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Speaker 1 (00:03):
A lot of them, fundamental principles of leedom, rational, self
interesting and an individual wats this is the show? Oh right, everybody,
welcome to you One Book Show on this December thirty first,

(00:27):
it's New Year's Eve again.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
I don't know what number New Eve you've show.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
This is for me, but these are always really fun shows.
It's a great opportunity for us to.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Just talk and interact.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
I'll be doing my review of twenty twenty five, some
thoughts about twenty twenty six, but in the meantime I'll
be answering questions, looking at the comments, looking at your chat.
Just this is a this is a good time just
to have a show where we really have a good time.
And of course it's a big fundraising show. So this

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is the show in which we we we try to
raise a significant amount of money for the One Book
Show to keep us going into the next year and
keep everything motivated and everything chugging along. And so that
is you know, that is that is great? How much

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of a song review? One hundred dollars? Hundred dollars song reviews.
So please consider using this opportunity to support the show.
You can do it with a sticker. You can do
it with questions. You can do many, many questions. You
can ask as many as you want. I think the
limit dollar wise is five hundred dollars persh show per person,

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so you can't go over five hundred dollars. The goal
today is to raise a ridiculously high amount of money,
which is fifteen thousand dollars, which would get us in
line with the last couple of years, the last two
years in terms of annual super chat super chat, and
we'll keep me up there in the ratings of a

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really high, really high super chat on YouTube. So keep it,
keep me in good, good terms with with youtubes. So
it's a huge goal. The only way to get to
this goal, the only way we're going to get to
this goal is those of you who are so inclined
and can afford it. If some of you out there

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can do five hundred dollars, just like John just did.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
John. It has been supportive all year and has put
five hundred dollars. I still owe you a yes. The
movie review better Man. It's coming on Saturday. So Saturday,
I'm going to review better Man and I will review
Ford versus Ferrari. So those two movies will be reviewed

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on Saturday, and so if you guys want more reviews,
I'm almost caught up. I've got two more things to
review and I'll be completely caught up. So if you
want to add stuff for me to review, please please
do so. Anyway, we're not going to reach it unless
some of you do five hundred dollars who can afford
it and make it. You know, we've got a bunch

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of hundreds and fifties and that's fantastic. We got a
two hundred and fifty earlier today, were ready over one
thousand dollars towards the fifteen thousands, so keep it coming.
Hopefully people will join as we go through the show.
We'll join and say hello and make a contribution.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
You can also if.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
You would prefer, If you would prefer, and certainly if
you want to do more than five hundred dollars, you
can use PayPal. I'm putting the PayPal link into the
chat in YouTube.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
You can use the pet.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Paal link to make PayPal link to make a one
time a contribution on payper.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I will count those.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
So I'm tracking PayPal and we'll count all those as well.
Let me see what else did I want to say, Yes,
I know a bunch of you probably watching this on
Twitter or on Facebook.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Please come over to YouTube.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Twitter and Facebook do not allow me to monetize the
shows over there. It's harder to get to monetize over there.
So come on over to.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
YouTube where you can come in.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
And you know, even if you do two dollars or
five dollars or ten dollars, whatever you can do is
greatly appreciated. It all adds up, It all chips away
at at getting to getting to our goal. And let's see. Yeah,
so so come on over again. You guys can also

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do PayPal. Just go PayPal you on book show, you're
on book show, and make a one time contribution. There
is a link on my Twitter feed. There's a us
a link here in the to feed to be able
to access it. On on PayPal, you can do more
than one hundred dollars, so more than more than five
hundred dollars. So in that sense it is it is better.

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Let's see what else? What else do we want to cover? Yeah, so,
before if I get into the twenty five kind of
a review of twenty five and again, I want to
thank everybody who is contributing right now, we are making
really really nice progress. If we're going to go four hours,

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we need to do about, you know, four thousand an hour.
So we're certainly on pace for the four thousand an hour.
We'll see if we can keep that up for four hours,
but we're on pace so far. We've already raised I
have to constantly add in the amount of money that
came in early and is not counted in my super

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chat track, but you know, we're getting close to fifteen
hundred dollars. Fifteen hundred dollars, so that's great, and that's
that's a phenomenal start to today. So before I go
into twenty twenty five, I want to talk about something
happening right now. And there won't be resolved today, and

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it will be resolved next year in twenty twenty six,
but is exciting and scary and inspiring. And I know
I've talked about it in the last few shows, but
I'm seeing more and more. I'm seeing more and more
stuff online that is suggesting that this is growing and

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becoming more substantial, and that is what is going on
in Iran, and the thousands of people are out in
the streets and really for the first time, I think
really calling for a revolution, calling for the end of
this regime, even people calling for the return of the Shah,

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not as a dictator of it as a ceremonial position.
People chanting in the streets, death to diatulas. And I
want to put this in perspective of the courage this takes.
We're talking about a regime that has no problem shooting
people in the street. We're talking about a regime that
since since the war with Israel in June, they have executed,

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executed fifteen hundred people, fifteen hundred people, you know, fifteen
hundred people, some of them probably just at random, just
to scare the Iranian people, scare them so much that
they wouldn't dare, They wouldn't dare to oppose, to stand
up and impose right and them says, I count twenty

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super chests, but only fifteen show on the goal. Well,
you know, I don't know. We've had this problem before.
I've mentioned it to YouTube. They claim, no, no, everything's
working fine. There's nothing I can do about that. So
we're we're gonna stick to We're gonna just keep it going.
So the other goal we're doing is is fifty super

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chats per hour, and it should include stickers and super chats.
Fifty super chests per hour. We're on according to YouTube
one seventeen. According to Nam, we're on twenty one or
twenty two. But we'll go with super chat because they're
counting and they're the ones that will make the goal

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either achievable or unachievable. So you know, one way to
get help us get the goal. If you want to
do five hundred, you can do five one hundred. You
can do a bunch of twenties, you can do fifties.
You can spread it out and you can ask that
way a lot of questions with the amount of money
that you contribute. So it is uh, it is great.

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So uh let me let me just go across. So, yes,
I just want to salute the Iranian people, uh, and
the courage and the bravy to go out into the
street against a murderous regime. To know that there is
a real risk. Uh, there's a real risk involved in

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in going out into the streets and opposing this regime,
in in standing your ground. Uh. A lot of students
have now joined. So this was originally mainly shopkeepers. Now
a lot of students have joined, a lot of the
goals revolution goals have joined. You know, there are you know, again,
there are reports, but these are a suspect. I don't

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believe these reports, uh that that at least one city
is now occupied by the demonstrators. They they have toppled
the h uh, the existing regime. But again I I
don't really believe it. I think it's I think it's uh,
it's too early, too soon.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
I'll also say that.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
The this revolution will not succeed, is almost for certain
unlikely to succeed unless elements within the military join. You
don't expect the Islamic revolutionary God to join, but elements
within the regular military if they join, if they join,

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then this regime could easily be toppled.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
The people wanted gone.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
And now we need insiders with guns, basically insiders with
guns to uh, you know, to go in and uh
and and help them out, and and and and actually
provide an armed defense for the revolution and and and
armed action on the revolution. Anyway, this is this is

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happening as we speak. I'm watching some of the feeds.
It looks like they, you know, the regimus sent some
of the thugs to destroy the shops of the shopkeepers
that have gone out to demonstrate, so they are literally
ripping those shops parts and and and trying trying to

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destroy them. All right, let me just say it seems
like YouTube doesn't count the stickers unless you put like
an emoji in the sticker or you just instead of
a sticker say happy New Year or just something, and
then it all count it. So I think that's why
there's a difference, a difference between them. Why the difference

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in the stickers. So with twenty super chats out of
a goal of fifty for this hour, we've got another
forty five minutes to reach our goal, so plenty of time,
plenty of time to make it all right. Wes Wes,
thank you, thank you, Thank you. Wes just came in

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with another five hundred dollars. This is what we're going
to need in order to get our goal. Wes says,
thanks to another great year of shows. I really don't
know what I would do without your show. I also
donated through PayPal. Thank you. I really really appreciate that.
Thank you. The other five hundred it was from John

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who just said Happy New Year. Thank you. John, really
appreciate that and thank you Wes also for the contribution
through PayPal. I really really appreciate that. Wow, that's terrific.
Thank you. All right, let's see what else do we

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have here? Yeah, let me go through some of these
just as they're coming in, so we clear out. So
we're going to leave the questions for later. We'll do
the questions later, but at least get some of the
just the ones that are congratulatory you On, Thank you
for being a continuing voice for reason and our culture.
Happy new Year, Brian, Thank you, Brian, really appreciate it.

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That's fifty dollars. Jennifer, Happy new Year, Thank you, Jennifer.
Let's see these are questions. We'll get to that. Apple
Jack one hundred dollars, thank you, you On, Thanks apple Jack,
Gee Bouda, thank you for being the best voice for reason.
Happy new year, Thank you, Jay, Jay bouder R and

(13:44):
b thank you for the inspiration to live with the
capital L. I love that. Thank you, Yes, Capital L living.
That's what we're for here at the On Book Show.
So do it, Just do it, Karen, I have a
great twenty twenty six year on. Thank you, Callen and
YouTube the Dumb and then Ryan says, I just resubscribed

(14:06):
on Patreon. Not sure how my subscription got canceled a
few months ago. Happy New Year, run and everyone. Yeah,
I mean sometimes they get canceled. I don't know why.
Sometimes they get canceled because maybe your credit card expires
or something like that. But I don't know. I don't
have an explanation for how these things just just go.

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All right, let's see, I like I asked a couple
of questions.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
I mean that's I think one hundred and fifty five
dollars or one hundred and seventy five dollars. Thank you.
As a long time viewer, I wanted to thank you
for all that you do in adding value to my life.
Happy a happy new Year, and I'm looking forward to
YBS twenty twenty six. Absolutely, it's unbelievable. The year is
already here. It's already happening. Dan Ve, Happy new Year.

(14:54):
Thanks for being a voice of reason, helping to clarify
my thinking. My pleasure equal to reality. Thank you you
on for all the hard work. Happy New Year. Thank you,
real spark, real spuck is a real question. So we'll
leave that, uh doum, and we've got uh Allie, Allie,

(15:26):
Happy New Year, you on. Thanks for all the news updates.
Uh and we'll get to that later. Get to that later.
All right, Doug just came in with five hundred dollars
and he wants a book review. A book review American
I can Allen Okay Ellen Ellen Malayley and the Fight

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to save Ford Motor Company. We listened to the audiobook
though it was a pretty good I thought it was
a pretty good story of leadership and so much more excellent.
Thank you. I am copying pasted into my review list
to start the I'm gonna I'm gonna try to I'm
gonna finish first all the reviews I owe everybody, and
then uh and then we will do these. But thank you.

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Doug really appreciate the five hundred dollars. And and as
we say, we are like over twenty five hundred already.
Uh so, so that is great. I figured the first
hour we're gonna have to get to I think well
over five thousand dollars to to make to make it,

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because the first hour is always the best. I think
although people coming in out during the during the show
real spark, the way it goes is the lower them
out the later in the show it gets answered. That's
that's just the way you want it answered now, five
hundred dollars. I promise we'll get it answered now. All right. Oh,

(16:59):
I've got Ian, and Ian's got another movie review for me.
Another song of you, sorry, song of you? All right,
but one hundred dollars, one hundred dollars, please review the
Night Watch by King Crimson. It's about the Rembrandt painting. Oh,
that'll be interesting, that'll be interesting. So I'm looking I'm
looking forward to that. I like there were a few

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songs about paintings. Starry Story Night of course is van
Go painting. Here's another song with Youhammad says, also one
hundred dollars. Happy new Year, you on please review the
song Starlift Fearless Part two by Crown Lands. Thank you
for all the great shows throughout the year. Wish you

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a successful year ahead. Thank you. Okay, copy paste. We'll
copy of that song as well, and we will try
to get to those soon. And all right, that is answered.
Linda says, Happy New Year, Thank you. Askar says, Happy

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New Year. What sponsorship level would it take for you
to complete a list and discuss on a show? The
list of Trump's impeachable offenses. I mean there's so many,
it's hard. Yeah, I mean generally sponsorship of a show,

(18:31):
to sponsor a whole show is one thousand dollars, so
given that that would be a whole show, I think
that would be that would be one thousand dollars. So yep,
all right, let's see. All right again, we are doing

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also PayPal, primarily PayPal for anybody who wants to do
over five hundred, but anybody is welcome to do PayPal
if it's easier, or if you're watching the show after
the fact and you're not your life. Oh, if you're
on Twitter or Facebook, a few people on Facebook, you
can you can go to you can go to PayPal,

(19:15):
and I later I will add up to PayPal and
and see how much of the meaning on our list
it it actually offsets, so that so that we counted
towards the goal. All right, let me do I think
a few stickers Gary, thank you, Darlene, thank you, these
all stickers and laid back petal pusher thank you, Real Daniel,

(19:40):
thank you, Huayna Guy thank you. I'm probably mispronouncing that one.
And oh, poker poker Jew, thank you. For the fifty dollars.
Really appreciate it, Remo, thank you, and all right, there
we the PayPal. The PayPal link is attached to the

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top of the chats, so at any point if you
want that, you can you can get to it, all right.
So twenty twenty five, what do we do with this year?
So much happened in twenty twenty five. It was such

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a vulture, Tom, Thank you. Tom, really appreciated fifty fifty pounds,
fifty British pounds, which sixty almost seventy US dollars, So
thank you guys again, chipping away slowly at this we've
already raised, Yeah, twenty seven hundred something like that, So

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keep it coming, keep it coming. So what do we
make about this year? I mean, this is a year
and it has to be the year of Trump. This
is the year that Trump came to power second term, unabashed,
with a team dedicated to his agenda, with no qualms
about that gender, with no with no questions, with no

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adults in the room talking him off, you know, off
of his more radical views. This is the year of
Trump's agenda. It's really the first real year of Trump's agenda.
Because I think Trump was always hampered during his first
term by having a team around him that wasn't necessarily
committed to his agenda. You know, people who talked him

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out of tariffs, people who talked him out of deploying
troops into the streets. People talked him out of you know,
really really really full on going after the legal immigration
even though he wanted to. This is this is the
first year of Trump administration where they really prepared, where
they had remember Agenda twenty twenty five, which the Heritage

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Foundation put together for future Trump administration.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
They had a blueprint.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Agenda twenty twenty five is a blueprint. They've got it
in writing. They've got something that guides everything that they
do and that can help them move their agenda, you know,
significantly forward. So this term is dramatically different than the

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Trump first term. And I think really everything, everything in
the news this year was dominated by Trump, by Trump's actions,
by Trump's inactions, by his domestic policy, by his international policy.
He is different, to say the least, than any president
in my lifetime in pretty much all of those agendas.

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The way he communicates his willingness to just say what
he thinks. The radicalness, if you can call it radical,
you know, the the the the fact that he's willing
to just do stuff constitutional and we'll figure that out later,
the quote or reversa, we'll figure that out later. Right. So, Uh, it's.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
This is the year of Trump.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
And uh, I think Time magazine made him Person of
the Year. And absolutely it's nobody else you could have
made this year person of the year. He dominated every
aspect of everything. And look he he he came in
swinging from from from day one. Uh he he immediately,

(23:53):
you know, immediately started doing things that were.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
You know, unusual, right.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Uh. You know, if you remember that first few weeks,
we was calling Canada the fifty estate. This is even
before inauguration and uh and and threatening the Canadians. Uh
he told us what exactly was going to do with immigration.
So yeah, this is, without a doubt the year of

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the Year of Trump. And so let's go through some
of the things that stand out in terms of what
Trump has done. Uh, what Trump has done and what
I think is going to be kind of a legacy
for for this administration moving into the future. Uh And
and we're really going to break this down into a

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domestic policy and and and then we'll talk about we'll
talk about phone policy, and we'll talk about the culture.
I think that has shifted significantly uh since Trump came
into office, uh and more broadly. And and yeah, and
I've also got a whole section where we'll talk about

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we'll definitely talk about some good news, right, some good news,
good things that have happened this year. So hopefully we'll
get to that. We'll try to make sure that we
find time for that. So so yeah, all right, let
me let me see what I want to say. Yeah,
I want to remind you again if you want to

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do more than five hundred dollars, you can do it
on PayPal. The link is right up there on the chat.
If you're on another platform, please come over to to
YouTube so you can contribute and help out and to
get to our goals which are very very very very
very very very ambitious this year. You know, I'm going

(25:49):
to ask you, guys to stretch those of you can
afford it to stretch, and those of who can afford it,
I'm going to ask you to consider doing five hundred dollars,
which is the limit on YouTube, or if you can
do more than that, do some.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Of it on PayPal.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Wes has already done five hundred dollars on YouTube and
five hundred dollars on PayPal. So thank you, thank you,
thank you, Wes T T Bizarre, T Bizarre, five hundred dollars.
Thank you really appreciate that. That is amazing. Jeremy, thank
you for the sticker. I really appreciate the support. Glenn

(26:29):
for two hundred dollars, just to thank you for a
great year. This has become my primary social news even
so I haven't been able to watch many shows live.
I get them after the live show. Keep up the fight.
Thank you, Glenn, really appreciate the support. And Paul one
hundred dollars. Happy New Year, you on. Keep up the
great work. Thank you, Paul. Let's see if there were

(26:51):
other stickers that I missed. See Weed, thank you. It's
his third super Chat sticker. I can't try and find
did Tom. I'll thank Tom again? And I think Gary again.
I think I think then before and let's see. Gail says,
Happy New Year, you on, and to anyone who thinks

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mediocrity sucks on your on Books show, we definitely think
mediocrity sucks. All right, So let's see where are we?
So we have now crossed the thirty five hundred dollars threshold,
so we need about five hundred dollars to make our

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first hour goal, which is, you know, we've got a
goal of four thousand dollars an hour. I laughed, because
it's hard to believe we can achieve it, and then
we do, and then you guys come through and we
actually do achieve it. So we're five hundred dollars short
basically making the first hour goal. We've got two hundred

(27:53):
and seventy five dollars that were booked before the show
starteds are not really counted in what you see in
the chat, so really it's only four hundred dollars to
make the first hour go, not even five hundred dollars.
So maybe somebody can jump in and make it all
the way. So it's hard to say where to start

(28:14):
with this year and where to start with Trump, right,
so much has happened, so much has been done, and
I'm sure whatever list I've made, there's a bunch of
things I am going to forget that you know, incredibly
powerful and incredibly important and have shaped the year, and

(28:35):
it probably probably contributes significantly to shaping this decade by
the way, we're thirty four out of fifty super chats.
To count a sticker towards the number of super chats,
you have to put like any moji or something in
the sticker so that YouTube knows how to count it.

(28:56):
I don't know why they can just count a simple sticker.
But so we've got to goal in terms of the dollars.
We've got a goal in terms of the number of
uh just the just the sheer number of super chats,
and that goal is fifty an hour. Fifty for the
first hour, so we need another sixteen. And make sure

(29:17):
if you do a stick up ad add like an
emoji or just to thank you or happy New Year
to it, and that way it accounts. And yeah, I'm
gonna I'm gonna complain again to to the powers to
be at YouTube that they don't count straight stickers, all right,
So again, thank you to everybody who's done five hundred dollars.

(29:40):
That's amazing. Anybody who's done one hundred or more amazing.
I mean, you're you're the people who are going to
get us to our goal or close to our goal,
or as close to our goal as we get. So
I think that probably the number one thing I would
note in terms of Trump is his use of execut power.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Clearly what Trump the goal of the Trump.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Administration is to buy through president and to basically establish
the executive as the most powerful branch of government, which
is already had become. But to basically push the envelope
and see how far you can get in terms of

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what the executive can get away with, what the executive
can do without congressional approval. That has been a huge
thrust of this administration. And I would say aiding in
a betting, aiding and a betting the Trump administration is Congress.
One of the horror stories of this year. One of

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the really horrific parts of this year is the very
fact that Congress. We just don't hear anything from Congress.
You know, they do almost nothing. They suddenly don't seem
to care about what Donald Trump does because the Republicans said,

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they're not going to investigate anything he does. They're not
going to challenge anything does, They're not going to question
anything he does. I mean, it's shocking how completely accepting
Congress is of everything that Trump does. I mean, Trump
just today, I think it was this morning, vetoed something
that came through House and Senate, I think, unanimously, so

(31:34):
Vita proof, veto proof in a veto proof way, and
he vetoed it because it's some project in Colorado that
Congress once passed, and everybody's sympathetic to whatever. And Trump
is just pissed off in Colorado. He actually has a
long tweet that he put out about how horrible the

(31:56):
governor of Colorado is and how and wishing them ill
will and a horrible new year and all of that stuff.
So he just vetoed something Congress passed. Now here's the test.
Congress passed this law unanimously. Will they overtone, the overturn
the veto? Will Republicans? Once Trump has vetoed something, will

(32:20):
they actually did overturn him? I don't know any other president,
any other Congress, you'd say, but of course, no question.
I just don't know if they'll do it. So I
think this combination of a real shift, the shift that

(32:43):
has been happening slowly, probably for you know, suddenly from
George Bush, you know, suddenly from two thousand, probably earlier,
the shift of power, actually quite a bit earlier, because

(33:05):
much earlier Congress was already giving the president the power
of tariffs. Congress was giving the president the power, you know,
to kind of go to war, to engage in hostile activities,
military activities without getting its permission. So Congress was already
defaulting on these things, but certainly over the last forty years,

(33:27):
this is accelerated over the last twenty five years, accelerated fast.
Bush was terrible the number of executive orders he signed.
Obama was awful, horrible, worse than terrible in the number
of executive orders and the scope of those executive orders
that he signed. And then Trump is just taking it
to a new level, a completely new level in terms

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of the in terms of the numbers that the number,
and the scope, and the willingness to clearly bend the walls,
I mean, the tariffs is exact example of this. And
will know probably early next year whether the Supreme Quote
will overturn those tariffs. But the attempt to use the
law that had nothing to do with tariffs to unilaterally,

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without any congressional approval, without anything from Congress, to go
out there and imposed tariffs willing newly on any country
at Trump's whim.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Is truly astounding.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Truly, Trump is trying to make this into an imperial president,
and it has more power than ever. I mean, after
did a lot of stuff but also got a lot
of support from Congress. Actual bills got passed. They were
bad bills and suddenly wold returned by the Supreme Court,
but they were bills that were passed by Congress. Trump

(34:44):
is not bothering with exception a big beautiful bill. Really,
it's not bothering with Congress. He's just doing stuff. That's
the lesson he learned from the first term. If I
want to get anything done, I'm just going to have
to bulldoze forward and just get it done and not consider,
you know, congressional approval. And Congress is allowing him to

(35:07):
do it. They're not questioning it, they're not challenging it,
they're not investigating it. So what we're seeing is is
is a shifting power that's been happening for decades. Really
almost a real change now in a change that's not

(35:30):
going to be I think it'll be very very difficult
to reverse. I mean, Supreme courte can make stuff unconstitutional
and can say, you know, Trump's tabs unconstitutional. Trump will
just use other laws to reimpose the tariffs, and those
laws will be challenged and now go to quote. But
what he won't do is go to Congress and ask
for the authority to impose the taifs that he wants

(35:51):
to impose, that he won't do so. A system of
government there was constructed by Founders to have this very
very very important division of powers, and no part of
the government is too powerful. A relatively weak executive, a

(36:14):
relatively speaking in the history of mankind strong legislature, and
relatively speaking powerful judiciary. All of that has changed. We
now have an incredibly weak legislature, a very powerful, almost
imperial presidency, and a yet to be seen Supreme Court.

(36:34):
A will the Supreme Court stand up to Trump? B?

Speaker 2 (36:38):
When they do?

Speaker 1 (36:39):
What will how will Trump respond? What will he do?
He's not afraid of being impeached if he chooses to
ignore the Supreme Court. Historically the response to that would
be impeachment. He's not afraid of being impeached. And even
if the Democrats win the House, he's still not afraid
of being impeached. He was impeached twice before with the
Democrats control in the House, but the Senate checked it out.

(37:05):
So the whole idea of checks and balances, the whole
idea of the vision of labor is dramatically. Trump has
dramatically weakened them. And this will be his legacy. I mean,
his legacy will be regarding particular policies will probably also exist.

(37:25):
But the lack of checks and balances, the weakening of Congress,
that I don't know how you get I don't know
how you get back from that is. I don't know
how you will cover from Democrats democratic president who comes
into power. It's not like he's going to say no, no, no,
I want to go back to Constitution. It's not like

(37:50):
a jet Evans becoming presidents say no, no, no, I
want to go back to the Constitution. I don't want
this stuff just not going to happen. So I think
his lasting legacy is an imperial presidency, and you know,
you have to hope then did you get somebody reasonable
in power? Because the more power the executive have, the

(38:11):
more important is who the president is. And looking at
the potential candidates out there on both the Democratic and
Republican side, how many people they are reasonable? How many
people there would you trust with the kind of power
that Trump is, you know, establishing within the presidency. I
would not all right, let me see, let me see

(38:37):
the dumb a biologist says, Happy new Year. Thank you, biologist,
I really appreciate it. Let's see some stickers out here.
We did that blog, Oh we did biologist, and then
we've got big fed. Thank you for the stick of

(39:00):
Big Fad and Apollo Zeus, thank you, Thank you for
the Happy new Year. Happy new Year to you two
laid back pedal pedal, thank you for the happy new year.
I appreciate that. Free market capital, thank you for the
happy new year. And let's see right, all right, keep

(39:21):
them coming. All right, so we have we have one
hundred and thirty three watching right now, one hundred and
thirty three people. Our goal is to get to fifty
different super chats. So yeah, we should be able to
do that. So those of who you haven't yet, you
can do a two dollars super chat, a three dollars
super chat. Please put something into the super chat like
happy new Year or an emoji or something like that.

(39:41):
So the YouTube counsel towards the total goal of fifty,
we're out forty, so we just need ten, So ten
of you come on in with any any amount, it
doesn't matter, just to get to that fifty would be great.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
We are about.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Fifty about two hundred and fifty dollars short of the
first hour goal, which is about four thousand dollars, So
about two hundred and fifty short of that, so let's
see if we can make that up. So if some
of you who are coming in to reach the fifty
one to do one hundred or two hundred or five
hundred and get us get us through there, that'd be great. Also,

(40:21):
don't forget before you leave. I know some of you
is just coming in for short periods of time and
just just a chat pass out like button passed out
like buttons as you go in and out. You know,
having a lot of likes really helps the algorithm and
really really gets us more exposure. Jeff, Jeff says, happy

(40:42):
to you here. Thank you, Jeff, really appreciate it. And
all right, and we've got a bunch of questions. The
questions we'll get to in a little bit. We'll get
to the questions. Let me just give you stats on
the show a little bit. We did about two hundred
I couldn't ge an accurate number, but just under two
hundred and sixty. I think maybe two hundred fifty eight

(41:03):
shows this last year, two undred fifty eight shows. So like,
if you do two fifty two fifty in support of
the show, you're basically it's a bucket, a bucket show, right,
So that would be a dollar for every show that
I did live. That's just live shows. I'm not talking
about lectures that we put up. I'm not talking about
other videos that a cushion put up, splice stuff from

(41:25):
the shows. Just the live shows. I did just under
two hundred and sixty in terms of hours in twenty
twenty five, not including well, yeah, including today, we hit
five hundred hours, five hundred hours of shows over twenty

(41:49):
twenty five. So if you do five hundred dollars support
of the show, either here on PayPal or then you're
basically it's a bucket show. It's a bucket, sorry, A
buck an hour, one dollar an hour, So two hundred
and fifty would be a dollar a show. Five hundred
dollars would be a dollar for every hour that I streamed.

(42:13):
I don't think many of you, some of you I
know listen to every hour I streamed, but you know,
I don't know how many of you. But it's yeah,
so a buck an hour is not not too bad now,
so I appreciate it, particularly those of you who don't
do super chats during the year. This is a great

(42:34):
time to kind of pay pay for everything that you
listen to over the year. Pay for everything you listen
to over the year. All right, what have we got here?
We have RMK ninety one hundred dollars. Thank you, RMK,
Happy New Year, you're on. Thank you for everything you do.
I enjoy your Hebrew shows as well. Oh excellent, haven't
done a Hebrew show in a long time. Couldn't really

(42:58):
attract a big audience as well, so we kind of
stop doing stop doing that show, huh? All right? For
some reason, YouTube is ending my first hour fifteen minutes early.
I think I set up the goal too early. So
we've got three minutes and thirty eight seconds to get

(43:22):
six more super chats again, they could be one dollar,
two dollars. As long as you put an emoji in
or Happy New Year in or something like that, they
will count. But it's down to three minutes. We need
over the next three minutes we need we need to
get what is it? Yees? Six? Six? Well now it's five,

(43:43):
gone down to five, all right, Miko says, I can't
pronounce this in Italians anyway, Choo, you're on from Italy.
Thank you, Mico. A real pleasure spending time with you
in modern this last year. I really really enjoyed that.

(44:04):
Nick Nick says, come on people, thank you Nick, all
pal tiers, Happy New Year. Thank you all.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
Peal TiO.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
The thumb. All right, all of those are comments. Oh
we got pocker Jew just at fifty dollars sticker. Thank
you pocker Jew. Let's see how we doing with this.
We've got three left. Didn't count all the ones that
just came in. Jamavs did one hundred dollars. Happy New Year.
Thank you, Jamavs. Really appreciate that. Thank you. And Martin Anderson,

(44:43):
thank you, and Carolina thank you from Mexico. I think
I'm caught up. Yeah, we've definitely we've definitely reached a
target a fifty super Chat. So we did that. I
will set another fifty super Chat target at the top
of the hour and see if we can repeat that
every hour to get fifty. And we actually got more

(45:06):
than fifty because some of you did did stickers without
any any verbiage. We also raised a four thousand, two
hundred and seventy five. Actually two hundred and eighty five
dollars now, so two hundred and eighty five dollars. Let's see,
I wanted, could we get to five thousand? Could we
get to five thousand buy, you know, by the top

(45:30):
of the hour, So could we raise another thousand by
by three pm? By three pm? Just as a throwing
out a challenge there, just to see what happens, all right.
James Bond, James James Bond is a contributor to Iran
Book Show. Just so you know, triple O seven at
double O seven, not TRIPLEO seven, Double O seven contributes

(45:52):
to the Iran Book Show. And so thank you for
the hundred euro. Really appreciate that. String a bell, thank you,
I really appreciate it. Josh Voda, thank you, Josh Sea Weed,
thank you, Seaweed. And Andrew came in saying weis and

(46:14):
rocks just to try to get us to the fifty,
to make the fifty super chat goal. I appreciate that.
So thank you guys. And let's see did I catch it? Everybody?
We've got so, as I said, the executive power, there's

(46:44):
just so much more more executive voters than any presidents
in their first year by a big margin. I think
his first year is more than almost all president including
the last few, who've done a lot of executive voters
their four years. But his executive voters are really pushing
the envelope, not just in terms of quantity, but also

(47:08):
in terms of quality, the kind of executive voters. The
executive voters are really targeted to significantly, significantly, you know,
increase explicitly increase presidential power and allow the presidents to
do things that in the past presidents have clearly hesitated

(47:29):
to do. Put troops into cities, you know, nationalize the
federal the national God, federalized the national God, even without
governor's support, things that other presidents have just been hesitant
to move forward on. He has just jumped in. So

(47:56):
it's it's a it's a he really has. I mean,
think about I mean, as we speak, think about the
bombing of the boats off of the coast of Venezuela.
No congressional approval sought, asked for, no congressional investigation into it,
and yet he's bombing people. Now. You could argue that

(48:19):
the drone attacks against terrorists in Yemen and in places
in Africa in different places that previous administrations like Obama, Bush,
Obama and even Biden did also didn't have explicit congressional authority,
but they were all supposedly under the congressional authority that
basically declared a war on terrorism. And at least there

(48:41):
were some and these wald Islamist terrorists identified by the
intelligence services. But here we've now established a war on
the cartels in order to pretend that somehow is included.
We've called the cartel's terrorists. This was the real evil,
the real evil under George Bush of declaring a war

(49:04):
on terrorism rather than the war on Islamic terrorism, rather
than a war on Islamic totalitarianism, rather than a war
on Islam or fascism. Now we can expand the definition
of terrorism to include whatever we want, whatever we don't like,
now is a terrorist, and then we can go kill
people all over the world. I mean, that is a

(49:27):
this idea that you can just go blow people up
and now even attack a port in in on Land
in Venezuela without any even ask of you know, the uh,
the of Congress, not even an ask of them. Is

(49:54):
it's it's it's just pretty it's it's just stunning. It's
it's stunning. Now again, it's all just an extension of
what existed, but now the quantity and the presumptuousness, the
presumption that he can do anything, and the use of
laws to do things where nothing in the law suggests

(50:16):
that you can do it, like with tariffs, it just
takes it to a new level, not only quantitatively, but qualitatively.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
Qualitatively.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
He is doing things and a scale and a scope
and with meaning that no presidents that I can think
of has ever done before. What is going on here?
One second? All right, okay, yeah, thank you Alex fifty dollars.

(50:54):
Really appreciate it. Thank you Colina from Mexico and another
five hundred Mexican basis. I appreciate that, Eppa, fifty dollars,
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I don't know if
I can get Alex. My fault. I didn't communicate with him,

(51:15):
so it is my fault. I let that. I let
the whole idea of having Alex on slip, which is
not good. I see your Kim has done one hundred
dollars on PayPal, so so thank you your Kim. Moreno,
I really really appreciate that. Neil asked me to get

(51:36):
Alex on the show. I mean, if I would also
have to switch to YouTube to a different platform to
be able to do an interview, I can do an
interview with the with what I'm doing right now. So
next year I'll be better organized and get that get
that done for you. But we will have Alex sometime
in twenty twenty six, hopefully early in twenty twenty six

(51:58):
on to to talk about what he's doing and what
progress he's making and what he's focusing his time on
right now, all right, Caleb. Caleb says, being working in
a gold mine in Alaska. Wow, the last couple of

(52:19):
years and haven't been able to catch many live shows
thanks to another great year you're on. Well, that's that's amazing.
He's probably the only person I know in the world
who's working in a gold mine in Alaska as human
pays well, you know, I think jobs in Alaska generally
generally pay well. All Right, So I don't know what

(52:47):
the typo trump total full for something. I don't know
what that means. Sorry, jjjes don't know what that means. Oh,
it's from the previous question. Uh okay, So what I

(53:10):
said was not true. Uh. Trump's second term so far
in one year is two and twenty five. But that's
a lot less than if DR, so IFT are still
far surpasses him and uh in terms of in terms
of his executive orders. We'll see what happens by the
end of the term. But so far Trump is is behind.

(53:36):
Trump only had twenty executive orders in his first term.
That seems hard to believe. That seems hard to believe. Oh,
for nuer in forty forty five total Trump, Okay, that's better.
I was gonna say that doesn't make any sense. Fun
and forty five total two and twenty five in the
first in the first year of a second term. Uh,

(53:56):
so he's on pace. Even if he sticks to this pace,
he not gonna have a reach the amount that FDR did.
So yeah, so FDR, thanks for the correction. FDR was
worse and fdlay. Of course FDR was the real big,
I mean the world first shift. If you look at

(54:17):
American history, the first real shift in terms of statism,
in terms of statism was Wilson. Wilson who you know
income tax shifted the Federal reserve and imposed and advocated

(54:38):
for progressive agenda for America. Then the really big shift,
the shift that turned us into a welfare state, or
at least moved us towards the welfare state. The shift
that made the federal government significantly bigger, significantly more powerful,
significantly more imposing, The shift that changed America in terms

(55:00):
of the beginning of the shift in the sense of
life that was FDR CEFT is.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
The biggest shift we've ever had.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
I think Trump, and I think that's reflected in the
number of executive voters. I think Trump is the next big, significant,
dramatic shift that we've gotten, because you know, Trump has
shifted us towards an imperial presidency. He's also shifted us

(55:31):
towards a we'll talk about this, a kind of attitude
about America that is very un American, even more so
than FDR. I think, even more so than FDR. All Right,
let's see, we've got a number of people who who
who've done stuff on PayPal. So I'm thank you to

(55:53):
Barbara who did two hundred dollars on PayPal. Thank you,
and Daniel, thank you for the PayPal. So yeah, so
you know, we're slowly slowly getting PayPal as well. Just
in terms of the goals on YouTube, I would just

(56:14):
say we are now basically, you know, at about forty
five hundred, almost forty five hundred, So we've got three
minutes if we want to get to five thousand, which
would be amazing, but five hundred dollars in three minutes
would require somebody to really jump in with five hundred bucks.

(56:34):
But let's see how we do in the second hour.
Let's see if we can match the first hour with
the second hour. We do have one hundred and fifty
three people watching right now, so who knows what will
happen the next three minutes and slatly who knows what
will happened in the next hour. So all right, let's
look at some of the policy issues. Well, Hans, Hans

(56:57):
just stepped in and got us to much closer to
that five thousand dollars goal, because now he did two
hundred and fifty dollars. Thank you, happy epping you ya Hants,
says Mary Lou. And I Hi Mary Lou, thank you,
thank you for being here, Thank you for the support.

(57:19):
Thank you. Hans and I are proud monthly supporters of
AOI and your show. Yes, I know, and I really
really appreciate that. But here's a Christmas bonus to kick
off a successful twenty twenty six. Thank you, thank you,
thank you. Hans contributes regularly, monthly and significantly on PayPal,
so thank you, please a successful twenty twenty six. Please

(57:45):
welcome to your flock our son Charlie, who has over
the past year become an avid listener and student of objectivism.
That's fantastic. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome Charlie. And thank you Hans,
and thank you Mary Lou. Really really appreciate the support
on that you do on a monthly basis, and thank
you for the Christmas bonus. I appreciate the Christmas bonus.

(58:09):
All right, So we got two minutes to do. Two
fifty two fifty in the next two minutes would get
us the five thousand dollars basically in the first hour
of the show, which sets us up for Yeah, it
set steps up really well for the rest of the
rest of the show. Still a long way to go, guys,

(58:30):
Still ten thousand dollars still to go, so it's going
to be a long afternoon. Still, all right, let's talk
about some of the policies. Oh, thank you, let's see
flood and Nick says, thank you for the show's and
happy new Year, Thank you, Floyd, and Nick Cook says,
happy new Year for the twenty twenty five is the

(58:52):
last year of the Islamic Republic exists? That would be amazing,
amazing Otsman. Some did a gift, a membership gift, so
thank you for doing Oh became a member. I can't
count the memberships towards the goal, but you know, but
I know, I know it's there as well. So I appreciate.

(59:15):
I appreciate that because you appreciate you becoming a member.
Richard just came in with two hundred dollars a Happy
New Year. He's the best realistic case scenario for the
what's the best realistic case for the future of the
United States and Israel? Are there any countries besides John
Jentina that you are optimistic about? Uh? I mean, what's

(59:42):
the most optimistic scenario about the US? I think the
most optimistic scenario about the US is that after four
years of Donald Trump, America's just fed up. America's just
fed up with his style of governing. It's fed up
with what the right is becoming. We'll get to that
maybe later in the show. What the right is becoming?

(01:00:06):
UH is fed up with the authoritarianism, is fed up
with all of that, and that the Republican Party somehow,
and I don't see this happening, but maybe somehow comes
together under if you will, a new banner, a banner
that is far more classical liberal than what they have today.

(01:00:27):
Maybe they learned the lesson of of the of the
implosion of Heritage Foundation. Maybe if Trump stays really unpopular,
and maybe if if the Republicans lose significantly lose the
uh you know, if if the Republicans significantly lose the said,

(01:00:56):
I'm just setting up another goal, Uh, the fifty super chats.
I can't do more than fifty, So fifty over the
next hour. I just started it. So if the Republicans
lose the midterms, I mean resoundingly, not just a little bit,
really badly, they lose the midterms, and then the Publican

(01:01:16):
Party reassesses and maybe find some new young leaders.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
The problem is young are more nutty than old have been.

Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
But they find new leaders, then I think you can
start seeing maybe they nominate kind of a m classical liberal,
a more classical liberal leader to run to presidential candidates
to run in twenty twenty eight, they defeat JD Vance

(01:01:53):
and you know, if it's maybe it's Sneaky Hayley, although
I doubt it. I think she's she's done for. But
somebody in that kind of Republican rather than what we
have now. And they went in twenty twenty eight under
a new banner, different banner, a much more poor market banner,
much more poor American banner, a banner that is, you know,

(01:02:14):
pro American, pro constitution, Profounding Fathers. Maybe the fact that
Mike Pence is stink Tank is doing better. I don't
like Mike Pence because he's way too religious, but again
bringing back kind of a or not bringing back as
much as you know, creating a new Republican energy around

(01:02:40):
the funding fathers rather than around the culture personality that
is Trump, or around kind of Christian nationalism which is
JAD events. They need to reject national conservatism, they need
to reject Christian nationalism. And if they can reject that,
then that is the best outcome I think, you know,

(01:03:00):
for the future in terms of let's see, in terms
of Israel, you know, I don't know. I mean, the
best thing for Israel right now is to get Ramas disarmed,
whether it's Israel doing an international force to find a

(01:03:22):
way to secure demilitarization of Gaza. The best thing for
Israel right now is the revolution that he want succeeding.
I think, as I've said many times, Nintaille has to
go and he needs to be replaced by somebody else.
And is there any other place to be optimistic around

(01:03:42):
in the world. Not really, not that I can see
of other than Argentina, not in that kind of way
that Argentina is. I mean, it's good to see Latin
America turning away from socialism, so with exception of Mexico,
the big exception of Mexico and Brazil turning away from socialism,

(01:04:02):
but they're not turning towards free markets yet. I don't
see anything dramatic happening in Asia. Sadly, While the new
Prime Minister in Japan is very good in phone policy
and on standing up to China, I don't think she's
very good on liberalizing the economy and making the economy free.

(01:04:24):
So yeah, real, you know, I don't know of any
other place, all right, Nathaniel, Happy, Thank you, Richard, really
really appreciate that. And I think you got us to
the five thousand for the for the first hour. We're

(01:04:44):
ready about two hundred and fifty dollars into the second hour.
Of course, we need in the second hour, we need,
you know, at least three thousand dollars to keep us
on pace. Ideally we do it and better than that.
Right now, just under ten thousand. We need to still
need to make, you know, something like ninety five hundred dollars,

(01:05:09):
so about ninety five hundred dollars short about total goal.
It's maybe a little bit better than that, because I
do have money in PayPal that I'll calculate ultimately and
let you know and let you know, you know what
that adds up to. But for now we are just YouTube.

(01:05:35):
We're nine five hundred away. Let's see, we've got here,
all right. Just to remind up that if you yeah,
the counter and again the counter is not working exactly right.
I don't know, I don't know how to fix it.
But keep putting emojis, keep putting text in it. You know,

(01:05:59):
we'll do the best that we can with a counter.
It is what it is. It is what it is.
All right, Let's see where we are. Oh, Nathan came
in with six hundred Norwegian ConA. Thank you, Nathaniel, and
he says, Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you too.

(01:06:20):
On smack Sam, one hundred dollars, Happy new year, thanks
for all you do. Really really appreciate that. Thank you.
One hundred dollars is very generous. And let's see Mike
Dalla asks which gives a larger percentage to you? Super
shout of PayPal? Actually PayPal does. PayPal gives a higher

(01:06:42):
percentage to me. So but yeah, but there's a there's
a value in monitoring here and motivating you and getting
you guys excited. So there's a value to doing that. Simon,
Happy New Year, Thank you, Simon. Appreciate the support. There's questions.
Richard has another question, Thank you Richard. With one hundred dollars.

(01:07:05):
Ryan has a right here's Ryan. Ryan says, twenty twenty
six is going to be great for my life. I
can't make an addiction for anyone else. I like annual shows.
But people should not wait for should not wait for

(01:07:25):
a new year to make changes. The clock is sticking
every day and uh oops, every day and every day.
You have the power to improve your life through reason. Absolutely,
so don't wait. Make your life better, make your life
better today. Do small things. Do start start making the

(01:07:47):
changes to make your life as great as it can be.
Today's a great day to do that because it is
Tomorrow is New Years and you can start a new year.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
Fresh with a kind of a newer end.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
Uh. But but don't wait, just just get it done,
get it done, and and make make life, make life better,
make life significantly better. All right, let's see what do
we I think we're caught up on all the non questions.

(01:08:23):
I will get to the questions in a little bit
and open those up, and we've got more there. All right,
All of that is good. All right. Uh, let's get yeah,
let's get back to some of these issues. So one

(01:08:45):
of the big things, some of the big policy issues,
maybe the biggest policy issue the Trump affected because I
don't think he you know, because this is a dramatic
change relative to anything else that's ever been done in
this country. And that is an immigration you know, remember

(01:09:07):
when for a long time in the first term, in
Trump's first term and then throughout a Biden's term, you know,
Republicans were talking about the evils of illegal immigration and
legal immigration is terrible and bad, and they were distorting
the stats to make it look that way, and they
wanted to throw all the immigrants out and send them
away and get rid of them. And when Trump was running,

(01:09:30):
he told us that he would deploy ice into the
streets of America and round them up and create camps
and send them to hell holes all around the world.
And people said, oh, you know, that's just campaigning. He
won't actually do it. He won't actually, you know, actually
deploy ice in that way. What we discovered is that
he absolutely will. One of the most shocking things about

(01:09:54):
trump presidency. One of the most shocking things about Trump's
presidency is the fact that he is full on deploying
ice to harass illegal immigrants, legal immigrants Americans. The fact

(01:10:17):
that we have and we've talked about this a lot
on the show, the fact that we have armed, heavily armed,
masked police officers supposedly but often not even in uniform,
in unmarked cause, roving around America and taking people into

(01:10:40):
custody based on i mean, really based on their whim,
based on no objective standard. The fact that you know
this is going on daily in America, and that they
are breaking into workplaces, dragging people away from their jobs,

(01:11:11):
deporting many of them but many of them are putting
camps that are run by private businesses, in private prisons
until they can find deportation. How many, how many? Who
knows how many years they'll be in these camps. The
fact that at the beginning, uh, these Ice monsters, you know,
deported two planeloads of people to the most monstrous jail

(01:11:34):
in El Salvado, where they spent four months. Luckily they
were ultimately freed, but where they spent four months under
horrific conditions, including including torture. That fact, the fact that
that has been happening is just so mind blowing, It

(01:11:55):
is so horrific. I remember, years and years and years ago,
George Reasman, some of you might remember George Reasman. George
Reason called ice and this is I don't know, thirty
years ago, called the Ice because you know George who
lived I think in Orange County, California. And when you

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drive south to San Diego, or when you drive north
from San Diego, Orange County, on the way, there is
this station where immigration, the immigration cops ice people are
there and the cars passed, and once in a while
that's stop a car and they'll force you to show
ideas and stuff like that, and they'll pull you out
and that arrest people. And you know, if you're driving

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from San Diego to North, you know, you can't but
see this place. And sometimes sometimes they will actually there
will actually be huge traffic jams because they're stopping people.
They've they've got suspicions that illegals are trying to cross
into you know, from San Diego County North, and they'll

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stop a lot of cars. And I remember George Reason
called them the SS. They called them, you know, Gestopo,
and I always thought, Okay, I hate ice and I
hate that they're doing this, and I hate this whole
attitude towards immigration. But that's an exaggeration. They're not the Gestapo.
They're not their says. But that's when they had a

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stationary location and just once in a while they'd stop
a car. Now they're driving around, walking around American cities,
harassing people, harassing citizens and addiction in addition, are hard
working immigrants where they're legally illegal. They're using the worst,

(01:13:42):
most horrific tactics against them. I mean, I still don't
think somebody asked if I thought they were like the SS.
I don't think they're like the SS. I don't think
yet we've reached that point. Who asked that asked that.
I'm trying to look for this question. I can't find it.

(01:14:10):
Somebody asked this question. I don't think that like the SS.

Speaker 2 (01:14:13):
Yeah, here it is.

Speaker 1 (01:14:13):
Halper Campbell did similarities between ICE and the SS. I mean, look,
the similarity is that they're armed thugs roaming the streets.
I mean the reality of it is, though, that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
The ASS had a lot more power.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
The SS could torture, kill people, really with no accountability.
The SS ultimately was responsible for, you know, the killing,
the murder of six million Jews and another six million
of other people. You know, the SS actively was engaged

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in burning business is, in destroying businesses, and in again
outright killing people. We're not quite there, but who would
have thought that we would have masked law enforcement agents

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out in the streets, fully armed.

Speaker 2 (01:15:23):
With regard to illegals, a lot of power.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
But even with the got Americans, I mean, I've heard
of a lot of American citizens who being basically, you know,
being taken into custody and for days, no attorney, no papist, corpus, no, no,
nothing applies to them, and then ultimately the release because
oh yeah, you're an American citizen. We don't have any
jurisdiction over you. But that is horrific. That is horrific

(01:15:52):
that something like that would actually be real in America.
So they're not ss, but that's still something I would
have never imagined in the streets of America. All right,
where was that? And swered? Okay, let me go through
some of these Stephen Harper, thank you for the sticker.
Really appreciated. Let's see Alex, Alex four hundred and fifty dollars.

(01:16:22):
Thank you, Alex. Where is that? Alex? Happy New Year.
You are my primary source of news. Your clarity and
perspective help make sense of what is happening in the world.
Thank you for your hard work, consistency, and principal approach
analyzing current events. Genuinely appreciate it. You truly embody the

(01:16:43):
objectives ethos. Keep up the great work, Alex. Thank you, Alex.
I really really appreciate your support throughout the year and
your support here now that is great. Let's see. I
know we've got a bunch of others. Jonathan Honing says
Yan after twenty five years, thank you for being such
a great teacher and friend, your continued good health and success.

(01:17:07):
Thank you, Jonathan very much enjoyed being your friend so
and really really appreciate the support, both spiritual and financial.
All Right, we'll get to these. These are questions. I
will answer those. I'll answer that as well. Adam has

(01:17:27):
one hundred dollars, thank you, but with a question, so
we'll get to the question in a little bit. And
Steve and I already thank for the sticker, okay, and
now do you have a j I'll go with the
fifty dollars also with a question that I'll answered a
little bit, but thank you. In the meantime, let's see
how we're doing just generally, generally well over six thousand now,

(01:17:51):
so we're solidly over six thousand if you count to
two entred and seventy five that came in earlier that
is not in the counting machines, so we still have
eight seven hundred and sixty six dollars to go, so
we're not quite at halfway mark, which always, I mean
always during these shows, I'm like, is there any way

(01:18:13):
to really make this? I mean, really, how is that
going to happen? And then Alexi like comes in or
somebody like Alexis comes in and does two hundred pounds,
and yeah, it makes a significant dent, and we slowly
start creeping towards there, and we get there, so we
will see, we will see, it's still still a long

(01:18:36):
way to go.

Speaker 2 (01:18:38):
Oh, let me remind everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:18:40):
We've got a big, humongous, unbelievably hard goal to reach,
which is fifteen thousand dollars on YouTube, and we are
about sixty five hundred dollars there, so a thousand dollars
away from halfway mark. So we're definitely, we're definitely chipping

(01:19:02):
away at it, and we're definitely getting close to get there.
To get there, I'm really you know, I'm really going
to ask for those of you who value it and
can afford it, to do kind of the max that
YouTube allows, which is five hundred dollars, because we're going
to need a few more.

Speaker 2 (01:19:19):
We've had quite a few already.

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
We're going to need a few more five hundred dollars
bytes in order to really make the goal and make
real progress in achieving that goal. So we've already had
quite a few of those. One two, three and one

(01:19:44):
four hundred and fifty will count that as as four
and yeah, so I already had four of those up
on the five hundred range, and some of you might
be a combination of ones that will get you there.
But we're gonna need, you know, more than that. We're
gonna need a bunch more in order to get you know,

(01:20:06):
we're gonna need at least four more to get to uh,
to the target. We do have one on I know,
we do have one on PayPal. We'll count the PayPal
ones later on. And don't forget that you can join, uh,
you can go on PayPal and and uh, actually we
have we had two on PayPal because WestEd five hundred

(01:20:26):
and five hundred, so we've got two on papal. So
we've had six already. If we get another six five
hundred dollars contributors, yeah, I mean, I think I think
we'll make our goal. We'll have a really good shot.
So there's there's one. Steve Rogers Day. Thank you, Steve.
I really really really appreciated Steve, one of my oldest friends,

(01:20:48):
one of my best and oldest friends from Austin, Texas.
Uh goes back to the days when I lived in Austin.
Thank you, thank you, Thank you, Steve. Happy New Year.
Can't wait to see where you'll go in twenty six.
All right, see here's here's another something else that I
wanted to see if maybe we can dedicate this show too,
and see if you guys would help me out, help

(01:21:10):
me out with I'm looking for ideas, like ideas for
how to get this show, how to things to do
on the show that could dramatically expand a switch. And
I'm not talking about, you know, splitting up and making
show showed videos and things like that. But what can
I do in terms of the content the kind of shows?

(01:21:34):
I mean, we're doing these new shows. Do you value
the new shows? I think you do. You're showing me
right now that you value the new shows with all
the support, so thank you, so you know, But what
other kind of videos would you like me to be producing?
I don't know, Short up monologues on things. Do you

(01:21:57):
want me to do? You think those would be successful?
Topics that I haven't covered and you think I should cover?
Are there any topics that I haven't covered that you
think I should that'd be great if you if you so,
Maybe one of the things you can do in your
super chats that you're doing and again, you can do
this with two dollars. Good for any amount. Just put

(01:22:18):
in an idea, if you have an idea for things
that the Iron Book Show is not yet doing and
couldn't should do. If we want to dramatically expand the
reach of the show, really really take it the next
next level in terms of the reach of the show.
Let me know, you know what that what that looks like,
what you think that looks like? So you can just

(01:22:41):
stick that into one of the super chests and thank
you for the sticker. Really really appreciate that. Let's see
we yes, let's look down here. Yallo says, Happy new year.
Thank you a yall. And that's that's some shikel. And

(01:23:01):
that's a question. That's a question. That's a question, all right,
Mike says. Mike says, I think you mentioned an o

(01:23:22):
PAC course in twenty twenty six. Yes, I'm thinking about
how to structure the OPAK course. But Opark course is
definitely something I'd like to do. Need to think about
how to fund it, that is, how much to charge
for it and how often to do it. But yes,
I think I think that covering nine man's essays, you

(01:23:46):
know on the members only shows. I will I will
do that, but those are all kind of more insider things.
They're great, but those are insider things. What I'd like
is outside of things, Outside of things, Capitalist spy says,
reach to think tank people around the world. You know,

(01:24:07):
I have contact with think tank people all around the world.
I mean I know people in the think tanks pretty
much every country in Europe, in some places even in
outside of Europe and Asia. That hasn't really given me anything.
I haven't gotten much. I haven't gotten much, all right,
Graham Graham one hundred dollars or one hundred Canadian dollars.

(01:24:27):
Thank you another full Ye have YBS shows in the books.
Thank you for the time and effort. I appreciate it
so much. Here's the golden age of YBS show. It
will be the biggest, the best, the most beautiful show
on YouTube. We're looking forward, We're looking into it. We're
looking into it. Free economy one oh one, value for value.

(01:24:51):
Happy New Year. Here's a great twenty twenty six. Thank
you for another hundred dollars. That's great. Ryan's twenty twenty
six prediction. Okon twenty twenty six will be the biggest
and best yet New Orleans, Stephen Pinker and poker see
you all there. I will definitely be there at the

(01:25:12):
poker table. Alexi says two hundred British pounds. Really appreciate that.
Thanks for another amazing year of content. What are your
market views for the next year? All right, I'll answer
that in a second. Gail says, show imagining a capitalist world.

(01:25:36):
I've done some shows like that, but maybe we can
do more of that. But I like that positive and
kind of giving, giving an ideal, giving people an ideal
to strive towards. We have. We are twenty seven out
of fifty super chats. We've got a half an hour,

(01:25:58):
so we're doing great. We're doing great in terms of
you know, moving in that in the right direction in
order to get there. So I appreciate that. Let's see, alexis,
I will get I will get to answer your question
in a second. Let me just catch up here. Ryan

(01:26:20):
has a list of shows to do. I'll take that
up in a minute. Just call me. Zeff says, I
thank you for inspiring and with your inspiration, I look
forward to being able to increase my contribution in the future.
That'd be great. It'd be great, not because I get
the contribution, but because you will be able to afford
to do more, because your life, you will maturely be

(01:26:42):
far better off. Michael dal says, even when you rant,
you don't exaggerate. Thanks for being a sane voice for
the news. All the best in twenty twenty six. Two
hundred dollars. Really really appreciate that we have passed the
halfway mall guys, we have made the halfway mark already.

(01:27:02):
So now everything we do is is uh, you know,
going towards achieving the actual goal. We've We've Wow, we
passed a halfway monk in just under an hour and
a half, which is pretty spectacular, pretty amazing. So thank you,
thank you, thank you to all of you. Uh we'll

(01:27:23):
get to those ideas in a minute. Matthew says, Happy
new Year, and thank you for all you do. I
appreciate that. Matthew and Mary Ellen, thank you, mary Ellen,
one hundred dollars. You on your news coverage and analysis
are the best anyway, Thank you so much. Thank you,
Mary Ellen. Really really appreciate that. It took me, I
don't know, three years to figure out how to say

(01:27:45):
Mary Ellen. I used to butcher her name for years
but we finally got it right, and and I'm happy
about that. I'm still working on some of your other names,
some of you guys, I'm still butchering your names. I'm hoping,
I'm hoping to fix that over the years, over time,
that I'll get done. All right. So we have officially
passed the halfway mark, and we into the second half.

(01:28:08):
We're getting very close to the eight thousand dollars mark.
Uh and but you know we've got Yeah, we're getting
close and close as we go. Pakajou another fifty dollars sticker.
Thank you. I remember you did a fifty dollars sticker
a while, you know, an hour ago or so. So
thank you, thank you, thank you. I appreciate that. All right,
let me just take a le sais in terms of

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the markets. God, I mean, if I if I knew,
if I knew, you know, I would be I would
be super rich. I mean, I you know, I I'd
be way past my I few money if I could
time the market. I am terrible at timing the markets.

(01:28:52):
Anything I say, please take with a significant grain of
a grain of salt. What what is likely to happen
over the next year that could affect markets one, interstates
coming down, interestates are coming down. That that's pretty much guaranteed,
given that Trump is going out points and new Federals

(01:29:13):
of Chairman, and Trump has basically made it a condition
for whoever it's going to be that he lower interest rates.
So it's it's very, very very likely that interstates are
coming down next year. It's in the Fed minutes, they're
even predicting it. How much is how to tell that
you're going to see interstates come down? As I've said

(01:29:33):
many many times in the show, and as you should
know by now, all else health constant, which it never is.
But we still to simplify, when interstates go down, acid
prices go up, everything else goes up. Any income producing
acid its value goes up. So you can expect stocks
to go up and and and you know bonds will

(01:29:56):
go up as interstate's decline, and you know, commercial real
estate is likely to go up a value as interest
rates declaim. Now, of course that's all else health constance.
So inter state's going down is definitely you know, bullish
on for stocks and and for other financial assets. On

(01:30:20):
the other flip side of that, consumer prices I expect
are still going to keep going up. How much is
how to tell, But I don't think they're going to
change much from where they are today, so somewhere close
to three percent now. It could be that everybody just
gets used to that and nobody worries about it. And
even though interstates are going to come down into really

(01:30:44):
negative territory on a you know, from a real rate perspective,
I think if interstates go below three and inflation is three,
then basically you're getting zero for your money, and an
inflation adjusted again we're talking about price inflation adjusted basis,

(01:31:05):
it would still be true that acid prices will go up.
The flip side of that is the possibility of recession. Now,
as I think I've told you many times, I've been
predicting recessions for years now, and they don't happen. The
American economy is unbelievably resilient, unbelievably flexible, unbelievably able to

(01:31:27):
deal with even the most irrational policy possible, like tariffs.
Supply chains adjust people stop buying from one place, they
start buying from another place. For example, our importation from Mexico,
which has relatively suffered less from Trump tariff mania, has

(01:31:48):
gone up a lot because a lot of the supply
changes have changed and instead of being stuff in from China,
we're being it in from Mexico. So, you know, the
economy is adjusted. There's still a whole pipeline of massive
investments that are going to occur over the next few
years into AI, into building AI infrastructure that is not peaked,

(01:32:13):
that is not over, that is you know, that is
still going to play out. The the kind of the
infrastructure play for AI, and that drives economic activity, It
drives economic growth, so it it it It helps puts
a bottom on any kind of potential potential recession, any

(01:32:34):
kind of potential uh you know, uh, shrinkage of the economy.
I don't see that going away. So AI investment is
still going to continue. I mean the big uncertainty is
and look, deregulation is happening. There's no question deregulation is happening.
So and more deregulation will happen. There's a bill going

(01:32:57):
through Congress now to reduce the time for permits and
a number of permits and all this stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:33:02):
That is all going to be good.

Speaker 1 (01:33:03):
And the regulatory agencies under Trump are not applying the
regulations quite as much. That is going to help businesses generally.
So I think the economy will do okay next year
with the big caveata of you never know what Trump
would do. Trump is a wild card and it's very

(01:33:25):
very difficult to assess what he will actually do and
what is possible and and what kind of impact that
we'll have on markets. So Trump could cause of accession,
could make things a lot worse. But he you know,
he he he might not, and as he moves into

(01:33:49):
the second, third, fourth year, he might not be in
a position where he does incredibly damaging things to the economy.
So I predict the economy will do okay next year.
Won't do great, they'll do okay. I think the biggest
thing of the US economy, the US economy at least,
is that what you're seeing is big businesses are.

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
Doing very well.

Speaker 1 (01:34:15):
That's the stock market, and yet if you look at
small to medium sized businesses, they're the one struggling.

Speaker 2 (01:34:24):
And that's why employment is not doing great.

Speaker 1 (01:34:27):
So bankruptcy is in twenty twenty five were at really
one of the highest levels in the last a few years.
And they're at that high level because let me just
see if I can get you that yeah, I mean,
because so seven hundred and seventeen companies fall for bankruptcy

(01:34:51):
through November, right, that's roughly fourteen percent more than the
same eleven months in twenty twenty four, and the highest
since twenty ten coming out of the Great Recession. So
small businesses and medium sized businesses are really struggling, but
the big companies in the stock market are doing okay.

(01:35:11):
The big companies, the really big companies, have also figured
out how to play Donald Trump, how to bribe him
to leave them alone. So in that sense, I think
the stock market is going to go up next year.
I think the economy will do okay next year. What else,
I think employment is going to be tough next year,

(01:35:37):
particularly incident sectors of the economy. But AI is going
to increase productivity, and the investment in AI is going
to increase economic activity. So there are a lot of positive,
you know, directions the economy is going to go in
in spite of the headwinds that are massive governments spent

(01:36:02):
and UH.

Speaker 2 (01:36:04):
Tariffs and tariffs.

Speaker 1 (01:36:06):
You know, some of the tax provisions in the big
beautiful bill are going to kick in in twenty twenty
six and again will help business, particularly the bigger businesses,
so all of that is moving positively. So generally, I'm

(01:36:27):
not negative about the US economy next year. Again, it's
not gonna be it's not gonna grow it four five
six percent, which I think is a golden age, which
I think is the potential that it could grow. But
it's doing okay, it's it, It's going to do okay.

(01:36:49):
Other financial markets, I can't imagine gold not declining next year,
So I'm gonna predict gold goes down, not a lot,
but stay abilizes. It goes down a little bit. I
think I don't know about silver, because silver there's an
added dimension of real demand. I think that you know,

(01:37:11):
who knows what happens with bitcoin, but bitcoin struggling right
now to break out of kind of a band underneath
ninety thousand and even today I'm just looking quickly at bitcoin. Yeah,
it's at eighty seven, it went up to eighty nine.
It's over the last you know, over the last over

(01:37:33):
the last one month that's been between eighty four and
ninety three, and it keeps buying, bouncing around in that range.
I don't know where it goes from here. I would
not be surprised at all. If bitcoin was lower than
it is right now, and I would also not be
surprised or shock the bitcoin was dramatically higher than this
right now, so that doesn't help you. In terms of

(01:37:57):
long term rates, I think I think ten and thirty
year going to be stickier. While the Federal lower short
term rates, I don't know that they'll be able to
really get those longer rates down given the amount of
a debt that the US government has given the prospects

(01:38:18):
for price inflation in the future, I think that the
ten year and the thirty year are going to stay
elevated in spite of short term rates going down. So
that's my market prognosis for what it's worth, probably not
a lot. And bet alexis if you make a lot
of money trading off of my predictions, then please consider

(01:38:44):
coming back next year with a large contribution for the
Iran bookshow. I'm kidding, but bet Yeah. All right, I
see a bunch of you have done super chats since
since I started answering that question, So let me go
back and figure out who I've who. Yes, Okay, Nature

(01:39:08):
Observer two hundred American dollars two hundred and eighty Canadian
dollars thank you, Happy New Year, keep up the good work.
Thank you. Andrew has a question mark one hundred dollars,
has a question, so I'll take that soon. Espen has
a question and that was a one ninety Norwegian krona,

(01:39:33):
so one hundred and twenty seven dollars, so I stole
a good amount. Thank you, Thank you, bed pants. Yeah
this I like this. Sorry, Happy New Year. You on.
You've saved me hours waiting through new shlock.

Speaker 2 (01:39:48):
I like that new shlock.

Speaker 1 (01:39:50):
When I find myself doom musing, I hear your voice yelling,
live your life, achieve your values, and I changed course
to what really matters. Cheers all excellent. I'm so happy
to have that impact. I'm curious, you know, should I
repeat the rules of Life videos? Should I go back

(01:40:12):
to the Iran Rules for Life videos and redo them? Right?
I feel like I'm repeating myself. But maybe that repetition
will get to some new people, and maybe you don't mind.

Speaker 2 (01:40:21):
The repetition, you know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:40:25):
All Roland, thank you. Two hundred Swiss fangs at two
hunred and fifty dollars. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I really appreciate that. Andrew has a question. Let's go
over here, Da dam I think I did the gael one.
Thank you Gail. Those ideas will get to those, okay,

(01:40:55):
and then let's see, all right, let me see if
there were any stickers that I haven't thanked. Yes, David,
David King fifty fifty pounds, I think fifty English pounds,
Thank you, Thank you, David, really appreciated David another twenty pounds,
so seventy pounds total, thank you. And then we've got

(01:41:17):
Steven Holmes home something Stefan homely anyway, thank you fifty pounds.
Really appreciate it. Sorry I butchered your name just now.
Thank you to you guys. I got David, I got Yeah,
all right, we're making fantastic progress. We're now under six

(01:41:40):
thousand to go, less than six thousand to go to
make a fifteen thousand dollars goal. So remember fifteen thousand
is the goal. You know, I'm willing to stay here
for a while longer, but hopefully, you guys, more people
will come in who are willing to to do the work.

(01:42:01):
We're forty seven out of fifty super chats to three
super chats or stickers with an emoji. Well, we'll get
us we'll get us to achieve another one of YouTube's
superchat goals. This is great, This is great. My goal
today is to try to get to I don't know

(01:42:28):
how many hours are we on today, four hours. Let's
say we can get a three hundred super chats, just
three hundred individual super chests. I think right now we're
at you know, we're at one hundred and let's call
it one hundred and twenty and we'll go from there.
I think I missed about twenty super chats in between there.

(01:42:49):
But what does what does it mean? Come on? People? Oh?
Come on people, Hey, people out there, come on. That's
what it means. Okay, thank you Nick for inspiring people
to come on. Jacob, thank you for the sticker. I

(01:43:10):
really appreciate it. Also, the stickers without the emojis. Well, no, no,
I think j it counted, Jacob, So maybe it didn't.
You know, I don't know what it's counting and what's not.
But we reached our fifty. Let me start up a
new challenge with another fifty. We'll set another another fifty
for the next hour. That's on the fifteen. All right,

(01:43:32):
we just started another goal. This is great. Matt has
a question Jacob, thank you. All right, Let's see, let's
see how many questions do we have with a lot
of questions, A lot of questions, all right, and we've.

Speaker 2 (01:43:50):
Still got a way to go. So let me start
answering questions.

Speaker 1 (01:43:53):
And like every year, I don't actually ever kind of
do my New Year review because land up doing the
fundraising and answering your questions and all of that, which
is a lot more fun. So let me go through
the questions and answer them. Let me remind you we're
at under six thousand, so about five thousand. I'm just

(01:44:17):
looking at how much we raised a f line around
eight hundred left, eight hundred left, so you know, ten
people doing five hundred dollars each would get us there.
Remember five hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:44:28):
Is the limit of what.

Speaker 1 (01:44:31):
What YouTube would allow you to do, so you can't
do more than five hundred. If you want to do
more than five hundred, and some of you might want
to do over the five hundred, or if you want.

Speaker 2 (01:44:41):
To do a match. We never got a match this year.

Speaker 1 (01:44:44):
Usually we get a match, so if you'd like to
do a match, you can or do more than five hundred,
or you can go to PayPal the link for PayPal
is right at the top of the chat. If you're
on Twitter or if you're on Facebook, come on over
to YouTube. It truts more fun over here on the chat,
and you can also support the show over here. Ways,

(01:45:06):
you can't do it on YouTube or on Facebook, but yes,
if anybody's like on Facebook, on Twitter, if you want
to put in the PayPal link on Twitter and on YouTube,
and if you want to post that we'll live right
now and encourage people to come and join us, that
would be really, really really great, And so that would

(01:45:27):
be fantastic. Tarn Taran one hundred dollars. Thank you, Twan,
very appreciate what you do. Thank you, Thank you, Tayan,
really appreciate the support. Claddie Clade, Clade, thank you for
all you do. Happy New Year, Thank you Claide. Really
appreciate it. All right, chipping away, chipping away, all right?

(01:45:53):
We need yeah, we need fifty seven more people do
to one hundred dollars each, and we're it right, that's doable.
We've got one hundred and seventy nine people watching right now,
Come on over do something. Two dollars, five dollars. It

(01:46:13):
all adds up, It really does add up. By the
end of the by the end of the day today,
we'll look at it and it's all added up to
something really substantial or something really significant. Why didn't it
take those two? Right? Those two were significant supershats, and
it didn't count them. That just doesn't make any sense. Right.

Speaker 2 (01:46:40):
The super chet counter doesn't.

Speaker 1 (01:46:41):
Work very well. I have no idea the dollar amount
counts every dollar at an exchange rate favorable to me,
not so much to YouTube, so it will actually be
a little less. But the counter works great because of
Miroslav Mial's Love, who's on here. I should thank miss

(01:47:01):
Love for all the work he has done and does
uh to moderate the chat? Uh to create Uh? What
is that channel?

Speaker 2 (01:47:10):
The challenge on something?

Speaker 1 (01:47:12):
There's a euron book show channel that Miss Love created
on the name of the platform escapes my mind because
stuff escapes my mind. And Millis Love's created this unbelievable software.
I mean, you know, basically a web page that I
have that keeps track of all the super chat dollars

(01:47:32):
and keeps track of of all the questions. In addition,
I used to do copy paste copy paste, couldn't keep
track of how much money was coming in discord and
he's got a discode channel. There's a discord youon book
show channel that Miss Love has created. He just he
just posted up on top. Uh. He the PayPal thing.

(01:47:54):
So Mills Love, thank you for everything you do. Uh,
there's the Miss Love linked to the disco channel. Thank
you for all you do to support the One Book Show.
Really really appreciate everything you've done in twenty twenty five
and of course the years before twenty twenty five. All right,
let's jump in with some of your questions. We've got

(01:48:14):
I like, ike, four hundred dollars, right, and don't forget
we've got let's say we've got ten minutes. Let's try
to get to only five thousand dollars left in the
next eight minutes. So that would mean raising eight hundred
and sixty one dollars in eleven minutes. Eight hundred and

(01:48:39):
sixty one dollars in eleven minutes, actually less than because
as I said, we got to Yeah, no, that's right.
You know, let's try to get in on sixty one.
That'll leave only five thousand left for the final two
hours of the show, right, so we will raised If

(01:49:00):
we can do that, we will have raised two thirds
of their amount, two thirds of the amount in two hours,
So we need eight hundred and sixty one dollars in
the next eleven minutes. I don't know. I don't know
if that's possible. I leave it in your hands all right.

(01:49:22):
By the way, Jacob, thank you for the contributions on PayPal.
I appreciate that, all right. I like FO one hundred dollars.
Why is the Israeli Palestinian issue easy? Every time I
tried to discuss it, I met with a lot of emotionalism, evasion,

(01:49:42):
and ignorance. What is the best argument for why is
those actions in the cause of war? Recently I'm modeling justified.

Speaker 2 (01:49:49):
Thank you for all that you do.

Speaker 1 (01:49:52):
So why is it easy? I mean it's easy for
one main reason. Now, it's easy if you're honest, it's easy.
If you're willing to open your eyes and look, it's easy.
If you're willing to actually engage with actual reality, then

(01:50:13):
it's easy. And what does that mean? If you look
at Israel and if your standard at all is you know,
human life, it's civilization, it's success and prosperity for human beings.

(01:50:36):
It's health and wealth and just a good life. And
the opportunity to live a good life. If your standard
is freedom, in other words, if your standard is civilization,
then you look at the Israel and you see a
western free, basically good country. It's goddess words, it's got

(01:50:56):
a lot of them, I know, most of them, right,
but in the context it's.

Speaker 2 (01:51:04):
It's it's it's a pretty good country.

Speaker 1 (01:51:07):
And then you look at Gaza, or look at any
of its neighbors, including Dubai and Katu in Saudi Arabia
and Egypt. And we're talking about unfree countries. We're working
about countries that don't care about the well being of
their own citizens in terms of the protection of their

(01:51:28):
individual rights. You're talking about countries that are still in
many respects primitive and barbaric and not civilized. Now they
can fake it like they do in Dubai by building

(01:51:48):
beautiful buildings and spending their money on creating skyscrapers and
and you know, giving people a huge tax bake to
to you know, to be there and encouraging people to
encouraging the oligous to to move to uh uh, you know,

(01:52:10):
to uh Dubai. But they don't have freedom, not in
any meaningful sense. And they don't have conception of individuals.
There's no few speech. Imagine being a imagine being a

(01:52:30):
a atheist in Dubai. I mean, if you stay silent,
you find, and probably if you're a fauner, you find
because I'll leave you alone because they want the founders
to stay there because they being in the money. But
if you're a resident, if you if you'll live there,
if you're an Arab from there, you go to jail
for a very long time, same as Saudi Arabia atheists

(01:52:54):
get jailed for their opinion, for their views about God.
So if you just compare that now, and if you
look at the Palestinians, you look at pastinating authority, if
you look tramas how they live, if you look at
their value system, if you look at what they care about,
if you look at how they raise their kids and

(01:53:15):
raise them to be suicide bombers. This is no comparison.
One's a good country and one's a bad country. The
best on this is elonz Jouno in his book called
Justice Demands. I mean, that's this key argument into what
justice demands is when you face civilization versus barbarism, you
go with civilization. That's what makes it easy, and the

(01:53:38):
history doesn't change that. The history just confirms that. The
history is a history of a civilized people versus a
non civilized people. And I know it's not politically correct
called people not civilized, but that's what they are. Our
standard is human flourishing. Tramas is not engaged in human flourishing. Yeah,

(01:54:06):
all right, I'll get to the rest of your question
a second. Let's see. Thank you, Carolina, I really appreciate that.
And uh, and then we've got we've got cook. I
think that's cook maybe k one Okay, thank you for

(01:54:27):
your work and being one of the few voices of
reason and freedom. I appreciate that. Thank you, Cook. And
then we've got a number of other contributors. Uh, and
we'll get to them. They were asking questions. Uh, we
still have six hundred and ten dollars. You know, I'm

(01:54:50):
probably asking for the impossible, but we have five minutes,
five minutes, six hundred and ten. If somebody wanted to
do a five hundred dollars but was waiting for the
right moment to do it, now's the time. If somebody
wanted to do one hundred and ten, or if somebody
wanted to do two fifty. Now's the time to do it.

(01:55:10):
To get us to the beyond the five thousand mark
and two thirds of the way to our final goal.
That would be huge, humongous, fantastic, So please please consider
consider doing it now. All right, let's see the counter

(01:55:38):
is kind of I don't know, Sometimes it counts, sometimes
it doesn't. All right, here they come copy to the rescue.
We just we just demolished the six hundred dollar goal,
just all all at once. Author, thank you five hundred dollars,
you know, really appreciate it. I'm going to leave that

(01:55:59):
up there. I can answer the question in a few
minutes and then Hunter brush us two hundred dollars. Thank you,
and again we'll leave that to answer the question in
a few minutes and really appreciated. Guys. All right, guys,
we now have over you know, we have two hours

(01:56:21):
now to basically raise the final forty nine hundred dollars,
right to find a forty nine hundred dollars. We're ready
over ten thousand. We've already raised more than ten thousand dollars.
So that's amazing. I really really really appreciate it. That's fantastic,

(01:56:41):
and that's not even counting yet the money that we've
raised on PayPal. Of course, there's no reason to stop
at fifteen thousand, right, So don't worry about the being
an up abound My stretch goal and I might stop
if we reach the stretch goal is twenty thousand.

Speaker 2 (01:57:01):
That's a stretch goal.

Speaker 1 (01:57:02):
And we're halfway there, and we're half the time that
I've said I dedicated to this, so and you know,
we will see. For those of you, I mean, really,
I think that I have I have the best, most committed,
most supportive listeners in all of YouTube.

Speaker 2 (01:57:27):
I get more super chats poor.

Speaker 1 (01:57:32):
Subscriber, I think than anybody, or at least in the US,
you know, lifetime. I'm number five in the US in
terms of for political shows. For political shows, I'm number
either four or five all time over the history on YouTube.
Four five And if you divided by the number of subscribers,

(01:57:53):
I blow everybody out of the water. There's just no
question about it. So you guys are amazing, amazing, Thank you,
thank you, thank you to all of you. I have
a much you contribute the two dollars to five hundred dollars,
the one thousand dollars that a couple of people have done.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I really really really
appreciate it. And and you know, in past years we've

(01:58:15):
had matches to reach it and everything to this year,
no match, and we're still chipping away at it. Forty
nine hundred dollars to go. The sooner we get there,
the better, Let's do it. Okay, I'm gonna now take
the five hundred dollar questions first, and then we'll go
backwards from that. Let's see. It might be Author is

(01:58:37):
the first five hundred dollars. I think if all the
other five hundreds didn't have a question on them, all right,
five hundred dollars, author says, thank you. Jiroon would love
to hear your thoughts on AI's impact on productivity in
twenty twenty six and beyond. Well, AI outpace the statistic,
the status political trends.

Speaker 2 (01:58:55):
Can we accelerate past doomers?

Speaker 1 (01:58:58):
I mean, I don't know. There is certainly immense, immense
promise in AI, and with the massive investments that are
being made right now, AI is going to get, you know,
significantly better. I don't know if it's going to get
exponentially better, because I think there's something inherently there's an

(01:59:21):
inherent cap to how good llms can get. Lms are
great and they can do a lot, but there's only
so much you can do by manipulating woods. This is
why I'm not I don't think you know, all these
people thinking that, you know, computers are going to compete

(01:59:41):
with human beings and all this stuff. Not really, not
not anytime soon, not as long as you know. AI
is lllms. But lms are going to contribute a lot
to increased productivity. So, for example, we're already seeing that
in software lllms are making writing software significantly easier, faster,

(02:00:07):
more effective, more efficient, and that is increasing the productivity
of software engineers, and that means they can be more
done faster, And I think that is already happening, and
that's only going to accelerate.

Speaker 2 (02:00:22):
The tools are only going to get better to do that.

Speaker 1 (02:00:28):
We're still kind of waiting for the big breakthroughs to happen,
but they happen very slowly and then all at once.

Speaker 2 (02:00:35):
I think in.

Speaker 1 (02:00:37):
Things like the medical space, you know, AI can analyze,
can go through massive quantities of data that would take
a human being centuries. It could do it can do
it very very fast. And summarize the results or find

(02:01:00):
patterns and convey that information. And it is it is
truly astounding, and it's going to have profound impact. I mean,
for example, you know, uh protein folding, which is a
big deal in uh in uh you know biotech and
uh you know other things that for human beings without

(02:01:25):
AI is just science fiction. AI is going to make
those things possible. Now how quickly that happens, given the
regulatory nature of biotech, and how quickly that gets you know,
implemented into drugs and treatments, I don't know. Uh l
lms can also I mean, these AI can also look

(02:01:47):
at big data sets and find patterns and relate I
don't know, medication to cueuing diseases, to any kind of
studies that have to do with cololations and things like that.
It's going to be massively helped by the existence of AI.

(02:02:08):
So yes, I think is software you're going to see
increasing productivity. I mean, my productivity is higher. I can
go to an LLLM and say, you know, summarize this
in this phenomena, and then I can find the resources
and ask it more questions and do get a little deeper,
and it makes my shows better and I guess quick
O easier to produce. So productivity is definitely going to

(02:02:33):
increase in twenty twenty six and even more so in
the future, right particularly once these new data centers come
online and they're just the ship power that people are
going to throw at. It is pretty stunning and pretty
amazing as we move here into the future. So massive potential, massive, massive,

(02:02:54):
massive potential, and I think it's going to start being
realized in twenty twenty six out pay status political trends.
I think it very well could. In a sense that
I've said for a long time, I don't think we're
going to go into a dark ages. I think we're
going to go into an era of stagnation where you
in certain fields you will get significant innovation and progress.

(02:03:19):
Those fields that AI touches and other fields will stagnate completely.
And you know, that might create some issues with regard
to jobs and you know, jobs prospects for people. AI
might wipe out categories of jobs, and they might be

(02:03:41):
real recession in certain parts of the economy. Other parts
will accelerate in terms of prosperity. So you're going to
see more of this. I don't like. I wouldn't call
it inequality, but more of this divergence between tech and
the rest, which you already see in the market. In
a market way and places where you can apply AI

(02:04:05):
will increase productivity and become significant better. And this is
kind of a longer term, five to ten year trend.
Places that don't might you might see real stagnation, and
you might see unemployment increase, not because capitalism can't deal
with it, but because we don't have capitalism, and as
a consequence, labor markets are not dynamic and affluent enough,

(02:04:28):
not enough on to know activity to actually create enough
jobs to soak up all the people who are going
to be let go because.

Speaker 2 (02:04:38):
Of the introduction of AI.

Speaker 1 (02:04:44):
All right, sor F says, Happy New Year, thank you,
and happy New Year to you two. Jerry says, I
wish I could do more, but he has another twenty
dollars for the second half. Thank you. Jerry really appreciate that. Yeah,
I mean if anybody everybody did exactly what they did
the first half and the second half, we'd be done.

(02:05:13):
Our Pnox says, Happy New Year. I achieved top point
four percent of viewers on your channel. Wow, I can
only give pennies not dollars. Hours watched. Your shows are
tremendous value. I intend to give more at some point.
Thank you really appreciate that a dollar five hundred dollars.

(02:05:35):
I streamed five hundred dollars, so that's that's that's not bad.
That's twenty cents hour that I streamed, GGF YG whatever,
ten dollars. Thank you for the stick. I really really
appreciate the stick. Okay, questions, that's one hundred dollars. Somebody

(02:05:55):
did more than one hundred dollars here, let me find it. Yeah,
let me it was. Yeah, two fifty Roland did two
fifty Swiss Fanks. That's a lot. I second Gale's idea
of having more shows about what true capitalism might look like,
a positive vision is very much what the world needs.

Speaker 2 (02:06:18):
Happy New Year, looking forward to seeing you in Porto.

Speaker 1 (02:06:21):
Excellent. I'm glad you're coming to Porto. Look forward to that.

Speaker 2 (02:06:24):
And yeah, I get it. I've written that down.

Speaker 1 (02:06:27):
I will definitely take that into account imagining what capitalism
looks like.

Speaker 2 (02:06:32):
I mean, I've done those shows.

Speaker 1 (02:06:33):
I did a show on environmentalism, how capitalism would do
with environmentalism, and other shows. It didn't get that much viewership.
I mean, it's frustrating. It's it's you want the positive
vision out there, but if I to talk about anti Semitism,
I'm going to get more views than if I talk
about something positive about capitalism.

Speaker 2 (02:06:52):
You know that's the reality, all right.

Speaker 1 (02:06:56):
Hunter in twenty seven eight, in a tiny port town
in the Stixon, Missouri, taught anthem as part of Airys
Free Books for teachers. It started me in a dramatically
better direction. Wow, and you personally with YBS have helped
me achieve major success. Thank you sincerely. Here's the most

(02:07:19):
success in twenty twenty six. Wow.

Speaker 2 (02:07:21):
I mean I love those stories.

Speaker 1 (02:07:22):
By the way, even if you you know, the best
way to repay me, if you feel like you need
to repay me for the values I've provided you, is
to tell me stories like that, send me emails or
post here just how the show or how AARI have
impacted your life. I mean, it's great when I meet

(02:07:47):
people who were introduced by two in Rand through our
books to teachers program at AARI or YBS introduced them
or anything like that. I love those stories. They make
my day the why I do what I do. It's
it's just it's really, really really heartwarming and inspiring and

(02:08:09):
exciting for me personally to get those stories and to
hear about those stories. So keep them coming, keep them coming.
Thank you, Hunter, I really appreciate that. All Right, that
was Hunted did two hundred dollars, Now we got one
hundred and eighty. What is your prediction of how Ukraine
War will play out in twenty twenty six? And why
love this show and your books. Thank you for what

(02:08:31):
you do. Happy New Year, God. I mean, these questions
are really really hard. Predictions are really really hard, primarily
because the big you know, the big thing here is Trump,
and Trump is is just this. I mean, how do
you predict what Trump is going to do? How do
you predict how Trump is going to behave? How do

(02:08:52):
you predict what Trump? You know what Trump will do?
I mean, so I'm going to predict that. A year
for now, we're in a very similar situation that we
are right now. A year for now. You know, Russia's
made very little advance. They're bogged down, The Ukrainians have

(02:09:14):
probably not recaptured any territory back. They're bogged down. They're
bombing each other's territories in different ways. Trump is still
trying in some way to bring about some kind of
piece deal, or maybe he's given up. But he's also
not dramatically supporting Ukraine. Because if I think Trump actually
decided to support Ukraine, to give them the missiles, to

(02:09:36):
give them the weapons they need, then I think Ukraine
could be making ground against Russia a year for now.
So I think we're very much in the same position
as we are right now. I don't see any dramatic change.
I mean, we're in a situation of a war of attrition.
The one the ground is just a grounding war. Ukraine
makes a little bit of advances in some places and

(02:09:58):
Russia makes a little bit of advances elsewhere, but nothing
that new territory is gained. Russia is poor a year
from now than it is now. Its economy is worse.
It keeps getting worse. It has to, and it does.

(02:10:18):
Putin maybe is in a more precarious position. Maybe they're
closer to a deal because Trump is been bugging them
and Putin sees no outs. I don't know, but that's
the best I can do. You know, if Ukraine got
all the weapons it wants and needs it can use,

(02:10:40):
I think he could make real progress against Russia. I
think Russia is very weak and has been throughout. On
the other hand, if Trump decides to withdraw all intelligence
from the Ukrainians intelligence assistance in addition to not sending
the weapons, which he's not, then Ukraine might the Eastern

(02:11:01):
Fund in Ukraine might collapse, and Russia might gain significant territory.
But I think neither of those will happen, and I
think we'll get a kind of a continuation of the
stale meat that exists right now. All right, let's see
who's next. Let's do the Norwegian kuna and then we'll

(02:11:23):
go to Ryan. All right, Espen, when you visited Ostlo
in December twenty twenty four, I offered to pay for
your meal, but someone else had already covet it. I
then pledged to pay for your meal another time. Consider
this payment for that pledge. Keep your promises happening here yet,
Thank you, Espen. I really appreciate that. I do remember that,

(02:11:44):
and that is great, Thank you, thank you. And I
hope to make it back to Oslo maybe this summer.
Maybe this summer, and that's okay, you know, hopefully, hopefully
we can organize another meal. And I can't hang out
with you guys in Oslo. Tessa, thank you for all

(02:12:05):
you do. Happy New Year, Thank you, Tessa really appreciated.
That's fifty dollars, and let's see where we Yeah, paces
definitely slowed down, so we're now at about we're now
we're still four thousand, six hundred dollars short, forty six

(02:12:25):
hundred dollars. We're well over ten thousand, heading towards ten
to five. So keep it coming again. As I mentioned,
not gonna make it unless some of our wheels out
there are willing to do a five hundred dollars YouTube
YouTube chunk chunk, we'll call it, to really chip away

(02:12:49):
at this very very very aggressive goal, or we get
forty six hundred dollars contributors, which might happen as well,
or we might get some combination of both. We might
get a bunch of two hundreds or whatever. So yes,
stay tuned. We've got about one hundred and sixty three
people watching. Let's see how we're doing in terms of

(02:13:11):
fifteen of fifty. So we're a little lagging in terms
of just a shin number of super chats. So please
consider just coming in with some super chat. Yeah, for example,
Jonathan just did one. He did a sticker with an emoji,
and it didn't count it. So sometimes it counts it,
sometimes it doesn't. And I have no idea what determines

(02:13:35):
what is what. I just don't know. But anyway, we're
still looking for thirty five more super chats. So even
if it's two bucks, so Jonathan just did five dollars,
any super chat would do to get us to the
fifty super chats for the hour, and we probably got
about a half an hour to make it, so thirty minutes.
We need more than one super chat a minute, more

(02:13:55):
than one super chat a minute. All right, let's see Ryan,
Ryan's the shows to do. One way to expand your
reach is to do dedicated shows analyzing videos from the
biggest names in the culture. I know you do this
occasionally and have trouble avoiding long rans. However, I think

(02:14:18):
that if you polish this format you can get more exposure. Yeah,
I agree, I agree, it's and I'll repeat I'll repeat
what I've said in the past hasn't always worked. But
I'll just say, if you guys see a video of

(02:14:42):
somebody out there in the culture that you think I
should be commenting on that you think I would have
something interesting to say about. Send me the link. You're
on it, You're on bookshow dot com, you run at
you run brookshow dot com.

Speaker 2 (02:14:56):
Send me the link.

Speaker 1 (02:14:58):
It's you know. I I appreciate it. I don't watch
a lot of these podcasters, and I don't know who
is necessarily influential at any given point in time. You
guys know more lot more than I do, So please
consider just sending me a link and letting me know
that there's something you think I should be I should

(02:15:20):
be supported, I should be commenting on. I should be
commenting on, and I'm happy to do it. I'm happy
to do it. And the more you send me, the
more choices I'll have, the more I'll do. So all right,

(02:15:42):
so thank you. All right, I remind you of PayPal.
The link to PayPal is on top if you want
to do large amounts. If anybody out there would like
to challenge people on a match, I think challenging people here,
Thank you, Ryan.

Speaker 2 (02:16:00):
Appreciated. Matches really work.

Speaker 1 (02:16:02):
Just like when I tell people there's fifty to go go,
you know, people get excited and they want to participate.
So if anybody wants to participate in a match, you
can do that. You can let me know in a
super chat that you'll do a match. What else? Yeah,
I think that's good. Okay, one hundred dollars questions Andrew.

(02:16:23):
I don't know if philosophy can cure all psychological issues,
but if the young were schooled in accord with objectives principles,
they would be much greater mental health. That is, integrating
the principle of existence would largely cure the modern scooge
of narcissism. Yes, I think there's no doubt. There's no
doubt that if our educational system was better, if people

(02:16:45):
were taught how to think, use their mind, if they
were taught how to think and use their mind, then yeah,
you know, the irrationality would be you know, much dramatically reduced.
The narcissism, the hedonism, the suddenly, the the the nihilism

(02:17:09):
would all be reduced. The key is education. And uh,
you know, if we could get kids just to just
to be taught how to think with good content and
and taught history and what really happened in the world,

(02:17:30):
that would change. That would change everything. That that would
change the world. That is what changes the world. Thank you, Andrew.
All Right, Ryan says for another one hundred dollars, thank
you Ryan. In twenty twenty six, he says, sending your

(02:17:52):
own links for shows every week. He says, I'm on
it excellent. So if if anybody else wants to be
on it as well, go for it. It'll be great.
Send me links and I'll do the commenting. Adam, Adam
and Adam in a long time. Adam is here, excellent.

(02:18:14):
Adam says, Happy New Year. You on. I'll contribute more later,
but for now, I want to add Rand's quote that
influenced me most this year. Quote in any compromise between
food and poison, it's only death that can win. Yes,
I know a little bit about Adam's context, and that

(02:18:35):
is a powerful quote. And it's a quote that you
can apply and implement in your own life to great effect,
to avoid compromising, to avoid compromising on virtues, on what's important,
on what's valuable in life.

Speaker 2 (02:18:53):
So thank you, Adam. I really really appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (02:18:58):
Let's see, thank you for the one hundred dollars, and
let's see we've got WCZN. Happy New Year's you on
onwards and upwards.

Speaker 2 (02:19:08):
Thank you for all that you do.

Speaker 1 (02:19:10):
I appreciate that WCZN for fifty New Zealand dollars. We're
getting them from all over the world, which is fantastic.
Let's see exits exit s already done, you know quite
a bit, so one hundred dollars. This is from Robert
Fowler formally called r DF YouTube. Decided to change me

(02:19:35):
to exit one two five four for some reason. Thank you, Robert,
really appreciate it. You'll have to I apologize in advance
that I won't remember every time I see XI t
that that is really Robert, But I really really appreciate it,
and thank you. And yeah, we're very close to getting

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oh to getting below the four thousand. Actually we are
below the four thousand because Troy has showed up as
he always does. Troy, thank you, Thank you, Thank you,
Troy with five hundred Australian dollars. Happy New Year. Thank
you for your work this past year and looking forward

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to the next. You constantly change lives and save minds.
Also PayPal two hundred dollars. Thank you really appreciate that.
So that rounds it up to just over five hundred
US dollars with the PayPal, so greatly appreciate it. All right,

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Oh no, that wasn't let me just see what is
that SD It wasn't two hundred dollars. It was two
thousand dollars. So Troy just did two thousand dollars on PayPal.
Thank you. I mean, you do so much all year round.

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I really really really appreciate it. Thank you, thank you,
thank you. That is amazing. And you know we'll still
have to get me out to Australia and I left
it buy your dinner one of these days. Let's see,
thank you choice again. Just counting, just counting PayPal, we're

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down to only needing three thousand dollars to make out
fifteen thousand dollars goal. Gary, thank you for the sticker.
Let me see where are we I'm losing. I'm losing.
Let's see I did Adam. Wait a minute, okay, let's

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see what I would follow Gary. Thank you. Okay, we'll
get to that question in a minute. And thank you,
thank you for that, and he says, thanks for all
the videos. Troy. We thanked Hammad nine to one one.

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Let's keep going towards the goal. Thank you. Hammad, really
appreciate that. We're really chipping away, okay. Shasbat shaws about
five hundred dollars. Please review Star Trek Original Series. Well,
I love original series. Good Star Trek the original series
series one episode twenty one, the was it the Return

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of Archons? And one Star Trek Original Series episode of
your choice. Thanks, Also, did you finish watching? And oh, yes,
I thought I told you. I thought we talked about that. Yes,
I so I thought Ando started out the second season

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started out week and really picked up, and I thought
by the end it was really really good. So I
think it picked up maybe episode three and kept getting better,
and by the end it was it was really good.
So I really enjoyed it. But yeah, I was disappointed
in the first two episodes. I thought they were pretty
weak and divergent stories that didn't have anything really to

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do with the heart of it. And yeah, all right,
thank you Shazbat. That helped a lot to get us
to where we need to be. Parker ju at a third.
I think this is a third fifty dollars if I'm
not mistaken. Stika, thank you really appreciate that. Oh you

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will get to that, Gail, thank you for the sticker.
Mario says, Happy New Year, you're on looking forward to
meeting you and Poto Idea for a show. Do something
on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing
of the Deck. Yes, I mean definitely we will do.

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As July approaches, we will do a bunch of stuff
on the founding of America and its significance, and specifically
in the Declaration of America, which is Declaration Independence, which
is my favorite political document of all time.

Speaker 2 (02:24:17):
So thank you, Mario the biz.

Speaker 1 (02:24:20):
Thank you for the sticker most she kill I'm getting
shekels here, oh e ermisms from a young gen Z viewer.
I don't have a lot of gen Z viewers, so
this is great. From a young gen Z viewer, thought
i'd help you are making an influence on the culture.

(02:24:41):
Thank you for everything to do. Thank you, and it's
good to know that I've got gen Z viewers. I
know there's some. I can see the stats on YouTube.
I don't know how many of them listen on podcasts.
I don't get age stats there, and even on YouTube,
I don't know how reliable the age stats are. But
you know, the younger group there eighteen to twenty four

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is the smallest group at least according to YouTube stats.
So I value each one of them, and that's the future. Guys,
We've got to got to have an impact on the future.
I'm curious, ermus LEMI ask how you discovered I Rand?
How how did you get to my show? That is,
if even if you don't do a super chat to answer,

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put it into the chat. Uh, the BIZ thank you for.

Speaker 2 (02:25:29):
The sticker, really appreciated.

Speaker 1 (02:25:32):
All right, We're down to basically three thousand dollars, three
thousand dollars and twenty six three twenty six dollars and
we've got an hour and a half to make it.
And the the BIZ did another sticker, so more shekels
are just flowing in. Thank you guys. All right? Were
there any one hundred dollars? Yes, rich it uh is

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enough to really Bennett better than a Tanyao. Would it
be possible to form a coalition with the write and
sent to secular parties to pursue a pro market agenda,
especially privatization of land, which Wikipedia says as ninety percent
owned by the government, while being solid on defense.

Speaker 2 (02:26:10):
So I don't know if Bennett will be better than Antennio.

Speaker 1 (02:26:16):
But what do I know? I know the Netaniao needs
to go. I know because he was Prime Minister during
October seventh and in the fifteen years leading up to
October seventh. I know it because he's been Prime Minister
for the last fifteen years or longer, and there's been very,

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very few market reforms. There were a lot more market
reforms before him, before he was Prime minister, when he
was Finance minister. So I don't see much of a
downside in replacing him, and I think Justice demands that
he goes in terms of and says that could we

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could there be a coalition of writers center yes, you know,
particularly if Natanio, If Natennio resigned and left the Liquorde,
then there's definitely a center right majority in Israel that
could exclude the religious parties and implement liberal in a

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sense of free market policies, significant liberal policies in Israel.
So it is all possible. Will it happen, It's hard
to tell, and they would be solid on defense. Absolutely,
Will it happen. Nataneo is not leaving is one second.
Even if he leaves, you know, will they have the

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guts the courage to actually engage in significant free market reforms. Now,
I'm not that worried about land. Land should be sold.
More importantly, it should be freed up for development. Look,
Hong Kong, ninety plus percent of the land in Hong
Kong is owned by the government. Ninety plus percent of

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the land in Singapore is owned by the government, and
yet those are the two freest economies, or at least
Hong Kong before the Chinese. In spite of that, you
can do a huge amount even without selling the land,
as long as you free up the land for development,
which is what Singapore and Hong Kong do to some extent.

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And in Singapore most housing is owned by the government.
The people live in the houses owned the condo buildings
owned by the government. So you can do a lot
of freedom without doing real estate, although real estate is
a good start, should be done as well once you're
Once you're liberating an economy, all right, Adam, growing up

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multi lingual seems good for separation, for separating reason from
just syntax. Einman grew up multi lingual. Also, many US
tech heroes real or just my impression, some US parents
pay extra for bilingual montssory in Poland, three languages by
age five is expected. Your opinion, Yeah, no, I definitely

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think that being bilingual helps with concept formation. You get
a an I. E. Man talks about this, I think
an introduction of objectives and pistemology or somewhere else. She
definitely talks about the fact that having two languages helps
you get that that that these woods are more than

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just woods and more than just sounds, they are actually concepts. Uh.
And and and because you you get them, you get
two different sounds that mean the same thing.

Speaker 2 (02:29:48):
Okay, so what is it?

Speaker 1 (02:29:49):
What's the meaning? You go to the meaning rather than
just the syntax. So yes, absolutely, I think having at
least two languages is a good is definitely a good
thing for developing an appreciation for for for for concepts,
And it's just a good just in terms of the

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mind is working, it's comparing comparing concepts, it's it's it's work,
which is which is good? Uh? All right, let's see
who else do we have here? Oh, let's do fifties?
Start with the fifties? Uh? I like I How does

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one best think about understanding and apply the trade of
principle to relationships, especially romantic relationships? Thank you well? I
mean the fundamental there is that you can't expect to
have a healthy relationship that's one sided, that is you
can't expect to have a healthy relationship where one party
is a giver and another is in a sense a taker.

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Where and that could be emotionally give a taker. It
can be uh, you know, existentially in terms of actions
in the world out there. It can be in sex,
It can be in a lot of different aspects. In
every aspect of your life. There needs to be a
back and forth. Now, it's not moneted. You don't monetize it.

(02:31:18):
That that is, it's not something that you put a
monetary value to, uh in order to make the exchange.
But you know, if you if you know, listening and
being emotionally available, being available to your partner is important.

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And it can't be one sided, you know, Uh, Saying
nice things and positive things about your partner can just
be one sided, you know. And then it goes all
the way to doing chores in the house and and
and you know, having some kind of division of labor

(02:32:03):
around the house, and having some kind of division of
labor in terms of bringing in the income, and having
some kind of division of labor around raising kids, and
all of that has to be thought of as a trade.
Not I take out the garbage, you do the dishwasher,
but that there's some kind of equilibrium that doesn't have
to be monetarily adjudicated, but there has to be a

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sense that, yeah, this is a this is a relationship
of equals, and it's fundamentally about value for value win win.
Everything we do is win win. Hopefully that is helpful.
But that could be a whole show. We could talk
our whole show about that. All right, let's see somebody

(02:32:47):
could sponsor that show for a thousand dollars a good
sponsor show on that. James Taylor, you say evil might
not be a choice for some people. I find that
hard to believe. I don't think anyone is born evil
or psychopath. What evolutionary advantage would they be in being

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born evil? You'd figure that gene would die out pretty quickly. Well,
maybe maybe evil allows you to take control of the
tribe and rule it. Maybe evil allows you to be
the witch doctor and witch doctors and Attila's to use
ivans terminology, you know, the evil leaders of the tribe.

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They perpetuated the DNA, they continue to survive genetically. So
it's not clear that evil is such an easily easy
to dismiss evolutionarily that it is so easy to dismiss
evolutionarily evil. I don't actually think that is that is

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the case, But what else did I want to say
about that? Also? I mean, I think it's possible that
you could be born with something very wrong in your

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mind that I don't know, somehow the chemical imbalanced there
is all messed up, and you get a rush of
chemicals that cause you to feel pleasure at evil things.
I don't know. I think it's possible, right, And even
if evolution weans that out of us, it's still possible

(02:34:38):
for errors, right, for mutations to happen, So any particular
person could have a mutation that leads something this evolutionarily bad.
Evolution doesn't work in that sense on every particular case.
So look, I don't think most evil is I think

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most evil is at some level chosen by default because
people choose not to think and evade. I mean, evasion
is the root of all evil. So the choice to evade,
the choice not to think, that is almost all evil.
And it could be done by the way at a

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very young age where you don't even know that you
made that choice as an adult, and it's very hard
to come back from all. Right, some more fifty dollars questions,
not your j algorithm. If things keep going the way
they're going, I think Trump and MAGA will be extremely
unpopular by the end of this term. In Jdvan's, who

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have no chance, have an incredible New Year. You've changed
my life. We will win Simpa in Florida. Thank you
really appreciate that. And I think there's a good chance
that you're right. I think that I think Jdvan's probably
doesn't win because people are fed up with Trump by
the time we get to that point. All right, let

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me all right, I see more super chats are coming.
Let me see what's the timer like. We've got seven
more super chats. I think in the next eight minutes.
We need seven super chats. Seven super chats in eight minutes.
We should be able to do that. One a minute.
One super chat a minute could be any amount. Let's

(02:36:25):
let's get to that fifty goal. Uh, and then we
can we can re examine where we need to be
in terms of in terms of the dollar amount for
the next hour and twenty minutes, hour and twenty minutes,
we're still it's still gonna be ambitious. Right. Anytime we
talk about thousands of dollars. It's ambitious, but it's a

(02:36:46):
lot less than it was a couple of hours ago.
All right, Mark, Oh, I skipped that. That's one hundred dollars.
Sorry Mark. Mark says, do you follow or have any
opinions as to if there's an over investment in AI
by companies? So many have thrust a lot of money
into the technology, do you have any thought as to

(02:37:08):
how it will play out? Not seeking investment advice, just
to experience, experienced observation. See here's my sense of what's
going on there. I think the answer is yes. Now,
note most of the promised investment hasn't actually happened, so
we will see how much of it actually gets done,
actually happens.

Speaker 2 (02:37:27):
But my answer is.

Speaker 1 (02:37:30):
Yes, we have seen significant, we are seeing significant. We'll
call it over investment. And here what do I mean
by over investments? To more important to understand what I
mean by over investment. What I mean by over investment
is that the return on the investment, the profit made

(02:37:52):
on this money invested, is going to be very low.
On the other hand, I think that all of the
AI centers that are being built, all the AI investment
will be utilized Ultimately It's just that the investors themselves
are not going to reap a huge financial reward from it.

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The rest of us will reap the reward from the
existence of AI at a very high level down the road,
you know, when when it all comes into reality, when
it matures. Here's my and analogy. It's not a great
it's not a bad analogy. I think there was a
massive you could argue over investment in fiber optic cable

(02:38:43):
in the nineteen nineties. Everybody was laying fiber optics across
the country in the nineteen nineties, and there was and
you couldn't even imagine that that would be used. And
indeed much of the fiber optics, so the people laying
it didn't make a good return of investment for laying it.

(02:39:06):
But the reality is that about ten years later, suddenly
all that fiber optics was indeed in use, even though
you couldn't imagine how. Maybe it was more than ten years,
maybe it was fifteen twenty years because of Netflix. Netflix
suddenly made that fiber optics. You know, it seemed like

(02:39:30):
there wasn't enough of it, even though there was. It
was plentiful, right, because fiber optics used up so much bandwidth,
so much bandwidth. I think the same thing will happen
with AI. The investors might not to return, but it
will all be used up and we will all benefit
from it, just like all the consumers of Netflix benefited

(02:39:53):
from the fact that all that fiber optics was laid
down in the nineties. So it's over investment in infrastructure.
It's not the worst type of over investment. It's actually
quite good because you ultimately use that infrastructure unless it's
useless infrastructure, and I don't think in this case, building

(02:40:15):
more data centers is useless. All right, test assist. Thanks
all you do, Happy New Year, and let's see what
else do we have here? M call me M. Thank
you for everything that you do. Thank you M and

(02:40:39):
h wcc answers. Last year was very good. This year
will be even better. I'm so excited. Excellent. Love to
hear excitement. One hundred dollars. Daniel Chapman, Millennial Here. I
started supporting your show about the time Leonard ended his podcast. Wow,

(02:41:00):
that's a long time ago. It's about twenty I mean
it's about when I started my show twenty fifteen, so
it's over ten years now. It's eleven years. It'll be
next month, It'll be eleven years. Let's call it ten years.
It's eleven years. When will we see a Iran's Rules
for Life book? Happy New Year. I don't know about
the Iuron's Rusolie book. I'm working with Don on a

(02:41:21):
different project and we will be coming out with a
book soon, but it won't be the Rules for a
Light book. By the way, we did make the fifty
fifty super Chat target, so thank you guys. Really, you
guys are amazing today amazing, and we are under three
thousand to make our goal. We're approaching twenty five hundred

(02:41:42):
to make the goal twenty six, five, nine, six and
fifty nine. If people can afford in and if it's
a value to them of five hundreds, make getting to
that goal so much easier, so much quicker. Today's the
day to do it. Today's the day splurge and support
the show. So I don't know when we'll see a book.

(02:42:06):
One of the things we've done is we've transcribed all
of them and trying to get Ai to turn them
into essays and then edit those essays and see if
we can turn it into a book. That way, it's
going to be a lot of work, but it's definitely
something I'm thinking about and we'll be working on in
the year years to come. John. It's great to see

(02:42:28):
you John here. Happy New Year. Thank you for your
uncompromising standard issues of the day. I appreciate that. Thank
you for being such a strong supporter of the show. Andrew. Yes,
let's see Andrew fifty dollars on expanding your reach. People

(02:42:48):
like series do most series include news maybe on two
three x a week, but change so that they're doing
one in each series everyday. Idea d Yaran Ybe's personal advice,
the history of capitalism, objectivist virtues and vices. All right, well,

(02:43:11):
I'm trying to do some of that with the Saturday shows.
Uh so, but but good advice. I'll I'll think about
how to do that as well, all right, Andrew. Also,
Christianity's attachment of shame to pride cannot be good for

(02:43:31):
man's sexual psychology. Even if he develops a healthy masculinity
separate from religion, to the extent he takes that emotional
dismisconnect seriously, he will injure his masculinity. I think that's right.
I think you know, I think that making pride advice

(02:43:53):
in Christianity is incredibly damaging, incredibly damaging.

Speaker 2 (02:43:58):
So uh, exactly how it all plays out?

Speaker 1 (02:44:06):
You know again, it's it's you know, the whole point
of sex is there's a sense of which sex is
a the experience of a pleasure of existence, a pride
of your existence, a pride of being successful. And shame
associated with sex and associate with pride undermines that and

(02:44:30):
undermines your your full ability to experience it, but it
undermines the whole notion of masculinity. I agree completely right
more Andrew Andrew's doing five hundred in small Doses A
suggestion based on Rand's writing on getting more reach for
objectivist intellectuals teach them to put more psychological psychology in

(02:44:51):
their content. I don't think one needs to be a
psychologist to analyze it. If if kept general, I g
altruism and resent and among men. Yeah, it's very very
hard to be objective about it. It's very hard to
be objective about it. Ironrand was the master at that,
and of course she had to know psychology because she

(02:45:11):
had to write characters. A novelist has to be a
psychologist or not a psychologist, but has to know something
about human psychology, and iron Ran certainly did. And what
makes her essays so compelling is there's a philosophical dimension,
and there's a psychological dimension above and beyond maybe economics

(02:45:32):
and history and everything else that she brings in. All right, Jonathan,
thank you for some stickers laid back pedal ip. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:45:46):
Exit.

Speaker 1 (02:45:46):
I've already I've already forgotten. I've already forgotten the name.
Who else did a sticker that I miss? Andrews's reality
is cool? Thank you, Andrew. All right, let's go back

(02:46:06):
to our fifty dollars questions, Espun. How do you see
the outlook for Norway culturally, politically, economically. Some predict war
between Russia and NATO within just a few years. How
do you think Norway will far? Then? Could no Way
be a target like kyushimnagasakiin forty five? I mean, I

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don't know enough about Norwegian society. No Way is economically
very much buffet from the consequence of bad policies by
the fact that it has so much oil. So Norway's
oil reserves are definitely a buffer that protects it from
economic downturns. But it's certainly the case that you know,

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no Way struggles on the one hand relatively wealthy society.
It has entrepreneurs, you know, it has highly productive people,
but also has the consequence of a welfare state, which
is people are not productive and people who you know,

(02:47:18):
are not engaged economically and culturally and fully, and that
tension cannot be healthy and eroads, you know, will continue
to erode the culture and will continue to roade politics.
It's you know, it's a small country population wise, and

(02:47:41):
it's again shielded because of the money from the oil,
and it shielded because it doesn't it didn't take in
a lot of Muslims and it doesn't have to deal
with that as much, although it does have some So
I think it just grinds on. I think it generally
culturally declines and it grinds on. There are some very

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positive elements within Norway. Norway has more objectives of capita
than most places. One of the highest in the world
would be my guess. So there's definitely some people pushing
for the positive and that could have a positive effect
on a small country like Norway.

Speaker 2 (02:48:20):
I don't know about war with NATO. I doubt that's
gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (02:48:24):
Russia is so occupied in Ukraine, and it's going to
be so depleted by the war in Ukraine, it's going
to become so poor and a ward NATO. If it's
going to do a world with NATO, it's gonna have
to be while Trump is in office, because I think
any other president would come to NATO's defense. And if
the United States participated in such a war, Russia would

(02:48:46):
be crushed in a matter of days, literally really in
a matter of days. So yeah, I mean, I think
that Russia would be is going to be very hesitant
to gauge in such a war. I don't expect nukes
to be dropped on Norway. Why Norway? And if you're

(02:49:08):
going to drop a nuke, if you rush and you
want to drop a nuke, you would drop it on Germany,
on industry, on the hard industry, on even Sweden produces
more weapons systems than Norway does. I just don't see
why Norway it would be a target. All right, let's
do this. We are getting very close to the twenty

(02:49:31):
five hundred mark, right, which is what's going to be
left for the last hour. So we've got ten minutes
now to get under twenty five hundred. Twenty five hundred
is what we raised in this last hour. It wasn't easy,
and it's going to be a challenge to make the
last hour get the twenty five hundred so we can
make the fifteen thousand. We're going to be pushing it, right,

(02:49:54):
So let's at least get fifty nine dollars in the
next ten minutes so we can be under twenty five hundred.
Let's make sure that of the five thousand we had
to left to raise, we raised half this first hour,
and we're going to raise half the the in the
second hour or this will be the fourth out, but

(02:50:17):
let's just leave twenty five hundred for that. So fifty
nine dollars is the challenge to raise in the next
nine minutes nine minutes. To raise fifty nine dollars, you
can do it. Stickers, you can do it in any
form you really want. Superchats, A lot of small level
of superchats or a lot of small level of stickers work,

(02:50:40):
so you can just do two dollars, ten dollars, a
few ten dollars and we're there.

Speaker 2 (02:50:45):
So jump in.

Speaker 1 (02:50:46):
We've got one hundred and fifty five people watching right now.
Shouldn't be that hard to do, the fifty nine dollars.
I'm I'm more worried about when am I going to
finish answering all the questions. This is going to go
over four hours. So yeah, so well we've got time.
But let me just encourage you. Let's let's just use
the time well and in the nine minutes that are left,

(02:51:09):
let's uh, let's get the fifty nine dollars raised? All right? Uh?
Where were we? Uh? OHI?

Speaker 2 (02:51:18):
Oh wait, Happy New Year.

Speaker 1 (02:51:22):
Show ideas deep dive into topics you love, including history, art,
great businessmen, new tech, structured videos with lots of images,
maybe even higher graphic animated, animated people like visuals. There
are many popular channels who do this. Yeah, I mean
it's good advice. I need to figure out how much

(02:51:43):
to invest.

Speaker 2 (02:51:43):
In the channel.

Speaker 1 (02:51:44):
And of course, as we do really really well here today,
it'll be easier for me to invest in the future
of the channel by doing stuff like that. Uh, Judy,
it's Juey Kinko from the chech Well Public. Hey Juy,
all the best to you and twenty twenty six year
on trade is great. Like with my iPhone, immense value

(02:52:06):
for a very ahotable price, incredible value and inspiration from
the YBS for my modest regular guy. Thank you, really
appreciate that. I hope that some time in twenty twenty
six I'll make it out to the check for Republic.
Maybe we're working on something around that. Maybe you'll come
to Puto. That'll be fun. It'll be great to see you.

(02:52:28):
Thank you, Jimmy, thanks for the thanks for the support.
Really appreciate that. Let's see, so we now only need
nine dollars, nine dollars because how do you how do
you Finian? I just came in with fifty bucks. Fifty

(02:52:49):
bucks and he says, thanks you on Also a quick
shout out and thanks to Jeffrey and the team at Rosella,
New York City. All right, Yes, definitely shout out to Rosella.
Brilliantly distinctive cuisine paired with the refreshingly relevant, relaxed, irreverent ambiance,

(02:53:09):
a rare balance done right. Looking forward to visiting Bar
Miller as well. Yes, definitely do Bar Miller. It is exceptional,
you know, really really exceptional. And this is from somebody
who eats at a lot of exceptional restaurants. Bar Miller
is superb. Brosella is amazing and Jeffrey and his team
are amazing. Thank you, Finnion appreciated. Okay, normative Randroid, this

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is the last fifty or above question being on more
because we need them to chip away at the last
twenty five hundred. We've now got six minutes to raise
seven dollars. Seven dollars and six minutes. Normative Android, Happy
New Year. Wanted to share my favorite rand quote from
my essay The Inexpiable Personal Alchemy, which is a great essay.

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There is a fundamental conviction that some people never acquire,
some hold only in the youth, and a few hold to.

Speaker 2 (02:54:10):
The end of their days. And where do you continue that?

Speaker 1 (02:54:14):
The conviction, all right, the conviction that ideas matter, That
ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that
one's mind matters, and the radiance of that certainty in
the process of growing up is the best aspect of youth. Absolutely,

(02:54:37):
it's a great quote. It's one of Ironman's greatest quotes.
It's exactly that I'm gonna gruad it again because it's
so good. There is a fundamental conviction which some people
never acquire, right, that's the missing link.

Speaker 2 (02:54:51):
If you will never acquire.

Speaker 1 (02:54:53):
Some hold only in the youth, and a few us
hold to the end of their the conviction that ideas matter.
The ideas matter means that knowledge matter, the truth matters,
that one minds matters, and the radiance of that certainty

(02:55:14):
in the process of growing up is the best aspect
of youth. It's so beautiful, so beautiful, all right, Jean,
I should have prepared for this Geene Walter's assd movie
of the Year. God, can anybody give me some options?

(02:55:36):
What were movies this year? I can't hold what movies
I saw. What movies were in the theater that I
saw this year? I didn't see in the theater. I
saw streaming all good movies that I really enjoyed this
year in the movies. All right, I'm gonna answer this.
I'm gonna see. Okay, let's do this best movies twenty

(02:56:04):
twenty six. Let's see what the internet gives me. And
if any of these movies, if I've seen them, or
if I think any of them any good. Oh, I
put twenty twenty six instead of twenty twenty five. Anybody
see good movies in twenty twenty five? Anybody want to
chime in? I didn't see a lot of I have
to say I didn't see a lot of movies this year.

(02:56:27):
All right, here's Rotten Tomatoes best movies of twenty twenty five.
Let's see didn't see that, didn't see that, didn't see that,
didn't see that, didn't see that, didn't see that. God,
this is depressing. I should catch these movies. There's there's

(02:56:48):
a lot of movies I never saw. Maybe, yeah, all right,
I'm curious what you guys think are the best movies
of twenty twenty five, and maybe I'll be able to
pick something out of that. It's amazing how many movies

(02:57:17):
I didn't see that on this list I'm looking at.
It's it's stunning and disappointing. I usually see what I thought.
I usually see a lot more movies, but I've gotten
down on movies. I've watched a lot more television shows,
and we don't go to the movie theater anymore or
almost never. Yeah, it's too long of a list. Let's

(02:57:42):
see Lila and Stitch, The Long Walk. I didn't see
the Muti Supreme. I haven't seen, but I have a
feeling we'dn't hate Maudi Supreme, so I'm you know, we'll
see Sinners I heard is really good, but I won't
see it Nuremberg. I want to see, but again I'm
skeptical about what I think think of it. We'll see.
Maybe maybe it's good. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not

(02:58:08):
seeing Of all the movies people are mentioning here, I'm
not seeing ones that. Okay, I'm gonna.

Speaker 2 (02:58:14):
I'm gonna.

Speaker 1 (02:58:15):
I owe you an answer, Jane, So I will. I
will try to get you. Oh, I'm in.

Speaker 2 (02:58:19):
Came in with five hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (02:58:21):
I'm in. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Really appreciate that.
That that goes a long way to getting us to
where we need to be in an hour. So thank you.
I'm in appreciate it. All right, it's the Yeah, those
five hundred really chop away at a whole thing.

Speaker 2 (02:58:38):
So really, now.

Speaker 1 (02:58:40):
We've got let's see, it's almost top of the hour,
and we have basically one thousand and eight hundred and
what fifty one, let's make it one thy eight hundred
and fifty dollar to go in this last and final

(02:59:03):
hour of the marathon. It might not be the finale
because I'm nowhere nia finishing, uh, the the the super chats,
and and I fear that I'm going to get another
question like movie the like somebody asks me the best
TV show V or something. I'm gonna answer these, just
maybe not today because I need a I need a

(02:59:25):
I need to actually think about it and review what
movies I've seen. Uh to get back read the chat? Yeah,
not Superman again. I haven't seen Leila and Stitch Chainsawman.
I didn't see that Event Horizon. I don't think I

(02:59:45):
saw that Downton Abbey the Grand for now. Yeah, but
it wouldn't be my best my favorite movie fun but
not not one battle after another. I want to see that,
but I haven't seen it yet. Yeah, not sure. Anyway,
we'll we'll, we'll, we'll see. Uh uh, you know, I

(03:00:06):
just watched the movie that was pretty good this this week.
But again I can't remember the name. That's a problem.
I can't remember names. So I need a list of movies.
But god, I'm looking at this list of movies and
they literally it is so many and how did I
miss all of them? I need to start moving watching
movies again. All right, let's see, all right? I like uh.

(03:00:35):
I like thoughts on the count usage of generative AI
and why do a lot of people hate AI slop. Well,
I'm really excited about the generative A. I am looking
forward to seeing how it develops and what it becomes,
what manifests from it, how people use it, how artists
use it, how other people use it.

Speaker 2 (03:00:55):
I think it's super exciting, it's super interesting.

Speaker 1 (03:00:58):
I think a lot of people, uh, you know, worry
about it, uh, upset by it, by by the kind
of the images that it creates.

Speaker 2 (03:01:08):
UH worried, and I worried.

Speaker 1 (03:01:11):
I I worry about not being able to tell whether
something is real o AI. Uh. I think that is
a real concern. I think AI is going to have
to this AI video are going to have to create
some kind of watermark or something. Uh. And and and
to to indicate that it is an AI video. Uh.

(03:01:31):
But it's very difficult today to differentiate and to tell.
So I think that's a challenge. Uh. And I think
people are people are just people just don't like technology.
They don't like advancement, they don't like progress, so they
were afraid of right. Samuel Paul Zieri is my favorite
fashion brand. The company is owned by a Katala's World family.

(03:01:55):
I've stopped stopped buying from them over concerns of indirect
supporting Islamist groups? Am I overthinking this? Is it useless?
Is it a useless sacrifice? I mean, I really I
think it a lot of It depends on to what extent.

Speaker 2 (03:02:12):
Do you have alternatives?

Speaker 1 (03:02:14):
That is, so, what extent is giving this up is
really hooding your life? And and to what extent is
is giving it up is you know you you can
you can find another brand that is not so uh
compromised and and support it, support and and and embrace it.

(03:02:36):
If it really is that big of a difference, you know,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:02:40):
I would try.

Speaker 1 (03:02:41):
I would really make an effort in life not to
buy things from Kata and and given that lots of
other fashion brands, it's probably not that big of a
of a of a of a trade off. If it
was the only one, then yeah, okay, then you don't
want to be a sacrifice.

Speaker 2 (03:03:02):
You have to make that evaluation. How big of a
deal is it?

Speaker 1 (03:03:06):
Indeed? All right, guys, we're in the last hour and
I have a hard stop at five point thirty East
coast time, so maximum hour and a half we have,
and we have one thousand, seven hundred and ninety four
dollars to raise that is still a lot of money.
There's still a lot of money. Like in a normal show,

(03:03:28):
we raised two hundred and fifty dollars in an hour.
Now we have to raise one thousand and seven and
ninety four in and hours. I'm asking if there are
you know, people out there who could do what I'm
in just did five hundred dollars, then that you know
three of those and it's over right, and we've made
the numbers, so it makes it very very easy. Of course,

(03:03:49):
you know, eighteen people doing one hundred dollars each, or
or a bunch of people doing fifty dollars each, we
can make the numbers even without a five hundred, but
five hundred makes it so much, so much easier. So
if there are people out there, this is my call
to you, this is the time. Remember, five hundred dollars
is a dollar per hour I stream this year. I

(03:04:09):
streamed five hundred hours of content this year. So yeah,
but maybe people are coming and going. I know nobody's
a few of you are probably staying through the whole
four hours as new people come on board. If any
of you can indeed afford and you value and you
can do a five hundred, then that would be amazing,

(03:04:34):
and that will really really chip away at what we
need to achieve. In the meantime, we're getting a lot
of twenties and that's great too. Twenties, fifties, hundreds, five hundreds, Yeah,
it all, it all makes a difference. All right, let's
see we just got a couple of fifties Jeffrey, Jeffrey

(03:04:57):
Miller who we just talked about, right, can't listen, lie,
But thank you for tremendous twenty twenty five. Hoping for
more essay shows next year, Yes, one coming soon. And
we did mention you. Somebody made a contribution in a
sense honoring you and your team at Rosella. So thank you,

(03:05:19):
Jeffrey Athena R V. Jan You first recommended Mister Sunshine
back in twenty eighteen. My husband and I are currently
watching it for the eighth time. Eighth time. WHOA. Thank
you for that and all the other values that you
bring to our world. Would you say this is the
most who go ask show movie? Yes, it's exactly right,

(03:05:43):
You've nailed it. I mean, it is the one that
both in terms of the fight for values, the scale
of the fight for values, and in terms of sense
of life. I think it is the most who go
ask show or movie that I know, and it's why
it's probably my favorite TV show.

Speaker 2 (03:06:03):
So so yes, yes, thank you, Athene. I'm eighth time.
That's great.

Speaker 1 (03:06:10):
I mean my wife and I are considering starting our
third time. So all right, all right, we're down to
thirteen hundred bucks, guys, partially because my music, my music
savvy came in with two hundred and fifty. Thank you

(03:06:30):
for making twenty twenty five a bit more fun, informative
and interesting, and for welcoming my help along the way.
Keep up the good work. Thank you. I really appreciate
and thank you for the help. And it was good
to seeing you in person as well. Moulten Splendor says
Happy New Year. Thank you, moulten Splendor. He says it

(03:06:52):
Happy New Year twice each for twenty dollars. I appreciate that,
Andrew says. LP reports that Ran made a point. Lenard
Peacock reports that Ran made a point to tell him
that after long days of mental work that disrupted her writing,
she would openly weep. She wanted him to know how

(03:07:15):
much her writing meant to her, and that her crying
was a rational way to express it. Yeah. I mean,
that's powerful. It's a powerful expression of emotion. It's powerful
what she was weeping about. It wasn't a weeping of weakness.
It was a weeping of carrying, of valuing. Yeah, that is,
that is. That is a great story. Thank you for

(03:07:36):
sharing that, Andrew. I don't remember hearing that from Leonard Man.
There's so many questions still left. See how we get
through all of these in the next hour and twenty minutes.
And let me write We've got thirteen hundred exactly one,

(03:07:58):
two hundred and ninety nine dollars to make it on YouTube,
to make it to fifteen hundred dollars on YouTube, fifteen
thousand dollars. Fifteen hundred dollars, fifteen thousand dollars on YouTube.
Very very exciting, very exciting. All right, Josh, what am

(03:08:20):
I doing here? One second? One? All right? Cool? Thank you, Yeah,
thank you, Daniel, Thank you, doctor Hilda Height. Thank you
for the five hundred dollars on PayPal. Really appreciate that.

(03:08:42):
Thank you, Mark, Mark for the fifty dollars on PayPal.
Really appreciate that. Thank you, thank you, thank you. So yep, excellent,
all right, let's see Josh says, and an article recently
in the World Journal said that the Supreme Court isn't partisan,

(03:09:02):
they are ideologically constitutionalists. Do you agree. I think some
of them are partisan. I do think sadly that Thomas
and Alito become more partisan over the years, and they
rule in favor of Trump in places where I think
if they really just stuck to their originalism and constitutionalism.

Speaker 2 (03:09:26):
They wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (03:09:28):
I think the leftist also partisan in some of their rulings,
and there's some of them are constitutionalists. So I think
My bottom line is I think it depends on the
issue and depends on them. Now again, none of them
understand the Constitution, I think properly because they don't understand
the concept of individual rights properly. But it's not a

(03:09:49):
bad court. It could be much worse and has been
much worse. Andrew, Happy New Year, Yon, obviously love the show.
Have you been said on your show the rejecting the
arbitrary can get one far? Rejecting the arbitrary can get
one far in philosophy. He didn't expound if you agree

(03:10:11):
with his statement, Can you expound on why? Well, because
so much of there's so much wasted time. I mean
this is me.

Speaker 2 (03:10:22):
I don't know if this is what having meant.

Speaker 1 (03:10:25):
So much waste of time is wasted on the arbitrary,
on having to deal with obituary, and you know, whether
it's trying to deal with the existence of God or
whether it's all the myrid arbitrary statements that philosophers make.
Just being able to wipe that out and not having

(03:10:47):
to deal with it and and recognizing its non cognitive
status saves a huge amount of time and and and
and would would further you dramatically in in your philosophical pursuits, right,
all right, Richard and Molten's splendor. Thank you guys. Richard

(03:11:08):
came in with another two hundred dollars, So that make
four hundred for Richard today. I think so so, Richard,
thank you for all you do. You're on. It's a
few years away for us. But my wife and I
would like to have kids, would selfishly love, would selfishly
love more parenting content. How would did you choose a

(03:11:30):
school for your kids? Also, do you think having kids
share a bedroom implicity teaches collectivism? So in the last part, no,
absolutely not. Collectivism is not a question of how close
up you are. I mean, I grew up with my
brother in the same room for many years. I think
my first fourteen years we shared a room. That didn't

(03:11:52):
make either of us collectivists. I did rebel against that
when I was I think fourteen or fifteen, because I
started fighting with my brother and it just became unpleasant.
So they moved me into the dining room I think,
into another room, and and so no my sharing a room.

(03:12:15):
I mean, until people were incredibly wealthy, very few families
could afford to have a room for each kid, and
that didn't make them collectivists. And there's nothing about sharing
a room that makes you collectivists or would would encourage collectivism.
As to school, you know, the primary farce was we
started out with we wanted Montssori for the early years. Uh,

(03:12:38):
we're big. I'm a big fan of Montessori. I Ran
was a big fan of Montessori. Everybody I know who
has investigated education is a big family of who studied
education is a big fan of Montsoi. So it's just
a matter of finding a good Montessori school, which is
a good Montsouri school. There is a school that follows Montssori.
So we read a lot of Montissori books to understand

(03:13:00):
her ideas and then found a school that I thought
was consistent with those ideas, or ask consistence one could
get keep them a Moneysori. You know, depending on the school,
you might be able to keep them until third grade
in a good Montessori school, and then you've got to
find the best alternative.

Speaker 2 (03:13:19):
We send us our kids for the.

Speaker 1 (03:13:22):
Years for the primary and middle school to Lisa van
Damn School, and then they went to kind of regular
high school. But you got to find or move to
place or they might be an objective school. They're more
and more objectives out there in education, trying to do
stuff in education. So you just got to go out

(03:13:42):
there and try to find an objectivist and if you
can't so if you can't move to where they are,
then just find the best school available within wherever you
live that you can do. That you can do Moulten splendor.
Am I being secondhanded? If I am embarrassed for my country,
if Pots says does stupid things about US or other countries,

(03:14:04):
not at all. Your president represents you, whether you like
it or not. He is in some way speaking for you.
He speaks for America for it's citizens, and when he
says embarrassing things. It's embarrassing to you because that's the
person representing you speaking. So absolutely, it's not secondhanded to

(03:14:26):
feel embarrassed by Trump's utterances.

Speaker 2 (03:14:32):
All right, okay, let's try to make all questions.

Speaker 1 (03:14:37):
You can do stickers any amount that you want, but questions,
make them twenty dollars or more. I just don't have
We're just not going to have the time to answer
all the questions if they're going to be five, ten dollars,
twenty dollars a more, and again preference to fifty and above.
We've got exactly nine hundred and ninety seven dollars to

(03:14:57):
go to make.

Speaker 2 (03:15:00):
We got goal.

Speaker 1 (03:15:00):
We've got more than an hour, so we've got plenty
of time. Time is not an issue. Hopefully we'll get
some new fresh blood coming in, people coming in and out,
fresh blood coming in who want to contribute to the
show and want to support it. It might be worth
letting the world know that we're on Live right now,
and I'm gonna I'm gonna do that at least on Twitter.

(03:15:21):
I'm just gonna post on Twitter. Just ups. Let me
just do that live now. Come support the show, So
put that up there and and hopefully we'll get some

(03:15:45):
some new people to come and keep this, keep this going.
But but we are chipping away, chipping away, nine and
ninety seven to go. Maybe a little bit, like some
money just came in, so maybe nine hundred and eighty five,
there we go, and now we've got fifties. So these

(03:16:06):
fifties help a lot. The fifties help a lot, all right,
Andrew thoughts on this. Thoughts on this advice as a
rule not principle, one suggest to ignore minor aggravation aggravations
in life. Focusing on minor negative magnet magnifies their significance
to one's psyche beyond the existential significance. Absolutely, I mean

(03:16:30):
to the extent that you can. Uh, just just was
it something about the small stuff? Just don't pay attention
to small stuff. It's just not worth it. Now. Knowing
what's small and what's not is part of the man,
you know, part of of what you need to develop
in life. But yeah, life is too short to get
upset and to get worried, to get stressed and too

(03:16:51):
about every little negative that happens in life. Just too short,
too short.

Speaker 2 (03:16:59):
Uh, even thank you for the.

Speaker 1 (03:17:01):
Fifty dollars stick I really really really appreciated. Thank you,
thank you, thank you. All right, Moulten Splendor another fifty
dollars Multen keeps coming back. You make my life so
much easier. Thank you for not letting me get lost
in all the negative happening in the world. I appreciate

(03:17:21):
that a huge amount. Moulten Spender, thank you, thank you,
thank you. That is that is great? All right? Liam?
Are many people broken are just underdeveloped?

Speaker 2 (03:17:35):
Happy New Year? I think that I think both.

Speaker 1 (03:17:37):
I think many people are broken in many people underdeveloped
and stay underdeveloped. And that's what maybe broken means is
is the break makes it hard or impossible for them
to develop. But both. You see both out there in
the world. Savannas good to see a savannahs Hello you

(03:18:00):
on glad I could make it. I was out shopping
for celebrating tonight. Excellent, excellent to celebrate. That's why I
have my heart stop because I have a restaurant reservation
to take going with my wife too. I was shopping
celebrator tonight. What are your thoughts on tech companies pivoting
away from selling you hardware and software to preferring only

(03:18:22):
to lease you access to the goods and services. I
think it's probably a business model that makes a lot
of sense for the software companies and for companies more broadly.
The reality is that you know, it's a great model
to get recurring revenue. They've learned that from sell the

(03:18:43):
raiser for cheap and make the money off of the Blades,
and you know, it's worked for Microsoft over the years.
I think it's probably the right model given the cloud,
given you can get these services from a cloud. And
again it's going back to the Blade strategy of selling
services and benefiting that way, making money that way. Recurring

(03:19:07):
revenue is something that businesses value enormously. All right, Lewis,
it's great to see you. Thank you for being here
one hundred dollars, really really appreciate that. Happy New Year,
and thank you for the amazing event you put together
in San Francisco last year this year, and I'm looking

(03:19:30):
forward to doing at least one event in San Francisco
next year, so I will definitely let you know the
dates and all of that.

Speaker 2 (03:19:37):
But yeah, that was a great event that debate.

Speaker 1 (03:19:42):
Unfortunately we didn't get a videotape of it, because I
think the videotape would have done really, really well. I
also think that we would have gotten a lot of
good clips out of it, like little monologues out of it.
But maybe next time we can arrange that. But that
was a great event where we debated religion is Catholic?

(03:20:03):
Is the Christianity going to destroy the world? That was
so much fun. I enjoyed it. I think everybody in
the audience enjoyed it. And hopefully we can have we
can do something like that again in twenty twenty six.
All right, methish something like that. M thanks for a
great year of YBS. The recent in depth shows and

(03:20:26):
guests were amazing. In twenty twenty six, how many World
War threes do you think we will have? What will
be the cause? And why will the Mosad be behind
all of them? Just asking questions. I think we'll have
many World War threes. You know, you could think of
one in Asia, well, one in East Asia, one in

(03:20:47):
South Asia, one in very very far West Asia, and
certainly one in Venezuela. Lots of World War threes, lots
of panic, lots of hysteria, lots of people being upset,
and and and yet we will and not any of
the Mossada behind most of them. The ones the Mosat
is not behind. It'll be the Jews. It'll be the Jews.

(03:21:09):
But yes, we're just asking questions and and and not
to imply anything about anybody with those questions. Thank you
for a little bit of humor here that that's great?
All right? Uh, what happened here? All right? Anyway? That worked?

Speaker 2 (03:21:33):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (03:21:34):
All right?

Speaker 2 (03:21:35):
How about Campbell?

Speaker 1 (03:21:37):
Whenever you feel depressed or discouraged, doesn't you eve show
ever blow you away that you've impacted so many people
so positively and passionately as you generate twenty thousand dollars
in a few hours. Yeah, it's inspiring. I mean, here's the.

Speaker 2 (03:21:53):
Thing about my audience is it's small. It really is small.
We have to acknowledge that.

Speaker 1 (03:22:00):
But it is loyal and dedicated and passionate and engaged
and you know, and and committed. And yeah, it's the
best audience in the world. So while it's a small audience,
it's definitely the best audience. Lewis asks, does a man's

(03:22:24):
for one hundred dollars? Doesn't man's work define him? I
don't think the work in it of itself defines him. Now,
his character and at the end of the day's values
define him his moral values and his values. More broadly,
and given the centrality of Korea to a man's values,

(03:22:49):
the centrality of corea not just work to his values,
because it is, you know, the integrating value. It's super
important in defining him. But it's not the only thing.
I think.

Speaker 2 (03:23:04):
A man is defined by his values.

Speaker 1 (03:23:07):
By his Yeah, but by starting with his moral values,
starting with with with the kind of person he wants
to be.

Speaker 2 (03:23:15):
That that is all defined.

Speaker 1 (03:23:17):
That's how you build your soul's by by choosing the
values to pursue and the method by which to pursue them.
Which are your virtues. Your virtues are the method you
use to pursue your values, and and uh and you
know the values of what comprises your character and your

(03:23:37):
soul and what you are and who you are. And
in that sense it defines you. All right, thank you,
less really appreciate it, James. The left has been calling
people racists who aren't for so many years. Now that
the genuine, genuine Nazis are here, no one believes them.

(03:23:58):
Happy New Year. This could be outlast. It won't be
out last. Don't worry, We'll still be around. But yes, yes,
I agree with you completely and it is indeed very
difficult to make the case, make any kind of case

(03:24:18):
at you know, about racism, because of your people still
pey conditions to dismiss it, because of how the left
used it in the past. That Dudo Bani says, you said, quote,
don't focus extensively on changing the world. Change yourself. But

(03:24:42):
if the world sucks, even if you change yourself for better,
it can only take you so far. On that cheering note,
have an amazing New Year. Yeah, but once you change yourself,
once you're optimized, then you can maybe focus on the world.
But first make you the best that you can be.

(03:25:04):
All right, guys, five hundred and sixty five dollars in
the next hour. Five hundred and sixty five dollars in
the next hour, and we're looking for twelve more super
chats or stickers with an emoji, a sticker with an
emoji or with a happy New Year or something like

(03:25:25):
that on them. No fighting them out, just so we
get those additional twelve so we meet YouTube's whatever goal.
I think, I think it enhances anytime you meet you
do what YouTube ask you to do. It's a good thing. Call.
Let's see if it counts yours I don't know. Maybe

(03:25:47):
that emoji is not powerful enough. We're looking for twelve.
I don't know. I don't know when it counts it
wind doesn't. But anyway, bring him on newly Dan. If
someone is against Zionism, whether they know what it means
or not, are they against the idea of immigration? No,

(03:26:08):
I don't see why. I'm not sure what the relationship is,
but no, I think you can be against Zionism and
pro immigration or against Zionism and anti immigration. I don't
see a cause of relationship there. Matt says, your appearance
on lex Friedman changed my life. Wow, I didn't know
of Ran before that. Thank you for all that you

(03:26:30):
do to make my life better. I know it's not easy,
but please try to book more appearances on other large
platforms in twenty twenty six. I will definitely try. Thank you,
Matt Andrew. What do you make of the conservatives glorification
of manual labor and the notion that a real American
workforce is filled with plumbers, mechanics and welders. Is that

(03:26:52):
marks labor theory value other causes? I think it's mars.
It's also the very anti intellectual nature the right, the
conservatives have become much more anti intellectual and uh, and
thus diminish the value of the mind, and and and
an emphasis on work. It also comes with religion, which

(03:27:16):
is of course anti intellectual. So add all that up
and this is what you get. All right, Josh, do
you have a top five books of twenty twenty five?
My top two reads for the year are Mania by

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Lion You No Schreiver and Coddling of the American Mind
by Greg Lukian. I. Yeah, Coddling of the American Mind
is excellent. I read a number of really good books
this year. Let me let me give you a few,
A few here quickly. Let me give you a few
here quickly. Once. Then I need to bring up my

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audiobooks because that's where most of the books are. Library,
all right, So God, why can't I see all the audiobooks? Uh?
Lost Enlightenment. I really enjoyed Lost Enlightenment by Frederick Starr

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st A r. R. The Closing of the Western Mind
and The Reopening of the Western Mind, both by Charles Freeman,
are excellent. I enjoyed how the Scots invented the invented
the modern world. I thought it was really good. Yeah,
those all on a similar theme. And then there's one, Oh,

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the Corporation and the twentieth Century.

Speaker 2 (03:28:47):
I loved that book.

Speaker 1 (03:28:48):
I thought it was fantastic. It was really, really, really amazing. Yeah,
those those are the books that come to mind off
of that list. And then let me just see if
I can find my kindle on my phone. There's one

(03:29:09):
book on the Renaissance that I highly recommend. I'm reading
right now. It's got a great name, the best name
you could possibly think of for a book on hips.
And it disappeared. Where was it from your library? Yes,
here's the book. It's called The World at First Light,
The World at First Light, which is such a great

(03:29:32):
title for book on the Renaissance. It's an amazing book.
It's massive, thousand pages, the whole lead up to the Renaissance,
the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, what they were like,
what was going on. Amazing book. I'm learning so much
reading that book. Just stunning. All right, while we were gone,

(03:29:52):
you guys basically erased the whole thing. I mean basically
basically we're at goal. We're at fifteen thousand. So all
I can say is, wow, wow, that was amazing. All right,
So let you know we're gonna keep going because the
goal just moved. As as as goals do on you,

(03:30:15):
We're now going for the full twenty thousand because that's
my stretch goal. And I'm not even counting the PayPal.
We'll get to that later, but we'll we'll just we'll
just we'll just put it in there just to see
how close we get. But that's wow, that is amazing. Guys.
All right, let me recognize I was saying we got

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we got called we got called it a couple of stickers,
Thank you called Dan, Thank you Dan, and then Silvanos
with four hundred dollars, Thank you Sylvanos. God, that's amazing.
With one hundred dollars, that's five hundred dollars from Silvanos. Hey, Ron,
happy to help support you and the continued progress of
objectivism in general.

Speaker 2 (03:30:56):
Would you kindly read these back?

Speaker 1 (03:31:01):
Oh God six seven la boo boo fey Nor did
nothing wrong. I said a hip hop the hippie, the
hippie to the hip hip hop, and you don't stop
the rocking one flew the sloppy toppy mountain. Thank you again.

(03:31:26):
Oh hopefully you'll create a clip of that and put
it up there online and I'll be remembered for that.
Thank you, Silvan. Honest I'm not sure what that was,
but I'll take it. Ginger, Happy forty five squared plus

(03:31:48):
one or just playing happy twenty twenty six. Wish you
a happy productive year. Your show is always provoking for me.
Thank you. It's from Ginger. Thank you Ginger. And I
think Andrew took us over the top with the goal
with fifty dollars. I think I've learned this from the show.

(03:32:10):
Is this true? Platonism led to the fall of the
Roman Empire, which led to the Dark Ages. Platonism also
led to Christianity, which led to the Dark Ages. Platonism
is the essential cause of the Dark Ages. Yes, I
think that's right. I think that's right. The relationship of

(03:32:30):
Platonism to the Roman Empire is something I don't have
fully worked out, which I couldn't tell you exactly what
that relationship would be. But yes, I think fundamentally, bad
Greek philosophy is what led to the fall of the
Roman Empire. And at the core of bad Greek philosophy
is Plato. I mean bad in a sense of wrong.

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I mean Plato is one of the great philosophers in
the sense of asking all the right questions but not
giving the right answer. All right, we've got a lot
of questions still, and we have made our fifteen thousand dollars,
So thank you, thank you, thank you. If we can

(03:33:12):
get another and twenty one dollars in the next fifty
five minutes, that will be amazing. Whatever we do, you know,
from this point on is amazing, given that we already
made the goal. I'll keep talking and if you want
to come over and support the show, that will be
that would be amazing. Again. Yeah, come on over, come

(03:33:38):
on over, Sparks. Hey, Ron, thanks for a great year
of content. Consider Lynn Olden as a guest in twenty
six to talk about all things finance and money. Although
she may disagree with you on bitcoin, she is polite,
intelligence and interesting guests. Yeah, I mean, I like Lynn Olden.
I actually listen to her book. I can't hearn the

(03:34:01):
name of the book right now. And yeah, we disagree
on bitcoin, but I found her analysis a bitcoin the
most convincing of all the people presenting analysis of bitcoin.
I thought shers was most convincing. I disagree with other
things in terms of monetary history with her, She's got
too much of a libertarian streak in terms of understanding

(03:34:23):
wars and understanding what happens, not enough understanding of the
role of ideas in history, and too much focus kind
of on you know, money is the cause of or
bad attitudes those money is the cause of everything. But
I find her incredibly intelligent and well spoken. The biz

(03:34:46):
a great reach. Idea republished a live show in a polished,
polished version after some editing, cleanup, ad promo, etc. A
IT tools can help a lot here. Human in the
loop is still needed. All right, let me let me
take that into account. Thank you. I appreciate that. Andrew

(03:35:14):
ran to a photole Forum audience quote. All your rights
rest on reality, on reality and your use of reason,
which is your means of observing reality. This is a
This is a very import point to remember. Absolutely absolutely
rights politics depends on ultimately epistemology and metaphysics, reality and reason. Uh, Leonid,

(03:35:43):
thank you Roan for all your work. I definitely missed
the regular podcast while you are traveling.

Speaker 2 (03:35:48):
Have a great new year. Thank you, Leonid.

Speaker 1 (03:35:52):
You know I'm going to try to keep up when
I travel with with the with all the podcasts. Oh
a molten splendor has an of the question fifty dollars
Am I evading if I say I'm too old and
yet a very young.

Speaker 2 (03:36:05):
Objectivest student.

Speaker 1 (03:36:08):
And don't want to devote my remaining time to additional
objective studies? No, I don't know that you're evading. You
might be. It's hard for me to tell just from
what you're the information you're giving me whether you aren't.
That is, if you're too old, right and yet? So

(03:36:31):
anytime you say you're very young and then you argue
you're too old for something, it's not evasion, but it
could be an error. It could be innocent error, it
could be an evasion. So don't want to devote my
time remaining time to if I'm too old and yet
a very young objective student. Oh, I see you're old.

(03:36:54):
Oh okay, scrap all that. You actually are old. I'm assuming.
And you've only got so much time left in life,
and you've encountered objectivism relatively late in life, and you
don't want to devote your many time to additional objective study.

Speaker 2 (03:37:13):
Absolutely, that's fine.

Speaker 1 (03:37:16):
You have to live. Objectivism is about living capital l
and the only reason to study objectivism is to live better.
And there's only so much time in life, not only
so many things in life, so you have to prioritize
your values, and you might no objectivism enough to be
able to go out then make the most of the

(03:37:36):
time you've got left. So absolutely there's no you shouldn't
feel guilty, and I certainly don't think you're evading to
think that restalone something like that. Two hundred dollars, Thank you,
think you think you really appreciate that. We're now under
five thousand to go for the twenty thousand, John, Thanks

(03:38:01):
for everything you do. I subscribe to Patreon and get
the ad free podcast. Best deal ever. Can't recommend that enough. Yes, good,
good opportunity to pitch to you guys to become maybe
today make it a new Year's resolution. Do it today
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(03:38:22):
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At ten dollars or more, you get to you get
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you get a one on one meeting by zoom with

(03:38:44):
me once every three months. At five hundred dollars or more,
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So go sign up on Patreon at whatever level fits
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(03:39:05):
it's for me. Patreon or PayPal are the best ways
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You know, I can plan out ahead. It really is,
It really is fantastic. So please, those of you are
not yet on a monthly program, please consider becoming monthly

(03:39:27):
regular supporters. All right, arist Us, arist Us Ventures, keep
up the auto work.

Speaker 2 (03:39:35):
Thank you, arist Us. We really appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (03:39:39):
Alexis came back with another fifty pounds and he says
to thirty thousand, well, four thousand, seven hundred and ninety
one dollars away from the twenty thousand, So yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:39:52):
Keep them coming.

Speaker 1 (03:39:54):
We need we need twenty five fifty dollars. Twenty fifty dollars.
Will do it, guys, twenty fifty dollars two hundred and
twenty five anyway, Yes, twenty fifty dollars, fifty twenty dollars.

(03:40:16):
Let's see. Let's go back to the questions Andrew, if
it is, if it was objectively painful for man to
focus on reality, we'd have to be living in an
alternative universe to the one man evolved to exist within. Yes,
evolution would never make that possible, because to be focused
on existence is what's required to survive. Steph, Happy new

(03:40:41):
Year and looking forward to what comes in twenty twenty six.
New supporter on Patreon. Thank you, thank you, thank you
for that. What is your favorite nonfiction essay of Ironman's
Wow nonfiction essay of Ironman's I think it's objectives ethics,
because that makes it so clear. If not that, then

(03:41:02):
it would be for the new intellectual because it's such
a guide map to be an intellectual and what kind
of work needs to be done and what needs to
happen to make the world different. JP Miller, Paul Ave,

(03:41:24):
whom you mentioned yesterday, strength widely known weaknesses. He's not
a leader despite sixty years of grooming. He's a king.
Need I say more. I mean, hopefully he can become
a ceremonial guy who doesn't actually rule anything, but is
a symbol, a symbol of an alternative. So all he's
supposed to do, all he needs to do is just

(03:41:46):
be there as an inspiration and it is a symbol
for an alternative. He doesn't have to do much. Indeed,
I don't think he's competent enough to do too much. Linda.
Part one, New Year's Toast by Quinn Code Happy New

(03:42:07):
Year from the codeas we valueybs and this is the quote.
I guess our glass is filled with cheer. We do
raise the solemn toast. Here's to allthough we hold dear,
and to these, to those we treasure most very nice.
Thank you. That's perfect. Now is there part two? I'm looking, Yes,

(03:42:31):
there's part two. May you take all you can find,
May you keep all you can make. May your heart
follow your mind. May you live for living's sake. I
like that a lot. Particularly, May you live for living sake.
I like that. And then may you reap all that
you've worth, that you're worth. May your friends stay close

(03:42:54):
and well. May your heaven be on earth and your
enemies in hell. Quin Code code Queen code fine arts. Excellent,
that was I really liked that. That was a great toast,
A great short poem that serves as a toast. Perfect excellent.

(03:43:17):
All right, Marra beans, let's see excited for twenty twenty
six New spouse, Oh congratulations. Is it this spouse the
spouse that you flirted on your ybs? Do I get
any credit for this? New spouse, new job, new dog,
new cat, new house, same awesome Gracie, Hey, Gracie, same

(03:43:40):
amazing friends. And new experiments in the inductive history of biology. Oh,
that's so exciting. All of those exciting. I'm particularly excited
about inductive history of biology and looking forward to really
seeing you work that out and work that through. Hopefully
you should be in touch with somebody at the Institute

(03:44:00):
to talk about that, maybe Keith Lockett, who does science
at the institute. No, just came in with one hundred
Canadian dollars, so you're on. How much would you charge
to review the movies Dumber and Dumber and ace Vent
to a pet detective laugh out loud, just playing you on.
I know how you feel about these movies. Happy New
Year and thanks for your wisdom. Yeah, I mean I

(03:44:23):
hate dumb and dumba ace Vent too. A bet to
take Avery that I can tolerate because there's some really
funny scenes in it. Bet, Dumb and Dummer is just
dumb and I can't tolerate it. But to her, there's
there's some funny scene, so I can I can.

Speaker 2 (03:44:38):
Get through that somehow, all right.

Speaker 1 (03:44:41):
Four thousand, six hundred and seventy seven dollars left to
go to reach our twenty thousand dollars goal. Four thousand,
six hundred and seventy seven. That is a lot. Ugh,
all right, we do what we do, We do what
we can, right.

Speaker 2 (03:45:01):
Uh, anybody want to do five hundred bucks? Anybody?

Speaker 1 (03:45:06):
Anybody going once, going twice going for We've got to
We've gotta we got another forty five minutes, all right.
Raphael came in a bit late just to wish you
great new year this year, this year from Cologne. Oh
that's why you can drive to hambook. Always a pleasure
to be here and help move objectivism forward on one

(03:45:27):
mind at a time. Look forward to seeing you in Poto,
my friend, Looking forward to that event. Carl, please go
off on the evils of religious philosophy, specifically metaphysics, on
on a kid being raised religious powerful unseen forces for

(03:45:47):
good and evil after life. God plans warm the young
future parents, warn the young future parents, God, you want
me to go off, you know, uh, three hour, forty
five minutes into the show.

Speaker 2 (03:46:02):
On my energy level is tapped out.

Speaker 1 (03:46:07):
You know, the idea, the idea of raising a kid,
raising a kid to believe that what he that real
reality is not real though what really matters is some
fictitious afterlife, someone heaven, a hell that he is maybe
even predestined to go to. That there is an all

(03:46:32):
knowing God who is sitting, who is everywhere and knows
every one of his emotions and every one of his thoughts.
And if he thinks an evil thought, God knows it.
If he thinks something negative, God knows that, and he
will be punished, maybe by going to Hell and boding
forever in that hell. I mean, that is so horrific,

(03:46:54):
so damaging psychologically and motivationally for any child, for any
human being. It is so evil evil to you know,
inculcate in a child a belief in something that is
unknorable is arbitrary. Think about the pistemology of arbitrary. That

(03:47:19):
is what you're teaching your child. You're crippling their mind,
or sabotaging at the very least, and crippling his ability
to enjoy his life. Against sabotaging, because the reality is
that parents don't have that much influence in their child.
Children can outgrow whatever it is their parents say or do.

(03:47:43):
Happer Campbell ideas for the show, considering scouting regular correspondence
from air Rise Intellectual Incubator for once weekly segments on
this special topic of interest. Pay them whatever access to
the hourly goal in the EP so they are in. Yeah,

(03:48:04):
I mean, I have a lot of the people on
I could have I certainly could have more people on,
and I will try. I would like to do an
interview every week. It's more logistic problems than anything else,
but yeah, I will be using more of the people
from Meising Cubator in those interviews in the future. All right, now,

(03:48:25):
we have a lot of two and five and ten
dollars questions. I will go over these fairly quickly and
again prioritize the higher valued questions as they come in,
and talk about as they come in. Here comes Adam
with another four hundred dollars. That'll make Adam another five

(03:48:47):
hundred dollars contributor on today's shows. Total. Thank you, thank you,
thank you, Adam. Adam says thanks, I was able to
finally thank you in person this year. Yep. Adamated ocon
which was true and share a final poker table thanks,
thanks for unsabotaging. Unsabotaging minds. Yeah, the culture and people

(03:49:14):
do it to themselves, and then the culture and parents
do it to their kids, and then I guess my
job is to unsabotage them. I like that. I like
that phrase. Thank you, Adam. Really really appreciate the support
that that is really fantastic. All right, we are four
two hundred and sixty four dollars away from the goal.
Let's at least get under four thousand. So let's get

(03:49:37):
to sixteen thousand as the total raised for today's show.
That would be amazing. All right, Carolina, thank you for
another contribution. She's done a bunch of Mexican pesos. Thank you.
And Gail Gails's perfect idea. Thank you, Yale, and Abraham

(03:50:05):
Zamora has a stick. I thank you him for that.
Really appreciate all the support from everybody. This has been amazing.
You guys have come through in spades today. I'm not
and I'm not yet even counting the the the PayPal.
I'll add that at the end and let you know

(03:50:26):
what the total is. So but it's uh, yeah, all right,
let's see real spark sanction means to be full or
against something. No sanction is I mean, let's start with

(03:50:48):
the dictionary. It's always good to starve with the dictionary.
Section means to approve of something. It's not just a
before against it. It's the proof of it. It's to
give it permission. It's to okay it in some way.

(03:51:12):
So for example, in a context of way we have
to talk about it. To be on stage with somebody
is to sanction that person as a reasonable person worthy
of having a discussion with. It's to prove of them
in some way at some level. No, don't care. Have
you ever thought about writing nonfiction? I couldn't. I don't

(03:51:35):
have the imagination for it. I don't have the writing
style for it. There is no way well nonfiction about
writing ever thought about writing? I do write nonfiction. Oh
I got that confused. I said, you're asking about fiction.
I do write nonfiction. Right equals Unfair and female co

(03:51:59):
Revolution and mar case of Finance. And of course the
new book that's coming out, Christianity versus the West. It's
tentative title Noakain another one hundred dollars. Thank you, Tom,
Hi you on Happy New Year twenty twenty five. Frankly
has been quite dark from political perspective, yes, it has.

(03:52:19):
I'm very worried about.

Speaker 2 (03:52:20):
The state of the US.

Speaker 1 (03:52:22):
While I live here, I have chances to move back
to Canada or to Germany. Is the US still our
best hope for liberty? I think in a short run
it still is. I just don't see any other place
doing better other than maybe than Argentina. Certainly Canada is
not doing better. In Germany is in big trouble. In Germany,
you've got Russia breathing down the neck, so I would

(03:52:48):
I don't know that either one of those alternatives are
better than the United States. As dark as it is
right now in the United States, it's still true that
this is the most important place in the world and
where we win or lose. Thank you, Thank you, Tom.

(03:53:08):
Really appreciate the support trullly to the beauty in the world,
especially Vosh X nine symphony. Love that symphony, one of
the really really great symphonies, really beautiful, real. Daniel Wellington,
what's a movie and series of the year? God? I said,
I couldn't remember movie, and now you're can ask me

(03:53:29):
a series? I have the same the same problem. Let
me just see twenty five what comes up? And if
it reminds me of anything. I mean, not the best,
but I like Department Q on Netflix. Pluribus is really interesting.

(03:53:58):
Glorybus on Apple TV is really interesting. Again, you know,
I liked I think I watched it this year, even
though it's not a series.

Speaker 2 (03:54:11):
FuMB this year.

Speaker 1 (03:54:12):
Eighteen eighty three and nineteen twenty three, I really liked those.
I did not like Yellowstone, but I especially liked eighteen
eighty three, and then I second to that is nineteen
twenty three. I'm trying to see what else there is
best fifty TV shows of probably don't know any of these. Yeah,

(03:54:37):
I don't know any of these.

Speaker 2 (03:54:46):
Depart mcke was good.

Speaker 1 (03:54:50):
Let me see what else here that I know of? No,
and it was excellent, and it was probably my favorite
or close to my favorite. So and it was very good.
And on Disney Plus Hacks was pretty funny on times

(03:55:13):
not always. Let's see if there's any slow hosses. I
really like Slow Hosts on Apple TV. Slow Hosts is
really good. What else I think that's it? I think

(03:55:50):
that's it all right, Volta, thank you for the twenty
uh pounds. I appreciate that. So slowly chipping away another
one hundred and seventeen to get under four thousand, which
would be which would be cool. Under four thousand to go,

(03:56:11):
so another one hundred and seventeen to get over sixteen thousand.
Actually we're already over sixteen thousand, so technically because we've
got that. All right, let's just keep it coming at
whatever pace you think worthy works for you. All right,

(03:56:33):
I'll think in the next few days about series and
movies that I really like this year.

Speaker 2 (03:56:38):
And I'll talk about in one of the other shows.

Speaker 1 (03:56:41):
Okay, ac Action Jackson says, thanks for being a great
boss and for teaching me so much over the years.
Thank you for all the videos you made and for
getting all those shorts and videos and that have resulted
in increased subscribers and just more content out there for
the world. Please interview Nicholas Kusk about composers. That's a

(03:57:08):
good idea. I'll do that. I need I need to
add Nicholas to my to my list of people to
invite to interview. Thank you, real spock uh silvanos Hey
you on. Have you covered the possible SpaceX public IPO
next year? Four hundred twenty one dollars a share, eight

(03:57:29):
hundred billion total value insane to think what Musk's value
will be after that happens. To be honest, Labuba is
pronounced l boo boo, le boo boo in quick succession
leboo boo. I don't know what that represents anyway, I
haven't talked about it. I'm waiting to see that it

(03:57:51):
materializes on what exactly happened. I haven't looked at the financials,
so I don't know what the valuation is based on.
But yeah, I don't know what percentage of that company
must owns. But space X is an amazing company. There's
no question it makes money. It's profitable, so it's going
to be a really really interesting IPO. Yeah, I mean,

(03:58:16):
Musk is amazing in his business world life. E G says,
first ever super Chat, first time, long time, excellent. Thank you.
I really appreciate you doing it and participating and yeah,
participating in today's show. This is great in this historical show,

(03:58:39):
which is going to get us to way over sixteen
thousy maybe sixteen five, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (03:58:46):
All right, I'm gonna do this.

Speaker 1 (03:58:47):
I need to do this. I need to pick up
the pace. What do you think about a p article?
The Nation's turn and fifty anniversary arrives with a call
for a year round community service. I mean, I think
that's despicable. That's our tourism, that's anti American. It goes
against the very nature of the Declaration of Independence, which
is inherently individualistic and even egoistic. Pursuit of happiness. In

(03:59:13):
Aliable write, pursuit of happiness doesn't get much much more
egoistic than that. Captain Chandler. Check out Dan Norton's show
second only to YBS. That's Captain Chandler said, Josh, it's
almost unbelievable that Majorie Taylor Green was the first to
break rank. Is insanity in Magaaland yes it is. Of

(03:59:36):
all the people, she would be the one to go
after Trump first Porto nineteen sixty eight.

Speaker 2 (03:59:42):
Thank you for the sticker, Really appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (03:59:45):
Pete Gupta, please help explain why Trump's sphar grab Oh,
I did that? All right?

Speaker 2 (03:59:54):
Real spark?

Speaker 1 (03:59:54):
Can you show us photo of you and idf army uniform?
You know, I don't know that I have one. As
ridiculous as that might be, I don't know if I
have one. I remember, those are the days of film,
not digital I'm sure there is some way, maybe if
my mom has someone in a box some way, but
I don't have one accessible. Put it that way, I
don't have one with me in any way, Dan, thank

(04:00:19):
you for all the shows. It's my favorite, most rabble,
most listened to podcasts. Do you have a favorite topic
to discuss on YBS? Happy New Year?

Speaker 2 (04:00:31):
I like the shows about imagining a capitalist world.

Speaker 1 (04:00:34):
I like the I like the euron Rules for Life
for though I don't feel like I have a lot
more to say about that, but I like those shows.
I like the positive shows I definitely like. And then
I like the ones where I rant. I like my
ranting shows where I just go out all out on something.
Those are fun, okay, Moon Rock. Do you think if

(04:00:57):
Trump gets impeached, Vance would not be impeached with him
and Advance and Trump are impeached and Mike Johnson becomes
it takes over? Would that be sustainable substantially better? So, first,
I don't think Trump will be impeached. That's one second.
If he's impeached, he won't be impeached with Vance. I
don't think that will happened. Dvance hasn't done anything, He's
not in a position to do anything to justify impeachment,

(04:01:20):
so that won't happen. So no, I don't think Trump
will be impeached. If he's impeached, Vance will become president. Smazing,
Thank you fifty dollars, you're the best. You're on. Absolutely
love how your mind works. And wish the late miss
rand was around to hear you. Thank you. That's a
that's quite a compliment. Quick observation for comment. Public funded

(04:01:42):
education is a form of intellectual welfare and lagardless two
material version of traditional warfare. Yes, and even more damaging.
And I don't like to call it it's publicly funded.
I don't even like to call it publicly government funded.
Government funded education, government education, public educations, government for education.

(04:02:02):
And it's government corruption. It government corrupts the wealth, Government
corrupts the recipients of welfare, and and it makes yourself
right for corruption. And government corrupts the minds of the young.
And there's nothing worse than that. It's the best mediocre,
at worst, crippling the minds of young people. I think

(04:02:24):
I'm too generous to call it mediocre, all right, real respect,
How did Christianity rue Rome Roman Empire?

Speaker 2 (04:02:31):
When did they when they.

Speaker 1 (04:02:33):
Had a psycho like Nero, Caligola, Commodus, Diasclearian and all
these others. Christian wan apiece. Christians want a peace. You
should tell that too. The to the Emperor Constantine, he
didn't want piece. None of these emperors want a piece,
and none of the Christian emperors want a piece. Christianity
doesn't want piece. It wants to convert. And indeed it

(04:02:56):
spent uh two tho, you know, fifteen hundred years, sixteen
hundred years converting people by the sword, a crusade after crusade,
but even before the Crusades, and under the Roman under
Christian Roman emperors, it was it used the sword.

Speaker 2 (04:03:15):
Now Christianity didn't.

Speaker 1 (04:03:17):
It wasn't the only And I said this, I said
this over and over again. It's not the only cause
of the decline of Rome. It's one of the causes.
As somebody said, bad Greek philosophy, including Platonic philosophy, brought
about the decline of Road and made brought about the
decline of Roman made emperors like Nero and Calligular possible

(04:03:39):
because nobody would stand up to them, because the system
had been weakened so badly. Doctor van Helsing, what grade
do you give Scotus in twenty twenty five? What do
you expect from them in twenty twenty six? I'd give
them a I don't know, BNS, maybe a C plus.

(04:03:59):
In twenty twenty five, I thought twenty twenty four was
better in some regards, and I am because that's when
they got rid of I forget the name. But anyway,
twenty twenty six, I'm hoping for B. That would require
them to basically say that tariff's on that tas, that

(04:04:22):
half the tas the Trump Institute at a gilgro against
the Constitution were legal.

Speaker 2 (04:04:29):
How about coalition building hn Y.

Speaker 1 (04:04:32):
I don't know what h and Y means, and I
don't know what coalition building means in what context, with whom,
for what, for what purpose? I don't know. Happy New
Year h and Y is Happy New Year, all right?
Adjacent idea people could call in number and leave a
message and you get paid, but just play their thirty

(04:04:54):
second sixty second message. I don't know, twenty five fifty
bucks one week one and you apply to it some
rules to avoid troll calls. Interesting. Interesting, I'd have to
figure out how to do that, but it's possible. I

(04:05:15):
was thinking of just taking you know, should I just
take calls? Should I connect this the phone number and
take calls on some of my shows? All right? Thank you,
Jason Gene fifty dollars. Thank you, Gene. What's your YouTube?

(04:05:36):
Spotify twenty twenty five recap? Number one song? Oh God,
you guys do these things to me? And I can't remember.
In terms of song YouTube Spotify twenty twenty five recap
the one that I reviewed?

Speaker 2 (04:05:55):
Yeah, I can't remember. I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (04:05:58):
I'm gonna have to get back to you because I
I just can't remember, and I don't know. If you're
asking about a popular song out there in the culture,
then the answer is none, because I don't know any
of them, so so I just wouldn't know. Thank you,

(04:06:19):
Gene for the support for the fifty dollars. H flawed
and nick A recruited a recurring segment called why why
BS Why BS? Where you take something in the news
that is BS and unbs it okay, interesting, okay, okay. Trillu,

(04:06:48):
Japan's new Prime Minister Takachani quoted attack on Titan quote,
shut your mouths and invest everything in me? What do
you make of her?

Speaker 2 (04:07:01):
In that quote?

Speaker 1 (04:07:02):
I'd have to figure out the context of the quotes.
I don't want to comment on the quote. I think
she's mixed. She seems tough, strong and from policy, but
not very pro free markets, which is what Japan needs.
Japan needs a real free market government that really liberalized

(04:07:26):
the economy and restructures it.

Speaker 2 (04:07:28):
That's what's needed.

Speaker 1 (04:07:29):
So you know, I don't know whether they're going to
get it, and that it doesn't seem like they're going
to get it from her. Well, Okay, mindspan, Which bolkage account, Fidelity,
schwab do you recommend for new investors and how to
start learning to invest effectively?

Speaker 2 (04:07:46):
I think any of them, it doesn't really matter.

Speaker 1 (04:07:49):
The key to investing effectively is not to get the
right bookage account. It's basically to invest in a diversified
but for you of mutual funds that cost very little,
so SWA it's probably better than the lot fidelty only
because you'll get access not only to fidelty funds, but
to all funds. And you can get vanguard funds, which
are typically the cheapest. And and then and then you've

(04:08:11):
got to you've got you index and you know, try
to get take a basic finance course I think I've
done a personal finance show and you know, so try
to find my old personal finance show and give it
a listen. But you want to be diversified, cheaply diversified.

(04:08:35):
Mike wants to show discussing sink and handles in Atlas. Shrugged. No,
we're not fountain it in the fountain it Peter Keating
for example. Okay, good idea. Uh y'all, what's your take
on impeachment? Talk about Pam Bondy. It won't happen. It
won't happen. Uh, Caleb leverage the live unrespected aspect of

(04:08:58):
the show with love have calls. Heah, I've thought about this,
et cetera. Or adds segments with other personalities. Maybe get
a young part producer. That's how these popular white YouTube
shows seem to work. Yeah, I mean, if somebody knows
of a young producer, let me know. I'm willing to
consider a young producer. So Martin, thank you fifty dollars,

(04:09:24):
fifty four dollars, thank you for the support. Really appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (04:09:34):
Me cockup.

Speaker 1 (04:09:36):
I'm planning to attend my first concert featuring bronze second
piano concerto and Schubert's ninth Symphony. Do you like these
works Happy New Year? Yes, both of them fantastic, particularly
Broms second, But Schubert's fifth, No, they're both spectacular. Love
them both, particularly Broms second. I think you'll enjoy that
a lot. If it's your first come, well, hopefully, hopefully

(04:09:58):
you've heard the music before. You should get your ear
tuned to new pieces that you've never heard before before
you go to a concert and see them live. An
idea for spreading objectivism. This is equal to reality. We
need more stories and objectivist rational heroes. I am already

(04:10:19):
working on my own version, just can't figure out K three.
I agree, need more more stories, absolutely real spark. Did
you ever see Avengers Infinity War? For the villain Thanos's
big goal was to sit on the front porch and relax.
He seems like a conservative. Yeah, absolutely, I did watch

(04:10:39):
it years ago. I didn't love it, but I didn't
particularly like it. But but yes, that that it sounds
like exactly a conservative. P GUPT opinion on how AI
has changed industry this year. I think the biggest way
it's changed the biggest the industry has changed its programming.
I think that AI. People use it AI actively in programming,

(04:11:03):
and that has really changed the productivity of programmers and
it's going to become even more so. Ohie, what a
time to be alive. Thank you for being a great
model of virtue. Appreciate that. Please tell a story about
an adventure you had in your twenties early thirties. Can
be brief. I've already heard idf and high hitch hiking stories.

(04:11:26):
Hitch Hiking was teens, wasn't twenties. I don't know what
an adventure would be a god. Anything where you require
me to recollect stuff from my memory is difficult. An
adventure in my twenties and early thirties. I mean, look,

(04:11:50):
a big adventure in my twenties was basically, together with
my wife, basically uprooting our life in Israel, which was
quite comfortable. I had a good job. My wife was
just finished a bachelor's degree. I had a good job.
I was going to I was going to become a
partner in a construction management company. I liked the work,

(04:12:14):
I liked the guy who had hired me and was
going to make me his partner. And yeah, life was
going to be good. And we uprooted and moved to
the United States to go to school and to a
place I'd never been to, Austin, Texas. My wife had
never been on an airplane and had never been outside
of Israel, and you know, she came with me, and

(04:12:37):
you know that that whole We're going to America and
we're going to try to figure this out and try
to create a life there. That's the big adventure of
our was in my twenties and in the thirties. The
big adventure was having kids. That was also late twenties. Actually,
my first kid was when I was twenty eight, So
those were the big adventures. To turn them into stories

(04:13:01):
hard for me. After a four and a four hours
plus of doing the show, challenging all right, Aaron says,
best way to improve the show is to change the host,
and he has some winks and nods. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
all right, philosophy at work with all four of my

(04:13:23):
beloved goals. I'm here celebrating the holidays in our third year.
Thank you, jan never stop singing your song.

Speaker 2 (04:13:31):
Appreciate it. Thank you Jeff.

Speaker 1 (04:13:35):
When I post the Malay meme quote if prienning money
would end poverty, printing diplomas with add stupidity. I get
the recurring trope. Oh but the but the bailout? How
would you answer the bailout condemnation? The bayou was more

(04:13:56):
political than economic. It wasn't about economics. It was about politics.
The bail I had no effect economically, It hadn't affect politically,
and I wish they hadn't done it. But the bailout
has nothing to do with me Lay's achievements. It did
not affect does it in economy? Fandop I algorithm boosting
idea I got from another show. Read five star reviews

(04:14:21):
wherever they are posted, encourages leaving reviews, and shares people
people's positive experiences. Interesting. Okay, MCP here's another thank you Carolina,
Happy New Year. Thank you, Thank you Carolina. Aaron again

(04:14:42):
forget forgot to wish you happy New Year. Thank you. Aaron.
Andrews says mister Sims irrational. It certainly is my span
as an educator. What objective is teaching? Material? Are most
missing today? Slides, curriculum, case studies, et cetera. That independent
creators could build with real demand. Also, what topics and content?

(04:15:06):
That is a big question and it's not clear what
you mean by demand, demand by whom. But I'd say
all of the above it's all missing. I'd say a
lot of real world examples are missing, but curricular case studies,
all of that is missing. So just building courses beyond

(04:15:27):
what is being done by the Ironman Institute for AOI
Live and other AI programs, there is none out there
and they should be. So yeah, I mean that's a
big topic that we should come back to ask me
during another show and we can talk more about it. Dan,
my iran promoting YouTube channel at Dan Norton was recently monetized,

(04:15:52):
so now I can start taking super chats too. But
I'll keep contributing to your show too. Value for value.
Thank you, Dan, appreciate it. Aaron in I'm gen z
two you on discovering iin ran from John Stossel videos
back in middle school. Amazing, Thank you. All right. Paul,
you previously talked about economic pressures for electric cause what

(04:16:15):
about insurance companies putting pressure to buy them for safety reasons?
I mean that is possible, but the problem is only
if they're self driving. Yes, if they're self driving, know
if they're just electric, so the pressure would be on
self driving, not un electric now self driving, all electric,

(04:16:37):
So that's the link. Mary Eleen IINRAN talks about the
value of knowing multiple languages in global balcanization, probably elsewhere too,
all right, thank you, Yes that makes sense. There would
be in global gup balconization. I'm losing my voice. Are

(04:16:58):
those fearing robots I taking all jobs soon? Rationalists? No?
Not necessarily. They could be ignorant. There could be a
lot of different things. There are lots of different ways
in which you can be wrong. Pretty much only one
way to re write, lots of ways to be wrong. Ryan.

(04:17:20):
When people say any day above ground is a good
gay day, they are right. But it's a pretty low Bob.
Is this a form of nihilism. No, it's a form
of cynicism, but not necessarily nihilism. But it's a very lowbill,
very lobile. What you need is a day above ground,
living capital l laid back.

Speaker 2 (04:17:45):
Thank you, says, here's for the second hour. Appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (04:17:50):
Dan Norton Again, super chatsity one book show have helped
me get many new subscribers to my I RAN themed
YouTube channel at Dan Norton. Thank you. I'm currently a
nine hundred and eighty subscribers almost one thousand. So yeah,
Dan is using the super chests to market his own show, Miroslav.
For those who don't like they use a name they

(04:18:11):
handle in the chat, it can be changed. One of
the ways is on YouTube dot com slash handle YouTube
dot com slash handle. Aaron, Aaron, thank you, laid back pedal,
Thank you again. Who's this big rep? I can't see anymore?

(04:18:33):
My eyesight is fading with my energy. Thank you. Philip
Hopkins just came in with one hundred dollars. Thank you,
Happy New Year, thanks for keeping me company for my
three mile walks. Excellent, Thank you, Lucretian objectivist, Hey gen

(04:18:55):
z here, excellent. I think there are others like me
that as early teens created YouTube accounts, with some that
exaggerated dates of birth, it might shift some of the numbers. Yeah,
I've heard that. I hope that's true. I hope I
have many many more young people out there listening to
the show, Samaronik. Is there validity to the Nitagnell corruption trial? Yeah,

(04:19:21):
I'm sure there is. I'm pretty sure there is not
certain high probability, mind span, would you consider hosting Amen
Navabi Atheist Republic on YBS. He's a leading Uranian voice
in English, also has a Persian channel with unique insights
on Iran and secul liberal perspective. I'll definitely look into it.

(04:19:46):
I'll definitely look into it, particularly if these demonstrations continue.
Daniel says, I send a one hundred dollars on PayPal,
thank you, but it's being reviewed. You should have Richard
Hanania on the show. That'll be interesting. Neo Your Neo
Conservatism book is two thousands, three hundred dollars on Amazon

(04:20:08):
and Apple Books. Anything you can do about that, huh.
I'll have to talk to Brad, my co author, about
contacting the publisher. Is there no kindle version or some
other version that's significantly cheaper, because that would be the
way to go. All right, we got ten minutes to
go through these questions, okay. Rfel also wanted to mention

(04:20:31):
what I've watched The Aviator for the first time and
highly recommended. Yes, good movie. Leonardo DiCaprio playing Howard Hughes.
If anyone needs a movie recommendation, super inspiring story of
Howard Hughes. Absolutely. Oh, by the way, on Saturday, I'll
be reviewing two movies. I'll be reviewing. I'll be reviewing

(04:20:51):
the two movies left better Man and Ford Versus Ferrari
This Saturday Better Man of Ford Versus Ferrari, and the
follow Saturday I'll be reviewing Write the Tiger by Evola,
and the Saturday after that I'll finish up my review
of Folks in the Road. So I should be done
with all the reviews in a few weeks. In a

(04:21:13):
few weeks, quit Abaya on books for Kindle. There editions
of Van's book for one of two dollars. There's one
that contains both Atlas and Fountain it for two dollars.
Does Aari approve such books? Are they aware? I don't know.
I'll have to check look into it. Thank you for
pointing it out, Trevor, thank you for the sticker. Really

(04:21:40):
appreciate you. First super Chat twenty dollars. Really appreciate that.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Stephen. I wish I
was in a position to give more this year. Loyal,
longtime listener. Here show means a lot to me. Thanks
for keeping it going happy twenty twenty six. Thank you, Steven.
Let's see Exit supporting a philosophy for Living on Earth

(04:22:07):
formerly ADF.

Speaker 2 (04:22:08):
Thank you, audif.

Speaker 1 (04:22:11):
Nz. Let's make twenty thousand happen. Probably not, but we're it.
Huh why did this stop? Stop doing it? With sixteen
three point thirty sixteen three fifty sixteen with sixteen three
fifty right now, so we'll take three thousand, you know,

(04:22:34):
six hundred and fifty. I don't think that's happening in
the next seven minutes. Mindspan. Have you tried notebook l
lam at grounds AI strictly in user provided resources, letting
study your essays, generate, slide deck, summarize, and even podcast
style audio without hallucination. No, I will check it out.

(04:22:55):
I will check it out. Thank you. Let's see chrowe
we something. We're getting richer and life is getting easier.
Yet we seem to be in a philosophical decline. Is
the Western world faltering or can it rebound? It's faltering

(04:23:15):
and it can rebound. Mind Span. Have you explored Google's
anti gravity software. It's AI agent software that can plan task,
build website apps, interact on the web, and execute workflow automatically.
Not just answer the question, no, I have not. I

(04:23:38):
have not. I need to. I need to get on
top of all this, all right, Thank you, mind Span,
Ben Jackson, thank you Ron for a great year of talks.
Happy new year from Paris. Keep up the good work,
enjoy keep enjoying Paris. Thank you, Ben Michael. What is
some of your best advice for teaching kids to think?

(04:24:00):
I fol kids seven to thirteen. Oh wow, I mean math, science.
Teach them science through experiment, through through actual experimentation, concrete,
you know, induction. Demonstrate induction for them through experimentation, and

(04:24:24):
teach them history. History and science and math are the
things that are the best way to teach them how
to think. Daniel, the Pentagon seems to think China will
make a move on Taiwan by twenty seven. You should
have Scott McDonald on again. I missed the first time
he was on. Well, you can go back and watch

(04:24:46):
him now. I'll try to have Scott on again. That's
a good idea. You know, he's really good and China
is definitely in the news. Daniel. I was on the
bench press when you made fun of Matt Walsh and
I laughed out, loied and almost killed myself. You should

(04:25:08):
give a warning next time. You can't listen to your
one book show while you're bench pressing.

Speaker 2 (04:25:13):
That's insane. I wouldn't listen to myself while bench pressing.

Speaker 1 (04:25:19):
God, particularly if you've got dumbells, those are really dangerous.
You could really kill yourself. Andrew. Funny thing about conservatives
who claim the mantle of masculinity is they're always whining. Yeah,
I noticed that. Not very masculine, all right, flawed and
Nick says, well, the ominous parallels ever be an audible.
I'm certainly trying. It's not up to me. Sorry, all right, guys,

(04:25:44):
thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (04:25:47):
This has been amazing.

Speaker 1 (04:25:48):
We've raised sixteen thousand, six hundred, sixteen three hundred and
fifty two. That is just from that's just from YouTube.
You can add to that another five thousand dollars on PayPal,

(04:26:15):
so pretty amazing, pretty amazing. Over twenty one thousand dollars
raised today. So no, sorry, and I think I exaggerated
on people. Yeah, five thousand, five thousand dollars on people,
so pretty amazing, pretty amazing, Thank you guys. Oh, and
Ian just came in with another fifty dollars to kind

(04:26:36):
of help wrap it up in a good mood. Yes, okay,
So I had this thing. I had this news article.
Had this news article. It's titled one thousand and eighty
four reasons the world isn't falling apart all the good
news stories of twenty twenty five, and of course I

(04:26:58):
never got to any of it, never got the bad news,
never got to any of it. So we will do
a show about the good news from twenty twenty five,
maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after tomorrow. We will do that,
so we will get to the news. We will get
to the good news as well. Ooh, aniks do fifty dollars,

(04:27:19):
thank you, So that's another one hundred sixteen four fifty two,
sixteen four fifty two, so amazing, guys, Thank you, thank you,
thank you. And will we do a show tomorrow Tomorrow
We'll see. I might have to let these the vocal
codes rest for day, but definitely a show on Friday.

(04:27:44):
Definitely a show Saturday, and we'll re view those two
movies on Saturday. And next week we're back to normal
and no holidays and no travel until the end of
the month. Oh, another one hundred dollars. Zachary came in
greeting from Salt Lake City. Let's see what he writes.

(04:28:04):
God so screwed up greeting for sat Lake City. Despite
the cold and silly moments. This place is amazing. It
is beautiful. Thankfully I get to spend all day tomorrow skiing.
Good for you, Thanks for all your hard work this year,
doctor Brook. I appreciate the effort you put in. Thank you.
Joseph says, Happy New Year. Anybody ELSEO wants to jump in,

(04:28:28):
use the PayPal link and make a contribution of PayPal.
But yes, this is amazing. Sixteen thousand, five hundred and
fifty two dollars on YouTube alone and another five thousand
or so on PayPal. And I will see you all

(04:28:50):
on Friday. I'm gonna go and take my wife to
dinner and have a great, great, great have a great
twenty twenty six, have a great vacation day tomorroworro wherever
you are, whatever you're doing, be your best, live a
great life, make the most of it. Have you know,
just go all out tomorrow, you know. I Randa had

(04:29:13):
said on New Years that she always wrote on New
Years because she wanted to do on the first day
of the year what she intended to do for the
rest of the year. So think about what you want
to do the rest of the year and do a
little bit of it Tomorrow. Set the tone, have fun.

(04:29:37):
Bye and thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Bye.

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