With York College head coach Brandon Childs in the post game here after Amherst defeats York, 19-16, the final, Gary Stein, Brandon Childs, just a fantastic lacrosse game. So let's start with that for a moment as you manage that team. Just talk a little bit about the game. Yeah, it was definitely crazy. It was different than the way that most of the games have played out for us this year. And I give Amherst a ton of credit. I mean, for starters, they've been hit by the injury bug bad, you know? And with Gonzalez going down, the next guy stepped up for him. I thought number 25 on defense for them was a real difference maker. And I think seldom do you feel as the opposing coach that a defender had an impact on the game.  But number 25 on their defense really stepped up. And I thought played a great game. And as a result of all of that, it felt like every time we would claw our way back and we'd get it to one or we would tie it, we would make a mistake and then Amherst would just capitalize. It was like every mistake we made ended up in our own goal. And to our team's credit, we would then battle back again.  And then we just never got. We did that like five times, where we would have to claw back from a two goal deficit. We would do it. And then the next play would hurt us, you know? And they'd never let us get all the way back to taking that lead. And a lot of credit to Amherst for that. If I'm not mistaken, I think 25 loss in Loverty is the guy that you're talking about. He had a big cause turnover late in the game, played well, all game. Talk about the battle at the face-off dot. I mean, two heavy weights there. Battling goal for goal at the end of the game. That was fun to watch. Yeah, that's actually the second time that's happened to us this year. When we were up at RIT, Fasipani scored. And then the RIT guy scored in the very next face-off or vice versa. I can't remember how it went. And then it happened again today. And you know, on the second day, at some point, it's just the players out there running around and making plays. And at that point, when both face-off guys score back to back, as a coach who's going to do this for his whole life, and at that point, you just sit back, and you're like, this is awesome. The kids are having the time of their lives right now. And that was what was going through my mind in that moment. I would have rather that ball not gone in our goal.  I'm sure it was fun for you to watch. Not so much fun for me, but it was fun to watch, I'm sure. Actually, I wanted to ask you about that because, yes, it was fun for me to watch. And I'm sure it was fun for all our viewers to watch. But we're watching. You have to manage the game. So how do you do that?  Yeah, well, we always talk to our team about the next 15 seconds. I heard this years ago, but I think it was Army football. They had a big upset. Maybe they beat Michigan or something. And I heard their coach say that if you think about trying to beat Michigan, you're not going to beat Michigan. If you think about breaking a first down into three yards, you can just ask your team to go get three yards, right? And so we kind of took that and stole it into 15 seconds. And we just asked our guys to win the next 15 seconds. And that's how we try to manage the ebbs and flows of a game like today. And I'm proud of our guys. There was a couple of times where there was a lot of backbreaking goals that happened. And we just stayed at it. Even at the end, off the time out, we brought our goalie out. And he played a tack. And we doubled the ball. And then we ended up doing that really well. And we're down four at that point. We could have just broken down, but our team responded well. And we were able to get another goal off of it. And that's just that next 15 second mentality. Just want to ask you about a couple of players. We'll start with Will Harnick. Last year, you lost two from your attack last year. I think Wolf and Rank are gone. You moved Harnick up from the midfield. Burbank now a freshman. He's playing well. Talk a little bit about Will Harnick, 12 goals and two games in this tournament. Yeah, he's just steady. He's a senior. It's kind of funny. Sometimes I'm not sure he has a pulse. I certainly hope he does. Yeah, he's a civil engineering major. He's all business. He's one of the most mature kids I've ever coached. And he's just even keel. And I think he does a really good job letting the game come to him instead of trying to mix too much happen. And he just plays like a guy who's been doing it for a long, long time. And he's just steady for us. And what about Ethan Green, really, on both ends of the field? What a presence he is. Yeah, he's a special player. And he's great on defense.  And then, obviously, he can push transition and score and make the right reads. And so we ask him to do a ton, you know, because he's capable of doing a ton. And I'm glad he wears green on game days, for sure. So let me ask you a final question. Last year, when you came to this tournament, there were two and two. You wanted to find out about yourselves in this tournament. You did. And you won the tournament and then won 16 straight games after that all the way to the NCAA semifinals. Where are you right now? Yeah, you know, I think this is, and we have a lot of games left, you know, like some other teams are eight, nine in. We're not. And so this feels a little bit like we kind of know where we're at at this point. We know what our weaknesses are. We know what our strengths are. And we just got to get back to work and fine tune it.  And that's certainly the case for us. And we're going to learn a ton from this. Two totally different types of games coming down here. And you know what, like, if we get involved in a shootout down the road, we're going to definitely be better off having played today's game at the pace that it was played. You'd probably rather have the game in the 10s and 11s rather than the 19s and the 20s. But hey, it is what it is. Yeah, well, I think I might have spoke this into existence because I said to yesterday, Coach Jancic, the retired Gettysburg coach, was here. And we were joking around because both of our teams have won plenty of games, 9-7. And I said, imagine waking up one morning, knowing your team's going to score 17. That sounds pretty good. And then here it was.  Hey, great job. Thank you so much. Thank you. Brandon Charles, head coach, York Spartans. Gary Stein, Go MustangSports.tv.


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 January 3, 2024. Amazing. It is a good beginning to the year. The number of bad guys have been eliminated. That's always a good thing. So let's jump in. We talked about this yesterday a little bit. Al-Arouwi and a number of his colleagues, Fawna Hamas, were assassinated yesterday in Beirut in Lebanon with a guided missile from probably from an Israeli airplane or drone. If you've seen pictures from the apartment building, the drone basically went through the window into the apartment, exploded, killing everybody inside, and doing relatively little damage to the rest of the building, which is pretty amazing. One of the things that's important about this particular attack is that it happened in a part of Beirut that is controlled and really the bastion and the home of Rizballah. So in some sense, this is to tell Rizballah, we can reach right in to where you live. We can reach right in to the territory you control. I think it's a message not only Hamas, it's a message to Rizballah. And it'll be interesting to see if Rizballah responds and what that response is like. Nasrallah has been talking for the last hour or so from what I can gather on the internet. People are pretty bored by what he has to say. Nasrallah is, of course, the leader of Rizballah who has been in hiding since 2006, a fear of exactly this happening to him. So it'll be interesting to see what are the consequences of the speech he's giving and whether he is going to announce some kind of retaliation against Israel for this attack in Beirut right in the middle of Rizballah territory. The mother of Saleh al-Aurui who was killed yesterday basically had this to say, may Allah have mercy on his soul. He sacrificed himself for the homeland. We congratulate him and the whole world on his martyrdom. She also went on to say, I'm really happy today that he got a martyr's death. He was expecting to have a martyr's death a long time ago. Many of his friends that already died a martyr's death and he had not. He was still alive. He was late. He very much wanted to die this way. And his sister added that this was a good death. Many of Hamas and Rizballah's leadership died such a good death. Hopefully that'll be the way they all go. I wouldn't want any of them to die from natural causes. This is the way they should die. Let's see. There's been a major, they're calling it a terrorist attack, how to tell who's responsible exactly, but two bombs went off during a memorial commemorating four years to the death of the Iranian Republican God, Commander Salimani. If you remember, Salimani was killed in an American airstrike ordered by Trump four years ago. And Major General Qassem Salimani was one of the most important leaders within the Iranian theocracy. He was the leader of the Republican God, which basically maintains that theocracy. Salimani was also the link between Iran and the various Iranian elements in Iraq, in Syria, and ultimately with Qizballah. So he was the guy who coordinated much of the interchange between Iran and Qizballah, probably Hamas as well. He was a key figure and responsible directly and indirectly for many, many attacks, terrorist attacks and just military attacks against Israel and against the United States. So one of the good things that Trump did in office was eliminate him. It's too bad he didn't use the opportunity to do more than that, but at least he got rid of this guy. Well, today was four years to that day. There was a big memorial at his grave site in Kerman, Kerman, which is, I guess, the hometown of Salimani. Kerman is in the southeastern portion of Iran. So quite a distance from Tehran, close to Pakistan and Afghanistan, if you're thinking geographically. Anyway, this memorial was in Kerman. Two bombs exploded at this memorial in two different areas. Over 103 people have been killed. At least that's what's confirmed, about 170 are wounded. So far, the Iranians are just calling this a terrorist attack. They're also blaming the United States and Israel not for the attack itself, but in a sense for somehow facilitating this attack. So hard to tell who did this. It could very well be Iranian opposition forces. It could be hard to tell. It could be some opposition forces within Iran, or it could be the Israelis and the Americans. But I find that unlikely. It doesn't fit the MO of what Israel and the United States have typically done in Iran. But again, another kind of poke at the Iranian regime. I have very little sympathy for people who were commemorating the death of a monster like Salimani, who had so much blood in his hands. So it is a legit target, in my view. But hard to tell what repercussions are going to be from this. But clearly, I think the Iranian Hezbollah Hamas axis is feeling a little heat right now, which is definitely a good thing. All right, let's see. That is Iran and Beirut and the assassination of Uri. I will remind you that in Beirut, there's a famous assassination case in Beirut years and years ago of one of the Munich terrorists was killed in his bed in Beirut by a team of Israeli Special Forces. El Barak was part of the El Barak that, who later became Prime Minister of Israel, was part of that mission. They basically came in to Beirut through the sea. Some others flew in with fake passports. They killed the people they had to kill, and they got back on boats, sailed out, and were carried away by an Israeli ship or an Israeli submarine. So Israel has a history of assassinating its enemies in Beirut, a history that yesterday they did well. They did well yesterday. All right, and this will send a message. I think you're not going to escape your fate. We are after you. Israel is after you, and Israel will get you. I think the head of the Israeli internal security forces yesterday said, we will find those responsible for the October 7th, and we will make sure that they pay the price, even if it takes us years to do it. So all of you guys, all of those guys in Qatar who are lounging around in whatever hotel they're at, their day will come as well. Their day will come as well. All right, as you know, because I mentioned this yesterday during the show, because it happened literally during the show, Claudine Gaye, the president of Harvard University, has resigned. She is the second of the three university presidents who testified in front of Congress and who could not answer the question about harassment to resign. The University of Pennsylvania, of course, president resigned first pretty fast afterwards. Gaye resigned yesterday, and all that's left now is to demand the resignation of the president of MIT. Gaye, of course, in a resignation, let her attribute the cause of her resignation to racism and hatred towards her for being black, and no mention of plagiarism, and no mention of just sheer incompetence in dealing with the question of anti-Semitism and the question of the safety of your students on campus. It's not clear how much the Harvard Corporation, the board of the Harvard Corporation was involved in getting her to resign, my guess is they were. But the real question now is, I think, that many people are asking is, what now? So there's an interim president, nobody on the corporate board of Harvard resigned as far as we can tell. So right now, the questions are, what now? Who is going to be the new president of Harvard? Are they going to use DEI criteria in order to hire the next president, or are they going to use Merritt as the criteria? What happens to the DEI infrastructure that is deeply rooted now in Harvard and really is institutionalized? Is that going to hold? I think it's pretty safe to say yes. Is the Harvard Corporation itself, are there going to be any changes there? Are there going to be any resignations there? And a board may be more reflective of the views of the alumni. Not clear. Ackerman, the hedge fund guy who has been a vocal opponent of gay since the hearings in front of Congress and certainly with regard to the plagiarism issue has put out a long statement about the need for Harvard to change, to change in terms of faculty hiring, to change in terms of intellectual and viewpoint diversity, to change in terms of the board to be more reflective again of the alum. And for all of that, in a sense, to change. But whether any of that will actually happen is doubtful. That, of course, question is going to be, will what will be learned from this and what will be the conclusion here and how is this going to affect the functioning of the university into the future? Will alumni like Ackerman keep their donations away from Harvard until they reform more deeply? Or will now that gay is gone, will all the money start flowing again? Supposedly Harvard lost about $1 billion in contributions since October 7th. Whether that changes or not will be really, really interesting. How to what extent are the Harvard alumni willing to stick by their guns? To what extent are they willing to really insist and work towards real changes at Harvard University? Harvard Corporation was created in 1650. I didn't realize it was that old. And the fiduciary responsibility is for the school. And, of course, that corporation will search for a new president with input from faculty, staff, and student advisory committee that exists now. So we will see what happens, how it happens, and how all this works through the process. I mean, the accusations of plagiarism, the factor on the plagiarism were just so bad, so obvious, so ridiculous that she had to go. There was just no way to keep her given that. And she is now being portrayed as some heroine for leaving. But I mean, she should be portrayed as a fake, as a fraud, given that more than half of her publications have massive, massive occurrences of plagiarism. Challenging times for Harvard University. If you were thinking of sending your kids there, I don't know, wait and see. All right, yesterday, the last few days have been a pretty bad day for Japan. I think it was Sunday that Japan had a major earthquake, a 7.6, something like that, and on the western side of the island, west of Tokyo.  And there were real fears of a significant tsunami that didn't materialize, luckily. But that is a significant earthquake. A number of people died. But given the size of the earthquake, it was actually quite small, 7.6 on the Richter scale. It was actually, the number of casualties was quite small, just a testament to Japanese engineering and their ability to build buildings, bridges, and everything else that can sustain massive, really massive earthquakes. Japan is an incredibly seismically active place. And it constantly suffers from big earthquakes. Over the last 20 years, we've seen quite a few massive earthquakes with significant casualties. Although the last one, the casualty, of course, with the Fukuyama nuclear power plant, the casualty is their wall from the tsunami, less so from the earthquake itself. Tsunamis are much more difficult to build infrastructure against. You can't build walls across your entire country. And across the entire shoreline, it's much easier to build buildings that are earthquake resistant than to protect yourself from tsunamis. I think what they have installed now are much better tsunami detection mechanisms to give people more time to evacuate to higher ground. Anyway, that happened, I think, on Sunday. Then yesterday, I don't know if you saw the pictures of this, Japanese, Japan Airlines airplane that was landing, hits a Japanese Coast Guard airplane on the runway as it was landing. And the Coast Guard airplane burst into flames. Almost everybody in the crew, except for the pilot, died as a result of it. But the Japanese airline, which had over 350 passengers, was set aflame, was on fire. But it managed to evacuate. Everybody found the plane, all 357, I think it was. Passengers and crew members got off safely. Nobody was killed, which is amazing. Particularly given that it didn't go that smoothly, the evacuation of the airplane. It took about 18 minutes. Supposedly, it's supposed to take 90 seconds, but it took about 18 minutes. It took time for the airplane to stop. It then took time for the doors to open, somewhere around five minutes for the doors to open, which is a long time as smoke is filling the cabin. It's truly scary for the people on board. And then they couldn't evacuate through all the doors because of the fire. So they could only evacuate out of what is it, eight different doors and eight different slides. They could only use three of them. And this is a big airplane. I think it's a A350. So it's one of those airplanes that has a center aisle, so three sets of seats. It's a lot of people, a lot of space. And they work to evacuate this plane. So one of the problems, of course, when you evacuate any plane like this, is that passengers tend to instinctually try to get their bags that slows everything down that just completely makes it really, really hard. I think the flight attendants here and the crew from everything I've read really did their job, got the passengers to leave their belongings, and to just get out of there quickly. And even though it took 18 minutes, which is much longer than it should take, the 18 minutes, they still managed to evacuate everybody. So good for them. That is definitely good news for everybody. But it is scary. You watch that plane in flames, and given how many planes I'm on every year, you start thinking, oh my god, I never want to be in that situation. I can't imagine how scary it is.  Not a pleasant experience for anybody. All right, one of the things that the war in Ukraine and the war that Israel is engaged in have basically shown us, shown the world, is that the West really has a shortage in weapons production capacity in a major war. And given a number of major wars going on around the world, and a lot of countries worrying about other major wars arming themselves, the manufacturers of weapon systems in the West just do not have the capacity to make the amount of artillery shells, the missiles, and everything else that are required to replenish an active, engaged war. I think for much of the 21st century, and really since the bullying war came down, the West has basically assumed that war will not happen. A major war would not happen in the world, and they couldn't believe that a war would happen in Europe. And there was no real, they figured even a war in Israel, Israel could take care of pretty quickly. And they just didn't see the need to build the kind of reserve capacity for massive building of weapon systems. I mean, there's a story in the Wall Street Journal today about a company in Norway that builds something called the National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System, which has been deployed in Ukraine since 2022. It's recorded 100% success shooting down cruise missiles and drones. And it launches 72 missiles into the sky all at once. And right now, a lot of countries want to buy this. Everybody has got orders in to buy this National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System. And the waiting list to get this is now many years long, many years long. The company's called Kongsburg Defense and Aerospace, Kongsburg's Defense and Aerospace. They're saying they've never seen so much demand. I don't think they've expected so much demand. And yet, here it is, there's real problems in the United States with keeping up with the amount of ammunition and equipment being sent to Ukraine. Now, most of it's old, but new stuff needs to be produced. It was probably going to expire anyway, but nobody was in a rush to replace it. Now, they're in a rush to replace it, because who knows where the next front is going to be? And manufacturers in the United States are struggling to keep up with the demand just in the United States, but demand driven by Ukraine and Israel and, of course, by the US Army itself, trying to arm itself in preparation for potential conflict with China. Kongsburg, this Norwegian company, also makes ship-based missiles and also makes parts of the F-35 fighter jets. They've now moved to 24-hour, seven-day shifts and has workers in for some holidays when the factory would typically have been idle for maintenance. And it's still not enough. Again, if you think about building one of these systems, air defense systems, and the kind of supply chains and specialization that occur in the world today, there are 1,500 suppliers who contribute to products in their factories. So they have a complex supply chain with over 1,000 companies across two continents, primarily with the United States, obviously. And everybody, of course, the supply chain is seeing challenges in meeting the demand for weapons systems. I think one of the lessons of the last couple of years is that if the West wants to take seriously its self-defense responsibilities, it needs to build idle capacity. It needs to build capacity that can be turned on in times of emergency. Now, that's not easy to do because a lot of this requires highly skilled labor. And that's hard to train very quickly. But they're going to have to find ways to deal with this. You know, rely more on robots or whatever it happens to be, AI. But they're going to have to figure this out unless you think that war is over and you're not going to see, you're not going to see major conflict in the world anymore. Every single weapons manufacturer out there is going to have to figure out more capacity. If you look at the order books from Lockheed Martin to Northern government, to BEA systems, which is UK, GGN Dynamics, RTX, all American companies Boeing, almost all of them are at record highs. Almost all of them far exceed 2021 and they all exceed by a lot 2017. And they are all struggling, including companies in Italy and in France and in Germany who are weapons manufacturers. So I don't think anybody is really prepared for the kind of industrial production that would be necessary if a significant conflict broke out with China. And if you think about the focus the US economy had to make towards weapons manufacturing during World War II, they just had the orienting time manufacturing base of the United States in World War II towards manufacturing weapons. Nobody wants to be in a position where they have to do that because that would cripple the US economy and reduce the standard of living and quality of life dramatically. But if you don't want to do that, then you better have significant inventories and you better use the years where you're not literally fighting to be able to develop the weapon systems for the years that you are fighting. All right, I just came across a story about the fact a new study came out, the fact that over the next few years many regions in the United States and in Canada are just not going to have enough electricity to deal with the demand. The tech industry, what do you call it? All those computers, server farms, the cloud, if you will, requires huge amounts of electricity. And the cloud is only going to get bigger. And the computing power that's required and the electricity that's required is only going to get more massive as AI becomes more dominant. So you're going to have more and more and more of these computer farms, these massive computers, and those suck up huge amounts of electricity. Also, you've got a lot of electrification of things like electric heating versus using natural gas to heat. This is the move away from fossil fuels. And of course, crucially, everybody in the world, in the United States and Canada included, is encouraging their citizens to convert to electric cars. But the reality is there's just not enough electricity for all this. Not the grid is not robust enough to handle this much electricity demand. We don't have enough capacity of electricity there's just not enough electrical manufacturing plants creating electricity. The fact that everybody's moving towards solar and wind creates massive bottlenecks and problems, particularly at night when electricity demand is high and particularly when the weather is a little off. I mean, basically over the next few years, you can expect in North America massive electrical shortages. And of course, nuclear would be the solution. But even if they adopted it as a solution and there's no inclination they have because there are no major nuclear power plants being built in the United States right now, even if it was adopted as a solution, even if they went all in on nuclear as a solution, given the regulatory environment we're in, it would take a decade or two to get nuclear up and running. I mean, the solution is massive new natural gas plants to manufacture electricity and a complete upgrade of the grid.  And the grid is such a mess because there's no proper property rights on the grid that the likelihood of this happening is very, very, very low, very low. Anyway, we're way behind. The grid should change. The grid should be redesigned. The grid should be upgraded. There are lots of things that could be done. The question is, will they be done? And who has the incentives to do it? And because most of this is up to government funding and everything else, it's likely not to actually be done. So we're in trouble, guys, in real trouble. All right, finally, Mickey Mouse. You probably read this, so we maybe mentioned yesterday. Mickey Mouse has gone into the public domain. Now, it's not all Mickey Mouses have gone into a public domain. Only one particular Mickey Mouse is in the public domain now. And that is the Mickey Mouse that was copyrighted in 1928 in the short film, Steamboat Willie. That is the first Mickey Mouse that really was in a movie. It is different than the later Mickey Mouses in terms of the drawing and the exact characterization of Mickey Mouse. So the Mickey Mouse is 95 years after the movie is released. The Mickey Mouse, that Mickey Mouse, the Steamboat Willie Mickey Mouse, is in the public domain. Already, the day it went into the public domain, two horror films and a video game featuring the Steamboat Willie Mickey Mouse have been announced and will be coming to the screens soon. So they are going to take Mickey Mouse and turning him into a monster, maybe, or maybe he's the hero who saves us from a monster. But we will see. One of these is going to have a mass killer dressed as Mickey Mouse. But don't worry, the other Mickey Mouses, the ones you're more familiar with, they're not necessarily the ones that the older Mickey Mouse or the newer Mickey Mouse is not in the public domain yet. There's a picture here of the horror film with Mickey Mouse. It looks really scary. Mickey Mouse really looks scary. It's sad, right? It's sad that they're going to use it in this way, but that's what happens. You can't get a copyright forever. All right, let's see. Oh, we're doing really well on the Super Chetza. Thank you, everybody. Let's start with El Smith says $100. Thank you. Happy New Year. Keep up the amazing work. Really appreciate it. Thank you. El Smith, appreciate it. Michael for $100. How would you respond to this? The ego, and I'm quoting, the ego is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image. It is your social mask. It is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control. And it is sustained by power because it lives in fear. I mean, my response to that is certainly some people's ego are that. There's no question. That's Peter Keating. That's El's with Tui. That is the ego. And your responsibility is to identify what your ego is. What are you? Are you just kind of an empty soul? Is it shaped by your environment or maybe shaped by fear? Shaped by your engagement with other people? Shaped in order to keep a mask on? Or do you have a self-made soul to use Iron Man's words? You have actually chosen values where you have actually chosen a way of living, a way of thinking, a way of acting that has nothing to do with other people's assessment of you and their perception of you. So do you have a soul of how it works? How it works does not carry a social mask. He is a self-made man. He's a self-made soul. It's the responsibility of every one of us to introspect, to try to understand who we really are and what our ego really is. And to the extent that you have a social mask, we'll get rid of it. To the extent that your soul is not self-made, start making it. Start building it by choosing a purpose, by figuring out your values, by orienting your life around your chosen values. That's how you do it, by living it and by using reason in making your choices. So it's up to you. It's up to you to do the introspection. It's up to you to figure it out and to think it through. And again, yes, there are plenty of people who this description of the ego fits them perfectly. But to say that that's everybody's ego is just not true. Just not true. Michael says, it's hard enough to understand a nihilistic mindset.  You think people that nefarious couldn't make it past their mother's basement. But again, you guys have Michael and I think we have a few others who ask these kind of questions that they're not nefarious in an explicit sense.  I want to destroy it all. That's not how the nihilism gets expressed. And they never face their own nihilism. The nihilism is implicit in what they do. It's implicit in the ideology that they embrace. They don't face it. They don't consciously embrace it. They embrace the ideas that necessarily lead to it. So it's not that they're nefarious schemers in the back rooms. Because you're right. If that's what they were, they couldn't survive. Tui is the closest you'll get to that. But most of them are not Tui's. They're not aware of what they're doing. They're not aware of the consequences. They could be aware. They've chosen not to be aware. They've chosen to evade. But I agree with you. It's hard to understand irrationality. It's hard to understand how they could be this irrational in the face of the evidence and what drives them or what motivates them. But for them not to understand the destructive path that this leads, it's hard to understand the ability of people to evade. But they have it. And they can also compartmentalize. People can be very good at a particular area of their life and awful in other areas. Not over time, over their life. The integration kind of falls apart. They can for a long time hold a completely rational view in one realm of their life and a much more rational view in another realm of their life. Probably not sustained throughout their life, but sustainable for a long time. You see that in lots of people who are really good at their jobs and then have an awful family life, an awful political life. The compartments leak, as Jennifer says, yes. But they can hold those compartments sealed for quite a long time. And that's what makes it possible for them to stay competent in a particular realm. But look, I mean, look at Gail. I mean, as an academic, her discipline was completely irrational. What she wrote was completely irrational. The whole focus she had was completely irrational. And the irrationality leaked into her inability to write and therefore leaked into her willingness to be lazy and plagiarize in a way that if you projected in the future, you'd realize that you're going to pay for somebody's going to catch you at some point. OK, Bradley, empathy has become the moral standard with many, including Jordan Peterson, labeling anyone who deviates a narcissist. Is this a form of altruistic shame or is it a valid standard of morality? No, it's not a valid standard of morality. Empathy is not a valid standard of morality.  But to have empathy towards evil or to have empathy towards just whoever is absurd and it's certainly not a moral standard one way or the other. It is a form of altruistic shame. Absolutely, you're absolutely right. It's a replacement for morality. It's a replacement for theory of morality. Why be altruistic? Well, because we all have empathy. So it's an alternative to having an actual worked out theory of morality and an application of that theory. Instead, we're told to go on emotion and a particular emotion that relates to altruism is empathy. Michael asks, if Trump wins, will the left start another war on police followed by into fodder rioting? I mean, it's hard to tell, right? Remember that they took advantage not only of the Floyd of what happened of George Floyd, but also they took advantage of COVID. It's hard to, I don't think that what we would have seen in 2020 would be quite the same if not for COVID, if not for the lockups, if not for the kind of frustration that the lockups built up. But will the left become more aggressive? Absolutely. I think Trump brings out the worst in the left, which makes complete sense, right? As I said, at the time, the left would be a lot more, to some extent, pacified by a Biden administration. And they have been. They will be more outrageous under Trump. But it won't do them good because the American people are anti the far left. There's no question about that. The American people do not sympathize with the far left. Out of guilt, they might tolerate certain parts of the DEI primarily agenda. And they might go out for Black Lives Matter for a while because, yes, something horrible happened. And yes, we have had racism in this country. But once they realize what the full agenda is, they turn their back on it. They really turn their back on it. Enric, probably a question for Adam Assoff. But any thoughts on Japan not restricting copyright input into AI? I mean, I think this is going to be a huge AI copyright issue, is how do we do this? And how does it work? I don't have any thoughts on what Japan is doing. And I'm curious what Adam Assoff thinks. And I'm curious what he thinks the solution ultimately is going to be. But I think the solution has to be deals between content producers and AI manufacturers, AI companies for the AI companies to pay the people who are producing the content. But we will see. It's going to be an interesting problem to solve. Michael says, you noticed none of the Republican candidates talks about the welfare reform anymore. That's right, not only that. They don't talk about entitlement reform, which is the ultimate welfare program, the welfare for the middle class. They don't talk about some security reform. They don't talk about Medicare reform. None of them do. Basically, Trump has said, it's off the table. They won't do it. He won't do it. Haley and the Sanders, I think, are just not talking about it. And that was the Trump effect. Before Trump, everybody, the entire Republican Party, was concerned about some kind of reform of entitlements. They really talked about it. They really, there was some plans proposed. Paul Ryan, you can hate him as much as you want, but he actually proposed one of the best plans to reform Medicare and actually got a vote on the House. And it passed. It went nowhere because the Democrats controlled the Senate and the White House. But under Obama, he actually got the House to pass a Medicare reform bill, which was quite revolutionary. That's gone. I mean, Congress wouldn't pass that. The House wouldn't even bring it up. They're so afraid. And they become such leftists when it comes to these issues. Matthew says, hey, Ron, you said you prefer monthly contributions through PayPal. So I switched my membership from YouTube. Thanks for everything and happy 2024. Thank you, Matthew. I appreciate that. Yes, PayPal or Patreon are the best ways to support the show.  All right, Matthew says, I'm 24 and discovered you and therefore ran through Lex Friedman. That's fantastic. Thank you, Matthew. Could you do his show again? I'd love to. Talk to him. Send him an email. Send Lex a tweet or something and tell him he should have me on. I'd love to do it. With a focus on moral courage and certainty, would love to. He needs to hear your ideas. And I feel you'd capture more young minds. Yes, I agree with you. I'd love to do it. Lex, if you're listening, sometimes he's listening to the show, have me back. I'll be in Austin later this month. Love to come back. Just a reminder for all of you in Colorado, I will be in Colorado on a week from Friday giving a talk in the evening in Centennial. You can email me if you're not sure about the information. I think the information is up online on my website under events, so you can find information there. Please come. Say hello for all of you Colorado members who are listening or whether your members are not. Please join us for this talk. It's going to be about setting values for 2024. It's going to be a positive talk about living life to the fullest. So join us. As I said, dinner afterwards. You can sign up on, I think, there's an Everbright page. But it's all on my website, joanbookshow.com, in the events section. The optimist pessimist. I think your criticisms of Vivek have been too harsh. Yesterday in a town hall, he said he is going to make Javier Millet look like a moderate. I mean, yeah, I mean, that's kind of the silliness of Vivek. He mows off nonsense like that. He's not a serious candidate. He is not a serious person. In what way is he going to make Javier Millet seem like a moderate? How is he going to do that? I mean, Javier Millet is about as radical as you could get in his ideas. What exactly has Vivek didn't do that's going to be more than? It's just silliness. It's exactly the kind of stuff that Vivek keeps saying. But look, I think his view is on foreign policy are contemptible. I think his views on Ukraine are horrible. I think his view on Israel is horrible. I think beyond that, that his adopting the style of Donald Trump is beneath him. The idea that the United States should go to war with Mexico over fentanyl is absurd.  It's brilliant. Half of what he says is great. But it comes in a package that is just not credible, that is absolutely flaky, and with a nutty foreign policy and a nutty kind of attitude. So he caters to the pro-abortion wing. Sorry, anti-abortion wing. He's trying to play kind of the free market with the Trump, with the pro-abortion, with the Christian. He's trying to be somebody for everybody. And I think he completely loses it. I think he completely loses it. He's trying to be tough guy with Mexico, but obviously a friend to the Russians. So I was hoping I would really like Vivek because he's a businessman. He's got ideas. Many of his economic ideas and his economic freedom ideas are pretty good, are really good.  I mean, and the way he treated the other candidates on the debate stage is just terrible. And again, he's taken the worst of Donald Trump, and he's combined it with some better ideas. But it's still the worst of Donald Trump, so. I mean, if you could just take those ideas, the good ideas that he have, and put them in a good package, he'd be great. Now, the other point is he can't win. He's not going to even come close in any way. And there are a lot of reasons why he can't win. Partially because some of his ideas are indeed good. And those are the exact ideas that the Republican Party doesn't want. The Republican Party doesn't want Millie. And we say did, but they don't want Millie. You can't win in the Republican Party if you're Millie. They have no interest in, I mean, this is why the Republican Party is so corrupt. It is corrupt. They're not interested in free markets. They're not interested in reforming the entitlements. And his idea about investing the Social Security funds in the stock market is one of the worst ideas possible. It's a horrible idea. That would make the Social Security fund the largest investor in the United States stock market, which basically would make the government an important player in the stock market and in ownership of American businesses. It's a horrible, horrible, horrible idea. I mean, set up private accounts for everybody and put their money in those accounts and let them invest it, fine. But for the government to invest it as a pool, as the, God, that's a terrible idea. It comes across as, I'm pro-markets, but it's not pro-markets, it's anti-markets because it gets, it makes us a security administration, the largest investor in the world. All right, Brie, the Honey Bee Expo is here this week, this weekend, with all the big YouTube beekeepers, around 400,000 subscribers. You might try and get speaking engagements at this kind of specialized event or just networking. I'd love to, but they have to invite me. I mean, I've tried over the years to get speaking engagement. I tend to be too controversial for these groups to invite me in, optimist, pessimist. What are your thoughts on Vivek wanting to get rid of alphabet agencies like the ATF, of all the ones, the ATF? It seems like he has a really thought-out plan strategy. I don't get a sense at all that he has a thought-out strategy. I don't get a sense at all that he's thought through what it would take to actually get rid of the alphabet agencies and which ones to get rid of first, and how to do it, and what's it going to acquire. I haven't seen anything that suggests that that's really thought-out and there's a plan around it. The ATF is the, what is it, firearms? Is that the, I can't remember which one's the ATF. But it doesn't strike me as that is the first one you would get rid of, they're much worse ones and how you would do it and where you would do it. But look, as I said, half of what he says is really, really good. And half of what he said is completely flaky. And it comes in a just unpleasant package. So I would love to be able to support Vivek. Can't. Yeah, I'll call tobacco and firearms. Yeah, alcohol and tobacco should be out. They have no business. The federal government has no business. I'll call it tobacco, firearms, some firearm, you know, we got laws on the book with regard to firearms. Somebody has to deal with those. So whether you relegate it to the FBI, but I thought he wants to do, one of the things he wants to do is close down the FBI. Why does he want to close down the FBI? Should we not have an FBI? Is there no such thing as federal crimes? Are there no such thing as coordinating between states or cross-state lines, crimes at felonies? I mean, doing away with the FBI is just populist BS. So reform the FBI, focus it on real criminals, real crimes, doing away with it completely, really? I mean, does Vivek has a plan to get rid of the FDA? Does Vivek has a plan to get rid of government funding of science, of the National Institute for Health? Does Vivek have a plan to get rid of the SEC? Does Vivek have a plan to deregulate the banking sector properly, if he has, which are much more important than the ATF?  It's just a way to get Trump voters all excited because he's a second amendment guy. That's the most important thing right now for the country? I don't think so.  You have to have plans. In that sense, I'm impressed by Millay. He came out within days and had 300 things he was gonna do, 300 different regulations, 300, and they weren't random. They were thought out and it was things he's not touching yet that he will touch later that you have to work through. So that's the kind of plan you wanna put together. And I don't think Vivek has it because I don't think Vivek thinks he can win. I'm not sure why he's running and maybe he's running because he hopes to be vice president, but yeah, I just don't like him. And I don't like half of his ideas. Half I like, half I don't. Adam says, a question on jeopardy a few weeks ago was, what is an enemy of the people? Not one contestant even ventured against fluker sign of the times. It's a sign of the times. I mean, how many people know anything about 19th century playwriters? Certainly non-American 19th century playwriters. So doesn't surprise me. It is the, even in jeopardy, the level of education. You know, and there they just memorized encyclopedias and they didn't get to the Ipsen chapter, I guess. Kim, thoughts on paying for children's college as a parent? I'm conflicted, but this on this, they're an adult at 18. Yeah, I mean, it really depends on you, right? I don't think you owe it to them. I paid for my kids' college education because I didn't, I don't like the system where they have to take on this massive debt from the government and tuition is super high because the government has driven it high.  It was, you know, I was already paying for private school to some extent. So I paid for it and because, again, I could afford it, I wasn't going to go into debt to do it and I paid it. But you have to make that decision for yourself. It also depends on your relationship with your kids. It depends on how independent they are and whether you want to use this as an opportunity to force them to be independent, in a sense, by sending them out there to fund it themselves. And if so, then I'd rather them, you know, they need to fund it by working while they're in school. So it's, I don't think there's one answer to that question. It depends on your particular circumstances and your relationship with your kids. Big Worm says, on energy, do you have an opinion on small modular nuclear reactors? Could you have someone on to discuss their usefulness not within the current regulatory structure but under reasonable one? Sure, there is this guy I know in the nuclear business that I will try to have on. My suspicion is that they're brilliant. That is that the real solution for many places, they're way to bring the power plant close to where the electricity is consumed rather than traveling over hundreds of miles on wires that are not very efficient where you lose a lot of the electricity. They're super efficient and productive. But we live, so I think the potential is massive. The potential is massive. And what constrains that potential are the regulations. And the fact that the government controls it all. Government is the deciding factor. All right, everybody, thank you. I appreciate the support of all the superchatters. We crushed our goal. I appreciate all of you here listening. We will have a show again tomorrow and then in the evening tomorrow at 6 p.m. East Coast time. I'll be interviewing Ivan Carrillo who is a Argentinian economist. We will be talking about Argentina, its economy, and Millet. What is Millet doing? What are his plans? Is it good? What are the pitfalls? Can he succeed? And all of that, we will be talking about that. Tomorrow should be a fun episode. I'm interested. I'm curious. And Ivan is very articulate, a free market Austrian economist. He's very articulate. And it should be, again, should be an interesting, interesting show. Join us, join us then. All right, everybody. I will see you all tomorrow for News Roundup and then the interview with Ivan. Bye, everybody.


Every year, Cambodia has untold tens of thousands of migrants that cross the border. Untold numbers of male migrants are often deceived and trafficked into working on Thai fishing boats, where they are held captive and forced to work as slave labor. In the last three years, we've returned over 300, but we feel like this is really the only tip of the iceberg. It could be thousands of other victims out there.


about a third of the way through I got hit on the back as if a boulder hit me it knocked me forward a step or two it didn't knock me down but it hurt tremendously I did not know what it was I had no idea what it was and all of a sudden I heard someone yell at me something I can't repeat about what it what I am curse curse words dirty curse words and then some more dirty curse words and then a few more dirty as he retreated ran away and then he turned around and he said that I was a woman kill you kill women your party kills women that was former drag queen and coup plotter Rudy Giuliani who recalls the very traumatic event that led to the arrest of a grocery store employee who he claims assaulted him now for more on this we go to NBC News who reports former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani said he wants the supermarket employee accused of slapping him on the back as he campaigned for his son to be prosecuted adding that if the suspect is released it could encourage others to attack people with contrary political views the employee Daniel Gill 39 was charged with second degree assault according to the New York City Police Department it was not immediately clear if he had an attorney NBC News has reached out to Gill's family for comment Giuliani believes the suspect should be fired from his job and said darn right I think he should be prosecuted quote this guy should be imprisoned to say to other people it's over doesn't happen he said I believe you let Mr. Gill go a lot more of these crazy pro-choice people are going to start attacking people so according to him this was very serious now thankfully I have the surveillance footage so we can take a look at this alleged assault and keep in mind what he said he claims that this slap was so strong it knocked him back forward a step or two decide for yourself so he was arrested for patting you on the back that's the assault see when the news outlets first reported that Rudy Giuliani was slapped I imagined someone coming up behind him and just like slapping him on the back of the head but that right there was somebody patting him on the back I mean sure it was a semi-aggressive pat on the back but it was a pat on the back nonetheless and that individual went to jail and is now going to be prosecuted because of that really Rudy Giuliani he also claims that knocked him forward a step or two are you serious we have the footage now you want this grocery store worker to be prosecuted for that are you that fragile our conservative men that fragile to wear even a pat on the back is now characterized as an assault is that really what assault looks like to you I mean I don't know what an assault on Rudy Giuliani would look like according to him but let me just for a second visualize Rudy Giuliani being assaulted so I can like understand you know what that would look like okay yeah yeah after visualizing Rudy Giuliani being assaulted that is not an assault now more on this from Rudy Giuliani Giuliani said he still feels pain in his shoulder and plan to see a doctor quote it was painful it was hard to sleep but I'm telling you it was a very very heavy shot he said I'm in good shape for a 78 year old no you're not he could have easily knocked me to the ground and killed me by my head getting hit Giuliani continued you honestly think that your life was in danger and that man could have killed you right there Rudy is that honestly what you're contending see this is why people don't believe your lies about the election because if you're willing to claim that that right there could have killed you then I mean you have no credibility whatsoever I mean if you want to argue technically that's an assault okay I feel like that's a stretch now that we've seen the surveillance footage but to claim oh my god it hurt it hurt me all night and it could have killed me Rudy shut the fuck up holy shit if you genuinely felt pain from that all night somebody could literally kill you by fart on you like if they walked by and they jumped and like tried to fart in your face the wind from the fart like the gust from that could be so powerful that you could be blown back and explode spontaneously I just I'm trying to understand how you think your life was in danger because of that sure maybe it was intimidating the individual allegedly confronted him but it was a pat on the back and sure you could not like that right it was it was semi aggressive still a pat on the back nonetheless but now for you to claim that he could have killed you is absurd but again you know conservatives they lie all the time to be a conservative is to be a compulsive liar especially if you're Rudy Giuliani so I mean you've seen the footage decide for yourself but in my opinion that not only you wasn't an assault but to characterize that as an attempt to kill Rudy Giuliani potentially an attempted murder is a stretch to say the least do you enjoy watching independent news shows like the humanist report the rational national and 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Welcome back ladies and gentlemen to Toffee TV USA. My name is James Boyman joined by my co-host Ryan Williams. Ryan How we doing today? Not too bad James international break now ever ten, but there have been some strange news stories I have to admit so I'm excited to get into it tonight. Yeah, we've got a few things to break down for you folks out there tonight all Over the world. We're gonna start with talking about moist keen There was some revelations about the nature of his loan to Perry Saint-Germain And then we're gonna get into the continuing for some reason debate around Jordan Pickford in the media Which we will rightly pan and And we'll talk about what some people some former Everton managers and Their gremlins and associates have been saying about him And then lastly we're gonna talk a little bit about the news coming out regarding Everton's release of a survey concerning seating at Bramley Moore dock Obviously, everyone knows the stadium on the way, but Ryan, let's kick things off So we start with a report from Jonathan Johnson not so much a report but a quote rather from PSG executives confirming that there is quote no option to buy in the moist keen long moist keen loan deal Unfortunately, it'd be very expensive. He's an excellent powerful player that we have been keeping an eye on But there have been some reports from French football Alleging that there was like an 18 million dollar option to buy and then the loan deal, of course And it turns out that that is entirely not true. I believe also for Britio Romano had confirmed at the time that there was no No option to buy and this further confirms that but the question becomes Obviously, everyone knows that keen has been doing quite well at PSG and his And has been getting quite a bit of playing time as a matter of fact So so what's the what's the future for moist keen hold this heat? Do you think he has a future at Everton? I Don't Unfortunately It is the whole thing is very curious really I mean how many times did people have to come out and say there was no option to buy it just went on and on and on I mean do people seriously? I think there was kind of a strange perception of moist keen from the fan base I maybe I think a chunk of it didn't quite understand truly what a superstar this kid is Still is I mean he's only 20 years old for heaven's sakes But and so there's there's never gonna be an 18 million pound option to buy we bought him for 25 million Bought him on the cheap frankly because he was in the last year of his deal and event has tried to sell other people and really couldn't so Anyway, the reason why I don't really see that there'd be a great way back for him Even though I think we could really use them right now to be perfectly honest having another threat to run in behind people Would give us a different dynamic I think it just comes to something very simple. So if you include the Italian national team, he's had Success pretty much everywhere. He's been I mean he went on loan at Verona and did well He did very well in his short stint at Juventus before he came over to Everton He's been very successful now at PSV and he's been continually called up to the Italian team Continually playing even at age 20. So there's one club situation where his perceived Performance was not particularly good, although I think if you break down the numbers I think he was a little better than people realize he was certainly a little unlucky in his finishing But I mean for heaven's sakes. I mean you barely paid. Do you even pay play a thousand minutes in the Premier League with us? Really? No So if I'm him, I hate to say this, you know, it's hard for us to be blinded by our love for for the toffees but ultimately Why would you return to a place where you clearly wanted out of at least temporarily? Even when Carlo Ancelotti legendary Italian manager had a plan for you Why would you want to go back to the one place where you really weren't succeeding and weren't very comfortable and wanted to leave? I just I see no way back perhaps perhaps Carlo could convince him In lieu of a great option to buy from someone else this summer to come back and play But I just I mean can you see a scenario where? That happens I just can't imagine moist himself would think geez I want to go back there And I feel like our fan base is still riding on him many and some small pockets of them are still Kind of over him almost Dismissing his ability to score in the Champions League for heaven's sakes. What are we talking about here? Yeah, I mean you see people that are discounting the quality of opposition that he scored against but as you said initially Ryan people And maybe this changed over the course of his career because when he came in when we bought him It was viewed as a around your European football as a massive coup Absolutely We had signed this player an unbelievable prospect one of Juventus's best prospects in years Yeah, that's how we get him on a permanent deal, and I remember Shocking, I mean Barca was after him Dortmund Iax and I bet you sometimes he probably sits backs and thinks wow fight I if I was at Iax I'd be well, I'd be beating teams 13 But yeah, you'd probably be scoring more certainly a Dortmund I mean look at the success at Giovanni Raina American has had Howlin's obviously playing all the time there Bellingham came in the other day looked fantastic right in midfield for them I mean the opportunities are there and he had to be asking geez this team's not doing very well yet Here I am not on the pitch Marco Silva clearly had no plan for him I just what why would he come back really right? It just doesn't make sense and again when he came in we thought that okay Maybe this is a player that can challenge dominant Calvert Lewin Yeah, regularly for a starting position and that seemed to be the hope that eventually he would displace Remember at this time at the start of last season there were still many many question marks about what Calvert Lewin's future with whatever 10 would be in To his credit he proved a lot of those people wrong and secured a starting place And it became pretty clear around midseason that there was very going to be very few opportunities for Moyes Keen to regularly start And so I think people on that basis Maybe wrote him off like Calvert Lewin again still had those conceptions of him is maybe not a consistent player But he was playing well weekend week out It made it really hard for it to justify dropping him and as a result you have this really young talented player who can't quite get Into the team so now you look at him again He goes on loan and like you said Ryan for the rest as he has for the rest of his very very young career He's tearing it up. He's doing really well He's showcasing a lot of the ability that we knew that he had and to his again in fairness to him He showed in brief spurts in the limited playing time He was able to get but he was never really able to turn that into a consistent run in the team and People people did start to write him off, especially after limited substitute appearances in Preseason and early on and so eventually when he made the move out people were you know Okay, well, maybe he'll get some game time and come back the better player But why why would he come back to us and let the only scenario that I could see Realistically would be if we were to secure champions league Then maybe Carlo could make a compelling case as to why he would come back, but I still don't think he necessarily gets Gets into the team over Calvert-Lewan on a regular basis But what I will say is We could really use a player like him right now in the team You look at the substitutions We had to make at the weekend bringing a guy like Cenk Tosen on as a desperation move late in the match When you could have brought on a young dynamic player like moisture different running people It's it's a totally different dynamic and it really allows you to To play in a totally different way Whereas now with with someone like Cenk as our second option striker were really quite limited in the tactical Flexibility that we can have throughout the course of the game. What he offers is Just really in my opinion not good enough and boys keen though I agree that he never really played exceptionally. There were those brief moments when he would take a player on role his shoulder Demonstrate like the clear power on the ball that he has and the determination to get off a shot sometimes maybe Not not the best decision But a player who's like focused on on scoring goals and creating things for himself Which we know is something that Calvert-Lewan really struggles with yeah He's 20 years old and many other players have struggled not even into a new league new league City three different managers and there are a lot of reasons why maybe he didn't settle in but ultimately Yeah, I think it's gonna be a tough argument to keep him But that being said master stroke by Marcel Brands really I mean he's going to a massive team a card He was really the only true center forward. They have He's aging and the second he got hurt bank he's in there And it'll be very interesting to see what happens when he comes back But either way a great move by Marcel Brands worst-case scenario for us We sell him on a profit and make some serious money and try and maybe go after someone different You know, who knows we'll certainly probably need some sales this summer if we want to keep doing business And I know Carlo will want to continue to transform and turn over the team So and if he doesn't want to be here man, you heard what Carlo said you're not gonna be here And it really is unfortunate because we have had these types of young talents at Everton lately And you look at a Calvert-Lewan who's maybe the exception to the rule the player that has really excelled and come through But he was a player that was given ample opportunities And it was a long time before Everton fans kind of came around to the idea that he might be the real deal You look at players like Adamola Lukman and Nicolav Lasich who've come through and never really were given a fair shake And so the assumption just is well, they have to be terrible in training They might not have the right attitude problems and in some cases that may have been warranted But I do think there's something to be said for players coming from I mean I think that the cultural differences and the change in environment is a huge adjustment for a player And especially when you're not in the team regularly no disrespect to Liverpool unbelievable city Northwest of England I love it personally, but if you're coming from Turin, you're speaking a completely different language. It's hard It's really hard. It's really hard And then you have the added frustration of the scrutiny not getting playing time Which is the one thing that you want so and you didn't start in just banging them in Hey, you know that just that's it's how it is anyway. Yeah, it's a shame It'll be interesting we do in January too because I think that'd be the big signal if we You know go get a striker right no lick or someone that we know is going to be there for a while Anyway transitioning to another topic as you mentioned on the get-go here Jordan Pickford. So it seems like the saga never ends and for fear of Perpetuating more discussions over him. I personally found it ridiculous. What happened today Garrett Southgate came out You know, I think it was about a week ago indicating that look There's no serious challenge to Jordan Pickford at this point And I agree at this point. I don't think there's necessarily I know he's not playing very well in the league But there's no one really jumping out. I mean the other people on the roster I mean Nick Pope was one Dean Henderson I think these guys have some talent, but none of them is a sure bet to definitely outperform him at the international level For some reason though that did not stop Sky Sports from coming out and and putting forth a column as well as a video Which I found for just completely peculiar you've got The England goalkeeping coach coming out and basically him along with Rob Green critiquing Jordan Pickford's play and I think what's very fascinating about this is Martin Margitson, he was critical. He was very complimentary of Pope and Henderson, especially Pope But I just the history here is shocking to me. First of all, Martin is an undersized goalie too He's like six feet tall He's been with the England setup in support of Sam Allard ice who he was hired by who he has a long-standing relationship with. Yes We don't speak of him. Yes. It's it is a note on the American toffee podcast We are not allowed to other his name. That was a rule we created. So toffee TV is different apparently. Yeah, so So he's been coaching Pickford since 2016 throughout the world cup to Was critical about his knee bending position how he's great on low balls his hand position is off basis Then he came and when Sam was hired at Everton Terrible moment that was brought him over to be his goalie coach. So how on earth first of all in what sense does this In what world does this make sense that he is on tv critiquing the starting English goalkeeper Criticizing him, especially after everything that he's been through this week Um, I just I do not understand what possible good Thing could come out of this. Please James. Can you make any sense of this? This I find this nuts the the continuing focus and Just spotlight that's being put on Jordan Pickford. I mean it to be fair. I mean it's Fairly typical of the English media to do something like this to this seems pretty National to me players. I mean I really really on like critiquing him and I mean very critical. I thought I will say at least at the very least and this is a very low bar, but they have Largely moved on from the incident against in the Darby. So they're criticizing his play In a really specific and kind of unusual way and I guess you could say Oh, well, you know, that's useful analysis in some way, but The relentless spotlight that's being put on him is is so unfair when he's had this Vitriolic response and he's had a higher personal security to protect his family And again, at least they're critiquing his play But for again for the for the goalkeeper coach to come out and basically Under mine, I wouldn't say contradict but undermine the narrative from the manager Is so bizarre to me and makes no sense. Like I mean, I'm sure there's I don't know if they're in communication, but I don't think he probably texted south guy and said hey, I'm about to go rip I You know critique him on on sky.  It's perfect personality. I mean, we had this remember this quote last year while sam was Doing be in sports and pickford made a gaffe and whatnot and here's his line too I really want to share this because just shows you what a class act he is I would be speaking to my goalkeeper coach martin margotson allard. I said, but if margotson was there I will tell you 100 that jordan pickford would not be making those mistakes Seriously, the guy had the audacity after getting fired to bring that up ironically Jordan pickford at least statistically performed better With his first year under marco sova, then he did the prior year with sam allard ice But what I don't understand is this guy's been his coach several different times and you're critiquing the way he plays What's your responsibility? But yeah, I think what really leaves a bad taste in my mouth is just kind of walking back through some of this stuff The guy hired personal security. He's been going through craziness yet other other media people continue to ask questions I mean literally just yesterday We had mephista pie being asked about virginal van dyke I mean, are you kidding me? I mean and expressing how frustrating he was and how, you know When all of them the other day was talking about how he's going through the worst thing ever and he's dying inside You had former liverpool goalkeeper chris kirkland coming out of nowhere To just declare what a disgrace everton is for not a poll It just this is unbelievable and sure enough sure enough, which I thought was a ludicrous take We saw the match last weekend and look. I actually thought maybe it was a penalty when pickford Kicked maguire and what did talk sport do? What did they do? I mean bang immediately right out there First van dyke now maguire pickford's done it again. I mean what the heck is that? That's how did he get away with this? This is what talk sport does and what did maguire say in the post match Harry maguire to his credit pretty classy. I thought his quote I just explained this in there. I personally don't think it was a penalty said harry and his post match interview I think maybe I put a hand into his chest when he went to catch the ball and I did feel contact on my knee I felt like I probably pushed jordan before and I know everybody's probably trying to jump on him Dropping the ball, but I did feel like I pushed him in a penalty would have been a little bit soft Thank you harry maguire for actually just showing some rationality and objectivism in reporting But it's not going to stop unfortunately, but this one to I just I've never seen anything like that I mean you get on tv and you critique Detailed comparing him to the other keepers making him seem like he wasn't and then pope's going to come out and start tomorrow I just How does this help him? And then you've got paul joys as well Not with that. What is up with that? Who again had been had been the gold standard for everton reporting for a long time and has done himself No favors as of late That he's just again he says he sensationalizes the comments because they they're critiques at most and He says england's goalkeeping coaches publicly criticized jordan pickford's technique after a difficult start to the season for the country's number one again, this spotlight comes with the territory of being england's number one, but Again, like it just it's ridiculous joys is all over it. He was all over it and fired it out there just It's it's a headline to to drive clicks and it does just that but Again credit to your point credit to harry maguire for coming out and trying to put a little of this to rest because The maguire one as you said ryan when I first saw it I thought maybe a penalty, but then you see the push and it's like, okay Well, I mean he's trying to make a play on the ball and Again, they're they're national team teammates. So it makes sense that he would maybe Come to his defense a little bit because he's probably seen what pickford is going through to some extent Yeah, it's called leadership. Yes, unfortunately not shown By the goalkeeping coach, but again, that's right in line again with the sam ellard ice chain of command apparently Typical stuff there typical stuff, but pretty disappointing. I think just leave let's leave pickford alone If anyone's going to criticize him, let it be everton fans Let it be us when he makes a mistake that costs us a goal, which fortunately Has no opportunity to do over the international break. Yes, but It's fine when we criticize him because we are not a certain other group of fans that will send him death threats to our own players We will be Respectfully critical of the performance and that'll be that Yeah, it's not okay, but either way Moving on to to our last major topic of conversation and this one's interesting because it's got a bit of an american twist And we thought it would be an interesting one to share on toffee tv Um, I know most of the fans are familiar with the new survey that's been sent out about the brand anymore dock kind of match day experience Um, it's funny. They actually labeled some of the match day ideas as american Let me read you the axle epser excerpt. I'm stealing from paul the esk friend of the program And good for paul because paul's normally right on top of kind of most of the financial dealings And we've had him on the podcast before I paul's Definitely a friend And I appreciate his takes on things that this one's very interesting and and I quote You will be able to learn more about some of the new concepts. We'd like to test such as seasonal premium seat memberships As you will see premium seating areas will provide some of the best viewing positions blah blah blah blah And then we get down to something called you also see that we are considering loge seating Fairly new very relaxed concept and hospitality which offers a private area within the stadium close to the pitch And with comfortable cinema style seating with personal tv monitors This concept has been popular in the u.s. And would be a first in the premier league so So I think it's very interesting for us to take a step back and try and make a comparison between our experiences at Goodison and I think what we want brand new more to be And whether there's really kind of a relevant comparison In the united states, it seems like a lot of these concepts james are kind of modeled after the nfl But I don't think the nfl Fan experience is really something that you would want to replicate too much in brand new more. Do you agree? No, I totally agree and and it is interesting if you look at the history of land for example Arsenal relieving highbury moving to the emirates Any of the clubs that have since renovated substantially their stadiums They did take a page out of american sports book specifically the nfl Because some of the owners attended nfl games and they they sawed the pageantry in the fanfare And for better or for worse I mean they saw the concessions and the way that it was very very much commercial commercialized at that point They saw the money they saw the money exactly and they wanted to follow the money And so you have a lot of these concepts being adopted at the premier league level And some of them I think will work. I think other clubs have used them to great commercial success Which is something that average and of course will be one of the the big parts of moving to the new stadium Will be to harness some of those commercial avenues leverage them for their for the betterment of the club as a whole Um, and you look at again, I think having been to get us in we've both been it's unbelievable stadium unbelievable atmosphere But it does have its flaws and the lack of premium seating I think is one where it prevents the club from capitalizing on revenue The obstructed views are another one which Being from new england having been to fenway park many a time I can empathize With that it's a very familiar feeling when you have to lean Back and forth to see the action But the the idea of premium seating I'm curious what the everton fan base as a whole the local fan base thinks of it because I imagine there may be some resistance But I think it's important Whether something like load seating where you're sitting basically as they say in a cinema style chair a big comfy arm chair And you've got a monitor to get close to the pitch I don't know about that but and I don't even know if nfl is the best Analogy or whatever 10 should be shooting for I think perhaps like college sports in america Create the kind of atmosphere that that everton fans would want for those who don't know I mean professional sport in america is Commercialized to the point of being like detrimental to the atmosphere You don't get diehard fans going Every single game because most people have been priced out of that sort of Level of attendance so you get people who are coming in maybe a little bit more casual Um the atmospheres. There's oh, I'm there are a few stragglers. I mean, yeah I don't want to generalize like that. No, but but the average game you would go to. Yeah, I agree continue. I'm sorry No, it's okay. No, you're right And I shouldn't there are I think pockets of of franchises and fan bases that do still deliver an incredible game day atmosphere But then you look at things places like the nba Where you have premium premium price court side seating in theory that should be Like where you're getting the most atmosphere, but what it ends up being is a Place to essentially Flaunt your wealth where you can show up court side. You know that there's going to be photographers there You'll be on tv. Yep, and it again. These these aren't people that are Going to to root and scream at the top of their lungs for the team and a lot of the atmosphere that the methods of cultivating atmosphere that have arisen in the absence of organic fan passion Are kind of cringe worthy if you ask me where you've got the jumbotron and you've got Stand up make some noise and you've got like the noise a meter that rises People and even in the nba you have instances where they're playing music during while the action is going on because there's so little Fan noise being made in the stadium But you look at something like the ncba and football people know i'm sure worldwide you've got a hundred thousand seat college football stadiums Incredible atmosphere people going crazy, but then you have the ncba basketball, which is really interesting because those The most notorious college basketball stadiums have Crazy atmosphere because for one the stadiums closed the arena is closed So you get that echo that noise reverberating and then you've got these student sections of kids Coming in they're right on the court. I'm thinking like the Cameron crazies at duke There's plenty of other ones, but that's the tar heels like that rivalry. They're right on top of the the players They are coordinated in their efforts to to chant and scream and disrupt the other team In props. I mean they're hysterical. It's amazing. Yeah, it's great I think the key then is to let let's let's take the good parts of the american sports experience And make sure that they they match kind of the club's value. So I think some of these things The college sports Feel is is probably the right one you want to go through the NFL is not not really it I mean, yes, I'm grew up in pittsburgh So I could steal their experiences. All right the packers are a little bit All right, too But no one really cares how close you're sitting to the pitch But that is so critical to bramley more if we're going to bring kind of any aspect of goodison So I think the loge idea of down low on the field and I've seen it in some mls stadiums too And it just doesn't I don't think it works and I don't think it's something of interest that being said I think so we normally call these places the club level basically where you've got some regular seats And then you have inside the concourse, you know, big bars and and food and things you can do and tv's and Stuff like that. There's not real time to do that during the match at at halftime. Of course, there is And you can kind of tuck those seats in a way. They don't really you don't really see the entrance into the club very much It's not very prominent So I don't think that necessarily takes away from the atmosphere and some people want to experience that and Not make a bunch of noise fine. Whatever Um, I think even look we're going to have sweets It's going to happen in the suite in the us has been there for years. It's really You know nicer chairs kind of sitting outside But inside you literally have a compartment there and you'll have catered food and that type of thing and Beer and that's the other thing too. I mean, you're allowed to booze during these you're not allowed to booze during college games But I can assure you Yeah, right I mean, they're fantastic ways to do that from Binocular cases that aren't really binoculars. You just unscrew them and pour you booze into your cup Yes, that actually has that's American innovation for you right there folks Yeah, figure out ways to booze during the game when you're not allowed Um, yeah, it's very different. Uh, so I think some of this stuff can happen Maybe tuck it under the second deck make it so that it's not as prominent Pardon me and and look some premium seating. I could see behind the benches You know if some wealthy people want to sit there in their big lounge chairs sitting back And order food normally they'll bring food out to you have your little tv there during the match That's fine as long as that's kept to a minimum But man the both ends man, they need to up and down. They need to have the people on board It needs to be allowed. It needs to be rowdy and it's still a family atmosphere The college sports the only detriment of college sports is especially the football games They're a bit of a debacle.  So And most of them they may say they're family affairs, but what that really means is yeah And in the south it's even more ridiculous where people will dress up their wealth They're where they wear ties to the games And uh, they'll get up early as possible tailgate outside Doesn't matter what the weather is for hours and hours cooking grilling out drinking the entire time Get in the stadium. These are four hour affairs where everyone's going absolutely bonkers and screaming bloody murder Um, but yeah, the fan experience is different the game is different. You know what I mean? It's it's played in smaller areas what I mean is, you know, you can only really go one way and in football, you know European football it's all over the place and there's so much more to watch and see in its constant So um, the rhythm of the game is different So I think some of these things that we can impart over that will increase revenue and be beneficial But I really think that hopefully this response hopefully we've educated a little bit in terms of how things are in the states Um, but hopefully the response echoes that some of this stuff fine. You got to be reasonable We do want to increase revenues. That's part of the reason to go to the stadium to afford better players Um, but ultimately some of this stuff if it's too gimmicky, it's just not going to fly I think with the average evertonian and and I wouldn't want it to really right And which is fine because I think testament to everton as they do the engagement with the fans over the throughout this entire process of The planning application and all of these sorts of things the club have been pretty spot-on in their engagement with the groups soliciting feedback Actioning that feedback in a tangible way where the fans can actually see like hey, they listened Um, and hopefully that continues. It's good that they're throwing out all the possibilities I think everything should be considered. Yep, but then you you do take into consideration the differences and Again the non-stop action the fact that Fans are there to watch the match Of course universally and I don't think you can universally say that about american sports No, because there's a lot of people that go for the experience to drink to eat to do all these sort of Secondary things besides actually watch the game Yeah, the funniest part about it james you think about it like baseball is the most casual sport we have in america But the aesthetics around the stadium and how they look and kind of the traditional feel Is probably the most appropriate from a design standpoint. Isn't that curious? Yeah, it is a bit unusual I mean, I do hey. I love going to watch live baseball. It is a very casual. There's a lot of stoppages, but With soccer football, you're on the edge of your seat You're singularly focused on watching the ball watching whatever's going on on the pitch And I think that the stadium experience needs to Keep that in mind Although when you do have something like Um premium seating, uh when you've got uh a room essentially as you talked about with the catered Um what that predominantly is for is like businesses will buy a box and then use that to as bring clients in It's an experience. It's a way to kind of I don't know schmooze It is it is it's a part it's a cost of doing business But we also have to remember that if we really want this thing to be the marquee venue for concerts and other things Some of that stuff is going to have to be in there Now I will say this dan me's deserves a lot of credit I think because his idea and I know some people didn't like the capacity But I really think his idea was to create it to be more of a destination type place that that atmosphere itself is the selling job Of european football truly it is unique In the states we have some of it in mls. There's some really great crowds and stuff and that's that's what makes it unique The sport is brilliant, of course. We both love it, but I think a packed all the time stadium Creates an environment and atmosphere that's really unique and people will want to be drawn to that and experience it So we have to expect that but if it's not done in a cheap commercial garbage way It will be fine. I look at like fenway people want to go to fenway. Does it detract from the atmosphere? No, everyone's still packed in you're forced in that venue to pay attention to the outrageous accents and have your log Apotheca You know watch red sox, but hey man, that's cool. That's part of the beauty of it I think that's really what we need to go for a venue that Commands your attention that sucks you into the game that makes it unique You know with all the passion and fervor that that we have in goodison and just all the drama There'll be concourses for the average fan that will walk out and more space to drink beer You won't have to fight through 20 People just to get to the one bathroom in the glottie street end, which I I know I've done man. That's a battle That takes forever that won't be there some of the modern amenities But man when it comes to the pitch and inside the stadium some of this stuff's a no-go And I think the fans will do it, but hey Anyone has any questions about the experience? We're more the share to some of our stuff I mean, I've been a pretty much every major sporting event in this entire country I've been fortunate to say that And um, you know any more information we can give people we're happy to do it Absolutely ryan and with that it's going to do it for our second foray on toffee tv If you enjoyed the video be sure to subscribe to them below Subscribe to our youtube channel. So follow us on facebook twitter and instagram at usa toffee pod There's going to be a link in the description for it'll take you to all of our socials and all of our channels Do check out our podcast if you enjoyed it. We'll be with you guys next week for another round of toffee tv USA You