All right everybody, welcome to Iran Book Show. Can you guys hear anything? How's the sound guys? I'm feeling there's a problem with the sound. Anybody can you hear? What's going on with this audio? Audio is good. Audio is good. Why is this going nuts? We will just run with it. I think the podcast is going to get all messed up. Okay, that's fine. How's everybody doing? I hope you're all having a great weekend. It's Sunday. I am in London. I flew into London this afternoon. It's already late here in London. Times keep shifting on me. So now we're on, I don't know, the UK went on what the US went on before. They let's have Einstein or whatever. So I'm glad I didn't get all the timing confused. It's great to have an iPhone in with an iPhone as a watch basically. You never know. You never know. You never are in trouble because it adjusts completely. Okay, we got a lot of stuff to talk about today. I was in Israel and we didn't really talk a lot in Israel. It just I expected to do more shows from there. But then all kind of stuff happened. Pistol stuff, family stuff, work stuff. And it just I just couldn't do many shows. I did stream the events that I participated in live. So hopefully you got to enjoy those. And then I flew up to Lisbon to a conference. I thought I'd do some shows from there. But again, like every night was a late night. And I'll talk about the conference. I'll tell you about the conference. The conference was fantastic. It was so much fun. And I want to talk a little bit about terrorism in Israel. I don't know if you saw but there was another terrorist attack like an hour ago in Chadera, which is in the north of Israel between Tel Aviv and Haifa. And of course, a week ago, less than a week ago, there was the attack in Bersheva a day after I left the city. You know, we didn't event in Bersheva and then the day afterwards, a terrorist attack there. And then and then we should also talk about the Ukraine war about Biden's comments about Putin. And then finally, if we have time and if now we'll do it next time, we should talk about China. Part of the reason to talk about China is at this conference. There were a lot of China experts and it was fascinating. So we got into some really, really good discussions about China at the conference. So that's it. But before that, let me just say, well, first, of course, you know, we've got the super chat going. I don't see Catherine here or anybody else to keep track. Jonathan, thank you for the support. I really appreciate it. I don't see Catherine or anyone else here to keep track of of the support. But please use the super chat feature to support the show. But also to to ask questions. You know, it is it would be it's fantastic. Last time, last time, the support for the show was amazing. It was it was a lot of money. I'm hoping today is the same. I've kind of gave you a whole week off of, you know, you've been saving for a whole week. So hopefully, you've got a lot of questions saved up from the week where we didn't have any shows. And you also got got some extra extra money in that account from not using the super chat for a week. But that'd be great. It would be great if we could if we could go ahead and do this and use the super chat support the show. And March is going to be a significantly down month revenue because usually I do more shows. And usually this most of the chat revenue so every show we do does matter. So before we get to all the other topics, I want to talk a little bit about the UK. I mean, it's as I landed today in London. And the first thing the first thing that, you know, was a note that suggested something was going to be different is I landed on British Airways plane from Portugal to London. And as we're approaching landing, they came on the, you know, on the speakers and they say, please wear your masks until you're out of the plane. It's like what? Until I'm out of the plane? You mean I can take off my mask in the airport? Now that was new, right? For two years in airports, you have had to wear masks for two years since March of 2020. And this is the first time at an airport. Now other airports are kind of cheated. I haven't worn a mask, like in Brussels, chunks of the parts of the airport, I didn't wear a mask. But then when you go through security, you have to. And then when you go through passport control, you have to. But but here in Heathrow, Nada, no masks.  Nobody cares. Nobody's wearing a mask. The airport personnel are not wearing masks. The passport people are not wearing masks. Nobody's wearing a mask. It was like, whoa, finally, a rational country that leaves it up to individuals to decide if they want to wear a mask or not. Finally, a place where there's some sanity. Well, Jennifer says COVID is only on the plane.  But the airlines, British Airways, for example, in domestic flights within the UK, no masks.  So it's it's you walk outside. I'm in the middle of Chinatown here in London at Leicester Square. This is the hotel that we stay at the W hotel here. And thousands of people outside, thousands crutched together in little in the little places. And and nobody's wearing a mask and nobody cares. And everybody's living their lives. And enough is enough. I you know, so it's so beautiful to see people living their lives enjoying their lives having fun and not obsessing about this COVID stuff. So yeah, I'm happy. I'm happy to be in London. I love the city. As you know, I'm looking forward to doing a lot of walking, which is usually what I do in London. I try to walk to all my meetings. I'm giving 123456, six talks before the Iran conference on the weekend. So one on Monday, two on Tuesday, two on Wednesday, and one on Thursday. And you know, dinners and lunches and everything else in between. So so keeps you busy meetings and stuff. But but that's the schedule. And I am I'm excited about being back. I'm excited about spending the week in London and it should be a lot fun. So hopefully, some of you in London are coming to the Iron Man Conference, and you'll have an opportunity to say hello and we'll get have an opportunity to to to talk and and to meet one another. So it's great. This thing behind me. I maybe it's supposed to be a sea urchin. Maybe it's supposed to be a porcupine. I don't know. But it's it's every I think every single hotel room in this hotel has one of these. Usually, when you enter the room for the first time, it's on the bed. But I think, you know, there's a there's a hook there and you hang it up on the wall and go figure the static values of people. Oh, which reminds me, I should say, I should say on the show, that I did release on YouTube, my talk that I gave at Edinburgh University, a week and a bit ago, and on art, and why modern art, or why much of modern art, not all modern art, much of modern art, I don't consider art at all. I think it's a really good talk. I mean, I was skeptical going in. And I wasn't sure I was ready. And but I got a lot of help from the student who organized the talk, he got me some great slides, we work together and putting those and getting the slides and putting them, putting them into presentation. And I think the talk came out really good. And I saw the comments on the talk were fantastic, were really positive, a lot of people inspired by it. And so I encourage you if you haven't watched my talk, I loaded it up to YouTube a few days ago, on art that I gave at Edinburgh University, go check out on my channel and your own lectures in the playlist or just look for your own lectures on art. I think you'll really enjoy it. It's actually, actually, a really good talk. So maybe I can give talks on art. I'm always fearful of going beyond the scope of my knowledge. But I know a lot of stuff. We'll get to more of that about me knowing a lot of stuff. In a bit, because I find I find the experience of suddenly being the person who knows a lot of stuff interesting. So where were we? Yes, the art talks. So we put up the art talk. I'm doing three talks at university this week. I am my intention is that all three will be videotaped. So I look forward to sharing them with you two of the talks that I'm giving this week are going to be on war and capitalism. So they're going to be on on on war. So very current, very relevant. Thank you, Wes. That is fantastic. Wes says for 50 bucks. He says the talk on art was fantastic, very thought provoking. Excellent. Good. So, you know, thank you, Wes, thank you for the support and thank you for the compliment. I do I actually think the talk was good. Usually, I'm not so sure about my talks. But this one was good. So cool. Alright, let's see, what do we want to talk about? Before we get to terrorism and war in China.  But I want to tell you a little bit about this conference I've attended. This is the second time I've attended it. Every time it's kind of in a different place. The first time I attended, it's called dialogue. The first time I attended the conference, it was in Arizona. This time it was in Portugal. They do they do dialogue does a conference every year in the United States and every year every year in in Europe. And so I've attended one in the US and one in Europe. So two conferences a year and then they do a bunch of stuff online. But so I'll tell you so I want to tell you a little bit about this. What else do I want to say? Yeah, they're very high end. I mean, the the conferences are in US usually held at Witz Coltons. The conference here in Portugal is probably held at the nicest resort in Portugal, in Cintra, up above a little would it be Northwest of Lisbon in a beautiful, beautiful location. And it's a conference that's by invitation only. But once you get invited, and you get accepted, like the first time you go there testing you, and you get accepted, then you're invited to all the other stuff unless I guess you screw up and then they kick you out. But it is it is a conference by invitation only. It's a conference founded by organization and a conference founded by Peter Thiel, and by Aron Hoffman. Aron Hoffman is a is a well known serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, who's done very, very well, and is a real, I think, thinker among the Silicon Valley crowd. And basically, the people invited to this conference are primarily successful entrepreneurs, primarily from Silicon Valley, but also from all over the United States, particularly today, Austin, Nashville, all over. Then of course, successful people from New York, they might be a tech entrepreneurs, but they must also be financiers. But then most of them are tech entrepreneurs from New York this time in Arizona, I think they were more finance guys. And then they invite a sprinkling of intellectuals, university professors, famous authors, famous. I mean, I met a very well known and I can't tell you who's there because they don't want you talking about it. So I'm going to talk about in generalities, but they don't want you talking about who said what and who's there and who participated and who stuff like this. I'm going to avoid doing that. But there were there were senior people from the US military, senior people from the US military intelligence. There were economists, some of the most famous economists in the country, a good economist, bad economists. There were again, columnists, very famous columnists, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, left, right center. You know, nobody as radical as me, but but all over the map, in terms of political views, philosophical views, life views. But the thing that unites everybody, everybody at this conference is that everybody there is super off the chart successful. So first, it's just it's just kind of cool and an honor for me to be considered among this group. Right. So so one of the guys I met at this conference, really cool, very successful businessman from Saudi Arabia, we hung out quite a bit and talked a Saudi, right. And there were Germans, two German members of parliament, one current one former two Israeli former members of parliament, both from the Labour Party, so both from the left. Again, massive huge spectrum of people. Some politicians former governor, former governor of one of the states, I was gonna say the state, but I changed my mind. And it's and then it got again, most of the people there, most of people are super rich, and super successful in business. And most of them are really young. So the other thing that I feel when I go there is I feel old, like I'm I'm among the small group of old people, relatively speaking, at this conference. But for me, the fact that there's some recognition that I belong in that group. I don't know who invited me. I don't know somebody sponsored me. I've no idea who it is. But now I'm a regular.  You meet the four breakouts, the four sessions over two days. And you choose what breakout sessions you want to be in.  There's a moderator. And you talk about the topic that was that you you selected, that was selected for this breakout session. And you get to talk about different things. So you know, from, you know, what was on the topic to talk about China, one session was about China. One session was about inflation. You know, I can't show what the other two sessions were. But anyway, you get to sit around and talk and some of them are political, some of them are more philosophical, some of them are personal, like there were sessions on divorce that were very popular session of sex, I guess, that I didn't attend, there were all kinds of sessions on all kinds of things. And you but you get to talk there's no lectures. It's just it's just talking then what I think is particularly unique is all the dinners and lunches are orchestrated. So the pre assigned seating. So they try to mix it up in terms of the kind of people that are sitting at a table. And then there are topics to be discussed. And there's a moderator. So for introverts, this is great. You know, I hardly believe it. I'm actually an introvert. I don't like just going up to people in a cocktail party, or figuring out what table I want to sit in with who this way, it's an old brainer, you say what you're told. And then there's a topic of conversation, the group doesn't have to figure it out. There's a topic of conversation determined by the moderator, he gets a card in advance.  The point is to get an interesting conversation going. And and so I learned, I learned a lot at these conferences, what I particularly learn is how and what people that clearly disagree with me are thinking. And again, what I find fascinating about it is here people who are super successful. They've done stuff in life. They've achieved things in life. And yet they disagree with me. So something's wrong here. How can they dare to disagree with me? But that, you know, that's what's interesting. And big part of my enjoyment of these conferences is figuring out what they know what they don't know where the confusions are. And what it is that they get and what they don't get and why we disagree and, you know, cannot communicate better and maybe on some things I'm wrong. So, you know, really fascinating conversations with and the other thing is, there's no canceling. There's no politically correctness of these conferences.  People are super, super, super open to have conversations about anything. People are not going to purport you and like disregard you or treat you in an unfriendly way because they disagree with you. It is, it's a very, very unique experience.  It's, you know, so it's, it's people have respect for one another. And they've owned their respect in a sense because they're super successful. Well, I'm sure there's a line, but there's always a line, right? If there was a communist or fascist or Nazi in the room, there would be a line.  Some people will compliment you a Putin and will pro Putin.  They're listening and they are discussing and their minds are open to the debate and to the discussion. And it's for me, it's fun. And this time I was thinking about why in particular, I like this because I actually enjoy this conference more than I do objectives, conferences, and more than I enjoy finance conferences, more than I enjoy many other conferences, particularly objective or libertarian conferences and so on. What is it about this conference that I enjoy? I think that, you know, first of all, objectives, conferences, when I go to an objectives conference, I have to be on, right? I have to be on in a different way. Like people are looking to me for answers. I'm the speaker. I'm the celebrity, if you will. You know, people are asking me questions. It's constantly, I'm delivering, right? I am delivering content in one way or another, even informally when people are chatting. It's I am the celebrity quotes. And here I'm a nobody. I'm a nobody in the sense that I'm somebody, but I'm just like everybody else. There's nothing special about me. So I enjoy that I enjoy being just one of the one of the guys one of the one of the people at the conference. But second, the second thing I really felt this time, in particular, and I'm sharing this with you, I hope you care, I don't know if you care. But but sometimes you guys seem to care about like what I think about these things. What I enjoyed about this one was that in every single session, I seem to say things that cause people to really think and cause people to come up to me afterwards and say, you know, that was really interesting. What you said, I hadn't thought about it that way. I need to think about it. Hey, can I read your books or what would I see what you know. So he was really successful people, not Iron Man fans, not people who are primed to support my views, not people who already love me or hate me or are interested in one way or another. But people who don't know who I am, don't care who I am, in a sense, but found what I said, the product of my intellect, if you will, my man's intellect of what I, the way I communicate, whatever interest and who are not primed for that. Because I'm not going over there. And I'm not talking fine. And I'm not bashing over the head with, with objectivism, right? I'm talking about the issues at hand and I'm presenting ideas, information, and they find it interesting. And of course, these are gateways for hopefully them discovering more ideas. But I like that I can be that I'm being taken seriously by people who are not part of our universe and who are super successful, you know, off the charts successful.  And, and, and I challenged him and I said, you know, in a friendly way, I said, no, that's not it. And, and, and I suggested an alternative. And he was like, no, you're going to call me a socialist, you know, but it was all friendly. And later we talked about another woman and a very prominent woman within the circles and Silicon Valley. You know, I challenged her assumptions about welfare and about the need to support the poor and buy them insurance and things like that. And she was like, oh, let's talk about this later. This is interesting. So it, you know, you don't get the kind of dismissal if you disagree with people as you do in many other places. So it was fantastic. And then you get to sit and I'm not going to say what people said, but you get to sit in rooms with really, really, really smart people. You know, so we were in a room talking about China and one of the people in the room. Well, I can't, I shouldn't say. Anyway, somebody who has unbelievable knowledge about American intelligence with regard to China and inside, right, in the military. So just being in a room and having her in this case, it was a woman having her insights.  And it was cool because later later on, she said, Oh, well, those are really good challenges. They were really good questions. And we got to talk about it. So anyway, I love, I really love these conferences. I expect I'll come at least once a year to them, you know, that to the one in Europe, I like the one in Europe more. It's less Silicon Valley ish. It's more globalist. It's more diversified into the people of different countries. I mean, where else am I gonna have long conversations with a guy and be super friendly with a guy from, you know, some rich prince probably from Saudi Arabia. It, you know, where else is that gonna happen? So it was a blast. I really enjoyed it. And of course, it was in a beautiful place. And they take us out to these dinners and these castles and, you know, about 200 people. Fabulous. I'm looking forward to coming to coming again to coming again in a year. And it's not that I'm there to change anybody's minds. It's not that I'm there to, to, to convert anybody. I mean, I'm there to learn and to enjoy the exchange into the and if I can prod some people, if I can poke some people, if I can get them thinking in a different way, I think that's cool. That's cool. Trump would not be invited to this. I don't think somebody asked me if All right, let's see. So so that was the conference. I'm hoping other other objectives, successful objectives get invited to this conference in the future as well. That'll be good. All right, let's see. Yeah, I don't know if you saw this, but about an hour ago, maybe now and a half ago, it didn't even make the news I saw the live videos on Twitter. Two, two Arabs, Israeli Arabs, probably, it looks like they from a village within Israel. You know, went into the city of Hadera and started shooting people in the street. Now, they were not very good at what they did. They were not very effective. They didn't choose the right place. I guess if they want to inflict mass casualties and they only the only only quotes killed two people and injured. It looks like four or six. It's hard to tell because the data was coming as it was happening. And they were shot by by the police. I don't know if you saw the video. I mean, I don't know if you saw the video. The video was brutal of the attack in Bolsheva a few days ago, where a guy basically came out to the street with this. He basically crashed this car into another car. He ran over a bicyclist and crashed into another car, killed the bicyclist.  And you can see the video of him jumping on the back of a woman and stabbing her in the chest. I mean, and killing it. It's just horrific, the horror of of of and you can see it happening. Imagine, I mean, try to put yourself in the shoes of this woman and what it must have felt like.  In Bolsheva, it was civilians, armed civilians. One was a bus driver, another civilian who the bus driver basically shot him, challenged him, tried to get him to drop the knife. Didn't quite know he had already killed people. Just saw this maniac running around with a knife.   So the with his handgun and then a second civilian shot him again to make sure he was dead. This one was also an Israeli Arab, a Bedouin from Bedouin from the from the from the south, who had actually sat in Israeli jail because he was membership in a in one of these Islamist terrorist organizations.   In the case of the Becheva one, it ends up that they arrested one of his brothers, because one of his brothers knew about it happening. I could have warned the authorities but didn't. But it's really hard. I don't know yet what's going on with the two guys who today shot and killed two people. Again, they, you know, they had semi automatic weapons. They could have killed a lot more people and they didn't. So in a sense, we're lucky or we're lucky they're stupid or we're lucky they're inefficient or ineffective because they clearly wanted to kill more people but just didn't get to the right place. So, you know, just imagine living amongst people who at any moment will take out a knife and stab you or who would anymore and you don't know, right? It's not like they're all like that. 99.9% of them would or more 99.99% of them wouldn't do it. But you don't know who will. The attack in Becheva happened not far from not that far from where I was giving a talk the night before. So not far from where we had been the night before.  Truly horrific and the real sad thing is that these are Israeli Arabs. These are Arabs that live within Israel. These are not. These are Arabs that have full rights as Israelis. They vote. They have property rights. They have contract rights. You know, I'm not saying there's no discrimination in Israel. I'm not saying some of the laws are not bad in Israel. Certainly some of them are. But overall, they have better lives in Israel than they do in any Arab country. They're freer in Israel than any Arab country.  Remember, these people are all committing suicide. They all know they're going to die. They all know they're not going to come back from these attacks.  And it's, you know, I think at the end, it's a testament to the fact that Israel is a weak, that it won't stand up to them, that it won't that it won't destroy the leadership that it keeps treating Hamas and Hezbollah with kid gloves.  They think they can win. The whole job of the Israeli military and the Israeli government from from a perspective of dealing with the Arabs is to make it unequivocal that no matter what they do, they will not win, that Israel will win, will defeat its enemy. That's the only way you can stop this kind of activity. It's like, I said for years and years, nobody believed me, including people in the chat, nobody believed me. I said, the way to stop terrorism in Europe is to defeat ISIS. If you defeat ISIS, if you crush ISIS, if you eliminate ISIS, terrorism in Europe will stop. And for the most part, it has. And the reason it has is people don't want to die for dying cause.  If you crush Iran, much of the Islamist agenda is gone. Much of the Islamist agenda is defeated thoroughly. If you crush Iran. And in the case of Israel, if you crush Hamas, if you crush Hezbollah, if you tell the Palestinian Authority, they will never, ever, ever, ever win.  But Israel won't do that. Hasn't done that. The world won't let it to some extent or the world, the world, you know, penalizes Israel when it engages any kind of actions to suggest that. And therefore, it just, it just doesn't happen. Doesn't happen. FG, thank you for the $50 contribution. Really appreciate that. Mij Bishchuk, Bishchuk is easy to say thank you for the support. Andy and Ryan, it's great to see you here and thanks for being thanks for being YBS fans. Thank you. All of you can join the Iran book fandom and be members of the Iran book show by going below and pressing the join button and subscribing. It's it's not a lot of money. It's like $5.99 and you get to support the show and we will, I know we haven't done it yet, but we will be releasing special videos that just for you, for those of you who are members. So it really is, you know, you live in Israel with that kind of fear and threat. It has a real cost. This is not this is not it's non trivial, the cost of living like that. Now, the Honduras says who is better in the Teniel of this government, this new government? They're both weak. I mean, I don't know that I don't know that in the case of if security issues, I don't know if you can tell who's better. The problem with the Netanyel government, you know, again, I don't support or not support governments based on at the margin, if they're a little bit better, a little bit worse, you know, on policy, Trump is better than Biden. But that's not what matters in the case of Netanyel. Netanyel had to lose.  He stopped being a servant of the people. He started treating people as his servant. He was becoming more and more authoritarian. He was becoming more and more obsessed with power and he needed to lose. I'm very happy that he lost.  But they're doing a few good things. They've got some economic liberalization that has passed, which is surprising because some socialist parties on it from a national defense perspective, they're doing what's necessary in Syria, not more, not less than what Netanyel did in Syria. And they haven't had a war with Hamas or Hezbollah yet. We'll see how they well, they did with Hamas a little bit and they basically did what Netanyel would have done. There was no difference. Remember that the people actually the prime minister of the Israeli government today, Naftali Bennett is actually on many of these issues, particularly on dealing with Arabs and the Palestinians. He's on the right of Netanyel. He's a critic that Netanyel was too weak. It's the problem is that he's in a coalition with the left. So it's a real, it's quite a bouncing out. But in many regards, there's no left when it comes to foreign policy. Israelis are pretty united in terms of the fact that Israel has to defend itself and it can't let these things happen. So wow, we've got Josh is watching the show from Samaria. That is cool. Nice to meet you, Josh. I am. It's great to have you on. Thank you for joining us. I know what you can't find. What what video can't you find? Oh, Putin's stadium rally. Yeah, he says there's Netanyel coming back. Hototel is coming back. I mean, he's he's it depends on on what happens with these corruption trial that is happening right now. There were rumors that he was in negotiation to cut a deal with the prosecutors and part of the deal would be that they wouldn't send him to jail in exchange. He would retire from politics. I don't know if that will happen. I don't know if he's coming back politically, even if he doesn't go to jail. It's hard to tell what happened in this trial. I'm certainly not an expert on on this particular issue. I haven't followed what he's accused of and what's happening. But the fact that he might have been corrupted, the margin is not surprising again. He was he was obsessed with power and it and I think it did something to him. Paul Allen says he's been listening to me since the Leonard Peacock podcast days. Thank you, Paul. That's fantastic. That's a long time. 2013, I think I started doing the Leonard Peacock podcast. That's a long time and I've been doing this podcast. My podcast, it's 2015. So thank you guys for for sticking around and being supportive. OK, just on a super chat issue we're at about one hundred and seventy five dollars. We still got three hundred and twenty five four hundred twenty five to go. So ask questions. I'm not seeing a lot of questions. Twenty dollar questions would be ideal. If those of you can afford to do fifty or hundred dollars, that would be greatly appreciated so that we can try to get to five six hundred dollars this month.  So I might do one from London one of these days. We'll see. The problem is every single evening I've got to talk. So I'm not exactly sure when I'm going to do these shows. I might them do them early in the day, but then none of you will be either awake or you'll be at work or whatever. So I don't know. I might just do them for the Europeans. We'll see. So as I said, Israel is these terrorist attacks are horrific and Israel better find a solution to this and better make it clear to these nutcases and many of them look. They look crazy. So they're sure there's also mental health issues going on with these suicide bombers.  Truly horrific. On the other hand, as I think I've said in past shows, Israel. It's truly amazing. You know, it's it's one of the most optimistic places on planet Earth. People are positive about the future. People engaged. People are passionate. And I think the best indication of that. And I know this controversial, but I think the best indication of that is people have kids. You know, Israel is the only country in the Western world. Where the secular, secular population. Has children at the above replacement, right? So if you include religious Israel is way above replacement. And if you include the Arabs way above replacement and way above the anybody in the Western world. What's interesting about Israel is the Jews have more babies than Arabs, but even. Secular Jews have more babies than Arabs and have more babies than anybody else in the Western world. And I think I think children as a societal phenomenon, not as an individual perspective, is an indication of how positively or negatively a culture views the future. What the vibe is. What's the atmosphere? What's the general attitude towards the future? Because if you think the world's going to end, if you're Greta, if you take Greta seriously, well, you're not going to have kids. So. Anyway, it is it is. A super exciting country. If you haven't never been, you should try visit. It's a super exciting country. It's got amazing history. It's got amazing present. The skyscrapers in Tel Aviv are stunning. I mean, there were no skyscrapers when I lived there. And now there are many and more going up and vibrant and wealth being created in huge quantities and just an amazing, amazing place, which is not something I thought I would say about Israel, certainly when I left it. It's it's fantastic. All right, let's see. What else did I want to say about Israel? I think I think we'll stop there. Oh, we did do two events. They're up online. You can watch them. I do recommend the Berchev event, the first like free market roadshow event. There is an excellent talk kind of in the middle of the event by an Israeli scientist that takes on the issue of climate change and quotes Alex Epstein as part of it. You can tell Alex influence on him, but he's like a real scientist, a heavyweight in science in Israel. And and he gives one of the best talks in climate change I've seen anyway. So I highly recommend that. Also, not only have I posted the art show, the art lecture that I did at Edinburgh University, which I highly recommend to everybody watch. It's different than other stuff that I've done. And I think it came out really, really, really good in the comments. The comments about it suggest that it was really good. But also I recommend that you watch my talk in France, the talk I get to the French student. This was a university I think I told you about really, really smart kids from all over the world. Super bright. These are going to be the leaders of the future. These are going to be entrepreneurs of the future. But also the studying politics of these are likely going to be the politicians of the future. And watch it in particular, watch the Q&A. The Q&A was, I think, fabulous. They asked hard questions. They kept coming back. They were passionate. They were interested. They were engaged. No, you know, and I think you'll like my answers. And so I think that's a fabulous video. That's from Reims, France. And it was it was really good. So so thank you. Right. And I asked how you're on. I love following your lectures when you travel. My perception is you're always welcoming Europe. Is there less demand in the U.S.? Are you being invited to any colleges in the U.S. this year? I am. But yeah, there's less. I don't know why, but maybe we make more of an effort in Europe. I don't know. But there's definitely less demand in the U.S. I mean, when I put out a tweet or just an announcement, hey, I'm going to be in Europe. Anybody want me to come and talk? And I contacted a few organizations. I got a flood and I couldn't do all the talks that they wanted me to do this trip. This trip just got too crowded. So I had a I had a postpone or or say no to some things. We're not getting the same response in the U.S. I tweet that I'm available on and and I also Luca, yes, there is an online video of the event. It's it's the free market road show under your own book, your own lectures, I think. Oh, one of my videos. Just look at my videos. Free market road show from Bill Sheva. It's probably about 40 to 50 minutes in 40 to 50 minutes. And you'll find it. If I have, you know, maybe somebody who knows where the video is can post a link to it. It's yeah, I mean, there's definitely less demand. I mean, I'm speaking at a Federalist Society in a couple in a few weeks in Connecticut. I'm speaking to a bunch of a group of businessmen in Dallas. That's it. That's it for the spring.  You know, I'll be speaking to more universities this trip in Europe. Then I'll speak in the U.S. all year. I think and I find the students here more engaging, more interested, a larger and larger percentage of the OEC, the objectives, academic center are Europeans and Israelis and fewer and fewer Americans. And that's not because we're not reaching out to Americans. It's because they're less interested. So something about American culture that is deteriorating maybe faster. I think it's our educational system. But yeah, I don't get a lot of traction. I mean, also in America they have they have lots of options, right? So they have lots of people they can they can invite. Lots of people they can invite libertarians and people like that, that lots of people they can invite libertarians that are libertarians. They have a ton of libertarian speakers they can invite in the U.S. And most of these groups tend to be but the nice thing about like the one like the one in France, they were not ideological and they didn't agree with me like them. Maybe there's one or two students who came into the talk kind of agreeing with libertarian or free market ideas. That's the beauty of it. They're much more open as a thing to do.  I did do a big event in Texas with Yorn Chazoni. It's not that I don't do things at the university campuses, but there is less interest. You know, if you guys have idea of how we do that, if you guys are on campuses in America and find ways to invite me, please do if your children are attending college or if there's any context you have within the American universities to get me invited, that would be fantastic. But I do better in Europe. And I'm coming back to Europe in late April, early May, and I've got a whole schedule of places and hopefully I'll be speaking at Oxford and a bunch of other places. So it it is interesting. It is interesting. All right. What else did I want to talk about? We talked about Israel. We talked about talks in Europe. Okay. Yeah, so let me remind you again we're at what, 180? 190? Maybe we're 200. So we've got 400 to go. So that's a lot. Not a lot of super chat questions so far. But so it would be great if you use this, if you use the super chat to support the show and to ask questions. And I promise to get to all the questions asked. I'm not doing them in order because I'm doing them based on the topic. All right. Quick update on Ukraine and Russia. I still haven't seen anyway. I'm shocked every day by how accurate my predictions were about the war in Ukraine on day one. I predicted a lot of this stuff on day one. But I've learned a few things since then that I find interesting. So at the conference you talk to people, you learn stuff. One of the things I learned which I did not realize. I knew Ukraine had natural gas but it turns out that Ukraine has more natural gas than Russia and Ukraine indeed has the second largest natural gas reserves in Europe. They have the only country that has more natural gas reserves, known reserves than Ukraine is Norway. And guess where all the natural gas reserves are? All the natural gas fields on eastern Ukraine and southern Ukraine. Those are the areas that the Russians seem to be adamant about taking. And they're willing to kill as many people as necessary as we're seeing in the cities that they are destroying just flattening in Ukraine. And I think that I'm coming to the conclusion that part of at least the significant part of Putin's motivation, Putin's agenda is to capture those gas fields in southern Ukraine. Most of the gas, most of the reserves that have been untapped so far are actually in the Black Sea off the coast of Maripole and off the coast of Crimea. And these of course are the area where we're seeing some of the heaviest fighting and where the Russians are slowly insisting on advancing in spite of taking heavy casualties. I think he's committed to in a sense making sure that Ukraine is not a competitor to Russia when it comes to gas that he has a close to monopoly over the gas supplies to Europe, although they are alternatives but these are the easiest ones. Imagine if Ukraine had started pumping gas to Germany and Ukraine has the pipeline infrastructure to take it from their gas fields and pump to Germany. And one of the great tragic things about Ukraine it's corrupt government it's unfree establishment is that these gas fields that these gas fields are not were not exploited. That Ukraine is just sitting on these reserves and not exploiting them and the reason they're not exploiting them is to do it they would have to get foreign companies to come in because of the corruption and because of the nationalism the Ukrainian nationalism they have not encouraged foreign countries to come in I mean when I years ago I spoke to members of parliament in the Ukrainian parliament I spoke to people within the finance committee and the economics they wanted to know how do we make Ukraine rich and what I told them is that they have to overcome their nationalism they have to overcome their queasiness and they have to sell all of Ukraine they just have to sell it to everybody to anybody they have to bring in foreign investment they have to get all companies to come and drill for the gas and pipe the gas out they have to get companies to build plants there they have to get big farming conglomates to come and farm in Ukraine that the way the way to really change the game in Ukraine the way to get Ukraine rich is to adopt a free market but to adopt this to the flow of capital to people actually buying into Ukraine and selling their assets and they were very resistant but it's Ukraine and I said who cares in America most of America the oil is not the states the oil is the people who find it the oil is the people who own the land it's unfortunate in the United States 75% of all the land west of the Mississippi is owned by the state by the federal state government the United States is built on the notion on the idea that you know that private property is private and that's the solution to Ukraine's problems and of course they didn't listen to me and now look where they are listen to me I know you guys did it's interesting that over the last couple of weeks Russia has made very little progress even in the south it now looks like they will take their first major city which is Mary Paul I'm mispronouncing that but you know what city I'm talking about in the south east of the country it's an important strategic city it it links kind of the Russian satellites in the eastern part of Ukraine with Crimea which is clearly an important strategic goal of the Russians but they made no progress in Kiev indeed a couple of days ago the high command of the Russian military had a press conference in which they stated that the goals were to really just solidify kind of the autonomy of the states or the annexation of the states in the east to Russia that they had no ambitions to occupy Ukraine it's different than what their message was in the first few days of the war so they're scaling down the war because they're being defeated it's stunning the incompetence of the Russian army it's stunning how pathetic their weapons systems are and they've resorted because they're so bad at warfare they resorted basically to flattening cities they took a city of 500,000 people and they're flattening it they're destroying it block by block I don't think they're going to try to do that to Kiev I think they're going to leave Kiev I think they're going to try to either split the country in half and take the whole east of it or they, you know, will see and of course we'll see if the Ukrainians let them the Ukrainians are counter-attacking in a number of regions they're pushing the Russians back we'll see how successful that is a lot of this depends on the ability of the Ukrainians to get sophisticated weapons systems that they know how to use they can't get new ones, but they know how to use from the west and even Russian weapons systems that they know how to use from places like Bulgaria and Poland and Slovakia that have these weapons systems S-300 ground to air missiles and, you know, ideally they get some MiG-29s but this is a disaster for Putin it's a major catastrophe for the Russian people it's a major catastrophe for the Russian economy the economy is clearly squeezed, people are talking about GDP dropping by 25% imagine a country where 25% of the wealth is wiped out wiped out people become 25% poorer Russia is already a pretty poor country already a very aging country aging population, no dynamism and it is becoming worse if you will with the sanctions and with the casualties of war young people are dying, right? they're killing off young, they're killing off the future entrepreneurs, they're killing off the future workers, they're killing off the people who will build Russia in the future they're being killed in the fields of Ukraine for what for a brutal dictator's crazy dream about a Russian empire built on oil and gas I mean Putin is a materialist in the sense that his whole focus since he came to power in the early 2000s has been on real assets oil and gas gold and real things when wealth creation is a product of the human mind so instead of investing in technology instead of encouraging entrepreneurship instead of encouraging smart Russian programmers to build and to create and be innovative instead he focused on dead industries on the past on things that have limited growth potential and he's turned this country into a relatively poor country or he didn't allow it to become rich but he's been a complete failure as a president of the country complete failure and now we've seen the consequence of that because this war was a massive strategic mistake massive strategic mistake you know there's more I can say about Zelensky he did his tour around the world talking to parliaments all over the world trying to guilt them into supporting him I don't know how well that is working suddenly it backfired on him and Israel but Israel did come out this week in support of Ukraine and against Russia it hesitated to do so but I think probably the most interesting development aside from what's happening on the ground which is horrific for the Ukrainian civilians and horrific in a good way I guess for us for the Russian military is that China is making significant noises about distancing itself from Russia it is not clear that China wants to embrace kind of an axis of authoritarian regimes that are poor does Russia China really want to isolate itself a big trading party with a loser like Russia at the expense of potentially at the expense of trading with the United States and trading with Western Europe does China really want to support a nuclear power at its north with somebody as unpredictable as Putin at its helm but I think the main issue for China is China needs trade with Europe it needs trade with the US it really can't afford to piss us off maybe it has plans to one day be in a position to be able to afford to piss us off that it can't today and I think that you've seen a couple of things happen in China over the last week that are positive and I know I know it's hard for many of you to hear anything positive about China, two things one is the fact that they distance themselves from Russia and from Putin they're not, it looks like they're not supplying them with their weapons but also was it the a big Chinese company refused to say they would not buy oil and gas from Russia and so I thought that was really interesting because they don't want to be sanctioned by the West so they're not even though of course the wimpiest thing about this war is the fact the fact that Germany every single day Germany is sending $500 million to Russia for natural gas a billion dollars every two days I mean just extrapolate how many billions of dollars are flowing to Russia to support the war effort because the Germans shut down their nuclear power plants because the Germans didn't help exploit other natural resources like natural gas that exists in Central Europe the Germans consciously created a situation where they're completely dependent on a Russian natural gas $500 million a day who buys oil and gas from Russia right now the Indians are buying it India is buying huge amounts but India is buying it on its terms it's buying it at discount and they'll only pay for it once it arrives in ports in India usually you pay for gas when you sign a contract it's laid up the Indians will only pay once the oil is actually delivered to ports in India so India is buying gas and oil from the Russians so that's the first good thing that happened in China came out of China second good thing about China I don't know if you saw this but there was a major announcement I think it was about a week ago from China saying we're going to back off from our salt they didn't phrase it this way on high tech companies okay we've achieved what we wanted we're going to back off the market we're going to let these companies alone we're going to stop attacking them controlling them destroying their markets we're going to leave the market alone for now who knows until when and that's a result of the fact that since the invasion Russian invasion in Ukraine the Chinese stock market the Russian stock market has been devastated close to zero but the Chinese market has seen the largest drops in equity valuations the largest drops in equity valuations since 2008 the Chinese market has been devastated and the West hasn't stocks are down in the US not devastated not big but in China they've been crushed and the Chinese government is like it's interesting China has got this they want power and they want control and they call themselves the communist party but they want to get rich they don't want poor people in China and they want to build the most powerful military in the world and they need money for that and they're far far inferior to the United States and they have these conflicting agendas power crushing anybody who who is competitive for example what's his name the billionaires but also they know they need billionaires they know they need the incentives they know they need the minds they know they need entrepreneurship and they're still struggling with the right kind of balance and it'll be interesting to see because she is again supposedly dictator for life the Chinese communist party is having their big meeting I think later this year it'll be interesting to see if she really has all the power there and if they're not maybe younger more pro-growth forces within their Chinese party that will try to limit the kind of control he imposes on the Chinese economy knowing that it will destroy growth so the fact that the Chinese want to the fact the Chinese want to become rich is a break on how bad they become both in terms of foreign policy and in terms of domestic policy so there's more I have to say about China but maybe we'll leave that for future episode as I said I had some interesting we had a session at this conference about China that was really interesting and you know one of my contributions this session which I think resonated with people not with everybody was some people and it took them a while but as explained it seemed to sink in is that authoritarian regimes do not innovate authoritarian regimes do not become rich and that the more authoritarian China becomes the less innovation the less progress the less it will become rich the less it is a threat militarily and just like Russia is not a threat military because it's authoritarian so in the long run authoritarianism is no match for freedom alright so we're at about 300 bucks our target is 300 more it's a 600 that's my challenge to you is to get there you can use it you can support the show by asking a question you can just support the show by contributing some money okay we have a lot of watches watching live would be great if you give it a thumbs up if you like the show it helps the algorithms it helps the show grow it helps get in front of new people the more likes you give a show the more interactions you have with the video sharing it liking it joining becoming a member all of these things support the algorithm and get it more prominent in the YouTube black hole so please do all that comments are great chats are great write a comment anything you do that interacts with the 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city I'm enjoying every time I come to Lisbon I enjoy it and and I look forward to to coming more often and and and yeah so it was great to meet local objectivists it was great to meet Rafael and and the friends that he brought and and yeah it was a lot of fun let's see Landon says fun fact Ukraine has captured more Russian tanks than they've lost to combats it's the start of the war that's pretty nuts but that's as I told you the T-72 tank is not a good tank they're getting stuck they're getting stuck in the mud soldiers see other tags being destroyed so they jump out and they they run away rather than rather than continuing within the tank tanks are claustrophobic scary things so a lot of tanks have been captured the Ukrainians are using tractors to take the tanks away but I told you the T-72 sucked nobody believed me I told you the Russian army sucked big time and they do Putin sucks they all suck authoritarian thugs all right okay how do we judge people who still after the energy crisis and war support criminalizing taxing fossil fuels and nuclear power in Europe are subsidizing inadequate unreliables unreliables like Elon Musk and his supporters you know as detached from reality as rationalizes as as people don't think problems through now Elon Musk has said that we need more fossil fuels not less and he has talked about nuclear and he's been a promoter of nuclear so I don't think you're characterizing Elon Musk exactly right but yeah he's blinded by this notion of alternative energy and solar and and all this stuff which is complete nonsense but he's blinded by it so how immoral you know is he evading is he immoral what exactly does all that it's hard to tell I mean clearly he's evading some clearly some immorality he's not an evil guy I think over all he's a good guy is he whoops my light just fell is he bad on the stuff absolutely let's see alright is that light is good or not good that's all we got so alright friend Harper says what would China have to do to have FU money metaphorically speaking apply to a country bringing about to do what they want without worry about backlash besides initiating force I mean this is the catch 22 if you will to get super rich you have to trade trade makes you interconnected with others who you might not particularly like trade makes you you know dependent is the wrong word but trade you have to trade with somebody so if China to get rich it has to trade with the United States and Europe South America it can't just trade with poor countries can't just trade with Russia and India it there's not enough demand there for there to be enough wealth created in China so the only way China can get FU money is by trading but trading makes it very difficult to go to war with the people you're trading with it makes you immediately susceptible deciding not to trade with you and the strip the United States this is the whole idea of oh we're delinking we're going to be self-sufficient well yeah you can be self-sufficient and poor you cannot be self-sufficient and rich and that's what people don't understand so if you want to be rich you got to be willing to trade and including trading across borders and and trading with all kinds of people all over the world and that that integration is what I think preserves peace or part of what preserves peace Iron Man talks about this in The Roots of War and if you think about Russia one of the reasons Russia is poor and one of the reasons Russia is violent is willing to engage in initiation forces willing to engage in war is because it's not a trading nation yes it sells oil and gas but it doesn't produce stuff it doesn't innovate and it doesn't it's not dependent on these external markets it's dependent on natural resources and it's a completely different mentality and it stays poor because you cannot become rich off of natural resources no country ever has so it's really interesting that if you if the Chinese ambition is to get rich and not have poverty in China and all that it has to stay open it has to commit itself to trade it doesn't even with 1.2 billion people as a population even though that's going to start shrinking you cannot be successful unless you trade with other people you cannot be successful unless you're innovative innovation and trade open up societies that forces against authoritarianism and I think that's why I think it's worth being optimistic about these things is that I don't think that China is going to dominate America because the only way it can become rich is becoming free and if it comes free we don't care how big it is and if it's unfree then it can't get that big so I don't know how much it would have to have to have a few money it's far away from that if you think about how much the United States spends on military it's four or five times more than the Chinese do we have a significantly better military, we have better technology we have better innovation China has not yet a match for the United States militarily but and the only way it can get there is by becoming more free I don't fear it the rush the China I fear is a China that's isolationist and not integrated into the world economy but that China is not rich so it's kind of pretty cool how reality works right reality rewards virtue and if you're going to engage in vice i.e. socialism authoritarianism you're not going to get rich you're not going to get rich right Justin thank you really appreciate that Adam asks many Ukrainians ethnic Russians, Baptist atheists etc who escaped from Russia's established Russian Orthodox church is freedom of religion philosophy sense of life a stronger motive for fighting than nationalism um it might be I you know that there is no I don't know that this persecution non Russian Orthodox church members if there's explicit persecution they might be persecution but I don't know how strong it is um so look I think that the people on the ground fighting including ethnic Russians who are fighting the Russian forces like in Maripole most of the people fighting the Russian forces house to house block to block a Russian ethnically ethnically Russian they speak Russian they're fighting for their homes they're fighting for you know the world that they've created I don't know if they could identified as freedom of religion they're writing they're fighting against the monster they're fighting against somebody who is bombing their neighborhoods and they care more about the neighborhood they care more about the lives of their children they care more about their property they care about more about their neighbors then I think they care about an abstraction called freedom of religion or an abstraction called Ukraine or any of these things I'm not sure it's it's nationalism or they're fighting for a particular abstract view of freedom they're fighting for their lives somebody is trying to kill them that's how they see it and they don't want to be ruled freedom of religion is part of that but they do not want to be ruled they look at Putin they see an authoritarian and as bad as the government is Ukraine and it's not a good government but as bad as it is bad as it is in Ukraine the Russian government is a thousand times worse and they know that and they don't want it and that's one of the revelations in this war is the extent to which ethnic Russians in Ukraine are fighting the Russians do not want Putin do not want this invasion alright thank you Adam let's see we've got a few $20 questions Shazba says oh that's a sea urchin behind me we talked about that let's see who else has a $20 question Wes says an odd question why do people insist on saying art can't be objective I know art is tough but an art seems to be one of the few subjects that people don't want a definition for like it would ruin the mystique or something yeah I mean but that's the consequence of I think of so called modern art that modern art if you say that art is something in particular then people look at you like you're crazy because they've been taught modern artists have proclaimed modern intellectuals have told them that art cannot be defined because if it could be defined some things that they consider art would be excluded but this is part of our intellectual elites attempts to destroy our conceptual ability they don't like concepts at all they don't like definitions of anything arts more than anything and common people now look at that and say well I don't know what art is they put a urinal next to a Michelangelo they tell me both art I don't know what art is I guess art is whatever people think it is and they've just bought into that and that's exactly what the modern intellectuals want they want to destroy the concept of art and they've succeeded so common people have the same category folder they have Michelangelo's David and just some bunch of metal put together both of those are art and art means nothing and art is not important and they don't need to do art so they reject the whole concept which makes complete sense if those alternatives are presented to them okay see $20 questions Ignacio take advantage that you are in Europe these days how do you see Europe in a short in a short run Europe has really come together around Ukraine up to a point they're still buying natural gas from Ukraine from Russia but for the most part Europe is investing in its military it's fantastic news for Europe and I think for the future of western civilization I think that the Europeans are taking their national defense more seriously is a good thing I think the way they responded to refugees and new immigrants is a good thing I think a lot of these countries are suddenly going to get an inflow of new people who are going to work and that is going to be that is going to be very positive for their economies so I don't know there is obviously a lot of climate change pressure a lot of European countries are committing suicide I think there is some awakening to that to their dependency on natural gas from Russia there is somebody thinking about where they should get energy from and maybe they shouldn't put it all into the windmill basket maybe they should think about LNG and maybe a pipeline of gas from Israel or from Egypt or from somewhere that is not Russia maybe build some nuclear power plants like the French are doing and I think Scandinavians are doing so I think Europe is going through a real rethinking and I think part of that is very very positive because they are on a bad path and I think the rethinking has the potential to put them on a better path it's not that it's going to be a good path it's still philosophical but there is a sense in which this war is waking people up the one positive that this war has is it seems to be waking certain people up to the dangers and to the wrongness of the path that they are on oh I have to tell you this story I mean a lot of you will be upset at me but this is a reality I mean you could really see how Brits who travel are pissed off at Brexit by the fact that they now have to stay in line with the rest of us non-Europeans in order to fly to England or from England into Europe I've said this before in this show but I find it so wonderful, amazing that I can get in a car in Lisbon and I can drive to Madrid and from Madrid I can drive to Paris from there I can go to Brussels Amsterdam Denmark I can go to Poland I can go to Germany I can go to Austria Italy no border checks nobody asks for passport nobody asks you anything you just drive now that is a beautiful thing and the English, the Brits used to be able to come to Europe and just walk right through in a sense now they have to stay in the lines and the lines are brutal and it's given them a sense of separation it's given a lie it suddenly has reduced their freedom of movement and people value freedom of movement and you can tell in the lines the Brits mumbling about how they're disappointed in Brexit and as I said when Brexit happened Brexit will be good if the Brits do the right thing with it and it will be bad if they don't do the right thing and clearly they've not done the right thing with it so Brexit on net right now is a clear negative clear negative for the United Kingdom we'll see if they improve what they do with it but so far it's been a disaster even though hotels I stay at are short on staff because one of the things Brexit did down the labour market because it used to be the people from Poland people Portugal, Spain could come here and work in London no problem now they can't have to get a visa a work visa, restrictions and immigration it's just horrible it's just horrible and stupid unbelievably stupid I know the UK was now a part of the St Gen but it was still they still went through the same passport checks there's a big difference in passport checks they used to go through the passport check of the EU now they go through the passport check with Americans and others Brits used to go right through with the electronic stuff and they did not stand in line with the rest of us with Americans and others it was a different line, it was the European line even though they weren't part of the St Gen but there's also customs now shipping is very expensive very very difficult for Brits to engage with the rest of the EU and this didn't have to be this way the UK could have done Brexit and then lower tariffs unilaterally they could have opened themselves up to imports from they could have eliminated custom barriers they could have done a lot of things but they chose not to do it they chose not to do it and instead they've taken all the worst elements of the EU all the regulations, the green agenda and they've embraced them and they've added tariffs and they've added immigration controls none of which is good all right Jennifer asks, do you think personality test categories are overly simplistic, even collectivist because individuals are too complex to be limited to such categories? yeah I do I mean I think they're useful in a sense of indicating suggesting suggesting but I think it's very dangerous and even then they're on a spectrum so you never just all you know it's never kind of this or that it's a spectrum yeah but I don't think you should take you should take too seriously a personality test results they're useful for employment I don't think they're un-useful again because they give you a sense of somebody in some categories and I think recruiters who are trained in how to use these tests and evaluate them and for particular jobs they're probably useful for them thanks thanks I don't know how much 50 won is but I do see your question I just don't know how much it is and I'm doing the $20 questions first I thought that 50 won is not $20 but if it is then I'm happy to jump to that one but let me finish the $20 questions and then we will get to yours as well Michael asks you say people won't tolerate high crime and laudance for sustained periods of time but look at South Africa robbery kidnapping on normal parts of life certain levels of nihilism appear to be sustainable well South Africa is not the United States I've never said that people anyway in the world they won't tolerate it I mean they tolerate it in Russia in terms of the government's crime against its own people they tolerate it in South Africa in terms of street crime they've always tolerated in South Africa they've tolerated during apartheid they've tolerated post apartheid and they won't do the things necessary to reduce crime but in America they will demand political change now whether that political change will result in lower crime is a different question because lowering crime is a difficult problem but what they rebel against is defunding the police a connection between defunding the police and rising crime rates so you're seeing that I mean this is a great example the district attorney in San Francisco who is the one who invented this thing about we don't prosecute shoplifters unless you steal more than $700 we don't care that kind of stuff he's being recalled now and he's going to be voted out in San Francisco in leftist wacky leftist crazy San Francisco I talked to one of the people in the conference that was at in Lisbon I talked to one of the people who's behind some of these recalls in San Francisco and he's saying yeah even some people who consider themselves progressives realize how destructive and damaging their policies have been and are voting to recall these people 75% of the people voted to recall the school board members in San Francisco I mean I don't think you'll quite appreciate how much of a rebellion that is from the left against the wacky left and that's going to be nationwide and it's why the Republicans are not going to win in the midterms it's not because of Trump not because the Republicans are so good not because people love Republicans it's because people in the center of the political map are sick and tired of defund the police wacky left and the associated with rising crime and with inflation alright let's see Liam, if intellectual property is a natural right then it could not be limited in duration well there is no such thing as natural rights natural rights are never limited in duration our physical property rights never expire but intellectual property might but what do you mean by natural rights I mean the whole conception of natural rights is wrong because it's based on the idea that God or nature imposes these rights on us somehow they're in us or they're part of us and they're not rights are a moral political concept it's an idea and it's an idea that is contextual like every other principle it's contextual it's how you apply it and you apply it differently to different types of property you don't apply it equally to property and you can sub you know so you can unbundle rights dismantle rights and sell rights to certain aspects of something and not for thing even with property so Iron Man was not a natural rights philosopher she didn't believe in natural rights rights are a concept that protects man's mind against force they're a concept that allows man in a social environment they're an idea their principle that allows man in a social setting their freedom to use his mind in pursuit of his values and how you apply that how do you apply this principle is interesting it's different it's going to be different for intellectual property and for physical property because of the two things have different characteristics different requirements in terms of survival Hopper Campbell how come in the arena of and by the way even with physical property let's say you own property somewhere and abandon it in a sense that I have a deed on it but I never use it I don't take care of it I don't keep up with it I ignore it I lose that property over time people can take it there is such a thing as a banned property so the fact that you own something physically but if you don't invest in it in a sense if there's no attention paid to it then it stops being yours you don't have a right to it anymore you lose that right rights are only two actions just having the property is not an action even having the property means you have to engage in some activities to preserve it to keep it yours that's what you have a right to do and if you don't engage in those activities to keep it yours it's not going to be yours that's a good question how come in the arena of competitive ideas large portions of collectivist thoughts were able to outcompete individualism it can't just be altruism no it's a mysticism so it's a combination of mysticism and altruism and it can just be mysticism and altruism it's Play-Doh it's Christianity more than anything it's Christianity it's just fundamentally collectivist so it's the very fact that all of the that every single philosophy out there since Aristotle with the exception of Aristotle maybe with the exception of one or two other figures in history has been collectivist because mysticism demands that and altruism demands that and neither one of those are being challenged so you know it's like the mysticism but I think you know that connection and if not we'll do a whole show on it but mysticism necessarily leads to collectivism and less certainly leads to altruism if you combine mysticism with altruism which are all mystics do that is the formula against individualism and one of the things we're going to have to do is overcome religion and religion not only in its religious among religious people but also among the secularists who have adopted the morality of religion even when they're secular it's hard to overstate how destructive Christianity is to the cause of individualism even in countries that are nominally not Christian like Europe where most people are secular they're still Christian in their morality and their altruism life in much of their altruism life alright let's see out of $20 questions oh there is one two I missed these how did I miss these sorry guys Dave says why is he thinks he's smarter than everyone else an insult or an indicator of narcissism what if someone is smarter than everyone else and you should listen to them Ayn Rand was a good example of that it's a question of you know I think the negative side of arrogance I'm going to show you all off I'm going to make you all look stupid I'm going to make you all look dumb which some people do exhibit and I think is that the core of he's smarter than everybody else is kind of a derogatory statement not nobody says about Einstein he's smarter than everybody else everybody knows he's smarter than everybody else it's the person who's not smarter than everybody else and presents the selfies and puts everybody else down that people use that statement against and I don't think they should use different words but I think it's a real thing Colt writes Clavin criticized Candace the other day in his North Carolina moderate Republican Senate candidate is going after Trump endorsed candidate for his pro-russia comments is this another good sign will the new right be discredited I actually think and I said this early on in the Ukraine thing I actually think Ukraine might be a real turning point for the Republican Party for Republicans where they see what this new right is all about the new right itself is kind of splintered but I think there is and I there is a recognition of the fact that there is this new right pro-Putin new right a right that respect Putin that they should disassociate with and I think some people in the Republican party are starting to do that by the way one of the people at this conference that I spend quite a bit of time talking to funnily enough you'll find this entertaining is one of the leaders of the evangelical movement in the United States and somebody who served in the or who had strong ties to the Trump administration and it was really interesting to talk about Trump to talk about the administration to talk about why evangelicals supported Trump to talk about what evangelicals want for the next nominee of the Republican party for president whether they'll support Trump or not it was a fascinating discussion again part of some of the things and he's a he's an interesting guy right and we had an extensive conversation he knows who knows who I am he knows I'm an atheist he knows I'm Rand he knows all the stuff and here he is and we're sitting and chatting in a friendly way and intrigued I try to get as much information as I could because I think it would really help us so that was great okay I think that's oh yeah I think that's all so yeah I think I'm happy to see Klavan criticize Candace that's great and I didn't quite understand who else criticized who else but to the extent that they're criticizing the new right it's a good thing alright I'm getting tired I need to go to bed it's almost midnight alright Ram says doctor book I got a job offer stock book when my first job ever but the company is a subsidiary of a government company it makes profits no special advantage of a private player it is a model to join yes I think it's a model to join you can't avoid in our mixed economy any connection to the government would you not go work for Tesla yeah of course you would and our investment banks or banks generally in the United States free of government intervention you're all in a sense controlled by the government you can't avoid it so yes congratulations on the job you know do really really well excel particularly earlier you know in your first job do the best job you can really invest everything you have in this first job because that'll open massive amounts of doors and if you discover that this is a company you don't want to work for that it is being corrupted by government and so on if you do really really well in this job you'll be able to find many others so for young people out there that first job kill it I mean kill it is a why am I using kill it do a great job at it I hate terms like kill it alright Frank says it's the 50th anniversary of the godfather Don Barzini says quote after all we're not communists do gangsters benefit by living in a capitalist country yeah I mean benefit to the extent that gangsters benefit from anything the scumbags and they suffer the consequence of being scumbags um but um you know but they benefit in the sense that thieves have something to steal in a capitalist country there's nothing to steal in a socialist country other than if you're a thief in the government and then you're stealing whatever production happens so yeah I didn't realize it was the 50th anniversary I hear there's a new cut to the godfather I'm kind of curious but my light keeps falling it's driving me nuts I'm looking forward to watching it I'm not sure where I can get it I think on I think on one of the services it is available maybe HBO plus HBO something alright Dank Stank says ideas for future idea for future show Nick Fuentes and Destiny Debate Ukraine can you watch it and comment Fuentes seem to have won even though Destiny is a good debate himself the debate became viable no I won't I mean I'm interested in debates like that but I will not I will not uh show video of Nick Fuentes I consider Nick Fuentes um you know below despicable I mean it's he's the he's exactly the kind of character that I do not want to um endorse in any way not want to engage in any way you know he is you know he is scum um he's exactly the kind of person that uh so many people of the right are enamored with he's got a certain charisma he's very articulate um but he is the worst of the worst on on the right and I don't want to sanction anything he says or anything he does I mean if you can find somebody who wants to defend um Russia and you want me to comment on fine but um but not Nick Fuentes um Marcin uh hello Dr. Brooke thank you for a life changing show this show is life changing wow cool how profitable do you think it is for Russia to attack another country how probable is it I think close to zero I think Russia is being humiliated I think the military is being crushed it's being devastated uh I don't think they have the energy the money the resources I don't think the military has the people or the manpower or the equipment to attack anybody so unless he decides to use nukes there's just nothing they can do and even if he uses nukes he'd be wiped out I mean if this is what the Ukrainians are doing to the Russians NATO would wipe him out so I have zero concern this could still escalate into a nuclear war but that's in a sense more likely than Putin sending tax tanks across the Polish border or across the Slovak border or something like that Moldovian border I just don't think that would happen he's being too humiliated so far to keep going I mean he has to do something with Ukraine he has to come to some conclusion with Ukraine not for a long time Michael says how long until Einran is respected or at least discussed seriously in philosophy departments the way he contests I don't know 20-30 years it's decades maybe longer Mr. Muffin how would the military be funded and would it be as powerful as they are now if the US was as capitalist as you would want it to be it would be funded primarily I think through voluntary contributions all right checks to the government to fund the military and police and much of the judiciary so I think it would be funded voluntarily I think there are a variety of different ways in which you can control for free writers for example post lists of all the people who paid and how much they paid and if somebody is now paying into the system their neighbors would socially isolate them we'd have sanctions but not from the government police might now want to deal with you if you don't pay something towards national defense so all kinds of ways in which you can ostracize people and get them to do it even if they or at least if those who want to free write off the system but I think almost everybody would because it's in a self interest and remember this is a country a capitalist world is a world in which much of us much of us would would a capitalist world in which our ideas are one and therefore you have benevolent positive future looking rational people who would be happy to fund the military would it be would it be as powerful as it is today would it be more powerful, significantly more powerful the US military is filled with rot with inefficiencies, with corruption a lot of corruption bad decision making with political stuff with political waste, with political departments with all kinds of restrictions and diversity training and all kinds of nonsense the US military might be smaller but it would be a hundred times more lethal and devastating and designed and built for the mission and there'd be no waste so it would be a more powerful military than we have today much more powerful and we'd be a million times rich so we could afford a million times more thanks, thanks the best way if you want me to deal with those arguments make a list of them make a list of the Fuentes arguments in favor of Putin and I will answer them so rather than me showing video of Nick Fuentes just you make a list of them and come here and for a couple of bucks for two dollars and I will address each one of them in terms of the arguments pro-Putin I'm not afraid of the arguments I just don't want to give Fuentes a stage Alejandro what about the theft of intellectual property whose theft of intellectual property China's I'll talk about theft of intellectual property by China when I do my China show I'm not pro-China I think the theft of intellectual property is a problem some of it is a problem but I'd rather talk about that when we do a whole show about about China because it's a complex topic Michael asks I didn't realize we have a hundred objectivist intellectuals I thought there were only a few dozen need to put themselves out there more I agree they do I agree they do Enric our supersonic missiles developed in Russia achieved associated Chinese government like space missions one-offs are actual challenges to the United States there are one-offs but what does the supersonic missile give you it's harder to shoot down but it's harder to shoot down ballistic missiles anyway Russia has 6,000 of them if you launch 6,000 missiles you can't shoot them all down and if the United States launches its missiles they're not going to shoot nobody's going to shoot them down maybe they'll shoot 50% of them now on a good day 50% of the nukes getting through will destroy you so it's a marginal it's at the margin by the way the United States had a supersonic missile program that was shut down by stupid bureaucrats again an example of I think we'd have a much stronger military Mr. McRonfen says during Q&A please use mics I can only use mics if the facility provides them and if the students are equipped with the right kind of equipment so the mic feeds into the camera you guys have no clue how difficult it is to get students to record these things to record them and to have the equipment and to get everything going and you know it's very very difficult some schools are well equipped some schools are not equipped some student groups are really good at organizing these things I can't do it I can't carry with me all the recording equipment that is necessary to record these talks and build mics I'm not going to invest in that and carry them all through Europe as it is my luggage is stacked and I carry this equipment to be able to do this show you know it's the venue where I do the talks has to provide that you guys you're getting access to so much to so much just a few years ago we would all give lectures all over the world and none of them were recorded they never went up there's no YouTube there's nothing now you get all these riches some of it doesn't sound great there's so much then skip the ones that don't sound great but I try believe me I try to get them all to do it well but it's hard Michael says how can you say our senses come before science when scientific instruments are able to pick up things our world senses cannot like cancer tumors can they I mean at the end of the day how do you know it's a cancer tumor what the scientific instruments do is they enlarge it they provide you with a picture but how do you how do you register what's on the picture your senses and how does even if you program AI to identify the cancer first of all you're going to verify it with your senses and secondly it was information you received from your senses that allowed you to program the AI to find the thing so your senses are always primary in these things none of this is possible without your senses every everything every scientific instrument is built on the basis of what we learn from our senses and it's there to provide our senses with more data everything even when we read a chart how do how we see the chart do our senses Landon Wall says I just watched the death of Stalin loved it remind me how impotent these evil a-holes are have you seen it thoughts I saw yeah I don't think I've seen it I it's one of these movies that I want to see I saw another movie anyway I don't think I've seen it so it's I'm putting it on my list of movies to watch all right cool all right everybody thanks for being here we have about a hundred dollars short ninety dollars short somebody wants to chip in and get us to the six hundred dollar goal that would be terrific I'd appreciate that because I don't know how many shows I'm going to do until the end of March and I go month by month of these things all right dunk dunk says he's going to send me super chat with Francis's argument next show perfect perfect and I will address them one by one what did I want to say oh if I skipped your super chat Mitch oh is this the two white chromosomes I was just going to say so Mitch says my wife has two white chromosomes I didn't think that was a question um uh I would say all right you know today you know with gay marriage and and everything else the way the term wife is used um wife and husband is used she could have two white chromosomes I don't know McMuffin I will try to repeat the questions yes I will talk about the inability of a Supreme Court judge to identify what a woman is next time next next show I wanted to make that a topic but these other things came up Mitch has marital problems he's he says his wife has two white chromosomes and she's a pig so he's definitely got marital problems all right good night everybody tomorrow I'm at University of Sussex probably until late the next day I'm at Exeter University and I think at Exeter University there might be some demonstrations or there might be something going on we'll see at the University of Exeter people have complained about me coming over people have complained about my presence there and then the following day on no on Thursday I'll be speaking at Bristol University so I'm looking forward to some talks at all these cities at all these universities and I'm hoping that everybody tapes it I'm not even sure that they'll be able to do that but I'm hoping everybody tapes it alright everybody have a great night bye