Good morning, it's really early. Hello and welcome to a little vlog, baby. I today am going to Chicago because I need to sign it upwards of 10,000 posters, possibly even 10,000 posters. It was the channel's anniversary as so many of you guys know. And so we did 10 year anniversary posters. And so instead of having a SEP, the Merge Company, ship pallets upon pallets of posters to my house, I was like, why don't I just come to Chicago for like two days and sign the posters. And then, you know, you don't have to ship them here. I don't have to ship them back. So I thought I'd do a little Chicago vlog just because, you know, why not? And then depending on how much time there is and I want to make sure I'm not like disrupting people's work or anything, maybe I can show you around where all the merch is made. Maybe I can make some merch myself. I have no idea. I'm just saying that now. I don't know if I'm allowed to do that, but let's call it a plane, I guess. I forgot that I had my camera. Good morning. I'm in Chicago now. Well, not Chicago. Hey, this little guy, this is to move the thing. I mean, not Chicago. I wouldn't really call this Chicago. But it's time to go to SCP and sign some MF posters, my guy. But, you know, you didn't really miss anything yesterday. All I did was get on a plane and come here and now I'm at a comfort end. So whoever's editing this can just put a travel montage from any other vlog that I've ever done and it'll be the exact same thing as what I would have filmed yesterday. So, you know, it's fine. So here, whoever's editing, cut to the travel vlog from yesterday, okay? Nice. I'll see you after in Chicago. Baby, mommy. I got a rental car and for the first time in my life, because now I'm 25, I could rent it without other fees. And they had a special going on because the other cars were $95 a day.  I'm here for yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It was $500 to rent a car. Granted, I didn't get the upgrade, but hold on, the upgrade! It was, I think it was $92 a day to rent basically any other car. But then I said for $102, you could get a mystery luxury vehicle. And so this is the mystery luxury vehicle that I got. It's a BMW i4 or something. It's nice. It's got the beige interior because I'm going into retirement. If I'm honest, I don't really, like I wouldn't buy this car unless BMW paid me money to tell you that. The stuff down here is what really gets me. So you have to push in this thing on the side and bring it down. It's just, they tried to make it too fancy where it feels not intuitive. And I mean, I've only been driving this car for a day, but every time I'd go to change into a driver, like I have to look down and like it, I don't know, okay? I just don't, I just don't know. Anyway though, we are going to go to McDonald's and get some breakfast because I'm hungry. I had a very funny moment while I was showering where I was using the bar soap, which can I tell you something really quick?  Bar soap sucks, dude. I've gotten anxious because there's people working on the roof and they started looking at me and smiling while I'm recording and I don't, I don't like that. Anyhow, I don't remember what I was talking about. Oh, the soap. I was showering and I had the soap as you do when you're showering and I dropped it in my immediate, no one was watching. I wasn't filming, but I just went, no! It made me laugh. And you know, that's what's important here is that I'm making myself laugh. Thank you Comfort Inn & Suites for the lovely stay. I'm staying here again tonight, but it's important to thank them. Thank the, oh, fuck! I should have brought a little suction cup guy. I also didn't listen to the audio of any of these clips. So hopefully it's fine, but it might not be. And if that's the case, then Justin or Nervly will just have to ADR the entire thing. So it's not on me anymore. It's on them. All right, I'll see you at McDonald's. Ooh, baby, don't you know what that's worth?  Hi, could I please get a sausage, egg, and cheese, microdough, please? Yes, I do. And then could I get, could I get hash browns with that?  Awesome, thank you. I didn't, I forgot like how to order food. I couldn't remember what a hash brown was, if I'm honest. I was like, yeah, I want the things that are like fries, but in the morning, the things that are fries, but in the morning. Why does it look so orange? Doesn't it look orange? Does it look orange? Is it orange? Make it orange. Thank you. Yeah, thank you so much. What's going on here?  Oh my boy. This is a little scary. I'm gonna loop around here real quick. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I'm gonna shift it and reverse it. Okay, I was, all right. I was very clearly looping around the back end and that person just went, but that's okay.  I am driving a BMW, so I wouldn't blame them. We're eating breakfast. What are we eating? Let me show you. Here, let me, let me give you one of these. That sure is a nice coffee. This is pretty good. McDonald's coffee, I feel like it's slept on. It's like, it's always, you know what you're getting every time. It's always gonna be the same. It's consistent and it's consistently decent, all right? Do you like this Dutch? It was a Dutch oven. You guys like this Dutch oven? Dutch angle? This is a hashed brown. Kind of like how it's keeping me out of focus, but the steering wheel in focus. What else do we have in here? Oh yeah, we got the sausage, I can make, sausage, McRiddle. Also couldn't remember what this was called. I was like, did I start baking? I started with baking. Here's a rule, guys. My friend Sam told me when I was in high school. And I was like, that makes so much sense. We were going to the cafeteria in the morning. This was before school started. And they always had breakfast sandwiches there. So we would go, Sam and I went to get a breakfast sandwich. And I was like, yeah, can I have a bacon egg and cheese? And they said yes. They gave it to Sam, got a sausage egg and cheese. And he sort of gave me this look when I got the bacon egg and cheese. And I was like, what's up with the bacon egg and cheese? And he was like, well, here's the thing. Here's why you always go with the sausage egg and cheese. At the school lunch or at McDonald's, I had a place where it may not be as good. And this was some of the best advice I've ever gotten in my life. He was like sausage, they give you the little sausage patties, right?  It's pretty much the same everywhere, you know? Unless you're going to some like fancy-ass place, like it's always gonna be like decent. Like this sausage I can make, like the sausage, it's gonna be fine.   And so he was like, when in doubt, the sausage egg and cheese over the bacon egg and cheese, always. And I've lived by those rules to this day. If I'm getting a breakfast sandwich and I'm not at like a nicer place, I'm like, all right, I'm gonna get a sausage egg and cheese because I know that the quality is gonna be there. But with the bacon, sometimes it's hit or miss. Just a little wisdom I'm trying to continue spreading. I'm gonna eat this breakfast now. It's got a little M on it. It's okay. Just like Sam said it would be. That's enough of you watching me eat. There it is, baby. SCP. It's a building. We are here. We are at SCP. To do the signing of the posters, I've arrived. I am just waiting for Becca, who is one of the lovely people that works here to arrive in just a minute and open the doors. And then we're gonna go inside. I'm not gonna film things like when I go in because I don't know if people know one that I'm coming. And so I don't wanna disrupt people's work by being like, whoa, this is great. Because if they don't know that somebody's coming that doesn't normally work there, I might be disruptive, I don't know. But I also don't wanna shove a camera in people's faces ever.  And then I'll show you guys later when I deem it's appropriate to do so. Vlogging is fun and it's something that I wanna do more of. But it's something that I also have to get used to because I don't necessarily like doing stuff so publicly because I feel intrusive to other people. And especially when it's like someplace like this where I'm going to places where people work, I don't wanna just have my camera out because that feels extra intrusive and people did not sign up to be on camera at their workplace. So I wanna also make sure that if I'm filming stuff that I talk to people and I'm like, hey, is it cool if I film something real quick? I'll make sure that you're not in frame if you don't wanna be.  But at the same time, I think it's important that I experience things for myself too and not make my entire life content. But two, when I do show you stuff, I wanna make sure that I'm respectful of everybody else that may or may not be on camera. And that even goes for like other stuff too because a lot of people are like, film a day in the life. But I know that like there's obviously moments where like Mika doesn't wanna be on camera. And like when I first wake up, sometimes I'm like, I don't really wanna be on camera right now. So you just gotta make sure that everybody who may or may not be on camera is chill with it.  I need to get it haircut. And well, not necessarily, I need to get it redied. I was supposed to the other day and then I didn't, I canceled last minute. Whoops. Oh yeah, look at this, look at this guy. Nice. Hello. How you doing? It's me and Stevie. Stevie is the mastermind behind SCP and we're here in the main warehouse. So we're gonna go on, we just had a little tour but we're gonna go on the reverse tour. This is where are we? We're in the fulfillment division. This is where all the older ship out. Something that I forgot about. It's Saturday, so nobody's here. You wanna jump on? I do wanna jump on, really bad. I'm ready. Are you stand straight up? Yep. This is scary. This is so scary. This is better than Uber. This is great. Whoa. Wait, am I going? Whoa, whoa, whoa. This is a wonderful time. Come on, come on. I'm pretty close. This thing's speedy. It goes fast.  The game's question mark, automatic stringing parts and machines. Nice. And dryers. This is where all the crank game post is printed, right? Wow. And this is where it was on, it was for, because there was a different warehouse, right? Or am I pink right? Well, we printed in this harness in the other warehouse for 11 months and then here for like five months since we've helped with all your orders. Getting off. This is the ink.  No. I feel like this would solidify in my esophagus. And I would suffocate. It is kind of satisfying. But who I do? It's like ice cream. It's like frosting. It's like, what's it called? Slough. So this is where, what happens? Oh, photography. Photography. All the screens are made select. All the individual colors. Every shirt. Should we go into the closet? Let's go into, what did you call it? Arizona? Arizona. This is Arizona, because it has to be out hot. Oh, maybe 100 degrees, no humidity. It's toasty. Yeah, it's toasty. This is where you're sleeping tonight. Oh, sleeping. You mean I get to sleep? Maybe. This is embroidery. This is where the embroidery happens. I'll leave it here. You got it. Just been going for a ride. Do you need my mushroom spray? Mushroom spray? Yeah. Yeah. Right there. How many spritzes? Four. Four? Ready? Oh, my face. I don't know how to apply mushroom spray. Okay, ready? Am I doing it correctly? I don't know how to do it. Ready? It's really far away. Really far away? Or closer? Okay, ready? One, two, three. Mushroom spray. We did that, yes. I don't know where napkins are. Everyone today. Mushrooms are going to grow out of my beard. Here, let's get a close-up.  I did not sign up for this. I did a really good job. You did a really good job. But hey, there's an asanas. And Billy Eilish. Tyler, I need to help you here. I'm sorry. I ruined everything.  It's okay. It's okay. I really like your defined urgent. Fuck. Well, is there anything else you want to show me? Or should I get to signing these posters? I'll show you the showroom. The showroom? See, that's the posters. This is the showroom. Show you the favorite version that we made. The showroom.  Because the shoes are one of my favorites. These are sweet. But no one is honest stuff. Just a copy of the one that's honest. Yeah. You did Swiffer? That's crazy. Oh, these are actually, these are probably my favorite. Pretty good. You think that JoJo Shake Hat hat. Ooh, do I get a cowboy hat? JoJo Shake Hat? This is free advertising. Addy, I don't know what this place is. We should have done prayer candles with unison. I feel like I mentioned they make that rejected. Oh, that's a good idea. We'll make them for 10 years. Maybe the other person rejected it. That other guy. Good times. It was fun. Let's do it again. No. Do you guys have any of Mika's new merch? Is any of that printed? Can I steal it? Even though I bought one? I just want the new Shark one. Oh, Benji and Hanipi. I think you got bang for that one when you showed me last week. I mean, she's always been around the same size as Spencer. What are you doing there today? Signing posters. But you know what? Today is a good day. So the signing has begun. Been signing for a couple hours now. I've got all these boxes. It's just one pallet, so it's not too bad. It's 410 posters per box. Here's my little station. Wow, look at that. And stream is right here. Chat, say hi to the vlog. Say hi, YouTube. Say hi, YouTube. You can see how dusty my laptop screen is. Hi, wow. Hi, YouTube. Wow. Chat, hold on one minute, OK? Because I have to give the vlog a scooter update. I love vlog. When I went to Walmart to get markers, I also got the scooter so I can ride around in between and just get away for a moment. Because it's important to have these moments where you just get away. And here's where my merch is stored. Wow. Isn't that cool? Try it along here. Isn't that crazy? Isn't that crazy, Chat? That is crazy. You're not Chat, you are YouTube. But we're going back now. It's only like 2.30 PM. I can't wait for like 3 o'clock in the morning, Ethan. What will he be up to? Anyway, I'm going to go back to signing posters, so see you later. After about almost 13 hours of signing, I am all done. I didn't do 10,000. I severely, severely underestimated how long that would take. Thankfully, though, only about 3,100 posters were sold, which at first glance, you might think like, oh, only 3,100 out of 10,000. 3,100 is a lot of posters. I'm extremely, extremely happy with that. So thank you guys so much seriously for getting so many of them. Because I basically was like, I want to do 10,000 for 10 years. Like, even if we don't sell out, I just like the correlation of that number. So I think what we're going to do, actually, is I signed about 3,500 of them. And I might have them ship me another box or two, depending on the sales in the next few days. And then we're going to put just the posters not signed up on the store, I think for like 15 bucks. It was a really, really fun time. I wish that I had more time to film stuff. And I'll probably film a little bit of stuff tomorrow. I'm going to go to their place and maybe print a few things of my own or maybe mess around with the machines on there. But it was a super fun stream. It was super fun having Andre out because he came out for the last bit of the stream, honestly. And it was very fun hanging out with you guys. So anybody who was there, I think you could just chill in and hang out. It was so much fun. Had a great time. But now I'm going to go back to the hotel. Let's go. How should we go? I don't think I ever showed you guys the weirdest thing about my room. It seems normal, right? First glance, bathroom, bedroom. But then creep around the corner. I'm not super sure what this is about. But whatever it is, about 1 a.m. So I am going to get ready for bed and go to bed and wake up tomorrow and we will go to Second City. We'll do some fun stuff in the actual factory, if you will, the actual warehouse. It was really fun, really good. I'm sorry that I didn't film more while I was actually there. Just kind of wanted you to get the stuff signed and everything. I planned on filming a little bit more. But once I was done with the stream, I was like, oh, I got to go. Anyway, I'm going to sleep. So night, night. Really where I am. I just kind of woke up here. I've just been going in and out of these rooms for what it feels like hours now. They're all the same, leading to the same place. I think something's watching me. Maybe waiting for me to slip up and make a mistake. I'm in the back rooms. I'm just in the back rooms. I am back at the warehouse this morning. On the upper levels of up here, they just have different offices and stuff. But they're currently moving a bunch of stuff from their old warehouse, well, not their old warehouse, their other warehouse into here. So they're still in the moving process. So nothing's really done over here at all. See, look at all these boxes and things. Wow. Those are my body pillows. But I am back here this morning. I leave tonight, later this afternoon, to go back to LA. But I am here this morning, one, to sign more posters. I'm going to sign only a couple more boxes, I think. And then I'm going to head over to the main warehouse and say bye to Stevie. And maybe see, I don't know, because it's Sunday. And I don't think anybody's going to be there. But I'm going to see maybe. I wonder if I can print a shirt. Because that would be kind of fun to see how the machines actually work. Well, I'm going to sign another box or two just while I'm here. The stream last night was really, really fun. But I just got to a point where I was like, I feel physically ill. Can't remember if I showed you. But this is where my merch is. And it's all in here, on these shelves over here. So any merch that you've gotten. Right on these shelves. Wow. Isn't that crazy? But yeah, this is just, this warehouse is 150,000 square feet. Absolutely massive. But it's so weird. I mean, it makes sense because it's Sunday and people don't come in on the weekends. But it's crazy just like being completely alone in this massive warehouse, with just like surrounded by this maze of boxes. But yeah, this place is edge. Absolutely, edge. So yeah, I'm just going to sign another box or two and then go over to the other warehouse, see about a Stevie, maybe see if I can print a shirt or something. Then I'm going to drive back to the airport and go home, see the doggies, see Mica, see the rats. And then I'm leaving again. A day after that for a 16 hour flight, 18 hour flight. It'll be fun. It'll be very fun. So it's time to scoot a little more though. I'm just going to do a lap.


Um, some questions. If you could, could you touch on the Hanaman hospital owner, Joe Freeman? I guess he denied the city to open his hospital to help COVID-19 patients and everyone is seemingly blaming greed. I haven't read the story. I should read this. I'll try to look it up and read it, but generally I'm a big believer in private hospitals and private hospitals. You should be able to, you should be able to do with your hospital as you see fit. I think, so I don't know the details of the case. I'm not going to comment on it. I'll look it up though. How long should we tolerate a shutdown before airway organizes civil disobedience?  We need to fight. Airway can organize civil disobedience tomorrow. What five people show up? What are we, what are you talking about? I mean, there's so much advocacy, education, speaking, yelling on YouTube, on Twitter, on Facebook, on every medium available to you before we get to the stage of civil disobedience. And civil disobedience has to be full on a principle. An AI has to fight for the right kind of principles, but nobody's going to join us right now on these principles. We still have so much work to do. And look, AI is not an activist organization. AI is an educational organization. But nothing is stopping any of you from starting up an activist organization that wants to protest what is going on today in America. And I'm sure I would be very supportive of that. So do it. Don't look like everybody else in the culture for leaders to guide us and to solve all our problems. You got a problem? You go out there and view and do it. That's not true about AI's viewers per YouTube stream. They have many more than that. But the point is we're small. We're small. We're in the thousands. And that civil disobedience movement does not make. But you could do this. You could start a movement. Start a movement. Not of kooks, which is the danger here. A real movement to stand up to the government and demand our freedoms, to demand they do the right thing. So he says, are there other things on top of writing we can do to fight this? Yeah. I mean, it's all in the same vein. Right? Speak and keep doing that. I don't know what else there is. Share. Do the YouTube things. Share. Find articles that strengthen your point. Post them on Facebook. Post them everywhere. Find articles about how the free market is helping here. Dislike, intervene when people tell people, no, I don't think the government is doing the right thing. No. I don't think a lockdown is necessary. No. I don't think government takeover of health care, government takeover of the hospitals is the right thing. No. I don't think Trump has done the right thing. No. I don't think Como has done the right thing. I think they're weak, pathetic politicians that know only one thing, which is the fist, not only one thing, which is coercion. They're not thinkers. And what we need right now are thinkers. Let's see. Rand ideas took off in a harder economic times of the 60s and 70s. 60s were not hard economic times. 60s the economy was booming. It's the 70s were bad economic times. Atlas shrugs sales hit record in 08. It's time to double down on message. Yes, I think that's absolutely right. I think there is a chance that this economic crisis will lead people to discover Iran will lead people to read Atlas shrug. But only, only, only, only if we're out there showing them there's an alternative. You know, Jonathan Owning is the only one on TV today saying no to all these things. You guys need to demand more voices like that on television. You have power. Your power is in speaking and writing. Your power is through social media, but you gotta focus that power. You know, you've gotta however many thousands of people out there who support these ideas have got to band together on the internet and advocate for certain ideas and tilt the discussion and get the media engaged and get journalists engaged and get them thinking about alternative ways of looking at the world, thoughtful ways of looking at the world. Fed continually does stimulus what happens to the economy. I mean, Fed is, is going to, is doing this massive stimulus basically saying we'll give as much money as needs to be to provide liquidity to markets. What happens is it thoroughly, fundamentally systematically distorts the economy. It makes wealth creation long-term difficult. It shores up the economy in the short run and sets it up for failure in the long run. So I don't think like other people that the outcome is hyperinflation or complete collapse or the dark ages or whatever. I don't think that because I think there's, there's an enormous amount of productive genius in America that keeps this economy going. But I do think it distorts, it hampers and it makes this country a lot less able to grow and create wealth and produce and, and succeed in the future. The pain we suffer from what the Federal Reserve is doing in the stimulus package that the government is doing will be slow to know economic growth in our future. Stagnation, long-term stagnation until we really change our ways.  Well, everybody can. To evade reality is a choice. You want to evade reality, you can't.   But so it's, it's not an issue of can or can't.  It's, it's self-destructive and we're not willing to engage in self-destruction. We're not willing to engage in self-destruction. Today I watched what I thought would be an innocuous April Fool's joke video from an entertainment YouTube channel. It brutally attacked capitalism regarding the pandemic. I counter argued in the comments but I was alone. Well, thank you for counter argument in the comments. You never know who might read those comments and be, and be swayed by your words and use the opportunity of commenting to link to good material, link to Iron Man's books, link to the Iron Man Institute, link to me, link to, link to places. You are not going to make all the arguments, but if somebody wants to follow up, if somebody finds what you're saying intriguing, you got to give them hooks to go find out more. But yes, everybody is going to come out of this crisis, anti-capitalist. Everybody is going to come out of this crisis, anti-capitalist. Capitalism will be blamed for everything, just like it was in 08, just like it was in the Great Depression. Capitalism will be blamed, and if we don't stand up, if we don't defend it, then we have nobody but ourselves to blame. So we have to speak up for capitalism. This crisis would not be a crisis if not for capitalists. Virus is nothing for a capitalist economy in terms of dealing with. We'd be so much wealthier. Our hospitals would be so much more sophisticated. Our ability to create vaccines would be so much more superior. Our ability to make anti-vitals that are effective on the fly would be so much better. Our ability to keep people alive was sick until we developed those medications. We'd be so much better. The wealth that we would have, the productive capacity that we would have, it's just unimaginable. So no, you got to fight for capitalism. You got to try to explain that to people. And of course, as I said, the planning, the preparation, the thinking, businesses and the freedom, think. It's how you make money by thinking. It's that opposite of politics. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning, any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of the stare, cynicism and impotence, and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist. Using the super chat, and I noticed yesterday when I appealed for support for the show, many of you stepped forward and actually supported the show for the first time. So I'll do it again. Maybe we'll get some more today. If you like what you're hearing, if you appreciate what I'm doing, then I appreciate your support. Those of you who don't yet support the show, please take this opportunity. Go to Iranbrookshow.com slash support or go to subscribestar.com, Iranbrookshow, and make a kind of a monthly contribution to keep this going. I'm not sure when the next...