What did you learn about the nature of politics and made it you a more optimistic or more pessimistic human being? What politics did teach me is that nothing is impossible. I grew up in the eastern part of the country, bordered Mozambique. When the War of Liberation started, I was a small boy, but I did see the war. And at that time it was unthinkable that the gorillas would be able to defeat this monolithic army of people who had helicopters, cars, big cars, big guns. But I lived to see the system collapse. I lived to see the people who were working from a position of disadvantage win. And then when I joined the opposition, it was unthinkable that one day President Mugabe's government can be beaten. I lived to see Mugabe being beaten in 2008. And I lived to see myself actually winning an election as a member of parliament, of course. But I also see the brutal, I saw the brutal side of politics. Politics without rules is a recipe for disaster for men, for for mankind. There must be rules. And these rules don't have to be necessarily written. There must be social rules that govern people. We must be this, we can be this unfair, but not that unfair. And what I've seen is that most politicians go all the way to get what they want, irrespective of how they get it. So in the world of politics, especially Zimbabwean politics, I've seen people treat each other in the most despicable of manners. Mr. Mugabe, still president of your country, was, if I remember correctly, one of those freedom fighters to turn Rhodesia into Zimbabwean and make it a free African country. He became president, he's still president already for 36 years. What did you learn about the nature of power? And I'm asking you this because our first round table conversation will be about what's the defect in our society. And probably the nature of power has something to do with it. George Orwell in Animal Farm was very prophetic and you'd think that he wrote that with the Zimbabwean mind. The way the animals fight, win together, get power and the way they then treat each other when the power has been begotten. I think Mr. Mugabe was a good fighter for liberation and he did articulate the things well. Unfortunately, when we got into independence, he found the instruments of oppression used by his press assessors. And for him, he could use them to suppress dissent and he was tempted to use these instruments. So what that teaches us about the nature of power is that you must limit it before a person gets it. The second thing is that, ironically the British seem to have learned this faster, it is that a good leader in war time is not necessarily a good leader in peace time. Fortunately, the British had their church during the war and I am yet to read of a better man motivating his country to fight and fight well, a very difficult war I suppose, to see that man at the end of that war losing an election. And I think it was a realization that you can be good in peace time, in war time. You may not necessarily be the best person to do the reconstruction of the country. And I think Zimbabweans in Mugabe, they forgot that.


Okay, if I was going to cover this at CBS, how would I cover it? And try to cover it the same way. And I talked to a lot of sources at CNN. Some said, yeah, this is really weird. I'm ticked off at Chris. Others said, you know, I understand. You can't pick who your family members are. So there was a wide range of opinions. And overall, I think what was most important is that we covered the story on air just the same we would any other story. Ultimately, isn't that what matters? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.


The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Brookshow. Hey everybody, welcome to Iran Brookshow. It's Friday the 4th. Weekend is looking forward to a fantastic week. So joining today is a news, we're going to do a news roundup. And so we'll start that in a second. I want to remind you of just some of the upcoming shows. Tomorrow we've got an Ask Me Anything show. 3 p.m. East Coast time on Sunday. We have a members-only show. You can still become a member and join that show. It'll be on arts. Focused on Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Bernini, and Vermeer. There's a combination for you. For maybe the top, certainly in the top 10 painted sculptors in human history. So we'll do that. I'll have images to show, so that should be fun. What else are we going to do? And yeah, so those two. And then on Tuesday. Tuesday I'm going to have on Uncle Gatté is going to join me. Tuesday at 8 p.m. And he is, we're going to be talking about a bunch of stuff relating to objectivism. Of course it'll be open to all of your philosophical questions. So please think about questions that you've asked me and I've said ask a philosopher. Or just questions that intrigue you about objectivism, about philosophy more broadly. Uncle is incredibly knowledgeable. But we will focus the discussion on this question of closed versus open objectivism. We'll talk about fact and value. We'll talk about moral sanction and what it means to sanction somebody. So a lot of controversy, a lot of controversial issues. So please let people know out there and join the show. I'm hoping that we get a lot of people joining in that show. And please bring your questions to the fairway. Alright, today we've got a packed show. There's a lot of news. We're going to talk about Supreme Court decisions from yesterday. We'll talk about Trump's classified document problem. An impeachment in Texas, surprising. And a crazy story about New York banks. And then we can also talk and I assume we will quickly talk about just a story relating to abortion and what else do I have here? Yeah, Germany going into recession and maybe we'll mention the debt ceiling. So lots of stuff. Of course, don't forget to use the super chat feature to ask questions or just to support the show. Preference is always given to questions of $20 and above. And we do have a target. The targets have disappeared. Why is the gold not there? We'll add the, whoops, I don't know what that was. We'll add, whoops, no, I can't add. Alright. For some reason, my gold feature has disappeared. But anyway, let me try to reload. Alright, so we should get started. Okay, I can't. Huh. Very strange. Very strange. Okay. Let's try again. All right, there we go. All good. All right. So let's see, start with Supreme Court.  I'm not an expert on these areas of law. But, you know, we will, but the, both of these, both of these cases were argued by the Pacific Legal Foundation, which is a very good organization, which I support morally at least intellectually out of Sacramento, California. That's where they're based. And the Pacific Legal Foundation did a phenomenal job and they won both cases, which is very unusual for one of these free market, pro-property rights, you know, legal firms to actually be able to, actually a nonprofit, to win in the Supreme Court. And it says something about the composition of the current court that is open to some of these challenges. The first case is a relatively simple and very, very shocking case. This is a case of a 94-year-old Jolene Tyler who owned a condo in Minnesota and she failed to pay her property taxes for several years.  You're basically renting it from the government. And if you don't pay your property taxes, what happens? They seize your property. They seize their property. They basically seize the property that they own. And this is how the County of Minnesota, Minnesota County, viewed this. So they basically seized their property while she owed $15,000 in taxes. They sold the property for $40,000 and kept the entire $40,000. They didn't take the $15,000 she owed them and give her back $25,000. They kept the entire $40,000. Now what was their argument? Two arguments they made. One is, well, once she stopped paying property taxes, once she no longer paid the property taxes, the property was no longer hers. It was the County's. So much for you thinking you own your own property. Anyway, it was the County's. And if it's the County's, then the County should keep all the money from the sale of the property. Not give her the difference. Not just pay the taxes. It's actually the County's. The second argument was, by the way, it wasn't her money anyway. She had a mortgage and she had other liens against the property. So the $25,000 didn't belong to her. They belonged to the bank. So the government just kept it anyway. The Supreme Court unanimously, 7-0, including the three, you know, leftist liberal judges. 7-0 ruled that this was wrong. They overturned this.  She has a property right over the condo. The government has the right to sell the property. But once the taxes are paid, anything above and beyond that should be returned to the individual. So this is, now it turns out that this practice of the government keeping the proceeds is quite widespread. It's done in a lot of different types of cases. This will be an important precedent. This is a significant limitation of the powers of government to violate your property rights and a significant protection and defense on property rights. You know, the court stressed, quote, that property rights cannot be so easily manipulated. You know, I wish it was a little stronger than that, but okay. And it, you know, it basically ruled in Joe Dean Tyler's favor on the basis of the taking clause on the basis that this was unjust taking. The government just took her $25,000 with no compensation. And this is great. The lawyer from the Pacific League Foundation said that this affirms that property rights are fundamental and don't depend solely on state law. So, good. And what's really, I think, you know, really significant here in this particular case is that it was unanimous, 7-0. That is pretty amazing that even the leftist judges saw the violation of property rights here as a significant issue. So, good for all of them. Good for the court and good for the Pacific League Foundation for pursuing this and going after them.  If you're interested in these kind of lawsuits, you should look up the Pacific League Foundation to find them online. There's a number of friends of ARI and objectivists and former employee and, you know, but a lot of friends of objectivism who work at the Pacific League Foundation. So, you should definitely check them out. Second case that the court decided yesterday also argued by the Pacific League Foundation. And this one's a little bit more complex. So, I am not necessarily going to, I'm not going to give you an analysis. It's not quite as clear cut in terms of the meaning of it all as the previous case. But this is second versus the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency. And what's significant here is that the court for the second time now, this court has significantly restrained and limited the scope of the EPA's authority. And, you know, if you know anything about how the EPA restricts development, restricts building and is massively violates property rights, then any time we restrict the EPA's regulatory authority over our lives and over our property, this is a good thing. So, this is overall a good ruling even though it is more complex. Here, I guess the Sackets wanted to build on property that they owned. The property owned they was deemed therefore then by the EPA as protected wetlands and as a consequence they were prevented from building. The court ruled 7 to 0, again unanimous, that the EPA in a narrow sense violated the Sackets' rights and did not handle this case appropriately. But then, more significantly, a majority of the court, 5, in this case 5 to 4 with Justice Kavanaugh, Justice Kavanaugh, one of the justices that Trump nominated. I never liked, not because of the sexual harassment accusations against him, but because of his legal philosophy which doesn't really exist. A real wishy-washy kind of pragmatist. Anyway, Justice Kavanaugh actually sided with the three leftist judges and there was a 5 to 4 decision on this one. But in addition, there was a separate kind of decision issued by Gosig and Thomas which was concurring with the 5 to 4, but was much broader than the main decision that was written by Justice Alito. And basically what the main decision has done is it said that the EPA has to shrink its definition of wetlands, that the original law, the Clean Water and Air Act, actually only defined wetlands as navigable lands and therefore it has to, this wetland had to be connected to some other wet area, river, lake or something that was navigable. Otherwise they couldn't, the EPA did not have jurisdiction over this wetland. So are they all ruled, I think from a property rights perspective that the saccades were treated unfairly? What's important about this decision even more so is the fact that by a 5 to 4 majority they have limited the scope of how the EPA can define wetlands. And this affects probably about 50% or close to 50% of the wetlands in the United States. Now we'll see, it's not as good as that sounds, but that's already good, right? The EPA is out from regulating about 50% of the space that they assumed that they could regulate two days ago. So yesterday was a massive blow to the regulatory power authority scope of the EPA. And they basically made a decision that all of this wetlands are outside the scope of the EPA. Now it's still true that states and local authorities can regulate those spaces. And the Supreme Court, I think from the perspective of federalism, would probably not challenge if a state government then stepped in and replaced the EPA with regulations that still limited people's ability to use their own property because it was defined by a state as wetlands. But what they have done is they've clearly limited the scope of the EPA itself's ability to regulate. And this is consistent particularly with Gorsuch. And indeed, Gorsuch and Thomas wrote a concurrent opinion that was even broader and suggested that the court should actually be questioning more of the authority of the EPA and questioning more of kind of the meaning of the Clean Water and Air Act and how it's being applied and how it's being applied in this case. So we have at least two judges that I think have a real desire to rein in regulatory agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency. But generally the power of regulators. And one of the things that stood out in this case is that there's a famous case called the Chevron case, which was actually ultimately decided by Scalia, which basically said the Supreme Court is going to give deference to regulatory agencies. They're experts, they know what they're doing, we're going to defer to them for the most part. And this was a doctrine, Chevron doctrine, I think that Scalia was really behind, which is awful, really horrible. And basically what this court is doing is this undoing Chevron. It's basically saying, no, no, no, no, no. It's our job to make sure that the regulatory agencies are working according to the letter of the law. If Congress wants to expand their powers, Congress needs to actually pass more laws. And we'll look at it from the perspective of property rights and taking clauses. But we want to make sure that the law is being abided and that the regulatory agencies are not just expanding the authority, which has been happening over the last 40, 50 years, with the regulatory agencies beyond the rule, the law that created them. It's just expanding and expanding and expanding their authority and their ability to control. And this court, particularly Gorsuch, are dedicated to narrowing the scope so that the regulatory agencies can only function based on what the law says, what a concept. So, again, not a revolution. I'd like to see all these regulatory agencies declared unconstitutional for a variety of different reasons. But that's not constitutional law today. But a huge step in the right direction, at least in terms of just limiting the scope and power of government over our lives. And particularly in this case, the scope and power of unelected regulatory agencies that just seem to usurp more and more and more power over time. That seems to have ended. That is, this court is going to be around for a while. And this court really seems to be dedicated to reining in regulatory agencies and their power. So good for the, again, Pacific League Foundation, good for the Supreme Court. Two good rulings, some unanimous rulings, which are positive. A cavernized disappointment, it turns out he's just the middle of the road. The pragmatist, he might turn out to be that swing voter vote that might swing sometimes on the left. You know, sometimes he might be joined by Roberts, other times he won't. But on economic issues, on regulatory issues, the person to really look for in a leadership position, I think, here in this court is Gorsuch. Right. Let's, the next couple of items are pretty quick. So it's, you know, so hopefully, hopefully we can get through the entire agenda without taking huge amount of time. Let's see. Okay. So, Trump documents. So, you know, there's this classified document thing, and we've got a special prosecutor that's been investigating this. And now it does look like there might be criminal prosecution against Trump over these documents. Because whereas it appears, we don't know, but it appears that, you know, the documents that Biden has and the documents that Pence has and probably others have, were kind of documents that are there more as accidents and thoughtlessness and stupidity and you can add up all those kind of things. With Trump, he knew the documents were there. He knew the government wanted them. He knew the FBI was coming to collect them. And he purposefully, at least that's the allegation, that's the allegation, he purposefully kept them from the government. He moved them around. He, they actually, there was a supposed to address rehearsal to move the sensitive documents when the FBI came so they wouldn't find them. I mean, clearly, if this is true, right, these all allegations, this is all we don't have. We don't have a trial. We don't have, we don't even have an official, anything official yet. But this sounds like a real case of obstruction of justice, obstruction, you know, and a conscious attempt to secure for himself classified documents that clearly do not belong to him. So it's Donald Trump. Now, will this make any difference to people who support Trump? No. You know, if he's convicted or charged with anything, will that make a difference? Probably not. But it's pretty crazy. This guy is, it's pretty crazy that this guy is, well, for a million reasons, it's pretty crazy that this guy is still the number one, you know, the Leeds, the Republican primary, when they're clearly far, far better choices than him. Both in terms of the ability to win an election, but also in terms of, in terms of just policy and being a human being. All right, let's see. So I just thought I'd fill you in on that. It looks like the Trump drama saga is and will continue unabated.  I just mentioned Biden's documents, by the way, and I've mentioned Biden's documents in the past. But one of these, one of these issues that is super interesting coming out of coming out of Texas that affects Republicans is that the Texas House of Representatives has just had impeachment documents filed against the Texas Attorney General. Now, this is a unbelievable, unbelievable, powerful attorney general. This is, you know, Ken Paxton has been elected twice, incredibly powerful within the state of Texas, a real mover and shaker, a real, you know, he's been involved in pretty much every one of the big issues. Big issues around, around cultural cultural issues. He is a poster child in many respects for a lot of the issues that a Republican care about and and Ken Paxton has just been. I mean, we'll see if they impeach him. The Texas House of Representatives has to vote on it, but a committee of the Texas House has recommended impeachment. They have filed 20 counts of impeachment, all focusing on, you know, fraud and securities violations and corruption. I mean, this is, this is really, really bad stuff. And again, for a super unbelievably powerful Republican who's quite popular within the state of Texas, he's been elected twice in spite of whispers in spite of accusations in the past about all these things. It seems like a lot of this was triggered by a sediment that Paxton came to with a whistleblower, a $3.3 million sediment that kind of silenced the whistleblower that was accusing him of something. And then he turned to the state and asked the state of Texas to cover the $3.3 million. And that was kind of, it looks like, again, this is all happening very quickly. It looks like that was kind of the, the, the stroller broke the camel's back. So this is a Republican House of Representatives dominated by Republicans in a dominantly Republican state impeaching a leading Republican attorney general for, you know, who knows, corruption, a variety of different things. I don't know anything about whether this is just political payback or this is then playing political. I just don't know. I know people who know Paxton pretty well. He was, he was very influential about setting up this Savita Center at the University of Texas in Austin. And it's, again, a big, very, very conservative, very, very conservative, both on, on, on, you know, on all the social issues, very, very conservative. So we're going to see, we're going to see how all this works out, how all this plays out. Will the House in Texas, a Republican House impeach him? Will the, if they do, then there will be a trial in the Senate, again, a Republican dominated Senate. And what happens to Ken Paxton? I mean, really fascinating that Republicans are turning on themselves in a state which is so dominated by them. A story to keep watching. I noticed that they're kind of quote, right wing media is not covering it. So that's kind of interesting. Not surprising, though. All right, let's see. All right, so thank you, Wes. Wes just did $100. Really appreciate that support, Wes. Appreciate your support generally for the, for the new shows. That's fantastic. All right. This is kind of a spooky story, but not surprising, right? This is, this is where you get the interaction of the left social agenda and American business and the impact it has. And you wonder why American business and why American CEOs co-tow to a lot of the cultural issues that the Democrats and the left pushes. This is why this story is an explanation for why. So it turns out that under the charter and rules of the New York City Banking Commission. In order to comply with the charter and in order to get your certification and in order to be in good standing with the New York City Banking Commission. Every bank has to file forms that demonstrate a meaningful commitment to combat discrimination in employment services and lending. And you have to file all kinds of documents and statements and show I'm sure percentages of loans and deposits and all this stuff. And who knows, right? Because all of this is, it's pretty subjective and it's easy to manipulate. And who knows what it means to combat discrimination when it comes to employment services and lending and how far you have to go and how much DEI do you have to impose. Anyway, the New York Banking Commission just finished reviewing all the documents submitted by all the banks that are actually active in New York City. And it turns out the five banks have failed to comply with the designation process and the controller. The commission has voted against allowing them to receive additional deposits. So for example, Capital One, a big bank with a huge presence in New York City. Which holds 7.2 million in city deposits. This is deposits of the city of New York. At the end of April, across 108 accounts. And Key Bank, another fairly big bank, which holds 10 million dollars in city. This is the city of New York deposit. At the end of April, across three accounts. They outlawed both these banks. This is amazing. Outlawed refused to submit the required policies. They refused to send in the discrimination stuff, right? Represents of Mayor Adams of the Department of Finance Commissioner joined the controller in voting to freeze new deposits in Capital One and Key Corp for up to two years. So the city of New York will not be depositing any more money with these two banks. Probably see where it draws. I think Capital One, 7.2 million and Key Bank, 10 million can easily withstand this. But think about the pressure. And we should all, if you guys, we should all consider banking with Capital One and Key Bank just for the audaciousness and the courage and their willingness to stand up to the city of New York and refuse to even submit to this kind of requirement to submit these kind of documents. Just to give you a sense of how these proceedings happen. You know, at public hearings, the Banking Commission heard testimony from Muslim New Yorkers who experienced discrimination in the process of opening and closing accounts. One wonders, right? Did they experience discrimination or did something else go on? Were both parties listened to or just the complainers? Tenants expressed concerns about predatory lending practices by banks. Yeah, and jeopardize their rights and safe living conditions. Climate advocates condemn banks that have continued to lend billions of dollars for fossil fuel expansion despite having made net zero commitments. Members of the public spoke in favor of creating a public bank, a public bank, a bank run by the city of New York, I guess, that would provide banking services for city deposits and deploy that capital to better serve New York communities. Yeah, this is the great city, the finance capital of the world, New York City. This is how they treat their banks. This is how they handle banking issues. All right, so we managed to get to those fast. Let me just, a couple of the quick ones. This is a horrific story, but do you remember the abortion doctor, the woman who actually did an abortion on a 10 year old Ohio girl who was raped and was pregnant and, you know, Ohio law prohibited the abortion. So this girl came to Indiana and Indiana, Dr. Bernard, you know, did the abortion and as a consequence, Indiana and Ohio launched investigations against her and accused of all kinds of things and just went after her brutally and tried to get her license revoked. Anyway, she was in front of the Indiana Medical Licensing Board and they came down to deal with all these charges. Think about that. And at the end of the day, she was charged with and fined for violating the girl's privacy. Even though she never gave him the girl's name, she never did anything to disclose and she claimed that the reason she talked about the case was to let people know about what's going to happen if you restrict abortion like Ohio law restricted it. These are the kind of consequences. And yet she has been reprimanded. She has gotten a fine. Luckily, her license was not revoked. This is by the Indiana Medical Licensing Board. But this, this is after this poor doctor, courageous, heroic, poor doctor had to endure a 14 hour, 14 hour hearing where these disgusting, horrible people from Deputy Attorney General of Attorney General's Office of Indiana went after her.   And it just shows how evil and despicable the anti-abortion forces really are and what their real agenda is. It is a true hatred of humanity. Here's a 10 year old gold who was raped, the accused rapist was just charged recently. And she can't have an abortion because of what? Because a bunch of people decided that abortion is bad. Life starts at conception. It's just unbelievable. Okay, that was a quick update. That ceiling looks like there's going to be a deal on a debt ceiling. As I predicted, it looks like the deal would be a charade. It won't actually cut spending, but the Republicans will be able to say, we did something that cut spending, but it actually won't. Democrats will be able to say they won, Republicans will be able to say they won, and we will all be the losers for it. And Republicans, again, will blow an opportunity where they had real power to get something really done. And this is a story we'll come back to, and that is that Germany is now officially in recession. This is the economic powerhouse of Europe. This is the country that because of its economic growth and its economic success and prowess has managed to pull Europe through many crises. And Germany is in real trouble, is in economic trouble, is in economic decay. And a lot of it, not all of it, but a lot of it has to do, some of it has to do with internal combustion engine and the focus on electric cars, which German car manufacturers have just not been able to catch up on. And a lot of it has to do with the cost of energy, and German is just insane, insane suicidal energy policy that they've engaged in by shutting down the nuclear power plants and building windmills and all the rest of it. And solar panels in Germany, if you've ever been to Germany, you know how often the sun shines over there. Alright, let's see, let's jump into the super chat. Thank you guys, we're just about $40 short of our goal, so we'd love to be able to make the goals if a couple of $20 questions and we're done. So please consider supporting the show, we've got almost 80 people watching live right now, so it's just a couple of $20 questions and we're done. Alright, Bree asks, the ruling on the lady tax debt is weak. They should force to go the regular court procedure to get the money.  Well, a bank might be able to, so yes, I know, but the reality is, Bree, sadly, is that the local authorities that collect your property tax actually own your home and you're paying them rents. I mean, that is the reality, that's been the reality for a long time in America. I completely agree with you that that is unjust and that is wrong, but they basically have a lien in your property if you don't pay your property tax. And that's the reality all of America. For the court to actually say that is wrong, the local governments cannot use property taxes in that way and cannot seize the property. That would require another big leap forward in terms of the court's understanding of private property and what private property actually means. And it would also mean that the court is willing to overturn local laws, local laws and local laws that have existed for a very long time. You know, in a court that, suppose you have this real respect for federalism, it's very difficult for the court to actually do something like that. So, you know, we can hope that the day will come when a ruling like that has passed, but I absolutely agree with you. The county, you pay your taxes, you don't pay them, they should take you to court and go through the court just like the IRS does when you don't pay your income taxes. They don't just seize your property. But we know that in many cases the seizure happens and to the extent that we can limit at least the damage and the scope of it, that's a good thing. But you're right, in terms of protecting property rights, we still got a long way to go. Taisie, thank you for $20. Last night I dreamt that I was battling huge sci-fi creepy crawlies. All right, I managed to crush the head of one, but his body was still moving. Sounds like the terminator. I closed my eyes and pressed harder. He wiggled and then I woke up. What does it mean? Ooh, I don't know. It means that you're probably reading too many horror stories about artificial intelligence. I don't know what it means. Am I a dream analyzer? No, I have no idea. You know, maybe it's that creepy state that no matter, you know, no matter what we do to limit its power, it then finds other ways to invade our space. But if you really want a remedy for that, just watch the first two terminator movies and you can see that you can overcome. Jerome, hi, Iran. I was wondering, on your thoughts of rights being thought of as options, as if the same as physical or intellectual ownership. Is it the same as physical or intellectual ownership? Wow. All right.  It goes to the nature and heart of what rights are. And of course, rights are not options. Rights are freedoms of action. Rights are requirements that each one of us has. Requirements for our own freedom that each one of us has to pursue our own life to use our own judgment in pursuit of our own values. Without coercion, without force, without interference. And physical intellectual ownership is one form that those rights take. That is, your ability to, or your right over, your freedom of action to pursue material values and keep them once you attain them and preserve them. That is one of those fundamental rights. That is one of those requirements for civilization, for living in a civilized society. So rights are a moral concept that bridges the moral idea of individualism and the responsibility of the individual to pursue his own life using his own mind. Ultimately pursuing his own happiness. It's a bridging culture between that and, okay, if I'm going to pursue that, how can I do so in a society with other people who might use force against me? And we create governments to protect my ability to pursue that from people who might use force against me. And of course by doing that we also risk that the government then becomes the biggest violator of rights, which of course it is. So no, rights are absolutes. They're absolute moral requirements for the preservation of human life in a social context. And they're not options. There's nothing optional about it. I mean, I'd love to get follow-up questions on this, but it would require a much bigger show to really analyze it and discuss it. Okay, Michael says, did you see Peter Schiff's interview with Jordan Peterson? I did not. I did not. So I might watch it. I might watch it. And if so, I'll try to comment on it. Michael, do you think DeSantis is betting on Trump's legal problems and unhinged mental state to secure relatively easy path to victory? Well, I'd be surprised if he thinks it's relatively easy, but going to be relatively easy. But I do think to some extent DeSantis is positioning himself to be the second choice when and if Donald Trump implodes for whatever reason. The problem is that it doesn't seem like Donald Trump imploding has any impact on his base and on his support. So, you know, we will see, right? We will see whether the strategy works. If he's counting just on Donald Trump committing suicide, in a sense, then I think he's going to be disappointed. I think he has to become the aggressor. I think unless somebody starts going after Trump aggressively, Trump has the potential of winning this, you know, unless he goes to jail or something, we will see. Okay, to Jikin. Have you seen the Biddle Hicks discussion? I thought Biddle made a fantastic job defending the viewpoint of objectives and being a closed system. Have a great weekend. I really encourage you to come listen to Encore discuss this next week. I think you'll get a very different perspective than what you heard from Biddle. I think you'll discover that, you know, like in a lot of other things from, you know, Biddle's very rarely does a fantastic job at anything. And that is including making the right and appropriate case in a debate like this. As I said, I don't think this was a debatable issue. We'll talk more about why that is on Tuesday. And we'll talk about what the right arguments are in such a context. And what it means, what it even means to say objectives is a closed system or an open system. Is objectives a closed system? What does that mean? Is it an open system? What does that mean? Why does anybody thinking about it in terms of open and closed? All of those questions are going to come up with Encore next week. And I think you'll find them super interesting and maybe a different perspective than what you've heard in the past, even for me, regarding them. So I encourage you to join. I encourage you to join. Michael says, did you listen to Biden's recent speech where he said there's no such thing as someone else's child? He got that right out of the communist manifesto. Maybe, I can't remember. No, I haven't seen that Biden speech. It sounds like something Biden might say without even thinking about saying it because Biden doesn't do much thinking, just generally. But yes, I mean, the left is crazy. I mean, it takes a village. You remember that? That was Hillary Clinton. It takes a village to raise a child. The child is basically a village's child and so on. So I encourage you all to, well, I encourage you all not to listen to Joe Biden. All right, we, $20 short, just $20. Somebody with the $20 question, get us to our goal. We've only got three questions. We're going to end this in like five minutes. So you've got five minutes to bring up $20. Okay, Michael says, well, probably getting governor seem to be effective at passing school choice legislation. Are we going to see more privatization of the school system over the next decade? It really depends on the specific school choice regulations. So to the extent that the school choice system is a voucher system that then the state gets to decide who gets the vouchers. It's going to be more difficult for private schools to compete. To the extent that the school choice system is a education saving accounts where the state doesn't get to choose how the parent uses it. And it gives a wide birth of options, wide range of opportunities on how to use those, the education saving accounts. Then I think, yes, then I think there's going to be a real boost of private education. I do think there are real opportunities right now for private education to flourish, to grow, particularly in these states that have passed some of these laws. I'm looking forward to it. I think it's probably one of the better moves in the country. But I was disappointed, for example, in Florida, it's only approved schools that are going to get the vouchers. It's not as broad as, for example, in Arizona where pretty much the parent can do anything educational with the money, including schools that the state would probably not approve of. So we will see. But I'm excited about the potential. And I do think this is a real opportunity for private schools to flourish and to grow and to become more dominant in our... And for example, homeschooling, not just private schools, but all kinds of alternative schooling options. Okay, James says, did you see my email on Texas? One key is how Texas produces a lot of renewable energy. Do you think Germany causes global recession or only European? I did see your email about Texas. I haven't watched the video yet. I will. Texas does produce a ton of renewable energy. It would be a lot cheaper if they just produced natural gas and produced electricity from it. Do you think Germany causes global recession? No. I mean, Germany is not causing global recession. It'll cause problems in Europe. It'll make it more difficult to bail out the struggling economies in Europe, Italy, Spain, and ultimately Greece, kind of Southern Europe, Portugal maybe. But, you know, it's just a sign of European weakness. And I think you're seeing more and more of that. I think the strong economies in Europe seem to be kind of the Scandinavian economies where they haven't resisted fossil fuels, the Scandinavian economies that... Well, I haven't resisted nuclear power, really, where they've invested heavily in nuclear power like Finland and where they have less regulations than in Germany. France is in trouble, although again, Marcon has done a few things that are basically good. But Europe generally is in trouble. The global recession is a consequence of rising interest rates, which are a consequence of zero interest rate policies of the past, and inflationary policies by government all around the world during COVID. To the extent that there's going to be a global recession, it won't be because of Germany and because of all the governments that inflated the currencies during COVID and because of the central bank's zero interest rate policies going back to the great financial crisis. But again, that is a topic from much larger discussion. Oscar, thank you for the $20. Really, really appreciate the support. We have surpassed our goal today, so thank you for everybody. No more questions because I do need a run, so I've got four questions left. Andrew says, are you surprised by how much money DeSantis has raised already? What does that mean in your view? Well, it means that there is a significant percentage of particularly wealthy Republicans and Republican donors who want a viable alternative to Trump, not only because they would like to see somebody just beat Trump, but for some of them, they want somebody in place in case Trump implodes. I think DeSantis will not have a problem attracting money. I think the problem DeSantis is going to have is it attracting votes. Can he attract Republican, what do you call it, primary voters to vote for him over Trump? And that's going to be the challenge. Money he will have. I also think DeSantis is smart and organized, and he will have a really good ground game in politics, they call it. He'll have a lot of people on the ground. Some of his launch with Twitter and some of the decisions he's made early on are questionable, but we will see, and supposedly there was another tech glitch yesterday when he was supposed to be interviewed by Newsmax. So he's had a lot of bad luck, you could argue, with technology recently, but anyway, I'm not overly surprised by the DeSantis ability to raise money. I think you raise a lot of money. And who says, do you think in a sense it's hard for objectivism to get a foothold in the culture as opposed to say stoicism because objectivism is true? Well, because objectivism is a complete philosophy, stoicism as a foothold in the culture, because it takes some out of context self-help aspects and pushes them into the culture. And it doesn't require anybody to challenge any kind of truly fundamental beliefs. Objectivism is not an issue of being true, it's an issue of really challenging people's beliefs, really challenging the philosophy that guides their life, that they believed in such childhood that they have never questioned at all. That is the real challenge. Cook says, will the Celtics pull off a 2004 Red Sox? I certainly hope so, and I'm rooting for them, and I certainly think it's possible. They are the better team, the better than Miami. It's just a matter of will they show up? I mean, the last two games they've showed up, they played phenomenal defense. If they can play that kind of defense, yes, they can win another two games and be the first team in NBA history to come back from a 3-0. But it's the odds that still against them. It's very hard, given the parity in the NBA and given how good Miami is. And given the fact that Boston is known, not to show up to have this arrogance streak in them, whether you just don't play. All right, James, last question. Texas has overtaken New York with having the most Fortune 500 companies. It is number three in banking, number two in finance, overall, what do you think it will take for the NYC to not only talk about moving but do it? I don't know. I think it's very difficult. For one, Texas would have to fix its electric grid and guarantee that there was electricity throughout the state, even when there are freezes. It doesn't happen very often in New York because there's lots of freezes. In New York to stop the NYC, you literally need a 9-11 in Texas. All that would happen is a freeze. So that would be one. I'm sure there are other issues. I'm a little dubious about number two in finance. I really have to research that. That Texas is, I wonder how that is measured. Not California with its venture capital community in Bank of America and all that, not North Carolina with all the banks that are centered there. Texas, number two in finance, I'm skeptical. So I'm curious how that is measured, what that actually means, what does it mean to be number two in finance, number three in banking? If I had to guess, I would say they were number four in banking and number four in finance, but maybe number three in finance and number four in banking. But let me check the numbers and let me check that video you sent me and I will get back to you. All right. Thank you, everybody. Have a great weekend. I will see you tomorrow for the Ask Me Anything.  Don't forget those of you who are members. We've got a show on Sunday at 3 o'clock. It should be a lot of fun. I'll be showing a lot of art. If you're not a member and you'd like to participate in the show, become a member.  Please just add another $5 membership on YouTube and you get these shows once a month, regular shows, and you add $5 to a little bit more support for the Iran book show. So please do that. That would be fantastic. I hope we got a good showing on Sunday's show. 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Everybody forced here ripping 21-22 Chronicles soccer hobby six box number four Random team of style and everyone's got one team from each of the three leagues in this You can always find those results at latentsportscards.com. Make sure to join everybody and good luck. All right. We're starting off with some Siri ah here AC Milan jersey card is Alessio Romagnoli to 99 blue rookie from certified Nicolo Casale to 99 That is a for Verona and Ida la rie silver prism for a brand British Christian Erickson Arsenal jersey card granted shocker to 99 to 199 excuse me to 199 green one of five Ben Chilwell Chelsea on the Illusions go illusions green Ben Chilwell one of five nice Chelsea there Benzema frutos Got a Rahul auto for Real Madrid the contenders auto to 99 blue certified is Tony Cruz for Was it Barcelona FC Barcelona? No Real Madrid. I'm sorry Real Madrid to 99 and Melamed on the chrome there Nice Abbey got his first home run at home. I guess I just keep it going Yoshida Lorenzo Pellegrini spectra blue to 49 aroma Atlanta auto Hans Hattabar to 500 got origins rookie Carlampos late late go Yanis to 99 Greek name. That's tough for Kagali Ari sub Andrew Zala's PK Silver from Flux Is a rookie Alberto Soro for Granada? Jersey card Rodrigo Barcelona, right? Excuse me Barcelona, right? This is nowhere. So I have to know the Crest Let's we go again. That's out of 10 Eric Garcia Barcelona there. That's cool Andrew. That's out of series two, right? Yeah, Real Madrid, I don't know if I said I just said it wrong No, I said I know Barcelona's and I just said it for some reason Ronaldo base son Bertha Firmino got a redemption Lucas didn't yay treasured signatures Premier League Forget didn't yay Then yay, who's he with Aston Villa, right? 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That is absolutely gorgeous Giacomo Ross Bordori for sasuolo Dude that is sick-looking Henderson Destro mirez Aspa Stamata Serginio desk Relic car to 99 for That Barcelona Barcelona there Yeah, some of those some of the sets in this chronicles are really nice blue XR rookie is Anthony Garoza Bell to 99 for Sociedad 26 homeworks for Alvarez Russian baseballs right Just about halfway through the break here. There's Ed and said Kevani Blue Prism Crystal Palace is Yokey Anderson to 49. Hey, what's up, DJ? Origins Auto for Brighton Hovalby and Neil Malpie to 500 Trissard LaRie to 99 is Chukomeka for Aston Villa the rookie on Absolute rookie card there and Sumari halfway through again guys just three teams left on Flawless tonight or there were three teams left We're gonna just the Bears Texans and Eagles all on sale and remember everybody we started 11 a.m. Eastern tomorrow prism basketball releases that PYT half casers all morning and into the afternoon and Then with the evening breaks will have a bunch of random styles So first off the line and hobby mixers Make sure you grab your spots up for tomorrow everybody. It is gonna be awesome Prism release day not many of them, but they are always awesome. I'm out of the product Got an orange ice to 23 Lorenzo Pellegrini nice one Roma It's a nice Pellegrini's tonight Cornerstones quadgers the auto Adrian Robbio to 99 for Juventus That's a nice hit right there the throwback right that's pretty cool Good Siri a minibox there. All right There's our La Liga minibox Salvi Sanchez Alcorone Gold Flux, that's really pretty is Jose Lu for a lot of ace number nine of ten Playoff relic is Yacob young toe to 500 for get off a Nishish jr. Duro Konde Kazamiro, right Sancho Dennis Silver rookie prism Crystal Palace is Yasiru and Rai Satya Satya That's a tough name Man United treasured signatures David Beckham boom 60 of 99 Big hit man you What a card Chad are up Chad are with man United.  Yeah, just a few offspring just a few that's a sick card. I Remember, I think I don't know if it was this product last year might have an NT soccer or something, but I remember pulling a Man United do a lot of Beckham and Ronaldo, I think That was pretty nuts, I'm pretty sure that's what it was from NT or something like that Diopadro Vina Arturo Vidal with the Relic card here out of 600 for inter Milan or 500 on the on the relic I Don't he's getting up there in age blue for XR Nicola Zanola to 99 That is for Roma Larson Thorsby La Liga mini box yours a ball Silver spectra is Domingo's Duarte For Granada Jersey card for Real Madrid is Kazamiro to 500 The frutos blue certified that's going to Jose Luis Morales that blue is top to read to 99 for Levante Sunnato Roshika Got an Everton auto here. It's Johnny had Hating up to 500 cracked ice Adam Lallana nice one bright and ho valbian to 23 Illusions cracked ice Adam Lallana, right one more Thanks everybody for filling these up We've just got three total teams left in flawless football for tonight again. It was Texan's Eagles and Bears if I remember correctly they're on sale Texans Eagles bears all on sale for flawless Got an origins relic as Victor Osemen Napoli to two night to two one ninety nine for Napoli Alexis Sanchez Blue illusions rookie Youssef Malay For Fiorentina that's out of 99 Relic card for Barcelona mark Andre ter Stegen to 500 Quado Vinicius jr. Blue from certified as Tony Cruz Real right yet Real Madrid and last mini box Silver Flux for pride and hope Albion Neil Malpay a Malpie Chelsea origins auto Giorginio to 500 Bamford That is a Saki rookie for Crystal Palace Blue to 99 Creswell and Salis Give me one second. We'll do a recap. 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Good morning everybody We're north of Oklahoma City Oklahoma See what they did there that way you always know what state you're in when you know what city you're in you know what city You're in when you know what state you're in I? Like it. I like it a lot like I said and they have these numbered spots But it is free parking I was worried because usually when they number the spots they want you to go in and pay for your specific spot I parked in spot 35 because I'm 35 years old and also It just happens to be a great spot because there's no one beside me there There's no one beside me here, and it's a straight shot out this open area here So if anybody did want to park beside me It have to be a pretty bad backer-upper to back into me Though I have faith that people could still do it, but this is the safest spot I could find Today the goal is to get to between San Antonio, Texas and Laredo, Texas I have to deliver in Laredo tomorrow at 9 p.m So it's in the evening so I got a park somewhere tonight, and then I'll be there all day tomorrow, and then I'll so there's a t8 Just north of Laredo I looked up all of the reviews from the truck stops in the area down around Laredo there between San Antonio and Laredo and None of them not one review has said anything about security issues or security concerns or anything like that Or like it's not safe to park here, so I'm guessing it's a pretty decent safe neighborhood So there's a t8 just north of Laredo But I did notice in all the reviews that they're charging eight dollars a night to park there now So they're not getting my business. We discussed this last night, right?  It's the government that's telling me I have to stop So charge them go after them Just my opinion. I don't know we had this discussion yesterday. I won't dive back into it Anyways, they're charging eight dollars a night to park at the TA near Laredo So I'm not going there. It's a flying J across the street, but it looks like it fills up And I don't want to get all the way down to Laredo and not have anywhere to park I mean, I guess I could come back north, but I'm still gonna park between San Antonio and and Laredo I found there's a whole bunch of truck stops down I-35 there and they all seem to have lots of parking According to the reviews on trucker path. They never seem to be that full. There's always gonna be parking late at night So we'll pick one once we get down there We'll get through San Antonio and about halfway down to Laredo that'll put me about 60 miles down to Laredo 60 to 100 miles somewhere in there. I want to stop That'll be a full day of driving. That's about 600 miles from where I'm at right now or a thousand kilometers So it's not getting any closer. We're gonna go to Oklahoma City here. I have to quickly grab fuel Because it's the cheapest here at this loves fuel here for me $3.88 per gallon Just down the road at less than an hour in Oklahoma City $2.88 a gallon. I checked I checked and I double triple checked It's actually a dollar cheaper per gallon just down the road in Oklahoma. So Oklahoma. I love you I'm gonna come give you some of my money Thanks for not taking too much for all of my Canadian family friends and everybody back home $2.88 a gallon US Converted into Canadians Canadians speak in Canadian dollars in leaders. That is $1.01 per liter Canadian. What was the gas price on the pump? When you saw it last up there in Canada where you're at Let me know let me know down below in the comment section. What are diesel prices? I'm buying diesel. What are the diesel prices in your town or your city where you're at? Let me know down in Oklahoma It's a dollar and one cent per liter Canadian God bless America. You know that God bless America. God bless Oklahoma. God bless your cheap fuel prices Cheaper I should say cheaper. There's always room to get cheaper, you know Diesel in the States used to be a lot cheaper too. So I get it, but man where I come from It's a good day It's a good day and I make sure my lookers are clean. It's so hard to get these perfectly clean Over the years I've scratched them Pretty good. No, not too bad, but enough that it Bothers me sometimes. I gotta keep them very clean. There we go Uh-huh, how does it look? How's it look? Does it look good? Does it look good? All right, good enough All right The last day of our trip south We got lots of time to get there doesn't matter what time we get there tonight because we we got all day tomorrow yet to wait a 9 p.m. Appointment that is not normal for For roll tights or flat beds or dry vans usually it would be a morning delivery, but this is okay I actually don't mind gives me a little bit more time. So We're gonna work with it 9 p.m Lights are on Trucks and gear windows are down for fresh air. Let's make sure our trailer is still attached. I looked it looked like it was Roll forward spike They work release Bang checklist Completo Hey, panner you're from steinback It's gonna be a good day There's no snow here in oklahoma And I don't think there'll be any snow in texas. We'll see I hope not I hope not one snowflake falls because everyone panics them Yeah, but he coming from that way The best part of the day emerging back onto the freeway getting going coffee beacon if I can today This whole unit needs a wash Truck and trailer. I hope we see some palm trees Oh, okay, oklahoma What is the sign right there? All of the oklahoma signs no longer say native america Like I haven't been in oklahoma for probably like, I don't know 10 years Close to not quite but uh eight ten years and all of their state signs their state slogan used to be oklahoma native america Now every single state sign that I've seen In 10 meters Okay, there's flying jay straight ahead In the straight ahead lane What lane is this guy in destination on the left side? I see it. I see it. I can't miss it. I got nowhere else to go. We're here flying a travel plaza This says it's in edmund oklahoma But to me on the map it looks like northern oklahoma city. How nice This is where I wanted to spend the night, but trucker path my app was uh saying that it was full last night already and I believe it here for my cheap juice Once again, they always want to know what I do with every second of my life Even all that time I had for holidays for christmas holidays there on christmas vacation Good movie by the way christmas vacation Scroll What was I saying? Oh, yeah every every minute that I have off duty as well All the government needs to have a record of that as well. So all of that is log books that all gets handed in as well So they can see oh, yes. Yes. Yes. And this is this day. He was off duty. Yes Every day of my life since I've started trucking has been recorded by the government Isn't that interesting Get going I found another blue beacon just down the road. I was going to go to but today when I'm filming this is new year new year's day And they're closed So we'll be riding dirty for another day yet unfortunately Maybe there'll be a blue beacon around where I'm uh Going to be parking overnight tonight and I'll have all day tomorrow to go get it washed Oh, this is not an exit. This is definitely not an exit. I went the wrong way This place is filling up. It's early. It's already almost full My day is just starting Maybe it's still full. I don't know it was emptier when I got here now It's just trucks keep piling in Maybe a tight corner here where that guy parked right there We got this I don't want to spend the night in anyways because as you can see here. It's just packed full I mean, it's very tight Hard to get into a lot of these spots I don't be able to find a parking spot. I just be worried about who would be parking next to me If you get in and out of here like if there's another truck coming in here from our right One of us is gonna have to back up.  It's uh international corridor from Winnipeg down i-29 to i-35 all the way down to laredo and into Any freight that goes to or from mexico that crosses through at laredo will come up this road up into canada having right beside them to Impeding traffic behind them the truck. That's annoying beside us left lane up there holding up travel oblivious Who taught them how to drive? What is what's going through their head? How did they end up questions?  I think that's dallis anyway Maybe it's pork road the apple of st. Paul idea in two cities side by side except in texas style I'm going the expressway because you're telling me that that's a toll over there. I'd rather stay on this road That's not a toll Along the other side of that barrier is the expressway and nobody's on it I'm guessing that's because you got a pay to drive on it This road for 25 kilometers. I don't know maybe maybe not from here I don't go through here that often the sign saying it was a toll road over there So i'm gonna stay on this road because this one's not a toll road It's going to the same place. This one's got a little bit more traffic. It's a holiday today. So not very many people are out American city is just amazing. Just you imagine these Look like driving through them clustered together anything crazy.  I know you want to I have a feeling You want to get in this lane? I'm gonna stay there good Oh, I knew it.  You just tell by their Expression of driving, you know get that pickup. He might come around the right side, but he sees there's an scv there So he can't get around that way. So he's just gonna tailgate the other pickup Maybe be a little bit more patient. I don't know why people hog the left lane either. I don't get it Then you wonder why are they tailgating me? Maybe because you're doing 55 in the fast lane. I don't know During the day, it's crazy. It's like going right through the city, but there's a freeway There's interstate 35. Look at that Sky highways above me. I don't know tomorrow. I'd rather slip through there at night when there's no traffic I don't want any delays because I can't be late for my appointment coming right out here downtown This is a huge city capital of texas these are nights like these I guess when I wish that I had my motorcycle with me and I could just go for a cruise and check it out GoPro camera isn't the best at night, but I'm showing you what I can I'm just gonna be stopping at the truck stop just up the street here and there's Something's like burning like crazy here. What is this?  Oh, he had a stop sign. That's why I didn't I didn't think he had a stop sign So we have 39 miles from the end of i35 at the Mexico border. This is uh, where I'm gonna spend the night I'm just gonna be like Closer than I thought but I read all the reviews of all the places around here And all the reviews seem to be pretty good. None of them were talking about, you know, there being any security issues So it seems like everything is fine I remember I'm a Canadian coming down here, so I I don't know the area So, uh, I'm always hesitant and careful when I go to new areas or areas that I'm not familiar with or haven't been to in a Time 29 minutes left to find a parking spot. There's a loves on the right and a road ranger on the left I'm going to the road ranger because I like their parking lot better I know that can you on this road for 71 kilometers And pilot I mean pardon me loves will get filled up first anyway because everyone are like sheep They all go to those big name truck stops Pilot flying j ta petrol loves they always fill up first everybody crowds in those Not as many people go to these smaller ones This is where I go No, no Karen we're gonna go to bed tons of parking here beautiful beautiful thing So I think I found a good spot I think I did. I mean there are plenty to choose from these spots right here beside the scale I'm just getting out here to make sure that they're not like special spots like handicap spots or Or reserve spots or anything Anyone can park here They might actually move It's 12 degrees Celsius right now. I have a feeling as soon as the sun comes up. It's gonna get hot So I could park right in here. I think that'd be a little bit safer One reason I say that is because trucks will be coming around here and if they're not careful they'll Nick my hood, but I don't think they would I think I should be good here We're out here should be good I'm just gonna double check, but I think this is the furthest south I've been In since 2009 It's 2024 now A long time that's 15 years Yep Yep. Oh wait. No, I'm about at the same level as Orlando right now And I think I've been down Have I been down in Miami? Miami is further south than where I am right now On the map, but I feel good about where I'm at I still kind of feel like I should tuck myself in beside the scale there You know what? Yeah, I think I will I think I will Safer is always better just in case you don't want someone to drag their trailer into you Here I'm kind of off on my own, right? Maybe let's just turn around and go park over there No, I'm fine here. This is always a struggle for me Finding a parking spot and sticking to it I always want the best one and I always feel like I I could do better I think this is the best I can do Thanks for joining me today, everybody. I'm almost in Mexico. Can you believe it? This snow Mexican is almost in Mexico We'll see how tomorrow goes. I got a Delivery at 9 p.m. Tomorrow, so I can sleep in I guess I'll I'll get up early anyways. I'll probably run over See if I can get a shower here somewhere Oh, I want to clean the truck up a little bit. I got work to do I'll go deliver and we'll see oh, plus I got to try to get my reload organized So I got to call into the load gods way back up in in canada and tell them Hey, I'm gonna be like empty tonight Like where do you want me to go from here? Because as soon as I'm empty I want to get out of here I want to go towards wherever my next load is going to be We'll figure that out then. 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In this step, we are going to UV map and create materials for one of the books and we are going to assign two different materials to this. We don't technically have to, but I've created the textures in such a way that allow us to cover how to assign two different materials to one polygon object. So the first thing we'll do is get the scene looking as clean as possible to work with. So I'm just going to work on the most easily accessible book, which in my case is that one. I'll then hide everything else with display, hide, hide on selected objects. And I'll then switch into my UV in workspace. So let's go to UV editing. Here's the UV map we're starting with. Let's see if we can get this to be something a little better. This is as complex as we're going to go with the UV mapping in this tutorial. So before we do anything, let's first make sure that we have frozen the transformations and deleted the history. Delete by type history. And then we're going to do an automatic projection to get us started. So UV automatic. That'll give us these pieces here. Not a bad start. Then I'm going to go into shell mode and straighten some of these up. So let's select everything. And then in my UV toolkit, I'm going to go into arrange and layout. Click on that. And then I'm going to click on orient shells. And that'll just straighten everything up, which is going to make it a little bit easier to work with. Then just to make sure that everything is working to the same scale to make it easier to sew the parts together, I'm going to click on layout. Everything now should be the same sort of size. And I've got a particular way that I want to be able to stitch this book back together. I want it to be in three shells. And then they're going to line up with the textures we have for it. So it's important that you get as close to mine as possible for this. So we're going to start with this shell here. And I'll just move this off to the side and see what I'm working with. So I've got that edge piece there. That makes sense. What I really want to do is make sure that I join this edge here. So I'm going to go into edge mode over here. Click on that. And then in cut and sew, I'm just going to click on stitch together. And that's going to mean that that is now part for going to face mode. This face here you can see is part of that shell. I don't want the underside since that's going to be in a different place, but I do want that edge there. Then we can go to edge mode again and select this edge here. I'm going to stitch this together. That's going to bring in part of the spine. And see we've got some more spine here. So we're going to stitch that together. And now that's starting to be almost one complete cover. Let's just click here. And I can see that I also just need to get this edge piece there. I'm going to grab that with stitch together. And then into shell mode and just move the whole shell over here. That's good. I'm happy with that. The next bit that I want to do is get hold of these two pieces. Just move these over here so you can see them. And these represent this top and bottom of the book. There they are. And I would like them to be part of this shell, which is going to be a little bit weird. But you'll see how I'll do it and it should come together quite nicely. So I'm going to go back into edge mode. And I'm going to select this edge here, not the little one. Start with the big one. Hold shift and double click there. And that's allowing me to get all that top edge. And then I'm going to click on stitch together. You'll see what that does is it adds that UV shell over here. It sticks together, but it's created a mess. So we're going to go into shell mode to correct this. So click on that. And then we're going to do an unfold on it. So we're going to the unfold section and just click on unfold. And you'll see that that goes pretty close to how it was. So then what I'm going to do is just click on straighten UVs. And that will straighten it all back out again, but with that top band connected. And then we'll just do the same on the bottom. So back into edge mode, click there, hold shift, double click there. Stitch together, get the whole shell and do an unfold on it. That gets us pretty close. And then we'll straighten the UVs. And that is one complete shell. That's the outer side of the book cover. The next shell I'm going to try and put together is the pages for the book. So this should be kind of easy. So all I need to do is go into edge mode. I can see this is the front side of the book here. And I'm going to select this edge here, hold shift, double click here to get the whole edge. And we'll do a stitch together. And it's gone at a funny angle, but it has stitched it together in the way that I wanted it to. So I'm also going to do that over here, stitch together. And then we're going to shell mode and see if we can orient this shell. So let's go orient shells. That's okay. I actually didn't want it pointing that way. So I'm just going to put my rotate tool on hold J and rotate that around 90 degrees. Okay. That's two shells. And the final thing I want to do is make one shell out of the remaining pieces. So to do that, I'm going to go into edge mode.  And we'll do a stitch together. And you'll see that brings in those edge pieces that were previously down here. And then we'll click on the edge there and the edge there. And we'll stitch together again. Pretty nice. Let's go into shell mode. And I'm just going to straighten the UVs because they were a bit wobbly. And that's it. We've got three pretty damn nice shells there. So that is pretty much all of UV mapping in a nutshell. If you can do this, you can UV map anything, I promise. Okay. So let's select all of our shells. We will do a layout to get them in what's called our zero to one space. And we can leave that alone for now until we get the material made. And then we'll come back into the UV mode and we'll get this placed properly. So I'm going to go into my modeling standard view for now and just pop this back into object mode. And I'll need my hyper shade open to create my materials. So it's pretty much the same as we've done so far. What I'm going to do is clear my graph. I'm going to make a new AI standard surface. I'm going to call this one M underscore book cover. And I'm not going to start with a preset this time just to show you that you don't have to. So I'm going to bring in my color, click on the checker pattern there. Choose file and then go to the folder. And I want the T book cover diffuse. It looks like this. This is one I made specially for this project. So let's click on open. And that's how it looks. You can see that's got the front cover there. And then what I'm going to do, just on this, the weight is set to 0.8 for some reason. And I want to push that up to, you can see it just kind of fades the color out a little bit. Let's push that all the way up to one to make sure that we get another color that we should. This material is slightly different to the ones we built so far in that some elements of this have a metallic property to it. So we need to add a metalness texture as well. So let's click on the checker pattern there. Go to file, click on the image name. I'm going to choose T book cover underscore M, which is the metallic one. You can see if it's in black, it's saying don't be metallic. If it's in white, it's saying that should be metallic. So we'll open that. There we go. Next up, we need our roughness. So let's click on the checker pattern there. Go to file and choose our image, which is going to be book cover underscore R. Nice. And last, but by no means least, we're going to go into geometry. Click on the bump mapping checker button. Choose a file. Make sure that it's tangent space normals. And then for the bump value, we are going to add our book cover N. Okay. So it might look a little bit weird in here, but it should look fine once we get it on the book. So let's just press six in here because I've, for some reason, got my texture view turned off. And with this new material, I'm just going to drag it onto the book. And I'm putting it on the whole book here. Okay. So that's that bit done. What we'll do now is we'll sort the UV mapping out for that bit. And then we'll go back around and we'll do the pages. So let's just minimize our hypershade for now. Okay. This here is the top of the book, but it's got the back cover on. That's something we need to be aware of. Okay. Let's go into UV editing. Click on the book. So you can see that if your UV map went like mine, lots of this is going to already be close. So I'm just going to go into shell mode, move the pages out of the way. And then this is the book cover. But because this front cover is not here, that tells me the shell is upside down. So I'm going to just rotate this around 90 degrees. So I put my rotate tool on a hold J on my keyboard and rotate that around. And that now has put the front cover. Let's put it into object mode so you can see the front cover is now at least in the right place. The next thing that we need to do is to just line up this shell with the material. So I'm just going to go into shell mode. And you can see that this here should be in the center of the spine. And then the whole shell needs to just come in a little bit and be moved up a little bit as well. So I'm using these metallic edges to help me line it up. It needs to be a touch smaller, I think. Yeah. So I think I've got that one set up, right? Let's just have a little look. Yeah. Okay. Now what we need to do is get this inner section. This is like the inner paper part. So into shell mode. And this needs to be kind of placed in the same way. So we've got these like L shapes here and that's showing me where to line this up to. So let's just bring the size down a bit and maybe just make it a touch wider. So this is what you're looking for. Try to avoid getting these bits here where it kind of goes in lines. This is what's called dilation and it came from the texturing program that I used. You should try to avoid that getting into the material. So I'm going to bring that into about there. And I think I'm going to have to go into edge mode just to straighten these up a little bit. In fact, I need to go into UV mode. This material wasn't made specifically for this exact book. So it will just take a little bit of moving it around to get it to fit exactly how I want it to. But as long as I select these groups of UVs at the corners, you can see that it makes it much easier to edit the placement of them. I think that should do it. That's the cover sorted. All we need to do now is the pages. So let's go back into our hypershade and make that material. So we'll clear our graph. We'll have a new AI standard surface. Again, I'm not going to use a preset for this one, but I am going to give it a name. We'll call this M underscore pages. And let's load in our textures.  Clicked on the wrong thing. Let's break that connection. Color is what I wanted. File and we're going to go for what's this one called T underscore pages diffuse. Lovely. And then we're going to do the roughness. There's no metallic for this one because the pages aren't metallic. So we'll go for roughness next. And that's going to be T underscore pages are. And let's end with finding our geometry bump mapping. File tent space. Go to the bump value and choose our file pages underscore N. Okay, that material is now ready to go. Now what we need to do is only apply it to where we want the pages to be. So I'm just going to make this window a little bit bigger. And here's what we're going to do. We're going to put the book into face mode. And we're going to select all the faces that make up the pages. So there's two there and then three more there. And then I need to start click here and double click on the bottom to get all of those. Come around to this side. I'm holding shift to make sure I'm adding to my selection. And then that has got all of the pieces that are going to make up the pages. So now what we do is we find our M underscore pages material. We right click and hold and assign material to selection. So this book has now got two different materials on it, which is great. Okay, let's come out of the hypershade for a second, get the booking object mode. And you can see that it's currently showing us the pages material, which is helpful. And you can change which material it shows you by going into here. So if we wanted to go back to book cover, we could do that. But we want to see the pages and then into shell mode and we're going to move the shell. So this central piece here, you should see the pages running up and down. That's what we're aiming for. So I'm going to move it over. I can see that it's probably a bit too big. So let's just size it down a little bit. That looks nice back into object mode and check out the book here. My textures are showing a little bit lower resolution because I've changed the setting. Let's just go back into general modeling. Let's hide the hypershade and I'll try and show you what I've done with this setting as well just while we're looking at it. So as we're adding more and more textures to this scene, you can start to run out a video memory. It's possible that you've already had a warning about this. If not, here's what I'm doing. So if I go into renderer and viewport 2.0 is what you should be using. Click on this box here. There's something called max texture resolution and I'm currently clamping it at 512 to make sure that I don't run out of VRAM. You can, however, open that. So let's go to 1024 and then reload all textures. You can see that now my pages came in higher quality.  So we'll just have a quick look at how this texture is coming out. The thing about viewport 2.0 is it doesn't show off normal maps very nicely.  So if we just go to Arnold and we click on play, we'll get a better idea of how this is going to render. Or we would if there was the light showing in the scene. So let's just bring everything back. Display show last hidden. And then we'll try that one more time. There we go. You can see that despite the fact that in the viewport, the normal map looks overly harsh. Once you get into the rendered view, which is what we're really aiming for, everything looks beautiful. Okay, so that was a fairly complicated step, but I think you've come through it well. I believed in you all the way through that. What we'll do now is we will end this step and we'll move on to the next step, which is going to be your materials and UV mapping challenge. 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