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Speaker 1 (00:03):
A fundamental principles. I love reading it rational self interest
and individual rights. This is the Brook Show. Oh right,
everybody welcome Dround Book Show on this Thursday, September fourth.

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I hope everybody's having a great week. Yeah, it's Thursday twenty,
the end of the week. Soon September will be over
and then what Oh, we've got a lot to talk
about today, I think. I think there's just a lot
of topics. It's late at night here, so we'll see
how much how much we get through. There was an

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echo during the music. Yeah, all right, I'll solve that
next time. Let's uh, let's jump in with with I
guess I didn't really prep this, but this is an
important story. It didn't come up on my news feeds
and stuff. But sorry, it's not listed on one of

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the topics to talk about, but it is worth noting.
It looks like Paramount, the company Paramount is buying Barry
Weiss's Free Press for about two hundred million dollars. So
congratulating Barry Weiss. I mean, she basically went from an
unemployed former New York Times writer and to a you know,

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to worth two hundred million dollars for the media company
she created, and this is a great example of being
rewarded for the entrepreneurial spirit, the thought, the effort, the
focus that went into creating this company. It's it's pretty
stunning good. You know, it's amazing. It's amazing. And she

(01:57):
did this, what is it three years now? She went
from basically nothing to two hundred million dollar to becoming
a two hundred million dollar media mogul. Yeah, she started
free Press in twenty twenty two. Is that three years?
Supposedly she's in line for a senior editorial role at

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CBS News as part of the deal. And the whole
thing is going to fold fold, you know, her free
Press into the new Paramount, into what's called the New Paramount.
But so you know, how to say exactly how this

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is all going to play out and what it's going
to mean and how it's going to affect the free press.
I mean, it's basically going to be part of mainstream
media now, it's not going to be alternative media. It is,
of course shifted, It shifted quite a bit to the
rights in the last year or so since simply since

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Trump won the election. Let's see, uh you know, uh,
pamlat of course, has merged with Skydance Media. Uh, and
uh controls CBS and CBS News. Uh, it's yeah, it's
free Pass is not part of the mainstream media. How

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How how does that affect the Free Pass? How does
that affect CBS? How does all this work out? I
guess nobody is actually talking yet, and we don't really
have much of details in terms of what this all includes.
But if you look at the content a free Pass
and you look at the content and CBS News, you
can see there's going to be some conflict there, right,

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I mean, Free Pass has its own journalists, I mean
reporters out there and and on issues like Israel and uh,
you know, many many other issues, there's going to be
real conflict between the two. It's going to be interesting.
It could also mean, and this probably is what it means,

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that the mainstream media is repositioning itself and shifting to
the right, given the changed world in which they find themselves,
given Donald Trump, given the change political environments. So you know,

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this should not surprise us that the mainstream media is
going to start shifting away from its kind of standard
left of center positioning. And CBS, NBC, ABC, How to
tell exactly what happens at CNN. But this is the reality.
This is where the ratings are, This is where what

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the public is demanding, if you will. So you know,
the Paramount Skide merger that makes all this possible, of course,
was approved only after Paramount agreed to settle a lawsuit
with Trump, who had suited CBS News on the Paramount

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for something related to the a Kamala Harris interview. So
that lawsuit, the settling of that lawsuit, they're writing a
big check to Donald Trump actually is what facilitated the
merger and then this re orientation now of Pamount and
all of its various media assets. Again, nobody's talking on

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the record, yes about this, but it does seem that
this is a reality. It is that it is, it
is happening. The fact that the Free Prayers was built
in three years and achieved as much as it has
and now its old for two hundred million dollars. Wow,

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I mean, you gotta respect Barry Weiss and Nearly Bowls
and a bunch of other people at the Free Press
who have done this. Uh it's to their credit amazing
Uh business building. Uh, seeing a niche filling that niche,
doing the work hiring the right people, putting out the

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right content and and uh and getting it done so well.
I have lots of disagreements about the content at the
Free Press. It's been better than much of the mainstream media,
at least it was before Trump. Uh. And in any case,
I admire the entrepreneurial ability, skill achievement that is reflected

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in this sale. So congratulations to Barry Weiss. All right, Uh,
let's see Uh Yeah, National confidence, National the National Conservatism
confidence is happening now the last few days, and it's

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going to give us a lot of content. This is good.
It's going to give us a lot of content in
terms of the speeches that are being presented there. The
content that's being presented there. It'll tell us where this
movement is heading and who its leaders are and what
they're thinking is and what their ideology is. The One

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thing you have to say about the National Conservatives is
they tell you how they see it, at least to
a loge extent, and it is you know, it's a
conference in which a lot of the leading political figures
on the right are going to be speaking and telling
us what this is all about. And a theme that

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seems to be evolving. I mean the many themes, but
one of the things that seems to be evolving is
this idea of what is America. And this is spinning
off of JD. Vance and really Josh Holly, who have
been talking about this for a while. America is not
an idea. America is not a universal idea, America as
a people. America is a nation in America's blood and

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soil to one extent or another. And you a senator
advocate for this vision of conservatism of nationalism, dare I
say Christian nationalism has now emerged. And and that is
Senator Schmidt. Senator Schmidt, who not I think accidentally is

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from the same state as a Senator Holly, the senator
who I first recognized as kind of the nationalist threat
to this country, Josh Holly. Us Schmidt is from the
same state, Missouri, as Holly. He is the junior senator
from I haven't heard much about him. He hasn't made
much noise. He is a junior senator and he hasn't

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been engaged that much that much. But he has made
his debut acts at the UH at the National Conservative Conference,
and a quite a debut. It was quite a debut.

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It was. Now we have two senators from Missouri to
worry about, in addition to JD. Van's and in addition
to others who we will uh, you know, unveil during
this conference, who will come and tell us what they
think about the world during this conference. But I want

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to I want to read you a little bit about
some some some quotes from his talk. And and the
talk is interesting, It's very well done. It's very well written,
and it's it's interesting, but it's uh, and it's got
a lot of good stuff in it, right, founding father stuff.
It's got to meet the potato stuff. And you you know,

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it makes sense. They need to appeal to that, and
maybe they even believe it. They need appeal to the
people who still value the funny fathers and still respect
the funny fathers. But it is filled with this kind
of nationalist rhetoric that is pretty scary. That is pretty scary.

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Let's see what I want to read. What I want
to read to you. I mean it as all sections
about as a bunch of different sections. Let me read,
let me read this is it? Yeah, his anti immigration screed.

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All right, For decades we heard the so called high
skilled immigration was an urgent necessity. The H one bvs of,
for example, were sold as a way to keep America
globally competitive. Of course, we do have an interest in
attracting they're truly exceptional few, the very best and brightest

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in the world. But that's not how the programs like
H one B have actually functioned. Instead, they've imported. Noted
the word imported. We brought them in consciously. They've imported
a vast new labor force from abroad, not to fill
jobs Americans can't do or won't do, but to undercut

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American wages, replace American workers, and transfer entire industries into
the hands of foreign bodies. Isn't that fascinating and goes
completely counter to the reality in facts on the ground
in places like Silicon Valley, The fact that half of
all successful venture backed firms are have at least one

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founder who is an immigrant, almost always on the H
one B visa. The fact that so many of our
senior engineers and so many companies in the United States
tech companies that are leading the world, tech companies that
are defining American industry today, that are defining and leading

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the American economy today, started out as h one B
visa holders. I mean, what does it mean attracting the
truly exceptional few? Who gets to decide that? Who are
exceptional by what standard? So government should decide it. Govern

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should have a criteria for the exceptional few. Sounds pretty
dangerous to me and have that role. So we were told,
we were told over and over again that Mega and

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the New Rights and Trump are not against legal immigration,
so only illegals. We hate illegals. We don't want illegals,
they break the law. We don't want people who break
the law in the country. But we love legal immigration. Well, no, no,
they don't. They never wanted them. They don't want them.
They cannot become American than not American. And this is

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the new Right, This is national conservatism. This is the
leading intellectual political movement within the rights in America today.
Many of them saner than Mega, more dignified than Mega.
Same ideas, same ideas, he continues. We funneled in millions

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of foreign nationals to take the jobs, salaries, and futures
that should belong to our children, not because the foreign
workers are smarter and more talented, but merely because they
are cheaper and more compliant and therefore preferable in the
eyes of too many business elites who often see their
own countrymen as an inconvenience. I mean, this is a

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kind of mythology lining that is going to define the
future of this country. This sets us up for the
kind of racist authoritarians that are going to use this

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funneled in millions of foreign nationals take jobs. Unemployment is
historical low, take the salaries up significantly over the last
fifteen years in spite of all that immigration, legal and illegal,
and take away the future of our children. Really it's

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immigrants they're taking away the future of our children. I mean,
this is disgusting, false, and you know, horrific. It continues
while our trade agreements kneecap blue collar workers. No they didn't,

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a slow moving disaster decade in the making. Abuse of
the H one B is kneecapping white collar workers right
before our eyes. Really, really, if you look at the
tech sector again, it's leading the world. American workers are
being kneecapped by H one B. Maybe American workers are
getting jobs because of H one BB as the holders

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who don't start companies who then hire Americans. And by
the way, many of those he B visus holders become
Americans and now all Americans for the tens of thousands
of This is the same for the tens of thousands
of Americans who were forced to train their fall on
he B replacements just to get their seventh package. The

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fact that it was legal is little comfort. See the
fact that it was legal is little comfort. For decades,
the mainstream consensus on the left and their way alike
seemed to be that America itself was an idea, a

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vehicle for global liberalism. We were told that the entire
meaning of America boiled down to a few lines in
a poem on the Statue of Liberty and a five
words about equality in the Declaration of Independence. Any other
aspect of American identity was deemed to be illegitimate, any
more poisoned by the evils of our ancestors. Now, it's

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true that the Left has distorted the meaning of what
America is, has perverted it. He brings up this example.
In a speech in nineteen ninety eight, Bill Clinton said
that the continuous influx of immigrants was and I quote,
a reminder that America is not so much a place

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as a promise. If you're going to criticize Bill Clinton,
and what he says, this is what you criticize is
in America a promise? Isn't it a shiny city on
the hill. Now here's where he gives us a little
bit of the funding fathers. Now, let me just say,

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I believe that our funding fathers were the most brilliant
group of men to ever assemble in one room. The
ideas are central to who we are. You can't understand
America without understanding things like the freedom of speech, the
right to self defense, the ideas of independence, self governance,
and political liberty. Notice what's missing, individual rights, the right

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to life, liberty in the pursuit of happiness. That's missing.
That all men equal in that sense is missing. But
of course that would be hard. But he says, but
these principles are not abstractions. They're not obstections. Indeed, they
are abstractions. He continues, they are living, breathing things, rooted

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in a people and embodied, embodied in a way of life.
It's only in that context that they become real. Really, yes,
they become real by being embraced by people. Those ideas,
and those ideas can be embraced by people of any

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color of skin and any nationality. He says, if you
impose the cop copy of the US Constitution a Kazakhstan tomorrow,
Kazistan wouldn't magically become America because Kazakhstani isn't filled with Americans.
It's filled with Kazakstanians. But what made America America, what

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made Americans Americans? Those principles and the particular experiences that
America had. Would Kazistan be a much, much much better
place with those ideas? Yes? Because could a Kazistani come
to America and embrace those principles and live life here

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as an American? Yes? Do you born in America? Have
you experienced the things that made America through your DNA,
your blood because your ancestors fought on some battle long ago.
Are you now an American because you, somehow, by osmosis

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biological osmosis, received that American wisdom, that that experience. I mean,
this is such mystical bs. He says. If America was
a universal proposition, then everything we inherited from our specific

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Western heritage had to be abolished. That's according to the Left.
He says, Uh, I just want to skip ahead here.
Now you're talking about Donald Trump's movement. His movement is
the revolt of the real American nation. Well, that's good

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to know. Did you know that Donald Trump represents the
real American nation? If you vote for anybody else, you
are not part of that real American nation. Me, I'm
an immigrant. A you're a citizen, but an immigrant. And
I didn't vote for Donald Trump. Three times I didn't
vote for him. I'm obviously not part of the real

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American nation. His movement is a revolt of the real
American nation. It's a peace folk revolution that I agree with,
driven by millions of Americans who felt that they were
turned into strangers in their own country, by whom by
other people who are people this geography call them the left.

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Many of them have ancestors who came across on the Mayflower.
Many of them have ancestors who fought on the battlefields
of the World Independence, of the Civil War, in World
War One and World War Two? And so what makes
them less real? Now you can say that being American

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or Americanism is a set of ideas, and if you
don't agree with those ideas, you're rejecting what it really
means to be an American. That I hold I believe
that in a sense of left is not American, and
I believe Schmidt is not really an American in a
sense of Americanism and what represents and what it means individualism,

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individual rights, freedom, liberty. Very little talk about freedom and
liberty in any of these speeches at the NATCON, at
the National Conservative Conference. So the mooment is a pitchfolk revolution, right.

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They were the forgotten men and women who wrapped themselves
in our flag and drove for hours to hear a
real estate tycoon from New York speak because they knew
he was speaking for them. They were the Americans whose
factories were gutted in the name of free trade. Really,
whose sons were sent to dian wars that served one tooth.

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You get son now, one, two, three, you get sown
now all Wait when did the sound go off? Oh god? Yeah, hey,
sorry about that. Battery went out on the on the

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other mic I used it. Didn't realize how long I
was using it. I'd used it for a while. Don't
need new mics. I just need to be more conscious
of need to be more aware of the mics. Sorry
about that, And I am and I was shouting and
it was quite passionate. It was quite good. It was

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quite good. All right. Did you guys get the part
about the Continental Army soldiers dying a frostbite? When did I?
Did anybody remember when I cut out Continental Continental soldiers?
You got an echo? Now echo go now one two three?

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No eko, Paul says no. Eco equity says no. E
quote okay, E quote tell He says, no, what about
when I? Okay? So no to uh learn nothing about
fussbd okay. So this is what he writes about the
history American history. He writes, the Continental Army soldier just
dying of frostbite, the Valley Forge, the Pilgrims struggling to

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survive in hard winter soil, the Plymouth, the Pioneers striking
out from Missouri for the wild and dangerous frontier. They
outnumbered Kentucky settlers, repelled wave after wave of Indian war bands,
attacked from behind the stockade walls. All of them would
be astonished to hear that they were only fighting for
a proposition, But they will. They were fighting for freedom.

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They were fighting for property rights. They were fighting for
their right to their life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
They were fighting for that declaration of independence. Now, yeah,
they were fighting for the concrete manifestations of that. They
were fighting for their families, to preserve them, to keep
them alive, to build a new home for themselves and

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families and the people they cared for. But no, no,
let's purpoo the proposition. Let's propoo the reason they came
to America to make their lives better. And let's purple
with the fact that they were all immigrants within a
few generations, because everybody's an immigrant who came to America.

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I continue with what he says. They believe they were
forging a nation, a homeland for themselves and their descendants.
They thought, they bled, they struggled, they died for us,
They built this country for us. Really, the sacrifice America,
in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed

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down across the generations. It belongs to us. It's our birthright,
our heritage, our destiny. So let me just understand this.
I don't have ancests who did in any of those things?
Was I not gifted? This is this not mine? Is
America not mine? What about the children of slaves? Is

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America not theirs? Their ancestors did not do all those things.
They struggled, Oh god did they struggle. They suffered. But
are they us that they counter as us? When does
a start? When does a sacrifice start? For future generations?

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And make you in America? How many generations do you
have to go back? He continues, If America is everything
and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all.
But we know that's not true. America is not for
everything and everyone. America is for those who embrace and

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accept the principles that made this country, not the bloodline
that made it, not skin color that made it, but
the principles that made it. The idea is that proposition
which he likes to pooh pooh, America is unique in that. Now,
in every other nation, you could say, yeah, my forefathers

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and almost all the people in this country, in that country, yeah,
they all have roots going backwards, right fans, they're French
people hundreds of years ago, Germans out of German roots
hundreds of years in the America is not that, it's
not as it's not a creation of a tribal society,

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He says. America is not a universal nation. It is
something distinctive, unique and real. Yes, by its ideas unlike
any other place of people in history of mankind, America.
And here we get to the you know, should we
get to it? Right? Who are the Americans? America was settled,

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founded and built by the most adventurous and most courageous
and most curious and innovative and risk take taking sons
and daughters of the West. Yeah, that's who founded it.
And that's who still comes here. Not of the West.
Now it comes from all over the world. Those kind
of people come here. And if you want to exclude
the people who come here for the warfare, stop giving

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them welfare. Our country is, in this important sense, the
most essential Western nation for our setl ancestors. An American
frontier stretched out as the horizon of infinite possibilities. It
was here on this continent that the West realized its destiny.
I wouldn't use the word destiny, but yes, all of
that is true. This, my friends, is why every great

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feat of the modern world bore American fingerprints. And now
he goes through all the American inventors. It was an
American who created the most telegram and later the telephone,
collapsing vast distances in a single instance. And it was
an American who mapped the humans. You know, da was
an American who did this, an American who did that.
And yet all of them were children, grandchildren, great grandchildren

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of immigrants. He didn't mention Steve Jobs, a child of
a Muslim Arab who changed America, changed our world. But
here's the crux of it, and this is what it

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all adds up. Who are we? Who are Americans? Who
is us that we got this gift here? It is we?
Americans are the sons and daughters of the Christian programs
that poured out of europe shores to baptize a new

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world in their ancient faith. Our ancestors were driven here
by destiny, possessed by urgent and fiery conviction, by burning belief,
devoted to the cause and their God. They were Christians,

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they were Europeans. This is who we are. This is
what America belongs to. He says, America belongs to us
and only us. If we disappear, then American too will

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cease to exist. Who's us? Who's we? White Christians, European Christians,
That's who he's talking about. That's who he's talking about.
It's about European Christians, and particularly from Northern Europe. I

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don't know what he feels about Southern Europeans. This is
a senator in the US Senate again mixing in stuff
that you would agree and write in Grea and mixing

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it in with racist, nationalist blood and soil ideology, which
is about as un American as it gets. The national
conservatives un American. They reject America. They reject what America

(34:52):
really is about. They reject the essence of the American ideal,
the American philosophy, the American identity, in the name of
European style tribalism, nationalism, you know, mixed in with a
good amount of American racism. These are dangerous people. These

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are the people we're handing the future of this country too.
Dangerous people. All right, let's see before we get onto
the next topic. I see you guys need some encouragement

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you and you guys struggled with it. Uh h forty
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So support the show. Simple trade value for value, all right.

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RFK today was in front of the Senate trying to
defend his actions as the head of the Health and
Human Services Department, including the chaos that is being right
now at the CDC, the firing oops, the firing of
the head of the CDC, the resignation of a number

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of senior people at the CDC, and UH and just
a lot of unhappiness at the Health and Human Services
more broadly. UH. There seems to be a lot of dissent,
a lot of disagreement, and a lot of people upset
at Rfk's actions. RFK kept on emphasizing during his testimony

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today in the Senate that America is the sickest country
on earth that you know, people were there was more
h what do you call it? Diseases that in the
country today than ever before that. Obviously health officials had

(37:51):
had failed, uh, and then he was shaking things up
in order to make Americans healthy. But this is just
you know, untrue and stupid. Yes, Americans unhealthy. Many Americans
unhealthy because of the habits that Americans have adopted. Some

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of that is probably a consequence of certain things that
the federal government has done in terms of health. Food
pyramids that emphasize the wrong types of food recommendations about
what we should and shouldn't eat, which don't reflect you know,
actual science or the later science, but reflect lawbying by
special interest groups. But indeed, you could argue, and should argue,

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could argue and should argue that governments shouldn't have a
position about any of these things. The health of Americans
is a problem for individual Americans to deal with them.
To solve it should be between them and their doctor.
RFK replacing the comment ideology around health with his own

(38:59):
ideology round health, which is more bogus than the current one.
The current one is bad, is worse, is not going
to make us healthier, is not going to change anything.
And his anti science is anti science, pro conspiracy theory nonsense,

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as reflected by some of the people he's appointed and
by his own views on vaccines and other stuff. Is
destructive to American health. He's not making us healthier. Now.
It's true that he can sit up there and says,
you've been a senator for twenty five years as Americans
have gotten sicker and you've done nothing. But is it
really the job of government to prevent us from getting sicker?

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Or is it the job of us as individuals? Yes,
stop giving us bad advice, but coming to just step
away from health. But what RFK is doing is appointing

(40:07):
quacks to make medical decisions, not just health decisions, medical
decisions about what vaccines and potentially what drugs we cannot
use in the future. He's antagonistic to the drug companies
that are life savers for so many Americans and have
the potential, if I'm reading science right, we have the

(40:30):
potential not only to cure diseases and extend human life
significantly in the future. He is going to be a
barrier to that, not a help to that. He is
a unmitigated evil disaster inflicted on the American people by
Donald Trump. He was caught today Cassidy, who is an

(40:54):
unbelievable whimp and really should lose his election. Cassidy, who
was the deciding vote in favor of RFK, and a
lot of people thought that he would vote against him
because Cassidy is a doctor. You think he would know what,
you know, how bad r FK is. Anyway, today he

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tried to catch RFK at a contradiction that was this
big thing, right, he asked RFK in a way of
sucking up to Donald Trump, which is what Cassidy's main
objection in life right now is in order to get
re elected, he asks RFK. He asks RFK, does RFK
think that Donald Trump should get a Nobel Prize for

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Operation Warp Speed that developed the COVID vaccines. And RFK
of course had to say yes because RFK is one
of the tribe now that sucks up to Donald Trump,
and he can't say no to the Nobel Prize to
Donald Trump. So then Cassidy said, okay, but just the
minute ago, you said the vaccine killed more people than

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COVID did. How do you max that up? And RFK
just lying, He said I never said that, And Cassie said,
but you did just a minute ago. We'll look in
the record. It really is, you know, crazy, stupid and nutty.

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But this is who are Health and Human Services? And
the Republicans do not have the ball. Although they did
they seemed a little critical of him today a little,
but given how critical they should be of him, it
was very, very mild. But it's a travesty that this
guy is running anything, never mind an important part of

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the American government. Given how involved American government is in medicine,
it is a travesty that this quack is winning Health
and Human Services. Also today in the Senate, Miwan, who
is Donald Trump's is what is theact the exact term

(43:12):
he is? Oops, you know, it's a long article, so
you know he is charms dominif the FED governor rule.
But he's also chair of the Council for Economic Advisors
and Miwon is going to take a leave of absence
from the Chair of Economic Advisors of the Chair of

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the Council of Economic Advisors in order to fill this
role at the FED that was vacated by the resignation
of a FED board member there was unexpected and he
will fill that role until it expires on January thirty one,
twenty twenty six. It's not a very long period of time.

(43:54):
But Samir said he can have both positions. One is
going to take a leave of absence to but keep
and then leave the FED and go back to the
White House. And he was asked today, well, how can
you be independent of the White House while you're at
the FED. An she's just going to do the presidents bidding?
What about FED independence? And Merin said, no, no, no, I'm

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a complete believer in FED independence now will not be
influenced by anything Donald Trump of the White House says,
even though I'm going to go back to a job
in the White House after the fact. He's also written
in the past about how the FED shouldn't be as
independent as he's written in the past how the FED

(44:37):
should be independent. And one of the ways I guarantee
it's independent is to stop the rotating door between the
White House and the FED. And he is the embodiment
of the rotating dough between the FED and the White House.
And he's again Republicans are so cowardly, so afraid of
Trump that they are probably going to vote for him

(45:00):
undermine the Fed's independence by doing so without any doubts.
But you know. I just don't see anybody being willing
to stand up against them, against Trump, against anything Trump wants,
pretty much anything Trump points literally right, let's see. Yeah.

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Part of this reevaluation of vaccines has now led the
state of Florida to uh to basically swhere am I? Yeah?
The state of Florida, Florida Attorney General has announced a

(45:49):
plan to end all state vaccine mandates, including for children
to attend schools. So it would be the first state
where there was no mandate vaccination mandated to attend a school.
You can come to school even if you're not vaccinate
against any of these diseases. Now, I don't believe they
should be a government mandate on vaccines. If we had

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private schools, if parents could pull the child from a
particular school and send him to another school, let each
school decide whether they want to have a vaccine mandate
or not. This is you know, and even with public schools,
you could do that. Why not drop the state mandate

(46:36):
and allow each school to decide whether to have a
vaccine mandate or not, and then allow parents to move
their kid to any school, public or private, right that
they wish. And one of the criteria maybe would be
parents want to send their kids a school that all
the kids are vaccinated or they don't. I mean, this

(46:59):
should be one hundred percent a parent decision. But again
this is this is denying the parent that decision. It's
going from one extreme to another. It's like during COVID right,
I was against government mask or vaccine mandates, but private

(47:22):
businesses could say, you can't come into this business if
you wear a mask, or if you don't wear a mask.
That's completely within the right of that business. Florida, on
the descent has passed a law that said, I remember
it was cruises. Cruise ships could not require passengers to
be vaccinated. Why not? It's private business. Why can't it

(47:45):
make its own rules. Why is the state dictating to it?
So it would be good, It would be good if
schools could make those decisions for themselves and parents could

(48:06):
then choose. I doubt that that is going to be
the outcome in Florida, just like they couldn't mandate, you know,
businesses couldn't mandate during COVID vaccines or masks. That was
viewed as somehow violating people's whatever. Schools are not going

(48:30):
to be able to do this. I mean, this is
so anti science. And at the end of the day,
this isn't This isn't motivated by parent rights, this isn't
motivated by individual rights. This is one hundred percent motivated
by an anti science, anti vaccine mentality. And this is

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what's spreading around the country. Talk about it by science
and in this case, anti woman mentality. The state of Texas,
the state of Texas is becoming Uglia and uglia. I
mean literally Uglia and uglia. Texas is about. Governor Abbott

(49:19):
is about to sign legislation into law that will allow anyone,
anyone to sue doctors and distributors of abortion pills involved
in sending the drugs into the state into the state.
So this allows private citizens to sue companies and individuals

(49:43):
who manufacture and distribute abortion pills to patients in Texas.
Winning plaintiffs would get a minimum of one hundred thousand
dollars in damages. I mean, the idea abandoning the abortion
pill is so disgusting, it's so primitive, it's so anti science,

(50:09):
it's so anti women, it's so anti life, it's indeed
anti man. It's an anti human. Now, so you now,
since you can't get that abortion pill inside some of
these states. What they're trying to do is criminalize mailing

(50:33):
it in. But it's not enough that the state is
going to watch over who is help people are behaving.
Now we're going to have our neighbors check our mail
and with a huge financial incentive to see if we
might have gotten an envelope from an abortion clinic outside

(50:53):
the United outside sorry Texas, or doctor outside of Texas
who might have mailed that pill, and they get to
sue and they get to collect a reward. I mean,
abortions should be legal, one hundred percent, completely, unequivocally. Okay,

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So they say viability, all right, you could somehow make
an argument for banning abortion after viability. Oh no, no, then
they say some viability. It's heartbeat. As soon as we
can hear a heartbeat, they were human being, they were alive. Okay,

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But it's not. It's conception. It's this mystical, anti scientific
concept view of what makes a human being. The very
splitting of a cell. At conception, that's a human being. Already,
a clump of cells is a human being. Why could

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it could become a human being one day? Because an
abortion pill is only effective in the first few weeks
after conception, when it's clearly not a human being where
to come themselves. And yet they will do anything to penalize, criminalize,

(52:29):
to beat down anybody who stands for abortion rights, and
to anybody who dares, who dares stand up to the
state find ways around the state's laws and actually get
their hands on an abortion pill. Now, as abortions have

(52:50):
declined in places like Texas have disappeared, really in Texas,
more and more people are reverting to using the pill.
And this is unacceptable to these you know, human being haters.
They they don't believe in the right to life because

(53:12):
they're anti life. They're fundamental ideology is anti life. Say yes,
you know you're going to have now people snitching, You're
gonna have private citizens and bounty hunters. I mean, Texas
is really becoming a state that is just going after

(53:34):
young women and making it inhospitable for young women to
live in and or anybody who wants to have sex.
I mean, you ask me, how could anybody live in
a blue state. Well, if you want to have sex,
you should live in a blue state. At least they
won't criminalize you. If you're taking a bullsh and pill

(53:57):
after getting pregnant accidentally from sex. That's how you get
pregnant from sex. It's yeah, it's it's pretty crazy and disturbing.

(54:19):
Florida and Texas nutty, I mean, just becoming nutty places.
I had a couple of quick stories. Finally, as uh well,
as I predicted, the trumpet restation has filed with this
court uh to uh uphol or to overturn the the

(54:42):
the Appellate Court's decision upholding the lower courts decision to
that the tariffs, these particular tariffs, the towers that are
done under the the Economic Emergency Act uh to to
reverse that decision. They, you know, to uphold his global

(55:06):
tariffs and the power that he has to impose them.
They're asking the court to put the case on a
highly expedited schedule with arguments in early November. Early November, Yeah,

(55:27):
that's soon. Of course, the financial stakes are huge. A
defeat for Trump would mean cutting the effective tariff rate
of something like sixteen point three percent to less than
half of that. Now. It wouldn't change the tariffs on
things like aluminum and steel that are being deemed national

(55:49):
security issues and were imposed by a different according to
different law. But now the levees stay in place until
the Supreme Court rules, because that's how the appellate court
determined right. They didn't want to have the economic shock
if the Supremecourt ultimately backed Trumps. So this is going

(56:11):
to Supreme Court. Another one that's going to Supreme Court
is a federal appeals court blocked Trumps from using the
wartime law, another emergency wartime law to deport a group
of Venezuela and immigrants. This is again putting the whole

(56:32):
immigration deportation, the use of this law to deport immigrants
again at a with a question mark. So an appellate
court now is blocked this and it is heading for
the Supreme Court. The White House has argued that Venezuela
is attempting a predatory incursion i e. War against the

(56:57):
United States, and therefore this constitutes an act of war
and therefore it can deport them as foreign agents and terrorists.
The Court of Appeals are the Fifth Circuit rule Tuesday
that the Aliens Enemies Act couldn't be applied in the

(57:18):
case of migrants because they found no evidence. This is
the Fifth no evidence Circuit court no evidence of an
invasion or predatory incursion by a foreign power. I can't remember.
The Fifth is a conservative court. I think it is.
By the way, yesterday I confused the Eighth Circuit Court

(57:40):
with the Ninth Circuit Court. The Ninth, which governs California
in the West, is the court that's going to take
up this issue of the National Guard deploying troops in
LA and they are a very very liberal court. The
Eighth is actually a very conservative court. So I got
those too confuse. I apologize it's the Ninth anyway. A

(58:04):
lot of cases, a lot of cases. Half, no, three
quarters of Trump's agenda is heading to the Supreme Court.
A big chunk all the major issues, all the let's
go after the others is heading to the Supreme Court.
And it's going to be truly fascinating to see what
the Supreme Court does. All right, everybody, That is the

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news for September fourth, Thursday, September fourth, Thank you for listening.
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Eliza Fair Society. So this will be fun. I'm looking
forward to this Q and A and and doing it
with Harry and uh and Peter. Is gonna be a
lot of fun because you know, what is what does

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How does how does it function? I think that's just
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I am doing a talk on free trade, on the
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You know. Let's say Peter's talking about how to write clearly,
how he's talking about how to study I rand that's
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Campbell who asked a fifty dollar question. Thank you, Harper one.
The Centata's just put out a vote. Just put a
vote forward for early next year to make Florida the
first state to property taxes. I know you have reservations
about him. But if he if he proceeds Trump, I

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think that would be a positive corrective step for the GOP. Yeah,
I mean, I don't like Grand DeSantis. I think is
a is very dangerous and potentially very very bad. But
he's better than Trump, although he's smarter than Trump, which
makes him dangerous. He does seem to have I'll give

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him this. He does seem to have uh a pro capitalist,
pro capitalist, is too strong pro markets perspective. He does
seem to be more like a traditional conservative in his
support of markets. Cutting property taxes is great. It's going

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to be interesting to see. I don't know, property access
pretty high in Florida, so I don't know what this
does to government spending and government revenue. And they're for
government spending, you know. I hope this doesn't create a
deficit in Florida that ultimately has to be made up
with other taxes. But it's great to wipe out a

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whole a whole form of taxation is fantastic. It's great news,
good for Ron de Santas. But I can't say that
I'm excited about Desantas or super positive about him. He
also is doing the thing about the vaccines and without

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I think the countermeasure of giving schools the option of
having their own mandates at the school level, which is
where it should be. Now we'll see maybe there's information
about that that will come out where it's much more
similar to mine. They've also made lab meat illegal, just
bizarre stuff like that. I don't know what his position

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is for example, and free trade. I don't know what
his position is on on on industrial planning. Uh, this
is a good move, so this is great. Uh and
uh I commend anybody who wipes out a whole category
of taxes. So uh, good for good for Florida. And

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I hope it passes. I hope it actually happens. I
don't think he can win the presidency though, let's just
be clear. I do not think Janda Sandis can win
the presidency. He showed that this last time. He just
has no charisma, no presence, no nothing, nothing, no no
presidence on stage, you can't say anything that lightens people up,

(01:06:49):
that gets people excited. It's just it's just not there.
It's not in him. I think, you know, maybe maybe
we'll find out that he that he has skills. I'm
not familiar with ol. Wait, Wes, thank you for the
sticker out of fifty dollars from West Gail, thank you
for your sticker. Really appreciate that we're only eight short

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now of this Audif says, come on people, let's meet
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No moaive Android, thank you for the sticker. Just a few,
like two ninety nine stickers will get us there. Let's

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see what are the stickers that we have. I just
want to get everybody. Yeah, m all right, not that
many stickers that that's the problem. We can use some
a few more, eight more stickers, all right, Jennifer. One
of Jefferson's complaints against George, the third listed in the

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decoration was quote cutting off our trade with all parts
of the world. Yes, everything had it was it was
the Jones Act. Everything had to go through England. The
colonies couldn't trade directly with feign countries. Everything had to
be on American ships on British ships had to go
through the homeland of the UK. But you know, let's

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not listen to funding fathers. You know, let's not listen
to them. Let's just as long as we share their bloodline.
Were Okay, It's not the ideas that matter, it's their genes.
Andrew found it interesting that Rand told someone who is
writing an essay on egalitarianism that if he didn't say

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that it was hatred of man for the man of ability,
that it was a betrayal. Conveys them all fervor and
passion for ideas and passion for ability. Rand was the
opposite of egalitarian, loved, valued, honored, praised, raised up, made

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heroes of the men of ability, men who weren't bordered ability,
the men who used ability that went out and did
stuff in the world that changed the world, that made
the world. They're the characters that fell out of the shrug.
They the people she admires. She has a huge amount
of respect for them, and they're the ones who are

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crushed by the galitarians. They're the ones that the galicarians
don't care about. And of course they are also the
ones who moved civilization forward. And yet this people who

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are going to be moved forward by the men of
ability are the ones who denounced them in the name
of a galitarianism. I mean, you know how I always
say I don't believe in trickle down economic because it's
not a trickle, it's a it's a waterfall, it's a flood.
The benefits that the common man receives from the geniuses

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is just unbelievable. You know. It's geniuses who've shaped the
modern world, who've shaped all the benefits that we get
in the modern world, and for them to then turn
around and denounce them by supporting egalitarians is one of
the great injustices in the world. So, yes, Ironmand is
gonna you know, this is one of her biggest issues, right.

(01:10:45):
You see that in Atlas uh am Kat says, call
them woke, right, it really gets under their skin. Yeah,
it's I don't know, I don't I don't particularly like
the term, but yeah, I guess getting them under the

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skin is a value in and of itself. I make
adosa ads gaza needs to go basically equal to reality.
Thank you for the sticker, basically Ian, thank you, Mary, Mary,
thank you all of my my mic I apologize again

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for the mic drop that we had there. H Andrews says.
Another interesting thing about about Ran was that she frequently
thought of and identified the motives behind ideas and actions
without revoting to psychologizing. Do you think that's difficult to do?
And any thought on how Yeah, I think it's very

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difficult to do. I think it's it's hugely difficult to do,
and it's why you don't get other objectives thinkers doing
it quite to the extent that she does. I think
she brings a perspective on it that I don't have
and others don't have, and that is of a novelist
who's thought a lot about human psychology and human motivation.

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You can't write a novel like Out of the Shrug
without understanding human motivation and really thinking about it and
in a sense researching, researching in terms of from that perspective,
from the perspective what motivates people to hold the ideas
and to take the actions that they take. And I'm

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man great novelist that she was was of course a
master of exactly that of seeing the motivation, of understanding motivation.
You can't do characterization in literature unless you understand do motivation,
and that means understanding psychology, the psychology of people that
drives them. And she was a genius at that. And

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it's what in many of many of our nonfiction essays.
Is what gives life to the essays the fact that
she identifies the psychological cause, the motivating factor that drives
people the whole, the ideas that they do and to
do the things that they do. Raymond, how do you

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objectively assign a way to your gut feeling? I find
my gut to be pretty reliable, but it's by definition
not consciously reasoned. I think the way to look at
this is your gut, which is really what I forget
the name of the psychologists called fast thinking. Your gout
is really just fast thinking. It's giving you an emotional,

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very fast integration, integrated response to the information you're receiving.
If the issue at hand, if the topic you're evaluating,
in a sense is a topic you're an expert in,
you really thought of out a lot in the past,

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and you're really good at consciously so you know a
huge amount about it, you would trust your gut more
over a topic like that than something that's completely new
to you. That's something that you haven't studied, that you

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don't know that much about. So there's a good example.
I think that in one of Gladwell's books, where he says,
you know an expert on an art forgery, and some
of these art forgers are really really good, so they'll
forge your Rembrandt, or they'll forge of Vermio or something,
and it looks really like the original. And an expert

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art forgery can look at a painting and his gut
will tell him and he's almost always right. But that's
because he's practiced. It's subconscious feeding you because you know
so much and you're practiced in it. It's like you
don't think about well, you guys wouldn't know about this.

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Right when you drive a car, right in old days,
we used to shift gears manually with clutch. And the
amazing thing is you never thought about, oh, I should
go from second to third. Now you just when the
time came, you went from second to third. And that's

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in a sense you got your subconscious is telling you,
now's the time do it. But when you're driving for
the first X number of thousands of hours, you actually
think it, Oh, it's revving up, I need to go
to I need to shift gears. I need to shift gears.
And then you shift gears. But the repetition, the practice,

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over and over and over and over and over again,
you don't need the conscious mind to actually guide what
you're doing. You can rely on your subconscious all that
is all the gut thing is, can you rely on
your subconscious? Now? Are the issues on which you can
rely on your subconscious? Yeah, some very unimportant stuff you

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don't have time to think it through, and stuff that
you're an expert, and even then you want to back
it up with conscious thought, with consciously guided thought. But
when we talk about things is becoming automatized. This is
what we're talking about. And you can automatize pretty sophisticated things.

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But too many people use their gut for everything, including
stuff they know nothing about, and that is irrational and
that is well, you have to your subconscious be guided
at some point, fed with the right ideas, the right conclusions,

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the right context, and that requires work. All right, We've
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you with an answer, harp A Campbell. Even if you're healthy,
is it possible to be consistently happy if you're not wealthy? Yes?

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And what does it mean to be wealthy? How much
wealth does one need to be happy? Yes, I don't
know what you mean by wealthy. Wealth is not required
for happiness. It makes happiness in a sense easier, and
it increases your happiness, and certainly he needs some level

(01:18:21):
of wealth. If you're really struggling to put food on
the table and on the verge of potential starvation, then yeah,
it is possible that the lack of wealth is preventing
you from being happy. So some minimal requirement is there.
But I don't know what wealthy is. Is it a

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million dollars, five million dollars, ten million dollars? Don't know.
I think we just achieved our goal. We'll see if
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the ninety nine cents ones, I don't think it recognized,
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keep them coming. We've got two minutes. Keep them coming,
Maybe ask a question or put the few letters underneath it,
just to make it more officially super chatty and Jacob

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just did a buck ninety nine. Let's if it captured that.
It didn't capture that either. Suddenly it's not accepting stickers,
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and I will so I will complain to YouTube and
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His numbers are fraudulent, fraudulent, I tell you. Yeah. Paul
actually made his twenty twenty, but we needed a bunch

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of others to get there. So thank you as the
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I know some of you did even more than one
Staker doubly. Thank you for that. Andrew. You know how

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with Trump everything is horrible a disgrace, a hell whole,
et cetera, unless he's responsible for it. I'm highlighting his
negativity and malevolence. Do you think that's correlated with skepticism cynicism.
I don't know. I mean it's colllated. I don't think
that's the case with Trump. I mean, partially, Trump understands

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that that's how you motivate people. You motivate them through
fear and hate, and that is what his base wants.
So I think partially it's that. Is Trump super negative
in his everyday life. I don't know. I don't think so.

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I don't think he could have done what he did
as an entrepreneur if he'd been like this as applied
to his entrepreneurship. I think it's more of a it's
his narcissism, wanting to take credit for everything, wanting everything
to be his responsibility if it's good, mixed in with
understanding his audience and understanding how to manipulate them. I

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think it's that combination, Bonnie. Why does some grow up
trying to think in principles in spite of their education.
Others don't. I have no idea, because they chose to,
because they chose to focus they chose to engage their mind.
They both chose to put it at full throttle, not

(01:22:07):
eh so so, and there's no explanation for why they
choose it. But this is the majority of human beings.
It's an achievement two thinking principles. It's a real achievement,

(01:22:29):
particularly given our educational system. So you should take pride
in yourself in achieving that. I don't have. I mean, yeah,
I think it's I think it's just that it requires effort,
It requires focus, It requires constant focus. I mean when

(01:22:50):
you're focusing, it requires real engagement, and it requires being
committed to having that mind up, a commitment to reality
and to commitment to honesty. Liam. When you take responsibility
for yourself, regardless of whatever else is going on, that
is power. That is when the fun begins. Yeah, I

(01:23:12):
agree with that. Take responsibility for yourself if you understand
what it means to take responsibility for yourself, not in
a superficial kind of conservative way, but in the sense
of my mind, my life. I will shape it, I
will make it. Yes, Michael, does the left have more

(01:23:34):
respect for human rights than the right, respect for due
process and humane treatment of the teenees and prisoners. In
that sense, I mean who on the left, right and
who on the right. Some people on the left, some
people in the left have no respect for that. You
can see that in countries dominated by leftist politics, Brazil, Venezuela.

(01:23:58):
So it depends who. The center left, center right tends
to have respect for these things to some extent. The
far left far right don't. The far left in America
does not have respect for any of those things. They
have respect for Palestinian due process, but not for Israeli
due process, Palestinian humane treatment, not Israeli humane treatment. So no,

(01:24:25):
I don't think either extremes if you will, or either.
I don't think collectivism take it to the extreme consistently
has any respect for human rights, individual rights, or anything
like that. Excuse me one second, Oh shit, I missed it.

(01:24:47):
I try to kill the mosquito. I mean, in this
room for two days now with this mosquito, and if
he's I think he's biting me constantly, and I almost
got in the Wait a minute, I might have another
shot at it. Hold on, got it, And a bunch

(01:25:10):
of blood came off on the wall, which suggests that
he's already bitten me and that's my blood on the wall. Michael. Oops, Michael,
and yesterday's show, you said iron Rand didn't convince that

(01:25:30):
many people, but maybe she convinced the most important people.
What did you mean by that? Well, she convinced the
people who are most important in the sense that they're
the ones who could grasp her ideas and do something
with him. I mean, look, yeah, I mean it's not

(01:25:52):
really clear, right she convinced her, She convinced. But to
be convinced, my iron Rand, you have to already you have
a sudden degree of honesty. You know, you have to
be have a sudden degree of thinking, as Bonnie asked about,
you have to be able to conceive of principles and

(01:26:13):
be able to think in principles. And those are the
people you want to convince. She you know, there's a
lot of wishy watching people. There might have been somewhat convinced,
and then who knows what they would have done with it.
They might have been people who who treated Irand as
of religion and taking it as religion, and that would
have done damage. So there might have been people who
jumped on the bandwagon aving Rand who and there have

(01:26:35):
been people who've jumped on the bandwagon, but there might
have been more who do more harm than good to
the cause of objectivism. But I take your point as
me not being very precise and clear about my statement there, Andrew.
When Tom Snyder asked rand what she meant by selfishness,

(01:26:56):
she referenced self esteem and that one respects one's mind.
What is respecting one's mind entail in tails respecting one's
mind or what does it detail? Sorry, and it tails
taking your own judgment seriously and entails the knowledge that

(01:27:18):
you are capable of judgment, that you are capable of
knowing the world around you, that you're capable of understanding,
that you're capable of taking care of your own survival,
of taking care of producing to live and building and

(01:27:39):
making stuff. So I think that's what it means to
take your mind, to respect your mind. It's to know
that you can know and that you can solve problems,
and then engaging in that activity on an ongoing basis

(01:28:00):
and trusting in your own mind, in your own thinking.
I mean, think about other people who constantly apologize for
their opinions, apologize for I could never understand that. I
could never do that. I can never figure that out.
I could constantly putting themselves down, the mind down, Respect

(01:28:24):
your mind, know what it's capable of, know what it's not,
what its limitations are. Right, I'm not going to try
to understand Einstein. I did once. I can't get it. Okay,
I can live with that, But I also know what
I am capable of. And you know, you've got to

(01:28:46):
respect that capability that you have. Justin when a crony
politician is accused of acting in self interest against the
interest on the people, what's a better term than self interest? Well, well,
it depends on this specific case. It could be that
he is acting based on short term whim considerations of

(01:29:13):
short term and wim, that he is just against that
he's acting against his own long term interest, that he's
acting in a destructive way, that he's acting kind of Yeah,

(01:29:38):
I've always I've said for a long time that we
lack a concept that can include all those things that
people perceive as self interested but are not and you know,
self destructive. But that's not clear enough anyway, that there's

(01:30:00):
a lot of that. I think I think that a
new concept to capture that would be helpful unpackage the
package deal and create a new concept for all the
stuff that doesn't belong liam When evaluating selfishness, are people

(01:30:21):
not so much put up by the idea of you
pursuing your values and achieving your happiness, but it perceived
ugliness of not caring about others. I mean, I think
that's where it goes where their mind goes to first, right,
because I think that's what they're trained to they trained altruistically.
But then, but then if you explain to them, for example, no,

(01:30:47):
I mean, caring about some others is completely self interested.
It's completely selfish. It doesn't seem to make them feel
better about it. So at the end, it is about
them feeling uncomfortable about pursuing their own values unsacrificially. And

(01:31:12):
even if they're even if you could convince them that
you would still treat other people with respect and still
treat other people as traders, that doesn't convince them. So
there's something else going on. Adif says count me on YouTube.
Thank you Odif fendoop I asked about this about Biden.

(01:31:34):
But how many clones of Trump could you take in
a fight? They come in one at a time, every
minute maximum is ten. Once they can't get back up,
they disappear. I don't know. I don't know that I
can take any of them. Trump is a big guy.
I mean, I'm not particularly skilled at fighting. He can

(01:31:54):
probably just fall on me and knock me down. I
have no idea, Jacob. Thanks to the support, could a
hospital now say, want to deliver your baby at hospital ABC,
you must get these specific vaccines for our nie. You

(01:32:14):
would protection? I think so. If not, they should be
able to. I think they can, but I'm not sure. Yeah,
I just don't know. I know they should be able to, Jacob.
If there are some p five hundred booms four k

(01:32:35):
points after the travs are shut down, would Trump be
considered chaffs? Is he too deep into mecanalism to think otherwise?
I don't think it would be consider But look, I
don't think there's some people five hander war boom four
thousand points. I don't think it'll go up at all.
I think it'll it's likely to go down when I
think that there are simply five hundred is kind of

(01:32:58):
priced in tariffs and relieve that uncertainty in a sense
is gone. And now the Supreme Court ruling against tariffs
would cause more certainty and stocks could very well go down,
and tilp could view that as a message of ce

(01:33:20):
I told you tariffs were good. This is the problem
of relying on markets to interpret, you know, interpreting markets
as signals of what's good and what's bad. Markets don't
do that. They're not good at that. Paul says, are
you planning to become a genocide scholar? No, I'm not.
I did cover that story yesterday about how anybody could

(01:33:42):
sign up at the website and become a genocide scholar
and then make pronouncements in the names in the name
of genocidal scholars, But no, I have no intention of
signing up. Peter nat cons if America is an idea
capitalism which everyone hates, then we don't get to be
mindless nationalists like citizens in other countries. That's right. I

(01:34:05):
mean the the American Nacons a particular have a particular problem,
and that is that they they don't have a tribe
affiliation that's easy to define. They have to really squirm
and figure it out without alienating half of all Americans

(01:34:28):
who don't fit their standard. Right, the real Americans are Scots.
The Scots invented America. And if for only Scots are
the real Americans? And you know they want to say
stuff like that, they can't hector. Yesterday you said Italy
is for history, not the future. So which countries embody

(01:34:49):
the future? And are they the ones we should visit now?
I mean, here's the thing that for a long time
I said Asia. Asia was younger, It was dynamic, it
was clearly it was growing, it was turning capitalist, it
was turning free. It was where the excitement was. But

(01:35:10):
that has turned Asias turned away from that. Birth rates
have plummeted, they don't have children anymore. China has gone
off the deep end. It's become much more status so
you don't get the excitement, the energy, the growth that
you used to so Asias. I mean, one of the

(01:35:32):
things that embodied the future when you went to China
and Hong Kong and place like that was the architecture.
Architecture was bold and beautiful and striving and future oriented
versus kind of dull and boring, mostly in the West.
But that's probably going away, So I don't know, maybe Argentina,

(01:35:55):
I don't know where you go for the future. It's
very difficult. It's not a good time in the world
world right now, it looked a lot better fifteen years ago.
It really did. And then Lennon Peacock for demypothesis, and
then the demipothesis has decided to become true. Hey, Ron,

(01:36:17):
if someone loves to donate because they like gifting others
and seeing happy reactions, how to keep it distinct from altruism? Well,
it's you have to really only you can do it,
and you have to be able to introspect your values.
And why do you like seeing happy reactions in people?

(01:36:39):
Maybe you don't know, I've never met, know nothing about.
What is it about that? How important is that to
you relative to other values? And then when you analyze that,
does this justify the level of importance? You're giving it
from a rational human perspective, So it requires a lot

(01:37:00):
of introspection to understand your true motivations. Urban Porcupine, thank
you for giving me something interesting to listen to while
I fix my car. Happy to do so, and thank
you for the support, Robert says for the super chart challenge,
name one fun film, not necessarily a top favorite, just
plain fun. Oh, any movie by the Marx Brothers. I

(01:37:24):
love the Max Brothers. Night at the Opera by the
Max Brothers. I know it's old, people resent old, but
Max Brothers movies. I really really enjoyed them. They were
a lot of fun and necessarily there's a lot of
silliness that goes on, but I think it's kind of
clever silliness, if that's possible. Liscinder says, hope YouTube recognizes this.

(01:37:49):
I think it did. Thank you guys, really appreciate it,
appreciate all the support. I will be back tomorrow at
about the same time I think fourth third East Coast time.
It's now past midnight over here, so expect the same
time tomorrow. I teach a class until four, so the
show will either start a four thirty or five, either

(01:38:13):
four thirty or five. But there will be a show tomorrow.
No show on Saturday, probably a show on Sunday. So
on Saturday, I'm going to visit Milcot who is listening
to the show and it shows up on the chat
once in a while. All right, everybody, have a great
rest of your week, have a great rest of your Thursday,

(01:38:35):
and I will see you tomorrow. Bye, everybody.

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