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Kimmel Canceled, CEOs Cave, Israel Isolated, Saudi Power Plays, Redford Remebered | Yaron Brook Show · Yaron Brook Show

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  Speaker 1: The fundamental principles I've readom rational, self interest, and individual wise.
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  Speaker 2: This is the ran Brook Show. Oh right, everybody, welcome
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  Speaker 2: to your own book show on this Thursday, September eighteen.
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  Speaker 3: I hope everybody is.
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  Speaker 2: Having a great week. It's almost Friday, all right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we will probably have a show tomorrow, No show on Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: and then I'm hoping Sunday and Monday. We'll see, but
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  Speaker 2: that is my hope that we do two shows on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday and Monday.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's jump in. Big news.
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  Speaker 2: I think today dominated the news was the fact that
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  Speaker 2: ABC had fired Jimmy Kimmel.
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  Speaker 3: No word about what they're going to replace his show with.
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel, the comedians slash late night show Hosts.
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  Speaker 3: Was fired today.
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  Speaker 2: His ratings have been declining significantly for years now. Avs
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  Speaker 2: have the ratings of all late night hosts show hosts
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  Speaker 2: with the exception of I guess Greg Grumfeld on Fox News,
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  Speaker 2: but pretty much everybody else's ratings have been neclided.
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  Speaker 3: But the cause of this firving, specifically was.
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  Speaker 2: A monologue kime Out gave in which he suggested that
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  Speaker 2: the murderer of Charlie Cook might have been somebody from MAGA,
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  Speaker 2: somebody from MAGA, and the sequence of events is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: pretty straightforward. You know, came On makes the comment on
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  Speaker 2: Monday Night. Right, the FCC, you know, the head of
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  Speaker 2: the FCC, what is his name, Brandon Carr.
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  Speaker 3: Says, we can.
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  Speaker 2: Do this the easy way or the hard way. These
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  Speaker 2: companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions
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  Speaker 2: on Kimo or there's going to be additional work for
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  Speaker 2: the FCC ahead. Then, Coss says, you know, broadcasters, including
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  Speaker 2: ABC have a license granted by us at the FCC,
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  Speaker 2: and that comes with an obligation to operate in the
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  Speaker 2: quote public interest.
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  Speaker 3: At some point, Carloso attacks.
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  Speaker 2: In the same interview, he attacks Kim as talentless, suggest
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  Speaker 2: late night comedians comments displayed quote some sort of desperate, irrelevant,
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  Speaker 2: irre irrelevance anyway. So, given the threat from the FCC
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  Speaker 2: that licenses granted could be taken away, local broadcasters, UH
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  Speaker 2: decided to go with with the FCC and now with
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  Speaker 2: Kimo right the number one local broadcaster. The largest network
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  Speaker 2: of local broadcasters is next Star, Next Stop, Go Go
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  Speaker 2: figure Out. I neverhood of the media, Next Star Next
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  Speaker 2: Star Today has UH has the largest network of television
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  Speaker 2: television stations. Uh and and this is how you know
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  Speaker 2: television works. This is how the FCC is set it up.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get you there in a minute. And right now,
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  Speaker 2: the FCC has rules that cap TV conglomerates from owning stations.
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  Speaker 2: They can't reach more than thirty nine percent of TV households,
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  Speaker 2: so they can't grow bigger than that. Right. So, but
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  Speaker 2: it turns out next Star is trying to acquire rival Tenga. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this merger would blast this rule, right, it would take it.
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  Speaker 2: It would take it to significantly over thirty nine percent
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  Speaker 2: of all households and make Nixstar the dominant player by
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  Speaker 2: far in the industry. But in order to do this,
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  Speaker 2: it needs FCC to approve, and it needs FCC in
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  Speaker 2: a sense to change the rules to allow it to
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  Speaker 2: buy Tegna. Right, these caps thirty nine percent, I mean
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  Speaker 2: around I think for decades, and they would have to
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  Speaker 2: be lifted in order for this acquisitions to go. So
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  Speaker 2: Nickstar has to play nice with the FCC. It needs
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  Speaker 2: FCC to do it a big favor. Star Cornias and Works,
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  Speaker 2: Start Cornyas and Works in all administer, We're just seeing
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  Speaker 2: it a play out kind of in more explicit ways
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  Speaker 2: with with the Trump administration. You know, the FCC would
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  Speaker 2: have to loosen its limits on broadcast station ownerships. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, Nickstar has to be nice to the FCC.
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  Speaker 2: So when the FCC kind of you know, suggests, when
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  Speaker 2: the head of the FCC suggests that some action needs
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  Speaker 2: to be taken to take Kimmel off the off the air,
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  Speaker 2: and then maybe affiliates could take that action and that
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  Speaker 2: you know, the license granted and remember the public interest,
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  Speaker 2: then somebody like Knickstar is going to do what is
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  Speaker 2: going to not do what the FCC chairman just ask
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  Speaker 2: them to do politely nicely. They need the FCC, they
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  Speaker 2: need to be in a good side. So next Stop pulled.
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  Speaker 2: Right after next Star, you get Sinclair, a pulling Sinclair
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  Speaker 2: of course pulled Chimo. Sinclair, of course is owned and
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  Speaker 2: run by conservative owners.
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  Speaker 3: And again they.
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  Speaker 2: Got the master Shuman Trumpet administration. We don't want Kimmel
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  Speaker 2: on the air. ABC had no choice at this point,
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  Speaker 2: they had two of their largest distributors pulling. It would
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  Speaker 2: have been it would absurd for Disney to keep it
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  Speaker 2: keep the show on air with it going to less
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  Speaker 2: than fifty percent.
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  Speaker 3: Of households around the country.
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  Speaker 2: So I guess Sinclair operates ABC stations at thirty markets,
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  Speaker 2: a next stop in many more markets, and yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: know that combination. And of course Benicarr goes on Twitter,
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  Speaker 2: Bendinkarr is the to the FCC. It's a comment official.
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  Speaker 2: He goes on Twitter says, thank you to Sinclair for
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  Speaker 2: taking quick action that you consider responsive to the needs
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  Speaker 2: and values of the local community use of I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if this isn't government censorship, if this isn't government censorship,
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  Speaker 2: I do not know what it is. I do not
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  Speaker 2: know what government censorship looks like. Except arresting people putting
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  Speaker 2: them in jail. We don't We're not doing that yet.
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  Speaker 2: We're just threatening them with not improving their mergers. We're
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  Speaker 2: threatening them with taking their licenses, they can't broadcast anymore.
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  Speaker 2: But we're we're not literally going and putting them in jail.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, we don't put people in jail. People pay taxes.
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  Speaker 2: We just threaten them that if they don't pay taxes,
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  Speaker 2: will put them in jail. That's causion. If this isn't
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  Speaker 2: causion to get the kind of speech and kind of
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  Speaker 2: corporate action you want, then I don't know what causion
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  Speaker 2: looks like. And if you think, oh, it's a private company,
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  Speaker 2: they can do what they want. Absolutely, but when the
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  Speaker 2: government is threatening them, I mean, imagine this was the
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  Speaker 2: Biden administration. What would you think, what would you feel?
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  Speaker 2: What would you suggest? Would you say this is censorship?
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  Speaker 2: You would, and you know it. So the fact that
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  Speaker 2: you're not, you know, suggests maybe some zombie syndrome maybe,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, the sequence is pretty clear. FCC
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  Speaker 2: Chess says, we can do this is the easy way
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  Speaker 2: of the hard way. Trump says ABC should be fined
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  Speaker 2: to lose this license for their unfair coverage. Trump accuses
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  Speaker 2: ABC of hate speech, suggesting that the bottom of Justice
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  Speaker 2: will investigate ABC executives super scared of retaliation, Nick Star,
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  Speaker 2: which needs merge your approval polls, right, Kima, ABC of
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  Speaker 2: course is going to cancel the whole thing. That is
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  Speaker 2: how government censors. That's how government takes control of the media.
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  Speaker 2: That's how government gets everybody to play by its rules,
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  Speaker 2: by its standards. And this is exactly what Iran warned
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  Speaker 2: us against in the Capitalism Now an Ideal. There is
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  Speaker 2: an essay by Ironman the property status of the airwaves,
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  Speaker 2: and she argued that the fact that the government gives licenses,
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  Speaker 2: the fact that that's how it's structured, is being structured
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  Speaker 2: like this since the nineteen thirties, the fact that it's
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  Speaker 2: that this is why it's structured, and that the TV stations,
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  Speaker 2: the radio stations that license these airwaves are beholden to
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  Speaker 2: the public interest, public interests. I mean, who's going to
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  Speaker 2: define what public interest is? When is that going to
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  Speaker 2: be defined? How is that going to be defined? That
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  Speaker 2: basically places the government in a position to put pressure
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  Speaker 2: on these stations to do its bidding, and therefore, by
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  Speaker 2: very nature, it is antagonistic to free speech and it
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  Speaker 2: opens itself up to government censorship and government control over
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  Speaker 2: the airwaves. Which he suggested at the time was that
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  Speaker 2: the airwaves be privatized, that companies own the airwaves and
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  Speaker 2: as private property over a bandwidth, they can do with
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  Speaker 2: it as they win. They can broadcast whatever they want,
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  Speaker 2: and they should be able to sell that bandwidth and
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  Speaker 2: be able to again broadcast anything they want.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you wouldn't believe the amount of.
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  Speaker 2: Regulations that they see imposers of TV and radio stations,
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  Speaker 2: all in the name of, of course, the public interest,
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  Speaker 2: but also because they are the ones leasing. These companies
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  Speaker 2: do not own the airwaves, and therefore the government has
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  Speaker 2: control over these airwaves. And you see how Trump is
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  Speaker 2: using this constantly. He wants the ABC and NBC. He
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  Speaker 2: wants them too. You don't play ball, or they're going
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  Speaker 2: to lose the license. And he keeps threatening, he keeps
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  Speaker 2: threatening the license issue, and they're paying attention. I think
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  Speaker 2: as a consequence of this, CBS has now been bought
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  Speaker 2: by Larry Ellison's son, so by a Trump a Trump supporter,
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  Speaker 2: and CBS is likely to turn into kind of a
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  Speaker 2: right leaning news organization. I wouldn't be surprised that ABC
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  Speaker 2: and NBC figure out, Disney figures out it's easier to
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  Speaker 2: sell ABC to some right wing thing than to actually
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  Speaker 2: hold on to it. And yeah, we'll get to this
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  Speaker 2: in a minute. By the way, I Man wrote quite
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  Speaker 2: a bit about the FCC, you know, and really attacked it.
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  Speaker 2: She thought the existence of the FCC, the existence of
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  Speaker 2: government licensing of the airwaves, was a grave violation and
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  Speaker 2: opened up the possibility really, really, really harmful actions by
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  Speaker 2: the government towards these private companies. And that's exactly what
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  Speaker 2: you are seeing right now. What you're seeing right now.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, Brendan Carr, who is the head
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  Speaker 2: of the FCC as in the past, said some pretty
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  Speaker 2: good things about free speech. That's why this is particularly disappointing,
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  Speaker 2: but completely consistent with the kind of government that Trump
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  Speaker 2: is trying to run. Beninkov, for example, in February fourteenth,
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  Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, so six years ago, wrote, should the government's
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  Speaker 2: census speech it doesn't like? Of course not. The FCC
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  Speaker 2: does not have a woving mandate to police speech in
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  Speaker 2: the name of the public interest. All right, that's good.
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  Speaker 2: This has been the car yesterday. I want to thank
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  Speaker 2: Nickstar for doing the right thing. Local broadcasters have an
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  Speaker 2: obligation to serve the public interest. Well, this may be
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  Speaker 2: an unpleasant, unprecedented decision. It is important for broadcasters to
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  Speaker 2: push back on Disney programming that they determine for short
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  Speaker 2: of community value. I hope that other broadcasters follow Nixstar's lead. God,
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  Speaker 2: that is a scary statement. It is important for broadcasters
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  Speaker 2: to push back. This is a government official with regulatory power,
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  Speaker 2: a gun in his hand, pointed at them, saying it's
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  Speaker 2: important for you people. I've got a gun pointed at
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  Speaker 2: to push back. On Disney programming. Busney owns ABC that
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  Speaker 2: you determine for short of community values.
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  Speaker 3: This is how it happens. This is how.
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  Speaker 2: Government chips away, chips away, and chips away at the
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  Speaker 2: free media. This is how Putin ultimately took control of
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  Speaker 2: all the media and Russia. There is no alternative media
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  Speaker 2: in Russia. This is a aubon slowly chipped away. First
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  Speaker 2: they had his crony's, his friends buy up whatever media
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  Speaker 2: assets they could.
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  Speaker 3: Then he just.
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  Speaker 2: Harassed whatever remaining media there was into oblivion. And today
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  Speaker 2: media in Hungary is all supportive of Voban.
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  Speaker 3: There's no opposition media.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, you now have Trump basically taking over
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  Speaker 2: TikTok and handing it to his allies.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, would he be surprised it's.
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  Speaker 2: Suddenly TikTok changed and became pretty pro Trump. Would that chuck? Anybody?
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  Speaker 2: Would that surprise anybody? Megan now has basically Twitter, right,
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  Speaker 2: it has looks like it's going to have TikTok, and
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  Speaker 2: and Zuckerberg has continuously moved to appease Trump more and
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  Speaker 2: more and has shifted a lot of his assets, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the social media that he controls, to be
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  Speaker 2: more friendly at least uh to to Trump. And of
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  Speaker 2: course the press is just folding given the Trump pressure.
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  Speaker 2: You know, as we said, CBS recently acquired by David Allison,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, CBS News is shifting to the right.
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  Speaker 2: Supposedly he is going to buy Barry Weiss's conservative well
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  Speaker 2: not conservative free press media Barry Weiss's and and of
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  Speaker 2: course promote her to a major position at CBS News.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see if all that happens, but that looks like it.
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  Speaker 2: And then of course David Allison is trying to acquire
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  Speaker 2: Warner Brothers Discovery, which were.
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  Speaker 3: Then giving him control of CNN.
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  Speaker 2: So you could see in the not so distant future
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  Speaker 2: you could see basically labby Ellison, through his son David Ellison,
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  Speaker 2: controlling not only CBS News but also CNN and shifting
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  Speaker 2: all of those assets to the right.
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  Speaker 3: This is how it works, This is how they take over.
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  Speaker 2: Right. And I don't know if there's anything anybody at
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  Speaker 2: this point could do it, but right, you know. And
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  Speaker 2: and there's a question of why companies cave to Trump,
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  Speaker 2: and I think they gave to Trump because he's a
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  Speaker 2: real threat. Because in a mixed enemy in the world
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  Speaker 2: in which we live. A business relies on government heavily.
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  Speaker 2: It relies on government for contracts, like you know, like
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  Speaker 2: most of the tech industry relies on government contracts. They
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  Speaker 2: will allowing government to approve mergency and acquisitions. Next all
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  Speaker 2: is a good example of that. They worry about government
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  Speaker 2: going after them for anti trust. Again, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the tech businesses, they will allowing government to give them,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to either penalize them through tariffs or give
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  Speaker 2: them loophole's exemptions from tariffs. So government is heavily, heavily
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  Speaker 2: involved in every aspect of these businesses. And as a consequence,
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  Speaker 2: CEOs tend to behave, tend to behave they're afraid. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to that in a minute. I want to give
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  Speaker 2: you two examples of how just free speech is under
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  Speaker 2: attack right now, and an attack from those who just
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  Speaker 2: a few months ago were claiming to be its biggest defenders.
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  Speaker 2: That is under attack from the right. Here is Congressman.
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  Speaker 2: This is Congressman Clay Higgens, who is a Republican, unsuppicing
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  Speaker 2: and and he is writing. He sent this open letter
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  Speaker 2: Mark zuckerbook Elon Musk Neil Mohan, who's the CEO of YouTube.
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  Speaker 2: He wrote this the CEO of TikTok, chief executive officer
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  Speaker 2: of What Blue Sky, and chief executive officer.
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  Speaker 3: Of Trump Media.
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  Speaker 2: Funny.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, this is what he wrote.
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  Speaker 2: You tell me if this is the government you want,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you the service you provide to our republic, and
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  Speaker 2: may God be with you and your family. America is
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  Speaker 2: suffering under the dark weight of horror after the graphic
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  Speaker 2: televised murder of heroic Christian leader mister Charlie Cook. I
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  Speaker 2: ask that you reflect upon your own unique responsibility to
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  Speaker 2: participate in the very appropriate, legal and constitutional sound response.
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  Speaker 2: What's a legal and constantation sound response to the murder
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  Speaker 2: of somebody? What is that? Not to threaten? But I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what that means? But he tells us. Please
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  Speaker 2: be advised that your platforms are rightfully expected to expeditiously
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  Speaker 2: remove all posts that have celebrated the political assassination of
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Cook. Further, the authors of these posts are to
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  Speaker 2: be identified and banned from your platform, as well as
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  Speaker 2: any new pages that they may create. Now, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know is anstoll on here? But isn't On't these companies
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  Speaker 2: private companies? And yet this is Congressman writing them telling
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  Speaker 2: them exactly what they must do. Must do. Gleeful celebration
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  Speaker 2: of the heenous murder of an American citizen brazenly published
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  Speaker 2: within the public forms of social media is not to
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  Speaker 2: be tolerated within the accepted and legal parameters of a
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  Speaker 2: few humane society, and I have initiated a congressional effort
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  Speaker 2: to force force accountability. If you shield these offenders, Section
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  Speaker 2: two thirty will not protect your platform some vigorous exposure.
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  Speaker 2: I hold the gravel for the Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee
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  Speaker 2: of the House Oversight and Government of Reform Committee, and
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  Speaker 2: my chair has specific congressional authority over regulatory of a
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  Speaker 2: federal regulatory law enforcement. My committee will be a leading
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  Speaker 2: force in the righteous righteous endeavor to protect the legitimate,
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  Speaker 2: free exchange of ideas and opinions, which requires the vigilant
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  Speaker 2: maintenance of appropriate behaviors within our publicly accessed social media forums.
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  Speaker 3: UM, some of you are noticing sound issues.
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  Speaker 2: Some of you are not. So I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: to make of it. Maybe I'm being too loud. Let
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  Speaker 2: me maybe I'm clipping by being too loud. Right, the
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  Speaker 2: reason or iss frictions of public statements that lie far
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  Speaker 2: beyond the standards of our own society is not an
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  Speaker 2: oppression of free speech, Yes it is. It is rather
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  Speaker 2: the protection of free speech. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: If that's not joju or well speak, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what is.
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  Speaker 2: Having the will to guard the standards and integrity of
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  Speaker 2: the infrastructure that enables to express of opinion in our
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  Speaker 2: public discourse is a crucial responsibility that we must embrace.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hopeful to receive your full cooperation and expect form
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  Speaker 2: of response to this letter of encouragement within one business week.
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  Speaker 2: This is the censorship, guys. This is as bad, if
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  Speaker 2: not worse, than what the Biden administration did. And it
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  Speaker 2: is a precedent that is just terrific. Whoops.
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  Speaker 4: Second, um, he doesn't have grit.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't by a government official. Isn't good by a
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  Speaker 2: government official.
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  Speaker 5: Let's see what's the mistake?
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  Speaker 2: One said, The sound is once again doubling. Either two microphones, No,
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  Speaker 2: there's only one mic active, or two audio channels slightly
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  Speaker 2: out of sync. No, only one? Oh, you are right,
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  Speaker 2: you are right? God, how did that happen? There were
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  Speaker 2: two audio channels open? Robert is really good at this. Robert,
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  Speaker 2: can you be my sound engineer? Can you do you
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  Speaker 2: want to produce this show. Two mics not well, one mic,
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  Speaker 2: one mic, two audio.
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  Speaker 6: Channels on on uh, two audio channels on obs.
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  Speaker 2: All right, is that better? I ain't, God, it shouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: I have to delete this second the second mic this, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know where to delete it. Let's see.
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  Speaker 2: Let me delete it now while I remember, yeah, now
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  Speaker 2: it's deleted, so it can't. I don't know. I reset
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  Speaker 2: these and somehow it it.
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  Speaker 3: Came back on.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, It's gone now sound as much better now, yep,
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  Speaker 2: that was the issue. Thank you, Thank you guys. As
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  Speaker 2: I said, anybody want to be my sound producer? Uh,
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  Speaker 2: and my my other producer and everybody everything else? All right,
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  Speaker 2: here goes, let's see. Yes, here's another one. This is
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: from Lava Luma. Now, Lava Luma is a nobody, but
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: she's a nobody with the ear and the huge influence
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: on Donald Trump, huge well documented. This is what she
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: had to write just a few days ago after Charlie
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Cook's assassination. I was thinking about this over the last
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: few nights while I couldn't sleep. I have to say,
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: I do want President Trump to be the dictator in
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: quotation marks, The left thinks he is, and I want
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: the right to be as devoted to locking up and silencing,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: silencing a violent political enemies as they pretend we are.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I've had enough of the left only thinking we will
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: defund them, prosecute them, lock them up, and dismantle their
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: power for generations to come. It just needs to happen,
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: you see, right now, the biggest threat to freedom is
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: not some secret network of reddits leftists who are plotting
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: to assassinate right wing talk show people, although there might
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: be more violence in that sense, I don't know they
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: might be. I was voting Laura Luma. The real the
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: real danger, as I said the other day, is from
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: this government. It's from this government. This government is a
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: danger to our limity, a danger to our freedoms. It's
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: a danger need dissenting voice out there. It's a danger
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: to anybody critical of Donald Trump. It is a danger
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: to anybody who's trying to be objective, or somebody who's
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: not but who's on the other side who disagrees. The
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: danger is the Trumpet administration. That is the real thing
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: that is causing people to be silent, to not voice
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: their opinions, to be scared in if you're you know,
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: bound skinned in some parts of the country. It's what
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: causes you not to leave home, maybe not to go
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: to work today. You don't know if you're going to
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: be wounded up. So this is a government that doesn't
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: have any problem. Donald Trump says it all the time.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: In my view, in all impeachable offenses, I don't like
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: what your network says, maybe I'll have the justice upon
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: me investigate you. I don't like what your network says.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: I'll talk to the FCC chair about taking your license.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Those utterances are censorship. Those utterances impeachable offenses. Those utterances
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: should mean you cannot be president of the United States.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: They go against everything this country stands for in our constitution. So,
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's scary. It really is scary times. Not
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: because I mean, to some extent because of the nihilists
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: self they're killing people, but because much more than that,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: because I feel there was response, and it's nihilis of
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: the left, the nihilis of the right. Although the focus
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: right now is Primarion nihilis of the left. Yeah, they
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: can do a lot of damage, they can be quite destructive,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: but what can really do damage, what can really destroy
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: the fabric of this country? Is how the government responds
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: to all that. If free speech is taken away and
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: it you know, it's under attack right now, and it
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: is taken away, it was taken away from ABC. That
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: is more damage than any nihilist can do.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: All right, So.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: I think you should all worry about where this government
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: is going.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: And I hate to say it, but.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: I told you so that Trump was this bad. So
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: we've seen over weeks and of a long time. You know,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: US CEO's groveling before Trump. We see them, We saw
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: that dinner with all their biggest, biggest names in tech
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: in the world, in the US at least, sitting around
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: the table all playing let's pretend he's the North Korean
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: dictator and praising Trump and will invest this, we'll invest that,
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: And CEOs seem to just beholding with it, and they
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: all seem to just be accepting of Trump and be
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: supportive of him generally. That's the position, that's the vootbage,
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: that's the way they have.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: To express themselves.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Well, there was a recently a confidence a meeting at
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: the Yale School of Management which had dozens of American
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: business leaders who were at At this conference, there's a
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: closed door conference the coup of CEOs are a lot darker,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: a lot more negative than they have been in public.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: They were very critical and very concerned about tariffs, about
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: immigration policy, and about foreign policy, and just the chaotic
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: how to navigate business environment that this administration is creating.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: You know, they feel like they're being extorted, bullied, both
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: individually and as industries and in private, they're really pissed off.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: They are so worried about the fact that the government
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: is directly intervening in markets and ways that it never
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: has before in America or rarely has before for in America.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Whether it's the fact that a government is now getting
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: a cut of Nvidia sales of chips, a cut the government, Well,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: how the competitor is going to compete, Well, eighty am
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: is also paying a cut to the government. I mean
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: this is beyond coporate taxes, which is the original cut.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: You're steel as a golden share by the government. The
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: government supposedly is taking a ten percent steak in Intel.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: We'll get to Intel in a little bit. I mean, it's.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: It's scary. If you're a CEO today, how do you
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: navigate this? Well, I mean, you do what CEOs are doing.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: They kiss the ring, they write big checks. They try
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: to smooth out their relationship as best they can't. This
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: is how authoritarian governments work. It's who you know, not
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: what you do. This isn't capitalism in you all. This
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: is conyism, poblic salon. So maybe this is the beginning
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: of a new era, the era of cony, of out
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: of control conyism. Again, this is like oligogs in Russia.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: How do you become an oligarch? Not by making money,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: but by you know, cutting a deal with Putin, by
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: cutting a deal with the government. I mean, these CEOs
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: will not say anything in public because they're afraid, they're
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: faid that companies will be targeted by the administration or
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: that they as individuals will be singled out by Trump
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: for criticism. But in a series of polls held at
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: this conference, for example, asked they expressed their frustrations. Asked
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: if tariffs had been helpful or hoodful to their businesses,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: seventy one percent said.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: That their levees were harmful.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: If they thought that the the tariffs were illegal, seventy
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: five percent said they thought they were illegal and that
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: you know, we'll see what the sum quote things soon.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: When asked if they plan to invest more in the
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: US itch its of manufacturing and infrastructure, only sixty two percent,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: or put it this way, sixty two percent said they didn't.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: They did not plan to invest more in the United States,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: and that's because Taos, immigration and the economy. They just
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: don't feel comfortable right now to make investments. And you know,
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: this is this is this is the state in which
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: we are in. Seventy one percent respond to defend independence
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: was has been eroded by Trump's action. Eighty percent said
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: that Trump wasn't acting in the best long term interest
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: in America by going after Jeremy Powell. So across the
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: board America, it seems like America's business leaders in private
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: super critical of the Trump administration's handling. Right. You know,
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: here's here's another story in the Wall Street Journal with
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: the headlines Banks race to prove they're not biased against conservatives.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Banks biased against conservatives, I mean banks did. They were
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: biased against crypto There's no question about that. They were
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: biased against private schools, they are biased against payday loans,
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: they are buased against gun manufacturers, but biased against conservatives. Really,
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: but now they have to prove a negative. They have
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: to prove they would, because that's what Trump is demanding.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: So now they're going to go out of their way
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: to make loans to conservative causes that they wouldn't otherwise
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: make in order to prove. Look, we're not we're not biased. Now, look,
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: the left does the same thing. But at least the
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: left has the honesty not to claim that the pro
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: capitalism or pro markets. The left doesn't attract people from
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: my chat to vote for it because of the economic policies.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: The Left is blatantly anti capitalists, anti corporations, anti business,
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: anti banking. That so we expect them to go after
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: companies for ESG and DEI, and we expect them to
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: go after, you know, to prevent them from banking. I
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: don't know the industries they don't like, like payday lending.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: And so on.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: These are Republicans, These are people many of you voted for,
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: many of you will vote for. I just want to
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: make it clear to you that you're voting for, you know,
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: economic fascists like the Democrats, and that the difference between
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: the two parties is negligible if it exists at all
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: when it comes to some of the most important issues
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: of the day. Did Biden violate free speech by going
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: after Twitter and Facebook with God of COVID. Absolutely he did.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: And all I'm showing is Trump is no better, He's worse, worse,
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: and Trump the differences that Trump does it in broad daylight.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Biden hit it, he did in his secret. It's really tragedy.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: This haspreme quote didn't rule on that question. Trump doesn't
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: need secrets. He violates Constitution out in the open. He constantly,
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: constantly attacks free speech, the principle of free speech in
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: this country, constantly advocates for censorship in this country, and
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: nobody cares. Nobody cares because he's not a leftist. And
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: all people care about is it's not the left. We
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: don't like the left. We just don't want the left.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: So, you know, these Republicans, these Republicans h.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: You know, and says if the difference is negative, well
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: then it's not so bad to vote for GP. True,
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: I don't think it is that bad. I haven't, I haven't.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: You know, I don't go after people who voted for
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: for Trump. You know what I go after, Anne, And
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: why I go after you is because you won't admit
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: that fact. You'll only say it now, you know, to
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: kind of again, get me, but you won't admit it.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: If people said, you know, I voted a Republican, but
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: it's turned out they're just like the Democrats. They're just
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: as bad. And maybe they you know, miss smidging different,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: but basically they're just as bad. They're bad in different ways,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: but they're bad, and the Left is bad, and shit,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: you know, who am I going to vote for?
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: There's nobody to vote for.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: If you said that, yeah, that would that would be great,
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: but that's not what people do. All the people I
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: know who voted Republican constantly defend their vote, constantly defend
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: the fact that of Republicans are so much better than
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: the Democrats, constantly defend Donald Trump, constantly defend their policies,
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: and and you're a good example of that. So yeah,
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: if people and people acknowledge this, they're very similar in
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: some ways. Trump is worse in some ways, Biden was worse,
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: but they're very very similar. And any economic issues, they're
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: all economic fascists, and Trump is much worse than any
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: previous any previous present in terms of these economic issues,
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: starting with tariffs and going on with other stuff. If
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: people admitted to that and said, yeah, but in spite
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: of that, because of the I and because of of Woken,
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: because of all that, I'm still going to vote Probably,
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: I said, Okay, I think that's wrong, but fine, at
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: least you get it. But you don't get it. They
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: don't get it anyway. Bankers are afraid of Trump. And
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: now you know, this is an interesting, interesting story. So
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: today in Vidia, in Vidia right now the largest public
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: company in the world, or at least in the United States.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if in the world, basically announced that
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: they are going to invest five billion dollars in Intel
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: five billion dollars. There's a consequence. Intel shares jumped up
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: by twenty five percent. Now, notice in Vidia, a company
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: that is committed to being fifteen percent of all its
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: ship sales to China or some weird agreement with the
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Trumpet administration in exchange for a license to be able
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: to sell those shifts to China, even though it's supposed
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: to be a national security risk to sell the chips
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: to China. Go figure. In Vidia heavily involved with the
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Trump administration, constantly trying to get all kinds of licenses
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: to export its hips from the Trumpet administration, is not
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: investing five billion dollars in Intel, which the government has
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: announced that it intends to own ten percent of. And
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: now you're starting to get you know, is the government
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: really running this? Is this is this all really being
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: managed by the government. Is this part of industrial policy?
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: So what we get is in Nvidia, which is, you know,
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: the most successful company of the last decade or so,
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: which has become you know, this mega company because of
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: the AI boom, and they're investing in Intel, which has
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: fallen behind rivals. I don't know, does this create an
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: anti trust issue? Don't worry, nobody's going to bring that up.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: No Justicevan is going to go after this deal. This
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: is a deal obviously already pre stamped of approval by
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: the Trump administration. The deal, the partnership is gonna center
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: making CPUs central processing units. So these are the this
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: is what's in your laptops and smartphones. This is what
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: Intel is known for. Uh in video is you know,
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: this is not going to create a competitive in video.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: So this is not going to get Intel into the
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: business of making GPUs, which is what in video makes
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: the graphic processing units that he used for AI. And
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: so it's gonna be interesting, it's gonna be a a
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: you know, a some kind of a deal in which
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: in video will play a bigger role in helping Intel design.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: And produce.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: These chips, right, you know, it's it's gonna be interesting
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: to see how this evolves.
• 45:10
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: You know, in video in the past is used basically
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: ARC ARM sorry ARM architecture for its GPUs or ARC
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: for its use. Uh. It'll be interesting to see how
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: this merger now of Intel, not merger, but massive investment
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: of video into Intel reshapes the chip industry in the
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: United States. And my fear is that this means that
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: the government is heavily involved and the government will continue
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: to be heavily involved in all of this. Okay, you
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: guys getting choppy choppy video. This location has been pretty
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: good so far.
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: Mh.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: I'm just doing a quick test on the on the
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: speed here. Yeah, it looks good on this end. And
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: yet in Michigan there's no choppingess. Weird how some of
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: you get problems another of you don't. So, you know,
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: choppiness comes and goes. Upload speed is is very high.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: It's it's consistency. I don't know how to tell exactly
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: why this thing has happened. Nice, Uh, all right, something
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: better than Hotel Wi Fi and ab and b a
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: Wi Fi.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: All right, anyway, Uh, this.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: Will be interesting. Intel needs the capital. It's gotten five
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: million billion from Nvidia. It got two billion from soft Bank,
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: the Japanese investor. It's getting its debt white clean with
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: the federal government, so that for in exchange for a
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: ten percent steak, it now has the capital to do something.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Intel's foundry business is what really struggles. Uh. And while
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: in Nvidia and UH the Intel will will help will
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: design chips together, the real challenge is going to be
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: the the foundry business, which is way behind T s
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: MC in Taiwan and even Samsung in Korea. So yeah,
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: further to watch. Intel is an interesting story. It's a
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: it's a great American was a great American story. It
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: really mirrors kind of what's going on in America in
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: terms of cronyism. And I think this is another little
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: step that has to do with it. All right, Uh,
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: let's let's turn to Donald Trump's visit to England. Have
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: you been watching some of the pictures. I mean, God,
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: if there's anything Donald Trump enjoys, it's pump and circumstance.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, he loves these big ceremonies, marches, state banquets.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: He got a flying by, He even got skydivers jumping
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: out of an aircraft who unfold the American flag. He
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: loved it, loved it, you know it was he said,
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: this is one of the best things ever that you know.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: He loved us.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: And they played they've cargo graphed us exactly to what
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: he likes. And you know, we got a King, Charles
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: king this we're built against the king. But he just,
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: you know, thought this was the coolest thing, right Trump
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: you know got to watch, you know, and meet King Charles.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Outside of Winsow Castle. They got to see a military band.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: They played YMCA. Doesn't get any better than that. In
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: the state dinner, he got to sit in the next
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: up Princess Catherine at a white tight dinner, and then
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: he gave a gushing speech in which he called him
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: in one of the greatest honors of his life. I
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: believe it. I think he really thinks that he loves parades,
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: and he thought the parade in front of Windsor Castle
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: was just unforgettable, unbelievable. And they know it, the Brits
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: know it. They played this to a t and even
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: though his policies and those policies of Starmer, the British
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: Prime Minister, are very much not aligned. They were just
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: best friends throughout this whole time because Trump wanted this
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: to be about the King and him, the King and I, right,
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: so you know it was. They did a joint press confidence,
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: but they didn't dwell in the disagreements. Compared this to
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: any other press conference, particularly the one with Zelenski. You know,
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: Trump is just going making such an effort to be
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: agreeable with Starma, to be nice to Starma, to be
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: friendly with Starma. He wants the bits, He loves the bits.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: This is a great, great partnership. Now on actual issues,
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: he installment made almost no progress. No progress in Ukraine,
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: you know, no in terms of disagreements between Europe and
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: Salma and the United States.
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: You know, no progress on Israel.
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: It does seem like the UK will recognize a Palestinian
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: state next week after Trump is gone. You know, no
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: progress on tariffs, the Brits wanted even lower tariffs, a
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: bunch of US investments in England. Usually it's the other
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: way around in Britain on the Tech Fund, no discussion
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: of the free speech issue that JD. Van's has been
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: going around talking a lot about and accusing the British
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: government of violating in the free speech of Britz No, no,
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: no discussions of that. All charming and friendly and wonderful
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: because they gave him a parade, and they had skydivers,
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: and they did WIFCA, and they they sucked up to
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: him the way you're supposed to suck up the Trump
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: if you want anything. It worked. It absolutely worked. I mean, yeah, anyway,
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, I know you guys, you guys think I
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: just have an info him. But he's such a joke.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: He's such a pathetic joke president of the United States.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: But nevertheless a joke. I you know, think you people
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: who probably think he is a joke. The Saudis. Saudis
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: just took a step that is, you know, pretty radical
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: for them. Earlier this week, Saudi Araba signed a you know,
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: joint military what do you call it, alliance with Pakistan.
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: An alliance that says that if one country is attacked,
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: the other country will come to its defense. Now, you know,
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: any attack on either country as an attack on both. Now,
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: this is pretty extraordinary. Saudi Arabia has relying on the
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: United States for defense since World War Two. This has
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: been formalized in a variety of different ways. And you know,
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: the year was oil versus US defending you the nineteen
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: ninety one a war in the Gulf was a consequence
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: of that. It was the wars to defend the Saudi
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: war family from Saddam Hussein. That was the first Gulf War.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: Now they have turned to Pakistan. Now what's interesting about Pakistan.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: If it's just Pakistan, it wouldn't matter. But what's interesting
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: about Pakistan is that Pakistan has nuclear weapons. It is
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: the only Muslim country to have nuclear weapons. Pakistan has
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: ballistic missiles that can deliver those nuclear weapons pretty far.
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: So we now have officially have a Pakistan Saudi nuclear block,
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: if you will. Pakistan also explicitly rejects the no first
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: use doctrine, so they have said that they're willing to
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: use nuclear weapons to preempt or to launch an attack
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: on another country. Now, Pakistan also gets eighty one percent
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: of its weapons from China the rest of the US,
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: which is interesting. Why the US provides Pakistan with weapons
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: whole other issue. So now you've got a China Pakistan
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia kind of almost alliance. Saudi Arabia just aligned
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: itself with the Chinese million to industrial complex. And the
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: announcement of this a day after Israel striking Qatar is
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: probably again basically Saudi Arabia Tellingian Americans we think your
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: protection is worthless, we need to go independence. It's a
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: huge slap in the face of Donald Trump. Now, this
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: is scary. This means the US has less influence in
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: the Gulf. It means the pakistanis of all people, have
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: more influence. It means there's a nuclear power, a nuclear country,
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: not a power. A country now has stakes in the
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: Middle East. Pakistan a Muslim nuclear country. It's hard to
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: see how Saudi Arabia normalizes with Israel under these circumstances.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: Pakistan does not recognize the existence of Israel. It puts
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: India in a weird situation, right, It's our rival just
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: signed with Saudi Arabia. What does India think about this?
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: Are they at war in a sense with Saudi Arabia.
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: A lot of implications of this that will see how
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: it all plays out. Right now, I will add that
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: Trump has been very cozy with the Pakistanis to India's chagrin.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: I just think there is there's a lot of incompetence,
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: you know, from policy and competence going on with this
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: Trump administration and its alienation of India is reflective of that.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: Allowing this kind of to happen under your nose is
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: a reflection of that. This is not good for the US,
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: not good for Israel, not good for the Middle East
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: more broadly. All right, talking about Israel, a number of
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: things interesting going on right now. Well, first, the operation
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: to take over Gaza, Gaza City is ongoing, and you know,
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: not a lot of details because it's an ongoing operation,
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: so we don't know exactly what's happening. We do know
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: that today there were casualties on two fronts in Israel.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: One was on their border crossing between Jordan and Israel.
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: There's a border crossing that's heavily used between Jordan that's
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: at peace, some kind of peace with Israel. Anyway, a
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: Jordanian citizen came up to the Jordan to the crossing
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: and shot and killed two Israeli soldiers at the crossing
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: this morning. Then in Gaza, but not in Gaza City,
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: in Raffia, in Rufa in the south, an area that
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: Israel has now had out of control for months. For
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: Israeli soldiers were killed from an explosive device that.
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: Blew up under their hum v and killed four.
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: And injured three. And I say and I mentioned the
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: deaths of the four soldiers in the south, which is
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: tragic and awful and sad because there is an important
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: point to be made him. Israel could occupy Gaza City
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: in the next few months, next few weeks, it could
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: occupy one hundred percent of the Gaza Strip and there
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: would still be a gorilla underground terrorist network that it
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: could would not approved. They could still be functioning against it.
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: It could still take casualties, and it's going to be
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: very very dificult for Israel to hold onto the Gaza Strip.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: It's going to be very very difficult for Israel to
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: manage the gards the strip. As Ramast is not destroyed.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: It turns out there's still tunnels. Some of the tunnels
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: is destroyed to being rebuilt. Ramas is hiding in all
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: kinds of places underground. They pop out of nowhere, they
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: put in explosive devices, they disappear, or they ambush as
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: where these soldiers. This situation with Israel occupying Gaza is
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: going to be horrific and violent and dangerous, and Israeli
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: soldiers an't going to die for a long long time,
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: and and and part of the consequence, part of the
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: reason for that is then willingness to to really destroy
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: destroy the entire infrastructure of Guz so that these tunnels
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: cannot exist. Now, that would involve in a sense giving
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: up on the hostages for another time. We can discuss
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: all that. So that is going on in Gaza.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: We'll talk in a bit.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: There is oh, let's talk about this in terms of
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: what happens next in Gaza.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: There is now a plan for the day.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: After, for what happens to Gaza after Hamas is defeated.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: And it's interesting that the player here, the main force
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: behind this plant is Tony Blair. You remember Tony Blair,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: former Prime Minister of England. He is shuffling around the
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: world putting together plan. His institute as an a think tank,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: and he is selling the plan. He has got the
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: United States to back the proposal. Donald Trump has given
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: it the thumbs up. He has got Jared Kushner supporting
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: this plan. And the plan basically involves, you know what
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: would happen, Who's going to govern the Gaza stript after
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: Israel wins. And you know, I'm reading this plan and
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: it's god. I mean, only bureaucrats could come up with
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: a plan like this. I mean they've got a board
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: of directors and board of governors and boards of this
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: and and all kinds of departments, and they're creating a
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: huge bureaucracy to manage Gaza without dealing really with the
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: main issue, which is security and re education. It's a
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: it's a it's a plan that is yeah, I mean
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: it's it's a bunch of bureaucrats. It's a bunch of
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: think tank people sitting in a room some way doing
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: floor charts and putting boxes together, and who reports to
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: whom and how well. The Palestinian authority will not have
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: will not have control over Gaza. It will be this
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: new independent entity with representatives from Arab countries like the
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: Gulf States. It will include PA representative, but it won't
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: control it. It will also include a representative from the
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: US and maybe others, not Israel, which is era number one. Right,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: Israel will now be involved. Israel will draw completely from Gaza.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia is supposedly will be on board Kata will
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: be on board. They will all have roles to play here.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: There will be an international force that will keep the
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: peace in Gaza, just like it did so well in
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: Lebanon in Egypt before Egypt kicked them out in nineteen
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: sixty seven. I mean, international forces have worked so well
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: in the Middle East and elsewhere around the world. Remember
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: the international force that stopped the genocide of the twot
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: Sees by the Hutzis or the other way around. Remember
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: that that international force. They're so good at doing this, right. So,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, Israel supposedly is okay with this plan. It's
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: given it a tentative. Okay, we'll see what happens. But
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: I was just reading that this board and that board
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: and this engagement committee and this committee, it just is
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: just it's completely detachment reality. I mean, the fundamental things
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: that have to happen is education needs to be completely redone.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: If they want to rebuild Gaza, it has to be
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: under Israeli supervision, so the tunnels are not built, no
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: military infrastructure is created. Israel has to play a role
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: in whatever reconstruction happens later. And if the Albs don't
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: like it, then the Urbs can shove it. They can
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: take two million PILESTANDU refugees and they can house them themselves,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: but it cannot be a plan that does not take
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: into account is Rao's security needs, requirements, demands, and this
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff. This proposal canoni appeal to bureaucrats, and
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: it's a perfect Tony Blair, top down kind of proposal.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: It really is, really is horror.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: Now. At the same time, Israel is suffering from greater
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: and greater isolation. More and more countries are imposing military
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: embargoes and Israel arms in bargoes. More more countries are
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: threatening economic imbargoes, and we're talking about Western European countries.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: There's more and more.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: The voices of those who would isolate Israel from the
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: Western world is going That is true even in the
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: United States. A growing number of Americans want to have
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: nothing to do with Israel. Certainly, if the Democrats win
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: a future election, there will be a lot less yes
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: pro Israel. The Democrats have been in the past. Republicans,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: not Trump and the people around him, but Republicans are
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: moving away from Israel. The Magat is moving away from Israel.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: And I don't know if you will and there's a
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: real threat of Israeli isolation and Antennia. On Monday, give
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: a speech at an economic forum where he recognized US
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: US all isn't a sort of isolation. He said, we
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: will increasingly need to adapt to an economy with a two.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: I can't pronounce this word or or top or tocic
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: or toxic characteristics. That means where you build everything yourself,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: he said, this is a word I hate. I might
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: believe in free markets, he said, I wish, but we
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: may find ourselves in a situation where our arms industries
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: are blocked. We will need to develop arm industries here,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: not only research and development, but also the ability to
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: produce what we need. And I think that's true. But
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: is better get really rich. If it wants to do that,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: and to get really rich, it needs open global markets,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: and for that it needs free trade policies, whether they
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: like it or not, as much as possible. It cannot
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: accept isolation. So it needs to be able to produce
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: moregage military stuff, maybe all of its military stuff, without
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: having to produce everything. If it has to produce everything
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: and all its military stuff, it's doomed. It has to
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: get rich. To get rich, needs more free markets. To
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: have more free markets, it needs more open trade, not
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: more limited trade. Then to tell you how deep down
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: noses he just can't be implement it. He can't bring
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: himself to implement it. He said, face was the scenario
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: of Athens and Sparta. Israel is going to be Athens
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: and super Sparta. Super Sparta is completely self contained, completely
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: self sufficient. He said, there's no choice. In the coming years.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: At least we will have to deal with these attempts
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: to isolate us now. As soon as he ended his
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: speech and this stuff leaked, the stock market went down
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: two percent.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: I mean businesses in Israel panicked.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: Later on, when he was asked about this, he blamed
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: this isolation on basically a few things. One, he said,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: the demographic changes in Europe, where Muslims have become a
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: significant minority, very vocal, very very belligerent, and countries are
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: giving into them. He says, they focus is in Gaza.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: Isn't opposing Zionism in general, and sometimes the Islamist agenda
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: challenges those states, But the Islamist agenda is pushing Europe.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: They hate Israel.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: And they will put pressure on their local politicians to
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: go after Israel. Israel stock market went down. Israel stock
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: market went down two percent when he made the speech,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: he said, the second challenge is that the opposition to
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: Israel does a huge amount of pr and he says
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: the pr is supported financially and technologically by two countries,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: Kata and China. He says Kata in China invest heavily
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: to influence Western media with an anti Israel legenda, using bots,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: artificial intelligence and advertisements. And he says this puts us
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: in a certain isolation and Israel has to establish the
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: capacity to challenge that. But in the meantime, it has
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: to establish the capacity to produce everything he needs militarily
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: without depending on foreign trade. Now, this drew a lot
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: of criticism both from opposition leaders but also from people
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: within the within industry who you know, who need who
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: say we need a prime minister who has the vision
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: to open up markets to encourage them to close. So anyway,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: Iszuel feels besieged right now, it feels besieged, and it's
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: blaming China and cut out more than anybody.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: Else for this. And I think it's only gonna get
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: worse before it gets better.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: And the real risk is is the United States on
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: a separate story, we got to getruel.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: This is more than the good news side.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: Israel is now deploying the world's first effective and battle
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: tested laser interception system. Raphael Industries, which for which my
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: brother works for them, and EWLS today official releases of
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: the system. They've already taken down dozens of rockets, UAVs,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: and even mortars. It is an incredible advancement because not
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: only is it super fast laser fast speed of light,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: but also it's cheap. So instead of when you think
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: about the cost of iron dome which sends out missiles
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: to hit missiles, which costs the cheapest one sixty thousand
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: dollars in missile, the.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: Laser costs two bucks two bucks, So.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: You can you can do a lot of this, and
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: you can plaster the country with these. I don't think
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: they can deal with I don't know that they can
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: deal with ballistic missiles, that's a good question. I don't know.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: But they can deal with lots of other kind of rockets, missiles,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: cruise missiles, drones, and even motors, even very short range
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: weapons because as soon as it sees a launch, it
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: can immediately fire. And again it's speed of some speed
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: of light and costless or very very very low cost.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: This is the first system these vailing military is working
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: hard to evolve the systems and make them better, make
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: them better in terms of distance where they can shoot
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: them down and the power of the beam. I think
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: those two related, although somebody in physics can tell me
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: if they're related. They probably can't deal with ICBMs, or
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: maybe once they answer they can. They probably can't make
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: it into space. But for that, you could deploy one
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: of these on a satellite hovering over Israel. I mean,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know why not. So I mean, according to
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: one of the commentaries I'm seeing on this, here is
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: what it should and we will later on place this
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: in space so we can intercept ballistic missiles ICBMs. This
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: was Reagan Star Wars. This will change everything. It's really
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: cool tech, it's really cool stuff. And yes, this is
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan's star Wars and Israel's implementing it and planning
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: to put it in space on a satellite hovering over Israel
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: to protect it from ballistic missiles ICBMs and things like that.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: So Isel's future is having the most effective offense, being
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: able to take out anybody anywhere, and having an unbreachable
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: defense so that nothing can penetrate, and hoping to be
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: able to knock out everything out of the sky even
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: before it reaches the skies of Israel.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 3: All right, bit of good news. All right. You might
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 3: have heard that actor Robert Redford died of old age
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 3: this week, at the age of how old was he.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: Born in thirty six, right, so he was eighty nine
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: years old. Eighty nine years old and he passed away.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: So I thought it would be a night, you know,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: a tribute to him, and just of interest to go
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: through a few of his movies I grew up. I
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: kind of grew up with these movies, so they're kind
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: of cool, and some of them I really really like.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: Of course, the first World Classic movie that I saw
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: Robert Redford in, I think, and that I really enjoyed,
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: and it's a lot of fun, although you know, you
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: could argue that in terms of the values that projects,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: they're questionable. But the first one, it was really Butch
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid, where he co starred
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: with Paul Newman. As you know, it's the two outlaws
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: on the run, heroic outlaws. Nice Outlaws, Friendly Night and
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: Outlaws on the Run. It's it's a it's a it's
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: a it's a fun movie. It's got a great ending,
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: a classic ending. Uh, And yeah, it was. It was.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun. And it's it's it's
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: not exactly a good western. It goes against the theme
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: of westerns. It goes against the essence of westerns. It's
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: an anti western in that sense. But it's great. And
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: Redford and does and who do you play against? Paul
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: Newman were great pair and they worked amazingly together. The
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: next movie I remember as The Candidate nineteen seventy two,
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: where he plays like a JFK like figure, young, idealistic Hanser,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: full of noble dreams. It's a political drama, political satire, really,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: And yeah, it was, it was, it was. It's pretty good.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: It's pretty good. Yeah. Then let's see Jeremiah Johnson. He
• 1:16:09
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• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: it's it was supposed to be for it was supposed
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: to be for Clint Eastwood. And yeah, I mean, it's
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: a it's as I thought it was. I remembered vaguely
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: as a good movie, as a good movie bugget and
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: then you know, it's just a fun movie. One of
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: one of my most fun movies I think you'll see
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: is is the Sting. This thing that I think when
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: in the Oscar in nineteen seventy three, I remember seeing
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: this in the theaters and loving it. I was what
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: I was twelve, and I just loved this movie. It
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: was it was so I thought, so clever. The twists
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: and turns of it were so clever, was so smart.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: It had a great great uh direction, good music. It
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: had the what do you call it a ragtime It
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: had the ragtime piece as the music. It was just
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: it's just a terrific movie. It is a great theme song.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: So yeah, fantastic entertainment. If you've never seen this thing,
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: watch this thing. It's it's just fun. It's just a fun,
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: fun movie. He started with Barba Streisan in The Way
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: We Wore, which is kind of a you know, iconic
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: iconic what do you call it, I don't know, romance
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: of that period of that period.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 3: He then started The Great gats Meat.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: Three Days of the Condo, a good suspense movie kind
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: of reminds me of today, kind of a mid nineteen
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: seventy seventy five, So he's a CIA analyst trying to,
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: you know, break down what is going on a conspiracy.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: It's very dark and twisted and it's very much a
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: post Watergate kind of vibe conspiracy theory. And of course
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: then he started All the Presidents Man nineteen seventy six
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: about the breaking of the Watergate story, which he did.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 3: He was great in.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: Probably my favorite Robert Redford movie and one of, if
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: not my favorite sports movie is The Natural. It's nineteen
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: eighty four. I think it's a terrific movie. I think
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: it's now. It changes the ending of the novel. The
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: novel has a very dark ending. The movie does not
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: have a dark ending. Thing goodness. It's a Barry Levinson movie.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: It also has terrific music.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 3: The music. Who did the music for it, Yeah.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: Randy Newman. Randy Newman did the music of all people
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: and it was terrific. It was really good. It's really
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: a good movie about good versus evil, dark versus light.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: It's about redemption and the possibility of redemption. It's about
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: heroism and standing on principle and having integrity. Yeah, I mean,
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: it's fantastic. It's got a phenomenal ending you've got to see. Yeah,
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: definitely see the Natural. If you like baseball, see the Natural.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: But even if you don't like baseball, it's just a really, really,
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: really fun movie. It certainly is one of my favorites
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: from the you know, from from the Last fifty Years
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: or whatever. Out of Africa in nineteen eighty five. It
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: was pretty good ind proposal if you remember that, you know,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: not not exactly a great movie, but Robert Redford was
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: good in it. Yeah, those are those are the those
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: are the main ones that I remember that. I'm sure
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: I've seen others of his, but those are the ones
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: that really stand out that I remember. So Robert Redford,
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: great career, did in some some memorable roles, some memorables leves.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: I am old, I granted, I am old. So but
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• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: these movies that I recommended today are all just fun,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: like this thing is just fun and Butch Cassidy and
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: Sundance Gid fun, not big philosophical messages, but very enjoyable.
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  Speaker 2: what would Atlas shrugging look like in reality? Today's giants
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  Speaker 2: of industry are all James Taglets and are Boils. Can
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  Speaker 2: an organization a mid sized business leaders pull it off? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, anybody a shrug. I mean the points
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  Speaker 2: shrug to the person who shrugged. That is that he
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  Speaker 2: you could with mid sized businesses if they if they
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  Speaker 2: chose to do it. But look, I don't think today's
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  Speaker 2: business giants James Taggerson Orain Boils, they are in some
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  Speaker 2: respects and they're not in other's lan Boyle couldn't run
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  Speaker 2: in video in video might be in somewhat in bed
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  Speaker 2: right now with Donald Trump, but it wasn't for many
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  Speaker 2: years or two decades. And it's been a legal success
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  Speaker 2: story independent of government. So there's real ability there. There's
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  Speaker 2: real genius there, there's real these a real giant. The
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  Speaker 2: same as to of Apple, the same as to as Google,
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  Speaker 2: the same as to as Microsoft. If anything, government has
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  Speaker 2: been a burden to these companies. Government has slowed them down.
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  Speaker 2: Now so they are Maybe they're not, you know, John
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  Speaker 2: gall walking away suddenly they're not. Maybe they're not the
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  Speaker 2: most principled in a sense of telling the government to
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  Speaker 2: go and hike, take a hike. But these are real
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  Speaker 2: man of ability. Bill and Boil and James Taggert are not.
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  Speaker 2: None of them could have done what any of these
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  Speaker 2: people have done. Now, yes, the dinner at the White
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  Speaker 2: House is are on boilish, But what makes it even
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  Speaker 2: more tragic is that the not are on boils. If
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  Speaker 2: they weren't boils, you would say, what would you expect?
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  Speaker 2: If they were in boilers, you would say, of course, this.
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  Speaker 3: Is what they do.
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  Speaker 2: But they're not.
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  Speaker 3: These are not people who assume.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: That their success depends on Washington. They're not people whose
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 2: success has depended up to this point on Washington. These
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: are people who, over the last ten years or so
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 2: have been slowly intimidated by successive governments into a position
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 2: where they feel like they have no choice. Rightly or wrongly,
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: they feel like they have no choice. So yeah, even
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 2: though it was all in boilish, I wouldn't call them.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: James Pagerson are on boil, so it just does an
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  Speaker 2: act of justice. They are so much better And Iran
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  Speaker 2: doesn't really have a character like them in the novel,
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 2: And I was shrugg You know, almost everybody's either on
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: boil or a wire, and they get at the first
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 2: speech except for Dagne. Dcaney is the only one who
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: doesn't get it right, doesn't get it, keeps fighting John
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: Galt in spite of loving him. So yeah, so these archetypes,
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 2: and can you pull it off? You can't pull off,
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: you know, the complete collapse of the economy probably, But look,
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  Speaker 2: I would expect the giants to go and strike. So
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 2: imagine a gold John Golf shows up in at the
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: Nvidia headquarters and gives whatever speech he gave, and a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of the Nvidia people disappear. Imagine if the top
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  Speaker 2: scientists at the AI companies disappear. Imagine if the top
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  Speaker 2: people at other tech companies disappear. Then you've got it.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 2: Then it's happening, But you know it's not. It's not
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 2: a realistic scenario. Now there's a sense of which going
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 2: golt happens af the shrugging happens right now. That as
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: after financial crisis, there was a term that was coin
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: coin going golt, and I mean people were tiring early,
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: people leaving businesses and going and doing something else because
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 2: they didn't want to work for the government anymore. There
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 2: was a real phenomena of people just not giving their
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: best anymore because they realized that their best was being
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: used to fund their enemies. So going golt existed, but
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 2: it's never been prevalent enough, big enough, dominant enough, and
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: in the right places to actually have an impact on
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: the economy.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, David.
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  Speaker 2: I really really.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate the support.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: All right, Ryan, Just yesterday I was telling my fifteen
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  Speaker 2: year old son that America is still the greatest nation
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  Speaker 2: because the First Amendment and the judiciary vigorous defense of it.
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  Speaker 2: still think that if a case came to the Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Court there was I mean, I'm not sure who has
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  Speaker 2: standing here to sue. But if a case like this
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  Speaker 2: came to the suprebe Court and where the government was
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 2: clearly strong arming a private company to silence it, the silence.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 3: It spokesman, which.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 2: Entertainers, whatever you want to call it, the subrene court
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• 1:32:46
  Speaker 3: I really believe that.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 2: The problem with Trump is he doesn't mind, he doesn't care.
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  Speaker 2: He'll deal with the Supreme Court when we deal with
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  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court for now.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 3: He'll do what he needs to do and to gate
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  Speaker 3: his way.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: So no, it's still true that the United States, because
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  Speaker 2: we have a Bill of rights, it's pretty clear. I
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: think to the serving court what the First Amendment free
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: speech holds. Now, I might be wrong. They might be
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: so politicized that they won't to hold it, but I
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 2: think they will. I think they would vote against Trump.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 2: So we're losing our freedoms, but so is the rest
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 2: of the world. It's not clear where you go. I mean,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 2: I was just reading some depressing stuff about Argentina. Now,
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 2: so that doesn't look as promising as it did a
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 2: few weeks ago. So yeah, rough time, rough time. Michael says.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 2: If you stand for freedom speech, then you stand with
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmo. If he was fired as a result of
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: the FCC pressure, But if his firing was based on
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: market driven business decision, then you stand with the network.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 2: That's right. But it's pretty clear that they could have
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 2: fired to him a week ago.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 3: If it was just a business decision, or two weeks ago.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: They could have fired him at any time. The fact
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: that they fighted him after being threatened by the FCC
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: and after being threatened by Donald Trump, it's pretty clear.
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 3: You know what the cause and effect was here.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 2: Andrews says, I'm sure you're not surprised, but it's a
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: little depressing seeing companies falling into line before the government.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 2: Pragmatism is leading him off a cliff. How would a
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: proper philosophy guide business many times like this, Well, I mean,
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: we show them then in the long run, principal holds
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 2: the principal will benefit them. But look, it's hard, and
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: this is the point of Alan Shrugged. At some point
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 2: you have to just go and strike, because at some
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 2: point you can't do the right thing. Doing what the
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 2: Gunma tells you to do is wrong. Not doing what
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 2: the gunma tells you to do. Who's your shareholders? And
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: it's not like there's any hope that in three in
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: four years they'll be an election or three years we'll
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 2: be an election and we'll get somebody better. What hope
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 2: is there that? I think, maybe mildly better, But it's
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 2: not like the leftist pro markets. So what do you
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 2: do as a business leader? I mean, this brings up
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 2: the point that that you know David mentioned, a legitimate
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 2: answer to that is quit, leave, resign, shrug, go golt.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 2: So philosophy would give them clarity about the choices about
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 2: the trade off. It wouldn't necessarily tell them what to
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: do with them, clarity about what they're trading off for what,
• 1:35:50
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• 1:35:54
  Speaker 2: it would help them make sure that they are doing
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  Speaker 2: what's best for themselves, for their companies in the long run.
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  Speaker 2: It's not an easy case to make, not to you
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  Speaker 2: have a joago with them. Even if indigit people aren't
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  Speaker 2: indigit people onto threat to others, the fact that they
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  Speaker 2: cannot be self sufficient forfeits their right to just wander
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  Speaker 2: the streets. I don't see why it would be a
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  Speaker 2: rights violation to force them into institutions. Well, sure, they
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  Speaker 2: can't trespass, and certainly if streets were private, it would
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  Speaker 2: be easy because then you would have anti trespassing laws
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  Speaker 2: and many of them would be in jail for violating
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  Speaker 2: the anti test passing laws. But we live in a
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  Speaker 2: place where there's plenty of public space, it's not private property.
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  Speaker 2: We don't really have trespassing laws and public space, and
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  Speaker 2: we pavements, streets, parks, you know, the below the inner state,
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  Speaker 2: or just outside of town parks, all kinds of stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that. And you know, this is one of the
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  Speaker 2: problems with the mixed economy. It's one of the problems
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  Speaker 2: of having government owned property. What do you do with it?
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: How do you so it's not clear how you can
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  Speaker 2: imprison somebody if they haven't violated rights. And if somebody's
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  Speaker 2: living on the bridge on a highway, it's not clear
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  Speaker 2: whose rights they're violating, given that it's not owned by anybody.
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  Speaker 2: If they're sleeping in front of your store, I think
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  Speaker 2: you can easily make an argument they're violating your rights.
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  Speaker 2: But if they're sitting under the highway.
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  Speaker 5: Not so true.
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  Speaker 2: So it's tricky because we live in a mixed economy.
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  Speaker 2: In a true capitalist society, where all land is everything
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  Speaker 2: is owned privately, then it's easy, relatively easy, but much harder,
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  Speaker 2: much harder, you know. And there's no law against roaming
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  Speaker 2: the streets as long as they're not harassing people shaw'sbutt.
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  Speaker 2: What would Ellis Wyatt have done if the strike never happened.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's a good question, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. He would have pissed off the politicians.
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  Speaker 2: He would not have been to knee. Some of the
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  Speaker 2: others might have. He would not have been to knee.
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  Speaker 2: He would have fought them, he would have argued with them,
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  Speaker 2: he would have kept working, and he would have probably
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  Speaker 2: been driven out of business, regulated out of existence. But
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 2: because the trend was to ultimately nationalized him, nationalized the oil,
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 2: that's what they were actively promoting. Right, that could have
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  Speaker 2: very well happened. Jennifer from we don't we won't get
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  Speaker 2: fooled again by the who.
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  Speaker 3: Is the quote?
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  Speaker 2: And now the Party on the left is now the
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  Speaker 2: party on the right, and the beards have all grown longer. Overnight,
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  Speaker 2: Party on the left is not the party in the right.
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  Speaker 2: I like that. That's Jennifer has some great song lyrics
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  Speaker 2: from the past. It's great Andrew the right things. Trump
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  Speaker 2: stands for the public interest, so it's okay for him
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 2: to use government power. It's only wrong to use government power.
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 2: It's bad for the public interest. There's public interest and
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  Speaker 2: anti concept and must it need to force, Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's definitely. It means nothing. There is no interest of
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  Speaker 2: the public. There's interests of individuals, and the only interest
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 2: of the public is protection of individual rights. But that's
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 2: not a public interest, that's an individual interest. The public
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 2: is just a bunch of individuals. There's no collective consciousness,
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 2: there's no collective values, there's no collective interests. Interest is
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 2: something individuals have. A group Coak group does not have
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  Speaker 2: an interest that is separate from the interests of the
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  Speaker 2: individuals within it. So yeah, it is definitely an anti concept,
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  Speaker 2: illegitimate concept, and it's the source of all political evil.
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  Speaker 2: It's our authoritarians justify everything. It's how regulators justify everything.
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  Speaker 2: It's how the welfare state is justified. It's how every
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 2: government action the violates rights is justified. Every single one
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  Speaker 2: of them, says do you think John Shapiro and Jordan
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 2: Peterson would be afraid to make as many public appearances
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 2: during these talks? They must be thinking, God, this could
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  Speaker 2: be my last sentence. Makes it hard to focus and
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  Speaker 2: stay motivated. I think it will be more difficult, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they'll stop. I don't think they'll stop.
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  Speaker 2: I know Ben Shavera suspended his public appearances, and Jordan
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 2: Peterson is ill, so he's canceled these public appearances, but
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 2: that was before the Charlie Cook thing. He's ill again, unfortunately,
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 2: and so I don't think they will. I think they're
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: courageous enough. Also, I do think though, that you will
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 2: see more security. You'll see more security. You will see
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  Speaker 2: campuses now universities scrutinized security much more, emphasize security much more.
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  Speaker 2: No campus wants it to happen on their watch. So
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 2: it's going to be an interesting period. I mean, I'm
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 2: doing a debate in November at the University of Colorado,
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  Speaker 2: Colorado Springs with the Socialist and it'll be interesting to see.
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  Speaker 2: I've done debates with him before, and some have had
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  Speaker 2: significant security, like at the University of Maryland a few
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  Speaker 2: years ago. It'll be interesting to see if this one
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  Speaker 2: has elevated security. I expect answers. Yes, chasbatt my favorite
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  Speaker 2: of business climate and how safe it is, but now
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  Speaker 2: there's a movement attacking immigration, led by a teenager claiming
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 2: immigrants are destroying their monolithic society. Yeah. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: Japan has always had a tendency towards racism xenophobia. Japanese
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  Speaker 2: have a long time thought they were better than others
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  Speaker 2: and didn't want foreigners, and a lot of Japanese don't
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  Speaker 2: speak English on purpose, and there are a lot of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, places in Japan where you just can't go
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  Speaker 2: as a feign. So it's always been under the surface.
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  Speaker 2: And I think because the Japanese government is opening Japan
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  Speaker 2: up to immigration, there's more immigration now than probably ever
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  Speaker 2: in Japanese history. There is a rebellion against it, and
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  Speaker 2: among young people who want to keep Japan Japan, they
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  Speaker 2: want to keep Japanese for Japanese, you know, mimicking in
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  Speaker 2: the kind of the right wing movements elsewhere, and it's
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  Speaker 2: feeding off something that's been around in Japan for a
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  Speaker 2: long time. I don't think it's necessarily prevalent. I know
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  Speaker 2: many Japanese and they're not zenopobes and racist, but there
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 2: is an element of that in the culture, and he's
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 2: capitalizing on that, just like there's an element of that
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  Speaker 2: in Britain, an element of that in Germany, an element
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  Speaker 2: of that in the United States. Xenophobia and tribalism, and
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  Speaker 2: there's the consequent race is something that is, you know, endemic.
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  Speaker 2: It's something that it's very hard and as society becomes
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  Speaker 2: less conceptual and more preconceptual, more perceptual, more you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: less conceptual, it becomes more tribal and therefore becomes more nationalistic, racist, xenophobic,
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 2: all of these things, and sadly you're seeing that in Japan.
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  Speaker 3: Now, how big of a deal is in Japan, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know.
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  Speaker 2: So again, you might be getting pretty biased reports here
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  Speaker 2: in the United States about how significant it is. I
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  Speaker 2: would go to Japan and see. I would talk to
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  Speaker 2: Japanese people and see how influence, how influential this Japanese
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  Speaker 2: teenager is. And before you make a decision, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: count on news reports, even in Japanese news, to make
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  Speaker 2: this kind of decision. I would actually, you know, actually investigate.
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  Speaker 2: you prefer Italy Spain and Portugal? Do you prefer Italy
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  Speaker 2: to Spain and Portugal? No, you know, I find.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Italy is the best in the world when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to.
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to art and culture I mean opera
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  Speaker 2: and music and painting and sculpture and history, rome and God,
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  Speaker 2: no place on planet Earth has more of that than Italy,
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  Speaker 2: and I love all of that. So I love Italy
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  Speaker 2: for all of that. Right, So Italy is the best
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to that. In terms of actually living,
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  Speaker 2: we found the easiest place to live was by far
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  Speaker 2: out of Spain, Barcelona. It had just the things you
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  Speaker 2: need when you live. It had the best grocery stores
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  Speaker 2: in my view, it had the best food in a
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  Speaker 2: sense that he had a wide variety of restaurants.
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  Speaker 3: All good, with a great variety.
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  Speaker 2: Particularly in France, the food is all Florentine, it's all local.
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  Speaker 2: There's very little variety, and a lot of it's good,
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  Speaker 2: but it kind of gets boring after a while eating
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  Speaker 2: the same stuff. And I try to minimize cobs, although
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  Speaker 2: I failed dramatically at that here in France, and it's
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  Speaker 2: very difficult to minimize cabs when they so you pasta
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  Speaker 2: and they and everything.
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  Speaker 3: Every neal has this amazing bread that they bring out
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  Speaker 3: to you.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, there's tuma sew at every corner, and
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  Speaker 2: they five gelato's at every corner. And what else is
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  Speaker 2: a is a food staple here cheese, cheese everywhere. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm allergic to milk. My wife's lacked us in tolerment.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we still eat it because because it's delicious,
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  Speaker 2: and you have to so it's very difficult to actually
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  Speaker 2: find the kind of food we eat, so we land
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  Speaker 2: up eating, we land up eating all this stuff. Uh,
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 2: Spain is much easier in terms of food, much easier. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so I'd say, uh, just in terms of living, Barcelona
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  Speaker 2: so far has been the best. Barcelona so far has
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  Speaker 2: been the best. But I love Italy and I love
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  Speaker 2: the Italians. I love the arts, you know. I love
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  Speaker 2: their sense of esthetics, even modern aesthetics. I love Italian furniture.
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  Speaker 2: I love Italian sports cars. Yeah, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you can't go wrong in Italy, James says, thoughts on
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  Speaker 2: Robert Redford. You got that already, Robert. I have people
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  Speaker 2: in my circle blaming, blaming ABC Disney for the firing.
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 2: But is any of this ABC's fault. It's easy to
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  Speaker 2: say they should have stood up to the FCC, but
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 2: it's not my billions of dollars on the line. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they could get their license pulls. This is a gun
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  Speaker 2: at their head. This is clearly the FCC's fault. This
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 2: is Donald Trump's fault. But yeah, so I wouldn't blame Disney,
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  Speaker 2: who's the owner of ABC, for this. This is clearly
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 2: government force being used against them. This is Kozier, Liam
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  Speaker 2: Zoom CEO agrees with Bill Gates, Jensen Wang, and Jamie
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  Speaker 2: Diamond all three a three day work week is coming
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  Speaker 2: soon thanks to AI. I think they're all wrong. I'd
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  Speaker 2: be surprised if we had a three day work week
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  Speaker 2: in the next twenty years. Maybe, but I'd be surprised.
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 2: Maybe some professions, but three day worker could have to
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  Speaker 2: be universal. So no, twenty years. At some point, sure,
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  Speaker 2: why not, But I doubt it's gonna happen anytime soon.
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 2: Hop a Campbell, Your Superchet revenue might be twenty five
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  Speaker 2: percent higher if YouTube would stop blocking people's comments or
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 2: at the very least provide users a list of words
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 2: and phrases we're not allowed to put in the Superchet.
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  Speaker 2: I will provide that input to YouTube see how they react.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 2: Apologis is also Lasier Defense system declared operational. YEP talked
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 2: about that Clark. If another major figure on the right
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 2: gets unlived, like Jordan Peterson or Ben Shapiro, what would happen.
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  Speaker 3: Would we see widespread retaliation, civil war? I don't think so.
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 2: I think we'd see retaliation. I think it could get
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 2: very ugly. Look, I mean, the right doesn't have to
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 2: go out into the streets and retaliate. The government would
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 2: start doing things that would be really scary. It already is,
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 2: it's already talking about it. It would actually go into
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 2: place again. The real threat is going to be the government,
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 2: because it's going to act in ways to prevent a
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 2: civil war, but not in our favor, not in the
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 2: favor of liberty and freedom. So I think that's the
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 2: way it'll go. It'll be used further, used as an
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 2: excuse for government to be get bigger, stronger, more ventionist,
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 2: more rights violating.
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 3: See, there's chaos in the streets.
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 2: We have to lissenda. Update on situation with the illegal
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 2: Internet post with my mom's boyfriend. Turns out it wasn't
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 2: because of stuff he said about Islam, because of some
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 2: wood play he made in a YouTube comment making fun
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 2: of the af D. Really so even making fun of
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 2: the a f D get you in trouble. Wow, Yeah,
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 2: it's flipped now you can't make fun of the right
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 2: wing people, Okay. It continues to show how there's a
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 2: real lack of free speech in Germany. The government knocks
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 2: on your door if you make a wood play that
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 2: might be construed as insulting to one of the political parties. Wow.
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 2: John Kimmel also joked about Trump's indifference to Charlie's death
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 2: that he was more concerned with his courtroom ballroom.
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  Speaker 3: It was the ballroom, not the courtroom.
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  Speaker 2: The morning I read you that clip where he basically said, yeah,
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 2: I'm doing fine. Oh what he was asked about Charlie
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 2: Cook and then he talked about the ballroom. I agree.
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  Speaker 3: Will Trump be fired for being disrespectful?
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 2: He should be, He should be.
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, Christian, that's a big question.
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 2: How have Wall's egalitarian ideas influenced intellectuals in the wider culture?
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 2: Does AOI have a program to introduce objectivism to law students.
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 2: So Walls's ideas have had a profound impact on the culture.
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 2: As I Lodge I Man wrote about Wall's ideas, and
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 2: she predicted they would become incredibly influential, and they have.
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  Speaker 2: He gave egalitarianism a facade of respectability. He gave it
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 2: a pretense of sophistication and of deep philosophy.
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  Speaker 3: He gave it a pretense of.
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  Speaker 2: Objective morality, and it has had a profound impact. I think,
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 2: with the rise of egalitarianism is the dominant movement on
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 2: the left with it's impacted thinkers across the political spectrum.
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  Speaker 2: I know, libertarians are huge walls. Fans is actually a
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 2: libertarian professor who wrote a book.
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  Speaker 3: Trying to integrate free markets with walls.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't go well, and so he has been probably the
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 2: most influential thinker on both right and left of the
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 2: last forty to fifty years. So yeah, really damaging, really
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  Speaker 2: really damaging. And then say I have a program to
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  Speaker 2: treaty subjectives as to law students. Yeah, I mean one
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  Speaker 2: of the places where we actually lecture quite a bit,
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  Speaker 2: present quite a bit, and engage quite a bit is
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  Speaker 2: at law schools. You know, we are. We've had a
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  Speaker 2: great relationship for many years with the Federalist Society. They
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 2: constantly invite AARI speakers to come and speak there. I've
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  Speaker 2: spoken there dozens of times at various Federalist Society events
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  Speaker 2: all over the country. I've actually just been invited to
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  Speaker 2: by the Federalist Society at Tought University, actually an undergraduate
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  Speaker 2: chapter of the Federalist Society. So these are pre law
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  Speaker 2: students at Tufts in Boston to come and speak there,
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  Speaker 2: and I will in February. In February so I'll be
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  Speaker 2: going to speak there. So yeah, I mean we have
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  Speaker 2: made quite an effort with the Federalists and being engaged
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  Speaker 2: quite a bit with different chapters of the Federalist Society
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  Speaker 2: all over the United States. And what we do is
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  Speaker 2: to try to encourage them to can then come and
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  Speaker 2: study law. And by the way, there are a lot
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  Speaker 2: relatively speaking, they're more objectivist lawyers doing intellectual work than
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  Speaker 2: objectivist anything else. You know, you've got objectivists at IJ
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  Speaker 2: and See for Justice, at PLF, Parcificar Legal Foundation, You've
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  Speaker 2: got objectivists like like Adam Assoff at universities. You've got
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  Speaker 2: you know, objectivists doing a lot of work at these
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  Speaker 2: organizations that are doing amazing work trying to defend our rights.
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  Speaker 2: So we've probably had more success among lawyers than anywhere else,
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  Speaker 2: any particular group. Vedim, have you heard of the news
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  Speaker 2: story about Ice deporting Hyundai workers while they were trying
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  Speaker 2: to build a factory news? Yes, I spoke about it
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  Speaker 2: last week. I did a few shows where I spoke
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  Speaker 2: about it. It was a big story. I think I
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  Speaker 2: even talked about it earlier this week. So yes, horrible, stupid,
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  Speaker 2: just ignorant.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the bushes.
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  Speaker 2: The trumpet deministrations is so bad, so bad, And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a farm Possey catastrophe.
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  Speaker 3: It's an investment catastrophe. It's a job's.
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  Speaker 2: Catastrophe, and it's it's it's I mean, not catastrophe. Bad news.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to slow down this factory in South Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: to slow down the creation of American job, jobs for Americans.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna it alienates the South Koreans who investing heavily
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  Speaker 2: in America. It's just bad news on all counts. And
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  Speaker 2: of course it brings out the real evil. Well, it's
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  Speaker 2: one of the stories that brings out the unbelievable evil
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  Speaker 2: of what ICE is doing. Ice should be dismantled. It
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  Speaker 2: should be one hundred percent. Every single person at ICE
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  Speaker 2: should be fired. There should be no such thing as Ice.
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  Speaker 2: It's a despicable organization. Ours says, how do millennials compare
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  Speaker 2: to gen Z?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Gen Z is more digital even than millennials. Millennials are
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  Speaker 2: pretty digital themselves, but I don't know. You know, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of different studies looking at this. Gen zs tend
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  Speaker 2: to be more depressed, but they also they tend to
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  Speaker 2: be richer. Yeah, there's too much data and I haven't
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 2: really studied it and really integrated it to give you
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  Speaker 2: differences between generations. And it's not clear that there's that
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  Speaker 2: much difference at the end of the day. At the
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 2: end of the day, the real differences are between individuals,
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  Speaker 2: not between generations, although we talk in terms of generations
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  Speaker 2: a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, guys, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: All the super chatter is really appreciate it. Thanks to
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  Speaker 2: all the questions, Thanks for the support, Thanks to all
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  Speaker 2: the stick up people, Thanks to all the Patreon and
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  Speaker 2: PayPal supporters. I will see you guys to model. They
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  Speaker 2: will be a shirt tomorrow unless something happens. Oh, we've
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 2: got one more quick question from Lucindo. Maybe it's not quick.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Post was Alisa for Deutschland and that
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  Speaker 2: sounds like ally Alice for Deutschland, everything for Germany a
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  Speaker 2: phrase that the Nazis used woodplay was intended to compare
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  Speaker 2: Alice vide to the Nazis. But the phase itself is illegal. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: the phrase itself is illegal because it's a Nazi phrase,
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  Speaker 2: I seem. But that's the problem. There should be no
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  Speaker 2: phrases that are illegal and not. Holocaust denials should be illegal,
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  Speaker 2: being an he shouldn't be illegal.
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  Speaker 3: None of these things should be illegal. So but yeah, interesting.
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  Speaker 2: So he was trying to criticize the far right for
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 2: being like Nazis but used a Nazi phase in order
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  Speaker 2: to do it, and was was was you know, harassed
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  Speaker 2: by the government for that?
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  Speaker 3: Wow, you can't make this stuff up. Thank you, listen
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  Speaker 3: to thank you to.
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  Speaker 2: All of you. I will see tomorrow likely three pm E.
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  Speaker 2: S coast see that bye, everybody.