper, by the way, much cheaper, much easier.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: You could go out there and just destroy the people
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: who fund support, make possible terrorism against the United States
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: and Europe and then come home. It would be very cheap,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: very easy. And you tell them every time there's a
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: terrorist attack in Europe, Doha gets bombed, it would stop tomorrow.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: It would stop tomorrow. And yeah, maybe once in a
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: while something would slip by, but as a phenomena, it
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: would stop. Every time we get tough on terrorism, on
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: the people funding it and the people supporting it and
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: the people making it possible, terrorism goes down. Every time
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: we get lacks about the source the origin, terrorism goes
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: up the more. And if you think, if you think
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: banning immigration will stop them from hijacking and airplanes somewhere
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: and flying it into Europe and landing it somewhere, landing
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I mean crashing it into something you know, who knows?
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: You really think that they won't become more creative if
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: you band immigration. Are they gonna give up? Are they
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: gonna say say, oops, sorry, whoops. Yeah, we don't want
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: to take over the world anymore because they band immigration.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah you'll make it a little harder for them, but
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: sho deal with the cause. I mean, how difficult would
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: it be for a terrorist group to get a hands
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: on ballistic missiles and launch them into Europe? Not that hard.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: The Uranians could give them a few. The Qataris will
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: pay for it. You want to stop jihad, you gotta
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: destroy gihad. You got to destroy the people who make
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: it possible. It won't go away because you build walls.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Wars are never won by building walls. Ever, walls delay
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: your defeat, but almost always a sign that you're going
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: to be defeated. Banning immigration is a cowardly thing to
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: do and ineffective. Doha is where the money is coming from.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: It's an issue of blood guilt. It's an issue of
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: the government of the government of Qatau is funding terrorism. Therefore,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: the people of Katau are going to suffer the consequences
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: of what their government is doing. This is why government's
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: are important. This is why governments are important. The government
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: represents you. The government does what it does in your name,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: and it's completely legitimate to target you when the government
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: has acted on your behalf. Completely legitimate to target Germans
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: when attacking you know, even though it was the Nazis
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: who did it. Many Germans died. Just completely legitimate to
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: target Japanese, even though it was just the imperialists did it.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: But it's the Germans and the Japanese who feed the
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: war machine. It's the Germans and Japanese who don't really
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: object to what's going on. And it's the Germans and
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Japanese who it's their government. It was done in their name.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: You know, when when you elect to voar of directors
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: in your business, you're a shareholder, you elect the board,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: let them run the company, and they drive it into bankruptcy.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: You lose money, and you go like, wait a minute,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: they made the mistakes. Why am I losing money? Because
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: they represent you and they did bad stuff. And indeed,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: in the legal system we have in the United States,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: if they commit fraud, shareholders at least up until the
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: value of their shares are going to pay for that fraud.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: The company gets fined, not just the individuals, and often
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: never the individuals themselves. The company does so absolutely. This
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: is why it's important to get involved in politics. Government
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: represents you. If they do something evil, you will suffer.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: And it's completely legit. He was Shima Nagasaki one hundred
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: percent legit, morally, politically, militarily, strategically, in every regard there's
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: flattening of Dresden completely legit, morally, strategically, militarily, any respect,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: one hundred percent. If you're curious about it, check out
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: my article about the morality of war. It's available online.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: You can find it in lecture form, or better than that,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: you can find it as as an article just war
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: theory versus a and self defense. That is the name
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: of the article. You can find on them on the
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Inman Institute website. UH and UH. If you're really curious
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: about why it's not collective guilt to bomb a civilian
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: population a time of war, then check out my article
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: where I discussed that in great length, and I'll put
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: the link in the chat in a minute. There it is.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Here's a link. Check out the article. Who's written in
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: two thousand and six. It's co authored by the way
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: with Alex Epstein, the Alex Epstein. So there's the link.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: You can find the article. Check it out, and indeed uh.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: You check it out and see. So. Yes, I believe
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: in offense. I don't believe in John says, sorry, I
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: was driving, Okay, that's fine. I can't believe you're driving
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: and listening to my show and yet you have zero
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: respect for this show. You have zero respect for me,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: uh and as you listen to it. I don't get that.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: If I if I had as much disrespect for somebody
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: as John has for me, I would never listen to
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: this show. Maybe once in a while I get a
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: clip from four Intes, but I would never listen. You
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: find it hysterical anyway, Just what theory is there? Check
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: it out. Those of you who who disagree with me
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: about bombing Doha, uh and or bombing Gaza, or bombing
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: he WashU Wanagasaki, or bombing Dresident or any of these things. Yes,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: I definitely justify attacking civilians if it serves a strategic game.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Absolutely nothing justifies a cotuber Seventh, because the initiator of
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: force in the Israeli Palestinian conflict in Israeli Gausian conflict
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: is not Israel, It's the Palestinians. The Palestinians ain't the wrong.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: And by the way, nothing justifies. Nothing justifies raping and
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: and and just and just gratuously killing children and uh,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: you know, gratuously you know, burning people alive and chopping
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: people's heads off. Nothing justifies that. But in a war,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: in a war initiated by your government, civilians are going
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: to die, and that is absolutely justified, one hundred percent.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: All right. I don't want to get into a huge
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: discussion of this. We can do that on another show
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: another time. But anyway, just one Christmas is happening in
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: Europe right now, a lot more serious than celebrating whatever. Epstein, Epstein, Epstein,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein. You know, more and more documents are being released,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: more and more photos of being released. I don't know
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: what is going to come of all of this, probably
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: very little. It's embarrassing to a lot of people because
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: a lot of people associated with Epstein in kind of
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: sleazy kind of ways and sleezy deals, both financial deals,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: but mainly around the way they treated women and the
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: way they related to women. Epstein himself and potentially some
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: of these others are though no proof has been shown,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: we're also involved in violent actions against women, rape, and
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: in many cases it appears suddenly Jeffrey, but not clear
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: about others having sex with minus with girls as young
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: as you know, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. So Epstein has been
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: is being you know, Epstein is. All these files are
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: coming out, all these photos of who is ware? But
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: what do we know more about what Epstein actually did?
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Do we know anything more about who's slept with whom?
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Do we know any more about actual rape or actual
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: peterophilia by anybody other than Epstein? No, not yet And
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: maybe and I don't know if there is anything that
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: is We don't know if there's a there there. But
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: the files keep coming out. It's embarrassing for Trump. He
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: keeps denying it. And so it turns out he was
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: on the airplane a lot more than he admitted to
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: being on the airplane, on the Litlita Express as it
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: was called. Uh, but again no testimony of any actual
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: things that he did that And the same is to
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: it Bill Clinton, The same is true of all these
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: other people who will be named. Bill Clinton is now
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: calling for all the files to be released. Uh. And
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: we're getting a bunch of a bunch of again files.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: And and what was funny, What one thing was funny
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: was they were redacting. They were adacting supposedly to protect
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: the identity of the women, so they were adacting a
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: lot of stuff. But it turned out that you could
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: take some of these documents and copy them into wood
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: and the redaction would disappear and you could see the
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: woods underneath. So they they were they were redacting them
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: in PDF and in Acrobat and then but when you
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: copied pasted it, the redaction went away and you could
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: see exactly what was written behind it. So just in
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: components of the Department of Justice, they are doing this fast.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: There's still hundreds of thousands. Suppose you have documents that
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: have not yet been released, and Congress is all pissed off.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: But it's not clear where this goes, what happens. Maybe
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: there's a smoking gun somewhere, Maybe there are actual accusations
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: of Peterophilio rape or something like that against Donald Trump
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: or against other government officials, but so far nothing. So far,
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: it's just reaffirming everything that we already knew. There's no
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: real new information, there's nothing really exciting going on. Or
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: one thing you'll notice is there's a lot of fake
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: stuff being released. So there was a letter from Jeffrey
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Epstein to in the city, the pedophile who abused the
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: women's gymnastic team, the doctor who abused the women's the
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: nasty team. There's a letter from him. It talks about
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Trump groping women. Fake letter. There were some other fake
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: stuff that's come out, So there's going to be up,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: particularly with the AI. There's going to be a lot
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: of fake stuff that people say is part of the
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: data dump from their justice apartment, but is not, so
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: don't get caught up in it. It seems to me
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: that until it's all out, and until somebody does a
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: proper fellow systematic analysis, we won't know much. The New
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: York Times has done a real deep dive into some
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: of this, and again, you know, they show that Epstein
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: and Trump were very close in the nineties. They were
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: friends in the nineties, they hung out all the time,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: they had you know, they had this attraction to young
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: women in common. But again, nothing in the story deep
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: dive into it suggested anything criminal. It suggested that Donald
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: trumps the sleeves, but that is not new. That is
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: not new or news. We all know that. So there's
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: just there just doesn't seem to be much there there,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: but more of this is going to be coming out.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: All right, there's another story here that disappeared. It was
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: an interesting uh g EP number that came out. It
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Groes domestic product. The economy is supposedly in the third
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: quarter of the year good and annual rate of four
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: point three percent, which is very high, much higher than
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: people expected, and bewildering given that uh employment seems to
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: be very weak, that his job creation seems to be weak.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: People people gaining new jobs relative to the number of
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: people being fired seems to be very weak. But the
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: but the four point three percent is high, you know,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's almost certainly not sustainable, but it is high.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: And the question is what's driving it. Now, If you
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: look at the numbers, it was driven primarily by two things.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: One is investment in AI, which we know investment in
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: AI construction of data centers, and that is going to
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: have a long tail because that's going to go on
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: for a long time. You know, very few of the
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: data centers that are being promised even in the stage
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: as a production of construction, but they're so huge and
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: so costly that that is driving a lot. But beyond that,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: almost no business investment beyond AI right, so almost no
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: business investment. We know manufacturing is basically in a recession
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: right now. Manufacturing jobs have declined dramatically over the last
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: over the most of the year. And the second aspect
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: of this is consumption. Consumer spending is way up, which
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: is really curious because survey ask the survey are saying
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: that Americans are pessimistic on the economy, that they know
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: consumer confidence is historical loose, and yet everybody's spending money
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: like there's no tomorrow. Everybody's spending money now. It turns
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: out that much of the money being spent is being
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: spent by the wealthiest ten percent of Americans or the
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: highest income ten percent of Americans. But still there's a
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: lot of consumption. Credit card companies are indicating the holiday
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: season's being seen a lot of purchasing, and yet people
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: are super pessimistic, but they're not pescifically about their own lives.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: They're not pessimistic enough to stop shopping, but pessimistical about
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: your lives. Everybody's shopping. Everybody's shopping. It'll be interesting to see,
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: and they're saving less, savings down significantly. Now. It's quite
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: possible that this is driven by increased productivity as a
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: consequence of reduced to regulation and the base of AI.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: But it's still too early to tell. We'll have to
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: watch the numbers and see. But reduced regulations should increase productivity.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: We know they increase productivity. AI will increase productivity. The
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: question is when and when can we see it in
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: the numbers. But it could be that economic growth ultimately
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: is driven by that. GDP is a it's not a
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: particularly useful number. I mean it is over a long
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: periods of time. It correlates with an all the other
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: important things. But the reality is the disposal of income,
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: disposable disposable income. It is not growing to compensate for
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: the rising prices. It's growing lower than the rise in prices.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: So you could say, stand up, living quality of life
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: is actually going down in spite of people spending a lot.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: They don't have a lot of money to spend because
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: it's disposable income. As the amount of money you have
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: to spend out. The investment is not happening. You're not
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: seeing private investment grow significantly. The one place where you
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: see businesses investing is to attract the wealthy. You know,
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: so I travel a lot, so one of the things
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: you notice is many, many more airport lounges, and they're
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: getting richier and richier. That's to tract you know, big
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: spenders and people who own the the the the premiere
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: credit cards and premier status at the at the airlines
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: and things like that. So you know, we'll see, we'll
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: see how sustainable this is. We'll see what happens. But
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: there's plenty of reasons to be worried about the economy.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: Employment and an investment in particular for a while, AI
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: can drive this thing forward. Consumption can drive things forward
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: for a while, but at the end of the day,
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: you've got to get business investment, uh and increased productivity
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: from deregulation. It can drive stuff for it and it's
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: really good and that's I think that's what drove I mean,
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: the economy under Trump one was primarily driven by deregulation.
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: That was the main person. All the other thing has
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: happened is you know, there are being some tax cuts
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: right also tax increases they call tariffs, but also some
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: tax cuts which kind of the tax increases on certain
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: items of consumption. You'd expect people to consume less of those.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Although businesses have to buy the steel and have to
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: pay the tariff. They have no choice. But there were
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: some tax cuts in the big beautiful bill. Maybe people
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: have a little bit more money or they're expecting refund
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: checks and that's why they're spending more. But the economy
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: is I think in because of elation in okayse shape.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: But everything else other than the regulation is in pretty
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: crappy shape. I mean, the government is still borrowing at
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: record levels. Uh, you know, money, money has to flow
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: into the economy in order to compensate for that borrowing,
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: and the Fed is started to buy buy gunment securities
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: and indeed increasing the amount of money in the economy
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: as a consequence. You know, maybe that's why gold is
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: going up as much as it is with the anticipation
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: of future inflation because of all the of all the borrowing,
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: of all the borrowing, and all the money creation that
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: is anticipated in the years to come. Right, M two
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: has not gone up that much. It actually went down
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: quite a bit, but it's starting to go up again.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: All right, finally, Okay, is this is our real? Is
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: this some kind of bot spamming me? All right? Let
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: me block him. Let's see if that works. All right,
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow is Christmas. Christmas is a phenomenal holiday. It's a
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: holiday of benevolence. It's a holiday of gift giving, it's
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: a holiday of celebration of lights. It's a holiday really
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: as celebrated today, that was created in the nineteenth century
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: by American capitalists, by people trying to sell stuff. It's
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: a holiday to a loge extent, created by Madison Avenue,
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: a marketing ployee to get you into the stores. But
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: it's holiday. That aspect of it has been embraced and celebrated.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: And we all have Christmas trees and lights, we all
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: buy gifts, we all enjoy going to places, you know,
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: with lights and celebration. The Christmas markets that I talked
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: about last time, they go back to the fifteenth century
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: in Central Europe as a way to celebrate Christmas. So
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: even back then there was an element of marketplace celebrating
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: Christmas by going to a marketplace, by buying stuff, but
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: also lights and all of that. So there's a certain
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: celebratory aspect to Uh, there's a huge celebratory aspect to Christmas.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: There is quite secular. It's not primarily about going to church,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: it's not primarily about you know, and this is why
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: very religious people reject kind of the popular way in
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: which Christmas is celebrated. It's too commercial, they tell us, No,
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: it's perfectly commercial. The more commercial, the better. It is
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: a real it's a celebration of life. The Christmas tree
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: is an evergreen tree brought in, uh you know, from
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: the from the from the bitter cold of Scandinavian winter
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: into the home to celebrate life. The life can thrive
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: and exist and continue in spite of the hollurs of winter. So,
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: you know, I think it's wonderful holiday. I hope you
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: guys all enjoy it. You know, it's It took me
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: a while when I first came to the United States
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: to separate Christmas from Christianity, because, as you know, I'm
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: not a fan of Christianity. But I've learned to really
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: love Christmas and to celebrate it now. You know. We
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: always did gifts Christmas Morning, and we always had a
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: big tree, and my wife would spend hours and hours
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: and hours decorating it and it would be amazing. And
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: when we traveled around the world, we kind of collected
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: Christmas ornaments from all over the world, and it was
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: a time where friends and family would get together and
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: you know, whether you give gifts or not. At some point.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: For example, we used to celebrate the holidays on a
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: regular basis with Leonard, both Christmas and Birthdays, and Christmas morning,
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: Christmas during the day, Lena would always come over and
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: we would eat together, and we decide at some point,
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: no more gifts. It's just impossible. The effort of trying
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: to find gifts in a in a society that is
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: as you know, wealthy as ours, is just too difficult.
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: It's too difficult. What do you give somebody who has everything?
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: So so with a number of our friends we've decided
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: no more gifts. Were just hanging out together. That that's
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: the fun part the gifts. You know, any anything I
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: can buy you you can buy for yourself. You know,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: with kids it's different. But as soon as the kids
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: go up, the whole gift thing is, we don't get
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: into it. I'd rather, you know, we just buy the
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: stuff that we want to buy for ourselves. So enjoy it,
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: celebrate it, have fun with it. Hopefully you all in
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: a you know, a secular in spite of our attacks
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: on Christianity here, you're all in a secular mood and
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: you can embrace it as a secularist. Yeah, so I've
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: got one Christmas movie I think I recommend it every
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: Christmas or something. You know about this. I got one
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Christmas movie that I recommend. It's a favorite of mine.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: It's by a director who I think is one of
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: the best directors in the history of Hollywood, and so
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: I recommend all the movies, but this one is charming
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: and fun and benevolence and entertaining and everything a movie
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: should be, particularly a Christmas movie should be. I know
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: everybody loves Die Hard for Christmas, but it's too violent
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: for Christmas, right, I mean, you shouldn't be focused on
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: violence for Christmas. My favorite Christmas movie is The Shop
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: around the Corner. It's a nineteen forty movie. It's a
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: romantic comedy, comedy drama. I guess they called it the director.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: It's directed by Ernst Lubitch Lubich l U b I
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: T s c H. L u b I T s
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: c H. Well, I think is one of the great
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: directors of the twentieth century and twenty first century, the
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: best director of comedies certainly that I know of. Every
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: single one of his comedies is a masterpiece. I mean
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: almost all his movies and comedies. I think it stars
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: Margaret Sullivan, Margaret Sullivan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, James Stewart
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: is wonderful in it. Margaret Sullivan is wonderful in it is.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: It is based on a play written in nineteen thirty
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: seven by a Hungarian. The play is called Poff Fu
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: Marie by Micholas less Slow Less Slow. I'm not gonna
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: tell you what it's about. It's a love story. It
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: has a great twist at the end. The movie has
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: been remade a million times in all kinds of formats
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: and all kinds of ways. I don't think any of
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: them match the you know, the quality of the original.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: Uh it's in black and white, so you have to
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: suffer to black and white. I apologize. But it's great writing,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: it's great comedic timing, it's it's it's it's just charming
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: and yeah, and you know, just a wonderful love story.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: So enjoy it's. It's it's good to sit around and watch.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: Uh it was yep. Uh yeah. He did it about
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: the same time he did his most famous movie, It's Lubitch,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: and probably his best movie, which is Nina Nina is
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: a must see. Unoska is a is a classic. Ninochka
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: by Ernst Lubich is one of the great movies of
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: all time, probably makes my top five. I love that
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: movie and so so check it out. I've got a
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: big poster actually of a Ernst Lubitch film right on
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: the wall behind my monitors, and it is for a
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: movie that almost nobody has ever seen. But my audio
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: and video out of sync. While I'm talking about movies,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: that's that's inappropriate. I would refresh your screen. I don't
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: think there's anything I can do about it. It's synced
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: on my end. So anyway, the movie, the movie poster
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: that I have right in front of me, is called
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: Coloney Brown. The movie's clooney Well, it's also but ERNs
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: Lubach So Coloney Brown just a wonderful, charming again romantic comedy, intellectual, smart,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: women's libbish. It's like a woman, a strong woman character.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: It's great. Coloney Brown is just one of the great
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: characters in movies. So you know, y'all have a really
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: good time with ERNs Lubberg movies. If you don't, if
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: you've never watched any, you know this holiday season is
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: a good time to start. Start with Chappa on the
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: Corner for Christmas, and then Coloney Brown and in Natchka
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: and if you can, if you can manage movies about
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: they make fun of the Nazis. To me and not
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: to be not the mel Brooks version, but the original
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: Ernst Lubberty version is really really funny in spite of
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: the fact that it makes fun of something that you
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: shouldn't make fun of. All Right, Finally we've got some reviews,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: just a few, but I'm trying to catch up. I'm
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: trying to chip away at them and see how many
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: I can get done by the end of next week,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: which is I'll probably still have a few laggards that
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: I'll have to do in January. But I'm trying to
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: get the low hanging food done. All right, So we've
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: got a few here, let's see, let's start. So here's
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: what I still need to do. I still need to
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: do Folk in the Road, the last short story in
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: the book, and that is that is that I still
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: need to do. You guys need to email me or
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: text me or something if I'm missing anything. I still
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: need to do better Man, John's biopic Better Man I
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: need to do Ford Versus Ferrari and and write The Tiger.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: I think by the end of today I will have
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: caught up in all the rest. So let's start with
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: Shaw's botts. A Black Adda season two episode Beer where
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: Black Ada gets into a competition, a beer drinking competition,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: an alcohol drinking competition with some of the other fellows
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: that are in Black Ada. But it's happening at the
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: same time as he's meeting is some relatives who are
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: super duper unbelievably religious, and they're talking about his inheritance
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: and how much money they're going to leave him. And
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: he's trying to do both things at the same time,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: manage the beer competition in one room and these relatives
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: in the other room. The relatives is hysterical. The funniest
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: part of the whole thing is the how the writers
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: of the show portray these religious nuts. I mean, it
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: really is, really is funny. I mean, I have to
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: say it's not my favorite Black Added episode, but it is.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: It is funny in parts of it. Hysterical. Black Added
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: generally is a really is one of the funniest shows ever.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: It's a combination of silly of silliness of slapstake and
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: a really clever social commentary. It loves to make fun
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: of the church. The funniest episodes are making fun of
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: the church it makes it makes fun of of of
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: suit of intellectuals. In the final season, it's making fun
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: of war. The final season is is uh is placed
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: during World War One in the trenches, so super fun
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: uh super funny. Again. A black Adda is particularly good
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: at making fun of of of religion, and this episode
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: does not disappoint in that sense. The Puritans are just
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: portrayed as you know, I don't know, you know, as
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: boorish and and not very smart and and and the
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: way they're dressed, the way they appear. Uh. And of
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: course by the end of it, the Puritans is just
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: as drunk as everybody else and uh and and I've
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: given up on the whole Puritan charade. Uh so uh
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: funny and and in particular, the best parts of it
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: are they are They are the portrayal, uh, of the
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: Puritans as just being ridiculous hypocrites, uh duplicitous. The woman
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: is running the whole thing. The man is completely silent
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: the whole time, He just does whatever she says. The
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: whole thing is is. Yeah, it's really well done and
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: really really funny. All right, let's see Chasbudas asked me
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: to review the Simpsons Season two episode nineteen, Lisa's Substitute.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: This is where Lisa falls in love with the substitute teacher,
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: who is described as looking like a Jewish cowboy with
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: Semitic good looks, which I find interesting in as we're
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: debating and discussing anti Semitism, that you could sneak in
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: those kind of those kind of expressions into Simpsons. Okay,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: so I don't like the Simpsons. I really don't like
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: the Simpsons. I don't like the animation, and I never
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: have from the day it came out, I've really disliked it.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: I don't like the animation, which is just not very interesting.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: It's ugly, Yeah, that's the it's ugly. It makes everybody
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: look ugly. Everybody's ugly in this. Since the whole show
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: is super cynical, I don't find it that funny. Most
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: of it is silliness and stupidity. It's kind of touching
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: that Lisa falls in love with the substitute. He's a
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: cool guy, you know, But but much of the humor
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: that drives it is kind of the immature, you know,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: gross behavior of the sun. I forget his name now,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: but a Bart his immaturity and the immaturity of all
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: the students around him. They make fun of the nerd,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: but of course there's a stupid that they can't beat
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: the Nord at anything. There is some making fun of
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: this idea of egalitarianism that everybody has a talent, but
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: the talent are so stupid and ridiculous. They're just done
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: in the name of everybody having a talent, there's no
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: real talent. And so it's making fun of of the galitarianism.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: But problem is it's making fun of everything. It makes
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: fun of every aspect of it, you know. So it's
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: you know, the the idea that that bod not but
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: who's the who's the father in the Simpsons, God, his
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: name is on the tip point tongue, Homer. That Homer
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: is a baboon. It gets into the whole discussion of
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: of parenting and what parenting, what parenting constitutes, and and
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: and what's involved and and you know, Homer kind of
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: comes out of it is yes, of a boon, but
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: he's also a good parent because ultimately he loves his kids,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: and he gives them this fake good advice. Uh, you know,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think I don't. I don't think it's particularly
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: smart humor. I mean it probably is in the world
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: of being cynical. And it combines this off the charge
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: stupidity of home and bought with the women being much better.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: Of course, the men always baboons and the women are better, smarter,
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: So it's it's very anti male, but that's true of
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: almost all sitcoms are anti mao. And then but it's
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: it has kind of a loving, positive approach to these
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: guerrilla men, you know, which I don't sympathize with the baboons.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: They really are so I don't know, I can't. I
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: can't enjoy them. And it's it's all just it's it's
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: very driven by cynicism, by by putting values down, by ridiculing. Now. Now, granted,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: Lisa does really have a cross on the teacher, and
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: for quote good reasons. The teacher kind of is weird
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: and how he relates to her, But there is a crush,
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: there is a lesson to be learned. There there is
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: some ideas, there's some cleverness, but it's so surrounded by
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: this ridiculous stuff going on that I really have no.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: I find it very difficult to review things I don't
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: like because the things that I don't like about them
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: pop out at me. And and here it's the the
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: buffoonery of two of the main characters, the son and
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: the father. They're just buffoons and and there's no redeeming
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: there's no redeeming value to them. Everything about them is
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: really ridiculous, empathetic. Uh and uh, yeah, I can't watch it.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: I find it embarrassing. If you will to not embarrassing
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: unpleasant to watch, you could you review the song by
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: a Loto Bylando Bachata. So bachata is a is a
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: is a dance. BA Chatta is a Latin dance. Uh.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: It's origins and its popularity is it comes from the
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: Dominican republics are not far from where I am now,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: not far from Puerto Rico. There's quite a few bachata
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: here in Puerto Rico. It is a very popular. It
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: kind of took the United States by storm, I think
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: about fifteen years ago, and and it's very very popular.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: It's popular in Europe. It's it's it's popular, you know,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: in in Latin America. And but it's origins are in
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: and in the Dominican Republic. This particular song is a
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: straight up but chat the song. I don't think it's
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: anything special. It has the chata beats, it's it's dance music.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: It's for dancing now as and I can't remember who
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: asked this question. I can't you who sponsored this. But
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: as he says, it's so refreshing, he says, because it
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: avoids the usual needy begging, whining and helpless worship. It's
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: a love song. And it's true. There's no needy, begging, whining, helpless.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: It's a straight up, uncynical love song. But the limcs
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: are super simple. There's no poetry here, there's no sophistication here.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: You know how lucky I am that I can see
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: you and I wake up every morning and when I travel,
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  Speaker 1: I miss you. I have your photograph in my wallet.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is about your eyes, your lips,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: your skin, that this honeymoon never ends. We are glass
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: and wine. You and I and I've been and you
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  Speaker 1: and I have been together since we saw each other.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: We go up, we go down, we cry, we laugh.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: It's because you, because with you, my love. Everything tastes
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: better and you and it goes on and that's fine.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, I just there's no sophistication. There's no poetry
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: like I like poetry in song lyrics, you know, straight
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: up again, this is a song to dance too, but
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: chat as it's pretty, you know, it's it's of Latin dances.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: It's it's a little bit more close intimate, you could say. So.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: Love songs are quite frequent in this and yeah, I
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: mean I I I it's enjoyable, particularly, I mean I
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: can I can listen to a chat the song one one.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: I can't do more than one. It's they repeat and
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: and they're not that interesting. And you know, this is cute,
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: it's nice, it's candy, but I can't say it's anything special. Sorry.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: John John asked me to review another Incabus song in
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: spite of my negative reviews in the past. This one
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: is for the Incabus song Drive. Now, of the three
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: Increbus songs that I've reviewed, this will be the third.
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  Speaker 1: I like this the best. I think it has the
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: nicest rhythm and melody. I still don't particularly like the
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: way they sing it. There's something haunting about the way
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: they sing. Incabus and I'm not a big fan of it,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: but it was less obvious here than in the other songs.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: The constant beat gets a little bit annoying. I'm generally
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: not a beat guy. When it's repetitive and it's constant,
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: it's just I don't know, I find it. I want
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: something more sophstigated. I want more of a melody. I
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: want more. But but there's a melody here, and it's
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: it's it's pretty and the lyrics are good. You know.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: The lyrics are basically this idea that that you know fear.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: You know, uh, fear drives you into making bad decisions
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: or not making decisions, or in in John's terms, uh,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: fear pushes people into second handedness. And I think that's right.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: Uh here's the lyrics. Sometimes I feel the fear of
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: uncertainty stinging clear, and I can't help but ask myself
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: how much I let the fear take the wheel and steer.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: It's driven me before, and it seems to have a vague, haunting,
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: mass appeal. But lately I'm beginning to find that I
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: should be the one behind the wheel. I like that.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: Don't let your emotions, don't let your fear be you
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  Speaker 1: know drive, You steer your core in your life. You
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: need to be behind it wheel, which I would interpret
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: as you being reason being, rationality being your mind, your
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: choices thought through, not based on emotion. The course, the
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  Speaker 1: course is whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there with open
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: arms and open eyes. In other words, I'm gonna overcome
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: my fear. Whatever bring tomorrow brings, I'll be there. I'll
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: be there. So I decide to waiver my chance to
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: be the one to be one of the hive. Will
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: I choose water over wine and hold my own and drive?
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: So yeah, and the rest it pretty much pretty much repeats.
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  Speaker 1: So not bad of the ink of his songs. The
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: one I like the best, decent lyrics, too little to lyrics,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: a little repetitive, and they don't go really anywhere. There's
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: too and there's too much do do do do do
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: do do in the end. But but yeah, pretty good.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: So I enjoyed this one a little bit more than
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed the other Incubus songs. Thank you, John, Thank
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: you to all the people who funded these reviews. So
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: I've got folks in the road. Better man Ford versus
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: Ferrari and Ivola Right the Tiger those four are the
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: ones I need a finish, and I'm hoping I'm hoping
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: to have some of these done next week and then
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: everything done sometime in early January. I know I've said
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: that before, but I'm chipping away at them. So unless
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: you add a lot of these reviews for me, I
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: should be done with reviews. Feel fee to add reviews now.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: Now that I've got it down to manageable. I won't
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: do them for a while until these are finished. These
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: will get priority. But if you have more stuff you'd
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: want me to review movies, TV shows, movies of five hundred,
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: episodes of TV shows are two fifty, songs one hundred.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: Books start at five hundred, books started five hundred. Okay,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: so movies five hundred, TV episodes two fifty, and songs
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: one hundred, and books starting at five hundred, depending how
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: long they are. All right, great, thank you guys. All right,
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: let's turn to our super chat. Let's turn to the
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: super chat and go through those, and then I'll let
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: you all go to Christmas Eve. I know some people
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: open presents Christmas Eve and have their big dinner, the
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: big Christmas dinners Christmas Eve. We do it Christmas Day,
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: and Christmas morning, but it's your Everybody does it a
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: little differently, So I don't want to keep you all
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: too late, because I know some of you have to
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: go out to Christmas. Okay. John asked this question he
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: had made a comment on one of my videos and
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: I told him to ask it in the super chat.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: So thank you John for doing that asking the super chat.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: I don't think you're on live now, so you'll probably
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: hear this later. But so here's the question you're on.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: What kind of citizenship do you have in mind? Objective
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: legal standards, so abstract understanding of Americanism? How could this
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: avoid turning into a state enforced ideology over time? So
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: a few things I want to say about this. So
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: this is my point that I made a few shows ago,
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: and I made it briefly, and I probably shouldn't have
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: made it because it's too speculative. So first one, this
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: is not objectivism. This is me. I don't know if
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: any other objectivist intellectual who agrees with me. I certainly
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: don't know, or don't think that I Ran agreed with me,
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: or lennapeak Up agrees with me, I don't know. I
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: never never asked Leonard and of course I never talked
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: to advance. I wouldn't know, so it's not objectivism, it's
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: just me. Second, this is my idea for an ideal society.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: This is not something I would implement today. There's no
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: way in hell I would give today's government the ability
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: to establish a citizenship test. That all this is. This
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: is the idea. I guess I should tell you what
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: the idea is. The idea is everybody should have a
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: citizenship test, even Americans, even that is people born in America.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: Nobody should be a citizen automatically. You should have to
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: pass a test. Now, so I want to say that
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: this is this idea is for an ideal society. This
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: is for an ideal not for today necessarily. Now, why
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: why do I think that, Well, because I think that
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: if you're going to vote, if we're going to have
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: voting in this future government, and I think we should.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's minimal voting. The voting is not that
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: important in the sense that you have a strong constitution,
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: But who runs the government, who represents you in a Congress,
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: makes a difference. So voting is important, and it's important
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: for the survival of the system. What you want to
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: make sure is that everybody who votes actually understands the
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: system knows what its principles are, what it's based on.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: You can't test agreement, and I wouldn't test agreement, but
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: there has to be an understanding of, for example, what
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: individual rights mean. How can you vote into a system
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: vote people to represent you in defending individual rights, which
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: is the fundamental principle of the American government or of
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: a future objectivist government called it a future free government,
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: capitalist government. If the people who are going to the
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: people who are voting on it, don't know what individual
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: rights mean, they don't understand the concept. Again, an understanding
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: don't have to agree. They have to know the basics
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: of the constitution. They'd have to know what they mean.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: And you know, we're not talking about sophisticated We're talking
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: about a straightforward understanding, and a constitution should be written
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: in a straightforward way that everybody can understand. So I
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: think that it would be an understanding of the documents
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: of the system of government at a basic level. But
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: you know the key principles that you're voting about, because
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: you're voting in a representative to represent you in protecting
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: these principles. If you don't know what those principles are,
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: what are you voting for? And what makes you an American?
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: So that's my view, and in that sense, I don't
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: see any difference between immigrants and an American. You can
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: be born in this country and have no clue as
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: many Americans. Most Americans that they have no clue about
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: what individual rights mean, about the history of the country,
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: about the Constitution, about the Declaration Independence, they don't know.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: They have no clue, and then they vote. And that's
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: ub said. I also want to make clear that I
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: don't consider voting to be that important. Voting is a
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: civil right. It's not an individual right, it's a derivative right.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: But that everybody should be able to vote is not obvious.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: I mean that the founding of the country, there were
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: there were limits, only certain people could vote, right, And
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: you know, I can imagine a world in which to
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: vote you would have to pass a test in Robert
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: Hanlin's Starship Starship Trooper, to vote, you have to civil
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: the military. I don't think you need that. I don't
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: think you need that, but you know, it's not crazy idea.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: So minimum requirements to vote don't seem to me wrong.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: And knowledge seems to be important. And if you don't
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: have that knowledge, or if you can't pass a test
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: on that knowledge, you don't vote. You still have all
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: the protections as a residents of the United States, you
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: just can't vote. You don't have false citizenship. Now does
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: it avoid turning into state and falced ideology over time?
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: It's not an ideological test. It is a knowledge test. Now,
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: anything can be distorted and provoted, and this could be
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: distorted pervoted. But the more we know about the founding
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: principles of our state, the less likely it is to
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: be distorted and provoted. And then, by the way, that's
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: why I wouldn't do it today. Right, First, you have
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: to have people who actually know what the what the
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: principles are, and today we have nobody, certainly nobody in
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 1: positions of authority. All right, thank you, John. If you
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: have a follow up, let me know, Michael, why does
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: success bother people so deeply? Watching other individuals groups succeed
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: drive some people mad to the point where they spend
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: their lives trying to undermine and destroy their success. Well,
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know how you know how many people this accoustic,
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: but it's it's envy. It's it's a lack of self esteem.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: It is the idea that a zero is some world,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: somebody else's success, uh, you know, points out to me
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: my own lack of success or makes it impossible for
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: me to succeed because it's a zero sum world. So
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: I think people have a mentality of zero s. But
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: they also have a mentality of not explicitly, but somebody
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: else's success points out their own failure, the fact that
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: they didn't succeed, and that drives them nuts and that
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: upsets But it's irrationality and emotionalism and altruism. Altruism. Remember,
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: you know, why isn't that Why isn't that person more autistic?
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: Why isn't he sacrificing more? Why is he so focused
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: on himself that he's so successful. That's evil, that's wrong.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: Altruism destroys all this stuff. Chasba says, great booze up.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the booze up is. Boobs up.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: I think that's from the beer episode. I think they
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: all wear fake boobs. Anyway, it's quite silly but fun.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: So great boobs up. Thank you, chas about fifty dollars.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: Really really appreciate that. Thanks for the support. Let's see
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: with the stickers. Let me see, yeah, call Mysen had
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: a sticker, Mike Dial has a sticker. And there's another,
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: all right, Jennifer. Did Romans have any bloodline ideal ideas
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: or did they think barbarians could become Romans? All barbarians
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: became Romans all the time. And Rome was a very
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: diverse place, if you will. Indeed, some of the Roman
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: Empire emperors were former barbarians. Some of the Roman emperors
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: were black Roman empress you know, within the Balkans enemies
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: previous enemies of Rome. So no, there was no as
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: far as I can tell that I know, and I'm
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: not an expert on Rome, there was no bloodline. Anybody
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: could become a Roman. Anybody who indeed everybody was subjugated
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: by the Womans did become a woman. Haunta Hunter? Did
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: you tell your kids about Santo? Did you fill their
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: heads with wild conspiracies about the parents putting presents under
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: the tree Merry Christmas? I was a conspiracy guy. Definitely,
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: parents putting the presence under the tree. Definitely. Santa Claus
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: was just like Mickey Mouse. It was a nice story.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: It was a nice idea, It was a nice it's
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: it's just it's pretend, just like so many other things
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: that they experienced in life that will pretend. No. I know,
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: Leonard very much advocated for pretending and and and told
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: Kira that Santa Claus was responsible for the presence. I
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: did not. I couldn't bring myself to do that. So no,
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: I I try to tell my kids the truth of
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: what I actually thought about pretty much everything. Where did
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: babies come from? They got the truth from me, so
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: at a very very young age. Greg Merry Christmas, unhappy,
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: prosperous New Year. Thank you, Greg. I appreciate that Michael
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: elements of the right, or is collecttavistic elements of the left,
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: But there are no elements of the on the left
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: as capitalist as elements on the right. That is true,
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: although the number of elements of capitalism on the right
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: is shrinking and they're not very vocal, and they're disappearing,
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: and I'm not sure you should call them right anymore.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: So my whole point is you shouldn't be calling in
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: the left and right at all. Michael says, is there
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: any way you can push for you and Nkar to
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: be on the panel with Stephen pinkad Ocon. I do
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: not make those decisions anymore. So I have no idea
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: who's going to be on and am. Will existing euro
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: elites ever fight jihadism? I think at some point they will.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: Bet it will be at a point where a lot
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: of blood shed is already a lot of blood has
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: already been shed, and Europe is already in deep, deep trouble,
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: and they'll do it by embracing authoritarianism. Sadly, they'll wait
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: until authoritarianism to do it, John, Sorry, I was driving,
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: all right. We talked about that. Thank you, John Cook.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Thank you Cook, Ali Musa, Merry Christmas. Thank you,
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: Ali Musa. Loan dissenter Ernst Lubitch made the only real
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: movie iron Man reference in the fountain Head? Do you
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: remember what it is? No? I don't, No, I don't
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: you need to let us know? Now I'm in suspense.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: What is she reference in the fountain Head? Can't you
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: remember Juron? Have you seen Jason and Argonauts? I don't
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: think so, should I? Right? Lone Descender says, the answer
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: is designed for living. That's right. It's a fabulous movie
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: with Gary Cooper if I remember, right, Gary Cooper. A
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: journalist uses it pejoratively to describe the relationship between Rock
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: Weinand and Dominique. Yes, because Design for Living is about
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: two men in love with one woman, and it's got
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: Gary Cooper in it, and it's It's again. It's a
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: lubitch classic, definitely worth watching. Es I V. Merry Christmas Hiron.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: Thank you for all the hard work and research you
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: put into your shows. It does not go unnoticed. I
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: appreciate that. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Equal to
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: reality in general. What do you think of British humor.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: I'm a big fan. My favorite comedy is all British
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: Faulty Towers, Blackadda Yes Minister and then Yes Prime Minister,
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: which are the best, the best comedies of our politics
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: ever made, even Cooky You Enthusiasm? No American? What's what's
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: the one I'm thinking of? I can't remember the name
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: of it. God, I don't know why Coby Enthusiasm came
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: to moment. Anyway, I'm a big fan of British human
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: British comedies, big fan, much more than American comedies, which
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: I find pretty dull and unsophisticated. Jeffrey telling you before
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: my parents my wife is pregnant. WHOA, that was fast.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: Expect years of super chats for parenting advice. Oh, congratulations,
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: that is fantastic. That is really really fantastic. Good for you.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: Congratulations to you and your wife. And look forward to
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: seeing you guys, and look forward to seeing the baby.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: And that's terrific. That is amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing news
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: and happy to do shout parenting advice. So though you
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: know for what it's worth, I don't know what it's worth.
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  Speaker 1: I have to ask my son Andrew. I sense to
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  Speaker 1: some objectivists conceive of emotions as inalterable facts. But you
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  Speaker 1: can't change an emotion if you change it's underlying premises.
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  Speaker 1: That seems to a cood with the objectives y of emotions. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know any objectivists who believe emotions
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  Speaker 1: are unalterable inalterable facts. I mean, you fall in love,
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  Speaker 1: you fall out of love. That's a good example of
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  Speaker 1: emotion changing. But emotions change all the time towards the
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  Speaker 1: same thing. So I mean different evaluation, maybe changing facts
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  Speaker 1: the same object, the same phenomena. So yeah, I absolutely
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  Speaker 1: all right. Last question, I guess somebody could jump in
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  Speaker 1: if they really wanted to. Tom says, enjoy the benefits
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  Speaker 1: of my new appliances, my devices, access to ideas. They
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  Speaker 1: make my life better and the future and the better
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  Speaker 1: future for my kids and grandkids. Absolutely, I'm glad you
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  Speaker 1: are enjoying all of that. MirOS Lev says, some people
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  Speaker 1: like to feed the nuts. This is some clooney Brown.
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  Speaker 1: Some people like to feed nuts to the squirrels. But
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  Speaker 1: if it makes you happy to feed squirrels to the nuts,
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  Speaker 1: who am I to say nuts to the squirrels. So
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of subjectivism there, granted, but it's all
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  Speaker 1: in good fun. That is from clooney Brown, Ernst Lubitch's movie.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Andrew came in with another one. I want
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  Speaker 1: an essay on a psychological basis for collectivism, built off
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  Speaker 1: of Rant's claim that altruism is a result of fear
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  Speaker 1: of independence. It's too long. Would you read it if
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  Speaker 1: I send it to your email? Sure, send it to
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  Speaker 1: email and I will read it. Thank you, Andrew, Thank
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  Speaker 1: you everybody. I really appreciate it. Have a great, great Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: No show tomorrow. We might be back on Friday, we'll see,
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  Speaker 1: but certainly back on Saturday with an Ama and it's
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  Speaker 1: not too long, you said, not too long. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: can't read, but send it. Have a great Christmas. I
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  Speaker 1: hope you get the presents you want. Don't forget to
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  Speaker 1: give presents the people you love, if that's a thing.
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  Speaker 1: If the presents, I think, And yeah, I'll see you,
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  Speaker 1: and don't forget. January thirty first, January thirty first, December
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  Speaker 1: thirty first, the Big Show, No Christmas show. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: doing a show during Christmas. Have a great Christmas, everybody. Bye.
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  Speaker 1: You will survive without me one day during Christmas