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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The fundamental principles I've readom rational, self interest, and individual wise.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is the ran Brook Show. Oh right, everybody, welcome
to your own book show on this Thursday, September eighteen.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
I hope everybody is.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Having a great week. It's almost Friday, all right. Yeah,
we will probably have a show tomorrow, No show on Saturday,
and then I'm hoping Sunday and Monday. We'll see, but
that is my hope that we do two shows on
Sunday and Monday.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
All right, let's jump in. Big news.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
I think today dominated the news was the fact that
ABC had fired Jimmy Kimmel.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
No word about what they're going to replace his show with.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Jimmy Kimmel, the comedians slash late night show Hosts.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Was fired today.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
His ratings have been declining significantly for years now. Avs
have the ratings of all late night hosts show hosts
with the exception of I guess Greg Grumfeld on Fox News,
but pretty much everybody else's ratings have been neclided.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
But the cause of this firving, specifically was.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
A monologue kime Out gave in which he suggested that
the murderer of Charlie Cook might have been somebody from MAGA,
somebody from MAGA, and the sequence of events is, you know,
pretty straightforward. You know, came On makes the comment on

(01:58):
Monday Night. Right, the FCC, you know, the head of
the FCC, what is his name, Brandon Carr.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Says, we can.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Do this the easy way or the hard way. These
companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions
on Kimo or there's going to be additional work for
the FCC ahead. Then, Coss says, you know, broadcasters, including
ABC have a license granted by us at the FCC,

(02:39):
and that comes with an obligation to operate in the
quote public interest.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
At some point, Carloso attacks.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
In the same interview, he attacks Kim as talentless, suggest
late night comedians comments displayed quote some sort of desperate, irrelevant,
irre irrelevance anyway. So, given the threat from the FCC
that licenses granted could be taken away, local broadcasters, UH

(03:17):
decided to go with with the FCC and now with
Kimo right the number one local broadcaster. The largest network
of local broadcasters is next Star, Next Stop, Go Go
figure Out. I neverhood of the media, Next Star Next

(03:39):
Star Today has UH has the largest network of television
television stations. Uh and and this is how you know
television works. This is how the FCC is set it up.
We'll get you there in a minute. And right now,
the FCC has rules that cap TV conglomerates from owning stations.

(04:01):
They can't reach more than thirty nine percent of TV households,
so they can't grow bigger than that. Right. So, but
it turns out next Star is trying to acquire rival Tenga. Now,
this merger would blast this rule, right, it would take it.
It would take it to significantly over thirty nine percent

(04:22):
of all households and make Nixstar the dominant player by
far in the industry. But in order to do this,
it needs FCC to approve, and it needs FCC in
a sense to change the rules to allow it to
buy Tegna. Right, these caps thirty nine percent, I mean

(04:43):
around I think for decades, and they would have to
be lifted in order for this acquisitions to go. So
Nickstar has to play nice with the FCC. It needs
FCC to do it a big favor. Star Cornias and Works,
Start Cornyas and Works in all administer, We're just seeing
it a play out kind of in more explicit ways

(05:07):
with with the Trump administration. You know, the FCC would
have to loosen its limits on broadcast station ownerships. So
you know, Nickstar has to be nice to the FCC.
So when the FCC kind of you know, suggests, when

(05:27):
the head of the FCC suggests that some action needs
to be taken to take Kimmel off the off the air,
and then maybe affiliates could take that action and that
you know, the license granted and remember the public interest,

(05:51):
then somebody like Knickstar is going to do what is
going to not do what the FCC chairman just ask
them to do politely nicely. They need the FCC, they
need to be in a good side. So next Stop pulled.
Right after next Star, you get Sinclair, a pulling Sinclair

(06:12):
of course pulled Chimo. Sinclair, of course is owned and
run by conservative owners.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
And again they.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Got the master Shuman Trumpet administration. We don't want Kimmel
on the air. ABC had no choice at this point,
they had two of their largest distributors pulling. It would
have been it would absurd for Disney to keep it
keep the show on air with it going to less
than fifty percent.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Of households around the country.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
So I guess Sinclair operates ABC stations at thirty markets,
a next stop in many more markets, and yeah, you
know that combination. And of course Benicarr goes on Twitter,
Bendinkarr is the to the FCC. It's a comment official.

(07:02):
He goes on Twitter says, thank you to Sinclair for
taking quick action that you consider responsive to the needs
and values of the local community use of I mean,
if this isn't government censorship, if this isn't government censorship,
I do not know what it is. I do not
know what government censorship looks like. Except arresting people putting

(07:22):
them in jail. We don't We're not doing that yet.
We're just threatening them with not improving their mergers. We're
threatening them with taking their licenses, they can't broadcast anymore.
But we're we're not literally going and putting them in jail.
It's like, we don't put people in jail. People pay taxes.
We just threaten them that if they don't pay taxes,

(07:43):
will put them in jail. That's causion. If this isn't
causion to get the kind of speech and kind of
corporate action you want, then I don't know what causion
looks like. And if you think, oh, it's a private company,
they can do what they want. Absolutely, but when the
government is threatening them, I mean, imagine this was the
Biden administration. What would you think, what would you feel?

(08:05):
What would you suggest? Would you say this is censorship?
You would, and you know it. So the fact that
you're not, you know, suggests maybe some zombie syndrome maybe,
I mean, I mean, the sequence is pretty clear. FCC

(08:29):
Chess says, we can do this is the easy way
of the hard way. Trump says ABC should be fined
to lose this license for their unfair coverage. Trump accuses
ABC of hate speech, suggesting that the bottom of Justice
will investigate ABC executives super scared of retaliation, Nick Star,

(08:54):
which needs merge your approval polls, right, Kima, ABC of
course is going to cancel the whole thing. That is
how government censors. That's how government takes control of the media.
That's how government gets everybody to play by its rules,

(09:16):
by its standards. And this is exactly what Iran warned
us against in the Capitalism Now an Ideal. There is
an essay by Ironman the property status of the airwaves,
and she argued that the fact that the government gives licenses,

(09:40):
the fact that that's how it's structured, is being structured
like this since the nineteen thirties, the fact that it's
that this is why it's structured, and that the TV stations,
the radio stations that license these airwaves are beholden to
the public interest, public interests. I mean, who's going to

(10:02):
define what public interest is? When is that going to
be defined? How is that going to be defined? That
basically places the government in a position to put pressure
on these stations to do its bidding, and therefore, by
very nature, it is antagonistic to free speech and it

(10:23):
opens itself up to government censorship and government control over
the airwaves. Which he suggested at the time was that
the airwaves be privatized, that companies own the airwaves and
as private property over a bandwidth, they can do with
it as they win. They can broadcast whatever they want,

(10:45):
and they should be able to sell that bandwidth and
be able to again broadcast anything they want.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
I mean, you wouldn't believe the amount of.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Regulations that they see imposers of TV and radio stations,
all in the name of, of course, the public interest,
but also because they are the ones leasing. These companies
do not own the airwaves, and therefore the government has

(11:15):
control over these airwaves. And you see how Trump is
using this constantly. He wants the ABC and NBC. He
wants them too. You don't play ball, or they're going
to lose the license. And he keeps threatening, he keeps
threatening the license issue, and they're paying attention. I think

(11:36):
as a consequence of this, CBS has now been bought
by Larry Ellison's son, so by a Trump a Trump supporter,
and CBS is likely to turn into kind of a
right leaning news organization. I wouldn't be surprised that ABC

(11:59):
and NBC figure out, Disney figures out it's easier to
sell ABC to some right wing thing than to actually
hold on to it. And yeah, we'll get to this
in a minute. By the way, I Man wrote quite
a bit about the FCC, you know, and really attacked it.

(12:23):
She thought the existence of the FCC, the existence of
government licensing of the airwaves, was a grave violation and
opened up the possibility really, really, really harmful actions by
the government towards these private companies. And that's exactly what
you are seeing right now. What you're seeing right now.

(12:47):
And by the way, Brendan Carr, who is the head
of the FCC as in the past, said some pretty
good things about free speech. That's why this is particularly disappointing,
but completely consistent with the kind of government that Trump
is trying to run. Beninkov, for example, in February fourteenth,

(13:12):
twenty nineteen, so six years ago, wrote, should the government's
census speech it doesn't like? Of course not. The FCC
does not have a woving mandate to police speech in
the name of the public interest. All right, that's good.

(13:33):
This has been the car yesterday. I want to thank
Nickstar for doing the right thing. Local broadcasters have an
obligation to serve the public interest. Well, this may be
an unpleasant, unprecedented decision. It is important for broadcasters to
push back on Disney programming that they determine for short

(13:58):
of community value. I hope that other broadcasters follow Nixstar's lead. God,
that is a scary statement. It is important for broadcasters
to push back. This is a government official with regulatory power,
a gun in his hand, pointed at them, saying it's

(14:20):
important for you people. I've got a gun pointed at
to push back. On Disney programming. Busney owns ABC that
you determine for short of community values.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
This is how it happens. This is how.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Government chips away, chips away, and chips away at the
free media. This is how Putin ultimately took control of
all the media and Russia. There is no alternative media
in Russia. This is a aubon slowly chipped away. First

(15:01):
they had his crony's, his friends buy up whatever media
assets they could.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Then he just.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Harassed whatever remaining media there was into oblivion. And today
media in Hungary is all supportive of Voban.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
There's no opposition media.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
So you know, you now have Trump basically taking over
TikTok and handing it to his allies.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
And you know, would he be surprised it's.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Suddenly TikTok changed and became pretty pro Trump. Would that chuck? Anybody?
Would that surprise anybody? Megan now has basically Twitter, right,

(15:56):
it has looks like it's going to have TikTok, and
and Zuckerberg has continuously moved to appease Trump more and
more and has shifted a lot of his assets, a
lot of the social media that he controls, to be
more friendly at least uh to to Trump. And of

(16:21):
course the press is just folding given the Trump pressure.
You know, as we said, CBS recently acquired by David Allison,
and you know, CBS News is shifting to the right.

(16:42):
Supposedly he is going to buy Barry Weiss's conservative well
not conservative free press media Barry Weiss's and and of
course promote her to a major position at CBS News.
We'll see if all that happens, but that looks like it.
And then of course David Allison is trying to acquire
Warner Brothers Discovery, which were.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Then giving him control of CNN.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
So you could see in the not so distant future
you could see basically labby Ellison, through his son David Ellison,
controlling not only CBS News but also CNN and shifting
all of those assets to the right.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
This is how it works, This is how they take over.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Right. And I don't know if there's anything anybody at
this point could do it, but right, you know. And
and there's a question of why companies cave to Trump,

(17:54):
and I think they gave to Trump because he's a
real threat. Because in a mixed enemy in the world
in which we live. A business relies on government heavily.
It relies on government for contracts, like you know, like
most of the tech industry relies on government contracts. They
will allowing government to approve mergency and acquisitions. Next all

(18:17):
is a good example of that. They worry about government
going after them for anti trust. Again, a lot of
the tech businesses, they will allowing government to give them,
you know, to either penalize them through tariffs or give
them loophole's exemptions from tariffs. So government is heavily, heavily

(18:44):
involved in every aspect of these businesses. And as a consequence,
CEOs tend to behave, tend to behave they're afraid. We'll
get to that in a minute. I want to give
you two examples of how just free speech is under

(19:09):
attack right now, and an attack from those who just
a few months ago were claiming to be its biggest defenders.
That is under attack from the right. Here is Congressman.
This is Congressman Clay Higgens, who is a Republican, unsuppicing
and and he is writing. He sent this open letter

(19:32):
Mark zuckerbook Elon Musk Neil Mohan, who's the CEO of YouTube.
He wrote this the CEO of TikTok, chief executive officer
of What Blue Sky, and chief executive officer.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
Of Trump Media.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Funny.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
Anyway, this is what he wrote.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
You tell me if this is the government you want,
Thank you the service you provide to our republic, and
may God be with you and your family. America is
suffering under the dark weight of horror after the graphic
televised murder of heroic Christian leader mister Charlie Cook. I
ask that you reflect upon your own unique responsibility to

(20:15):
participate in the very appropriate, legal and constitutional sound response.
What's a legal and constantation sound response to the murder
of somebody? What is that? Not to threaten? But I
don't know what that means? But he tells us. Please

(20:37):
be advised that your platforms are rightfully expected to expeditiously
remove all posts that have celebrated the political assassination of
Charlie Cook. Further, the authors of these posts are to
be identified and banned from your platform, as well as
any new pages that they may create. Now, I don't

(21:02):
know is anstoll on here? But isn't On't these companies
private companies? And yet this is Congressman writing them telling
them exactly what they must do. Must do. Gleeful celebration
of the heenous murder of an American citizen brazenly published
within the public forms of social media is not to
be tolerated within the accepted and legal parameters of a

(21:26):
few humane society, and I have initiated a congressional effort
to force force accountability. If you shield these offenders, Section
two thirty will not protect your platform some vigorous exposure.

(21:47):
I hold the gravel for the Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee
of the House Oversight and Government of Reform Committee, and
my chair has specific congressional authority over regulatory of a
federal regulatory law enforcement. My committee will be a leading
force in the righteous righteous endeavor to protect the legitimate,

(22:08):
free exchange of ideas and opinions, which requires the vigilant
maintenance of appropriate behaviors within our publicly accessed social media forums.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
UM, some of you are noticing sound issues.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Some of you are not. So I don't know what
to make of it. Maybe I'm being too loud. Let
me maybe I'm clipping by being too loud. Right, the
reason or iss frictions of public statements that lie far
beyond the standards of our own society is not an
oppression of free speech, Yes it is. It is rather
the protection of free speech. Wow.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
If that's not joju or well speak, I don't know
what is.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Having the will to guard the standards and integrity of
the infrastructure that enables to express of opinion in our
public discourse is a crucial responsibility that we must embrace.
I'm hopeful to receive your full cooperation and expect form
of response to this letter of encouragement within one business week.
This is the censorship, guys. This is as bad, if

(23:16):
not worse, than what the Biden administration did. And it
is a precedent that is just terrific. Whoops.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
Second, um, he doesn't have grit.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
This isn't by a government official. Isn't good by a
government official.

Speaker 5 (23:58):
Let's see what's the mistake?

Speaker 2 (24:11):
One said, The sound is once again doubling. Either two microphones, No,
there's only one mic active, or two audio channels slightly
out of sync. No, only one? Oh, you are right,

(24:34):
you are right? God, how did that happen? There were
two audio channels open? Robert is really good at this. Robert,
can you be my sound engineer? Can you do you
want to produce this show. Two mics not well, one mic,

(24:55):
one mic, two audio.

Speaker 6 (24:57):
Channels on on uh, two audio channels on obs.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
All right, is that better? I ain't, God, it shouldn't.
I have to delete this second the second mic this, Uh,
I know, I know where to delete it. Let's see.
Let me delete it now while I remember, yeah, now

(25:34):
it's deleted, so it can't. I don't know. I reset
these and somehow it it.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Came back on.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Anyway, It's gone now sound as much better now, yep,
that was the issue. Thank you, Thank you guys. As
I said, anybody want to be my sound producer? Uh,
and my my other producer and everybody everything else? All right,
here goes, let's see. Yes, here's another one. This is

(26:10):
from Lava Luma. Now, Lava Luma is a nobody, but
she's a nobody with the ear and the huge influence
on Donald Trump, huge well documented. This is what she
had to write just a few days ago after Charlie
Cook's assassination. I was thinking about this over the last

(26:34):
few nights while I couldn't sleep. I have to say,
I do want President Trump to be the dictator in
quotation marks, The left thinks he is, and I want
the right to be as devoted to locking up and silencing,
silencing a violent political enemies as they pretend we are.

(26:57):
I've had enough of the left only thinking we will
defund them, prosecute them, lock them up, and dismantle their
power for generations to come. It just needs to happen,
you see, right now, the biggest threat to freedom is

(27:19):
not some secret network of reddits leftists who are plotting
to assassinate right wing talk show people, although there might
be more violence in that sense, I don't know they
might be. I was voting Laura Luma. The real the

(27:42):
real danger, as I said the other day, is from
this government. It's from this government. This government is a
danger to our limity, a danger to our freedoms. It's
a danger need dissenting voice out there. It's a danger

(28:03):
to anybody critical of Donald Trump. It is a danger
to anybody who's trying to be objective, or somebody who's
not but who's on the other side who disagrees. The

(28:30):
danger is the Trumpet administration. That is the real thing
that is causing people to be silent, to not voice
their opinions, to be scared in if you're you know,
bound skinned in some parts of the country. It's what

(28:51):
causes you not to leave home, maybe not to go
to work today. You don't know if you're going to
be wounded up. So this is a government that doesn't
have any problem. Donald Trump says it all the time.
In my view, in all impeachable offenses, I don't like

(29:14):
what your network says, maybe I'll have the justice upon
me investigate you. I don't like what your network says.
I'll talk to the FCC chair about taking your license.
Those utterances are censorship. Those utterances impeachable offenses. Those utterances
should mean you cannot be president of the United States.

(29:37):
They go against everything this country stands for in our constitution. So,
I mean, it's scary. It really is scary times. Not
because I mean, to some extent because of the nihilists
self they're killing people, but because much more than that,

(29:58):
because I feel there was response, and it's nihilis of
the left, the nihilis of the right. Although the focus
right now is Primarion nihilis of the left. Yeah, they
can do a lot of damage, they can be quite destructive,
but what can really do damage, what can really destroy
the fabric of this country? Is how the government responds

(30:23):
to all that. If free speech is taken away and
it you know, it's under attack right now, and it
is taken away, it was taken away from ABC. That
is more damage than any nihilist can do.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
All right, So.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
I think you should all worry about where this government
is going.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
And I hate to say it, but.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
I told you so that Trump was this bad. So
we've seen over weeks and of a long time. You know,
US CEO's groveling before Trump. We see them, We saw
that dinner with all their biggest, biggest names in tech
in the world, in the US at least, sitting around

(31:23):
the table all playing let's pretend he's the North Korean
dictator and praising Trump and will invest this, we'll invest that,
And CEOs seem to just beholding with it, and they
all seem to just be accepting of Trump and be

(31:47):
supportive of him generally. That's the position, that's the vootbage,
that's the way they have.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
To express themselves.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
Well, there was a recently a confidence a meeting at
the Yale School of Management which had dozens of American
business leaders who were at At this conference, there's a
closed door conference the coup of CEOs are a lot darker,
a lot more negative than they have been in public.

(32:16):
They were very critical and very concerned about tariffs, about
immigration policy, and about foreign policy, and just the chaotic
how to navigate business environment that this administration is creating.
You know, they feel like they're being extorted, bullied, both

(32:38):
individually and as industries and in private, they're really pissed off.
They are so worried about the fact that the government
is directly intervening in markets and ways that it never
has before in America or rarely has before for in America.

(33:01):
Whether it's the fact that a government is now getting
a cut of Nvidia sales of chips, a cut the government, Well,
how the competitor is going to compete, Well, eighty am
is also paying a cut to the government. I mean

(33:22):
this is beyond coporate taxes, which is the original cut.
You're steel as a golden share by the government. The
government supposedly is taking a ten percent steak in Intel.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
We'll get to Intel in a little bit. I mean, it's.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
It's scary. If you're a CEO today, how do you
navigate this? Well, I mean, you do what CEOs are doing.
They kiss the ring, they write big checks. They try
to smooth out their relationship as best they can't. This
is how authoritarian governments work. It's who you know, not

(34:05):
what you do. This isn't capitalism in you all. This
is conyism, poblic salon. So maybe this is the beginning
of a new era, the era of cony, of out
of control conyism. Again, this is like oligogs in Russia.
How do you become an oligarch? Not by making money,
but by you know, cutting a deal with Putin, by

(34:28):
cutting a deal with the government. I mean, these CEOs
will not say anything in public because they're afraid, they're
faid that companies will be targeted by the administration or
that they as individuals will be singled out by Trump

(34:48):
for criticism. But in a series of polls held at
this conference, for example, asked they expressed their frustrations. Asked
if tariffs had been helpful or hoodful to their businesses,
seventy one percent said.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
That their levees were harmful.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
If they thought that the the tariffs were illegal, seventy
five percent said they thought they were illegal and that
you know, we'll see what the sum quote things soon.
When asked if they plan to invest more in the
US itch its of manufacturing and infrastructure, only sixty two percent,

(35:31):
or put it this way, sixty two percent said they didn't.
They did not plan to invest more in the United States,
and that's because Taos, immigration and the economy. They just
don't feel comfortable right now to make investments. And you know,

(36:01):
this is this is this is the state in which
we are in. Seventy one percent respond to defend independence
was has been eroded by Trump's action. Eighty percent said
that Trump wasn't acting in the best long term interest
in America by going after Jeremy Powell. So across the

(36:23):
board America, it seems like America's business leaders in private
super critical of the Trump administration's handling. Right. You know,
here's here's another story in the Wall Street Journal with
the headlines Banks race to prove they're not biased against conservatives.

(36:51):
Banks biased against conservatives, I mean banks did. They were
biased against crypto There's no question about that. They were
biased against private schools, they are biased against payday loans,
they are buased against gun manufacturers, but biased against conservatives. Really,
but now they have to prove a negative. They have
to prove they would, because that's what Trump is demanding.

(37:16):
So now they're going to go out of their way
to make loans to conservative causes that they wouldn't otherwise
make in order to prove. Look, we're not we're not biased. Now, look,
the left does the same thing. But at least the
left has the honesty not to claim that the pro

(37:37):
capitalism or pro markets. The left doesn't attract people from
my chat to vote for it because of the economic policies.
The Left is blatantly anti capitalists, anti corporations, anti business,

(37:59):
anti banking. That so we expect them to go after
companies for ESG and DEI, and we expect them to
go after, you know, to prevent them from banking. I
don't know the industries they don't like, like payday lending.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
And so on.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
These are Republicans, These are people many of you voted for,
many of you will vote for. I just want to
make it clear to you that you're voting for, you know,
economic fascists like the Democrats, and that the difference between
the two parties is negligible if it exists at all

(38:37):
when it comes to some of the most important issues
of the day. Did Biden violate free speech by going
after Twitter and Facebook with God of COVID. Absolutely he did.
And all I'm showing is Trump is no better, He's worse, worse,
and Trump the differences that Trump does it in broad daylight.

(39:00):
Biden hit it, he did in his secret. It's really tragedy.
This haspreme quote didn't rule on that question. Trump doesn't
need secrets. He violates Constitution out in the open. He constantly,
constantly attacks free speech, the principle of free speech in

(39:23):
this country, constantly advocates for censorship in this country, and
nobody cares. Nobody cares because he's not a leftist. And
all people care about is it's not the left. We
don't like the left. We just don't want the left.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
So, you know, these Republicans, these Republicans h.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
You know, and says if the difference is negative, well
then it's not so bad to vote for GP. True,
I don't think it is that bad. I haven't, I haven't.
You know, I don't go after people who voted for
for Trump. You know what I go after, Anne, And
why I go after you is because you won't admit
that fact. You'll only say it now, you know, to

(40:23):
kind of again, get me, but you won't admit it.
If people said, you know, I voted a Republican, but
it's turned out they're just like the Democrats. They're just
as bad. And maybe they you know, miss smidging different,
but basically they're just as bad. They're bad in different ways,
but they're bad, and the Left is bad, and shit,
you know, who am I going to vote for?

Speaker 3 (40:43):
There's nobody to vote for.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
If you said that, yeah, that would that would be great,
but that's not what people do. All the people I
know who voted Republican constantly defend their vote, constantly defend
the fact that of Republicans are so much better than
the Democrats, constantly defend Donald Trump, constantly defend their policies,

(41:04):
and and you're a good example of that. So yeah,
if people and people acknowledge this, they're very similar in
some ways. Trump is worse in some ways, Biden was worse,
but they're very very similar. And any economic issues, they're
all economic fascists, and Trump is much worse than any

(41:26):
previous any previous present in terms of these economic issues,
starting with tariffs and going on with other stuff. If
people admitted to that and said, yeah, but in spite
of that, because of the I and because of of Woken,
because of all that, I'm still going to vote Probably,
I said, Okay, I think that's wrong, but fine, at

(41:47):
least you get it. But you don't get it. They
don't get it anyway. Bankers are afraid of Trump. And
now you know, this is an interesting, interesting story. So
today in Vidia, in Vidia right now the largest public

(42:08):
company in the world, or at least in the United States.
I'm not sure if in the world, basically announced that
they are going to invest five billion dollars in Intel
five billion dollars. There's a consequence. Intel shares jumped up
by twenty five percent. Now, notice in Vidia, a company
that is committed to being fifteen percent of all its

(42:29):
ship sales to China or some weird agreement with the
Trumpet administration in exchange for a license to be able
to sell those shifts to China, even though it's supposed
to be a national security risk to sell the chips
to China. Go figure. In Vidia heavily involved with the
Trump administration, constantly trying to get all kinds of licenses

(42:52):
to export its hips from the Trumpet administration, is not
investing five billion dollars in Intel, which the government has
announced that it intends to own ten percent of. And
now you're starting to get you know, is the government
really running this? Is this is this all really being

(43:12):
managed by the government. Is this part of industrial policy?
So what we get is in Nvidia, which is, you know,
the most successful company of the last decade or so,
which has become you know, this mega company because of

(43:34):
the AI boom, and they're investing in Intel, which has
fallen behind rivals. I don't know, does this create an
anti trust issue? Don't worry, nobody's going to bring that up.
No Justicevan is going to go after this deal. This
is a deal obviously already pre stamped of approval by

(43:55):
the Trump administration. The deal, the partnership is gonna center
making CPUs central processing units. So these are the this
is what's in your laptops and smartphones. This is what
Intel is known for. Uh in video is you know,

(44:19):
this is not going to create a competitive in video.
So this is not going to get Intel into the
business of making GPUs, which is what in video makes
the graphic processing units that he used for AI. And
so it's gonna be interesting, it's gonna be a a

(44:44):
you know, a some kind of a deal in which
in video will play a bigger role in helping Intel design.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
And produce.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
These chips, right, you know, it's it's gonna be interesting
to see how this evolves.

Speaker 6 (45:10):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
You know, in video in the past is used basically
ARC ARM sorry ARM architecture for its GPUs or ARC
for its use. Uh. It'll be interesting to see how
this merger now of Intel, not merger, but massive investment

(45:32):
of video into Intel reshapes the chip industry in the
United States. And my fear is that this means that
the government is heavily involved and the government will continue
to be heavily involved in all of this. Okay, you
guys getting choppy choppy video. This location has been pretty

(45:58):
good so far.

Speaker 4 (46:03):
Mh.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
I'm just doing a quick test on the on the
speed here. Yeah, it looks good on this end. And
yet in Michigan there's no choppingess. Weird how some of

(46:30):
you get problems another of you don't. So, you know,
choppiness comes and goes. Upload speed is is very high.
It's it's consistency. I don't know how to tell exactly
why this thing has happened. Nice, Uh, all right, something
better than Hotel Wi Fi and ab and b a

(46:53):
Wi Fi.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
All right, anyway, Uh, this.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
Will be interesting. Intel needs the capital. It's gotten five
million billion from Nvidia. It got two billion from soft Bank,
the Japanese investor. It's getting its debt white clean with
the federal government, so that for in exchange for a
ten percent steak, it now has the capital to do something.

(47:24):
Intel's foundry business is what really struggles. Uh. And while
in Nvidia and UH the Intel will will help will
design chips together, the real challenge is going to be
the the foundry business, which is way behind T s

(47:44):
MC in Taiwan and even Samsung in Korea. So yeah,
further to watch. Intel is an interesting story. It's a
it's a great American was a great American story. It
really mirrors kind of what's going on in America in
terms of cronyism. And I think this is another little

(48:07):
step that has to do with it. All right, Uh,
let's let's turn to Donald Trump's visit to England. Have
you been watching some of the pictures. I mean, God,
if there's anything Donald Trump enjoys, it's pump and circumstance.

(48:29):
I mean, he loves these big ceremonies, marches, state banquets.
He got a flying by, He even got skydivers jumping
out of an aircraft who unfold the American flag. He
loved it, loved it, you know it was he said,

(48:54):
this is one of the best things ever that you know.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
He loved us.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
And they played they've cargo graphed us exactly to what
he likes. And you know, we got a King, Charles
king this we're built against the king. But he just,
you know, thought this was the coolest thing, right Trump

(49:24):
you know got to watch, you know, and meet King Charles.
Outside of Winsow Castle. They got to see a military band.
They played YMCA. Doesn't get any better than that. In
the state dinner, he got to sit in the next
up Princess Catherine at a white tight dinner, and then
he gave a gushing speech in which he called him
in one of the greatest honors of his life. I

(49:45):
believe it. I think he really thinks that he loves parades,
and he thought the parade in front of Windsor Castle
was just unforgettable, unbelievable. And they know it, the Brits
know it. They played this to a t and even
though his policies and those policies of Starmer, the British

(50:06):
Prime Minister, are very much not aligned. They were just
best friends throughout this whole time because Trump wanted this
to be about the King and him, the King and I, right,
so you know it was. They did a joint press confidence,
but they didn't dwell in the disagreements. Compared this to

(50:28):
any other press conference, particularly the one with Zelenski. You know,
Trump is just going making such an effort to be
agreeable with Starma, to be nice to Starma, to be
friendly with Starma. He wants the bits, He loves the bits.
This is a great, great partnership. Now on actual issues,

(50:53):
he installment made almost no progress. No progress in Ukraine,
you know, no in terms of disagreements between Europe and
Salma and the United States.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
You know, no progress on Israel.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
It does seem like the UK will recognize a Palestinian
state next week after Trump is gone. You know, no
progress on tariffs, the Brits wanted even lower tariffs, a
bunch of US investments in England. Usually it's the other
way around in Britain on the Tech Fund, no discussion

(51:30):
of the free speech issue that JD. Van's has been
going around talking a lot about and accusing the British
government of violating in the free speech of Britz No, no,
no discussions of that. All charming and friendly and wonderful
because they gave him a parade, and they had skydivers,
and they did WIFCA, and they they sucked up to

(51:53):
him the way you're supposed to suck up the Trump
if you want anything. It worked. It absolutely worked. I mean, yeah, anyway,
I mean, I know you guys, you guys think I
just have an info him. But he's such a joke.
He's such a pathetic joke president of the United States.

(52:16):
But nevertheless a joke. I you know, think you people
who probably think he is a joke. The Saudis. Saudis
just took a step that is, you know, pretty radical
for them. Earlier this week, Saudi Araba signed a you know,

(52:41):
joint military what do you call it, alliance with Pakistan.
An alliance that says that if one country is attacked,
the other country will come to its defense. Now, you know,

(53:02):
any attack on either country as an attack on both. Now,
this is pretty extraordinary. Saudi Arabia has relying on the
United States for defense since World War Two. This has
been formalized in a variety of different ways. And you know,

(53:22):
the year was oil versus US defending you the nineteen
ninety one a war in the Gulf was a consequence
of that. It was the wars to defend the Saudi
war family from Saddam Hussein. That was the first Gulf War.
Now they have turned to Pakistan. Now what's interesting about Pakistan.

(53:44):
If it's just Pakistan, it wouldn't matter. But what's interesting
about Pakistan is that Pakistan has nuclear weapons. It is
the only Muslim country to have nuclear weapons. Pakistan has
ballistic missiles that can deliver those nuclear weapons pretty far.
So we now have officially have a Pakistan Saudi nuclear block,

(54:10):
if you will. Pakistan also explicitly rejects the no first
use doctrine, so they have said that they're willing to
use nuclear weapons to preempt or to launch an attack
on another country. Now, Pakistan also gets eighty one percent

(54:41):
of its weapons from China the rest of the US,
which is interesting. Why the US provides Pakistan with weapons
whole other issue. So now you've got a China Pakistan
Saudi Arabia kind of almost alliance. Saudi Arabia just aligned
itself with the Chinese million to industrial complex. And the

(55:05):
announcement of this a day after Israel striking Qatar is
probably again basically Saudi Arabia Tellingian Americans we think your
protection is worthless, we need to go independence. It's a
huge slap in the face of Donald Trump. Now, this

(55:29):
is scary. This means the US has less influence in
the Gulf. It means the pakistanis of all people, have
more influence. It means there's a nuclear power, a nuclear country,
not a power. A country now has stakes in the
Middle East. Pakistan a Muslim nuclear country. It's hard to

(55:53):
see how Saudi Arabia normalizes with Israel under these circumstances.
Pakistan does not recognize the existence of Israel. It puts
India in a weird situation, right, It's our rival just
signed with Saudi Arabia. What does India think about this?

Speaker 3 (56:13):
Are they at war in a sense with Saudi Arabia.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
A lot of implications of this that will see how
it all plays out. Right now, I will add that
Trump has been very cozy with the Pakistanis to India's chagrin.
I just think there is there's a lot of incompetence,
you know, from policy and competence going on with this

(56:43):
Trump administration and its alienation of India is reflective of that.
Allowing this kind of to happen under your nose is
a reflection of that. This is not good for the US,
not good for Israel, not good for the Middle East
more broadly. All right, talking about Israel, a number of

(57:05):
things interesting going on right now. Well, first, the operation
to take over Gaza, Gaza City is ongoing, and you know,
not a lot of details because it's an ongoing operation,
so we don't know exactly what's happening. We do know
that today there were casualties on two fronts in Israel.

(57:27):
One was on their border crossing between Jordan and Israel.
There's a border crossing that's heavily used between Jordan that's
at peace, some kind of peace with Israel. Anyway, a
Jordanian citizen came up to the Jordan to the crossing
and shot and killed two Israeli soldiers at the crossing

(57:52):
this morning. Then in Gaza, but not in Gaza City,
in Raffia, in Rufa in the south, an area that
Israel has now had out of control for months. For
Israeli soldiers were killed from an explosive device that.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
Blew up under their hum v and killed four.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
And injured three. And I say and I mentioned the
deaths of the four soldiers in the south, which is
tragic and awful and sad because there is an important
point to be made him. Israel could occupy Gaza City

(58:36):
in the next few months, next few weeks, it could
occupy one hundred percent of the Gaza Strip and there
would still be a gorilla underground terrorist network that it
could would not approved. They could still be functioning against it.
It could still take casualties, and it's going to be

(58:59):
very very dificult for Israel to hold onto the Gaza Strip.
It's going to be very very difficult for Israel to
manage the gards the strip. As Ramast is not destroyed.
It turns out there's still tunnels. Some of the tunnels
is destroyed to being rebuilt. Ramas is hiding in all

(59:19):
kinds of places underground. They pop out of nowhere, they
put in explosive devices, they disappear, or they ambush as
where these soldiers. This situation with Israel occupying Gaza is
going to be horrific and violent and dangerous, and Israeli

(59:39):
soldiers an't going to die for a long long time,
and and and part of the consequence, part of the
reason for that is then willingness to to really destroy
destroy the entire infrastructure of Guz so that these tunnels
cannot exist. Now, that would involve in a sense giving

(01:00:02):
up on the hostages for another time. We can discuss
all that. So that is going on in Gaza.

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
We'll talk in a bit.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
There is oh, let's talk about this in terms of
what happens next in Gaza.

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
There is now a plan for the day.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
After, for what happens to Gaza after Hamas is defeated.
And it's interesting that the player here, the main force
behind this plant is Tony Blair. You remember Tony Blair,
former Prime Minister of England. He is shuffling around the
world putting together plan. His institute as an a think tank,

(01:00:43):
and he is selling the plan. He has got the
United States to back the proposal. Donald Trump has given
it the thumbs up. He has got Jared Kushner supporting
this plan. And the plan basically involves, you know what
would happen, Who's going to govern the Gaza stript after
Israel wins. And you know, I'm reading this plan and

(01:01:07):
it's god. I mean, only bureaucrats could come up with
a plan like this. I mean they've got a board
of directors and board of governors and boards of this
and and all kinds of departments, and they're creating a
huge bureaucracy to manage Gaza without dealing really with the
main issue, which is security and re education. It's a

(01:01:33):
it's a it's a plan that is yeah, I mean
it's it's a bunch of bureaucrats. It's a bunch of
think tank people sitting in a room some way doing
floor charts and putting boxes together, and who reports to
whom and how well. The Palestinian authority will not have
will not have control over Gaza. It will be this
new independent entity with representatives from Arab countries like the

(01:01:57):
Gulf States. It will include PA representative, but it won't
control it. It will also include a representative from the
US and maybe others, not Israel, which is era number one. Right,
Israel will now be involved. Israel will draw completely from Gaza.
Saudi Arabia is supposedly will be on board Kata will

(01:02:19):
be on board. They will all have roles to play here.
There will be an international force that will keep the
peace in Gaza, just like it did so well in
Lebanon in Egypt before Egypt kicked them out in nineteen
sixty seven. I mean, international forces have worked so well
in the Middle East and elsewhere around the world. Remember

(01:02:39):
the international force that stopped the genocide of the twot
Sees by the Hutzis or the other way around. Remember
that that international force. They're so good at doing this, right. So,
I mean, Israel supposedly is okay with this plan. It's

(01:03:02):
given it a tentative. Okay, we'll see what happens. But
I was just reading that this board and that board
and this engagement committee and this committee, it just is
just it's completely detachment reality. I mean, the fundamental things
that have to happen is education needs to be completely redone.

(01:03:24):
If they want to rebuild Gaza, it has to be
under Israeli supervision, so the tunnels are not built, no
military infrastructure is created. Israel has to play a role
in whatever reconstruction happens later. And if the Albs don't
like it, then the Urbs can shove it. They can
take two million PILESTANDU refugees and they can house them themselves,

(01:03:47):
but it cannot be a plan that does not take
into account is Rao's security needs, requirements, demands, and this
kind of stuff. This proposal canoni appeal to bureaucrats, and

(01:04:08):
it's a perfect Tony Blair, top down kind of proposal.

Speaker 3 (01:04:14):
It really is, really is horror.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
Now. At the same time, Israel is suffering from greater
and greater isolation. More and more countries are imposing military
embargoes and Israel arms in bargoes. More more countries are
threatening economic imbargoes, and we're talking about Western European countries.

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
There's more and more.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
The voices of those who would isolate Israel from the
Western world is going That is true even in the
United States. A growing number of Americans want to have
nothing to do with Israel. Certainly, if the Democrats win
a future election, there will be a lot less yes
pro Israel. The Democrats have been in the past. Republicans,

(01:05:06):
not Trump and the people around him, but Republicans are
moving away from Israel. The Magat is moving away from Israel.
And I don't know if you will and there's a

(01:05:27):
real threat of Israeli isolation and Antennia. On Monday, give
a speech at an economic forum where he recognized US
US all isn't a sort of isolation. He said, we
will increasingly need to adapt to an economy with a two.

(01:05:51):
I can't pronounce this word or or top or tocic
or toxic characteristics. That means where you build everything yourself,
he said, this is a word I hate. I might
believe in free markets, he said, I wish, but we

(01:06:11):
may find ourselves in a situation where our arms industries
are blocked. We will need to develop arm industries here,
not only research and development, but also the ability to
produce what we need. And I think that's true. But
is better get really rich. If it wants to do that,
and to get really rich, it needs open global markets,

(01:06:31):
and for that it needs free trade policies, whether they
like it or not, as much as possible. It cannot
accept isolation. So it needs to be able to produce
moregage military stuff, maybe all of its military stuff, without
having to produce everything. If it has to produce everything

(01:06:52):
and all its military stuff, it's doomed. It has to
get rich. To get rich, needs more free markets. To
have more free markets, it needs more open trade, not
more limited trade. Then to tell you how deep down
noses he just can't be implement it. He can't bring
himself to implement it. He said, face was the scenario

(01:07:16):
of Athens and Sparta. Israel is going to be Athens
and super Sparta. Super Sparta is completely self contained, completely
self sufficient. He said, there's no choice. In the coming years.
At least we will have to deal with these attempts
to isolate us now. As soon as he ended his

(01:07:39):
speech and this stuff leaked, the stock market went down
two percent.

Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
I mean businesses in Israel panicked.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
Later on, when he was asked about this, he blamed
this isolation on basically a few things. One, he said,
the demographic changes in Europe, where Muslims have become a
significant minority, very vocal, very very belligerent, and countries are
giving into them. He says, they focus is in Gaza.

(01:08:20):
Isn't opposing Zionism in general, and sometimes the Islamist agenda
challenges those states, But the Islamist agenda is pushing Europe.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
They hate Israel.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
And they will put pressure on their local politicians to
go after Israel. Israel stock market went down. Israel stock
market went down two percent when he made the speech,
he said, the second challenge is that the opposition to

(01:09:02):
Israel does a huge amount of pr and he says
the pr is supported financially and technologically by two countries,
Kata and China. He says Kata in China invest heavily
to influence Western media with an anti Israel legenda, using bots,

(01:09:23):
artificial intelligence and advertisements. And he says this puts us
in a certain isolation and Israel has to establish the
capacity to challenge that. But in the meantime, it has
to establish the capacity to produce everything he needs militarily
without depending on foreign trade. Now, this drew a lot

(01:09:46):
of criticism both from opposition leaders but also from people
within the within industry who you know, who need who
say we need a prime minister who has the vision
to open up markets to encourage them to close. So anyway,

(01:10:07):
Iszuel feels besieged right now, it feels besieged, and it's
blaming China and cut out more than anybody.

Speaker 3 (01:10:16):
Else for this. And I think it's only gonna get
worse before it gets better.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
And the real risk is is the United States on
a separate story, we got to getruel.

Speaker 3 (01:10:29):
This is more than the good news side.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
Israel is now deploying the world's first effective and battle
tested laser interception system. Raphael Industries, which for which my
brother works for them, and EWLS today official releases of
the system. They've already taken down dozens of rockets, UAVs,

(01:10:53):
and even mortars. It is an incredible advancement because not
only is it super fast laser fast speed of light,
but also it's cheap. So instead of when you think
about the cost of iron dome which sends out missiles
to hit missiles, which costs the cheapest one sixty thousand

(01:11:16):
dollars in missile, the.

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
Laser costs two bucks two bucks, So.

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
You can you can do a lot of this, and
you can plaster the country with these. I don't think
they can deal with I don't know that they can
deal with ballistic missiles, that's a good question. I don't know.
But they can deal with lots of other kind of rockets, missiles,
cruise missiles, drones, and even motors, even very short range

(01:11:49):
weapons because as soon as it sees a launch, it
can immediately fire. And again it's speed of some speed
of light and costless or very very very low cost.
This is the first system these vailing military is working

(01:12:11):
hard to evolve the systems and make them better, make
them better in terms of distance where they can shoot
them down and the power of the beam. I think
those two related, although somebody in physics can tell me
if they're related. They probably can't deal with ICBMs, or
maybe once they answer they can. They probably can't make

(01:12:32):
it into space. But for that, you could deploy one
of these on a satellite hovering over Israel. I mean,
I don't know why not. So I mean, according to
one of the commentaries I'm seeing on this, here is
what it should and we will later on place this

(01:12:54):
in space so we can intercept ballistic missiles ICBMs. This
was Reagan Star Wars. This will change everything. It's really
cool tech, it's really cool stuff. And yes, this is
Ronald Reagan's star Wars and Israel's implementing it and planning
to put it in space on a satellite hovering over Israel

(01:13:18):
to protect it from ballistic missiles ICBMs and things like that.
So Isel's future is having the most effective offense, being
able to take out anybody anywhere, and having an unbreachable
defense so that nothing can penetrate, and hoping to be

(01:13:39):
able to knock out everything out of the sky even
before it reaches the skies of Israel.

Speaker 3 (01:13:53):
All right, bit of good news. All right. You might
have heard that actor Robert Redford died of old age
this week, at the age of how old was he.

Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
Born in thirty six, right, so he was eighty nine
years old. Eighty nine years old and he passed away.
So I thought it would be a night, you know,
a tribute to him, and just of interest to go
through a few of his movies I grew up. I
kind of grew up with these movies, so they're kind
of cool, and some of them I really really like.

(01:14:35):
Of course, the first World Classic movie that I saw
Robert Redford in, I think, and that I really enjoyed,
and it's a lot of fun, although you know, you
could argue that in terms of the values that projects,
they're questionable. But the first one, it was really Butch
Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid, where he co starred

(01:14:57):
with Paul Newman. As you know, it's the two outlaws
on the run, heroic outlaws. Nice Outlaws, Friendly Night and
Outlaws on the Run. It's it's a it's a it's
a it's a fun movie. It's got a great ending,
a classic ending. Uh, And yeah, it was. It was.

(01:15:19):
It was a lot of fun. And it's it's it's
not exactly a good western. It goes against the theme
of westerns. It goes against the essence of westerns. It's
an anti western in that sense. But it's great. And
Redford and does and who do you play against? Paul
Newman were great pair and they worked amazingly together. The

(01:15:45):
next movie I remember as The Candidate nineteen seventy two,
where he plays like a JFK like figure, young, idealistic Hanser,
full of noble dreams. It's a political drama, political satire, really,
And yeah, it was, it was, it was. It's pretty good.
It's pretty good. Yeah. Then let's see Jeremiah Johnson. He

(01:16:09):
plays a mountain man like a you know, it's a
it's it was supposed to be for it was supposed
to be for Clint Eastwood. And yeah, I mean, it's
a it's as I thought it was. I remembered vaguely
as a good movie, as a good movie bugget and
then you know, it's just a fun movie. One of

(01:16:31):
one of my most fun movies I think you'll see
is is the Sting. This thing that I think when
in the Oscar in nineteen seventy three, I remember seeing
this in the theaters and loving it. I was what
I was twelve, and I just loved this movie. It
was it was so I thought, so clever. The twists
and turns of it were so clever, was so smart.

(01:16:54):
It had a great great uh direction, good music. It
had the what do you call it a ragtime It
had the ragtime piece as the music. It was just
it's just a terrific movie. It is a great theme song.
So yeah, fantastic entertainment. If you've never seen this thing,

(01:17:17):
watch this thing. It's it's just fun. It's just a fun,
fun movie. He started with Barba Streisan in The Way
We Wore, which is kind of a you know, iconic
iconic what do you call it, I don't know, romance
of that period of that period.

Speaker 3 (01:17:39):
He then started The Great gats Meat.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
Three Days of the Condo, a good suspense movie kind
of reminds me of today, kind of a mid nineteen
seventy seventy five, So he's a CIA analyst trying to,
you know, break down what is going on a conspiracy.
It's very dark and twisted and it's very much a

(01:18:05):
post Watergate kind of vibe conspiracy theory. And of course
then he started All the Presidents Man nineteen seventy six
about the breaking of the Watergate story, which he did.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
He was great in.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
Probably my favorite Robert Redford movie and one of, if
not my favorite sports movie is The Natural. It's nineteen
eighty four. I think it's a terrific movie. I think
it's now. It changes the ending of the novel. The
novel has a very dark ending. The movie does not

(01:18:48):
have a dark ending. Thing goodness. It's a Barry Levinson movie.
It also has terrific music.

Speaker 3 (01:18:57):
The music. Who did the music for it, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
Randy Newman. Randy Newman did the music of all people
and it was terrific. It was really good. It's really
a good movie about good versus evil, dark versus light.
It's about redemption and the possibility of redemption. It's about
heroism and standing on principle and having integrity. Yeah, I mean,

(01:19:31):
it's fantastic. It's got a phenomenal ending you've got to see. Yeah,
definitely see the Natural. If you like baseball, see the Natural.
But even if you don't like baseball, it's just a really, really,
really fun movie. It certainly is one of my favorites
from the you know, from from the Last fifty Years

(01:19:53):
or whatever. Out of Africa in nineteen eighty five. It
was pretty good ind proposal if you remember that, you know,
not not exactly a great movie, but Robert Redford was
good in it. Yeah, those are those are the those
are the main ones that I remember that. I'm sure

(01:20:13):
I've seen others of his, but those are the ones
that really stand out that I remember. So Robert Redford,
great career, did in some some memorable roles, some memorables leves.
I am old, I granted, I am old. So but
if you haven't seen The Natural, that's my tip of

(01:20:35):
the day, See the Natural. It's it's just the Again,
these movies that I recommended today are all just fun,
like this thing is just fun and Butch Cassidy and
Sundance Gid fun, not big philosophical messages, but very enjoyable.

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what would Atlas shrugging look like in reality? Today's giants
of industry are all James Taglets and are Boils. Can

(01:26:55):
an organization a mid sized business leaders pull it off? Well,
I mean, yeah, anybody a shrug. I mean the points
of Atlas shrugging was not just to bring down the world.
The point of Attlass shrugging was the value of the
shrug to the person who shrugged. That is that he
was no longer sanctioned evil. He was no longer sanctioning

(01:27:17):
in the system, and and and he was he was
walking away. He was no longer going to use his
genius brilliance ability to pay for the system. Whether the
system collapsed or not was a secondary issue. So siddenly,
you could with mid sized businesses if they if they

(01:27:38):
chose to do it. But look, I don't think today's
business giants James Taggerson Orain Boils, they are in some
respects and they're not in other's lan Boyle couldn't run
in video in video might be in somewhat in bed
right now with Donald Trump, but it wasn't for many
years or two decades. And it's been a legal success

(01:28:00):
story independent of government. So there's real ability there. There's
real genius there, there's real these a real giant. The
same as to of Apple, the same as to as Google,
the same as to as Microsoft. If anything, government has
been a burden to these companies. Government has slowed them down.

(01:28:22):
Now so they are Maybe they're not, you know, John
gall walking away suddenly they're not. Maybe they're not the
most principled in a sense of telling the government to
go and hike, take a hike. But these are real
man of ability. Bill and Boil and James Taggert are not.

(01:28:45):
None of them could have done what any of these
people have done. Now, yes, the dinner at the White
House is are on boilish, But what makes it even
more tragic is that the not are on boils. If
they weren't boils, you would say, what would you expect?

(01:29:06):
If they were in boilers, you would say, of course, this.

Speaker 3 (01:29:09):
Is what they do.

Speaker 2 (01:29:10):
But they're not.

Speaker 3 (01:29:12):
These are not people who assume.

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
That their success depends on Washington. They're not people whose
success has depended up to this point on Washington. These
are people who, over the last ten years or so
have been slowly intimidated by successive governments into a position

(01:29:36):
where they feel like they have no choice. Rightly or wrongly,
they feel like they have no choice. So yeah, even
though it was all in boilish, I wouldn't call them.
James Pagerson are on boil, so it just does an
act of justice. They are so much better And Iran
doesn't really have a character like them in the novel,

(01:29:59):
And I was shrugg You know, almost everybody's either on
boil or a wire, and they get at the first
speech except for Dagne. Dcaney is the only one who
doesn't get it right, doesn't get it, keeps fighting John
Galt in spite of loving him. So yeah, so these archetypes,

(01:30:28):
and can you pull it off? You can't pull off,
you know, the complete collapse of the economy probably, But look,
I would expect the giants to go and strike. So
imagine a gold John Golf shows up in at the
Nvidia headquarters and gives whatever speech he gave, and a

(01:30:52):
bunch of the Nvidia people disappear. Imagine if the top
scientists at the AI companies disappear. Imagine if the top
people at other tech companies disappear. Then you've got it.
Then it's happening, But you know it's not. It's not

(01:31:13):
a realistic scenario. Now there's a sense of which going
golt happens af the shrugging happens right now. That as
after financial crisis, there was a term that was coin
coin going golt, and I mean people were tiring early,
people leaving businesses and going and doing something else because
they didn't want to work for the government anymore. There

(01:31:35):
was a real phenomena of people just not giving their
best anymore because they realized that their best was being
used to fund their enemies. So going golt existed, but
it's never been prevalent enough, big enough, dominant enough, and
in the right places to actually have an impact on

(01:31:56):
the economy.

Speaker 3 (01:31:57):
Thank you, David.

Speaker 2 (01:31:58):
I really really.

Speaker 3 (01:31:58):
Appreciate the support.

Speaker 2 (01:32:01):
All right, Ryan, Just yesterday I was telling my fifteen
year old son that America is still the greatest nation
because the First Amendment and the judiciary vigorous defense of it.
Defense of it. I still want to move to America
one day. Am I wrong after today? No? Because I
still think that if a case came to the Supreme

(01:32:23):
Court there was I mean, I'm not sure who has
standing here to sue. But if a case like this
came to the suprebe Court and where the government was
clearly strong arming a private company to silence it, the silence.

Speaker 3 (01:32:40):
It spokesman, which.

Speaker 2 (01:32:42):
Entertainers, whatever you want to call it, the subrene court
would rule against the government.

Speaker 3 (01:32:46):
I really believe that.

Speaker 2 (01:32:49):
The problem with Trump is he doesn't mind, he doesn't care.
He'll deal with the Supreme Court when we deal with
the Supreme Court for now.

Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
He'll do what he needs to do and to gate
his way.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
So no, it's still true that the United States, because
we have a Bill of rights, it's pretty clear. I
think to the serving court what the First Amendment free
speech holds. Now, I might be wrong. They might be
so politicized that they won't to hold it, but I
think they will. I think they would vote against Trump.

(01:33:23):
So we're losing our freedoms, but so is the rest
of the world. It's not clear where you go. I mean,
I was just reading some depressing stuff about Argentina. Now,
so that doesn't look as promising as it did a
few weeks ago. So yeah, rough time, rough time. Michael says.

(01:33:44):
If you stand for freedom speech, then you stand with
Jimmy Kimmo. If he was fired as a result of
the FCC pressure, But if his firing was based on
market driven business decision, then you stand with the network.
That's right. But it's pretty clear that they could have
fired to him a week ago.

Speaker 3 (01:34:01):
If it was just a business decision, or two weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (01:34:04):
They could have fired him at any time. The fact
that they fighted him after being threatened by the FCC
and after being threatened by Donald Trump, it's pretty clear.

Speaker 3 (01:34:16):
You know what the cause and effect was here.

Speaker 2 (01:34:21):
Andrews says, I'm sure you're not surprised, but it's a
little depressing seeing companies falling into line before the government.
Pragmatism is leading him off a cliff. How would a
proper philosophy guide business many times like this, Well, I mean,
we show them then in the long run, principal holds
the principal will benefit them. But look, it's hard, and

(01:34:46):
this is the point of Alan Shrugged. At some point
you have to just go and strike, because at some
point you can't do the right thing. Doing what the
Gunma tells you to do is wrong. Not doing what
the gunma tells you to do. Who's your shareholders? And
it's not like there's any hope that in three in

(01:35:10):
four years they'll be an election or three years we'll
be an election and we'll get somebody better. What hope
is there that? I think, maybe mildly better, But it's
not like the leftist pro markets. So what do you
do as a business leader? I mean, this brings up
the point that that you know David mentioned, a legitimate

(01:35:31):
answer to that is quit, leave, resign, shrug, go golt.
So philosophy would give them clarity about the choices about
the trade off. It wouldn't necessarily tell them what to
do with them, clarity about what they're trading off for what,
what they're giving up, what they're getting in return, and

(01:35:54):
it would help them make sure that they are doing
what's best for themselves, for their companies in the long run.
It's not an easy case to make, not to you
have a joago with them. Even if indigit people aren't
indigit people onto threat to others, the fact that they

(01:36:16):
cannot be self sufficient forfeits their right to just wander
the streets. I don't see why it would be a
rights violation to force them into institutions. Well, sure, they
can't trespass, and certainly if streets were private, it would

(01:36:36):
be easy because then you would have anti trespassing laws
and many of them would be in jail for violating
the anti test passing laws. But we live in a
place where there's plenty of public space, it's not private property.
We don't really have trespassing laws and public space, and
we pavements, streets, parks, you know, the below the inner state,

(01:37:05):
or just outside of town parks, all kinds of stuff
like that. And you know, this is one of the
problems with the mixed economy. It's one of the problems
of having government owned property. What do you do with it?
How do you so it's not clear how you can
imprison somebody if they haven't violated rights. And if somebody's

(01:37:26):
living on the bridge on a highway, it's not clear
whose rights they're violating, given that it's not owned by anybody.
If they're sleeping in front of your store, I think
you can easily make an argument they're violating your rights.
But if they're sitting under the highway.

Speaker 5 (01:37:45):
Not so true.

Speaker 2 (01:37:47):
So it's tricky because we live in a mixed economy.
In a true capitalist society, where all land is everything
is owned privately, then it's easy, relatively easy, but much harder,
much harder, you know. And there's no law against roaming
the streets as long as they're not harassing people shaw'sbutt.

(01:38:21):
What would Ellis Wyatt have done if the strike never happened.

Speaker 3 (01:38:26):
I mean, it's a good question, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:38:29):
I don't know. He would have pissed off the politicians.
He would not have been to knee. Some of the
others might have. He would not have been to knee.
He would have fought them, he would have argued with them,
he would have kept working, and he would have probably
been driven out of business, regulated out of existence. But

(01:38:58):
because the trend was to ultimately nationalized him, nationalized the oil,
that's what they were actively promoting. Right, that could have
very well happened. Jennifer from we don't we won't get

(01:39:18):
fooled again by the who.

Speaker 3 (01:39:21):
Is the quote?

Speaker 2 (01:39:22):
And now the Party on the left is now the
party on the right, and the beards have all grown longer. Overnight,
Party on the left is not the party in the right.
I like that. That's Jennifer has some great song lyrics
from the past. It's great Andrew the right things. Trump

(01:39:44):
stands for the public interest, so it's okay for him
to use government power. It's only wrong to use government power.
It's bad for the public interest. There's public interest and
anti concept and must it need to force, Yes, yes,
it's definitely. It means nothing. There is no interest of
the public. There's interests of individuals, and the only interest

(01:40:06):
of the public is protection of individual rights. But that's
not a public interest, that's an individual interest. The public
is just a bunch of individuals. There's no collective consciousness,
there's no collective values, there's no collective interests. Interest is
something individuals have. A group Coak group does not have

(01:40:28):
an interest that is separate from the interests of the
individuals within it. So yeah, it is definitely an anti concept,
illegitimate concept, and it's the source of all political evil.
It's our authoritarians justify everything. It's how regulators justify everything.

(01:40:49):
It's how the welfare state is justified. It's how every
government action the violates rights is justified. Every single one
of them, says do you think John Shapiro and Jordan
Peterson would be afraid to make as many public appearances
during these talks? They must be thinking, God, this could
be my last sentence. Makes it hard to focus and
stay motivated. I think it will be more difficult, but

(01:41:14):
I don't think they'll stop. I don't think they'll stop.
I know Ben Shavera suspended his public appearances, and Jordan
Peterson is ill, so he's canceled these public appearances, but
that was before the Charlie Cook thing. He's ill again, unfortunately,
and so I don't think they will. I think they're

(01:41:35):
courageous enough. Also, I do think though, that you will
see more security. You'll see more security. You will see
campuses now universities scrutinized security much more, emphasize security much more.
No campus wants it to happen on their watch. So

(01:41:56):
it's going to be an interesting period. I mean, I'm
doing a debate in November at the University of Colorado,
Colorado Springs with the Socialist and it'll be interesting to see.
I've done debates with him before, and some have had
significant security, like at the University of Maryland a few
years ago. It'll be interesting to see if this one

(01:42:18):
has elevated security. I expect answers. Yes, chasbatt my favorite
nine ran description James Taggert has.

Speaker 3 (01:42:29):
A smooth smoothness, but it was the smoothness.

Speaker 2 (01:42:33):
Of a fabric stretched tightly over a broken glass object
and the sharp edges poked through once in a while. Yeah,
I mean people say she can't write. I mean that's
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(01:42:54):
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(01:43:38):
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Business by permission.

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(01:45:41):
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(01:46:02):
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(01:46:24):
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(01:46:44):
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(01:47:06):
It's something that it's very hard and as society becomes
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less conceptual, it becomes more tribal and therefore becomes more nationalistic, racist, xenophobic,
all of these things, and sadly you're seeing that in Japan.

Speaker 3 (01:47:29):
Now, how big of a deal is in Japan, I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:47:32):
So again, you might be getting pretty biased reports here
in the United States about how significant it is. I
would go to Japan and see. I would talk to
Japanese people and see how influence, how influential this Japanese
teenager is. And before you make a decision, I wouldn't
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(01:48:32):
to Spain and Portugal? No, you know, I find.

Speaker 3 (01:48:40):
Look, Italy is the best in the world when it
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When it comes to art and culture I mean opera
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no place on planet Earth has more of that than Italy,
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(01:49:08):
when it comes to that. In terms of actually living,
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All good, with a great variety.

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Particularly in France, the food is all Florentine, it's all local.
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(01:49:56):
and they and everything.

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Every neal has this amazing bread that they bring out
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And you know, there's tuma sew at every corner, and
they five gelato's at every corner. And what else is
a is a food staple here cheese, cheese everywhere. So
I'm allergic to milk. My wife's lacked us in tolerment.
I mean, we still eat it because because it's delicious,

(01:50:25):
and you have to so it's very difficult to actually
find the kind of food we eat, so we land
up eating, we land up eating all this stuff. Uh,
Spain is much easier in terms of food, much easier. Yeah,
so I'd say, uh, just in terms of living, Barcelona

(01:50:54):
so far has been the best. Barcelona so far has
been the best. But I love Italy and I love
the Italians. I love the arts, you know. I love
their sense of esthetics, even modern aesthetics. I love Italian furniture.
I love Italian sports cars. Yeah, I mean, you know,

(01:51:16):
you can't go wrong in Italy, James says, thoughts on
Robert Redford. You got that already, Robert. I have people
in my circle blaming, blaming ABC Disney for the firing.
But is any of this ABC's fault. It's easy to
say they should have stood up to the FCC, but
it's not my billions of dollars on the line. Yeah,

(01:51:38):
they could get their license pulls. This is a gun
at their head. This is clearly the FCC's fault. This
is Donald Trump's fault. But yeah, so I wouldn't blame Disney,
who's the owner of ABC, for this. This is clearly
government force being used against them. This is Kozier, Liam

(01:52:03):
Zoom CEO agrees with Bill Gates, Jensen Wang, and Jamie
Diamond all three a three day work week is coming
soon thanks to AI. I think they're all wrong. I'd
be surprised if we had a three day work week
in the next twenty years. Maybe, but I'd be surprised.

(01:52:24):
Maybe some professions, but three day worker could have to
be universal. So no, twenty years. At some point, sure,
why not, But I doubt it's gonna happen anytime soon.
Hop a Campbell, Your Superchet revenue might be twenty five
percent higher if YouTube would stop blocking people's comments or

(01:52:47):
at the very least provide users a list of words
and phrases we're not allowed to put in the Superchet.
I will provide that input to YouTube see how they react.
Apologis is also Lasier Defense system declared operational. YEP talked
about that Clark. If another major figure on the right

(01:53:08):
gets unlived, like Jordan Peterson or Ben Shapiro, what would happen.

Speaker 3 (01:53:16):
Would we see widespread retaliation, civil war? I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:53:23):
I think we'd see retaliation. I think it could get
very ugly. Look, I mean, the right doesn't have to
go out into the streets and retaliate. The government would
start doing things that would be really scary. It already is,
it's already talking about it. It would actually go into
place again. The real threat is going to be the government,
because it's going to act in ways to prevent a

(01:53:44):
civil war, but not in our favor, not in the
favor of liberty and freedom. So I think that's the
way it'll go. It'll be used further, used as an
excuse for government to be get bigger, stronger, more ventionist,
more rights violating.

Speaker 3 (01:54:03):
See, there's chaos in the streets.

Speaker 2 (01:54:04):
We have to lissenda. Update on situation with the illegal
Internet post with my mom's boyfriend. Turns out it wasn't
because of stuff he said about Islam, because of some
wood play he made in a YouTube comment making fun
of the af D. Really so even making fun of

(01:54:27):
the a f D get you in trouble. Wow, Yeah,
it's flipped now you can't make fun of the right
wing people, Okay. It continues to show how there's a
real lack of free speech in Germany. The government knocks

(01:54:51):
on your door if you make a wood play that
might be construed as insulting to one of the political parties. Wow.
John Kimmel also joked about Trump's indifference to Charlie's death
that he was more concerned with his courtroom ballroom.

Speaker 3 (01:55:14):
It was the ballroom, not the courtroom.

Speaker 2 (01:55:16):
The morning I read you that clip where he basically said, yeah,
I'm doing fine. Oh what he was asked about Charlie
Cook and then he talked about the ballroom. I agree.

Speaker 3 (01:55:27):
Will Trump be fired for being disrespectful?

Speaker 2 (01:55:29):
He should be, He should be.

Speaker 3 (01:55:35):
Oh wow, Christian, that's a big question.

Speaker 2 (01:55:39):
How have Wall's egalitarian ideas influenced intellectuals in the wider culture?
Does AOI have a program to introduce objectivism to law students.
So Walls's ideas have had a profound impact on the culture.
As I Lodge I Man wrote about Wall's ideas, and
she predicted they would become incredibly influential, and they have.

(01:56:04):
He gave egalitarianism a facade of respectability. He gave it
a pretense of sophistication and of deep philosophy.

Speaker 3 (01:56:17):
He gave it a pretense of.

Speaker 2 (01:56:21):
Objective morality, and it has had a profound impact. I think,
with the rise of egalitarianism is the dominant movement on
the left with it's impacted thinkers across the political spectrum.
I know, libertarians are huge walls. Fans is actually a

(01:56:41):
libertarian professor who wrote a book.

Speaker 3 (01:56:44):
Trying to integrate free markets with walls.

Speaker 2 (01:56:49):
Didn't go well, and so he has been probably the
most influential thinker on both right and left of the
last forty to fifty years. So yeah, really damaging, really
really damaging. And then say I have a program to

(01:57:11):
treaty subjectives as to law students. Yeah, I mean one
of the places where we actually lecture quite a bit,
present quite a bit, and engage quite a bit is
at law schools. You know, we are. We've had a
great relationship for many years with the Federalist Society. They
constantly invite AARI speakers to come and speak there. I've
spoken there dozens of times at various Federalist Society events

(01:57:35):
all over the country. I've actually just been invited to
by the Federalist Society at Tought University, actually an undergraduate
chapter of the Federalist Society. So these are pre law
students at Tufts in Boston to come and speak there,
and I will in February. In February so I'll be

(01:57:58):
going to speak there. So yeah, I mean we have
made quite an effort with the Federalists and being engaged
quite a bit with different chapters of the Federalist Society
all over the United States. And what we do is
to try to encourage them to can then come and
study law. And by the way, there are a lot

(01:58:19):
relatively speaking, they're more objectivist lawyers doing intellectual work than
objectivist anything else. You know, you've got objectivists at IJ
and See for Justice, at PLF, Parcificar Legal Foundation, You've
got objectivists like like Adam Assoff at universities. You've got

(01:58:44):
you know, objectivists doing a lot of work at these
organizations that are doing amazing work trying to defend our rights.
So we've probably had more success among lawyers than anywhere else,
any particular group. Vedim, have you heard of the news

(01:59:06):
story about Ice deporting Hyundai workers while they were trying
to build a factory news? Yes, I spoke about it
last week. I did a few shows where I spoke
about it. It was a big story. I think I
even talked about it earlier this week. So yes, horrible, stupid,
just ignorant.

Speaker 3 (01:59:24):
I mean the bushes.

Speaker 2 (01:59:25):
The trumpet deministrations is so bad, so bad, And yeah,
it's a it's a farm Possey catastrophe.

Speaker 3 (01:59:33):
It's an investment catastrophe. It's a job's.

Speaker 2 (01:59:36):
Catastrophe, and it's it's it's I mean, not catastrophe. Bad news.
It's going to slow down this factory in South Carolina,
to slow down the creation of American job, jobs for Americans.
It's gonna it alienates the South Koreans who investing heavily
in America. It's just bad news on all counts. And
of course it brings out the real evil. Well, it's

(01:59:58):
one of the stories that brings out the unbelievable evil
of what ICE is doing. Ice should be dismantled. It
should be one hundred percent. Every single person at ICE
should be fired. There should be no such thing as Ice.
It's a despicable organization. Ours says, how do millennials compare

(02:00:22):
to gen Z?

Speaker 3 (02:00:23):
You know, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:00:25):
Gen Z is more digital even than millennials. Millennials are
pretty digital themselves, but I don't know. You know, a
lot of different studies looking at this. Gen zs tend
to be more depressed, but they also they tend to
be richer. Yeah, there's too much data and I haven't
really studied it and really integrated it to give you

(02:00:47):
differences between generations. And it's not clear that there's that
much difference at the end of the day. At the
end of the day, the real differences are between individuals,
not between generations, although we talk in terms of generations
a lot.

Speaker 3 (02:01:02):
Okay, guys, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:01:04):
All the super chatter is really appreciate it. Thanks to
all the questions, Thanks for the support, Thanks to all
the stick up people, Thanks to all the Patreon and
PayPal supporters. I will see you guys to model. They
will be a shirt tomorrow unless something happens. Oh, we've
got one more quick question from Lucindo. Maybe it's not quick.

(02:01:25):
I don't know. Post was Alisa for Deutschland and that
sounds like ally Alice for Deutschland, everything for Germany a
phrase that the Nazis used woodplay was intended to compare
Alice vide to the Nazis. But the phase itself is illegal. Oh,

(02:01:46):
the phrase itself is illegal because it's a Nazi phrase,
I seem. But that's the problem. There should be no
phrases that are illegal and not. Holocaust denials should be illegal,
being an he shouldn't be illegal.

Speaker 3 (02:02:01):
None of these things should be illegal. So but yeah, interesting.

Speaker 2 (02:02:06):
So he was trying to criticize the far right for
being like Nazis but used a Nazi phase in order
to do it, and was was was you know, harassed
by the government for that?

Speaker 3 (02:02:20):
Wow, you can't make this stuff up. Thank you, listen
to thank you to.

Speaker 2 (02:02:25):
All of you. I will see tomorrow likely three pm E.
S coast see that bye, everybody.

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