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Total Surrender; G7; Anthropic; Swiss Vote; Peru; Candace/Russia; Achievement | Yaron Brook Show · Yaron Brook Show

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  Speaker 1: A lot of fundamental principles of bledo tion, self interesting
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  Speaker 1: and individual once this is the show, all right, everybody
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  Speaker 1: welcome tore One book show. On this Monday, June fifteenth,
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  Speaker 1: the day after President Trump's birthday, and of course President
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  Speaker 1: Trump on his birthday got to electronically sign the Memorandum
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  Speaker 1: of Understanding, which is going to lead to the greatest
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  Speaker 1: deal in all of human history, is going to bring
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  Speaker 1: peace to the Middle East after three thousand years of warfare.
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  Speaker 1: Finally we were a peace to the Middle East. And
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  Speaker 1: it was very, very important to Trump to sign this
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  Speaker 1: thing on his birthday yesterday. He was kind of flipping
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  Speaker 1: out when it looked like it might not get signed
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  Speaker 1: the official signing ceremony, because you know, the Iranian barbarians,
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  Speaker 1: the murdering, the murderous dictators of Iran deserve a formal,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a formal ceremony with their American counterparts. They'll
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  Speaker 1: get to shake hands, they'll get to be buddy buddy,
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  Speaker 1: They'll get to be legitimized in the eyes of the
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  Speaker 1: entire world. Will happen on Friday, I mean just having
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  Speaker 1: the ceremony, a formal signing ceremony, which I think Trump
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  Speaker 1: is going to participate in because he's in Europe this
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  Speaker 1: week has to rank as one of the most disgusting phenomenas.
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  Speaker 1: These are the people with the blood of forty thousand
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  Speaker 1: of their own people in their hands. These are the
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  Speaker 1: people who've been lying to the Americans and to the
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  Speaker 1: world about their nuclear program for decades. These are the
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  Speaker 1: people that have been funding terrorism, the number one funder
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  Speaker 1: of terrorism for the last forty seven years. And these
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  Speaker 1: are the people that are going to have a nice
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  Speaker 1: handshake and a pattern the back and a congratulations and
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  Speaker 1: are raising a glass of champagne with the Americans. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it just it takes what is an awful memory of
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  Speaker 1: understanding and I guess deal and makes it so much
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  Speaker 1: worse and so much more disgusting. And it really is
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  Speaker 1: a symbol. It's a symbol of the complete capitulation and
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  Speaker 1: surrender of the Americans and the elevation sanction of the Iranians.
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  Speaker 1: I just can't wait for those TV images to come out.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it reminds me of Donald Trump hugging and
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  Speaker 1: you know, and playing best friends with the brutal dictator
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  Speaker 1: of North Korea who also has the blood of thousands,
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  Speaker 1: if not hundreds of thousands of his own people understands,
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  Speaker 1: and yet Donald Trump treated him as that he's equal
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  Speaker 1: and was friendly. This is how you can tell, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: from his first term, how just unbelievably disgusting this man is.
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  Speaker 1: And his farm policy is completely bankrupt. So anyway, there
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  Speaker 1: is a deal, we don't know the details. So they
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  Speaker 1: signed it yesterday. A bunch of administration officials are going
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  Speaker 1: on TV talking about it. But on the American side,
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  Speaker 1: nobody's actually nobody's actually published the text. It's, to put
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  Speaker 1: it mildly, a little strange, a little bit weldering. If
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  Speaker 1: this is such a great deal, if this is the
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  Speaker 1: deal of the century, and it's so much in America
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  Speaker 1: self interest, why isn't the text public? Why didn't they
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  Speaker 1: make you have of it and putting it out there
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  Speaker 1: so we can all see what our brilliant negotiate is
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  Speaker 1: actually achieved.
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  Speaker 2: It's no way to be seen, so we speculate.
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  Speaker 1: And the Iranians are publishing all kinds of stuff, but
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to tell whether the Ranians are publishing the
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  Speaker 1: right stuff. If it was a docu sign, if there's
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  Speaker 1: a signed electronically, it was saved in a PDF just
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  Speaker 1: you know, a secure pdf. Just send us the secure pdf,
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  Speaker 1: put it up there, send it.
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  Speaker 2: To the media.
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  Speaker 1: But no, so we don't We don't have all the details,
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  Speaker 1: granted that, but we know from the interviews of people
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  Speaker 1: like ged Evans and others, the framework, the basic framework
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  Speaker 1: or though again they seem to present it with the
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  Speaker 1: spin that the Iranians don't accept and we don't have
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  Speaker 1: a deal, so we don't know. We actually don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Have you noticed. I think a lot of people have
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  Speaker 2: noticed this.
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  Speaker 1: But if you noticed that our foreign our, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State responsible for foreign affairs, for dealing with
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  Speaker 1: foreign countries like you are, is a wall. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: see him all weekend. I haven't seen him on the
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  Speaker 1: talk shows today explaining this deal to the American people.
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  Speaker 1: He's disappeared, he's gone. I mean jd. Vance is basically
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State right now. He's the one going out
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  Speaker 1: there and doing all the work. Interesting and and if
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  Speaker 1: you know, if if Marco Rubio had real balls, if
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  Speaker 1: Marco Rubio U was a was a was a was
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  Speaker 1: a was a real man, he'd quit. He'd quit. He won't,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, no way that happening. But he could quit
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  Speaker 1: and say this is a disastrous deal for the United States,
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  Speaker 1: which it is. We'll gets into that. I wasn't involved
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  Speaker 1: in negotiations. Jd.
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  Speaker 2: Vance was, and I can't. I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I can't stay Secretary of State with this deal in
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  Speaker 1: place and have any kind of integrity. Remember all the
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  Speaker 1: things that he said during this war. Anyway, let's get
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  Speaker 1: into the deal. So what what what does the deal say?
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  Speaker 1: As far as we can sell right, immediate multi fund
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  Speaker 1: cease fire. Importantly and crucially, this includes Lebanon, even though
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  Speaker 1: Israel has objected, but it includes Lebanon. It involves the
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  Speaker 1: lifting of the US naval blockade on Uranian ports in
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  Speaker 1: exchange for you on opening the straits of Homo's. More recently,
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  Speaker 1: it looked like the US was opening first and the
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  Speaker 1: streets of Foremost would have to go through a period
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  Speaker 1: of clearing the minds. And Iran is not going to
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  Speaker 1: open the streets of Hoemos until Friday, until after the
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  Speaker 1: official ceremony. So a little ambiguity which has been consistent
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  Speaker 1: for months now about what opening the streets of Almost
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  Speaker 1: means to the Iranians. Iran is demanding initial payment of
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  Speaker 1: twelve billion dollars before the streets is open, and it
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  Speaker 1: seems like Trump is going to agree to that. And
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  Speaker 1: again we don't know the details of that because Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration is not publicized the memorandum. Trump claims the opening
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  Speaker 1: will be told free, but Iranian officials are previously indicated
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  Speaker 1: they still will impose fees.
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  Speaker 2: They won't be told they'll be fees.
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  Speaker 1: And they obtained regulatory control with the maybe with the
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  Speaker 1: omanis maybe just Iran, and this is a major goal
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  Speaker 1: of the Iran And it seems like the Americans have.
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  Speaker 2: Assented.
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  Speaker 1: States of Homoes are now officially controlled by the Iranians.
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  Speaker 2: This seems to be.
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  Speaker 1: There, seems to be something that the United States has
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  Speaker 1: assented to, has agreed to, something that didn't exist before.
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  Speaker 1: The DASSO stipulates that within sixty days of the scheduled
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  Speaker 1: June nineteenth signing in Geneva, the two nations will begin
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  Speaker 1: follow on talks begin addressing the termination of all US sanctions,
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  Speaker 1: the nuclear issue, and Iran's reconstruction economic reconstruction. When asked
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  Speaker 1: today about three hundred three hundred billion dollar fund to
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  Speaker 1: help Iran rebuild, jd Vance did not deny it. Basically
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  Speaker 1: said yeah, if they fulfill their requirements in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the nuclear issue. And there's a deal, and yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: could imagine a reconstruction fund. Three hundred billion dollars. Reconstruction
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  Speaker 1: hard to believe. So we're going to give the bloodthirsty, criminal, evil,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a genocidal regime.
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  Speaker 2: In Tehran.
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  Speaker 1: Three hundred billion dollars in exchange, they you know the problem,
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  Speaker 1: they'll verifiably dismantle the nuclear program. It's not even clear
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  Speaker 1: what that actually means. The Iranians are claiming they're never
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  Speaker 1: going to agree to that. They'll only agree to downgrading
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  Speaker 1: all the refined uranium to lower grades. But as soon
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  Speaker 1: as they're not giving up on centrifuges, they're not giving
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  Speaker 1: up on any of that. So that's yet to be negotiated.
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  Speaker 1: The US is saying no, no, centrifuge is no use programmed.
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  Speaker 1: But even there there's some ambiguity. And again the US
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  Speaker 1: seems desperate for a deal. My guess is that before
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  Speaker 1: the war started, if the US had offered the Uranians
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  Speaker 1: three hundred billion dollars to have a nuclear deal, the
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  Speaker 1: Ranians would have signed, would have signed.
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  Speaker 2: Why was the war? Why would we engage in a war?
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  Speaker 2: Keep that at the back of your mind. That is
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  Speaker 2: the key question. Why was this war even necessary?
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  Speaker 1: Clearly, the United States is coming out of this war
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  Speaker 1: in a worse situation than they were going into the war.
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  Speaker 1: You on, And I can't believe I'm saying this because
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  Speaker 1: from a military perspective this is so unsided. But from
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  Speaker 1: a war perspective, on the total package perspective, Iran won
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  Speaker 1: this unequivocally, no question about it. Don't believe anybody who
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  Speaker 1: says out there otherwise, It's just not true. Iwon won this.
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  Speaker 2: It's getting more and giving.
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  Speaker 1: Up less than it would have had to do if
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  Speaker 1: it's signed a deal before the war. The fame work
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  Speaker 1: appears to divert significantly from earlier US positions. Remember, Trump
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  Speaker 1: once insisted on the destruction of all Uranian nuclear facilities
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  Speaker 1: and zero uranium enrichment. He told the New York Times
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  Speaker 1: that Iran would now be permitted low level in richment,
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  Speaker 1: that is zero and enrichment is not the position going
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  Speaker 1: into the sixty to the negotiation. So already, as with
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  Speaker 1: all the negotiations Trump always goes into He is the
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  Speaker 1: worst deal maker I've ever seen in my life. I
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  Speaker 1: mean literally, I can't think of a worse deal maker
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  Speaker 1: I've ever encountered or read about, or seen in my
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  Speaker 1: entire life than Donald Trump. He goes into the deal
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  Speaker 1: already giving up everything. He did this with Russia and Ukraine,
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  Speaker 1: and he's doing it with you on instead of going
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  Speaker 1: in and saying zero and Richmond dismantled the entire nuclear program.
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  Speaker 1: And then I guess maybe compromising, He's going in saying, eh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna insist on that. She's already publicly stating
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  Speaker 1: that they will allow centrifuges, and they will allow minimum
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  Speaker 1: minimum enrichment if you can. If you have low level
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  Speaker 1: in Richmond, you can have high level in Richmond once
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  Speaker 1: you have the centrifuges. Nothing to stop you from enriching
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  Speaker 1: to higher levels. Nothing. Now that's zero, and we know,
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  Speaker 1: we know this is exactly a pattern. That is exactly
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  Speaker 1: what he ran. Does they cheat? The IGC affiliated does
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  Speaker 1: ME news agency, for its part, framed the deal as
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  Speaker 1: tactical pause in the war rather.
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  Speaker 2: Than a final settlement.
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  Speaker 1: It warned that many more concessions would be needed of
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  Speaker 1: the United States for any future agreement, and that Iran's
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  Speaker 1: experience with the US bad faith makes one unlikely. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I can only hope that somehow it all falls apart,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean hoping that for weeks not hasn't happened Trump.
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  Speaker 1: There's no depths to which Trump is not willing to
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  Speaker 1: go in order to grovel before evil. It is just none.
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  Speaker 1: He did it with Prutin, he did it with the
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  Speaker 1: brutal dictator of North Korea, he did it with Shi
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  Speaker 1: and now he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: Himself by doing it.
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  Speaker 1: With the Iranians. I just wonder, just wonder what some
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  Speaker 1: of the objectives fans of Donald Trump right now of
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  Speaker 1: this deal. I'm curious. I'm curious. I mean, Tehran's giving
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  Speaker 1: almost nothing right against you know, the US is demanding
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  Speaker 1: a twenty year Richmond band, which is meaningless because I
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  Speaker 1: mean Richard to what level? They say only a five
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  Speaker 1: year pause? Why twenty years?
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  Speaker 2: Why not eternal?
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  Speaker 1: The Nians are maneving to get their foes and assets
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  Speaker 1: early in the process, which will take away some of
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  Speaker 1: the US's leverage. Trump has said that if the negotiations fairly,
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  Speaker 1: will go back to war, but nobody believes that. He
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  Speaker 1: said that so many times and under delivered on every
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  Speaker 1: single one of them that nobody takes them seriously. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: believes his threats. I mean, why would anybody? He said
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  Speaker 1: it over and over again. For the last sixty eight days.
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  Speaker 1: Iran gets its ports un blocked, sanctions relief, the facto
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  Speaker 1: recognition of its sovereignty.
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  Speaker 2: Over the States of Homoes in exchange for.
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  Speaker 1: Complying with the cease fire which was supposed to open
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  Speaker 1: the States of Homos. So he's finally maybe complying with
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  Speaker 1: the cease fire and now sixty eight days ago ceasing
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  Speaker 1: random acts of violence. Believe that when I see it,
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  Speaker 1: and then there'll be negotiations over the nuclear which the
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  Speaker 1: United States has already moved away from its position from
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  Speaker 1: just a few days ago. In other words, this is
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  Speaker 1: total surrender. This is total surrender. The US literally has
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  Speaker 1: received nothing it didn't have before. Remember before the war,
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  Speaker 1: states have almost opened. Before the war, other than enrich
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  Speaker 1: uranium was buried under rubble still is before the war,
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  Speaker 1: there were no hostilities. So what did the US gained from?
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  Speaker 1: This was achieved. And of course you know this place
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: is Israel. In an impossible situation. Nitaniello and the Israeli
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  Speaker 1: governors hitched itself to the Trump administration. Trump is driving
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  Speaker 1: off a cliff and Nicenio in Israel is gonna drop
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  Speaker 1: from that cliff with the Trump administration. I mean even
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  Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, the assumption was that Trump would
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  Speaker 1: be would help Nitaeniello in his political career, and that
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  Speaker 1: Trump was to receive the Israel Prize and He's going
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  Speaker 1: to come to Israel before the election and do a
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  Speaker 1: victory lap around Gaza and you on and endorse BB.
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  Speaker 2: And now BB goes into the election.
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  Speaker 1: With his main partner having surrendered completely and Israel in
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  Speaker 1: this kind of limbo of nobody knowing where and what
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  Speaker 1: did you do?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, we will see, you know, he has said already.
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  Speaker 1: On the one hand, you know, Israel needs to needs
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  Speaker 1: to push back against the Americans, but it can't push
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  Speaker 1: back so much that the ties get disconnected.
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  Speaker 2: How much can he actually push back?
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  Speaker 1: If Trump demands unequivocally demands that the United that Israel
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  Speaker 1: retreat leave Lebanon completely one hundred percent, And the risk
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  Speaker 1: is that if they don't do that, Trump stops all
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  Speaker 1: weapons sales to Israel.
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  Speaker 2: What choice would Israel have?
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  Speaker 1: BB in the past has found ways to go around presidents,
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  Speaker 1: go to Congress, go.
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  Speaker 2: To others, but there's nobody here to talk to it.
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  Speaker 1: Congress Democrats have become over the last few years massively
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  Speaker 1: anti Israel, and the right is not going to stand
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  Speaker 1: up against Trump. And if the Democrats win the House
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  Speaker 1: and maybe the Senate, all bets are off. All bets
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  Speaker 1: are off. So yeah, it's unclear what's going to happen
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  Speaker 1: in eleven. Supposedly, the m AU means ceasefire and all fronts,
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  Speaker 1: including Lebanon, but ceasefires in the past have only, according
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  Speaker 1: to Trump's mind, only applied to the good guys. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Ion could bomb the UAE, that was okay. Ion could
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  Speaker 1: bomb ships in the streets of homos, and according to Trump,
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  Speaker 1: that was okay. Nobody really got hurt, so that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: Chrismallah could send missiles into Israel, drones into Israel, which
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  Speaker 1: was a clear breach of the ceasefire. Israel was not
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  Speaker 1: allowed to respond. I mean, there was a huge crisis
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. Chrisma sent missiles into Israel, clear violation of
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  Speaker 1: the agreement. Is your bomb Beirut, which was a red
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  Speaker 1: line that the Iranians drew. Trump woke up Sunday morning,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: his birthday morning, and freaked out. Lasted completely by all reports,
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  Speaker 1: this was gonna stop the signing thing, and Iran was
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  Speaker 1: going to retaliate and now, and he called up Iran
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: and he basically had the Qataris go to Iran and
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  Speaker 1: basically give the Iranians everything they wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 1: there was a deal that day and.
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  Speaker 2: They would not fire in Israel.
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  Speaker 1: So what happens with isabel A fire as a rocket
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  Speaker 1: as they did this morning into Israel? And according to
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the tit for tat tit for tat kind of theory,
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  Speaker 1: is supposed to bomba roots Again, Well it won't because
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  Speaker 1: Trump has said no, and there's a cease fire. But
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: what happens when Chrismola continues to break the sea's fire?
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, you know, Israel you know, regularly
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  Speaker 1: knocks down Isabela's missile, so nobody gets hurt, which is good, right, No,
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  Speaker 1: it's not good. According to Trump, if nobody got hurt,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have a right to retaliate.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we will see.
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  Speaker 1: Is his Malagan attack and break the cease fire. Will
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  Speaker 1: it do so with Iran's knowledge? Will it.
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  Speaker 2: Undermine Iran?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Can Israel respond if it happens? Can
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Israel bomb babyoot if his attacks Israel. If Israel does strike,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: what happens when Trump turns on it?
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  Speaker 2: Iran might do it? Mighty courage as well.
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  Speaker 1: Let to do it, just to test the waters and
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  Speaker 1: see what's going on. I mean, clearly it's already tested
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  Speaker 1: the waters. And see how weak Trump is and how
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  Speaker 1: willing he is to abandon his ally. You know, there
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: was a there's a Kissinger quote from back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: Kittens just said once it may be dangerous to be
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  Speaker 1: America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal. Trump
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  Speaker 1: has made that very real, very real right now for
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  Speaker 1: Israel and Israel. And this is the tragedy. And this
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  Speaker 1: is where if you look short term, medium turn out,
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  Speaker 1: Israel has no friends anymore. Europe has turned its back
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  Speaker 1: on Israel completely. And in America, the Democratic Party has
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  Speaker 1: turned to anti Israel, and a significant portion of the
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Republican Party has turned to anti Israel. And the portion
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  Speaker 1: that's pro Israel is no longer has no power, has
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  Speaker 1: no power. So you know, I don't know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what happens here. I don't know how this progresses,
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  Speaker 1: but nothing good is going to happen. Elections in Israel
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  Speaker 1: will be a mass. But even more importantly, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think America. I don't think America recovers ever from this.
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  Speaker 1: This is the biggest geopolitical mistake catastrophe for Americans since
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  Speaker 1: the Vietnam War. I mean, this is much bigger than
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Biden's retreat out of out of Afghanistan. Even though even
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: though you won't have the visuals quite the visuals of
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  Speaker 1: the American helicopters taking off of Saigon, or the or
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  Speaker 1: the or the airplanes taking off from you know, Conda,
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  Speaker 1: but it's it's worse, it's much was, much more. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the United States credibility is gone. Iran comes out stronger,
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  Speaker 1: comes out, the one that stood the pressure comes out,
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  Speaker 1: the one that's more reliable. The Gulf States are pivoting
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  Speaker 1: towards Iran as we speak. I mean, Trump can go,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so you know what does that mean? It's anyhow,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, is out there saying with an agreement,
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  Speaker 1: without agreement, Iran will not have nuclear weapons, not today,
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  Speaker 1: not tomorrow. As long as I am Prime Minister visual,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: it will not happen. He might not be Prime Minister
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: visual for very long. So he also says that Israel
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: will remain in its security zones in Gaza, in Lebanon,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: and in Syria for as long as necessary to protect
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: our country.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: You know what happens if Trump demands.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: You know we are, we are. I'm going to see so, yeah,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: I you know, this war was a disaster. All my
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: early all my early optimism was for not.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: TDS. You really think this is TDS?
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Are you reading the news?
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Are you reading what.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Trump has just done?
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: And I have TDS. I gave Trump the benefit of
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: the doubt during the war. I thought the war was, yeah,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: we're gonna do something important here and we're gonna win,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: and it was gonna be regime change. I was positive
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: about the outcome. And now it's turned into one's worst
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: nightmare and you can pretend it isn't and I have
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: t yes me. It's just bizarre to me how people
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: can't think edward. So if that's insulting, but that is
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the reality, can't think independently because it doesn't take me
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: explaining this deal to you to see how just goddamn
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: awful it is. So I think Trump says he probably
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: won't be signing it. He might might be, might not be,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: but JD Vance will definitely be there because this is
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: JD's deal, right, This is clearly JD Vance's deal. Anyway,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I couldn't even imagine this being as bad as it is.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I really couldn't. And you thought the Obama deal was
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: bad and what Obama, all the money Obama gave the.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Iranians was bad.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: This is so much worse. This is so much worse,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: by the way it turns out, about a month ago,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the US secretly approved of financial and maritime arrangement between
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: kat and Iran under which billions of dollars were paid
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: to Tehran in exchange for fee passage of Katari tankers
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: and ships through the straits of Homos. The secret US approval,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: which as Sosa said, was granted about a month ago. Dovetail, though,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: has interest in opening a direct channel of communication with Tehran,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: which they've had forever, which began.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: To tighten after the ceasefire caught out.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Fearing a renewed Iranian attack on its facility after one
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: of its gas installations were attacked during the war, sought
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: to buy security on the quiet. Some of the payments
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: were disguised. This fees for tankers passing through Homos and
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: a broad credit line of up to one billion dollars
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: was also opened for their purchase of goods through Kata
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: and Trump knew about this and he let it happen.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Kata is best friends, best friends, so he let it happen.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Here's a statement, and I think is absolutely true. Seniors,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: really official said quote. If we had known the war
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: would end this way in terms of the political outcome,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: it is not certain it would have been worth going
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: to it. Oh, it would have not been worth going
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: to it. Whatever was achieved is being undone because this deal.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I have to tell you, the deal as it appears
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: right now is worse than what I thought it was
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: going to be a week ago. The three hundred billion
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: has entered the equation, for example. So in spite of everything,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: in spite of everything that Israel achieved, in killing the
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Supreme leader, in taking out a whole level of IRGC leadership,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: in you know, destroying parts of the reading and industry,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: it's not worth it giving all this. I mean, they're
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: going to get the money to rebuild everything. Remember, remember,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and and you know it's not that hard to find
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: the quotes, but that early on in the deal, when
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: people were asking what is what are the war aims?
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: What are America's war aims? The United States?
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: You know, the United States, I mean, Trump basically went
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: out and said he said, on a number of different occasions,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: he said, we aim to dismantle basically Iranians capability to
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: build ballistic missiles. We aim to get the Ranians to
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: stop funding it's proxies like Chrisbella and the Hooties, and
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: we aim to stop them from developing a nuclear weapon.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Of those three, only one has remained.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: They've given up on a ballistic missiles you want, cannot
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: build as many as they want, I e. And in
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: that way, since they've got them targeting all the golf facilities,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: the oil and gas, the desalination plants and everything, they
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: basically they don't need a nuke. They basically, at least locally,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: nobody's gonna touch them. Nobody's gonna touch them. Nobody's going
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: to touch them. Who needs a nuke when you got
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: ballistic missiles that can take out every desalination plant in
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: the Arabian Peninsula, every one of those countries is not
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: beholden to you won and they continue, you know, we'll
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: give this the hundred billion dollars and they'll use it
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: a fun and ramas in the future, and the Whoties
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: and whatever other groups they want. And here's the thing.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: All this was avoidable, right, Why did Trump do this?
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Trump did this because he wants all prices to come down.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Why all prices up? The only reason all prices are
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: up is because of Trump's strategic mistake on day one
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: of the war, which I pointed out to you. I
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: pointed out to you what was the strategic mistake. It
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: was letting the RAS closed.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: The straits of Homos.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: It was completely unnecessary, completely unnecessary. As I've said over
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: and over and over again, the US Navy had multiple
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: different plans on how to keep the states open. It
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: just needed a decision by Trump. It needed Trump to
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: actually say, keep the straits of Homos open, do whatever's
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: necessary to achieve that. He didn't do it. I guess
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: he thought the regime would fall in a week. But
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: that I have been telling you, and here I've been
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: right one hundred percent from the beginning, from day one,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I've been telling you that that was the fatal flaw
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: of the entire episode, the entire mission. And by the way,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: from what I understand I don't have proof of this.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: The military wounded him. You know, mister President, they're going
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: to close the stations of hormones, they closed the stations
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: of homoes. That it's going to create real problems for
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: oil and gas, and Jump said, yeah, there, you know
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: the regime will fall before that.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: They won't be able to do it.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: They won't do it.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: They didn't do it last time, they won't do it
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: this time.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: And then when they actually did close the states of
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: home Wars, he refused to order them open. It's just
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: it'll go down in world history as one of the
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: most one of the biggest blunders, strategic blunders in all
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: of warfare, and one hundred percent predictable. How do I
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: know it's one hundred percent predictable because I predicted it.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: I predicted it. It's so frustating him. They want we'd
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: be talking about the Straits of Humos, but they need
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: to open them. And again, you don't recover from this.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: The Chinese are looking at this and thinking, God, the
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Americans are so incompetent, so unbelievably competent. Trump achieved regime change.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: He killed the father and he got the son instead.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Son who's always been more radical than the father. He
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: killed the whole bunch. I mean, he didn't do it.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: These Raelies killed all those people. The Americans did not
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: kill those people. These Raelies did. He killed a bunch
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: of ILGC commanders, and he got what he'd get instead,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: a bunch of LGC commanders. He replaced one evil Islamist, fundamentalist, dictatorial,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: anti Western Jihadi regime for another evil, dictatorial is Islamist
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: West hating ji hottist regime. Some people want to call
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: that regime change because Trump says so. God, Trump's zombie
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: syndrome is real. I'm telling you it's real. Use those
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: brain cells you have, guys. Anyway, Uh, it's devastating. It
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: just it really is. It's just a disaster. It's devastating.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: It's depressing. I worry about now, you know, I worry
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: about Israel. But put aside Israel, war about America. I
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: worry about today, the next decade, the next two decades.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: How do you live this down? Don't I don't think
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: there's a way to live this down. And this is
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: the I mean, this will be together with the failures
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: of nine to eleven, the failures of the financial crisis,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: the failures of COVID. Now we got this failure. I
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: don't know that America can recover from these failures. I
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: mean it's lost whatever geopolitical mojo it had, it's lost, right,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: and what do we what do we go back to now?
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: From policy wise, what do we have to lean on.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: We've got a president who's pro Russia, basically pro Iran,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: pro China. You know, in America, America will see its
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: role in the world. Maybe with the exception of the
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: America's diminished it'll see you know, it risks the color
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: lapse of trade. I mean, he's clearly anti trad h trade.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is I mean, this presidency is one
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: abysmal decision after the other. I mean it's just I
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: mean the tariffs, the tariffs, you know, are incredibly destructive
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: to this country. I mean Donald Trump is doing unimagined
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: harm to this country.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: He's not America first. He literally doesn't give.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: He's a combination of too ignorant to know what's good
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: for America and not really caring about what's good for America.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: He only cares about gaining the love of an attention
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: of the people. He wants to gain the love of
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: attention of Edward, who you really should anyway, you should really.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Should shut up.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: What you're revealing about yourself is not pretty, all right,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: it's you know we are we are in the you know,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: in descent. He's going so this says he's going to
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: the G seven and he's going to meet European leaders
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: and world leaders at the G seven. I mean, they're
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: all laughing behind their backs at him. They all think
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: he's ridiculous. They all think he's a loser, all of them.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: I think he's a loser. I mean even mccaughn, who's
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: a real loser, thinks Trump is a loser. They're not
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: gonna want to fight with the US because bet you
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: know they they what he's done on trade is ridiculous
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: and stupid and they know it. What he's done with
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Iran is ridiculous and the defeat but primarily effects in
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: the US, so they don't care, right And what he
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: does with Russia, I think they've already given up on
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: the US visa v Russia. So it's going to be
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: interesting to see how these meetings go. They all put
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: up a bright face. This is politics. They're all hypocrites
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: and with no integrity, and liars, and so they all
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: put up this face. They'll all compliment him, they all
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: call him a big piece, uh, you know, his big
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: achievement in creating peace.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: And then the background they'll laugh at him.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: That'll announce an international mission to clear the minds and
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: the straits of homos. It's meaningless, stay to Homo's minds
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: could have been cleared weeks ago by the Americans themselves.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: It's not that hard. That'll even they'll even have an
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: international mission to escort commercial ships out now that there's
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: no threat. Why not. So yeah, it's it's going to be.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: It's a massive embarrassment. Of course, Trump is so clueless
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: that he he can't see how embarrassing it is to him.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: He you know, if he had if if he had
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: any sense of of of the world, if he had
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: any sense right, he would it would be obvious to him.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: How how they're laughing at him, How how ridiculous he
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: looks going into this meeting, and going into anty meeting,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: right any meaning mccorn is gonna yeah, I think has
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: already given him a red carpet welcome. But of course
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: he wasn't there. So Trump arrived in Paris Nomaclon. Uh. So,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: I guess he's going to speak with him, but he
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: was supposed to. They're supposed to meet at the airport.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Didn't happen. Ah, it's yes, and uh.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: It really it really really really. You know, we'll see
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: if Trump throws them a bone by announcing that he
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: won't shrink troops in Europe quite as much as he
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: threatened he might do that. We will we will see,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: we will see. Remember when Trump said he wouldn't end
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: the war with you on until there's unconditional surrender. You
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: guys didn't think that he meant the unconditional surrender of
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: the United States. I mean, I don't think he thought
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: that either. But that's that is the end result and
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: completely unmitigated disaster. And what is so sad about it
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: is that victory was in within the grasp, you know. Uh.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: It's Trump that stopped the Kods from entering Iran because
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: he didn't want to upset Uduan Urdigan, the president of
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: the President of Turkey, the Islamist president of Turkey. He
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: uh he, you know, he stopped the bombing of Tehran
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: and the rest of Iran. Wee prematurely he refused to
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: attack civilian infrastructure.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was it that.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Part of the sad part about this is they were close.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: We could have had a you know, once in the
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: you know, once in uh not once in a decade,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: once in multi decades geopolitical achievement by getting rid of
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: the Iranian regime, and Trump blew it. So all of you,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: all of you who predicted that this war would end badly,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: not because you're not say you didn't have the military
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: capabilities to win it, but because of Trump, you guys
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: will write I was overly optimistic, too, caught up in
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: the excitement finally seeing finally the United States attacking you run.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: It's been so long.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: I'd been calling out for such a long time.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: I thought it was necessary for such a long time
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: that I got carried away, and you know, but should
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: have been able to step back and see, it's Trump.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: It can't end well. And of course if I'd said that,
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: if I'd said that, you would, you know, not most
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: of you, but some of you would have said, oh
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: TDS again. But every time I say about Trump, he
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: lives up to my very low, you know, expectations. All right,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: The Trump zombie symptom is strong, is strong. All right,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Let's see, all right, anthropic Anthropic is a ever changing,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: ever evolving, ever weird, ever.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: You know, interesting story.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's there's just every every week there's
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: something with the God's anthropic. And of course, I think
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: when anthropic really represents is the massive on suddenly out
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: there around AI, the the you know, the the fact
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: that nobody knows what to do with AI exactly. Nobody
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: knows how to handle AI. Nobody knows, you know, the
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: and how to deal with those risks. Nobody has a
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: good clue about how to if the government has a role,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: and if it does, what's that role be. In the meantime,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: AI just gets better all the time. I don't know,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: at some point it might hit at plateau, but right now,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: it's just getting better all the time at certain functions.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: And it certainly is getting riskier in a sense that
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: bad people using AI can do bad things, and I
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: mean pretty pretty big bad things, really big bad.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Things, and nobody knows how to handle it.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: And unfortunately, again, you know, we've got a trumpet administration,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: you know, that doesn't know what to do. They you know,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: they have a lot of people telling them, don't regulate,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: don't regulate, shouldn't regulate. But there are real risks here,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: so they know they have to do something. They know that,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: and they don't know what to do. And different people
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: with an administration are pushing in different directions. Now, I
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: don't know that any other administration would do better. But
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Trump has no clue. He wouldn't know what an AI
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: was if it bit him. But so but the people
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: under him, I think there are various groups within the
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: White House vying for position here and and they don't know,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: they have no idea. All right, So let's go through
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: what happened recently with on topic. So we talked about this,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: I think last week, I think on Friday or Thursday,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: we talked about this, and you know, we talked about
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: the fact that I think in the achievement section, which
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: before the achievement section, we talked about the fact that
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: and Toropic it released Cloud Fable five and Cloud Fable
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: five was a version of Cloud Mythos five, but Cloud
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Methos fives was not being released to the general public
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: because two things. It that the Mythos class of a
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: I has because of its ability you know, to code
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: and identify code, has the ability to find security weaknesses
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: in software way too easily and then provide people with
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: the ability to hack.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: Software. And some of that software is is.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Running the infrastructure behind pretty much everything we have in
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: the world today. So Anthropic has said, we're not going
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: to release myth Us publicly, will release it only to
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: you know, trusted parties, other big tech companies, so they
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: can test it out their old old programs, to the government,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: to a few other entities they can check.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: And find for vulnerabilities and and and and you know,
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: fix them, fix them.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: So Fable five was released, which is a version of
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: myth Us, but it cannot find the the gaps in
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: in programming in these infrastructure software. It as soon as
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: somebody asks it to do that, it downgrades to an
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: old version of claud which doesn't have their capability. Second
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: thing it does is Mythos has the ability to generate,
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: you know, to teach you how to make biological weapons,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: which are relatively easy to make. Again, Fable downgrade you
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: if you try to ask him what about that, it
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: downgrades you to another version of Claude where you can't
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: do that. So it released Fable five to the general public.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: And this is the most powerful AI out there today. Right.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: You know again, these models, according to Entropic, cross some
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: kind of threshold in terms of cybersecurity and biological capabilities,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: and that's why it in a sense puts safeguards into Fable.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: Then late Friday, June twelve, so this last Friday, US
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: government issued an expert, an Export Control Director. It required
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: Anthropic to suspend access to Fable five and myth Us
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: five by any foreign national, including foreign nationals Anthropic employees
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: inside the United States. Indeed, I think it's chief science
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: officer is a foreign national. He couldn't use the program
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: he helped developed, so you know so, and Topics said
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: it can't do that. So it had to basically disable
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: both models completely for everybody, for all its users. Because
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: it can't track who is a foreign national who is not.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: It sends a model to Google, it doesn't know which
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: employees are using it. Now, suppose the government's concern was
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: that there were claims that people could jail break five
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: or five and get around the safeguards and actually use
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: it to identify by software vulnerabilities. For example, supposedly Amazon
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: had run some tests on this and discovered the jail break,
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: and Amazon is the one that called up the Trump
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: administration and told them this is not good. Now, Amazon
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: is a competitor of Anthropic, but Amazon is also being
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: invested in Anthropic, so it's probably not motivated by that
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: by by competition. It's not clear what exactly is going on,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: and it's not clear how bad the vulnerability is on
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: Anthropic says it's reviewed you know, these jail breaks and
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: found that they were all previously known, and they're all minor,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: and that you can find it in pretty much every
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: public model. Now, over the weekend end, this story becomes political,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: not just technical. Weitz's reports and Toropic technical staff were
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: scheduled to meet COMMIS Department officials Monday, and that the
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: company had been in daily contact with officials since Friday.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: More than eighty cybersecurity executives and experts reportedly signed the
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: letter urging the administration to lift the restrictions. But then remember,
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: Anthropic is the one that the that the UH that
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: people within the Trump administration are called woke have criticized
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: them for coding into a tropic leftist ideology. And it's
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: also the one that the Pentagon was using, you know,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: in the Pentagon, as UH, you know, uh uh, not
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: just kick them out, but has deemed them as a
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: as a supply chain risk, which means almost nobody else
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: within the universe of the Pentagon, all the companies working
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: with the Pentagon can use that Toropic. Now Anthropic issuing
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: that is in court right now, we'll see what happens
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: with the whole thing. So and topic and the Trumpet administration,
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: you know, administration accused of antopica, make you Woki called
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: the Chief executive daw a mode and ideological lunatic, and
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: they've been disagreement about AI regulations and semiconducted expert policies.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: And then of course we know what happened with the
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: Pentagon and Anthropic and you know, and deem them a
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: supply chain risk. So all of this is tied up
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: with ideology and with you know that he's a leftist
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: and with politics, you know, in the Defense Department, and
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: and there's a lawsuit and you know, it's it's a mess.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Now it turns out it turns out that you know,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: actually it wasn't the chief chief scientist, but at least
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: one top AI scientist at entrop Ithopic is barred from
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: accessing the company's most advanced eymodel because he's not a
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: US citizen as a fighter. Now, the White House says,
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: we try to call Anthropic and let them know before
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: we put out disorder. We try to get them to
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: fix it. An topic says that that's completely false. White
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: House says expert controls with the last resort after begging
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: them for hours to work with US. Anthropic says we
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: responded within seventy five minutes. Guvernment gave no details of
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: the threat. So, I mean, who do you believe? You know? Uh,
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: And this is us a tight end with the fact that, Yeah,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: the CEO of Anthropic is a political figure, he is
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: a leftist, and the reality is that he is, you know,
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: he is he has been urging the government to regulate
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: AI in need. The reality is that the CEO of
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: Enthropic a you know, published a white paper on Friday
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: same day urging the government to regulate you know, to
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: regulate AI, to actually create an FAA style agency to
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: prove all frontier AI models before they released, with the
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: government authority to block deployment if an independent auditor deemed
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: the model to Risky's proposal, of course, is all about
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: safety and cybersecurity and bioweapons and loss of control and
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: all of this. But it's also such regulations would give.
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: Anthropic a competitive advantage.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Not Visa V Chat, GPT and Google and Google Gemini
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: and maybe Xai, but Visa v the alternative, which is
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: open source AI open so s AI. You know, there's
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: no body to actually put it up online. Yeah, sorry,
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: you send it to the government get permission. This would
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: just shut down open so SAI because they couldn't get
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: a regulator of permission for their models.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: So Anthropic is fighting with the.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: Government and at the same time arguing from massive government
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: regulation in a bi Now, government probably does have a
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: role to play here, and government has a role to
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: play here because AI really does potentially represent a national
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: security threat. Now, what the best way for the government
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: to deal with this threat is. You know, a better
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: government than we have today would have to figure out
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: how to do it without stifling innovation, without blocking competition,
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: without just favoring the big companies that can afford to
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: deal with regulators. How do you encourage competition at the
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: same time prevent the national security risks involved? And you know,
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: I don't have an answer for that, but it can
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: be a great point. It can be a method that
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: basically eliminates competition. It can be one that restricts the
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: building of AIS only to the existing big companies. But
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: else it can be you don't there's no liability, do
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: whatever you will. I mean, maybe it's the creation of
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: a liability system. Whereas AI companies are held liable for
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: any damage that is caused as a consequence of the
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: use of their models, how do you apply that to
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: open source models.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know, you'd have to think about that.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: So there's some real tricky issues here that somebody is
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: going to have to do some deep thinking and work
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: to figure out. Some mean, I'm not familiar enough with
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: the industry itself, but somebody is gonna have to do
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: the work. This is what you have ideally in a
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: truly free society. You have legal philosophers really with a
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: tech background, really thinking through these issues and trying to
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: figure out how to best miss is that this keeps
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: coming on, how to best deal with something like this anyway?
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: The you know, everybody's commenting on this, all the different
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: tech people, all the AI, different companies. Everybody's got a position,
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: everybody's got an opinion. Uh, there's a lot of conflict
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: going on. You know, I don't know what the right
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: thing is. I mean, I think what's going to happen here.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: I hope is entropy can can fix whatever whatever problems
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: they are with with the AI so that it can
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: be released again to the public. Is I mean, to
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: stop innovation, to stop growth, to stop progress is wrong.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: But if there are real issues, get them to fix.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: And I'm not sure this is how the government should
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: be interacting with them. Bans on foreign nationals. What American
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: citizens can't uh can't use this for ill. The lots
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: of people can use this for ill. There's nothing to
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: do with foreign citizens. That's that's again such a you know,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: four big typical Trump administration type thing. Only the foreigners
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: can use this for bad stuff. Anyway, Let's see what happens.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: Let's see if they're going to fix this. You know,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: what interest do they have not to fix it the
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: the If the job break is not that big of
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: a deal, then then just deal with it. But again,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: I thought saying, these weaknesses in the AI exist in
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: every II and they're not a big deal. Why is
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: anybody making a deal out of this? I have no
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: clear opinion about that, all right, that is uh anthropic.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: We will have my guesses almost everyday stories about AI.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: AI is just going to become a dominant part of
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: our world. And that's mostly for the good, mostly for
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: the good. All right, let's see, Yeah, this is last week,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: this happened. I guess last week or this weekend hapened
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: this new again. You know, in Switzerland a lot of
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: governance happens through through propositions, through just votes, proposals that
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: everybody votes on the tape, population votes on different suggestion
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: raise taxes, lowest taxes. Anyway, this weekend, Switzerland voted on
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: a proposal to limit cap the size of the country's
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: population a ten million. Now I assume they didn't mean that.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: You know, if you had lots of babies and you
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: exceeded ten million, you'd have to kick the babies out
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: of the country. I mean, this is mainly targeted at immigration, right,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: So the idea is and it's not about citizenship.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: It was about population, the number of people living in Switzerland.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: And the idea was we should cap it at.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: Ten million. At ten million people Switzerland, which is about
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: the side of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, very big, right, Michigan's
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: up Upper Peninsula has a population about nine point one million,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: and they've grown twenty five percent in the twenty fifth century.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: Since two thousand, they've gone twenty five percent, and almost
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: all that growth, almost all that growth has come from immigration.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: So people, a lot of people come to Switzerland to
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: try to escape the tax rates in other countries. Uh
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: And the Ballid measure would have begun to impose some
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: limits and growth when his population hit nine point five
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: million and then kept it at ten. Right, the proposition failed.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: Fifty percent of Swiss voted against it to forty five
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: percent who vote for it. I think I'm sure only
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: citizens vote in this. In most Western countries, population is
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: actually shrinking because of low birth rates birth rates in
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: many in many Western countries, and it's it's going to
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: be very difficult for them to grow without you know,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: without kind of immigrants. But anyway, this is you know,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: the whole idea was the way this was pitched was
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: this was designed to protect Switzerland's public services and its environment.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: But the party that proposed it, the Swiss People's Party,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: has a long history of anti immigration platform uh and
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: and trying to get people to vote on you know,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: against immigration. Reduced immigration anyway, they voted it down, so
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: good for the Swiss. There should be no limits on
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: the size of a country, the you know where it
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: should have no restrictions. And uh, you know the Switzerland
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: doesn't let everybody become a citizen, and it has pretty
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: it's not doesn't have open voters. It has stringent immigration requirements,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: and yet its population has grown because of immigrants, immigrants increasing.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: I was just in in Zurich and it was it
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: was lovely there. Anyway, I thought you'd want to know you.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: Can still go to Switzerland.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: Peru. Peru had an election and the choice in the
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: election was between a far leftist almost Kami and Kiko
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: Fujimuru Fuji Mori, Fuji Moi. You know who is the
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: daughter of a Bildo Fujimi who was a pretty authoritarian
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: ruler of Peru. When was this about twenty plus years ago? Uh,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: And he landed up in jail ultimately and died in
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: jail a few years ago. She has now run for
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: the presidency of Peru. I think this was a fourth time,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: and she lost three times. She finally won this time.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: She you know, runs the movement that her father created
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: that led to his rule in the nineteen nineties. I
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: guess up until two thousand he did do a few
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: good things. He smashed the Bruto maoist in so agency
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: that was in Peru. He smashed hype inflation, and he
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: actually did quite a few things to liberate and liberalize
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: the peruvin economy. So he did. I think he did
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: a pretty good, pretty good job, a pretty good job.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: But he was also.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: Brutal. I mean, he didn't have a lot of respect
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: for individual rights, a lot of a lot of torture
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: and murder, and a lot of corruption which he sat
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: in jail for ultimately, and her father actually supported free
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: market policies. Now it's not clear where the Kiko does
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: as well. She is much more of a populist right winger,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: so it's going to be interesting to see what she
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: actually does. She's pledged to crack down a violent I'm
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: modeling herself like all South Americans do these days on
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: the dictator president of al Salvado, right, that is the model.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: But will she actually will she actually deal with the
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: economy and actually continued liberalization and turn PROO into a
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: free market. She won by a sliver she has, you know,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: she basically won with just about fifty percent of the vote.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: I mean it's fifty points zoo zoo two percent and
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: just a few hundred votes out of twenty million people.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: So it sounding like she has a massive, you know,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: confidence of the people. So it's going to be interesting.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: Now she joins other right wingers that you know, have
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: won recently in other countries. Now all of basically Latin America,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: only Uruguay, Colombia, and Brazil have left of center governments,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: and Colombia probably is going to have a populist right
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: winger as president soon here. Brazil will see in the
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: coming elections, and I'm not sure about Uruguay. I'm not
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: sure about Uruguay. So yeah, I mean, Keiko is Uh,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: We're gonna have to watch and see what she does. Uh.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: You know, she's been in politics since she was basically
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: by the side of her father. She acted like the
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: first Lady when she as early as when she was
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: a teenager. She has no charisma. She claims she's rejecting
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: her father's authoritarian tendencies. We'll see if she lives up
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: to that. I mean, the Alderigimo dissolved Congress, arrested political opponents,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: helped faudulent elections. She says she will not do any
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: of that, and we'll see whether she is profiy markets.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: That'll be I mean, from my perspective, that is the
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: ultimate task. And can she can she clamp down on
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: crime without mass violation of rights? That'll be that'll be
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: the question. All right, we will see what happens. We
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: will follow Peru as well, follow all the countries in
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: Latin America as they go through this transition. Roland says,
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: I'm going to read this out of order. Orland said,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: not only do immigrants come to Switzerland, some of them
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: even support the Iron Brooks Show. This is Roland who
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: basically is here of every day contributing Swiss Franks, very
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: very valuable Swiss Franks. I'm glad the proposition was voted down.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: I feel a lot better about living here this way.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Roland.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: I appreciate all the support, and I too am glad
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: it was voted down and that you're there. And you
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: know the number of objectivists in Switzerland that I know,
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: and I don't think any of them are Swiss Italians.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: Roland is from Hungry, That's right, ol Bun's hungry, or
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: pre O Bun's hungry, Orland is from Hungry. I know
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: somebody from Denmark. I mean all the Swiss objectivists are
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: like following us. There might be a few Swiss Swiss objectivists,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: but the rest of people who live there who were
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: not born then I don't know if they're even citizens.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: Probably not citizens. All right, let's see Candace. We have
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: to talk about Candace. Candas, Candas, and then we'll get
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: to the good news. A lot of good news. There's Candas.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: This is a clip of Candace talking about Russia. And
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: I only play this because God, so many people on
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: the right, so many people on the right just think
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: Russia is great. They just think Russia is so cool.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: Now she went to Russia, she visited, and she's now
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: advocating for this. Russia is the future, Russia is just amazing.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: All this while Russia is losing to Ukraine. Its economy
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: is datas not to mention just everything else that's horrible
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: about Russia. So I thought, we just watched this quickly,
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: I'd give you a few stats about Russia and we
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: would move on. So here is here was candae On.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: Here was candae On on Russia.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 3: My takeaway from visiting Russia. Is that it is our
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 3: society that is on the decline, not theirs. Russia, like
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: I said, has not been communists in over thirty years.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: We are, so Russia is mostthalitarian, most socialist in its
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: you know, role of government in business.
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: Then we are we're you know, we're heading in that direction.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: But we're more socialists in China. Then sorry, Russia? Where
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: does she live?
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: What universe does she come from? I mean, she really is,
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, she's being paid by somebody to
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: say the stuff I guess, or she's just nuts, which
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: is probably true as well. She's probably both being paid
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: by somebody and she's nuts and she's nuts.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 3: What about US pornography, welfare ism, NonStop war.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: Pornography and welfare ism?
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: Do you get a sense that in Russia they use
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: less pornography or more pornography than the US? I haven't
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: seen stats. I don't know if they are stats about this,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: but pornography, I mean, is that what's killing America? And
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: is that what doesn't exist in Russia? I mean, God,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: if you guys ever been to Russia, I mean, you know,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: I think prostitution is more prevalent in Russia than it
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: is in the United States, So I think prostitution's worse
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: than pornography. I mean, I remember I was last time
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: I was in Russia. I think that, Yeah, this was
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: in Moscow. I'm pretty sure it was in Moscow. Maybe
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: it was some music. I can't remember it, but either
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: one of those. I want to go to dinner and there,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: so somebody said, there's a really nice, you know, nice
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: restaurant across the street. Everything was snowed in, it was ice,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: it was it was difficult to walk for me. Right now,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: I go to this restaurant. I go in and it
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: is really really nice, and it's like, it looks like
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: it could have been a California restaurant, could have been
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: a restaurant in Miami. Very hip, hip music going on.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: The waitresses are gorgeous. Everybody's gorgeous in this restaurant except
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: the men. And then I notice I noticed this, and
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: I've never I've never seen anything quite like it. Every
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: single table, every single table, was occupied by a middle
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: aged Russian man, mostly overweight, and a gorgeous twenty thirty
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: year old Russian woman. I mean, in Russian women can
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: be beautiful, as Tolsloy said. The beauty of Russian women
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: is very short lived. It doesn't last for very long,
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: but they can be very beautiful. Anyway, every single table,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: some table that at two couples, but it was always
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: the couples. What was saying, pretty ugly middle aged men
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: and beautiful young women. That's Russia for you. But they
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: watched less porn. I guess, according to Candis and we
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: have welfareism in America, we have Welfurism. I wonder if
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: more people are less people are on the government's dole
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: in Russia or in America. I mean, I don't know
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: what the answer that is. Maybe it is America. And
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: I'm with Candas about let's get rid of wolfurism.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: I'm all for that. Let's get rid of Welfurism.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: You don't have to compare us to Russia. I mean, indeed,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: we have more welfare in America than in China. China
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: has less welfare, a lot less welfare, a lot less
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: welfare than the United States. Debt, people, debt, if you've
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: seen how much debt Russia's accumulating right now, not to
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: mention inflation we have, like we're worried because inflation is
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: like four percent. Oh my god, four percent. Russia's inflation
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: is over twenty into straits over twenty? Really is debt?
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: Is this a problem? I mean, I agree with wolfur ism, debt.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: People telling us that this is freedom, stop war, debt, barrism,
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 3: NonStop war.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: Debt, NonStop war. Isn't that fascinating?
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: I mean here, complete delusional, right, completely delusional. Yeah, we
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: just had a war. It was pretty short because Trump surrendered.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: But how long is Russia's war been going on?
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: And even though they attacked a pretty weak enemy, they
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: lost their losing on the battlefield. Do at least not
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: winning on the field for sure, at least the United
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: States won on the battlefield.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: They're lost in diplomacy, but it.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: Won on the battlefield.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: It can't even win on the battlefield.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: And it's an endless war started in what two thousand
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: and two, February two thousand and two, four years ago,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: four and a half years ago, still going so endless war.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, this just shows how completely delusional she is.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: Completely But the thing is she is a symptom of
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: an entire rate that is dedicated to this.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 3: People telling us that this is freedom, right, this is great,
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: this is you being free. You wouldn't want to live
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: in Russia. That's the boogeyman syndrome, right, They're comparing it
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: to something that you've never seen, so that you don't
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 3: I don't know Riot in the streets, my tip.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: I actually have seen being to Russia, being Si Petersburg
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: and Moscow, at least seen been there and read a
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: lot about it and followed what they do, and yeah,
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: you don't want to live in Russia. I also noticed
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: that people are much more likely to leave Russia than
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: come in. Now. They do have some illegal immigrants from
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: Central Asia who come in, mainly Muslims from Central Asia,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: but mostly Russians are leaving. You know, when the war started,
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: Russians fled. I mean as bad as the war with
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: you want is. Americas haven't left America because of it.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: I mean maybe some, but not in mass So what
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: is she talking about? And then add to that, just
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: a few stats. Russia is the world's highest divorce rates.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: I think Candas is an anti divorce. I'm pretty sure
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: she's an anti divorce. Russia has about double America's alcoholism rates.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: Now we probably have a bigger drug problem. They prefer
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: drug is alcohol, but they have a drug it's alcohol.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: If it's such a beautiful, amazing, wonderful place, why do
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: they drink so much? And then, you know, we're constantly
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: told by these right wing nuts that Russia is where.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the good Christian country.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: It turns out only twelve percent of Russians attend religious
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: services once a month or more, whereas in the United
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: States that number is thirty four percent. Americans are three
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: times more likely to attend church than Russians, three times more.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: It's a very secular country, that's not it. You know,
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: that's a good thing, but not in the way it
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: manifests itself in Russia. And then they tell you that
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: it's a white culture. Oh white, they're the defenders of
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: white civilization. But the percentage of non whites in Russia
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: is much higher than the percentage of non whites in
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: any other European country. A percentage of Muslims in Russia
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: is much higher than the percentage of Muslims in any
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: other European country. And the country most susceptible to Islam
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: taking over is not France or the UK you might
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: think it is, it's Russia. The country that's had the
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: most terrorist attacks by Muslims.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: Is Russia.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: So I mean the cluelessness, the cluelessness of people like her,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: and just the whole rights and the infatuation with Russia
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: is pretty pretty stunning. It really is pretty amazing stuff.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: All right, Now we get to the part that I
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: know all of you are being waiting for, and that
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: is the good news section.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: Good news section. All right, let's start.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: We'll do, we'll do.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: We've got five stories.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: We'll do it quickly. At first, there is a big
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: story in the New York Times today about the fact
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: that Africa has a growing middle class. And what is
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: one indication of a growing middle class. What a middle
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: class people do that poor people tend not to do. Travel? Travel.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: The reality is that Africans are now traveling Pomelli around Africa.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: There is a new African tourism over the past few years.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: You know, if you if you look at places like
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: Daka and Senegal and other places, you see more and
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: more tourists from other parts of Africa. The number of
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: tourists visiting African countries grew by almost eight percent.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: Last year, the fastest growth in the world.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: According to whatever this search isn't being driven by visitors
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: from Europe or Asian. It's being driven in large part
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: by growing African middle class that is exploring the continent
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: for the first time. And the most visible travelers are
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: millennials and gen zas, and they're changing African ideas about leisure,
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: travel and even about what Africa is. This is great.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: I am huge supporter, you know, huge supporter of African development.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: This is a quote from the chief executive of Africa's
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: eden in nonprofit to promote African tourism. Travel is increasingly
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: seen as part of an identity of everyday life, rather
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: than a luxury. African travelers are viewing their own continent
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: as aspirational, sophisticated and worth exploring. I mean, if the
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: African food have eaten in London, there is any reflection
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: of food in Africa. Colt me in Now some advantages.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: First of all, a lot of new flights, a lot
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: of discount carriers. Although there's still some of the highest
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: prices in the world. They need massive deregulation there, but
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: they've been improving prices of coming down, so there's been
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: more competition. There's also a lot of countries that allow
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: you to travel within Africa visa free, so places like Beneen, Gmbia, Kinya,
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: Ghana have scrapped.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: Visas for African passport holders.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: It's also now a free trade zone, which is going
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: to increase standard of living, increase the middle class, to
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: increase cross travel.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: People are going to travel more for business.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: They can experience other parts of Africa that they're going
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: to want to go on vacation. Right in Nigeria, you
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: can see big billboards advertising.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 2: Stress free weekend in Beneen.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: Right, So Africa is potentially up and coming, potentially up
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: and coming. We'll see, We'll see how it evolves. The
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: free trade zone is a is a great is a
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: great fust step. They need to liberate the economies. They
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: need to establish respect for property rights. Education needs to
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: be improved across Africa. But it's happening. You know, Africa
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: is gaining a middle class. So that's good news. All right.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: Let's see.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: You know, the US has a grid operator grid operators,
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: and there's a ton of regulations about you know, getting
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: on the grid. So let's say you build a power
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: plant and now you want to connect your pop plant
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: to the grid. It can take forever. Its unbelievable amount
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: of paperwork and everything anyway. As part of the deregulation
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: of the Trump administration, last week, the Federal Energy Regulatory
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: Commission approved a proposal to expedite interconnections. That is, they've
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: created a new process. It's temporary, but they want to
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: make it permanent to advance projects of significant size, to
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: make it easy for them to connect to the grid quickly, quickly, right,
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: and the idea is to add generation as fast as
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: we can. We've got massive increases in demand for electricity.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: It's only going to get.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: More so. And if you build a poplane, then you
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: have to sit it idle because you can't connect to
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: the grid. It's a disaster that it's hard enough to
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: build a popland. It's so regulatory buddens them to build
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: a poplane and then you can't even deploy it. So
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: there is some loosening of regulations to make that possible.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: That is good news. Here's one it's almost ludicrous and funny, but.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: It's true for twenty years, for twenty you know, for sorry, yeah,
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: for twenty years. There's being a sunscreen chemical ingredient called
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: ben mutt trisen all something like that, b empt bemped
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: it's called BEM that has been approved in Europe for
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: twenty years and approved in other countries and has not
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: been approved by the FDA. So the United States had
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: very limited options when it came to sunscreen. But again
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: the FDA equivalent in Europe has said no, this is
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: completely safe for over twenty years. Well anyway, the FDA
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: finally last Wednesday, after twenty plus years, has approved b
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: e mt as for sunscreens. Expect much more competition in
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: the sunscreen world.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: And more choices for those of us living in the sun.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: This is good news generally, sunscreen good, getting burnt by
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: the sun bad. Yeah, I mean pretty pretty cliar cut
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: all right. Amazon says the thanks to advanced DAI, its
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: next generation warehouse robot can now be assigned tasks by.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: Employees the way you'd communicate with a colleague.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: The company unveiled the latest version of Proteus robot on Thursday,
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: and you can just.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: Tell Potius what to do.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: Proteus was first introduced in twenty twenty two as the
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: first fully autonomous mobile robot. It's designed to operate in
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: dark areas and fulfillment centers, carrying carts full of packages
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: that could weigh nearly four hundred kilograms eight hundred and
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: eighty two pounds over long distances. The new Proteus robot
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: will be able to work across more parts of Amazon's
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: facilities anywhere items need to be moved, including transporting containers
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: and delivery sites. But the biggest upgrade is the fact
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: that employees cannot talk to it, and they don't even
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: have to use technical commands or programming interface they have.
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: All they have to do is use plane language conversational
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: language to tell her what to do. So not only
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: as AI is coming, the robots are coming. The robots
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: are coming, and yeah, it's going to be a brand
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: new world with robots everywhere. All right. By the way,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: many of these stories come from Human Progress. You can
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: find human progress dot org. Human progress dot org has
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: a bunch of these good news stories on a regular basis.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 1: Here's one which is basically to combat the purpose of
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: which is to combat the the growth. Whops, I don't want, Candice,
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: I want that. Whoops, And it's it's miss miss miss
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: miss miss. Second. There we go. That's where it's supposed
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: to be supposed to be right there. We can ludge
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: it a little bit so you can see it better,
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: all right, there it is. So we talked about the
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: growth last time and in this the growth paper that
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: was published last week in the Guardian, these stigults and
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: over price winning economists and another economists wrote that growth
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: is no good and it doesn't help the poor. Growth
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: is no good and it doesn't help the pot Well,
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: this is a this is a graph. These are These
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: are nine graphs. The divide up each graph within the
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: nine is a region of the world. And on the
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: you know, on the y access you have the percentage
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: of people living in poverty. Now what does poverty mean here?
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: Poverty is measured by the cost of basic needs. It
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: represents the share which was unable to which the share
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: of the population which is unable to obtain a bundle
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: of very basic goods and services. Okay, price changes, inflation
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: and price differences between countries all taken into account in
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: this measure. The X axis x access represents GDP per capita,
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: So high gdpeoper capita countries, not surprisingly, by the way,
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: have very very low rates of poverty. Low GDP per
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: capita countries have very high rates of poverty. And when
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: you look at the same country, when they go from
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: load GDP per capita, the gptep deeper capita, what you
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: get is a reduction in the number of people who
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: are very poor, which means growing GDP in particular, growing
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: gpt pt per capita is a good thing, and it
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: would do from the perspective of poverty. It's a good
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: thing put from other perspectives, but from the perspective of poverty. Now,
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: if you look here on the left, the top left
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: graph is for the world global average, and you can
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: see that poverty is very low today and it's directly
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: related to the fact that gdpaper capita has gone up.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: Western Europe basically has no poverty, no extreme poverty, and
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: that's because Western Europe hit high levels of gdpeople capita
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: very early. On the top right top right, which I
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: know you can't see because I'm blocking it. You'll just
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: have to believe me, is US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: and there. Yeah. And the interesting thing is that you know,
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: Western Europe and the United States eradicated poverty and relatively
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: low gdpiper capital levels, which means there's no extreme poverty,
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: there's no extreme inequality, if you would call it that,
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: versus other places where you might have an average number
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: that is high, but there's massive inequality and you still
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: have poor people.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 2: As a consequence.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: East Asia, for example, you see more of that South
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: and Southeast Asia. So Southeast Southeast is at the rate
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: of GDP that they have, Yeah, it's they're not quite
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: at the level away the West eradicated poverty. So if
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: you look at sub Sahuva Africa, if you look at Middi,
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: Eastern North Africa, if you look at Eastern Europe, if
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: you look at East Asia, South and Southeast Asia, Latin
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: American Caribbean also exactly the same thing, exactly the same.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 2: Phenomena.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: Let me just do this.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 2: They all show a declining poverty.
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: So I don't know what these the growths are talking about.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: I have no idea, you know what what is? I
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: don't know what they're talking about. In other words, no idea.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: And these graphs completely refute whatever you could argue economic policies.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: Oh those are the graphs? Still not seeing them? Right?
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: What did I do? You guys arguing with Jonatan who
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: is a massive distorta of of Israel And yeah, all right, anyway,
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: no point. Uh, let's see all right, that, my friends,
• 1:36:47
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• 1:37:10
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  Speaker 1: Under less ife, some dense urban cities would have little
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  Speaker 1: or no green spaces. I mean it's unlikely. Again, Central
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  Speaker 1: Park was created by private people. They bought the land,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of role and responsibility. I you know, I
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  Speaker 1: doubt that you would have cities with no parks. Parks
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  Speaker 1: a real value. And look again, in the nineteenth century
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  Speaker 1: people figured that a park would be an immense value
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  Speaker 1: Central Park is huge, and it's not just Central Park.
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  Speaker 1: a number of different places, and many of them private.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing in London. London is filled with parks, and
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  Speaker 1: some of the parks, I think most of the parks
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: in London and public of the parks are private, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And some of the parks are so private that they
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  Speaker 1: gated and you can't get in unless you're a resident
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  Speaker 1: of the block and paying into the maintenance of the park.
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  Speaker 1: So all kinds of things would arrive in a in
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  Speaker 1: a free market, But as long as people value parks,
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: there would be parks. So it's it's a question of
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: the value open spaces half for people, and history suggests,
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  Speaker 1: particularly for wealthy societies, that once people get to a
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: certain wealth and an urban situation, they value open spaces.
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  Speaker 1: They have vacation homes, but they value that surrounding greenery
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  Speaker 1: and that's why they invest in things like parks. So
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  Speaker 1: my view, private cities would be very green, would be
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: very green. Private cities in the sense of everything was privatized.
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  Speaker 1: All right, help a Campbell. Do you think people who
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: are better looking don't have to develop as much personality
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 1: or intellect? People naturally gravitate around them with less effort
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: on their part. More those just open up for them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand what that means. Don't have to develop
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: as much personality intellect for what? For what? I mean,
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: what is the purpose of life? If it's for happiness
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: and success and achieving great values, not just what comes easy,
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: but great values, then of course they need to develop
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: a personality and intellect. Looks have nothing to do with that.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: If you're asking, does some things come more easily to
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: good looking people? Yeah, probably be they come easy, So
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: how important? How great are they? Women who care about
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: looks or men who care about looks will gravitate. They
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: words good looking people, But are those the people you
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: most care about? That is, those the people you want
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: around you now gravitate towards you, But are they the
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: ones you want? Yeah? I mean, if you're a decent
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: human being or what's that live a happy, long life,
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: do you want to be surrounded by people who care
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: about looks? And yeah, maybe in a job interview, if
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  Speaker 1: you're about the same level of somebody else and you're
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: good looking and they're not, you might get the job.
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: Maybe there's a bias like that. Okay, but then can
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: you live up to that job? And then can you
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: advance and can you push yourself? At some point your
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: looks are not going to get you a very far.
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  Speaker 1: So No, I think some things come easier for them.
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: But often because they're easy, they're not that valuable. And
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: because they're easy, you have to question whether the kind
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: of thing like companionship is that it's the kind of
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: people you want.
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't understand that.
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, looks have they're important to some extent, right,
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: aesthetics has value, aesthetical appeal has value. Beauty has value,
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: but it's certainly not the only thing of value, and
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: it's not that high of a value when you're considering friendship, love,
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: you know, romance, long term relationships. It's just who cares. Right,
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: So the physical aspect might have some appeal to people,
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: But the people who has appeal to are those the
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: people you want to attract. Probably not.
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 2: Do you want that superficiality?
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: Probably not? So, of course they have to develop personality
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: and intellect because they value themselves.
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 2: You're not measured by how many people.
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: You know attract it to you, gravitate towards you.
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 2: You're measured by what you do with your life, and.
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: Now requires developing a personality an intellect, Liam said, General
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: Patten said, quote, if everyone is thinking alike, then somebody
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  Speaker 1: isn't thinking.
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's a great quote.
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: But if reality is what it is, honest, people should
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: be thinking alike consistent constantly.
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  Speaker 2: No, because I mean.
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: About simple things, about things that are self evident. But
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: thinking is not self evident. Thinking is complicated. What relevant?
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: What facts are relevant? You know? Yeah? Just so think
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: about even science? Right, So when Newton comes out with
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: his laws. It takes a long time to convince everybody's right.
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: It's not simple, it's not easy. You have to show
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: them experimentally, you have to show them in the math.
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: You have to look at it, figure it out. Ultimately
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: they all come to agree. But you know, there's certain
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: things that are perceptually evident that we can all immediate agree.
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: But anytime you have to, you have to really engage
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: in thinking context, context of knowledge, you know, and and
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: and and just the effort you put into it is
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: going to determine you know, and you're not going to
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: agree in the What pattern is referring to is somebody
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: looking at the new fact, somebody expanding the context, somebody
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: thinking beyond it. Mean we're talking about complex problems like
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: in war, somebody thinking about a possibility nobody else thought of.
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: Because there, you know, there's no end to the number
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: of variations of things that can happen, particularly if you're
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: trying to predict the future, which is what strategy is.
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: So there's always another angle, there's always more to do. Now,
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: maybe the new person who comes to the new thought
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: is proved to be wrong, and then he joins everybody else,
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: but life and reality and truth is not that simple.
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 2: It's not that simple.
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: I don't think Liam was talking about the majority. Wasn't
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: talking about voting. That's not the issue is if reality,
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: if truth is simple, why don't everybody just see it
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: and then it's true? So wouldn't you have consensus? It's
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: about building discovering something is true. It's hot not easy, James.
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: How many condos did you tour before settling on the
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: one you purchased? How did you know this one was
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: the right one? Oh? I mean different homes that I bought.
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: I've toured different numbers of ones. Sometimes it's the last
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: one your tour that you fall in love with. Sometimes
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: it's the first one. I have certain standards of what
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: I want, and I take them here in Puerto Rico.
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: When we were looking how many condos did we see
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: when we first rented in this building, I don't know,
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: four five, and you know, and we had two that
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: we wanted, and you know, and we made it off
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: on both and we landed up with this one, which
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: turned out be the better choice by far. And then
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: when we were going to buy, what we really wanted
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: was to buy the penthouse in the building we were rented.
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: We were renting in, so we knew exactly what we
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: wanted and it wasn't available, so we looked around. So
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: they're not that many good buildings in San Juan, so
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: we looked around four, five, six places, and we knew
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: which one we preferred those and there's also an issue
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: of what you can afford. And then luckily the penthouse
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: in the building we were renting became available and we
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: immediately bought it. So we placed a bid the date
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: became available.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know, I mean, how did you know
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 2: it was?
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: What the do right? One? Because it is consistent with
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: the things that you value. I mean we valued size
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: and relatively high ceilings and a great view and lots
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: of wind and light.
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 2: That's what we value. That's what we got. So we
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 2: have the you know, I think we have the best.
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 1: View in Puerto Rico, or at least in San Juan,
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: in the city, but I'm sure anyway, but it's it's
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: we having a magnificent place.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 2: So it was easy.
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: By the way, when we saw it, it was it
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: was it was crummy. I mean, the place was badly maintained,
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: It had walls in the wrong places, it had to be.
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: We had to do significant renovation to the to the
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: main living space to turn it into what we wanted,
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: because you know, we like flow, and we like open
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: spaces and we like the views. And it had a
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: kitchen that blocked the view and walls that blocked the
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: spaces for no good reason. So we moved everything around.
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: We moved the kitchen to a different place, in order
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: to create the condo we wanted. We knew the potential
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: that it had, and it is indeed gorgeous. Not you
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: have a jagorithm Part one. I was speaking to some
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: moderate conservative friends of mine and they were saying how
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 1: public housing projects should be moved out of certain neighborhoods.
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: I replied, public housing should be abolished altogether. It didn't compute,
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: as though my comment was so beyond the pale they
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: couldn't process it. Seriously, Yeah, I think that's right. So altruism,
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, what do you mean, what will those people do?
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 2: You know, where will they live? How would they live?
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: How can they survive without the state, you know, making
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: it possible for them. I mean, everybody holds that there
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: was there's a tiny minormity of people who actually believe
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: that a free market would generate better outcomes, and that
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: a free market is the right thing to do. And
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: in morality, the morality doesn't require your sacrifice of the
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: sake of those who in need, but that's.
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 2: What it requires.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: So they can't think. They can't think outside of that.
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: They can't think outside of altruism. Altruism dictates their whole
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: approach to public policy. It's why you can't cut the security, Medicaid,
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: you can't touch the office state, you can't touch public housing.
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: There's all these things that are third rail in politics.
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: They all are directly related to altruism directly. All right,
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: Christmas says, who thinks the show should take advantage of
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: that view? The problem with that is you can't really
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: appreciate the view through the camera. But also there'd be
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: a lot of light behind me. I would be shadowed,
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: right because the light is coming in through the windows.
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: So if the camera is facing the window and I'm
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: standing in front of the window, the lighting is all
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 1: messed up. The lighting would be all messed up. So
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: it wouldn't work well to have the view as the
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: background of the show. I mean, I would love to
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: have that. Plus the view is in the master bedroom
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: and in the living area the office. I have a
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: view here, particularly in sunset. It's pretty nice, but mostly
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: your buildings. And then in the distance you can see
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: old San Juan and the and so the Cruse ships
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  Speaker 1: and then and again the sunset is pretty coldious, but yep,
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  Speaker 1: all right. Nature Observer says when FABRI five was active,
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  Speaker 1: I asked it about vegetation on Baffin Island in the Arctic,
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  Speaker 1: but it refused to answer because the question had by
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  Speaker 1: biological content. That's pretty stupid. I got an answer from
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  Speaker 1: a lower level grass moss, et cetera. That's pretty funny.
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  Speaker 1: That really is pretty funny because you think that their
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  Speaker 1: ability to calibrate what constitutes a you know, bio potentially
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  Speaker 1: bioterrorist question would be more sophisticated than just anything biological.
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  Speaker 1: Don't answer unless there's something growing. I mean, this is suspicious.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe there's something growing on baff And Island. Maybe there's
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  Speaker 1: something growing on Baffin Island that is a biological weapon,
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  Speaker 1: just like that. Maybe the et cetera that you have
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  Speaker 1: listed the grass moss, et cetera, maybe some part of
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  Speaker 1: that et cetera which it won't list the lower version,
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  Speaker 1: and which Fable five would list, is in and of
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  Speaker 1: itself a biological weapon. Anyway, I'm kidding, but the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing is a little ridiculous. All right, guys, to thank Wes.
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  Speaker 1: There he is Wes for the fifty dollars sticker. Think
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  Speaker 1: you think you thank you. Wes has come through. We're
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  Speaker 1: still seventy five dollars short of where we need to be.
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  Speaker 1: If stickers one dollar, five dollars, two dollars, ten dollars,
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  Speaker 1: you know, whatever you can would be great. If we
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  Speaker 1: can just chip away. We've got a few more minutes
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  Speaker 1: of the show. We're already in the third hour, which
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  Speaker 1: would make the ask three hundred and seventy five dollars.
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  Speaker 1: But let's just if you could make it the second
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  Speaker 1: hour ask, that would be great. So the chip away
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  Speaker 1: at this Roman asked El Gazali seems to be the
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  Speaker 1: Islami amount of ocn No, not really, I mean because
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  Speaker 1: amount of a con was a philosopher who presented a
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  Speaker 1: new philosophy. He articulated an entire system of philosophy. The
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  Speaker 1: covers pretty everything, and he did it philosophically. El Gazali
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  Speaker 1: basically rejects philosophy in the name of religion, so it
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  Speaker 1: would be life. Thomas aquinas bet Thomas Aquina is coming
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  Speaker 1: to conclusion we should abandon all reason and embrace only
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  Speaker 1: religion and mysticism. That's kind of what Algazai does. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't build a philosophical system to undermine reason and to
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  Speaker 1: undermine right, you know, the Enlightenment.
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  Speaker 2: The Islamic Golden Age.
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  Speaker 1: He says, stop philosophy, stop dealing with phosphy, stop looking
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  Speaker 1: at the Greeks, stop looking at fawn coaches. Everything you
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  Speaker 1: need is in the Qur'an. Focus on, focus on faith
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  Speaker 1: and mysticism sees the poor man's Yeah, he cons but
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  Speaker 1: and look, a lot of bad things were happening during
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  Speaker 1: this period in the Islamic world, so you can't just
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  Speaker 1: blame Gozali for it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there was.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of political upheaval during this period, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different a lot of fragmentation, a lot of fighting
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  Speaker 1: between different elements. There was always in the Islamic world
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  Speaker 1: an element of uh called it extreme religiosity or religiosity
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  Speaker 1: that I wanted to uh you know, really, I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to crush these values that were coming in from Greece
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  Speaker 1: that was always an element within.
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  Speaker 2: Also, you know, it was being conquered by outside powers.
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  Speaker 1: The certain Turkish tribes came in even very early on,
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  Speaker 1: way before the Ottomans, and then the Mongols. The Mongols
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  Speaker 1: really did a did a piece of work on on
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  Speaker 1: Central Asia and all the way to Iok. So there
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  Speaker 1: were a lot of challenges to the Golden Age of Islam.
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  Speaker 1: August Ali was one of them. There was also a
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  Speaker 1: whole Sufi movement that rose up of Islamic mystics, which
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  Speaker 1: august Ali became a part of. So there were a
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  Speaker 1: lot of challenges. It's not you can't lay it at
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  Speaker 1: the at the feet of one just one man, although
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  Speaker 1: he was bad. Remo, what do you think the main
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  Speaker 1: reason behind the success of the Austrian school generally being
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  Speaker 1: very pro capitalist is the margin? Is it the marginal
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  Speaker 1: revolution or the role of the entrepreneur or deduction? So
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  Speaker 1: my question is what do you think the reason behind
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  Speaker 1: many Austrian economists being good in economics and generally being
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  Speaker 1: very po capulist. Well, I mean the reason for that
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  Speaker 1: is is Menga, I mean, the founder of the Austrian School.
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  Speaker 1: He founded the Austrian School and not all the Austrian economists.
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  Speaker 1: To Austrians, it's not it's not the geographic area, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's the founder. And then the people who leverage that
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  Speaker 1: founding the marginal evolution can lead in various directions.
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  Speaker 2: As he did.
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  Speaker 1: Mango was just one of the people discovering marginal kind
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  Speaker 1: of the module of an marginal idea in economics. There
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  Speaker 1: were others who then led to ultimately to the neo
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  Speaker 1: classical tradition in economics. But Mango was very good. He
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  Speaker 1: was Aristatilian. He was an Aristatilian thinker. He was focused
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  Speaker 1: on reality. He spoke a lot about methodology, uh and
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  Speaker 1: and and and how to how to think about economics.
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  Speaker 1: And I think he just had a good methodology. He
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  Speaker 1: had he had good ideas. He was an individualist and
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 1: an Aristatilian, and that set set the movement. And then
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 1: people who studied under him were influenced by his free
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  Speaker 1: market thinking and by his good methodology. And you had
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 1: economists like von Bowick who was a student of his,
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  Speaker 1: and then you got miss who was this genius who
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: was a student of Bobwik. So it's the people who
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  Speaker 1: applied these ideas that started with Manga two questions, and
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  Speaker 1: they were very connected to.
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  Speaker 2: Reality and they were free marketers.
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  Speaker 1: So what happened was, you know, the whole system of
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: Austin economics is built on the principles of free markets.
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: The marginal revolution can also be applied to was applied
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  Speaker 1: by other people to justify state intervention, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: as it was in part of the Neoclassical So it's
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: not the marginal revolution in and of itself, although it's
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  Speaker 1: really really important. It's the way Manga understood it, and
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 1: the way he understood the world around him, and then
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  Speaker 1: what he taught to students, and then what his students
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  Speaker 1: got out of it, and when what they taught their students.
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  Speaker 1: It's an intellectual movement. Thank you, Remo, and then Ribasa's
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  Speaker 1: value for value. Thank you with a little bit extra Bonnie,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for the sticker. Really appreciate it. More people
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  Speaker 1: should do.
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  Speaker 2: What Bonnie just did a dollar sticker. Any nine sense.
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  Speaker 1: If enough of you do that, we make the target easy.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Roman, Will Trump be in state sanctions against Russia?
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 2: Probably not.
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: You want to keep all prices low. And uh, he's
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: he's Putin's best bud. Why why would he sank in Russia?
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  Speaker 2: But we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, not you have a j algorithm on
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  Speaker 1: graveyards an irrational waste of land. In a irrational society,
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't everybody be cremated?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, some families like to go to a grave site.
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 1: It presents an opportunity to remember particular person, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a it's just a it's a it's a
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  Speaker 1: way to connect to their memory. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. If an irrational world there would be
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  Speaker 1: no graves and we would commemorate the ashes in a
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  Speaker 1: un on the on the windowsill. You know, maybe maybe
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  Speaker 1: that's enough. I think it really depends on It really
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  Speaker 1: depends on what people want, what people what we book
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  Speaker 1: care about, and to what extent is the memory of
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  Speaker 1: the person who died important to them and do they
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  Speaker 1: need a physical representation of it or not. Exit. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for the sticker, Harrison, thank you for the sticker.
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  Speaker 1: And Linda, thinking of the sticker, we're doing ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: one night, one nine and two dollars. That's great. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a bunch of stickers like that can make
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  Speaker 1: a huge difference. We don't have a lot of time.
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: We're almost done run it says, this is so depressing.
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 1: He's talking about Trump. Yes, very very depressing, But then
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 1: it's Trump, So what what else do you expect? Harrison
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  Speaker 1: Anthropic is also trying to decode or read the internal
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  Speaker 1: activity of lllms in real time. Look up Spouse auto
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  Speaker 1: and code and the Golden Gate neuron. Oh wait, I'll
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 1: look them up, but I'm not sure understand even what
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  Speaker 1: that is. There's a lot of interesting things going on
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 1: with AI. We'll be talking a lot more about it
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  Speaker 1: in the future. Tie time ore something like that. Thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on Haberman's New York Times Epstein file peace, I haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen that. I'll look for it if I have anything
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: interesting to say comment on it. Oh, this is about
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 1: the panic in the White House. You know, I didn't
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: read it, because God, what's the point. I mean, I
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 1: just be accused of more tds. But it doesn't surprise me.
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  Speaker 1: The funny thing is that they were panicking about the
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 1: release of the the Epstein files because of its implications
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  Speaker 1: on Trump, and indeed we have and got all the
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: files because Trump is mentioned in a lot of other
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 1: files and so on, and there was a lot of panic.
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: I don't think they needed a panic. The reality is
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: nobody really cares because Trump basically everybody knows he's a
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 1: sleezbag and nobody cares. So whatever Trump did, whatever's disclosed
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: in those files that Trump did, his loyal following doesn't care.
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  Speaker 1: And most Americans don't like him anymore anyway. He's not
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  Speaker 1: that popular, so I don't think it's had an impact.
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  Speaker 1: It's more of an inside the Beltway thing and more
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: of a yeah, the White House is a fade of
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  Speaker 1: bad press, but bad press doesn't affect Trump. The people
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  Speaker 1: who like him like him. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: They know how bad he is and they still like him.
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 2: Loan the center.
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  Speaker 1: First, the Council of Scholars approved the approved candles, and
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  Speaker 1: now bear more trizole or whatever its name is. What
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  Speaker 1: wonders will they allow us next?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know.
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's that pill that you're take and you live
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  Speaker 1: one hundred years longer. It's possible.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe that allows that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Moulten's Splendid just came in with a fifty
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  Speaker 1: dollars question. Thank you, Molten splendor really really appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: So now we are only seventy dollars away from our
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  Speaker 1: target seventy so another fifty dollars and a twenty dollars
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  Speaker 1: and we're done. But this is the last question, and
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 1: this somebody comes in. Well Splendor says, you have mentioned
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  Speaker 1: that some of the Austrian economics were anarchists. Most of
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  Speaker 1: the modern most of the modern Austrian economists are indeed anarchists.
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 1: I am starting a haz Lit book and wondering if
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  Speaker 1: I would run into these sentiments. If not Haslet, which
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  Speaker 1: ones fit this problem?
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  Speaker 2: No, Haslet.
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  Speaker 1: Haslet is not an anarchist. Has it is you know
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  Speaker 1: ends which book you're starting. But economically one lesson is excellent.
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  Speaker 1: How's that is unfortunately very conventional when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: morality and anything philosophical. Even though he knew iron Ran
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  Speaker 1: and Red iron RAN's works, it never had an impact
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  Speaker 1: on him, which is which is uh uh too bad.
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  Speaker 1: But the reality is that the early Austrians were not anarchists.
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  Speaker 1: Mesus was not an anarchist, Hasla was not. It's really
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 1: the post rothbod so Marii, Rothbard, Hope and pretty much
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  Speaker 1: all of the almost all of the economists that call
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 1: themselves Austrian today in academia anarchists. Some of them make
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 1: a big deal out of their anarchy. Somebody only make
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: some of the money, make a little deal out of
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: their anarchy.
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  Speaker 2: But all of them anarchists.
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  Speaker 1: All of them believe that anarchy is the ideal state
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  Speaker 1: and it's what we should what we should ultimately strive for.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, all the names, they don't they're not popping
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  Speaker 1: into my mind. But if you have questions about anybody specific,
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  Speaker 1: let me know. But pretty much you can count on
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: pretty much any libertarian who post rothbod that is modern
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: libertarian today who is an economist, you can count on
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: them being a anarchist, or anybody calls themselves sorry, anybody
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  Speaker 1: who calls himself an Austrian economist is likely to be
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 1: a anarchist.
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  Speaker 2: And most libertarians.
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  Speaker 1: All right, um, but yeah, if you have specific questions,
• 2:12:56
  Speaker 1: feel free to ask them. All right, everybody, Thank you
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  Speaker 1: all the super chatters.
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  Speaker 2: I will see you guys tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow show is typically later, so probably four pm, maybe five,
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 1: we'll see, but there will be a show tomorrow, just
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 1: will be later than usual.
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 2: Because I teach and let's see what else?
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 1: What else do we have?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no other announcements. I will see you all tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: By everybody,