Welcome back to another rig review and today I'm going to take a look at the toy rig. You can check out the toy rig at toyrig.com and the review will be posted on my animation view feed site where you have all kinds of reviews and other rigs that I'm pointing to so check that out as well if you need any more rigs. And how does the process work for Toy Rig? Well you can go to their site and you can actually check it out for one week for free. Now disclaimer I got a license for the character and thank you for Toy Rig for all the people involved that gave me access to that and that is how I got the rig and this is how I'm going to check it out now. Now in case you do have a license how this works you can go download now you got the terms of use click download it now and it gives you here download the file. Now as you can see it comes with a regular license and a premium license and when you download it you get these two characters in the folder and the latest version that I downloaded had a version 24 version 2 and a version 25 underscore Dolly which will be the different two rigs here. Now they do offer one week trial they have a three month license for 1797 they have a one year license for $49.99 the Toy Rig comes with a picker and is compatible with Maya 2018 up to 2020 22 is not yet confirmed and you can see also here the regular license for $14.97 and so on so check out the website for all that information you can see here whatever will work for you best that is up to you to decide. So I downloaded the rig and then you have a how to install this also comes with a movie if you prefer to watch something instead of reading it and these are the instructions. So I opened the entire rig version 24 students mv file this is what you get after that you copy paste the Python command here which again you can find the read me notepad and it gives you the user ID and the key code. The important part is that you can have to copy yours ID from Maya and you send it to them and then within seven days you will receive your key code that is important to know just in case you want to use it right now or maybe tomorrow so definitely factor that in as you are trying to download it and getting ready to use it. You also need to be connected to the internet to run it and again all the information is in here check that out and also gives you the information about how to install their picker and as you saw before at the bottom here I have a code JDH 101 YR 101 years you get 101 years of no no it's a promo code good for 10% off the one-year license or the 10% animal warrior stream one year subscription I'll blend that information in just in case of my accent but that's information it's super cool thank you so much to our rig for the promo code I hope people out there watching this can use it and can be helpful and that is that for the introduction that is the rate you can see on the channels here you have mesh layers on off and controls on and off which with my hotkey I can turn on and off as well you got a bunch of controls I'm really excited to check this out because all the animation that I've seen have been incredibly cartoony I'm really curious about all those controls and I'm gonna start with the outer control that looks like I can just move it around and also scale which is good global scale is always good you can see visibility there's nothing else on the channel on here you got the same thing you also have the switch here for spine IK FK yes or no so you can see that switch there that is on the inner your control and as always with two controllers you can move a controller down and now you have the pivot here just in case you want to use that now as your flight rig where that is your you know your main pivot point here just in case I'm always a fan of having multiple controls of being able to change things like that now we have those arms down and the feet together as well so what I'm going to do is I'm gonna select this and select that and move those feet out a little bit it's already nicely deformed anyway move it back out so we can see the actual controllers they're actually fairly light in here so what I'm going to do is darken my background so you can see those controls a bit better how that works all right let's get back here to the feet you can see it's the foot let's stretch it it's not an auto stretch this is on and off now you can go back here you also have a twist function for the knee so the twist is done through here you have manual stretch one which most rigs have here ah use pole vector there you go you can turn that on and off so you can have it like this you can have it visually actually I do like it on the channels usually as we saw before this is your extra controller to do all kinds of movement and banking you can see this here this is in two axes right so you can do your foot roll like that you go pretty far here and then in translate why this is your banking side to side with a nice pivot off the side here then you have a second one here what is this this is the left leg I K2 control so I can rotate what is that that gives you all kinds of crazy stuff interesting with those deformations left and right through here it is a very separate isolated controls that's pretty cool what is that so that's my wrong axis here again you can move this all around and you have that same thing here so you have controls here forms into FK mode without around stretch probably scale huh yes you can we just double check can you scale this you can scale but we don't pivot off like that interesting and then you can scale again with a interesting pivot change well that is for you to decide are you going to use this again you can pull here you can rotate this here can you stretch yes you can make this foot really really big that's cool what is this here on the side you have foot banking okay so you can still translate just in case you want to have different pivots but this is your banking so you have very specific controls of that way you have the same thing from the front if you have it like this and you can do your rotation like that and you have one on the side as well like this it says scale but again I think these are just channels that are open your mileage may vary in terms of how you're going to use this that is the same thing back here you got rotations pivoting off there and like that but of course you can also translate and move this around back here is the settings it says settings here so that is doing nothing again all the controls are open might be good to hide these so we are not confused as to what is going on here but basically what it gives you is the IK FK function so now as we go back you can see here those controllers you can move this around and move the leg around like that including all the way back to all of this now getting actually closer to this you can see here look at that you got controls for this you can move this around you can translate rotate and scale and you have controls for this that's crazy town so you can select all of these and that reveals this is how low you can go you can probably scale this I mean you can scale it down and also bring this in if you want to and you can go fairly far for some boots boots and that's that for the feet I don't see anything else checking here do you have any pin I don't see any knee pins so far there's nothing in here you have your follow move all cock hip stress that's all very very cool but I don't see a pin function so I'm gonna double check later on and maybe add something in the comments and that of course is on both sides these are the same feet obviously move this back in and we can go up here you have just quickly here you get the same things for his shirt he is empty inside so you can put something in there then you have extra controllers here this is the shoulder basically shoulder for the hips so you can do all kind of stuff stretching interesting again that the pivot is up here so you translate all of this and you rotate from up here it's interesting choice I'm probably keep it down here no I don't know can you scale you can scale okay you got the same thing from here that looks like the IK control for the hips what what classic stuff here can you scale yes you can and the scales all the way up here I'm I'm slightly confused in terms of the pivots did I control no I did not say something weird I would love for that pivot to be a bit more in the middle this is your other control here and if I select that again it scales all the way up that is interesting that is the out of control for the roots you can see here rotation or this is all what you have here and then selecting this you have extra cogs ooh extra controls that are here that is again that and you can translate and rotate and also scale this is what the scale option will give you and this goes all the way up here you can select it here and actually when we go to the inner one remember you got the spine IK FK switch so now you have these ones so you can take that and move it like this you can scale and then even have the inner one for that type of extra control which is cool so you have this here if you want to rotate it like that but then you can still have the inner control to do fine tuning which is actually pretty neat I like that now IK arms same thing here you move this out it's not set to stretchy just yet you have this on the right side auto stretches this you have also the twists and you have the manual stretch and the pole vector just like with the legs that I missed at the very beginning here this is that you got the follow options here same thing for this you wouldn't really need to scale it I would probably lock that and hide it but that is your option for the hand here whoops I got a double select here but you have a second one in here that gives you double control again you can parent this one to something and still use this to animate stuff around which I was a big fan of you have another control here for the sleeves revealing emptiness and that here is for your hand so let's see we have L arm left arm IK FK so you can have this to switch this switches to as you can see to FK right there let me switch back and that's kind of that can you scale interesting so you can do your spread through scaling that is not what I expected that's interesting so I want to assume that if you rotate yes that's for some quick blocking what if I change it around ooh nice okay that's always cool for quick blocking I always recommend having several controllers though to on the fingers just to do some fine tuning now they are not on by default that is interesting so if I check here you have nothing here and on this one there is also nothing here interesting this is the shoulder to go up and down translate from here and scale out from that pivot point that's the upper part torso here like that that is your neck here and you have that you can pull it up you got the same option volume 0 to 1 which I will check out how to actually implement this we do have a color control here for the color color as a foreigner saying this slowly slowly selecting anyway you know that reveals a not super long neck you also see it through there and then we have this on the head so many controls hold on let me just double check here what is this primary controls secondary controls ah there you go that is interesting to be honest I would love for that to be here so when you select this on the hands all your hand options are on the right I suspected that it was somewhere because I had seen this in the in the preview but it's not where it's supposed to be these are all on off again primary on off secondary including all the tiny stuff you have extra controls that's all the crazy stuff there that's cool for the sleeves and stuff on the hands basic controls ah that's cool I like that and you have lattice controls for more information this is the absolute banana part of the rig which is so super cool for the formations and the mesh smoothing which I'm going to bring down low but again I would love for finger controls all that stuff to be here I love all the extra things like this is a super impressive rig in terms of all the deformations that you can do but I think in terms of basic usability I would have that on the hand like I said just in case seems from a user friendly point of view a bit easier but you have all of that here can you scale yes you can that's an interesting scale for all one two three if when you do them at the same time you can of course translate this you have bend that way for the craziness and then why again in terms of customization and moving things around it's pretty bananas you can move this around of course you can scale you can scale you can rotate translate and do all the goodies with that and even here you have this select this you move everything absolutely bananas I love this so cool then you have the bimbos for the middle section here and all of that again including that you can see how it forms that let me stick the whole thing grabs all of this and then we get to these controls here you can see fine tuning fine control it's really really cool it's absolutely bananas all the things you get here now in terms of usability let me just 0.1 I want one let me just go with the main controls so that it's visually all clear so you have this here for the neck and then this is your upper head control where you can move things around you can see how the eyes are locked to the controller which is always nice from the beginning on top of that you have an isolate on and off and isolate y-axis and you have also your rotation order here to change so if you grab that neck and you move it back and you grab the head it doesn't do anything now that being said if I take the neck and move it back I don't see a world space change in the isolate right now but even like both of them off don't really do anything in that regard that being said you get a scale you can get all the goodies on that as well these are the eyes rotate these around or translate that's all cool of course these are all separate can you scale no nothing happens here eyelid follow so when you have this and you can see how there's movement so like that and you can do follow head right so now the eyes are following the head and when you select this only you have eyelid follow off and now you select all of them you can see the difference how the geometry here on the left side is moving but on the right side is not again that's just for the eyelid follow then we're down to the jaw opening up the jaw here you can see the tongue controls you can put this out here you can rotate scale and translate that sounds pretty straightforward can you scale the jaw yes you can you can do that of course here this looks like a cheek control scale just in case yes you can and you have different areas it gets very very detailed in terms of where you can move this this would be your corner of the mouth which is fairly far you can also have tiny tiny controls here same left and right and once you're up here you can see this is your overall mouth mover rotate like that you can also scale and then on the side here you have that on the upper side you have it here that's my fault here I translated out this way but you have that and of course up here I'm not going to use all of them you know what all of us does it's very cool though lots of controls on the mouth for sure let me close that speak of which now selecting this like the corners that's all you have here there's nothing hidden there's nothing here on the cheeks and there's nothing here on the jaw just in case you're wondering this is for the nose if I get to select it that is your Pinocchio right there can you scale the middle yes you can translate also rotate nothing else in the channels just as FYI you get to up here you got that arrow to change the lids there and maybe just for visibility I'm going to do the head smooth or mesh smooth here oh there's no change actually hold on is there no mesh smooth there is no mesh smooth okay interesting well I'm going to take this select it and do it manually just in case so that when we go through here let me set that back to reference now when I move this around you can see here lots of details same thing on the right side you have an overall eye mover so you can really go anywhere you want to go you can scale and then you have that which I'm assuming is going to be for the lids yes it is ever like that it's not through rotates there's nothing in scale it's purely translates so probably again I would look at locking some of those just for clean usage of all those controllers this is your outer there's no transit just as I said here's one where you have controls locked so this is only rotates for the eyeballs just in case you don't want to use those the head box there the eye box that's kind of that let me check again just selecting this nothing else that's that that looks like the overall eyebrow controller oh you can see how much it's not just the eyebrow actually it deforms okay so it's attached yes so it's going to move more you have that for the inner and then you have all of these for separate movements and yes you can scale that is that I think that is it for the main controllers now I do want to hide these bring in the secondary stuff so now we have all the fine tuning detail like that that must be the teeth so actually let me bring it back then so just quickly you can open this whoops you can open that okay so you can see how that follows that must be one controller all right can we scale yes we can what is that who separates tooth controls for nice lines there I like that that's very cool now I'm just go back just quick hide this what else do we have that is really all very fine tuning stuff cool yeah you can see here let's go back this way lots of stuff that's my technical definition here lots of stuff what does this controller do what does it do it does lots of stuff and actually goes all the way to the eye so now you can move iris and pupil wait am I selecting the middle part yes I am all right that is done through scale nothing in the channels and again all those tiny things oh including this line wow that's cool that's very very detailed I love it what's your scale yes you can you can get an eye mustache would an eye mustache be lower is that an eye mustache there you go that's cool I like it and just checking you got your bend bows on all the arm stuff you can see this is how you turn on the fingers and you know my thoughts on that all right well let's turn this off go to extra controls you got that on the root as well so extra control here extra cog so you have extra on extra like I showed before this is your inception style and then in here you can see this is the separation of the head like that scale yes rotate yes so you can go into very fine-tuning line of action of head and really move this around any way you want to into some nightmare scenario which is awesome I love it why not what is this oh cool look at that that is for the lower part of the eye that's bananas is there an upper part no so that's your bottom that's really interesting and not the top that's super detailed once again we got more stuff here and we have ears ears for here ears oh this is the whole ear okay and then you got the top one can I do an ear rotation as I can and just in case oh interesting so when you scale you can see what it does to the geometry you can go super small because you can see there's some creasing in the geometry just as an FYI that is the upper part of the head I am superbrain no one is smarter than me cool I like it I like it hair which is iqfk some degree it's cool I like it what is this moving everything I like that just in case you're done here you can do some overall movement and then some fine-tuning separately I like it what is this that must be a side head side hair oh the squash as well that's cool that's very cool these are all three okay and just in case if I deselect this here and hide that's what your character looks like without hair I think I have seen all the options and clearly it's an insanely customizable rig I mean let's turn all of this on holy mackerel look at this no wonder those shots are always so super cool it's really really super cartoon you look at this that is really fascinating to have all of that ready and then of course you should take this and put some mocap on there go completely against type no it's really cool I really like it let me see if that was the hair I don't see anything hair wise in the back oh okay so it's also locked yes for once it's locked so this is your your full on squash and stretch in the hair I would actually love a change in that let's see here so you have volume loss so you don't have that is it freaking out there's some moments where it freaks out but you can see here there is no squash and stretch oh it's me oh volume loss and going into some crazy numbers that would be a good thing to lock but here you can see what it does to the hair but I would love for this control to be unlocked in terms of all translates but again if I move this over it's not just to one goes to whatever number so I think this would be good to to lock those those numbers but I would love for some hair control here because I'm gonna assume that this gonna grab the whole head yes it does and it's only because I mean you already have this all the fine tuning of that little stuff would be kind of cool to get maybe you know like a couple sections in the head here of the hair the backside because given that there's so much you can do in terms of you know flattening things but I don't really want to affect the rest of the head right so if you move this you can see how the front part is moving I would love for that I'd say the character again if you look at the hair how far is the head going okay so here so you have this whole section right this whole section is hair this is where the skull is it'll be cool to have extra control to flatten this imagine your character is leaning against the wall so that you can flatten that hair might as well since you have all those awesome fantastic features just to kind of really push this even further I mean I don't know how much further you can go I mean it's it's pretty bananas now loading up the dolly rig you can see it's in terms of controls and everything very very similar you got all those extra controls up here you got the facial controls you got the hearts with all of that as well on top of the hair so this is the change here where you have a massive ponytail with all kinds of controls with bigger controls small controls for details you can grab these scale the hair you can do a bunch of stuff now if you do hide the hair you can see here you have these options like that where it looks like that so these are all separate pieces that you can hide and then underneath the head is the same so bring that back up here that is the difference between those two rigs if you look at the face again same controller so if we're used to animating one character maybe the same you have an extra here in terms of detail where you have a there you go you can scale this earring and the eyes are all the same you have different colors actually we need to have some options here to change the colors why not something for some future updates why not you can always do it on your own but anything that's kind of built into the rig is also appreciated in terms of faster workflow and that would be this rig so so definitely really really fleshed out super cartoony rigs I hope this walkthrough blind walkthrough was interesting to watch and these are my impressions blind impressions as always thank you for watching feel free to subscribe if you don't miss any of those kinds of reviews and uploads those all those other uploads on my channel it's the end of the channel reviews everything the pitch it's the pitch you're not gonna pitch it but that is that again I will blend in the promo code make sure to check that out if you want to use the rig thank you for watching and I will see you or hear you or you will see me and hear me in the next upload thanks


The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Brookshow. All right, everybody. Welcome to Iran Brookshow. On this Thursday, December 21st, we did a show in Hebrew earlier. So if I slip once in a while and can't pronounce, can't think of words, it's because I'm still influenced by the Hebrew I spoke before. It's so much harder to speak Hebrew than it is English. God, English is so much easier. Anyway, a lot going on. Let's jump right into it. And as we speak, there is a breaking story out of Prague in the Czech Republic. I don't have a lot to say about this, but I figured I couldn't really do a new show without commenting on it. But it turns out a student at Charles University in Prague. Charles University is a fairly large university with 50,000, 60,000 students in Prague, but its buildings are all over the place. And this is, I think, in the humanities, social science building. He's a history student, and he came in with a gun and started shooting. At least 11 people are killed, including the gunman himself. Maybe more, I've seen as high as 15, really horrible. This is a building, I'm looking at pictures, a building I've walked by, passed in Hungary, in Prague, in the Czech Republic, one of the more beautiful cities in the world. I mean, it really, it's an Ardeco city. It's beautiful. It was not destroyed in World War II, so it preserved a lot of the buildings, the sculptures, the streets from the early part of the 20th century and late 19th century. And yeah, just it's sad. There's no real information. I think it's pretty clear. It seems clear. He's not a Muslim. It's not a, quote, terrorist attack. As far as we know, it's not clear what the motives were. He might have killed his father before he did this, so there might be more going on, but it is sad. And I've spoken at universities. I don't think I've ever spoken at Charles University, but I've spoken at universities in Prague. So horrible to see young people have to run for their lives like that. All right, I was going to start with this incredible positive story out of Argentina. I mean, I have been cautiously optimistic about Melee from the beginning. And I was a little worried, I have to admit, early on, because he seemed to be hiring for his cabinet, people who were more middle of the road than he was, less radical than he was. And I was worried about his willingness and ability. Well, I'm still worried about ability, but his willingness to be radical and to do what was necessary to truly liberate the economy and society more broadly, again, given that he was hiring and putting in cabinet positions people who I do not think necessarily shared his radicalism. But he gave a speech yesterday, and he listed his program for the next few days, which both executive orders and a legislative program, which was truly inspiring and much better than anything I would have expected, particularly the speech itself. The economic program we'll see, and a lot of this has to be approved by parliament, which is not going to be easy. But the speech was fantastic. He basically blamed Argentina's problems on decades of collectivism. He used that name. He used that term, collectivism. Collectivism was at fault. And what was needed was more individualism, was more focus on the individual, liberty and freedom. I mean, this was one of the most philosophical talks I've ever seen a politician give. It was inspiring. And he was surrounded by, I guess, cabinet ministers. He was reading. The talk was obviously had been prepared in writing, so he wasn't his usual crazy all over the place yelling and throwing things chainsaw style. This was a very presidential. And the press doesn't know what to do with him. First of all, almost all the reports and the speech only deal with the changes in economic policy. They don't talk about the content of the speech, the philosophical context of the speech, or anything like that. The focus is exclusively on the program. They've stopped, interestingly enough, most of the media that I've seen, at least with regard to this, stopped comparing him to Trump and Bolsonaro. Because clearly, he's no Trump or Bolsonaro. He's thoughtful. He's articulate. He's reading his speech as well. And he has an agenda, a clear and equivocal agenda. So they're starting to call him a libertarian. They're just calling him a libertarian, which is not what was happening when he was elected. It was the far right, Trump-like candidate. So this is fantastic what he's doing, how he's presenting it is more important than actually what he's doing. He's presenting it as undoing of collectivist policies, decades worth of collectivist policies, using that term. I love it. I love it. It's philosophical. It goes to the heart of it. It goes to the essence of it. He's not coming across as a crazy anarchist. He's working within the law. He's asked the Congress, the Argentinian Parliament, to come into emergency session to approve the things that need approving. Some of this stuff is just going to be passed by executive order where he has the authority to do it. He's not acting as an authoritarian. Now, whether he can get it through Congress, we'll see, but I think he has the momentum. So far, there's been one demonstration in the streets about him. He has, he did pass a law that was criticized by, again, the mainstream media, that banned demonstrations that obstructed people's lives. So he banned demonstrations that obstructed traffic and that obstructed the ability of regular Argentinians to live their lives. Argentina has been riddled with demonstrations when people have tried to do better things, like Marci, six, seven years ago. So he's learned the lesson. He's banning it. We'll see if he can actually implement that ban and what it will take. But so far, so good. Now, some of the things he announced, he's talking about a modernizing, modernization of labor legislation to facilitate the real creating of jobs. So getting rid of a lot of labor regulations. He's talking about deregulating the industries that, you know, like tourism, pharmaceuticals, wine production, and maybe most importantly, foreign trade. He's eliminating many of the barriers to export. You know, Argentina plays barriers. Most countries place barriers for imports. Argentina barriers for export. All in the name of rebuilding the country and in a sense, starting from scratch, getting rid of a lot of the what that is accumulated over decades and decades. You know, we'll see. People, you know, the politicians in Argentina are already saying that deregulation decrees are unconstitutional and that he has no power to appeal. These laws are the ones that he's done for executive order. And again, he's going to face a real opposition in the parliament. But I think he has momentum. Again, there haven't been that many demonstrations. He won by a big margin in the election. The people, in a sense, have spoken. And it's great. I mean, this is part of the speech. He says, that doctrine that they call leftism, communism, fascism, or socialism. I love that he puts them all together, right? And that we call collectivism. I mean, just that is a revolution. So that doctrine that they call leftism, communism, fascism, socialism, and that we call collectivism is a way of thinking that dilutes the individual in favor of the power of the state. It is based on the premise that the reason of the state is more important than the individual. That the individual must submit to the state and that, therefore, citizens owe obedience to their representatives, the political cast. He said in the speech, they rejected the doctrine that politicians are God. Not only are they not God, but they are the cause of our problems. He said it was wrong that a, quote, group of bureaucrats can plan the lives of human beings. So the only reason I can read you this is that this is from the Buenos Aires Times, which has a long article in this that actually cites him. None of the US publications, most of them ignored the speech. And those who did cite him, just a list of the programs he wants, just a list of the programs he wants. He also said, these are forms of which I have only mentioned 30 of the more than 300 included are some of those complemented in the decree. So seven laws will be struck down by decree. So eliminated, the laws will be eliminated. And that includes laws governing rental or private properties, i.e., rent control, and supply of items at supermarkets. I have no idea what that law is, but it's going away, which sounds fantastic. So yeah, I mean, super exciting details. We'll still find out. But here's some of the things. He's decreeing that all state-owned companies be prepared for privatization. Authorize the shareholder control of the Argentinian airlines to be partly or completely transferred to private parties. He's going to deregulate satellite internet services to allow SpaceX's Starlink to operate in Argentina. He's going to eliminate price controls on prepaid health care plans. He's going to eliminate the monopoly of tourism agencies to deregulate the sector. Repel the current rent law that limits price increases in a bid to normalize the real estate market. Repel the current land law that limits ownership of land by foreigners in a bid to promote investments. I mean, that's a shocker. He's actually going to allow foreigners to own land in Argentina. I mean, even in the US, that's controversial, right? He's going to scrap the current supplier law that allows the government to set minimum and maximum prices and profit margins for goods and services of private companies. He's going to eliminate the economy ministry's price observatory to avoid the persecution of companies. I mean, any time you have repeal, repeal, repeal, I love it. Imagine a US president coming in and saying, OK, here are the laws I'm going to repeal. Here are the laws I'm going to work with Congress to repeal, not Obamacare without offering anything or not even succeeding doing that. But imagine, I mean, this isn't Trump. This isn't Bolsonaro. This isn't anybody we are familiar with. I mean, maybe Thatcher at her best. But I think, and Thatcher, of course, actually, Thatcher made some pretty philosophical speeches. So Thatcher was good in this trek. But there's nobody in the US. And Thatcher wasn't as aggressive as this and wasn't as definitive. And this is just the first step. And this is just 30 of 300 that he plans to do. And yeah, I think it's really exciting, really, really revolutionary. This is not just a tinkering with the economy. This is not just mealy-mouthed. There are a few changes here and there. This is real. This is real. So good for mealy. Good for Argentina. Pack your bags, guys. Bags, guys. You might be moving to Argentina soon. Maybe that's where the future is. But yeah, I'm excited. I want to see what comes next. And I want to see how it's implemented. And I'm excited to go to Argentina and to experience some of this firsthand. I'm hoping that part of the South American trip is going to include, in March, April, is going to include a visitor on Argentina. Oh, right. Elbel, Inc. Elbel, Elbel, Inc. $100. And he says, let Freedom Ring. And it's his first super chat. Here's the hose. First super chat. Thank you. That is fantastic. Really, really, really appreciate the support. First super chat, $100. That is a great way to start. All right. That was mealy. OK, Ireland. You remember a few weeks ago, there was some deranged guy who turned out to be a legal immigrant who had actually been naturalized in Ireland and was a citizen of Ireland for 20 years. He actually attacked three children and a teacher. Stabbed them. I think one of them died. And as a result of this, an Irish mob went into the center of town in a kind of anti-immigration tirade. And no room here kind of became the slogan. But they burnt cars and they created a lot of damage. And they rioted. They rioted for a whole night in Dublin. That was, let's see, that was on November 23rd. So it's a little bit more. It's a month now, a month ago. Anyway, the response now of the Irish government is, which drives me nuts, but this is the response. And the response of the Irish government to that whole episode is to try to pass really stringent hate speech laws. Of course, all of Europe has hate speech laws. But Ireland is committed to particularly restrictive hate speech laws. And how this is going to deal with kind of these islands is full anti-immigration activists. I have no idea. And everything else. But the government there is passing hate speech laws. And the burden is going to be, the burden of proof in a sense is going to be on those, you're not innocent. It's a proven guilty.  But how do you define hate speech laws? What counts as hate speech? What are the boundaries? Hate to whom? Under what circumstances? Hate towards whites? Heterosexuals? The second account is hate? It's a completely subjectivist attempt to silence people that you'd happen to not agree with. And it's horrible. And it doesn't belong in any civilized country.  It is the path to authoritarianism. Ireland is an interesting country. But it is now being overrun by much of the kind of radical left, the extreme left.  Yeah, it's kind of sad, sad to see. I mean, I've talked lots of other places about the importance of free speech, about how speech is crucial to civilization. It is the bedrock of civilization in terms of the values. And any attack on free speech is an attack on freedom, on all freedom. All right, let's see. Yeah, Harvard University.  She is one of the three presidents of universities who did a pathetic presentation before Congress that couldn't answer simple questions, couldn't articulate a simple position with regard to speech and with regard to harassment on their campuses. One of those presidents, the president of University of Pennsylvania, has been fired as a consequence of it, or she resigned as a consequence of pressure. But Harvard has stood by Claudine Gay. Now, in the process, it's been revealed that Claudine Gay, who was a professor at Harvard and a dean at Harvard, is also being accused of plagiarism, that she copied and has verbatim whole passages from other authors in some of her articles that got a tenure, that even in her dissertation, and that are in articles. And in the last couple of days, it's been discovered that in many more articles. She is, they don't call it plagiarism. What do they call it? They call it, she uses duplicative, I can't believe this is true, they call it duplicative language, which I guess is PC for PC when the person doing it is considered a good guy, that's what plagiarism means. She uses duplicative language. So massive criticism, not only about the response to antisemitism of the university, and then the response to antisemitism that she, how she presented it in front of Congress, but now, she's getting significant criticism over her scholarship, put aside the quality of her scholarship, which I'm pretty sure is horrible, but the idea of plagiarism. Now, we're not talking about some third-rate college somewhere, we're not talking about some anonymous university somewhere, we're talking about Harvard University. We're talking about one of the premier institutions in the world, the most prestigious university in America. And you'd think the president of that university would not only be a really experienced administrator, a well-established prominent academic, and with an impeccable track record of academic integrity, not at Harvard. I mean, that is true of the president before Claudine Gay, and probably the president before that, and before that, that is true of the history of presidents at Harvard. But it's, I think, becoming clearer and clearer.  The reason the president of the University of Pennsylvania, maybe you could argue, was asked to resign as she's white.  The reason why everybody's so lenient with the gladiator plagiarism is not because this is not viewed as a serious offense in academia. It is. It should be particularly at a prestigious university like Harvard, but it's because she's black.  Indeed, 80 black Harvard University professors have written a letter basically saying that.  Claudine does not have the, I don't know, integrity to resign herself. Obviously, she's not the best candidate for a position like this. But the board of trustees of Harvard University is sticking by her. She is now in the process of what's it called, revising her dissertation, putting in the citations, correcting. But the reality is there's a really good essay on this by Jason Riley in today's. No, two days ago on The Wall Street Journal, which I recommend, why Harvard can't fire Claudine Gay to admit she has performed poorly is to raise basic questions about the entire diversity enterprise.  That is her shtick. Not only does Harvard admit students not based on ability, but based on DEI standards. But there's every reason to believe that it hires its professors, not based on ability, but based on DEI standards. And now it's probably the case that it hired its president, not based on DEI standards, but based on ability, but based on DEI standards. Horrible to see such a great academic institution lower itself to this position, but this is the consequence of embracing this kind of leftist, altruistic, racist ideology that is DEI, that places waiting, waiting in hiring, in admittance, in every aspect of academic life on somebody's race, which should be irrelevant. Gone is the standard of colorblindness. Gone completely.  So sad. Sad. Wall Street Journalists are right that she is updating her PhD dissertation. But the school, as of today, this morning, as of December 21st in the morning, the university is standing behind us and calls all the claims about her lack of, I don't know, academic qualifications and shoddiness of academic work and plagiarism. It claims a meritless, even though these are clearly documented and seem to be pretty clear-cut. But Harvard will stand behind her. Would they stand behind her if she was a man? Would they stand behind her if she was white? I don't think so. And again, it's not an issue of hypocrisy. It's an issue of philosophy. The entire philosophy, in that sense, they have integrity, right? Integrity to their irrational philosophy. Not integrity in the full objective sense. They're not hypocrites. They're abiding by their philosophy. And that is that the standards you apply to those who come from an oppressed history, from an oppressed context, are different because you have to establish equity. And the only way to establish equity is to penalize those who come from the oppressor background and to elevate, by whatever means, those who come from their oppressed background. And one of the great tragedies of this and the great victims of all this, and this is true of affirmative action, and Ein Rand was writing about this in the 1960s, is that blacks of ability, minorities of ability, of ambition that are truly worthy because of merit will be looked on with suspicion. Nobody will know exactly. Did they have that position because of their merit, because of their achievements, because of their talents, because of their skills, or because of the color of their skin? Because of DEI. All right. Well, we're getting a lot of first-time superchatters. Thank you. Camilla, I'll just do this quickly. Well, I mentioned Elle Bell, who came in the first-time superchatter. And Evan Grassley, first-time superchatter. Thank you. Wow, that's fantastic. Really, really appreciate your support. All right, finally, Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin is paying attention.  And they pay attention, in particular, to the weakness of their enemy. Putin sees the disintegration of support for Ukraine. He sees the pressure under which Israel is placed to compromise, to modify, to restrain itself. Not to win. I did a show in Hebrew earlier today about can Israel win and will Israel win. I'll do that in English maybe in a few days. But clearly, the West does not want Israel to win and is doing everything it can so it won't win. I think the Kremlin is looking at the Houdis in Yemen and in significant military force, which is holding the entire world hostage, which has basically stopped trade between Asia and Europe. The Chinese, too, are looking, even though there are somewhat of the victims here because it's their trade that's being blocked, they're kind of looking at the West. What are they going to do about it? The West has this mighty armada off the shore of Yemen. They can't escort every single ship. They can't knock down every single drone. Can't knock down every single missile. Will they attack Yemen? Will they defend the shipping route? Will they do anything? Putin is looking at the Biden administration. He already knows they're weak. But he sees that they can't even pass a support package for Ukraine. He sees Republicans as his allies in the war in Ukraine. He sees the possibility Donald Trump gets elected going up. And what's that doing is it's making him bolder and bolder. He's now more than ever saying exactly what he wants. He's talking about Ukraine as part of Russia, the Ukrainian people as Russian people, which he talked about before the war as well. But most of the people commenting on the war completely ignore him. He talks about the people in Lviv. They're not Russian. They can go back to kind of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. They can go back to, they can be part of Poland. Maybe we don't want them. But we want the rest of Ukraine because they're Russians and it's Russian land and it's Russian soil and it's the Russian people. By the way, that same argument could be made about Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, which have large Russian populations and could be viewed as part of the Russian empire. The same argument could be made on vast parts of Poland, Moldova, and much of Eastern Europe. Many of the Kremlin surrogates from the head of the Russian Orthodox Church are now talking about the importance of Russia and Russian and being Russian, which might be a problem. We'll see how this resolves because it contradicts a little with Putin's multicultural message because Russia, of course, is a hugely multicultural nation, particularly in its east.   Putin has also said, and the spokesman for the Kremlin has said, that Russia has no interest in negotiating with Ukraine. And it will not negotiate that its plans are the plans that it had on day one. At the end of the day, the plan are to take as much of Ukraine as they can. So I think the last few days, last week or so, Putin has been the most explicit he's been since before the war started, in terms of his aims, his goals, and his nationalism, and his seeking empire, and all of that. And this is a direct consequence of every signal out there that you could see of the weakness of the West. Oh, the other thing that happened, of course, is the EU couldn't get an aid package approved for Ukraine because of the veto placed on it by Orban from the president of Hungary. So the EU can't, nobody's supporting Ukraine right now. The EU doesn't. The US doesn't. Ukraine is on their own. So why shouldn't Putin just say it like it is? His right wing apologists in the United States, from Tucker to Jordan Peterson, to Candace Owen, to the rest, they don't care what he says. So you can just lay it out exactly what he believes and exactly what he thinks. This was always about Russian empire. And it's clear that it is Russian empire that he seeks. All right, let's take a look at your superchats. We've already reached the goal, so thank you. You guys are very generous today. We got a lot of people watching, so thank you. If there are people out there watching who are not subscribers, please consider subscribing. That would be great. You'll get announcements about shows. And yeah, the more subscribers I have, the more the algorithm treats me better. So please consider subscribing. Please like the show before you leave. Give it a thumbs up. Doesn't cost you anything. Just press that like button. And it's great. And feel free to participate by asking questions and by engaging in the superchat. What else? Remind you that the Einwand Institute is a sponsor of today's show. And that if you'd like to register for the Einwand conference in Austin, Texas, at late March, you can do so now if you are a student or interested in becoming a future intellectual or just interested in significantly deepening your understanding of objectivism. You can apply for a scholarship. You can do all of that, apply for the conference, the scholarship, get information, all of that, on einwand.org-slash-start-here, einwand.org-slash-start-here. All right, so I'm going to read this comment because I hope this is true. And it's an inspiration if it is. Fernando from Argentina writes, greetings from Argentina. Here, you've been one of the voices that helped to change our mentality about capitalism and free market. Your video talking in an English class, I remember that. English class, maybe I don't remember that. Anyway, in an English class, it was very popular and helpful. Thank you, I don't remember which video that is. But that's great, that's great to hear. I've been coming to Argentina, God, for over 10 years now. I've given quite a few talks, I've done debates, I've done quite a few things in Argentina. If I've inspired a few people to take free market ideas more seriously and to embrace them, and if that had even a marginal impact on Millay getting elected and Millay being better than he would have otherwise been, you've made my day, my week, my month, that is fantastic. So, you know, Fernando says, many of us, you know, they discovered Ivan's books, I guess as a consequence of the video and my being there. So, amazing. And as I said, I think, I hope, that I will be in Argentina again in April. And it should be really interesting, because, you know, everything has changed. Everything has changed. We'll be going to a country where we'll pro the government. Never happened to me before. All right, let's jump in to the Super Chat. Adam, $100, thank you, Adam. It was fantastic, Adam. This year has been one of the most, one of the best contributors to the Iran Book Show using Super Chats. I am in late with my tech comment. Without free markets, the alternative to dollar stores is $100 dollars stores. With $100 is for stale bread. That's Argentina, right, where you have inflation. And not fancy bow ties. His rand had a Marie Antoinette vibe, let them shop at sacks. Thanks for pointing out this evil stance. Absolutely, Adam, great point. And that's the reality. The reality is, wow, you can still buy stuff for a dollar. I mean, as bad as inflation has been in the United States. But think about the alternative. The alternative is not being able to buy anything. And everything, being like in Argentina, worth a lot more. Stateism leads to inflation. Stateism leads to stagnation. Statehood leads to decay. What Tucker Carlson is advocating for. What he's proposing. What he's promoting. What he stands for is decay. Stagnation. Stateism. Socialism, he even said, you call me a socialist. I don't care. Yeah. I mean, status is a better word because it's broader. Michael, Michael wins on asking the most questions and probably wins 2023 on certainly the most super chat questions. Probably the most dollars. Just if you add them up. Most dollars probably put in in super chat in 2023. Probably goes to Michael. I don't have the means. YouTube does not give me the means kind of to download the list of everybody. It's kind of aggregate. So this is kind of just me guessing. But educated guess. While the objective is moving, it's still very young.  It seems to be much more organized and knows what direction to take. I mean, I think that's right. I mean, what we don't have is Leonard Peekoff. We don't have that kind of intellectual powerhouse that Leonard was. So that is not, we don't have that on our side right now. But I think we have numbers. We have depth. We have organization. We have a program. I think we know what we're doing. And there's a plan. There's a long-term plan to really have an impact on the world. And hearing this about from Argentina, we've been doing this for a long time. The things that you do, the places you go, the speeches you give, sometimes the audience is small. Sometimes the audience is big. Hopefully it's recorded and it's put up online. You just don't know who it's gonna reach and what impact that the margin it's going to have. And I think we are slowly, systematically, we are changing the world. It's one mind at a time. Some of those minds are here in the Iran Book Show. Some of the minds now are at Ironman University. Some of those minds are in Argentina, maybe even working for Mille. I don't know. Some of the minds are all over the world. In Europe, in Eastern Europe, in all over Latin America. And over time, we will prevail. We will grow and the knowledge will increase. The number of activists will increase and we have truth on our side. We have this amazing philosophy on our side. And what we're trying to do, what you're trying to do short-term is buy time so that long-term we can change the world. Federico says the video I was referring to is the subject about exploitation in China. The argument about the $2 labor job and how the free market works. Yeah, so that was a video that I actually recorded at Exeter University. Exeter University in the UK years ago. I think it was my second talk there. It was a talk on inequality. And that video, in a variety of different formats, it was sliced and diced by all kinds of people, often not even putting my name on it. So I can't remember if it was Students for Liberty or they used this video all over the place without giving me credit, which is pretty pathetic. And, but it was literally viewed by millions of people. It's the video that has gone more viral than anything else. But I think for some people led them from that to my morality of capitalism talks and to Inran's lectures. But yes, having a video like that go viral to millions of people, it has an impact. It has influence in the world. If only we could get more, if only we could get more of my videos to go viral like that, it would be pretty great. We're working, we've hired an artificial intelligence app to try to create viral short videos of mine. We'll see how it works, but there's an artificial intelligence app that claims that they can do that. So working with artificial intelligence to make it happen. All right, Michael asks, why is the ethics of Christianity so much harder to challenge than a metaphysics and epistemology of Christianity? I think because nobody's challenged it, right? I think the epistemology of metaphysics of Christianity being challenged by many, many people throughout the scientific revolution. And it's hundreds of years of challenges from the Industrial Revolution to the Enlightenment. The ethics have just not been challenged other than with Inran. But Inran is relatively new. And Inran was one voice. What we need is a movement. A movement that you could even imagine within this general trend, people disagreeing about the specifics. But generally an intellectual wave of people arguing for some form of egoistic ethics. And you're already seeing a little bit of that. You're seeing some virtue ethics writers and challenging kind of the conventional dogma. But what we need to see is a lot more challenges to the Christian ethics. And there wasn't much. There was some in the Enlightenment, but they couldn't really call us around an alternative. They couldn't really propose an alternative. And it was, even alternatives, they were proposing, well, little Christian. So it's too young. You know, they went from Christianity, Christian ethics through utilitarianism. Just another form of altruism. So the metaphysicism personality were challenged explicitly by the Greeks. And then throughout, there were always people who challenged them, right? There were always, and again, during the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment and through the 19th century, many, many, many voices challenged that because, you know, it's relatively easy because you can see it, right? And where's the proof of God? Where does God come from? But even then, epistemologically, maybe religion has been challenged, but it's not like a rational epistemology has been proposed in its place. That requires a grand again. And so there is no embrace of a rational epistemology, just like there's no embrace of a rational morality. Morality, of course, is also much more entangled in human action, and therefore much more difficult to untangle. Camilla, what do you think about grown-ups who choose to identify themselves as the opposite gender, trans? Does this align with objectivism? Does it conflict with the law of identity? I think it does conflict at some level with the law of identity. Now, granted, there are people, a small minority of people, who are born with all kinds of genetic weirdness that are indeed not clear-cut one or the other, where it is, the option is not A or B, but A, B, C, D, but there are other options. And there are all kinds of circumstances like that, all kinds of intersex circumstances, all kind of genetic deviations that cause people to, even a straight biological perspective, they're just not easy to define as a particular gender, a particular sex. There are XXY males, but there are all kinds of deviations, and I don't wanna get into all of this. I also think, and some of that is real, and that is not a negation of reality. Acknowledging it is acknowledging reality, acknowledging that some of our inclination sexually might have a genetic basis I don't think is wildly speculative, I think it's fairly reasonable. So there is that that you have to think into account of. I also think that there are psychological issues that people who really are psychologically above and beyond whatever the genetics are, that they identify psychologically as something else. I think that's a psychological problem. I think it's a real challenge. It's saying to them, A is A doesn't solve that problem for them, they still have to deal with that problem. I think it's horrific to deal with that problem by mutilating yourself, but that's how some of them do. And you know, I think we have to recognize that it is a problem that they are looking for a solution for. And I don't know what the solution for them is. I don't know what the solution is for them. It's a challenge. But that does not mean that there's no such thing as a woman and no such thing as a man. It does mean that there's some borderline cases that are not clear. It also does mean that sexuality and gender identity, whatever you wanna call it, is significantly impacted by a psychology and where psychology is messed up for whatever reason, that's gonna have an impact. That's gonna have implications. And as I've told you, I know of an economist who is trans, a man who became a woman, incredibly productive, incredibly creative, disagree with her on a lot of things. But I call her her because that's what she wants to be called and psychologically, and that's what she looks like at this point, right? So there's no reason to fight this. It's, you have to somewhat feel for them. I mean, it's a real challenge they faced. The problem is psychological and it's significant, right? Daniel, have you heard of Zettelkasten method? My basic understanding is that it's a bottom-up approach to note-taking and learning, books like how to make smart notes, unpack and apply it. No, I've never heard of it. I know there are a lot of these kind of methods to take notes and to organize yourself and to do lists and all kinds of stuff like that. But I'm not familiar with that one. I'm not familiar with others. I apply my own method, good or bad. I haven't gotten into those kind of methods, so I really, I don't know. But having a method to take notes, for example, is a good thing, right? It's a positive thing. You want to be efficient at that. It's a real value. We've got another first-time super chatter from Tev-Fell. Thank you, Tev-Fell. Really appreciate the support. Yes, we've got a lot of people watching right now. Please subscribe if you're not a subscriber. Press that subscribe button. Don't forget to like the show, but subscribe. Really be great and you'll be notified when I go live. And our future shows. Evan says, hey, Iran, I think I figured out why you keep saying support instead of membership to donate money. The preview slide says support, which has the page not found. Maybe redirect to your website. Yeah, thank you, Evan. I'll have somebody redirect that, the support thing to the proper membership. I've started to say iranbrookshow.com slash membership, but for years and years I said support and nobody told me that's not the right website. So where is Christian? That's his job. He's supposed to tell me these things. Michael, Millay got rid of rent control. Yes, among many things that he got rid of. He got rid of rent control, which is fantastic. Michael also says with all these free market think tanks churning out these ideas, are we going to see more Millays pop up in different small failing nations around the world? You know, I don't know, maybe. But I think Argentina is unique in that it's failing in dramatic fashion. I think it's unique in that it is a fairly advanced country, civilized country as an education system. You know, Inran's ideas, free market ideas, unknown in the country. It's not a backward country just coming out. It's a country that was very advanced that's decayed, which gives it a different dimension, dynamic. So whether this is the beginning of a trend or one-off, I just don't know. The trends everywhere else seem to be towards populism and nationalism. Look at, you know, it'll be interesting to see for example, if in the next cycle in Brazil, the candidate, they put up a free market candidate, then it's the beginning of real change. If Argentina could translate into something like that in Brazil, because Brazil, bigger country, maybe not as bad shape as Argentina, but still a poor country and very corrupt. Also, you know, as had a right-wing populist, Bolsonaro now as a left-wing populist, Lula actually could be, you know, it's time now for somebody like a real free market. So if Milay succeeds, the impact could be on some of the neighboring countries, maybe the next election, even Chile, you would see maybe move towards more free markets. Maybe you'll see a backlash against socialism in Colombia, which has just elected its first leftist president ever. And some of the other countries in Latin America. So it's certainly interesting, certainly something to watch, whether this is the beginning of a wave, I just don't know. Milay is also a character, right? Milay has a charisma that very few other people have. Milay is a showman in a way that very few other free marketers are. And one of the really reassuring things for me is to see Milay the showman really present himself since he became president as a statement. You know, gone is the state chainsaw. He's not jumping up and down. You know, he's got his hair combed. He's, you know, and he's got a, and he's written out notes and he's giving smart, well-crafted speeches to kind of bring Argentinians together against the prevalence of collectivism in Argentina. And I think it's a really smart strategy. All right, Michael says, is there a real possibility both Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump end up behind bars? I mean, I think so. Rudy just got a $148 million verdict against him. We'll see how that plays out. There's a good chance he lands up in some prison somewhere. Trump is more difficult because it's hard to jail a former president. And, you know, he could be president by this time any kind of guilty verdicts come about.  So Trump is a really difficult situation. And I still hope, I think it's a very small hope. I think it has very little chance. I still hope he's convicted and he fears going to jail and he cuts a deal not to run and gets pardoned by Biden or something like that. That would be great. Michael says, fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision. I think that's right. Michael says, how do you know when to stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it? Well, there's no answer to that. I mean, what does it mean you lost it? How did you lose it? Under what circumstances did you lose it? You have to understand the cause, cause and effect. Can you recreate the cause that led to the happiness that you had? Is that cause createable? I mean, there's a lot of questions you have to ask yourself and answer. But happiness is not lost and found. Happiness is a state of being. It doesn't just go and come and go and come. And so it's a whole attitude and you need to view it that way. And you need to recreate the causes that led to you being happy. Tony says, I've sent letters to Penn, Harvard and MIT leadership and many more demanding they take action against anti-Semitism. Publishing in my series, Letters to Leadership on Amazon Kindle by Anthony Remis, R-E-M-I-S. You can find his letters on Amazon Letters to Leadership. Yeah, I mean, I salute you for doing that. I think more people need to do that. And even more so, I think parents need to completely rethink their children's applications, stop sending your kids to Harvard, stop sending your kids to MIT. Their alternatives, if they can get an MIT, they can get into pretty much anywhere in the country. Focus on schools that have a more sane approach to hiring professors. Because the fact is that education might not be as good because of how they're hiring people. If they're using DEI to hire, then you're not getting the best professors. You're not getting the best teachers. Your kids won't get the best education. Mary Aline says, isn't Harvard's position in dealing with Dr. Gray insulting, demeaning and degrading to blacks, also patronizing to blacks? Absolutely. Absolutely. They need different standards. It's a racist attitude and the racism is always demeaning and patronizing to the other side. It's pure racism. It should be denounced as racism. J.J. Jigby says, I recently found out I'm going to be inheriting a lot. Lot, he says, he capitalized a lot. I wonder what a lot means of money. What's the right attitude about getting money I didn't earn myself? How should I approach life with a large, newfound financial freedom? Well, I mean, you can suddenly up the super chats, right? You can join the $100 to $500 club in the super chats. I mean, it's a great question. And it's a challenging question. It's not only inherited money, but I know people who are in their 20s and sometimes in the early 20s have made hundreds of millions of dollars. And it's hard to know what to do at that point. Hard to know what to do at that point. So what you need to do is make sure that it doesn't diminish your ambition. Your productive ambition, to pursue a productive career of your choosing. Now, what it gives you is the freedom to choose that productive career in a way that you might not have if you're struggling to make a living. Find the thing that you really want to organize your life around. And now you have the flexibility to do it. Use the money to the extent that you can to further that career. If you want to start a business, then this could be seed money or some of the seed money to starting the business. So even though it's unearned, it's yours. It's earned in that sense. It's earned that somebody thought you were the year of giving it to you. And therefore it's earned in that sense. So you shouldn't have any problem with it. The challenge is not to diminish your ambition and your focus on career. Now the career can be different. The career even can be one that doesn't make you any money. But it has to be something productive, right? And that is that you are passionate about and where you can exercise your reason in pursuit of goals. In pursuit of values. Put some of it away for rainy day. If you can put it away not to be touched so that if the world collapses, you've got some money and increase your consumption so that you're living better. But mostly use it to make it possible for you to pursue your real loves in life. Federico says in Argentina we need more investors and entrepreneurs so come over to Argentina and bring your money. I know some American businessmen I was talking to one the other day and who are looking now at Argentina as a place to invest. So he might be coming down and try to meet with malaise people and try to figure out how to make significant. I mean we're talking about big money, significant investments in Argentina maybe in the oil and gas sector. In Argentina, Argentina has the potential to be a big fracking place. There's a lot of shale oil in Argentina and I think the shale, the guys who built up the North Dakota shale and the Permian Basin in Texas are now eyeing Argentina.  Miguel says, you're on. How can I attend the objectives conference in Argentina you mentioned for next year? I don't know because I don't know that it's happening. I don't know when, I don't know where, I don't know anything about it yet. But when I do, you can attend. So when I do, I will announce it on the show, I will have it on my website, I will let everybody know about it. So be assured that we will advertise it and let everybody know about it when the time comes. I still don't know that it's happening. It could be that we're going to Brazil and not Argentina. I don't know, somebody else is organizing it, not me. So to some extent, I'm kind of in the dark right now. I'm trying to get more information. As soon as I have it, I will share it with you guys. But yes, certainly if I'm gonna be doing something in Argentina, all of you will be invited, I assume, right? That reminds me, I will be in Denver on January 12th to give a talk. It's gonna be a talk about living a great 2024. That is a talk about, a positive talk about applying the objective's virtues to your ambition and to having a great future year. It will be on January 12th, which is a Friday at 5.30 p.m. Mountain Standard Time, that is Denver Time. It will be at the Village Workplace and Event Center in South Havana Street in Centennial, Colorado. You can sign up for it on Everbright just to look up your on-brook, ambitious 2024, Denver, Colorado, and Google will get you to the site. I'm gonna put the Invite website here. And then I'll remind you that I will be in Michigan. Whoops. Remind you that I will be, I copied and pasted the wrong thing, obviously, that I will be in Michigan later in January and giving two talks in Michigan. One at the University of Michigan and one at a university in the North. And then that I will also be in, God, why will it not, let me link this. It's the URL is too long. Okay, you'll have to find it on my website at some point. All right, and then Michigan, I'll be two events in Michigan and then there'll be an event at Northwood. Thank you, Jennifer Northwood and University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. And I'll be also speaking at University of Texas in Austin on the Friday. So this is in the final week in, in January, well, the week before last, Northwood is in Midland, in North, North Michigan. Even though it's in Midland, it's really in the North. Ovid says, I find that people in general find objectivist off-putting cause of the self-esteem and suddenly in regard to the world, thoughts sounding light and happy today, you aren't cheers. Yeah, I mean, I think that's right. I think we off-put with our certainty. I think you have to be careful and figure out how to do it properly and communicate in ways that are helpful for the communication itself, right? And yeah, so I encourage everybody to think about how you communicate, not just to do it automatically. You know, one of the great things about Argentina is that all of Inran's books are in Spanish. They're all available in Spanish. Bash Bandigan says, did Leonard Peekov mentor anybody? Not really, not in philosophy. I mean, he taught a lot of people and I think he tried once or twice to mentor people, but he never actually got one star student that he mentored. Evan, thanks, Iran, may reason be with you. Thank you, Evan, really appreciate that. Robert says, any advice for people who have been productive and have achieved their goals and values, but choose to remain unhappy, usually orient to either psychological, ideological baggage or both. Get a good therapist and read on your end. I mean, I don't have any more advice than that. I mean, if it's psychological problem to get a good therapist, if it's philosophical problem, you read on your end, you should read on that while you're going to therapist anyway, but read at the shrug, read the fountain head and read the books, but therapy is important.  You need to have the right psychology and sometimes you need help in calibrating that and a good therapist can really, really help with that. Adam says, Millay getting rid of the land law, bilocal law and supermarket shelf law. I mean, aren't those great? Those are all collectivist Wesley Mouch. I mean, Adam Campbell calls them Wesley Mouch or Tucker's dream, Tucker's wet dream. Yes, Millay is basically slapping Tucker in the face. Even though Tucker did an interview with Millay and when he did the interview with Millay, Tucker pretended to be kind of libertarian friendly. It just shows what a nothing, Tucker really fundamentally deep down is and the whole ideology of right wing populism is just empty and contentless. He could be whatever he wants to be on any particular day. All right, we're still going. J.J. Jigby says, I met you in Hong Kong in 2019, meeting you again in Argentina would be really cool. I'm highly considering a trip there. Where do you live now? Are you still in Hong Kong? Hong Kong, it's time to leave. If you're in Hong Kong, it's definitely time to leave. So, yeah. Tucker cost us should not get credit for having an objectivist on any more than anybody else should get credit for having an objectivist on. I've been on shows, left wing, socialist shows. I forget the guy's name, and does he get credit for, I mean, Chris, mild, but it doesn't change your evaluation of the person and his ideas. I've been on lots of shows, lots of hosts have had me on. Does that change my evaluation of the fundamental ideas? No, Tucker is a nothing, I mean, ideologically. He's a zero, and he admits to being a zero. And that he's that way needs to be emphasized. He's no friend of liberty. He's no friend of freedom. And when he pretends to be a friend of freedom, he only does freedom harm. Andrew, when Trump presents himself as a victim, do you view that as an expression of a lack of self-esteem? How does strongman a victim fit with the ethics of intersectionality? Well, he's not playing the intersectionality game, but it's not a, it's unnecessary lack of self-esteem. It's marketing. He's playing to his audience. Love is a victim. The audience is, in that sense, Christian. It's not intersectionality, just plain altruism. And he's playing to the evil elites. Everybody's trying to get him. The world doesn't get him, but not only against him, I guess. All the supporters, it's against all of those, you know, it's all the elites. And he's a victim, and they're the victims. And he's playing as he is taking the brunt of what is really targeted at them.  It's the one thing Trump is brilliant at, is marketing. Marketing, right? Yeah, well, we'll be talking a lot more about Trump in the weeks and months to come. All right, everybody, thank you. We did great, super chat-wise, I mean, phenomenal super chat-wise, so thank you. And I will, let's see, today is Thursday. So, no show tonight, because we did it yesterday, but there will be a show tomorrow, approximately the same time. It will be a news roundup, like today. Frederico says, one of the online bookstores that emerged during 2020, Libres Libertarios, had two Iron Man books that sold very well, Atlas Shrugged and The Virtue of Selfishness. Millay always recommended it. And yeah, and they were Spanish. There's also Objectivismo, which is a website in Spanish, with a lot of Iron Man essays translated it. So there's an immense amount of resources for anybody interested in Iron Man in Spanish. And more and more so in Portuguese as well, for the Brazilian audience. When it's Spanish, everything is there, so there's no lack of content and material. And there is Iron Man Center Latin America. Frederico, I hope you follow Iron Man Center Latin America. All of you, if you're in Argentina, if you follow Iron Man Center Latin America, you'll find out about any events we do in Argentina. And also, all the programs that they do, they do a lot of online programs with simultaneous translation of Spanish and a lot of other stuff, right? Stringer Bell, 314 says, hello, your honor, I've viewed an old lecture from Jordan Peterson and he stated that self-esteem and emotional intelligence do not exist. How do Objectivists determine that self-esteem does exist? Introspection, observing other people's behavior, understanding of human psychology at the very basic level. I mean, Jordan Peterson is, I mean, certainly he also doesn't believe a self exists or that you can be selfish because next year you have a different self. So how can you, there is no, what does it mean? Is a self today include the self of a year for now? Is it different? And is a self today the same self as you had a year ago? I mean, it's silly. He is not, I mean, I know I'll be ridiculed for this, but he's not a serious thinker. He's not a deep thinker. He comes across as deep, but a lot of what he says is, I mean, Dennis Pagas, there's a whole video of Dennis Pagas channel, Pagas U, about the fact that there's no such thing as self-esteem. And the self stuff is from other philosophers. It's not Jordan Peterson originally. And it's just not that. We know self-esteem, I mean, read the psychology of self-esteem by Nathaniel Brandon, which he wrote while he was still connected to Ayn Rand and Ayn Rand had a big part in editing that book. The psychology of self-esteem is a really, really important book. And I think he outlines there what self-esteem means and that you can observe your own self-esteem by looking inside yourself through introspection, but also through observing other people and understanding, having a basic understanding of psychology. And the fact that he, a psychologist, doesn't have that, I have to say, it's kind of shocking. I mean, self-esteem is a pretty foundational principle in psychology. Or he says, what explains a massive rise in demand for Ayn Rand novels? Talk about a positive story. Is there a massive rise in demand for Ayn Rand novels? Recently? I don't know. I mean, Ayn Rand novels go up and down over the years, but Ayn Rand sells really, really, really well during times where people are searching for answers, where there's some existential angst during the early Obama years, the Tea Party years, Ayn Rand sold the most that she'd ever sold, huge amounts, just unbelievable amounts for a dead author. There's a lot of demand right now from students. And I think that is just because the Ayn Rand Institute and everything we've done, just her name is out there in the culture, global culture, and this is in Europe and even in Asia, South America. People just know about her and the Institute is now offering them free books, books for free, and they're taking them up on it. And there's a huge demand for the free books program from the Ayn Rand Institute. And that's just because exposure, it's just getting the ideas out there, it's speaking, speaking, speaking and exposing people to the ideas. That's what does it. And then I think we've also got a big campaign online and social media to get people to read Ayn Rand. So it's just marketing. String a bell through and forth. JP rationalizes that self-esteem is just part of a big five personality traits. I mean, it's not a personality trait, it's a value. See, the problem is that Jordan Peterson doesn't really believe in values in things that you strive towards, right? Self-esteem is something you achieve by acting based on a particular morality, a particular virtues, lead you to have it, lead you to have it, right? So it's not something you just have. It's something you have to act again or keep. And that's what he rejects, like he rejects happiness, right? Human beings have control over their soul. I don't think he really believes that. And part of that controls means that you need to shape your soul, you need to shape your personality, you need to shape who you are. And to do that, you have to choose your values. And you have to use the virtues, you have to act on the virtues to achieve those values. And self-esteem is a value. It is something you have to act to achieve. He doesn't get that at all. And nobody in the culture really does. It's kind of, you have it or you don't. Or you get it from the outside, people give it to you. You get ribbons. So in the sense that self-esteem is a phenomena that you get from ribbons, ribbons that your teacher or your parents or whatever give you, there's no such thing. But as a real psychological phenomena that you grant yourself through achievement and through pride, it's a real thing. All right, everybody, thank you. I appreciate it. All the superchatters, all the supporters, don't forget to subscribe. Don't forget to like the show before you leave. I will see you all tomorrow for another News Roundup. Bye, everybody.


Hello everyone and I will introduce about U.S. OpenStack and Hadoop big data solutions. Today we will mainly talk about the integrations with OpenStack and Hadoop. First we will introduce what is U.S. U.S. is developed based on the OpenStack core project and stuff to provide in-frame structure services. It also integrates with lots of past platforms such as to provide big data services, container services. U.S. is also a unified platform for enterprise users to leverage its features to build their applications fast, stable and reliable. And so here we will introduce something about the design background of U.S. For those public cloud services like AWS, customers just need to focus on their applications and uploading all the infrastructure considerations to their service providers. But customers just need to choose the providers and trust their IT infrastructure and evolution tendencies. Based on the fast product iterations, customers can continue to leverage the new features and benefit from them without any modifications in their application layer. In the last 10 years, public cloud service becomes more and more mature. However, it is not the same story in private cloud. The evolution of private cloud is much slower than public cloud, either on the new technology innovations or customer acceptance. And one of the important reasons is in public cloud platform, all services come from one provider so that the interactions and integrations between services is perfect. And therefore, users is easy to learn and use it. However, in current private cloud, different providers have different features, and even for the same features, different ways to use it. So it's hard for users to know all the products and choose the best one. Also, a powerful private platform needs to integrate at least tens of upstream or self-designed sub-modules which may face the problems mentioned above. And we may integrate such as storage services, these set clusters, and the infrastructure services, the core services like compute services for an over-project, and the network services, the new term project, and so on. And based on the S-platforms, we may also integrate with a lot of past modules like Hadoops and private cloud foundations, and also the Kubernetes as a container services. So UOS is just an enterprise product to integrate most common user services with unified deployment and admin operations with friendly user interfaces. And so while we need UOS, and first of all, we use UOS to use with the friendly graphic user interface, we can use private cloud to achieve the public cloud user experience. Also, based on integrated UOS DevOps tools, it's easy to scale up, scale down the services, and also for software upgrading. Based on high-ability architectures, we provide stable and reliable S-platforms, and UOS also is designed purely based on the open source, so no vendor lockings here. And what our customers always to do, how our customers always to deploy the applications for our customers, the applications always deployed in several ways, as shown below, applications can deploy on bare metals because some applications may be hard to deploy and comfortable with the virtual machines. And also, our users want to deploy the applications on virtual machines in the OPTAC or VMware devices. And for those stateless services, users want to deploy it in container clusters like the Natives, and for those data processing works, users may want to build their Hadoop clusters to run those works. And so, based on those applications' user case, we want to integrate the Hadoop clusters in the OPTAC. And so, what's the current situation to integrate Hadoop in OPTAC? The project in OPTAC is called Sahara. Sahara is integrated Hadoop clusters into OPTACs. And it uses heat as the source of the Hadoop clusters, and uses the truth and the sweep as data sources, and uses vendor plugins to provision Hadoop clusters. So, we can base on the heat of the situation template and to guide the OPTAC to build the certified VMs for the data processing workers. So, how to provide Hadoop data processing services in UOS? And the solution is, we think, what we think to do is to just integrate the Hadoop cluster on UOS as platforms. So, all the environmental services are managed by the OPTAC, and while past services are deployed on it, and so all environmental services can be quick provision and configurations. For different applications, we can provision different VFD virtual machines to satisfy them. So, the base stack is a lot of environmental, and we build an OPTAC cluster. And based on the ASC services, we can deploy the Hadoop cluster and the Kubernetes cluster, and so on, and others past services. And so, this is one of the suggested environmental nodes in UOS. At the top of the rank, we can see we use two switches, one gigabyte switch and one 10 gigabyte switch. The one gigabyte switch is for management, and the 10 gigabyte switch is used to transfer data. And one of the operations nodes to integrate with UOS operation tools to do the operation for the whole cluster, and three control nodes. This control node is to deploy the OPTAC API services and make those API services high availability. Then we can use the general purpose computing nodes and several big data computing nodes. The storage is built based on the SAP OSD services. So, this is the network properties. And NIC-1, NIC-2 is connected to the one gigabyte switch. And NIC-1 is a provision network to install the OS or operating systems. And the NIC-2 is the management network. NIC-3, NIC-4 is a bonding and to provide tenant VM network, storage cluster network, storage management network and the external network. So, some problems maybe exist to set up the Hadoop clusters on OPTAC-S platforms. And our customers always worry about the performance issues to set up Hadoop on S platforms. And also, our users is always to use the traditional ways to deploy and use the Hadoop cluster. So, enterprise users may familiar with the traditional ways that is deploy those Hadoop clusters on the bare mental. But its drawbacks is that in the enterprise, it's a lot of clusters, separate clusters. One OPTAC clusters, one Hadoop clusters and one Kubernetes clusters. So, it is not good to operate in the management. Also, the users may consider how to leverage the Hadoop features. For example, the Hadoop NAND node can schedule the compute task to the worker nodes where the data is. So, these are the data localities. They may also may just retrieve the raw data form and store the final data to OPTAC storage. And other intermediate results out this battle to store the locally. So, based on those kind of considerations, our general purpose computing node is for the general VMs. That is, its root disk and the data disk is based only by BDs. And for the big data computing nodes, the Hadoop VMs is different from the general purpose VMs. Its root disk is also based on the stack volumes. But the data disk is directly used raw devices on the local nodes. So, it will achieve the high-list performance. So, this is one of our tasks for the Hadoop on OpenStack. This is Hadoop on AWS. And the task is run the Terrasort 10 gigabyte data for the sorting task. And we build the AWS EMR VM flavors at four VMs with feet to X large. And we also build the Sahara VM flavors with exactly the same configurations. So, we can see that for the AWS EMRs, for the sorting task, it costs about more than four minutes. But in our Sahara Hadoop service, it just costs one minute and 36 seconds. So, these are our conclusions. We can benefit from Hadoop on OpenStack and it really has a lot of benefits. And the first one is the high performance. It also can achieve the high performance and we can have efficient schedulers. Maybe the enterprise have a different department. And the different department can provision their, quickly provision their Hadoop clusters differently. And also, we can quick deployment and outstanding scalabilities. If the Hadoop node is not enough, we can scale up the Hadoop VM node very quickly. And also, lose the coupling between application and software and leverage the benefit in us. So, actually, we just need one of the OpenStack clusters and the administrators just to manage one cluster. That is OpenStack cluster. And all of those other clusters like Hadoop cluster and the Kubernetes cluster can build on the OpenStack as platforms and to provide other past services. So, these are just our solutions for the integrations with Hadoop. Integrate Hadoop with OpenStack. Thank you for all and this is all the information and I introduced it today. Thanks.