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  Speaker 1: Oh lotical fundamental principles of leader, national, self, interesting and
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  Speaker 1: individual wise. This is the Uran Rook Show. Oh right, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to your one book show on this July third.
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  Speaker 1: Is July third, twenty twenty six. It's a Friday. Tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: We will do a show on July fourth, don't worry,
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  Speaker 1: and we will cover kind of July fourth and the
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  Speaker 1: meaning and what meaning does it happen in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: So today today's show is a news show. We will
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  Speaker 1: also have a show on Sunday, although earlier than usual
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  Speaker 1: because of the Brazil game. We will have a show
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  Speaker 1: earlier on Sunday, and that show will be dedicated. It
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  Speaker 1: will be a Nikos and Ran show on Curtis Javin
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  Speaker 1: Curtis Javin, so check it out. Saturday show probably a
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  Speaker 1: three pm East Coast time, although I have to I
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  Speaker 1: have to look at when the when the football soccer
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  Speaker 1: games are on, and Sunday it would be one o'clock
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  Speaker 1: East Coast time, so we can catch the three the
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  Speaker 1: three of the four o'clock Brazil game. Both Nicos and
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  Speaker 1: I want to watch that game, all right. I just
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  Speaker 1: got back from OCANN, the Objective's Conference in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why all of you weren't there, but
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  Speaker 1: you should have come. Of course, I had been in
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  Speaker 1: Israel before that from my mother's funeral and then spent
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  Speaker 1: a few days with my family and then flew from
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  Speaker 1: Israel through London to New Orleans. Got the Sunday night,
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  Speaker 1: spend Monday and Tuesday at the conference. Wednesday we did
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  Speaker 1: an Ane Rand seminar. Thursday, all day flight from New
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  Speaker 1: Orleans to Puerto Rico. Yeah. Just I'm exhausted just saying
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  Speaker 1: all that. Anyway, the conference was terrific. I think all
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  Speaker 1: of you had a good time. Those of you who
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  Speaker 1: are on here now cond testify whether you had a
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  Speaker 1: good time. Everything was was great lectures, good lectures. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: my talk, which was moved from the opening banquet, which
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  Speaker 1: I did not attend because I was in Israel, to
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  Speaker 1: the closing banquet, was actually released by the Ironman Institute
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  Speaker 1: earlier today, so you can go to YouTube and watch
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  Speaker 1: it if you weren't at the conference itself. I'm told
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  Speaker 1: there was really really good and people really enjoyed it,
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  Speaker 1: so uh, yeah, go for it. Kim says, O, God
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  Speaker 1: was so much fun, but New Orleans was too hot.
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  Speaker 1: I told you it was going to be hot, hot
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  Speaker 1: and human. Hot and human is New Orleans. That is
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  Speaker 1: the nature of the place, particularly in the summer. It's brutal.
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  Speaker 1: It actually wasn't as hot and human as I expected,
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  Speaker 1: So Kim could have been worse, could have been a
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  Speaker 1: lot worse. Anyway. Yeah, yeah, so Oconn you can check
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  Speaker 1: out the videos will be released over time. Some of
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  Speaker 1: you have signed up or bought a virtual a virtual
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  Speaker 1: locon so you can watch the videos online now. As
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  Speaker 1: I said, my video from the closing banquet celebrating the
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  Speaker 1: Fourth of July and the producers, the productive genius of
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  Speaker 1: Americans that went on, I think on the Iron Rain
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  Speaker 1: Institute website today. I'll see when I can release it
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  Speaker 1: on my website hopefully soon. Let's see what else? What else? Oh? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Poka was great, although I have to call him out.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Ryan was really mean to me. Ryan Wood, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's you really mean to me. He completely exploited the
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  Speaker 1: fact that I was exhausted, tired, jet lagged, just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to get to bed. To what was it to seduce
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  Speaker 1: me into going all in without any card, just to
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  Speaker 1: get over, just to get the poker game over. So
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  Speaker 1: I could go to bed, So congratulations Ryan. Who who
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  Speaker 1: who beat me? Who's the guy who knocked me out
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  Speaker 1: of poker? I think great Goun won. I think Great
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  Speaker 1: Gun won the competition. I think that tal It's funny,
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  Speaker 1: came in third. I'm not sure who was second, but
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  Speaker 1: I think Taal was was was third. So Ryan, I
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  Speaker 1: am gunning for you next year, gunning for him next
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  Speaker 1: year because somehow he got me out this year. I
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  Speaker 1: definitely definitely want to do better next year. All right,
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  Speaker 1: but it was fun. Those of you who played poker
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  Speaker 1: con testify it's fun. Half the people playing don't know
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  Speaker 1: how to play, So don't feel bad about joining us
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  Speaker 1: next year, even if you don't know how to play.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a great way to provide some financial support
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  Speaker 1: for the Ironman Institute, and some people Paul can even
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  Speaker 1: get a text deduction or if you're an American, because
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  Speaker 1: it's a charitable contribution. So it's even that next year's
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  Speaker 1: OCONN is in Keystone, Colorado, so it's up in the mountains.
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  Speaker 1: I will warn you now, just as I warned you,
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  Speaker 1: just as I warned you about the heats in New Orleans,
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  Speaker 1: I'll warn you about altitude in Keystone, Colorado. It is high.
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  Speaker 1: It is nine thousand plus feet. I recommend coming a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days early, or at the very least coming
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days early to Denver, and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: going up to Keystone for the conference something like that.
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  Speaker 1: For many of you or some of you, being at
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  Speaker 1: that altitude will be not easy, not easy. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: take that into consideration. But I hope, I hope to
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  Speaker 1: see more of you next year, more of you next year,
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  Speaker 1: and it should be a great conference that will be
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  Speaker 1: out out in the wilderness. It's a beautiful country, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of hiking, a lot of stuff to do. It's
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  Speaker 1: really nice, really pretty, and you should join us. It's
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  Speaker 1: and eighty feet, it says the one and only twenty
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  Speaker 1: for sixty all right, so very cool. Oakan twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven will also be the seventieth, is that right, seventieth
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  Speaker 1: celebration of Atlas Shrugged. So appropriately it's in Colorado, seventieth
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  Speaker 1: anniversary of the publication of Attlas Shrugged. So we'll go
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  Speaker 1: out into the mountains. I think I think it takes
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty years for Attlet shrugk to dominate
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  Speaker 1: the culture. So we're almost halfway there, and so come
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  Speaker 1: and celebrate us, celebrate with us. So it's it's also cool.
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  Speaker 1: It's not hot sixty six degrees today in Keystone, so
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  Speaker 1: quite cool. Cool and sonny. Usually usually the weather is
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  Speaker 1: really nice. It's you don't get you don't get range
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  Speaker 1: during this season, and there a lot of objective us
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  Speaker 1: in Denver. I hope they all show up and enjoin us.
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  Speaker 1: It should it should be good. All right, let's see,
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  Speaker 1: let's go to the news. I guess should we move
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  Speaker 1: to the news? I guess so, all right, let's see. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the first time into the news is really kind of
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  Speaker 1: the really the success of the Democratic Socialists of America
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  Speaker 1: in democratic primaries, democratic Socialist candidates, I think of one
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight primaries around the country. They're going to make
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  Speaker 1: the kind of the fall left congressional members in congress
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  Speaker 1: congressional members and the Democratic Party. You know, they're not
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  Speaker 1: that many of them. If these twenty eight actually win,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be a dominant force within the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 1: I think. I think this has the potential really to
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  Speaker 1: completely reshape the Democratic Party in the form of a
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  Speaker 1: of a far left political party, because you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's yeah, So we talked about this that mcdonnie's candidates
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  Speaker 1: all won in New York. But then but then there
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  Speaker 1: were others. Even in Colorado, we got what's what's this
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  Speaker 1: woman's name? Yeah, Milat Kiros a twenty nine year old
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Socialist unseated a Diane de Guett, who was who
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  Speaker 1: was a congressponan for twenty something years, fifteen terms, fifteen terms,
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  Speaker 1: thirty years, So maybe maybe it was time. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, pretty amazing she wanted in Colorado. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: we said, twenty nine year old beat a sixty eight
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  Speaker 1: year old, so you can guess that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: young people came out to vote, a lot of young
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  Speaker 1: people were motivated the Democratic Socialists of America clearly this
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  Speaker 1: is these are young people, typically young, upper middle class, right,
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  Speaker 1: young educated, highly educated people who vote for these for
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  Speaker 1: these candidates. And I mean, she she she crushed, she
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  Speaker 1: crushed us. She won by ten percentage points. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Democratic Socialists are on the rise really all across
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  Speaker 1: the country, primarily in urban situations. But this is, this
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  Speaker 1: is going to be a trend. Wherever you have young
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  Speaker 1: people and wherever they are, you can rally them out
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  Speaker 1: to get them to vote, so's it's pretty amazing. Twenty
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  Speaker 1: five supposedly twenty five or twenty eight far left House
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  Speaker 1: candidates have won the Democratic Party Democratic Party primaries this year,
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  Speaker 1: and there's already eighteen like minded colleagues in the House,
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  Speaker 1: which you know, include AOC and others. Though it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of funny that there was a there's something put out
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  Speaker 1: today about AOC being being a Zionist. She's two right
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  Speaker 1: wing for these, she's too pro Israel for these, for
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  Speaker 1: these crazies. Anyway, a little bit about the Democratic Socialist
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  Speaker 1: of America. It's an organization that basically was founded in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two, so they've been around for a while
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  Speaker 1: by merging two left wing organizations. And it's interesting kind
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  Speaker 1: of the origins of the two left wing organizations. One
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  Speaker 1: was Michael Harrington's Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and the second
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  Speaker 1: was the New American Movement. The Democratic social Organizing Committee
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  Speaker 1: came out of kind of the old left. It's an
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  Speaker 1: old Socialist party, social democratic, pro labor traditions. So these
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  Speaker 1: are people who are anti communists in the nineteen sixties
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  Speaker 1: but pro welfare state, pro trying to gain a much
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  Speaker 1: bigger foothold in American politics, trying to move the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: Party to the left in terms of social policies, in
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  Speaker 1: terms of economic policies, primality right that NAM, the New
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  Speaker 1: American movement on the heather hand, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: came out of the new left feminism, anti Vietnam, more activism,
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  Speaker 1: post nineteen sixties radical politics, so you can associate them
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  Speaker 1: with more of the precursors of woke of the new
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  Speaker 1: Left as we know it today. The key founder of
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  Speaker 1: the combined entity was Michael Harrington, who wrote a book
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  Speaker 1: called The Other America in nineteen sixty two about poverty,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, it was really pushing the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 1: towards kind of the War on Poverty in the nineteen sixties,
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  Speaker 1: the the you know, organized labor rights and much of
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  Speaker 1: kind of the Johnson administrations ideas, but then kept pushing it,
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  Speaker 1: pushing it leftwards. So you know, this is new deal,
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  Speaker 1: great society, pro labor, po welfare state, anti Reagan, communist
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  Speaker 1: internationalists trying to work through the Democratic Party. Right. NAM,
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, is clearly not reformist, which the
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  Speaker 1: old socialist element was. NAM was a revolutionary. NAM was
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  Speaker 1: anti colonialism. You know, intersectionality and ultimately woke revolutionaries and
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  Speaker 1: a heavy emphasis on identity politics and on working outside
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  Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. And so in the nineteen eighties, d
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  Speaker 1: Essay fought Reagan's the Reagan era conservatism supported labans of
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  Speaker 1: a right causes opposed to potheight in South Africa, backed
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  Speaker 1: left wing movements in places like Central America didn't have
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  Speaker 1: much of an impact during that time. And indeed, the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party during the Reagan Era and the post Reagan era,
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  Speaker 1: particularly in nineteen nineties, basically the Democratic Party moved to
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  Speaker 1: the center, moved towards the center with Bill Clinton in
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  Speaker 1: the nineteen nineties with the collapse of the Soviet Union
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  Speaker 1: and Bill Clinton's kind of warfare reform and prison expansion,
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  Speaker 1: sentencing expansion, free trade agreements. The DSA is marginalized during
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  Speaker 1: this period. In two thousand you get you know you
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  Speaker 1: in the post nine to eleven. They are at the
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  Speaker 1: core of the anti war movement. But really what really
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  Speaker 1: gives them a boost is the financial crisis. So if
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  Speaker 1: you think about Occupy Wall Street, you remember Occupied Wall Street.
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  Speaker 1: These are the people behind Occupied Wall Street, right, But
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  Speaker 1: the reality is that even then DSA itself as an
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  Speaker 1: organization was tiny, that about five thousand members. You know,
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  Speaker 1: for decades, this was not an important force, not significant,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe the only representative they had in the
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  Speaker 1: end was Bernie Sanders, who ran as an independent and
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  Speaker 1: consider himself a Democratic socialist whatever that means. Right, But
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  Speaker 1: that really changes, Surprise, surprise, that really changes in twenty
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  Speaker 1: sixteen with the election of Trump and the elevation of
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  Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders to a more prominent position in American politics.
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  Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders openly calling himself a Democratic socialist. It was
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  Speaker 1: very attractive to a whole generation that rejected capitalism, that
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  Speaker 1: you know, lived through the financial crisis, had high student debt,
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  Speaker 1: high housing costs, was disappointed by Obama and Obamacare, railed
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  Speaker 1: against the Iran Iraq war, and just a hostility towards
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street. And of course Trump's elections just just aggravated
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  Speaker 1: everything and gave them a cause. Gave them a cause.
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  Speaker 1: So DSA's membership went from about five thousand before twenty
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  Speaker 1: sixteen to fifty thousand by twenty twenty seventy nine thousand
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. So it really took off under Trump,
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  Speaker 1: kind of leveled off under Biden, went down to about
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  Speaker 1: fifty one thousand, but still ten times what it was
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  Speaker 1: before Trump. And right now with Trump two point zero
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  Speaker 1: membership is in excess one hundred thousand. And the real
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  Speaker 1: difference now is that now they are starting to really
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  Speaker 1: make entry in a big way into the Democratic Party. Now.
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  Speaker 1: AOC had a big part of this. In twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: she won against a long time incumbent and together with
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  Speaker 1: was She Telab and other squad associated figures, she made
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  Speaker 1: kind of democratic socialist agenda mainstream within democratic politics. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, they came in and they they started to
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  Speaker 1: advocate for further and further and further, pushed the agenda
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  Speaker 1: further and further further left. And you know, there was
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  Speaker 1: this within the Democratic Party with this an easy relationship
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  Speaker 1: to what extent did they support the Democratic leadership. There
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  Speaker 1: were these conflicts between AOC and some of the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: leadership over the years, you know, and the tensions became
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  Speaker 1: explosit in twenty twenty four and indeed AOC, who tended
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  Speaker 1: to support the Democratic leadership, was put down by the DSA,
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  Speaker 1: particularly because she refused to criticize Israel as much. She
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  Speaker 1: continued she voted for Iron Dome funding. She wasn't quite
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  Speaker 1: as anti Zionist as they wanted her to be. And
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  Speaker 1: indeed the DSA has shifted ideologically. It's no longer the
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  Speaker 1: old left socialist Democratic Socialist. We want to be like
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  Speaker 1: europe political party. It's much more radical than that. It's
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  Speaker 1: much younger, it's more activist, much more anti capitalist, and
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  Speaker 1: much much more hostile to Israel and much more influenced
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  Speaker 1: by kind of the whole anti colonialism. America is a
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  Speaker 1: bad country. Hate America and the whole agenda of intersectionality,
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  Speaker 1: the whole agenda of radical leftism on campus, and the
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  Speaker 1: kids who support this are coming right off campuses, right
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  Speaker 1: out of their gender study classes. It's much more anti police,
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  Speaker 1: defund the police. I don't think. I don't think Hamilton
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  Speaker 1: and the old Democratic Socialists would be that way. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: police is a function of the state in Europe. They
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  Speaker 1: don't want to just replace Europe. They don't want America
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  Speaker 1: to become Europe. They want America to become a model
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  Speaker 1: of what leftism could be. So, you know, in the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four in the twenty twenty four program, they
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  Speaker 1: blame capitalists for violence in the world. Capitalism is responsible
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  Speaker 1: for unemployment. Capitalism response responsible for climate change. They emphasize
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  Speaker 1: medicare for all, socialized medicine. I hate medicare for all,
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  Speaker 1: just call it socialized medicine. They advocate for socialized medicine,
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  Speaker 1: more power to unions, taxing the rich. They are behind
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the push for wealth taxes. Wealth taxes
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  Speaker 1: is a bigger gender item for them. They want you
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  Speaker 1: remember the Green New Deal. That's them free Palestine and
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  Speaker 1: boycott Israel, cut off all relationship between US and Israel,
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  Speaker 1: reduced the military spending, dramatically, defund the police. All of that.
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  Speaker 1: That is DSA. So if you think about the old
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  Speaker 1: DSA social Democracy Europe as a model labor pro labor,
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  Speaker 1: anti communists working through the Democratic Party, the new dssay
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  Speaker 1: is younger. It's post Bernie, so more woke than Bernie.
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  Speaker 1: Bernie was never woke enough for them. I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: old essay was anti capitalist, but this is anti I
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  Speaker 1: think anti public property, sorry, anti private property, pro nationalization,
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  Speaker 1: think Mamdani and rent and rent in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: Very anti israel An, anti Zionist, anti Semitic in many respects,
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  Speaker 1: much more confrontation with Democrats, yet working within the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: Party to get their people elected. And here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: The new dssay is a much more principled version of
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  Speaker 1: the Democratic Party, because what is the Democratic Party stand for?
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  Speaker 1: Somewhat left, somewhat anti Israel, somewhat anti American, somewhat somewhat
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  Speaker 1: somewhat somewhat well, these guys are all in and the
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  Speaker 1: reality is that the more principal party side is going
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  Speaker 1: to wing out win out. They are. They are the
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  Speaker 1: more principal. They take their leftism more seriously, and this
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  Speaker 1: is why you know they are they are winning. I mean,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: think about Mamdannie and everything he stands for now being
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  Speaker 1: exported into Congress. You know, the argument is that the DSA,
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  Speaker 1: real DSA people currently hold about two seats in Congress.
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  Speaker 1: They could have more than twenty after the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 1: So really, you know, I think devastating. The United States
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  Speaker 1: has never been sympathetic to these radical leftist ideas. Remember
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  Speaker 1: McGovern's McGovern I mc govern seventy two, the seventy two campaign,
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  Speaker 1: and how he got destroyed because he was way too
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  Speaker 1: left for Americans. He was, you know, Americans were willing
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  Speaker 1: to vote for a very very very very very flawed
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  Speaker 1: candidate like Nixon because the Democrats had gone too far
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  Speaker 1: to the left. Now the ones and I think those
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: backlash against that and the lead the Democratic Party became
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: much more centrist. Think of Jimmy Carter, who did a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the deregulation in the nineteen seventies. Think of
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  Speaker 1: Bill Clinton. I think, you know, Obama was pretty far left,
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  Speaker 1: but left does these guys. The more principal position is
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  Speaker 1: rising within the Democratic Party. Yeah, I mean the group
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  Speaker 1: now has chapters in all fifty states, and they are passionate.
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  Speaker 1: They work hard, they get out the votes, particularly in
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  Speaker 1: the primaries. And you know they again, Israel is a
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  Speaker 1: big deal for them, hatred of Israel and claiming to
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: be poor Palestinian. Of course they're very anti Palestinian. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: what taxes are big, Going after billionaires is big. Dealing
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  Speaker 1: with quote affordability is big by dealing with it with
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  Speaker 1: by means of price controls. And yeah, Democratic Party is
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  Speaker 1: shifting dramatically to the left, you know, And and it's real.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they could win in a sense that the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party could win. Democratic Party could easily dominate both
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  Speaker 1: Senate and House after this election. You could imagine the
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  Speaker 1: Democrat winning in twenty twenty eight. And no matter who
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  Speaker 1: the Democrat who wins in twenty eight, he could be
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  Speaker 1: a centrist, he will be dramatically pushed to the left.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: He won't govern from the center, he'll govern from the
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: left because you'll constantly have to appease his leftist constituency. Now,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: in a lot of these places, the turnout is pretty
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: low where these democratic socialists win, but it doesn't matter.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: These are the loudest, most vocal, and they're the ones
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: that will determine who gets elected in these in these
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: uh you know, in these district in these primary elections.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Notice that the revolution is not a working class revolution.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's stunning. That's leftist revolutions almost never
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: working class. Right. This is a big divergent away from
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Marx and his theories working class is not involved. This
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: is a quote revolution of urban, professional class, well educated.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: These are people who celebrate nine to eleven, cheer October seventh,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: when to defund the police, abolished prisons and private property
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: and really in America, and this is you know, they
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: really hold these ideas, they really stand for them. And
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: when some Democrats go out there and say we are
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: capitalists on socialists, we want safety and not lawlessness. All
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. They're brewed off the stage because
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: they're not capitalists. They are, you know, everybody can see
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: through that. The reality is that one of the reasons,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: one of the reasons that they have been so successful,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the Democratic Socialists of America, is because there's nobody, nobody, nobody,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: and certainly not anybody in the Republican Party who is
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: defending capitalism. So they look at the world out there,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: and what they see is a mixed economy which has
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of injustices. And everybody tells them this mixed
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: economy out there is not really a mixed economy. Everybody
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: tells them, this is capitalism. And all the injustices that
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: exist out there in the world are caused not by
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: the status mixed, but by the capitalist elements, and they
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: resent capitalism. Financial crisis was caused by capitalism. Nine to
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: eleven was caused by America. All the evils in the
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: world are ultimately caused by the capitalist system. And these
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: young people have grown up to believe it, and now
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: they rally around it. And nobody is out there. Nobody
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: is out there, particularly nobody in politics is out there
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: defending capitalism. Defending America, defending what really happened in nine
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: to eleven and what really happened in financial crisis, and
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: what really drives this country and why were so successful.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: There's nobody who will articulate the difference between a welfare state,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: regulatory mixed economy and what capitalism really is, and how
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: good capitalism could be, how good capitalism is if we're
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: ever given a try, and why all the evils that
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: they see, and many of the evils that they see
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: are real evils ultimately actually a consequence of statism, of
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: the perversion and distortion of whatever capitalism is. So, you know,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: to a loge extent, you know, if you see Donald
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Trump right now, supposedly there's a story out that Donald
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Trump's going to take a ten percent that the government
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: is going to take a ten percent stake in open AI,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: these people say, yeah, I mean, so nobody is defending
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: private property. Nobody actually wants to see a separation of
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the state from business. Why not take fifty per Why
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: are only ten percent? If the principle is gone that
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: the US government does not own shares in private corporations,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: They're why to go all the way if it's if
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: it's so important for the state, for the American people.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: In quotation marks, I'm saying American people to own the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: means of production. Why not really own the means of production?
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Nobody stands up, even you know, the people who say
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I'm pro capitalist to all mixed economy types. Well, okay,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: let's take what you actually believe based on how you
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: voted and how you've acted, and take the extreme. It's
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: all socialism, it's not capitalism. So they benefit from the
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: reality that the people for advocating for capitalism or unbelievably
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: weak and don't really don't really believe in capitalism. By
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: the way, you know, this generation of d essay are
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: also shaped to large extent by identity politics of you know,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: of the new Left. So, for example, the presumptive Democratic
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Congress women Dauria Liza Avilla Chevalier I think from New
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: York has argued against interracial relationships. Yeah, because if you
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: believe in in identity politics, then identity is to turned
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: to some extent by your color of your skin. Then
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: you're betraying your identity by mixing your having a relationship
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: that and maybe even mixing your genes with somebody with
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: from a different, different identity by the way she received,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: she received woods appraise she was committing did by David Duke,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: the klu klux Klan Grand Wizard or was once. So
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: this is who these people are, the racists, the real socialists,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: their anti civilization, anti American, and they're winning in the
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Democratic Party. I agree with this post by Richard Hanania.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: He says the rise of socialism can be separated from
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: conservatives no longer presenting an intellectual defense of capitalism, not
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: that I think they ever really did, but it's gotten
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: weak and weka and weka and wika. Now they don't
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: even pretend to do it. Fifteen years ago, he goes on,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: conservatives would cite people like Thomas sol and middle of
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Friedman explain why and explain why Obama administration was creating
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Mael hazard, et cetera. I mean, that's pretty weak, right,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: But today, he says, that's completely gone. You have post
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: liberals and people like Vans who borrow from leftists in
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: critiquing capitalism and saying that it's failed. Trump does mercantilism
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: and takes stakes in companies beyond anything Obama did, he continues,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: So conservatives stop defending capitalism and then get upset that
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: socialism wins. You people are the ones who talk about
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: protecting jobs in feim competition, which he suggested socialism might
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I agree, as if that's consistent with the belief in markets,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: the left is higher IQ, so can see the contradiction there.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Nativism is just less principled and intellectually consistent socialism. The
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: left takes exact same assumptions and subtracts the nativism, and
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: suddenly the right gets upset that they arrive at socialism.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: So what Anania is saying is the right is socialism
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: plus nativism. The left is just socialism without the nativism.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: They have this, you know, this alternative racial theory, the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: racial identity theory. So they come to legistan to some
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: of the same conclusions. On the other hand, the more
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: the left pushes socialism, the better Republicans are likely to do.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I've told you in the past, not just socialism, but
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: the wark agenda. The more they push the work agenda,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: particularly trans and intersectionality and this identity politics. The more
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: that that pushes that, the more that becomes ma extreme democratic,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: the more Republicans will win. So while they might win
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: an election cycle, this midterm and maybe the next presidential
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: as a backlash against Trump. The ultimately the backlash will
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: be against the socialists and for the nativists, not for
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: capitalism out for bid, but for the real nativists. There's
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: a headline in Newsoo which I think is true. Could
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Progressive Democrats be the best thing to happen to the
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: GOP in twenty twenty six? Yeah? Probably right. The right
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: is going all out natives gropa bs, and there will
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: be a time and that the American people will have
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: to decide. And I think the American people a much
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: more religion and flag than they are hammer and sickle,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: or they are woke, or they are transgender. So at
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: the end, I agree with I still agree with Lennapeagov's
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: conclusion and dim that is the end. The biggest threat
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: is the right, not that the left's not a threat,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: not that the left won't grow a lot of damage,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: not that the left can't win an election here and there.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: The left can't form a sustained governing coalition like the right.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: I think can, but it's a scary coalition. Like if
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: you're on the left far left and you're racists and
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: your anti capitalism. Then at some point down the road,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: you might be attracted to Jdvans, maybe more charismatic JD. Evans,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: who is also a racist and anti capitalist, but now
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: gives you something to believe in, like national conservatism or
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Christian conservatism or something like that. I just end this
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: with a bit of something a little bit more lighthearted,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: thanks to Zon Mamdani. This is why the socialists can't
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: win because Americans, at the end of the day won't
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: tolerate this. This is Maya Zoron Kwame Mamdani Twitter on
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: your life first two days ago, New York. It's hot
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: out there and the power grid is working over time
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: to keep us cool. Set your AC to seventy eight degrees,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: turn off lights, electronics you're not using, and unplug what
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: you can. Our city is doing its Our city is
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: doing its part two maintaining the seventy eight degree rule
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: is in our buildings, dimming, turning off our lights during
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: peak electricity demand, asking private partners to do the same,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: and powering down non essential equipment. A stable grid means
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: the AC stays on and lives are saved. Let's ease
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: demand and get through the heat together and otherwise let's
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: be like Europe, get rid of that AC. Although Europe
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: would love AC at seventy eight degrees. Americans don't like this.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: This is Jimmy Carter wearing the sweater when there was
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: no heating oil because of the oil embalgo. This is
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: defeatism one O one. This is except the lower stand
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: of living, lower quality of life for the common good.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Americans don't actually like that. They ultimately vote for these policies,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: but they don't like it. And the more explicit you
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: make it, no explicit you make it, they're less likely
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: they ought to vote for you. So this is why
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: the left can't win, because they actually believe in anti growth.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: They actually believe in the environment is more important than
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: than than human life. And Americans don't quite don't quite
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: buy that. They not yet anyway, and I don't think
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: they will all right. So that is that is democratic
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: socials of America. You know, socialists more socialist than the Democrats,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: quite a bit more socialist than they bring outcats, but
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: really heavily influenced and driven by the whole wok ideology.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: They hate Israel even more than they hate capitalism, and
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: their identity politics is really crucial to who they are
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: and what they believe in. So prepare to deal with
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: a lot more of that crap in the years to come.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: We're going to have a lot of those people in
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: the years to come. All right, let's move on. So
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: earlier this week, there was a nine hundred and twenty
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: seven page financial disclosure that was made by the president
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: President Trump. In that rap, he reported personal income. Are
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: you ready for this personal income of two point two
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: billion dollars in twenty twenty five? And you might say, well,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: you know, he's a real estate guy. You got that
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: property wins, property values went up or something like that. No, No,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: you don't make two trillion billion dollars in one year
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: from real estate. Oh he doesn't. Anyway, it almost all came,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: or most of it came from crypto currency ventures, such
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: as you remember the Trump meme coin created by the
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Trump family only days before last year's presidential inauguration. It's
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: sort of a three hundred percent on released night, and
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: anybody who bought it, by the way up there now
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: owns the meme coin that's worth less than two dollars.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: So hundreds of millions of dollars generated from a I
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: don't know I mean, it's not illegal, but it's a
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: it's playing on people's irrationality. Overall, we'll get into some
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: of the more details of this. Overall, trumpagned one point
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: four billion dollars in crypto profits in twenty twenty five.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, the guy is a crypto genius. Investment accounts
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: linked to Trump carried out multiple high profile trades last year,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: including more than three hundred previously undisclosed stop purchasers. On
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: April eighth, twenty twenty five, one day ahead before he
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: announced that he would pause a number of his Liberation
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Day tariffs. We call that, in plain language, insider trading.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Three hundred trades the day before he announced that. You know,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: this is by far, it's not even close. It's not
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: even close. This is my father, the most corrupt administration
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: in all of American history. Nothing comes close. You think,
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: you think the Biden cran crime family, Barisma and Hunter
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: of Biden. I mean that was penny a chump change.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: It was chump change. Now, a lot of presidents have
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: been corrupted, A lot of presidents have made money, mostly
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: usually after the presidency. Bill Clinton reportedly earned more than
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: seventy five million on speaking on the speaking circuit in
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: the decade after they left office. George W. Bush Is
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: networth increased by some fifty million after leaving office. Yeah,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: they all make money after the fact, speaking, buying influence.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: But there's nothing like this, and there's nothing like this,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: not just in scale them shamelessness, like the Biden family
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: tried to hide it. Bush and Clinton and Obama got
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: rich after But this is unbelievable. I mean, this is
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: a massive transfer of world from the American people, sometimes
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: voluntarily by playing to their Navy tank stupidity, like with
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: the Meme coin, and partially just straight out theft, you know,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: like when the US government invests in companies that Trump
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: just happened to own Soccing. Now, every president since this
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: of war, this is by the way, the Free Press
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: has a really good article in this Every president since
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: this of war has avoided financial conflict until Trump, because
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: they knew it was the right thing to do. But
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Trump doesn't care. Trump doesn't care. The White House and
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Trump just deny there's any conflict of interest. According to
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: the White House. According to the Press Secretary, the president
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: only acts in the best interest of the American people,
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: and if that best interest involves him making two billion dollars,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: so be it. This week, spokesman said there are no
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: conflict of interests. Now, this is ridiculous. Trump's financial reports
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: just published show that his account executed nearly four thousand trades.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Four thousand trades, I mean, it's one of the most
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: active accounts out there other than hedge funds. I guess,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: four thousand trades during just a three month period. Many
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: of those trades involved companies that, you know, kind of
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: a trying to stay in the good graces of the administration,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: which is exactly conflict of interest Trump. For example, Trump
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: uh Total Reporters earlier this week he has no control
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: over how his money is invested because it's in a
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: blind account run by big institutions, which is ridiculous. It's
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: completely false. It's just one of Trump's blatant lies. Much
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: of the money has is made during his second term
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: stands for financial deals cut by two older sons. That's
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: not blind, that's not big institutions. These sons often play
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: take place. These deals often take place after the president
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: has smooth their path from the White House. Trump himself
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: owns seventy percent of the holding company that controls the
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: family's crypto ventures he owns seventy percent. It's not blind.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: There's not even blind here. Here's some examples. In September,
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: the administration rate to deal with Kazakh Stunt to give
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: an American company, Raz Resources, access to that country's large
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: deposits of tungsten, which is a matter that we need
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: in order to build weapons. Now, kaz you know, received
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: from the administration approval for one point six billion in
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: federal fund style finance the project. All that, right, I mean,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: I don't think the US goverment should be funding any
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: of this stuff. But okay, but Trump's sons souped in
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: joined a group that take twenty percent steak in the company.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: So Trump's sons own a company that is going to
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: take a twenty percent steak in this company. They just
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: got this one point six billion from the government and
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: got to deal with the Kazi Stun government. His sons
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: have made numerous deals in the Middle East with the
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: US as vital interests. Right, So you've got foreign fond interest,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: you've got feign affairs interests, defense interests, and the president's
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: sons are cutting deals. Any conflict of interest there maybe
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: for example, World Liberty Financial which is Trump's crypto company,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: and the UEE issued a new crypto comvency. It was
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: it was a stable coin, and it's sort a bayer
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: to give them critical in the marketplace. So in that
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: conference in Dubai, Eric Trump, Zach Whitcoff Witcoff, Whitcuff, the
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: same Widcoff that is doing all the negotiations in the
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Middle East, Steve Whitcuff, remember the him announced that a
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: chikh who is the UAE's national security advisor, would buy
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: two billion worth of the stable coin. Now, you can't
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: make this stuff up. I mean, if you put this
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: in a book I don't know Athleas shrug, you would
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: be told no, no president would ever do this. This
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: is ridiculous. It couldn't happen. You're on you're making this up.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: This up. Two weeks later, after this deal was announced,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: the administration granted the UEE the right to purchase the
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: most advanced or advanced semiconductor chips, something that's been prevented
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: until that point because they feared they would be resold
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: to China. The sheikho bought the stable coins also owns
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: the technology company that would receive the chips. I wonder
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: if the two related. Probably not. I'm just a TDS
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: conspiracy theory guy, but they're probably no relationship between the two.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: So here you have Trump and Widcoff and Widcoff with
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: huge conflicts of interest related to national security, and here
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: they've overcome a national security issue in order to make
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: a gazillion dollars for themselves. Now suppose the Witcoff the
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: fathers and the process of divesting from this company, and
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: he has no operational role, but it's his son, and
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: he still has a significant stake in the world Liberty Financial,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: Trump's crypto company. It's it's all. They're just playing shell games.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: I mean. Also, remember that the cryptos change that agreed
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: to serve as the market maker for the Trump family
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: stable coins is Binans Binns was founded by crypto billionaire
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: something Zoo I can't pronounce his first name. Zou pleaded
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: guilty to money laundry causing money to float to terrorists.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: According to Justice Apartment, he was fining fifty million dollars.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: He has spent four months in jail. But guess what
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: happened when the first day of the stable coin, Trump's
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: stable coin actually traded trumbm Well, not the first day
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: in October. You know, Trump pardons Zoe. So I'm sure
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: there's no relationship between binance as being the market maker
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: for the Trump family and issuing the stable coin for
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: the guy at the UEE with the pardon for Zeu
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: and the chips to UAE maybe then to China. There's
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: probably no relationships there. It really is, you know. And
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: we haven't even got to the four hundred million dollar
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: luxury jet that the our friends in Kata, the largest
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: finances of terrorism out there, our friends in Kata provided
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: provided a Trump four hundred million dollar luxury plane. And
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: just it's also true that the Trump organization is making
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: a five billion dollar investment in a golf development project
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: in Kata. It's just a complete and again there's no
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: even effort to hide this. And most of it is
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: probably i legal because a lot of what Congress has
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: passed in terms of conflict of interest legislation excludes the president.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: But it's corruption at a scale that truly is hard
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: to imagine. And you know a lot of people are
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: saying it's not illegal, and that's probably right, probably right.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: It's just unseemly and disgusting. Compare this to somebody that
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: George Washington. And if George Washington is the best least
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: corupt president in American history, this guy Trump is the
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: worst and most corrupt. I can't think of anybody worse.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: And just think about the trading around Liberation Day and
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: the money made, or the trading around the war, the
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: trading with clearly inside information. Remember when people said Trump
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: was going to go in and drain the swamp, and
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: I said, this is in twenty sixteen, fifteen sixteen. I said, no,
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: he'll just replace the swamp animals. I didn't realize how
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: big of a swamp animal he was going to become.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: He is the biggest swamp animal. He and the whit coffs. God,
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: are they making a killing. It really is unbelievd. I
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: mean this, he should be impeached because of this. Even
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: though it's not illegal, it is beyond the pale for
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: president to do all this, and it's in some cases
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: threatening national security and clearly an American I mean, you
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: could read the article after article after article that goes
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: all over the the you know, the different deals that
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: are being made, right, you know seventeen eighty nine Capital,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: which is Don Junior's venture capital film ideas, a venture
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: capital film as well as everything else. They invested in
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Volcan Elements three months before the company receives this eight
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: six hundred and twenty million dollar government loan investment banker
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Canto Fitzgerald, guests who owned Canton Gerald. What's how would
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Litni's sons run it? And it's it's the firm. How
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: would Lipnic used to run It's been a financial advisor,
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: underwriter of startups, several startups who have received government support,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: and you can you can go on and on and on.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: It's just there's no end to it and there's not
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: going to be because nobody cares. Nobody cares. Abstent in
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: addressing and it says, I don't think there's an appearance problem. Really,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: what universe does he live in? I don't see any
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: Republicans standing up to Trump questioning this, challenging this in
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: their best and says, I mean this is you want
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: to you want to laugh if you're not going to
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: stab yourself in now in the in the in the
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: eye or something. He says, this is an innovative presidency.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: So whether it's digital access, whether it's AI, whether it's
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: everything is going on in the tech ecosystem that you know,
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: all Americans are benefiting from that. So it's okay for
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: the president who has inside information to benefit from it
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: in disproportionate way more than I do. I want that
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: inside information. Anyway, we are living in crazy times, truly
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: crazy and insane times. All right, let's see, Yes, Scotus
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: Chotas has come down with a bunch of decisions this week,
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: and you know, just this last week they've probably six
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three pages of opinions, and you know,
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: there's a lot to read and a lot of reflect
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: on their various decisions, some good in my views, some
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: not so good, and it's it's it's really interesting.
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: So, for example, on Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: the president can fire the heads of supposedly quote independent
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: agencies as the executive those agencies are supposed to will
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: put to him can fire. And this is as part
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: of the doctrine of separation of powers. The power to
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: you know, actually apply the laws, to actually execute is
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: the executives. And I think they're absolutely right that the
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: president should be able to fire anybody in a regulatory agency.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: And in the name of separation of powers, in the
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: name of giving the executive that power. We saw that
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: in Trump versus Slaughtera on Monday. You know, the idea
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: that this country should be ruled by experts in regulatory
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: agencies was an idea unleashed on America by Woodrow Wilson,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, as presidents. It was unleashed by the Progressives,
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: and it started the creation of these alphabet agencies that
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: basically constant the fourth branch of government. And that is wrong.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: And if the pres you know, that's the responsibility of
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: the president, for good or for ill, he should be
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: able to manage them. He should be able to fight
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: who he wants. He should be able to replace people,
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: you know, as governed by the law that created the agency.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: So that happened on Monday. But at the same time,
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: the same time, the Court kind of checking out a
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: little bit and said that there's one exception to that rule,
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: and that exception is the Federal Reserve. Now, in this case,
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: this is good from the perspective of keeping the Federal
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: Reserve independent of the executive, which I think from an
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: economic perspective is right. But from a constitutional perspective, I
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: think the Supreme Court was wrong in this one. I
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: actually think they should have allowed Trump the ability to
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: fire anybody in the federals aboard. It's just another alphabet
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: soup agency. It's just another regulatory agency. It's just another
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: way in which the government gives experts in quotation marks
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: authority over all of our lives, and it takes it
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: out of kind of the political project I would like.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, the whole idea of the FED independence is
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: somewhat an unreality. The FED has never really been independent.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: But let's make it dependent, and let's make the President
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: and Congress responsible, and let's hold them responsible for the
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: decisions the FED makes. Let's hold that government responsible. We
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: can't we can't vote out the chairman of the Federalserve.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: So I don't want to fuck banch your government.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: I don't want the FED. I want to Fed out.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: But if the FED has to exist, let it be
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: part of the Treasury. And we'll suffer for it economically,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: but maybe we'll have much more clarity into the role
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: of government and how government is actually functioning. All right,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: So you know this quote is also, as we know,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: ruled against Trump taking on more than what the law
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: allows him. We saw that primarily with the tariff decision.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: That was a great decision, and we saw that earlier
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: were in Biden's case with the student loan decisions. So
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: this quote has been pretty good in saying the present
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: can act within the law at least mostly right. So
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: they're not just willing to give the present whatever he wants.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: And they stopped him from firing Lisa Cook, the Federals
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: of the Federals of Member, even though I think they
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: probably should have let him fire. Let's see what else Trump,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: if you remember, promised in his twenty twenty four campaign
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: that he would end birthright citizenship. The courts basically said,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: was it yesterday or Thursday? Well, yesterday, that no, Tuesday, Tuesday,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know, My dates are all mixed up. Tuesday,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: that he doesn't have the power, that birthright citizenship is
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: somehow embedded in the fourteenth Amendment. I don't have a
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: strong opinion on this one. I'm glad because I'm glad
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: on anything that undermines Trump's vicious anti immigrant policies. Anti
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: immigration policies. But you know, if people want to come
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: and and and have babies here, you know, uh, what
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: is it both tourism? Why? Why does it hurt you?
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: What what what? What is that a problem for you?
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: It just creates more US citizens. It makes it easier
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: for those people that come in to America to to
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: to uh what do you call it, study and and
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: work and uh and become you know, they are US citizens,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: they just just come here. I think that's the more
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: people in the world who are US citizens, the better
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: because that means they can come in and out of
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: the United States easily. Uh, they don't have to be
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: subject to the bizarre, horrific uh immigration laws that we
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: have in this country. So I'm not against both tourism,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: but I you know, and I and I get kind
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: of the three conservatives who opposed it, who said the
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: fourteenth Amendment doesn't really say this. They have an argument.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: I read an article by what's his name, god Epstein,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: the the the legal scholar who's pretty good on a
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: lot of things, who thought, who thinks the fourteenth Amendment
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: doesn't give both right Chlazenship. You know, I'm for anything
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: that takes away the power from the president to inflict
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: these these horrible, you know, immigration policies. Right.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: There is a lot of you know, we've talked on
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: this show. There is a lot of this book tourism.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: It's not a conspiracy theory, it's it exists, and it
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: exists in Guam. Guam is particularly favored by the Chinese.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: But as we talked about on the show I don't
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: know months ago, judges in California have often often rejected
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: Richard Epstein, thank you, rejected the ability of these babies
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: to get US citizenship on the basis that their parents
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: don't live in the US, they've never been to the
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: US a lot of time. It's a sellrogate. So there's
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of attempts by Chinese millionaires and billionaires to
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: do this, But the courts are pretty good at this,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: and the numbers are so small it doesn't really matter.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: It has no impact on the world, all right, what else? Yeah,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, it would be good if the court knocked
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: down these executive voters, many more executive voters. You want
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: a change, and by the way you can end you
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: can end these tourists births by law. You can pass
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: a law to end them, and the various ways in
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: which Congress could change the law to make it more
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: difficult for people to be citizens if they're just born
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: here and they have no connection to the country. I'm
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: not uging for it, but you could theoretic Can we
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: do that? How are the Chinese using both tourism to
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: influence American politics? Tell me how that is happening? How
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: can that happen? How many of them are there? How
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: many books? One thousand? No, but let's say there were
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: a thousand. Is a thousand people gonna sway American elections?
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: And just the fact that they're born Chinese, is it
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: in the genes to be anti American and pro Chinese?
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: Maybe they'll grow up and become the biggest American patriots possible.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: There's just no, that's a conspiracy theory. There's just no
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: way Chinese to both tourism influences American elections. That's just
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: it's just complete mythology. All right, let's see what else. Yeah,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, there was a bunch of other opinions. Yeah,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, here's an interesting statistic, just so you have it.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: It's an eighteen plus yr plan. Okay, so they'll have
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: eighteen thousand people whoa eighteen thousand people and then they'll
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: influence the election of Dogcatcher in Orange County. I mean,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: if you're afraid of America becoming more like Europe than Okay,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: banned Muslim immigration. If that's the issue, figure out how
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: to band Muslim immigration, which Trump never did, right, But
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: the problem of Europe is not immigration. The problem of
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: Europe is Muslims. And there's an its solutions to that.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: Ban the Muslim Brotherhood, declar care the Islamic Organization in
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: the United States a po terrorist organization. You know, deal
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: with Islamists, deal with the people who are problem. Immigration
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: is not a problem, not in your up and on
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: the United States. It's the immigration of Islamists, and it's
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: the lack of willingness by Europeans to enforce the law
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: on immigrants and letting them getting away with that. Here's
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: an interesting statistic, and then we'll go on. In this term,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: forty four percent of the court's decisions were unanimous unanimous,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: and that's, by the way, the average for the last
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: two decades, forty four percent. Everybody thinks that this is
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: such a partisan court, sering court. In twenty four percent
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: of the cases all three liberal judges were in descent.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: Only twenty four percent, according and then but fifteen percent
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: had all three or more conservatives on the losing side,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: had three not all three had three or more conservatives
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: on the losing side, including for example, the tariff and
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: the birthright citizenship pooling. And oh there was other major
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: decision was on the late mail ballots. This was a
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: big Trump thing that states should not be allowed to
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: count votes count ballots that arrived after election date. Right now,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: In many states the law is that if you're if
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: it's post dated, if you mailed it on election day,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: it arrives a few days later, they'll still count it.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: The Trumpet station wanted to overturn that and lost and lost.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: So the state's one on that one. All right, let's see,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: I need to speed it up here. We're already pretty late,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: although you guys are being you know, really really generous,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: So we're going to go you know, over two hours
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: today because you guys are funding a show longer than
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: two hours, So thank you guys, most stickers. We got
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: a lot of questions, particularly you know, five and ten
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: dollar questions, two dollar questions. If you're going to ask
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: a question, try to make it twenty from this point on,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: just because of how late we might go, given how
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: many questions we have. All right, Venezuela quickly. So while
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: I was gone. There was a two big earthquakes in Venezuela.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: They're probably about twenty five hundred or twenty six hundred
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: casualties so far, but it's probably much more than that.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: It's probably closer to five or ten thousand, given how
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: many people are missing. The damage is estimated at around
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: ten billion dollars. You know, northern Venezuela sits near the
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: boundary between the Caribbean and the South American plates. These
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: are big earthquakes. Seven point two and then seven point
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: two and then thirty nine seconds later seven point five.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: That's pretty unusual to have two large earthquakes like that. Remember,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: the way earthquake up measured is exponential, so the gap
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: between seven point five and seven is like three times
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: more severe even though it's only point five different. So
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: this was a big deal. A lot of buildings collapsed,
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: as we see, thousands of casualties, and you know, supposedly
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: the shaking near the epicenter zone may have reached roughly
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: intensity of nine, which is really violent shaking of even
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: the heaviest structures and heavy damage is caused. So a
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: lot of people have died, and the US has sent help.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: Israel has seent help actually and so on. As part
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: of this uh, the opposition leader of Venezuela, Machado, wanted
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: to return to Venezuela to to rally support, to help
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: with the with the rescue efforts, and also to establish
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: and raise up the opposition to the country regime, which
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: is still a dictatorship and oppressive. Machado actually coordinated this
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: with the United States, and suppose he got on a
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: plane and flew started left out of the US and
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: started flying towards towards Corosau, a Caribbean island from which
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: he was expected to get on a boat and you know,
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: get into Venezuela. Supposedly, people within the Trumpet administration supported this,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: and it coordinated this with the Venezuelan government and asked
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: them not to intervene, not to stop her from entering
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: the country. However, about an hour into the flight, the
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: dispatcher got a call from the White House or from
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: people in Washington, from the authorities and telling them to
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: turn around and come back to the authority. The permission
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: to fly to Vanity I had been rescinded. I supposing
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: Machado in her age, was stunned that the Trumpet administration
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: had shifted. Marco Rubia told her it was not good timing.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: But really the issue here is I think that Trump
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: doesn't want it there. He doesn't want it there because
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: he's getting along fine with the colon dictator. He doesn't
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: want to He doesn't want elections in Venezuela right now.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: He doesn't want the uncertainty of what Machada will actually
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: do when she comes to if she comes to power,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: or whoever comes to power. He's getting along right now
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: with the government. He's rigging everything for the sake of
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: his cronies. He's making it possible for those people who
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: have played nice with him to benefit enormously from the
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: Venezuela and oil industry. And he's still determining where the
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: money goes and how the money is spent. And people
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: in the White House didn't want to go it would
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: upset the cards. Remember, the elimination of Maduro or the
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: arrest of Madua and being to the United States had
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: nothing to do with bringing freedom to the Venezuelans, establishing
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: a more free country or anything like that. Had everything
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: to do with the fact that Madua would not play
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: nice with Trump and his number two would. Trump doesn't
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: care about freedom one way or the other, and so
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: he opposes. He opposes Mikado going back. She's been planning
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: this for months. He stopped it. You know, it kind
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: of creates a little bit of instability and uncertainty about
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: his ability to continue to milk Venezuela for his own means,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: for his own aims. Now, Mikado then tried a different route.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: She flew to Panama City on COPA and then booked
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: a flight from with COPA on from Panama City to Venezuela,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: and she was just gonna go there, even though she
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: doesn't have that passport. Her passport has expired and the
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: Venezuelans will not renew it. COPA then basically would not
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: let her on the flight, saying that they did not
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: want trouble with the Venezuelan government because they are one
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: of the few airlines flying into Venezuela. They wanted they
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: wanted good relations. So she can't get there. She'll keep trying.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: Maybe she'll go through Colombia through the jungle or something
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: and it it. But it's kind of sad that this
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: is the way the United States is treating a woman
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: who seems to be pro rights and pro freedom, at
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: least to the extent anybody is these days who actually
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: would could turn Venezuela into a thriving place and and
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: would be very very pro American and has been very
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: pro Trump.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: It is disturbing that this is how the United States
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: government is treating Hope, but of course not surprising at all,
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: not surprising at all. You want, I'll only say that
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: somebody want basically nothing new. The United States continues to capitulate,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: The United States continues to give you on what they want.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: The Ranians continue to be very very good at manipulating
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: the Americans. We've seen that for since the MoU has
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: been has been signed. It looks like they're going to
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: get more foes and assets and or to keep the
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: Homo straits open. They figured out that's the deal. They'll
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: be paid by the United States to keep the Homo
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: straits opened. Uh. And in the meantime, no progress is
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: being made on the nuclear talks, No progress will be
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: made on ballistic missiles and support for Chrisbellau or anything
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: like that. There is supposed to cease fire in Lebanon,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: but isbel antenuous to attack Israeli troops Israeli troops keep uh,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: you know, responding, but localized. It's not all out like
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: there was a few weeks ago. So Iran's getting what
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: he wants. It's getting time for Isabella to recover, it's
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: getting time for them to rebuild debilistic missiles and everything else.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: And they're getting money, money, money, money, money, by you know,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: threatening blackmailing the United States with the homo streets. To
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: call this pathetic is I don't know, it's it's an
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: understatement of Ever, Saudi Arabia is getting closer to the
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: Iranians because hey, they don't trust Americans anymore so, and
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: they viewed the Ranians of being of winning this war.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: The chance of Saudi Arabia and Israel cut a deal
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: basically zero at this point. Israel, because of its affiliation
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: with the United States, is part of the losing team here,
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: and therefore the saudis pivoting to Yuan. Today, the Iranians
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: are bold enough to actually bury their supreme leader, who
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: was killed at the beginning of the war. His confidence
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: is on display. Hundreds of thousands of people are coming
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: out for the funeral, they're walking by it, religious leaders,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: and then of course you've also got dignitaries from other countries.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, I will just call this, just say it
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: what it is, which is a target rich environment. You've
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: got hundreds of thousands of people out in the streets
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: who support this regime and therefore are evil and bad.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: You've got all the leadership. I mean, imagine taking out
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: the leadership of Yuan at the funeral. I mean that
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: would be that would be pretty cool, That would be
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: really really cool. Anyway, it's not happening. I mean, you
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: got General Amid Vahdi, you haven't seen much at all,
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: who is the head of the IOGC. He was sitting
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: alongside Hameni's casket as he runs theocracy, held a small service,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: right So Vahdi, who is probably the de facto leader
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: of Iran right now, would never be out in public
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: if he thought these Raelings might strike. But because it's
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: our funeral, can't attack a funeral owner. The Qataris are there,
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: the Pakistanis are there, the Saudis are there, Arminia centered delegation.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: It's pathetic and it's it's you know, it's rubbing America's
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: nose in it. It's basically declaring, look who we won.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: We can do stuff out and open. Yeah, our leader
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: died and we got a new leader, so what none
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: of it matters. It will be interesting if the sun
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: makes an appearance. Will the sun make an appearance? And
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: if he doesn't, maybe he's in worse condition than people
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: are chewed. Suppose the Nataniel is coming to the US
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: sometime to meet with Trump. He called him up to
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: wish him a happy Fourth of July and they had
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: a supposedly a good conversation as usual, and they will
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: meet in the United States quote soon soon, so we
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: will see. I mean, Natania wants to find a way
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: to present himself as no Trump is good for Israel,
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: and I have the relationship with Trump before the elections
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: in Israel because right now he has taking a slide
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: in the polls because of his affiliation with Trump, because
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: everybody in his world knows the Trump is surrendered and
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: and this is very bad for Israel. All we'll talk
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: more about Iron in future shows. Okay, I've got a
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: few good news stories. Here's one. I mean, it's not
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: great news, but what tomologin not bad Germany. The German
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: government is just unveiled some minor but some reforms to
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: try to get their German economy going. They involve tax cuts,
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: particularly for the middle class and lower income. They don't
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: understand that if you really want tax cuts to help
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: the economy, you need to make them on high owners.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: You want those people to be invested in, not paying
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: you taxes. Anyway, Are they going to do a pension
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: overhaul something in the United States politicians are way too
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: scared to do. So they're going to slowly raise the
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: retirement age and link it to life expectancy, which is
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: what you should do if you run a pension plan
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: at all, and if you run a social security plan
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: otherwise it really is a pure pyramid scheme. So it's
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: a pyramid scheme no matter what I guess. They're making
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: sick leave. Sick leave in Germany is a massive drag
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: on productivity. People are sick all the time, they stay
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: home all the time because they don't have to prove
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: that they're sick with the doctor's known. So they're going
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: to make it required that they show a doctor's notes
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: and they go to the doctor and they do all this.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: They want to increase productivity and cut down and see cleave.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: So at this pretty minor, not hugely significant I don't
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: see the massive deregulation. I don't see a solution to
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: the energy costs. I don't see a recommissioning of nuclear
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: plants and maybe building some new ones. I don't see
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: a proposition to start fracking in parts of Germany where
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: there are oil natural gas reserves. So it's pretty weak,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: but it's a small move in the right direction. It's
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: as good as they can get, all right. A crime.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: We've been talking about this for a while now. Major
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: crimes are down across the United States. It's pretty stunning,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: some of the lowest crime rates ever reported. And this includes,
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: for example, California. California homicide rate is now at a
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: nostolical low, and police are making more rests of suspects
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: of homicide. California homicide rate is three point five p
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand. It's the lowest on record, the records
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: go back to nineteen sixty six. The national homicide rate.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: Is at.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: Well, no, it's in no. That was that was that?
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: All right? Let me just see from the story. So, yeah,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: a lot more rests and a lot more police activity.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: And in Los Angeles itself, that's California three point five.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: In Los Angeles itself. The homicide rate dropped to five
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: point nine p one hundred thousand, which is again the
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: lowest rate in the city since nineteen fifty nine. Right,
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: let's see, I mean twenty twenty one, what bad years.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: And twenty twenty the homicide rate went up by thirty
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: one percent. In twenty twenty one, it went up again
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: and it reached six one hundred thousand. Well, it's it's down,
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: ran No, that's California. California total went to six one
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: hundred than and twenty twenty one. Now it's at three
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: point five. That's what I said, three point five huge decline. Right,
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: Let's see what else? Uh yeah, yeah, I mean there's
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: a fifteen percent increase in homicide clearance rates, which is
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: pretty amazing. That is they there's a significant increase in
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: the number of murders that are solved, which is cool.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: All right. In addition to that, just on the crime stats,
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: let's see, there's a bunch of comes to two. We'll
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: get New York City reported his targle lows and murders
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: and shootings for the first half of twenty twenty six.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: New York City record one hundred and twenty two motors
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: down nearly twenty five percent from one hundred and sixty
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: two in the same period last year. Shootings and shooting
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: victims also reached first half record lows. Overall, index crime
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: is down nearly six percent, robbery's down twelve percent, buglary's
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: down sixteen percent, public housing murders down forty four percent. Again,
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: this is all good news. We'll see if mc donney
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: has a reverse effect on that as he continues to
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: be mayor of New York City. He probably won't because
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: he's kept the chief of police and she's pretty tough.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: If you look at US violent crime rates according to
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: FBI preliminary data released early twenty twenty five, data show
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: violent crime down nine point three percent across the country.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: Murder and non negligent manslaughter is down eighteen point one percent.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: That's huge. Robbery down eighteen point five, property crime down
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: twelve point four This is from twenty twenty four, again
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: some of the lowest crime rates in American history. London.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: London reported its lowest homicide rate per capita since records begun.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: Teenage homicides especially down only eight teenagers victims in twenty
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: twenty five. A seventy three percent reduction since twenty twenty
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. So even in London, and we hear
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: the naving attacks and the Muslims and all of that,
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: record low homicide rates in London. So this is pretty cool.
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: This is pretty cool that we live in a safer world.
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a it's a one of the measures
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: of quality of life. Stand of living is how violent
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: is the world around you? How likely it is that
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: you become a victim of violent crime? And this all
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: suggests that it's pretty low. All right, some human achievement
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: human achievements stories. Okay, there's a there's a graduate school
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: dropout in China. His name is what's his name, Gang
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: hong We Gang hung Wee. I'm sure miss ponouncing it.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: Gang home We is basically a video blogger who has
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: made it his career to look at journal articles published
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: by Chinese scientists and check to see if they make sense,
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: to check to see if the data is consistent, true,
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: if they're not fudging anyway. He is finding a lot
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: of fraud or error and mistakes in publications published by
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: Chinese academics. On May twelfth, he alleged the Shanghai University
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: scientists faked data. Faked the data in a journal Nature Nanotechnology.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: Now Nature Nanotechnology is the name of the journal. The
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: university announced the probe the same day. This is how
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: respected this kid is. A month later, it said it
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: confirmed this conduct, fired a post doctoral researcher, and ousted
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: the dean of the university's Institute for Translational Medicine. Now
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: in America, that process would have taken five years at
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: a minimum. At a minimum, So good for the Chinese
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: for getting on top of the fraud. You know he
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: does this regularly. His latest video came out June twenty one,
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: just a few days ago, attacking a twenty twenty five
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: paper in Nature. Nature is a very prestigious journal, right
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: The university, employing some of the paper authors, quickly announced
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: an investigation. Nature said last week it was probing the paper,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: which described a potential patch for delivering medicine to internal organs.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: The the authors of the paper said they were cooperating
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: with the investigation and declined for the comments. So China,
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: which is now publishing a big chunk of all publications
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: on drugs on drug development, is being scrutinized by this
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: post doctorate blogger I mean podcaster, I mean YouTube channel whatever,
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: whatever YouTube channel is in China. He has modeled himself
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: after was her name, Elizabeth Bick. Elizabeth Bick, Elizabeth Big
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: is a Dutch American microbiologist who is known for her
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: investigations are problematic papers, and she has had a huge
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: influence on this guy. She has got a lot of
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: papers rescinded and a lot of people lost their jobs.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: She has lauded Gang's effort and it's you know, she
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: has said, it's a catamouse game, and the thoughts there's
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: always one stead ahead of us, but it's going to
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: be more and more difficult because more and more and
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: more people are signing up to do this. I think
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: this is terrific. I think that this, you know, the
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: fact that you can have somebody, you know, who's well
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 1: educated in the science going over papers like Bake and
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: what like Gang and finding errors and then publicizing that
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: and getting getting universities and getting journals to actually act
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: on it is a huge positive development in science publication.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: So that I count as an item in the good
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: news back. This is good news stuff. All right, Let's see, yeah,
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: where are we here? All right? A few others quickly NASA.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: NASA sent up a what's called the Rescue mission. Uh
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: when was it today? I think you know? NASA and
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: Catalyst Space as a private company launched something called link
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: Link is a robotic servicing spacecraft and it's designed to
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: render rendezvous with and boost the orbit of the Neo
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: Girly Girells Swift Observatory. We talked about this a few
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: shows back. This is an observativey that studies gamma ray
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: boosts another high energy cosmic events. Swift's orbit has been
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: the decaying faster than expected because of soul activity. And uh,
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: they're literally going to go into space, find the satellite,
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: link up to it and boost it into a more
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: external orbit. That is pretty amazing stuff. And again and
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: it sounds like a private space company is involved with
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: NASA in doing this case. I don't know what case
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: does anyway, Researchers have developed a powder hemostatic agent that
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: turns into a strong gel which when it touches blood.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: In other words, it can conform to deep irregular wounds,
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: absorb more than seven times it's weighed in blood, and
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: remain stable for two years under room temperature and high
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: humidity conditions. I mean, so in a battlefield or in
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: other emergency situations, you could use this to stop bleeding.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: I mean a lot of people bleed out. A lot
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: of people who die in accidents, who die in the
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: battlefield bleed out. You can now spay the wound and
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: it seals it out, which is huge, huge, you know,
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: probably save some amputations. You know, this is something you
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: could uh, you know, it could be in every ambulance.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: It can be used in every accident, in disaster relief,
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: and of course in war situation. So science engineering keep
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: moving a head and then yeah, let's let's just turn
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: to this one. Free trade continues to win out out
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: there in the world in spite of Donald Trump. So
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: while America is building Milkita list barriers, as I've told
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: you before, the rest of the world is trying to
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: shred them South American countries who are part of the
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: Cosocoso Economic Economic Zone.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: This is.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: I know there Argentina in Brazil and Chile a part
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: of this. A few other countries are part of it
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: as well. They signed a big deal with the EU.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: Remember that you hummed and huffed and wasn't happy about
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: it because of agricultural stuff, but in and they signed
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: the deal. And that's great. Now they're signing they're about
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: to sign a deal with Japan which will reduce trade
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: barriers between the South American countries and Japan. Increased trade
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: both in critical minerals and energy, which Japan needs, agribusiness
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: which you know again withou, stuff would flow for South
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: America to Japan. Automotive and technology flow from Japan to
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: South America. Trade barriers are being reduced. These are not
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: free trade deals. As I've told you many times, you
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: don't need a free trade deal. All you have to
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: do is you unilaterally lower toast to zero and you
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: have free trade. Bet these deals that move these countries
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: closer to free trade. These are deals that you know,
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: lower the barriers to trade. They don't eliminate them one
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: hundred percent, but they lower them. And that is better
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: than nothing, better than what the US is doing for sure.
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  Speaker 1: has the Enlightenment been devoured so completely in our academic institutions?
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  Speaker 1: I can understand two Thursday, ninety nine percent of all
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  Speaker 1: universities being anti Enlightenment seems so bizarre, and good guys
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  Speaker 1: couldn't maintain some segment of higher education. Yeah, because the
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: good guys were on very shaky gown. The Enlightenment was good,
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: but flawed, and the flaws were big, and over the
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: last two hundred and fifty years the flaws became more
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: and more and more evident. They can't defend capitalism basically
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: because they can't defend self interest. They can't defend reason
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  Speaker 1: because they don't have a theory of universals and they
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: don't have a theory of concert formation, and they don't
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  Speaker 1: have they don't have the pistemological knowledge to defend reason.
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  Speaker 1: So I think given cons attack on the Enlightenment, and
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  Speaker 1: given that every single every single major philosopher since Kant
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: has been anti Enlightenment, it is a miracle that so
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: much of the culture is still pro Enlightenment. Uh. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the university's got taken over because that's where
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  Speaker 1: they take ideas seriously, and they look at the Enlightenment
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  Speaker 1: ideas and they and and yeah, they don't stand up
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  Speaker 1: to scrutiny, and unfortunately they get hooked on these really
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  Speaker 1: evil ideas. Uh and and and some of them crazy
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  Speaker 1: ideas instead.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But it's the rejection of the Enlightenment has been steady
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  Speaker 1: and systematic really since now. It's not everywhere, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the Enlightenment you said nineteen nine percent. The Enlightenment is
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: not being rejected by Stephen Pinkett. It's not being rejected
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  Speaker 1: by a lot of other academics. It's not being rejected
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  Speaker 1: in economics, for example, it's not being rejected in uh,
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: in stem you know it's and and you know it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's arguably given given the it's not being rejected
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  Speaker 1: completely in political science still political scientists who who are
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  Speaker 1: big on the Enlightenment. It's not being rejected by even philosophy.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know where the ninety nine percent comes from.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly a lot of the humanities it's being rejected. But
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: again philosophy, economics, political science. There's a lot more adherence
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  Speaker 1: to the to the and certainly stamp to the Enlightenment
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  Speaker 1: than you in nineteen nine percent number would suggest. Stefan
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  Speaker 1: enough was my first time this year and was like
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  Speaker 1: ten times better than I expected, met tons of awesome people.
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  Speaker 1: need to come. You guys need to come, Liam says Blake.
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  Speaker 1: Shaw has made a good point at OCON that these
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  Speaker 1: regulators and politicians are still human beings that can be
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: reached Stu persuasion. If we right everyone off as evil,
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: we can't move the culture or in act better policies
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  Speaker 1: like Blake did. Absolutely. I mean, look at the success
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: Alex has had, Look at the success Blake has had.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the success a lot of industries have had
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: in getting in pushing against the bad guys in Washington.
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  Speaker 1: It is possible. These people are persuadable. They haven't completely
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: given up on any shred of reason. The Enlightenment is
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: not yet completely dead, so let's not let's not exaggerate,
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: and there's still enough goodness out there that we can
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  Speaker 1: work within it. Greg says, they're about crowded mesas Is
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: moving forward towards rejecting the Nightment. Yes, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: think while mesas Is is our Enlightenment figure, although methodologically
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: is way too content, Wathwat was always an anti Enlightenment figure,
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: always an anti Enlightenment figure. What they're what they're really
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: moving towards at the Mesas into the stores nihilism. All right,
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  Speaker 1: Let's see Mike visiting New York now and U and
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  Speaker 1: you hear the Pinker session? How the Pinker session went?
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen it, so I've hope for some people,
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  Speaker 1: Michael asked, is it possible that societies can move in
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  Speaker 1: free market directions? Quickly after the fall of Trump or
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  Speaker 1: people begin rejectings, you knowophobia and statism and embraced marketism.
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  Speaker 1: Why why would they do that? I don't see why
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  Speaker 1: the motivation. It's unlikely as society moves in a free
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  Speaker 1: market direction quickly without a lot of work, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of foundations being laid. And I just don't see the
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  Speaker 1: work and the foundations being laid. Think about the seventies
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: and how many people are working on it, and and
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: the amount of people working on setting those foundations versus today.
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  Speaker 1: They just I don't I just don't see it, all right, Michael.
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: Many states are working towards abolishing property taxes. Is this
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: because BB boomers are tiring in masks and are having
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  Speaker 1: a hard time paying these taxes while keeping their homes.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's a crisis in people losing their homes.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's the issue. God, what happened now?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that is the issue. I think it's
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: a way for politicians to bribe old people to vote
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  Speaker 1: for them. And if you think about the fact that
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: old people vote, young people do not. It's a very reliable, good,
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: good constituency to have on your side. So a lot
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: of people are retiring indeeds, it benefits them quickly. But
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: it's not that there's a problem. It's preempting. It's not
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: that there's a problem, there would be a problem. It's
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: just saying these people value you know, old people care
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  Speaker 1: about We want the old people to vote for us,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll give them a goodie. We'll give them a cookie.
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  Speaker 1: This is the cookie, all right, Stephen happup. I was
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  Speaker 1: we missed you, and I'm sorry you couldn't make it.
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  Speaker 1: That that that sounds pretty pretty awful, Stephen Harpercampbell is
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: figuring out objectivism, like figuring out the theory of relativity.
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  Speaker 1: But in our case, no one will listen to how
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: right we are. Yeah, in a sense, yes, it's about
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: discovering the truth about the world, about how the world works,
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: about how human beings work, and how human beings can
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: flourish in the world, and and you know, very few
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: people are listening. But it's it's a much more radical
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: idea than the theory of relativity because it overturns almost
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: two thousand years of philosophy in a way that Einstein didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Einstein was one more step built on experiments, and that
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  Speaker 1: it was easy to prove in a sense to a
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  Speaker 1: to a small scientific community. One of the things that's
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: true about that that well oriented generally towards reality as
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: compared to kind of a community of philosophers. It's not
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: necessarily orient it towards reality. The orient towards the Marini
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: theories that reject reality or the reject ability to know reality.
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  Speaker 1: All right, hop a Campbell is living on welfare kind
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: of a living death. You get just enough to exist
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: a miserable state. Well, I don't think so, not in
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: that sense. I think it is a living death, but
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: not because of that. That is, I think you get
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of money. I think you get money so
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: you can exist pretty well. It's not that bad at all.
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  Speaker 1: So I wouldn't conceive of it that way at all.
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  Speaker 1: It is a living death because you're you're spiritually being destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: You're being told that you can't take care of yourself.
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: Your self esteem is shattered. You can't achieve happiness. But
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: materially the office that keeps you in pretty good shape.
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  Speaker 1: You got a conditioning. Most people in welfare have a
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: sea there because they live decent lives. They only live
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: poor lives in capassion to everybody else, but in comparison
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: to those not on welfare, but in comparison to poverty,
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: they live pretty well. So no, it's the spiritual death
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: that is really nasty. Author, We have all born into
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: a kantient. We are all born into a kandy in prison,
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 1: a prison you cannot smell or taste or touch, a
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: prison for your mind. Rand was the only ladder out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean she still nears. So she is the ladder
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: out and most people don't know it. And most people
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: don't know they're in a self chosen if you will prison.
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: Anam says, you said Trump would be the end of America,
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: but then you said vance is worse? Is it hyperbole?
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: At some point? How many times can America be ended? Well,
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: America ends once. But there's a sequence, right, there's a
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: sequence of events. I think Trump has put it in play,
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: the end of Americas. He said it in motion. I
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: never said America would end under Trump's term. I said
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: that Trump would do enough to undermine America's institutions, undermine
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: American capitalism or American freedom to the extent that exists,
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: enough so that one day somebody will exploit it and
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: really in America, that is, in America during their term. Now,
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: this is always how I've explained it, and Vance could
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: be another major step in that direction. So you know,
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: Trump is not the worst possible outcome, because somebody ideological
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: is worse, but Trump makes that somebody possible. That's the
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: sense in which Trump ends America, in the sense that
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: he sets in motion the ending of America by making
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: possible people who are much much worse than him. Author
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: immigration accounts for thirty percent of the decline in private
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: whoops in private sector unions since nineteen eighty nine. Jed
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: Evans reads this as a loss of workers, but it's
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: really a win for liberty week at Unions mean a
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: free market, and immigrants help preserve it. So I'm going
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: to take your immigration ac counts to thirty percent decline
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: in private union private sector unions. I'm going to take
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  Speaker 1: that as true. I don't know, I haven't haven't. I
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: haven't seen that number, but okay, and yeah, absolutely Vance
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: is a leftist when it comes to economics, one hundred percent,
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: and he is an advocate. He believes he is the
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 1: spoken for the working class and that unions are good
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: for the working class. They're not, they're bad for the
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: working class, but he believes they're good for the working class. Therefore,
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: to the extent that immigrants hurt unionization, they are bad.
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 1: And and you know, he he really believes that. So
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: absolutely a time. Thoughts on Elon sharing Vigilant the Vigilant
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: movie on X Yeah, does surprised me. Elon has been
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: very clear about how the extent to which he opposes immigration,
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: particularly your immigration into Europe. It's a vigilante movie about
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: somebody killing immigrants in Europe, who, I guess, break the law.
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: It's not a particularly good movie, but it's it's getting
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: a lot of press, and Elan is But yeah, Ilon
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: believes in vigilanteism. I don't. I don't think we should.
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: I think these societies are the societies of law, and
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: we should. We should act and vote and advocate for
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: the police, the legitimate users, a force in retaliatory force
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: to actually exercise, actually exercise their responsibility to do it.
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 1: Not Javry algorithm is pessimism, an anti success engine. Masquerading
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: is deep wisdom. God. I mean, it depends, right. Sometimes
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: it's sometimes it's rational to be pessimistic in a sense
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: that sometimes the most realistic outcome is a negative one.
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: My pessimistic by saying that Trump is initiating the ending
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: of America? Is that pessimistic or is it realistic? So
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but certainly catastrophizing and you know, the
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: end of the world is here. That kind of stuff
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: is masquerading usually is deep wisdom, deep science, deep whatever knowledge.
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: But it really is a form of nihilism. And that's
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: true of millennial Christianity, and it's true of you know,
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: the date of the world is here, environmentalism. It's it's
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: all basically the same tame, says Momdanni. Volunteers knocked at
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: one million doors. It's insane. Yeah, I mean they're motivated,
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: they're passionate, they're out there doing the work for cause
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  Speaker 1: they believe in. It's insane. It's it's scary, it's scary.
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  Speaker 1: Not Youavage algorithm is a lot of philosophical pessimism. Just
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  Speaker 1: newoticism in disguise intellectuals not feeling safe in their own minds.
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  Speaker 1: Pessimism nihilism can hide emotional pain as intellectual sophistication. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, maybe that's most psychology that
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  Speaker 1: I know. Understand exactly what motivates philosophical pessimism, or I
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  Speaker 1: have no idea. I mean, I mean, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: it just out of the philosophy. A lot of it
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  Speaker 1: just comes out of the logical conclusion of the philosophy
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  Speaker 1: that they hold. The ideas that they hold. Is everything
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  Speaker 1: bad in the world a consequence of neuoticism. I'm skeptical
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  Speaker 1: about that. James says, how would you compare Berlin to
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  Speaker 1: Powis in London? I wouldn't. I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like Germany, so I'm biased. Uh. And I
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  Speaker 1: haven't spent a lot of time in building. I've been
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  Speaker 1: a few times, but I haven't spent a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time Bulin. I don't particularly like Berlin. I'm a big
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  Speaker 1: fan of of of London and Paris.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly, Powis and London have I think more and better
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  Speaker 1: cultural institutions. The Berlin as better museums although Berlin has
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  Speaker 1: a good museum, can't compare to Paris and even London.
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  Speaker 1: Uh you know the scene. You know, London is much
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  Speaker 1: more capitalist in a sense, it's got who got a
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  Speaker 1: finance so center. Berlin is more hip and young and artsy,
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  Speaker 1: but not art in a good way. So I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a big fan Bulin. I'm a huge fan of London
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  Speaker 1: and a fan of Paris for the art and beautiful
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  Speaker 1: city pais in London, I think are more interesting and
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  Speaker 1: more beautiful cities than Billin, partially because this history there,
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  Speaker 1: history which was basically flattened during World War Two. For Brillin,
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  Speaker 1: Billin was built from scratch. Tame, says young gop A
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  Speaker 1: going full Groypa two. That's true. I mean the young
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  Speaker 1: people are either going far left or far right. At
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  Speaker 1: least women tend to go fall left. Men tend to
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  Speaker 1: go far right, although a lot of those men are
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  Speaker 1: turning away from Trump and so it'll be interesting again.
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  Speaker 1: A majority of people are just smacking the center or
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  Speaker 1: don't have opinions. James, as a passionate intellectual trying to
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  Speaker 1: change the world, did it take you a while to
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  Speaker 1: learn the skill of letting other people be wrong? Is
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  Speaker 1: wanting to fix other people a form of altruism, Well, certainly,
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  Speaker 1: it took me a long time to stop trying to
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  Speaker 1: fix other people. I don't know that trying to fix
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  Speaker 1: other people necessarily is altruism. It could be a remnant
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  Speaker 1: of altruism. It's also it's just an avy t and
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  Speaker 1: I you say about what it takes to fix ou,
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  Speaker 1: to change other people's minds, how much of an effort
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  Speaker 1: it is, how difficult it is, how many obstacles they are,
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  Speaker 1: how resistant they are to it, and what tools you
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  Speaker 1: have in order to do it, whether you're competent to
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  Speaker 1: do it. So it could be altruism, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily altruism, because getting other people to become objectivists is selfish.
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  Speaker 1: There's a huge selfish benefit to it, James, Which is
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  Speaker 1: more explicit about explicit about crushing the human Which is
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  Speaker 1: more explicit about crushing the human soul? I think Christianity
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  Speaker 1: or Socialism? Well it depends which. So I mean Marxism
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  Speaker 1: was less explicit than Christianity, but kind of the New
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  Speaker 1: Left is just as explicit as Christianity or more so,
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  Speaker 1: And again depends which Christianity. Like, you've got what you've
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  Speaker 1: got a theology out there, success theology where you're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be rich according to God. I mean, they were
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  Speaker 1: all kinds, but at its core, Christianity is about as
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  Speaker 1: crushing to human beings as any set of ideas ever
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  Speaker 1: has been. James, A third party will never happen. The
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  Speaker 1: only way we win is by taking over the Republican
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  Speaker 1: Party or at least making it a lot better. Never
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  Speaker 1: is a very long time, and I'm suspicious of anything
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  Speaker 1: where it's the only way we win, Like, we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to win in my lifetime. So and it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter what because we can't take over the Republican Party
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  Speaker 1: other Democratic parties. So and I'm sure, given enough time,
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  Speaker 1: there's more than one way to win, all right, Help
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  Speaker 1: a Campbell, Thank you for the sticker there. Help A
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  Speaker 1: Campbell then says, did Americans use to recognize it is
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  Speaker 1: better to risk rejection than fifth for fifth of holding back?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think that Americans used to be more
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  Speaker 1: risk tolerant, and they become a risk of verse, if
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  Speaker 1: that's what you're asking. I think the closer you are
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  Speaker 1: to the Enlightenment and to the ideas of the Enlightenment,
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  Speaker 1: the more risk tolerant you are, the more ambitious you are,
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  Speaker 1: the more far out into the future that you're thinking. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: modern ideas, the modern world is much more reducing of
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  Speaker 1: the scope of thought. Time says, why does Trump like
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  Speaker 1: Mumdani so much? Because they're very similar the statists who
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  Speaker 1: want to intervene their their powerlusters. Yeah, I mean they
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  Speaker 1: share a lot in common. They share a lot in common.
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  Speaker 1: Hopper Campbell. Altruism is what unites everyone, accept objectivists, even libertarianism, libertarians. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: mostly again the people who reject altruism in the name
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  Speaker 1: in the name of nihilism or but it's a consequence
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  Speaker 1: of or narcissism and other forms. But generally, yes, I
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  Speaker 1: think that's true. Dan says, you're on mischief, sage lely Wisdom. Well,
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 1: I'm back, Sagely Wisdom is back, Thank you. Liam thought
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  Speaker 1: on subtle subdenly pressing your kids to give you grandchildren. Yeah,
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: I'm against suddenly pressing your kids about anything, although and
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  Speaker 1: it won't work anyway. They need to one kids need
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  Speaker 1: they need a really value kids, or they shouldn't have kids.
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  Speaker 1: They certainly shouldn't have kids for the sake of you
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: being a grandparent Leam. Do anti progress movements typically lose well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what typically means, but yes,
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  Speaker 1: I think they generally lose, particularly in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: The Greens in Europe are anti progress movement that have
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  Speaker 1: won periodically, but long term I think are going to lose.
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  Speaker 1: Short term they might win, long term they lose. Michael,
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  Speaker 1: do you think Stephen Pinker has a lot more respect
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  Speaker 1: for ran now? Will you be able to do one
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  Speaker 1: on one with him in the future. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: no answer. I don't have an answer to either question.
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  Speaker 1: I hope so. Jason, whether under the status quo or
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  Speaker 1: more capitalism, do you agree with the statement a given
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 1: city is only there to live in if one can
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  Speaker 1: afford to live in it. How would you rephrase it?
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the issue is. You have no
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: right to live wherever you want to live. That is,
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: you don't have a right and a sense of independent
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  Speaker 1: of the cost of living and independent of your ability
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  Speaker 1: to live in a place. So your right to live
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  Speaker 1: somewhere is contingent on your ability to live in that place.
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  Speaker 1: So that's true. So if some way is expensive and
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  Speaker 1: you can't afford it, then you can't afford it move now.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is that it's a lot of it's not
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  Speaker 1: affordable because of irrational regulations and controls. Michael, have you
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  Speaker 1: seen Larry David's comments on July fourth? He seems like
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  Speaker 1: a real self hating, anti American leftist his massive fortune
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  Speaker 1: and success in this country. Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me.
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  Speaker 1: He's a typical leftist. That wouldn't surprise me. If he's
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  Speaker 1: anti American. I've not seen his comments. I'll look for them,
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  Speaker 1: but I have not seen his comments. But none of
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  Speaker 1: that would surprise me. I think there were a lot
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 1: of America hating leftists. Author can they can be multiple perspectives,
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  Speaker 1: but they can not be multiple realities? Absolutely, absolutely, all right?
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  Speaker 1: Author Part one, before discovering objectives. When I would use
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  Speaker 1: the word selfish to insult someone, it wasn't because they
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  Speaker 1: were a billionaire or focused on their own flourishing. It
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  Speaker 1: was because they were an inconsistent, inconsider itself absorbed person
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  Speaker 1: who could never see anything from other person's perspective thoughts. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's commonly used, but subconsciously implicitly, Well,
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  Speaker 1: what is the billionaire? He pursued his own self interest?
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  Speaker 1: So whether you know it or not, the billionaire falls
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  Speaker 1: into the same category as the self absorbent, you know,
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  Speaker 1: inconsiderate person, and so you associate the two. Sir, somebody
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  Speaker 1: does attack a billionaire, you're much more likely to think, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's in that same folder with the inconsiderate bastard. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to defend him. And I think that's how
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  Speaker 1: it works. So, yes, most people associate selfish with inconsiderate,
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  Speaker 1: self absorbed. But then if you ask them, well, what
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  Speaker 1: about the billionaire who made a lot of money thinking
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  Speaker 1: only of himself, they go, yeah, he's selfish as well,
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  Speaker 1: and by definition, that puts them in the same folder.
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  Speaker 1: And therefore they respond as if they're in the same folder.
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  Speaker 1: Time says, why doesn't heone take Moe money build Trump tower? Well,
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: maybe they will. It's not over yet, natchavi, j'all go
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  Speaker 1: with him. Every man is guilty of all the good
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  Speaker 1: he did not do. Every man is guilty of all
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  Speaker 1: the good he did not do. I don't get that.
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  Speaker 1: How can he be guilty of something he did not do,
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  Speaker 1: of all the good he did not do. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: use the word guilty. I wouldn't use the word guilty
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, all right, Lincoln, last question, wish I could
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  Speaker 1: have gone to o'conn but a but a trip later
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  Speaker 1: this month got in the way. Hoping to attend the
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  Speaker 1: Austin Conference of September. Yeah, I hope you go there
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  Speaker 1: as well. That would be a great confidence. All right, guys,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. I think that's the questions. I'm sorry if
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 1: I missed anybody's question, Either send me an email or
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: let me know if I missed the question. And I
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: you know, everything here is behaving with I think it's
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: YouTube is behaving very weird. All right, let's cut it
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  Speaker 1: off here and wish you a great Fourth of July.
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  Speaker 1: I will be doing a show tomorrow to celebrate the
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: fourth of July, so we'll be a positive Poor America
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 1: Fourth of July show. I'll talk a little bit about
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 1: the issues I brought up in my talk at OCONN.
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  Speaker 1: Join me tomorrow. I'm not exactly what time, but somewhere
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  Speaker 1: between one to three pm East Coast time. See then
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  Speaker 1: have a great Fourth of July weekend. If I don't
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  Speaker 1: see you tomorrow, don't forget Nicos and I will be
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  Speaker 1: on on Sunday at one o'clock. Bye. Anybody see you soon.