What is up you guys welcome back to another one if you are new to the channel I am Gold Pony today. We are in the new 2019 Lexus IS 300 F sport courtesy of Bobby Ray Hall Lexus in Mechanicsburg PA and so this has always been a fun one for me in previous reviews So I decided to check it out again not to mention one of the most reliable cars out there still of course It is essentially a Toyota put it up for the intro here as always Let's start with pricing. Let's do to start the IS 300 F sport will come in two different variants Rear-wheel drive version which will start at forty one thousand six hundred five dollars and the all-wheel drive version starting at forty three thousand six hundred fifty five dollars And I broke down the pricing that way because dependent if you go with the rear-wheel drive for the all-wheel drive The power plant is actually going to be different And so if you went with the rear-wheel drive setup of the IS 300 F sport You will get a two-liter turbocharged inline four cylinder putting out two hundred forty one horsepower 258 pound feet of torque again sent to the rear wheels through an eight-speed automatic giving you a zero to sixty Approximately six point eight seconds with MPG numbers twenty one city thirty highway And then if you went with the all-wheel drive variant the one that we have today That is going to be powered by a three point five liter naturally aspirated v6 putting out two hundred sixty horsepower 236 pound feet of torque again sent to all wheels But in this engine setup through a six-speed automatic so a little difference there as well But zero to sixty time on this one is going to come in at six point one seconds with MPG numbers nineteen in the city 26 on the highway taking premium unleaded fuel, but before we do any kind of accelerations in the IS 300 I do want to mention there is a circular dial to adjust the driving modes directly behind the shifter That's going to give you eco normal and sport but also a snow mode And that's going to be the button behind the circular dial But if you're like me and you live in a colder climate like Pennsylvania That snow mode is definitely a blessing not to mention the all-wheel drive system in the IS 300 as well So since it's in the 70s today though in Pennsylvania We're going to go ahead and put it in that sport mode And actually I forgot to mention we do have paddle shifters as well here So let's go ahead and test out the acceleration along with the paddle shifters And we'll see how quickly we can get this naturally aspirated v6 up to speed All right v6 in a smaller car like the IS 300 definitely plenty of pull Absolutely no issues emerging on to the highway also when it comes to the paddle shifters They were definitely pretty quick no issues there either All in all plenty of power good acceleration on the IS 300 here But so as always to go along with that acceleration braking is equally important And so as expected you will find four-wheeled disc brakes on the IS 300 and the F sport is actually going to add high-friction brake pads That is one of the reasons I wanted to review this one because there are some additional Performance upgrades for the F sport IS but there's high-friction brake pads are going to give you greater responsiveness and reduced fade And so all in all when you add that up when it comes to the braking feel It's amazing no issues with coming to a stop whatsoever in this thing They're touching on suspension a little bit you will get an adaptive variable Suspension which is going to monitor each shock absorber Individually really giving you the best of both worlds tightening up the suspension around heavy cornering and also reading the roads and Perfections giving you a smoother ride as well And that's probably one of the first things I noticed in the IS gotta be honest It is definitely quite a nice ride in this thing surprisingly because a lot of times smaller cars You won't get that but the IS 300 is definitely soaking up PA's road imperfections quite well so far I did what also mentioned although we do with the all-wheel drive version today If you went with the real-world drive version will actually get a torsion limited slip differential as well meaning It's gonna help send torque to the wheel with the most traction around the corners really giving you a better acceleration as well Actually, but overall as far as the steering feel goes definitely has a nice weight to it So no issues there for me a cabin noise is also very nice No issues with exterior noise is coming into the cabin, but then again, we do have a Lexus here So I suppose it is as expected and when it comes to visibility I could see perfectly fine out the back Definitely one of the better vehicles for visibility today as you really don't have any issues there But visibility is definitely on point in the IS but enough with the driving dynamics you guys Let's now move on to the exterior of this new 2019 Lexus IS 300 F sport And so in front as expected you will find that large Lexus spindle front grille to the sides LED headlights with LED daytime running lights And I did want to also mention an optional feature on this one You can get the triple beam LED headlights for an additional $1,160 if you were interested there a little bit of visibility But make your way to the side you will find the F sport badging on the front fender along with body color and power Adjustable heated side mirrors with integrated turret signals. They take a look down at the wheel setup There are F sport specific 18 inch double five spoke alloy wheels with all-season tires That will be the standard setup for all IS 300 F sports there then make your way to the back a rear spoiler will not come Standard but there is one available for only an additional $389 if you wanted that F sport badging once again found around back there along with LED tail lights coming standard I just below all of it dual exhaust outlets with chrome tips So you guys know what we have to do next as always here is that exhaust clip It's open now sits we all around back to open that rear trunk easiest way in my opinion You could just simply use the button on the key fob And there's actually a button just by the driver's right knee if you were sitting in the driver's seat But I'm just gonna simply use the key fob today here Once opened up cargo capacity comes in at 10.8 cubic feet if that was not enough space There's rear seats do fold down for quite a bit of extra space there if you needed it To make our way up to the rear leg room that is gonna come in at 32.2 inches Which honestly doesn't sound like a whole lot, but for reference I'm an even six feet tall and I actually fit pretty well back there So no issues for me at least and for those rear passengers There is also a rear center armrest with cup holders along with rear ventilation and a power rear Sunshade will be optional for the IS 300 if you wanted it there And make your way to the front seats you will find power adjustable leather trimmed bucket seats that will come standard And they will actually be heated and ventilated another standard feature there and during my short little driving stint right now I got to say these are some of the most comfortable seats I have driven in in quite a while. This would be my road trip vehicle of choice just for the seating alone They really are Sainly comfortable not to mention it's a hot day and I got the ventilated seats on so again even more comfortable for that reason Then looking forward there is a tilt and telescoping steering wheel will come leather wrapped and there is a heated steering wheel available That will come standard, but it is an option if you wanted it for colder climates Then when it comes to the startup let me first start by showing you guys the key here You do have your Lexus logo on the one side and when you flip it over lock unlock and again that button to pop the rear hatch But there is also of course keyless entry with a push button start to all I am going to do It simply put my foot on the brake and press that engine start button which is actually in the IS 300 Located just to the right of the gauges up top there And so but then once started up of course with the F Sport you will find LFA inspired gauges Absolutely love it for those of you who don't know LFA was Lexus's old supercar that sold for around $400,000 back in the day Definitely a very nice car but to adjust what is on those LFA inspired gauges There are actually buttons on this steering wheel These gauges are pretty cool because you can really customize it That center circular part of the gauges can slide to the right and then back to the middle again And you can display all sorts of things up there so definitely quite a fan of the gauges there But that touching on overall interior quality a little bit dual zoom climate control will come standard on the IS 300 F Sport Along with a power moonroof there's also a black headliner aluminum pedals And overall when it comes to interior quality Lexus is always on the top of the board in my books One of the reasons I like it is because you can almost always find a color contrast In this case you have the black and the red definitely looks good And there's also a matte wood interior trim found throughout this one as well And I like that it's a matte wood as opposed to a gloss wood because then you don't have any Awkward reflections when you're driving it so run into that in a couple reviews in the past So that's always nice but perhaps the best part about the interior as always is the tech And so upfront you will find a 10.3 inch display screen With the navigation package or the Mark Levinson package And so I mentioned those two because we do happen to have the navigation package today But either way Bluetooth and audio streaming will come standard Still no Android Auto quite yet unfortunately but I have a funny feeling it's gonna be coming soon But again that factory navigation package does add $1,745 And of course you can check out your radio settings up on that screen as well And when it comes to the sound system by the way standard sound system is gonna give you 8 speakers And if you wanted it there is that 15 speaker Mark Levinson sound system with 835 watts Although that is not the one we have today we do have the 8 speaker sound system So let me go ahead and pull over here and let's turn all the radio So we got playing this morning and let's test out the clarity of this 8 speaker sound system Actually not that bad of a sound system honestly Mark Levinson of course is gonna be killer But really this 8 speaker sound system is still quite impressive But so the last thing I wanted to mention on the tech display at least is When you do put the IS 300 in reverse you will find a review camera Letting you know who or what is behind you which is always is going to lead me into safety And so to start there are front side and side curtain airbags Also standard driver and passenger knee airbags as well That usually doesn't come standard on other manufacturers In the back you will find latch aka lower anchors and tethers for children for the rear car seats Also standard however is something called Lexus safety system plus And this is quite important because this is going to include a pre-collision system With pedestrian detection dynamic radar cruise control Intelligent high beams lane departure alert with steering assist And also standard a blind spot monitor with rear cross traffic alert Definitely quite nice there but I am now pulling back into the dealership So that is about it for this one Feel free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen there And I will see you guys in the next video Stay Gold


G'day, welcome to Bootlosophy, and if we haven't met, my name is Tech. I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands that I live and work on, the Wajit people of the Nungar Nation. Today I'm taking a look at this giant in the field of heritage-style service boots, the Weiberg service boot on the 2030 last. So it may be a sunny day outside, but we're well into our Australian winter, and it's cold enough for me to put on a merino wool tee and my new flint and tinder waxed trucker jacket. If you want to check it out, I'll leave an affiliate link to it in the description below. It is an affiliate link, doesn't cost you anything, but it will help to reframe my costs. But this is a boot review, and so this is the Weiberg service boot. That's capital S, capital B, the registered trademark Weiberg service boot. That's right. Weiberg registered their service boot pattern with the US Patent and Trademark Office in 2020. What was registered was the visible distinctive double row stitch down construction, the unique 2 plus 1 triple stitch sewing the quarters to the vamp, the intentionally low profile in the toe box, the intentionally low 4.75 inch height, where they say most lace up boots are a minimum of six inches, a shorter one inch heel, where again they say a normal work boot heel is two inches, and the words Weiberg since 1931 written in the central region of the insole. Interesting. Of course, I'm not a patent lawyer, but I assume the trademark has to be breached in full, or it is not a breach. So all of those other service boots out there that aren't exactly as described, I think, are not breaching that trademark. But let's take a step back. It was in late 2000s that Brett Weiberg, grandson of the company's founder, fused his experience of the then burgeoning Japanese Americana heritage trend with his rediscovery of Weiberg's original 1930s farming work boot pattern based on Canadian military service boots, and he came up with the rebirth of the Weiberg service boot. As far as I can see, Weiberg was the first in this now crowded space of heritage styled American service boots, and soon were followed by whites with their MP boots, and new makers today like Thursday with the captain leading on to the Grant Stones, the Parkhursts, and even late to the party, old company makers like Ellen Edmonds with the reintroduction of the Higgins Mill. Older companies with older styles like the Wolverine 1000 mile boot saw fit to revive them so that by the late 2010s the service boot trend was, well, trending. This model is in the Weiberg 2030 last and is designed with a low profile and an almond shaped toe. It is a five inch shaft pattern from the top of the heel to the top of the collar with a brode toe cap, small, former looking brass eyelets, a low block heel, and sitting on a Ridgeway sole. As a service boot, you can't fault its design, looking like a slightly rounded military boot that I would have said was in the British rather than the American traditions, but Weiberg is a Canadian company after all, and if this harks back to the boots that they made for the Canadian military in World War II, they would have been very similar to British service boots of the time. Weiberg made this boot in a dizzying collection of different lasts, from this sleek last to chunkier, more spring toe lasts and rounder, more anatomically shaped lasts, as well as on a variety of different outsoles and a really amazing number of different leathers. In the other lasts, the Weiberg service boot looks more like the original style workboots, but in this particular last, it is a sleeker and more dressy version. In this 2030 last, and in this particular leather, the oiled husk collata, it is versatile in the sense that you can dress it up or dress it down. While I'm not sure that I would pair this with a formal business suit, it can certainly be worn as part of business casual, even really smart business casual, as well as the more relaxed jeansy Friday business casual. So in that dressier end, I'd be confident wearing it to the office to meet clients in a crisp button-up dress shirt and tie, and a smart pair of chinos and a tailored blazer. At the same time, they go well with the more relaxed, dark denim jean and button-down khaki shirt, pull on a jumper, maybe in a sports coat. You can also dress them right down and use them in an outfit that consists of faded jeans, a t-shirt, and a really casual jacket like a leather bomber. I think they're also fantastic in that workwear style of cotton pants, a plate shirt, and a chore coat or overshirt. With other lasts and leathers, they may lean more dressy or more casual and rugged depending on the leather, but this particular pair is very versatile both ways. And versatile is what Vibeurg has become, making, I think, a conscious decision to move some of its manufacturing and thus overall branding to a more dressy, casual style of boot, despite their long history as a work boot company. In fact, if you take a look at their website, there are no real everyday work boots shown on the Vibeurg website. You'd have to go to their separate website, workboots.com, to see the range of work boots that they still produce. Now Vibeurg is a Canadian company founded in 1931 by Ed Vibeurg in Saskatchewan. But it seems the Vibeurg family were cobblers and shoemakers in the native Sweden in the 1890s, the founder's father moving the family to Canada during World War I. After World War I, Ed moved his family to British Columbia, making logging boots and heavy work boots and eventually moving the company to Victoria. By 1970, Vibeurg had gained a significant reputation for making tough and durable work boots for miners and loggers, and Ed's son Glenn started to take the company into overseas markets. Today the third generation of Vibeurg's Brett, Ed's grandson, is in charge of the company. It was in fact Brett that recognized the need to transition into marks other than tough work boots and continue the tough and durable construction methods in a line of dressier casual boots like the Halpert boots and of course these stitch down service boots. While using the traditional Vibeurg methods, recent innovations include the clean double stitch down design on these service boots, which reflects a classic British work or military boot with a low heel and rounded toe box, which rather neatly segues to the construction of these boots. Now let me start from the bottom and move upwards. This particular model sits on a British Ridgeway Soul, made by the same company that makes the ubiquitous day-night studded soul. The name Ridgeway reflects an ancient 5,000-year-old trackway of about 140 kilometers, which is about 90 miles long, running through southern England just north of London. It runs from Hartfordshire to Wiltshire. It runs along a series of ridges that, when you see it from above, are wavy and connected by peaks and valleys, exactly like the elongated raised studs of this outsole pattern. The soul is connected to the uppers using the stitch down method of construction in the forefoot and a series of glues and nails and interior stitches from the waist to the heel. The double stitch down method with two stitches securing the vamp to the midsole apparently had not been done before this version of the service boot, but you see it a lot in other makes nowadays. It flares out the leather at the front of the uppers vamp area over the midsole and then stitches the uppers to the midsole. The double stitching ends at the flared out uppers, but one of those stitches continues all the way into the waist and the heel portion of the boot. So through the vamp at the front and continuing into the back through the midsole and the outsole. The stacked leather heel is then glued and nailed and from what I can see super securely. As an aside, while no doubt durable, the level of the care and quality in the double stitching is just incredible. The stitch per inch work is even and uniform and the two stitches are so close together and to the edge of the midsole that it must be incredibly exacting work. The midsole and insole is all leather including a shaped leather shank. The insole is a five to five and a half millimeter solid leather piece which forms the base of the construction and then this along with the stitch down design that doesn't have a welt means that there's no need for a cork filler. The thick solid leather molds your feet during the wear just like a thinner leather and cork filled insole wood except that it's hardier because unlike cork it won't break up in time. The also solid leather midsole in turn is also about five millimeters thick which means that gold standard of wearing in your leather insole and midsole to take on the shape of your feet for long term comfort is actually met. Inside the boot is a padded heel liner that runs well into your arch for comfort. The inside of the vamp is lined with a soft leather lining but the shaft itself is unlined. The ungusseted tongue is also lined with the same lining leather. The edge of the eyelet facings and the top of the collar are reinforced with the same leather as in the back. This oil collator leather used for the uppers is not very heavy I think it's about two millimeters thick which is average for a boot but surprisingly thin for a sturdier boot but it does feel a hardy toughness and I'll talk about that when I talk about comfort. The toe box is structured with a leather toe puff and there's also a leather external heel counter covered by a one-piece generously sized backstay. The quarters are cut so that the lace facing stay wide. I used to see on Facebook boot groups an expert who sized people by their photos whenever he saw the lace facings too wide apart he'd helpfully tell them that their boots were too small as they should come together to about half an inch to an inch apart. If someone tells you that call out bull the width of the lace facings depend on the pattern of the boot. Generous dressy quarters are cut so that they will meet whereas others are designed to be wider apart. It's not one size fits all. I'm not sure but I don't believe the toe cap is a true toe cap and that I think it's a piece of leather covering the toe that is sewn on to the vamp that's been cut short. I'm guessing this by feeling for a seam inside the boot but I tell you if it is a true toe cap where there are two layers of leather covering the toe box man the way they scribe the leather pieces so they skim fit together must be incredible. As I mentioned earlier this is a brogue toe cap or what Bible calls BCT for brogue cat toe. There's a very delicately punched out brogue pattern running along the edge of the toe cap. Running up the five inch height are nine small antique brass eyelets. There are no speed hooks and I'm not often frustrated by the lack of speed hooks but these small eyelets and this really thin lace that comes with the boots can be frustrating. In the dark mornings feeling your way to thread the skinny laces through the tiny eyelets can be a slow process. The little eyelets are nicely finished at the back though like everything else about this boot it is finished off 100% but I must say when I first saw the laces provided I just thought they were ridiculous. Now that I've worn the boots for a while though I think they fit the aesthetic quite well. The aesthetic works. It speaks to designing boots. It can be so easy to do the normal things you know big eyelets, speed hook, leather lace but a designer who can see the subtle changes in how they make the boot look can make a hell of a difference. The stitching is a marvel not just the double stitch down stitching the stitching on the toe cap around the quarters in the backstay around the edges. This is exacting work and it's done carefully. This may be constructed tough as a work boot or a military service boot but it is definitely finished dressy. The boot model is called Oiled Husk Collator. Husk Oiled Collator. Now I know Charles Hofstede from England tans this Oiled Collator leather so I'm guessing Husk is the color. It's a really nice deep walnut like color and does have enough pull-up to show dark and light areas that give it character. You all have heard of Charles Hofstede tannery of course famous for suede and nowadays exotics like elk and moose and kudu. Surprisingly they also tanned smooth leathers like this Oiled Collator. This is steer hide not horse. The Collator refers to the area of the animal not the animal itself meaning it's the back quarter of the animal taking in the bend belly and rump of the animal. Collator is heavily oiled and textured full grain leather. The heavy treatment of oils and waxes in the tannage strengthens the hide and gives it weather resistant properties. The resulting hide has a firm hand or feel in the hand. Great longevity from cuts and scarves and is very durable with a slight irregularity in the grain showing some natural scars and variations. The oils and waxes also show in the pull-up characteristics and give it a variegated depth of color. The color and movement in it make this one of my wife's favorite boots. How do you care for this oiled Collator? You know do you think I can find collator leather on Stead's website? I usually look to the tannery to see if I can get advice on leather care and if I can't find it there I check the maker's website. Charles of Stead scratch no info. On the Vibro website they talk about smooth grain leathers as a group. They say that as they normally choose leathers from the back of the animal for its thickness, durability and minimal stretch their smooth grain leather shoes need minimal care. They suggest applying a shoe cream or conditioner every three or four months or depending on your own environment. Now they do sell Venetian shoe cream and the leather conditioner is made by Steel and Co and it's a beeswax based emulsion and natural oils. So I conclude from this advice that good old VSC is perfectly fine for conditioning and cleaning and if I did want to deep condition it something like Needsfoot oil would be fine. Even mink oil I think might be okay for conditioning but just be careful as mink oil can darken leathers. Otherwise I just take care to keep the boots clean, brush regularly and if necessary wipe them down with a damp cloth. If really necessary I think a good quality saddle soap can be used but it's not often you need to saddle soap a pair of boots unless you've really been trekking through mud and clay or brick and cement dust that might stick to the leather. Then every three or four months or more or less depending on use and conditions when the leather feels dry condition it with VSC let it dry on the surface, let it haze and then brush it off with a good quality horsehair brush. Otherwise enjoy them without feeling stressed about it. Now how about sizing? This can confuse my American viewers but Viberg being a Canadian brand uses the UK sizing standard. So in UK size numbers they are one number down from US sizes. In other words a ten say in US size is actually a nine in UK size. So when people talk about taking a whole size down from your usual size in Viberg boots what they really mean is take your usual size but only remember it's called one number down in UK or Viberg's numbers. However I think these fit true to size as measured by a Brannock device. Now let's take my own example to show this. I measure a US 8.5 in D width on the Brannock device. In UK sizes that's equal to 7.5 in average width remember one number down. However I usually buy US boots taking a half size down from my Brannock in an 8. That's just the way US bootmakers generally size their boots. They make an 8.5 boot but they call it an 8. Don't ask me why. Sometimes I can Oak Street bootmakers they really are true to size meaning they make an 8.5 and they actually call it an 8.5. Surprise! Okay so I'm US 8.5 in D width to the size. I find Viberg to the size meaning I should take a US 8.5 in D width but because Viberg uses the UK numbering system that means I bought these in Viberg's or UK 7.5 in D width. True to size but one number down in the UK convention which is why Americans say go down a full size from true. It's all in a numbering system like comparing centimeters and inches. Once you've dialed in the size though the fit is just right. These boots are built on Viberg's 2030 last. Now for those of you who don't know a last is that foot-shaped mold on which they build the boot around and the design and shape of a last creates the different shapes of different boots. Their 2030 last is their most popular based on an original Canadian army shape with a rounded but decidedly almond-shaped toe. It's designed to be narrower in the heel and in the waist and wider in the forefoot. Now this is a great shape for my feet and it really fits me well and of course fitting well helps with overall comfort. As for comfort now underfoot it is really comfortable. I'm not even sure I've actually broken these in yet but already walking in these feel like there's enough shock absorption in all of that leather plus the great grip of the Ridgeway outsole and I can feel almost on a step-by-step basis all that leather underfoot slowly move to mold to my feet. There's plenty of arch support although I have to say not as obvious under the arch as in my Nick's Robert boot on my white MP boots where you can feel the layers of shape leather building up under your arches. I think those American Pacific Northwest boots feel better underfoot under the arch. These feel at least as comfortable as my Grant Stone boots or my Parkhurst boots which are good if not better. Way more comfortable than any Red Wing boots I own anyway. Possibly as the sole construction breaks in and really shapes to my feet I may come back to tell you that comfort has gone up another level. Let's see. As for the comfort around the boot, oh this is stiff leather. As I said I'm not actually sure that I've broken this pairing yet and maybe with a lot more wear the uppers will also mold to the shape of my instep and ankle and I won't feel the edges of the collar and the tongue digging into my ankles. At the moment they're very supportive around my feet if a little stiffen are moving in them. The sizing is perfect so in that sense they wrap around my instep and the heel and waist so they're comfortable in that sense. I'll come back for a long-term update in a few months time after I've had the chance to really wear them on a field trip in the forest that I'm planning next month and then we'll see what I think about them. So now to value. Wow, let's go there. They cost $1300 Australian dollars. If you're in Canada, they're 1100 Canadian and in US dollars they're 805 bucks. I bought these on sale for a thousand Aussie bucks which I can tell you is a saving. So expensive but are they worth it? On the plus side plenty of the best materials from the old leather construction that you almost can't get elsewhere to that Ridgeway Soul. The construction is impeccable from the marriage of old-style methods to the new innovative changes they all stack up. The totality is a hardy rugged durable product that shouldn't fail in normal use. The quality control evidenced by that stitching quality as well as the clicking that's a choice of leather pieces from the hide. Chef's Kiss Superl. The looks and versatility due to the ruggedness but designed and made like a dress boot gives it an extra plus because you can wear it in almost all occasions if you only have one boot. The comfort? Well it's good enough but let's see what develops. On the minus side I honestly can't think of one leaving aside the price. Now what about comparisons? Against other service boots so much better made with better quality materials I think than Grandstone or Parkhurst and the smaller makers like Caswell and Bourdon love them as I do. Perhaps not dissimilar to White's MP boots or Truman boots although I think you can credibly argue the QC in these is uniformly better. Against Alan Edmonds Higgins Mill or any Redwing boot or Wolverine thousand mile boots definitely better quality and as against the Higgins Mill much more rugged and durable. Thursday captain I love them as good as they are for the price they don't come into it in comparison it's not horses for courses. Price wise they're close to Truman boots at around the 500 US mark for Truman and perhaps even closer to White's MP service boots at around 700 US for those MP boots. Those have their pluses but they have more noticeable minuses around quality and materials. Overall then particularly in Australian dollars their price comparable to the MP boots but a lot better finished. Now I love my MP boots you know that but I don't think you can argue against that. Overall are they worth the 800 US dollars? For what you get I think so. Would I buy them again? I'm already planning my next purchase one in Chrome Excel I think. So there what do you think of my conclusion? Let me know in the comments below. In fact I hope you liked my review whether you agree with the conclusion or not. If you did let me know by clicking on the like button down below and if you haven't already why haven't you please click on the subscribe button in order to subscribe. Do you know half my viewers don't subscribe they just watch my videos as they occur come on. There's no spamming email list or anything like that. Subscribing just means that YouTube will notify you when I put up more of these boot review videos and also some other videos I'll put up about boot comparisons, brands and maybe I'll throw in some gear now and then. If you like the look of the Viberg service boots you should explore the gazillion makeups they have in different outsoles and some really interesting levels. Go look for the link I've put in the description below. So keep in touch and until then stay safe and I'll see you soon.


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Part of the commitment that T.B.N. is showing is a commitment and a lean in towards the next generation. I believe that our next guest, which some of you may see on the Youth Channel Juice, you've seen him before. I've been fortunate to host him once before. This is a truly great gifted man of God, someone I believe that the mantle and the transitioning that's happening from one generation to the next. That this man, it's resting on him to be a voice to this generation. A voice that helps us to understand the Holy Spirit and the supernatural work of God that is still alive and well today and about to be proclaimed by the next generation. A great leader of that generation, David Hernandez. Welcome him with me. Would you do that? So you are passionate about the work of the Holy Spirit. Absolutely. And one of the things that's been on my heart lately is to minister on becoming carriers of the glory of God. I believe that when you begin to seek the Lord, because he promised in Jeremiah chapter 29, 13, that if you seek me with all your heart, you'll find me. That's a promise from God. I've heard people say, well, you know, I've sought the Lord with all that I am and I didn't really get anywhere. But the truth is that God promises when we seek him with all our hearts, when we give our attention to the countenance of Christ, when we filled with passion as the Psalmist David wrote in Psalm 42, as the deer pants for the water. So my soul long after thee, when we with that type of desperation, that type of hunger, begin to seek the presence of the Holy Spirit, begin to seek what his agenda, because the Holy Spirit, I believe, on his agenda, nations. And when we connect with the Holy Spirit, we connect with the fullness of the power of heaven. When we receive the Holy Spirit, a lot of people think that the Holy Spirit is given in portions. And they say, well, you know, I'm not really mature enough. I'm not really elite enough as if there was such a faction in spirituality. I'm not really grown enough. I'm not really to a place where I can really flow in the Holy Spirit. But I truly believe that God is about to break that mentality off of this generation, because the truth is that the Holy Spirit is not a reward for the super spiritual. If ever there was such a group, the truth is that the Holy Spirit is the only chance we ever have at being spiritual, or even desiring to be spiritual. So when we get saved, we receive the Holy Spirit in fullness. God doesn't withhold. Besides, you can't divide the eternal into portions. Half of infinity is infinity. So when the Holy Spirit comes to rest on a life, as the scripture says, the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in us, Romans chapter 8 verse 11, that same Holy Spirit which resurrected the Son of the living God, that same Holy Spirit who hovered over the face of the deep in the book of Genesis, that same Holy Spirit who healed through Peter's shadow, that same Holy Spirit who Moses begged for when he said, Lord, how will we know? How will we be distinguished as a people unless your presence goes with us? That same Holy Spirit whom Enoch walked with in Genesis chapter 5, that same Holy Spirit, that ancient Spirit of God dwells in us in fullness. And when we carry that mantle, when we carry the presence, we're actually a continuation of the ministry of Jesus Christ here on the earth. We're a continuation because he's given us the fullness of power. And so I believe that there are some watching that are in that season right now, and maybe they're watching this, and they're sensing in their heart this distance that seems to be created between them and God. The reality is that Jesus said, I'll never leave thee nor forsake thee. So despite what we feel, whether or not we sense the nearness of his presence is not the issue, because I believe that God will sometimes seemingly withdraw in according to our emotions to cause us to be hungry to search for the depths. And so as the Lord, you may say, I feel like God is pulling away from me.  And it's not that he's saying, I want to distance myself from you. He's saying, come deeper, let me draw you into the depths of the spirit. And so when God begins to draw us into the depths of the spirit, when he begins to buy his spirit, reveal to us the fullness of Christ, we become the carriers of the presence. I fully believe that when a believer walks into rooms, sickness needs to run out. That when a believer walks into rooms, demons start to tremble. We carry the essence of Jesus. We carry the fullness of his person. So we need to be magnetic because Jesus drew sinners, Jesus drew those who nobody wanted. And so when we carry that presence, we are walking in that mantle and we're drawing them to the fountain. We're drawing them to the depths and we're saying, come and drink, come and see, come and taste, the Lord is good. And when we carry that, we become little pieces of heaven here on earth. We become atmospheres that wherever we step, we take dominion. We talk about the presence of God coming and going, I don't believe that's the case. We are the presence of God in the earth. His being has been united with us to where we become one with Him. So going back to that thing about desperation, that thought about desperation, and that's really what's been stirring in my heart, desperation. And you talked about this before. And by the way, I still appreciate your ministry. And I just want to say I honor Pastor Phil Muncie. And I'm so appreciative of how you've spoken into my life and how you're a voice of unification for the church. And I'm so excited about all that God's doing with you. And I honor you as the younger generation coming in as one of our fathers. Others, I'm an old man. Yeah. No. An experienced man. An experienced man. And so, but I do honor you. And you said something to me, and you talked about the spiritual vacuum that's been created in our nation. And I'm so excited about that because when there's a hunger, there's that search. You know, I keep thinking about that verse, Jeremiah 29-13. If you're seeking with all your heart, you'll find me. And as that desperation begins to rise, we begin to go to the Scripture. And when we read the Scripture, we're not just looking at words. Jesus said in John chapter six, the very words that I speak to you are spirit and life. They are Christ. And the Holy Spirit, as He did in the beginning in the book of Genesis, when He spoke in the book of Genesis, when God spoke the creation, the Holy Spirit hovered over the face of the deep, on God's word, the Holy Spirit put power and creation took place. When we get into the word, we're not just reading a biography. We are meeting with the author. And the Holy Spirit will take those words, which are spirit and life. And He begins to vivify the Savior. He begins to cause the healer to become more real, the deliverer to become more real. And when we, with the eyes of our heart, filled with desperation, look at the majestic countenance of Christ. Everything in the background fades. And we're raptured by His essence. And we're pooled in. And that comes from desperation. Another thing that happens when we're desperate is that we get back in our prayer classes. I am a firm believer that I know God loves us. I know God blesses us. But God will shake things up to get you back on your face in prayer. And He will, He will move things that you may be watching this right now and saying, I'm shaking. I'm in a place where I feel like God is distant. I feel like something's been, let me tell you something, I promise you something. Jesus said, I'll say it again, I will never leave the norm for safety. That's a promise from the Savior. That's the highest authority. He's not going to leave you. When you sense that moving away, it's not that God is pushing you away. It's that He's getting ready to draw you into something that you've never known before. And in fact, when there's that shaking, when there's that stirring, when things around you seem to be chaotic, what God is doing in you is cultivating a hunger for Him. We may sometimes, because of blessing or because of position or because of some idea or form of success, come to the place where we do this. I do this all the time and the Lord has to correct me too, where there are times where the Lord has to bring me back to the place where say, wait a minute, you're still a man in need of a Savior. You're still a man in need of direction. You're still a man in need of the Holy Spirit. And so sometimes God will shake things. Sometimes there's a shaking in the finances. Sometimes there's shaking in the ministry. But whatever it is, God's going to draw you back because He is faithful. The Scripture says that He's faithful even when we are not. And so this is not a matter of me getting more of the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit getting more of me. And when the Holy Spirit begins to draw me in, He's pulling me with that desperation. He's using my circumstances. He's using my emotions. People say and they ask if it's a double entendre and I have to choose between the two. They say, do you want an experience with God or do you want an emotional experience? The truth is an experience with God can sometimes be emotional. And God wants to touch every aspect that He created. And so sometimes in your emotions you may feel Him move, but He's pulling you deeper. And so I want to say to you today, you may be discouraged. You may feel like there's darkness around you. You may feel like there's someone watching right now. There's a pastor watching me and you hear me talking about the Holy Spirit and you're saying, I remember when I talked about the Holy Spirit like that. I remember when I flowed like that. Let me tell you something. The gifts in the call without repentance. You've not lost the gift. You've not lost that anointing. The Holy Spirit still has that on you. And in fact, there's a stirring tape. There are pastors watching me right now. There's a stirring happening where there's been this exhaustion. God is now flowing and He's flooding in and the power of the Holy Spirit is moving right through that camera, right through your screen. And He's touching you, reviving you and He's transforming your nature all over again.  Take back your study of the Word in Jesus' name. It's going to happen because the warfare, the warfare is proof that there is spiritual activity and that celestial conflict that you're feeling hovering about the air, that you feel the chaos sometimes around you. That is the battle for your call. That is the battle for the anointing. And so God will, as He did with Jacob, sometimes break the hip and put us in a desperate place where we grab on to Him and say, Lord, change my nature. Transform me, Lord. I'm not letting you go.   You're the bread that came down from heaven.  You are the door to heaven. Jesus, you are the Son of the living God. You're all that I ever wanted. There was a time where Jesus was all you ever wanted and you didn't study the Word just to get a sermon. You studied to seek His face. That is coming back to you. That desperation is being stirred in you. And as this is happening, we become the presence of God. You know, you read in the book of Acts where we see Peter and the Scripture says that the people brought their friends, their sick loved ones to Peter that his shadow might fall upon them. The Scripture doesn't actually say that Peter's shadow healed them. It says that the people thought that Peter's shadow healed them. Now, what would cause people to think that Peter's shadow had the power to heal? It's because the presence of Jesus was so tangible, so real, so intense, so vivid on Peter that whenever he walked around, miracles would happen all around him. I was in a church in the Midwest and you know how it is, you preach at a church and then you want to go talk to everybody afterwards. And so, I'm in the lobby after the church service was over and I'm just, you know, we're selling books, we're talking to people and this woman walks by and she's walking by me. I see her on the side of my eye and she has this very distinct but obvious hobble to her walk.  She says, I had surgery in my, on my knee and I've been walking with that limp for two years.  And so, she's, she was walking around perfectly healed and it was interesting. I asked the Lord about that and he says, because I take up residence in you and every so often I like to reach out and touch people. Wow. And when I got that revelation, I said, Lord, I know this is not just me. You may be sitting here, you're watching pastor Philly or watching me and there can sometimes be a disconnect because it's television but I want to tell you something. The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead, not only dwells in me, it dwells in you. Come on, go there. And if I'm going to say anything today, I know desperation is that, that thought I'm on but if you get desperate enough, you start to believe some crazy things. Crazy things like, hey, maybe God can use me too. Yeah. Crazy things like, maybe I'm not as unqualified as I thought I was. Here's the truth and I love the way Catherine Coleman said it. She said, God is not looking for golden vessels. He's not looking for silver vessels. He's looking for yielded vessels. And the truth is that you as a carrier of the glory of God, as a carrier of the presence of God, you become ministry. You don't have to try to change it. I remember I was in an elevator ride, I was speaking at a conference and I was taking an elevator ride down to the bottom lobby floor and these two women walk in and pastor Philly, it was a weird, this doesn't happen all the time but this was a weird experience for me. It was one of the first times this happened. They walk into the elevator and they start trembling and crying. And I looked at them and, to be honest, I didn't really want to ask. I didn't know what was going on. I thought maybe there was a personal issue. I didn't want to be, you know, nosy or anything but they kept looking right at me, crying like that. And so finally I asked just before we hit the floor, the bottom floor, I said, what is going on with you right now? What's happening? Why are you crying? And one of the girls says, I feel something on you and I feel my whole body shaking, like electricity moving up and down my being. Now that is nothing to do with me. That has everything to do with the presence of the Holy Spirit.  I truly believe that with all my heart. No, no, I, you know, I, the presence of God is here very strong right now. And I just want you to, I want you to help people to come. I think you've connected a dot of sometimes desperation. We condemn ourselves during these times. We don't recognize that it's it's a real opportunity. That when you feel distance from God, it's the Holy Spirit trying to break the the soul realm from the spirit. It's very hard to know the difference. And our soul and spirit, the Bible says only the Word of God can do that. And it's in desperation when the soul is sober and and a bit not in charge that the Holy Spirit can quicken and make that separation. So desperation sometimes separates the soul from the spirit realm and people are afraid of that. And they need to lean in. I want you to help us and pray with people, especially when you were talking about pastors. I believe that right now the Lord's going to use you to release the presence of God in people's lives. Just follow after the Lord in these moments. Well, I'm led of the Holy Spirit right now to pray for you. And I truly believe this. That as you're watching this, that there's going to be a connection by faith with heaven. And as we pray today, I want you to join your faith with mine. And let's believe God for a breakthrough to visit. I mean, I can pray for a myriad of things, but I want to focus on this. I want to pray that God would reward you in the season of desperation for your seeking. In other words, that he would give you a greater prayer life, that he would give you a greater hunger for the word. Yes. As I came out here and talked tonight, the Holy Spirit spoke to me back there. And this idea of desperation is what's on his heart. Because when we are desperate and when we, like you said, lean in. That's when the connection happens. So as we pray, I would like to join my faith with yours. I want you to stretch your hands toward your TV screen or your phone, however you're watching this. And let's pray. I want everyone here too. Let's send prayers right now over to that one watching. Father in Jesus' name, I pray right now that the anointing of the Holy Spirit. It's so I can sense his power right now. That beautiful presence of the Holy Spirit, Lord, would become manifest right now on that one watching. Lord, I pray in Jesus' name that you would so overwhelm the viewer. Lord, right now we enter and I want you right now as you watch. Just focus on Jesus. Just think about Jesus and as you give your attention, your meditation to Jesus, the Holy Spirit is going to do his work in the name of Jesus. Right now, I bind every stronghold of the enemy that has kept you bound. I bind every bit of discouragement. In the name of pastors, there's depression and anxiety that's breaking off of you right now in Jesus' name. I rebuke. That's the spirit that's trying to grip our nation, the spirit of fear. I bind it in Jesus' name. Lord, in its place we call upon faith. Let faith come alive in that one watching in Jesus' name. Lord, let the boldness of the Holy Spirit begin to flow. I pray, Father, that you would transform us into carriers of your glory. That, Father, in Jesus' name, we would carry your presence in such a way, Lord, that sickness would be healed. That those who are bound would go free in Jesus' name. And, Lord, we pray in our lives that you would give us that hunger, that desperation, that heart to seek your face. We pray it, we claim it, we believe it. And I want you to say it. Say amen. In Jesus' name we pray. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. So, Dave and I, in this audience, we do feel the presence of the Lord. And I want to see this, I know our time is gone, but at the same time, I want to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit. These are the moments now that the Holy Presence of God, the Holy Spirit, can convert from a feeling, from an ideal, into a manifestation that will alter wherever you are right now, those of you that are facing cancer. And the cancer is not your problem, it's the fear that is fueling, if you will, that growth. And just as fear is a spirit, so is the spirit of faith. And it's here right now. And just as you yielded to fear, you need to yield now to the Holy Spirit. Would you just begin to pray out for healing? Would you do that then, Orin? It's very strong here, and I want us to just... Someone watching, there's someone actually, right when you said it, someone watching with the skin disorder, it's all up your left arm. I think it's psoriasis. In Jesus' name we bind that right now. Father, let the healing waters begin to flow. In Jesus' name, Lord, we pray against all forms of sickness. Lord, you broke the curse of sickness in Jesus' name. Lord, we bind cancer in Jesus' name. I rebuke it now, Lord. Remove that sickness from their body in Jesus' name. Lord, I pray that you would cause broken bones to be mended. Lord, tendons to be healed. Lord, I come against blood disorders and heart diseases and brain disorders. Lord, healing in the eyes, healing in the mouth, healing in the hands. Lord, let us be one with you. And I pray, Father, in Jesus' name, that the precious blood of Jesus, in which there is power to heal, would wash over us. And Lord, I pray right now that the miracle take place in the name of Jesus. Amen. Wow. Wow. There's a number on the screen and why the presence of God is flowing in. We're getting ready. Myron Butler is going to come and lead us back into worship and to praise. I want you to call on the telephone right now. Call right there and say, I need a healing. I feel that this is for me. If in these moments you'll let somebody pray with you. We're not asking for your money. We're not asking for your name and address. We just, this is what we're here for. It's in these moments that we have seen tens of thousands of people saved, filled with the Holy Spirit, right over the phone. People healed right over the phone. Don't just sit there. You feel this now. Connect with somebody. The Bible says when one or two come together in His name, there's great power. Don't face that cancer alone. Don't face what you're going through alone. Now the word of the faith has been spoken by David. Now respond to it. Go to that phone. Let somebody pray with you and let's watch God seal the deal. You know what? I got to say this.  There's a huge transition going on. I prophesied over you a few years ago. That transition is not, it's not always smooth, David. My generation is not letting go. The boomers have been a very powerful generation and as a result of that it's hard for us to let go. But I just speak now that there's grace and there's trust and that God will bring you before great men and before great doors and before the generation and the nations because you're pure, you're hungry, you're anointed, you are a gift. The Bible says he has gifted us with evangelists and prophets and apostles and teachers.  And when I think about TBN and I think about how many have followed and supported for 40 years, it's time for you and I now to let our hands go and lean in to the next generation. It's not going to be the way that it's always been. It wasn't when you stepped into the scene. You were different and people didn't trust you and now it's your time to reinvest now the trust that people gave you and lean into the next generation. And I'm just very proud of you. I love your heart.  I want to be like with my cane saying, I know that guy, yeah. But give it up for David. What a great, what a great gift. And let me just encourage you, Carriers of the Glory, you can certainly get it at Amazon, but you can also go to his website. This is a practical book that will help you awaken what you already have. You just need somebody to help you connect the dots between what you're thinking, what you're feeling, and what God has already invested in you.


Many of you said you were waiting to hear my oration today, and we're looking forward to this with a keen sense of anticipation. About five minutes ago, I was wired up, and I think what happens is if I disappoint your expectations, I may be blown up in the next half hour. Before I begin my written remarks, let me say two things about what I intend to discuss. First of all, although I'm supposed to speak of a fusionism, an attempted fusionism, between paleoconservatives and paleo-thebratorians, I don't think we're really speaking about fusionism. And fusionism assumes a kind of merger of two things. In this case, we are not really speaking about a merger. We're speaking about a period of cooperation and error of good feeling between the paleoconservatives and paleo-thebratorians. I'm also being asked to recall something of which I was a part. And this is different, I suppose, than writing about the medieval and vestiger controversy or the American Revolution, events that happened in the past, which I think I can describe with a certain degree of detachment because I was not there. But it happened to other people. And I can examine it objectively as an object of study. What I'm about to discuss is something that involved me. And therefore, it is not something which can be discussed with the same degree of objectivity as historical subjects related to the past, particularly to the distant past, which at one time, one could discuss with a certain degree of objectivity that is not possible any longer in the American Academy because almost everything is shown to have a woke connection. So you cannot write about women in the Middle Ages who are being told women don't exist and that men are birthing persons and so forth. So it's almost impossible, given the woke parameters of contemporary education and the study of history to move outside them. But generally, when we look at history, we are speaking about something that happened in the past and we're not speaking about things that are just personal reminiscences. In this case, I am speaking about something that I was very much a part of. And although I tried to look at it with a certain kind of stoic or serene detachment, nonetheless, it did involve me at some level. And the picture that I've shown or whoever's arranging to do this, which has been shown on that screen, is a meeting that took place which represented the opening moves in trying to bring together Paleo-Conservatives and Paleo-Diberterians. Now, the only problem I have is dating this picture. I have on the back of it the date 1987. I have been assured by Alan Carlson, who is then president of the Rockford Institute, and David Gordon, who never forgets such things, that this event took place in the winter of 1987, I'm sorry, 1989, toward the end of 1989. I do remember it as being a very cold day and the busskidding as it transported us from O'Hare to Rockford, Illinois, where I had previously lived. And it was one of the coldest days that I remember. And I was on the bus with Sam Francis, who asked me, is it always this cold here? And I said, no, not in the summer. It typically goes up to about 110 degrees. But in the winter, he says, don't you have any trees? Like, this must be such an awful place. I don't think I'd ever been to the Midwest before. Because anyone who's lived in the Midwest knows there aren't any trees, a lot of cornfields. And I think this was his first exposure to Midwestern scenery. So those are the two points that I want to make before beginning my written presentation, which I shall start to read right now. A picture that evokes memories of friends long gone hangs over a bookcase in my cluttered study. This framed photograph came from Rockford, Illinois, where it was taken in 1989. It shows a room full of dignitaries meeting at the Rockford Institute, discussing the matter at hand in a very cold winter's day. Some of the figures in this picture, for example, Murray Rothbard, Mel Bradford, Sam Francis, Joseph O'Bran, Peter Standler, Stanless Bert Blumert, and George Resch are no longer alive. Others like Lou Rockwell, David Gordon, and myself are still sentient in sitting or standing in this room. The reason these participants assembled was to discuss the possibility of closer cooperation between their movements. Although both these groups had roots in older American conservative tradition and shared a nostalgia for the interwar American right, they led separate existences and, in some cases, were not even aware of their shared interests and principles. What may have led to their efforts to establish closer contact than even a working alliance was their encounter with the same enemy. Both the Paleo-Conservatives and the Paleo-Libritarians, if we may use those terms they gave themselves, had been chased out of the mainstream conservative movement at different times. In the 1950s, the Paleo-Libritarians who were previous incarnation of them had run afoul of the national view editorial board when they criticized the Buckleyite belligerent attitude toward the Cold War. Murray Rothbard's call for return to the isolationism of the interwar right rattled the editors of national review and subsequently Rothbard and those who followed in his path were unceremoniously driven out of a reconstructed conservatism. Paleo-Conservatives were given the heave ho in the 1980s for conspicuously protesting the Neo-Conservatives' takeover of what was left of a conservative movement. The Paleo-Conservatives opposed the Neo-Conservatives at least partly for repositioning the movement somewhere to the left of where it had been on social issues and immigration. But they also shared the anger and disgust felt by the Paleo-Libritarians over how the Neo-Conservatives approached international relations. In fact, both sides of what became a dissident right scoffed at the Neo-Conservatives' enthusiasm for a global democratic foreign policy and they ridiculed the ideologically driven form of global interventionism then associated with Neo-Conservative journalists, TV talking heads and foundation officers. Negotiations by the two dissident sides also revealed their agreement on many social issues even if the Paleo-Conservatives were more willing than their new allies to enlist political power to enforce their values. At the gathering that took place in Rockford, issues on which the two sides might have clashed were specifically addressed. Each side chose its own advocate to present the group views about a particular question except for some economic matters on which slight differences of opinion surface there seemed to be ideological unity between the two camps. I should point out, however, that the presence of Murray at the Rockford Institute, someone whom everyone at the meeting liked and admired probably served as an icebreaker. The usually irascible then editor of Chronicles seemed charmed by his new acquaintance and the Rockford Institute eventually bestowed on Professor Rothbard, the great libertarian economist, its lucrative Ingersoll Award for its contributions to Western thought. Arrangements were made at the meeting in Rockford to help the two sides cooperate on joint ventures. They would write for each other's publications and their associates and staff would be invited by both organizations to participate in seminars and conferences. To cement this newly formed friendship, a joint organization was founded, the John Randolph Club, in which representatives of the two groups would alternate as presidents. Programs and panels would be set up for the Randolph Club's yearly meeting that would embrace participants from both camps. The first meeting of this organization took place in July 1992 and not unexpectedly Murray Rothbard was unanimously elected as the club's first president. Although the John Randolph Club fulfilled its purpose of building bridges and featured some dramatic speeches, most memorably Murray's call to break the clock of the 20th century. After we had finished smashing the New Deal, it eventually showed the strains of internecine conflict. This became increasingly obvious after the unexpected death of the club's first president in January 1995, a turning point that allowed latent personal and ideological differences to come to the fore. I suspect that most of the older crowd at this dinner would have some notion of the stormy clashes of personalities that led to the weakening and eventual dissolution of this first fusionist experiment. Although the altercations were both personal and entirely avoidable, I nonetheless believe there were other more ideological reasons that strain the alliance. Critical differences existed between the groups that were blithely brushed aside in the initial euphoria of forging alliances with those who were dealing with the same adversaries. This may have caused us to overlook certain annoying facts. Both camps included hardliners who were not open to compromise on particular questions, whether intransigent anarcho-libertarians on the one side or on the other neo-medieval corporatists and patriarchal communitarians. There were also those in the middle like Lou Rockwell who believed in unity and hoped the hardliners on both sides would compromise. Since I had a foot in both camps, I inclined strongly toward loose position. Mind you, I'm not denying that certain people behaved disruptively, but nonetheless there were ideological fissures that could be and eventually were exploited by those trying to sow dissension. Another point about the failed relationship under consideration is the secondary position to which the Paleo-libertarians were relegated or relegated themselves by the end of the conservative wars that went on for more than a decade on the American right. In those histories of conservatism I've looked at and even in that notorious terror against the anti-patriotic right written by David Froome that appeared in National Review in 2003, Paleo-libertarians are misleadingly assigned to the Paleo-conservative camp. Those associated with the Mises Institute are depicted as participants in an exclusively Paleo-conservative revolt against the neo-conservatives as in the second edition of George Nash's The Conservative Intellectual Movement since 1945. Furthermore, the Wikipedia entry for the John Randolph Club lists the Rockford Institute as the organization's founders. This does not mean that the Mises people did not take explicit political positions. They just did so more carefully than the Rockford Institute and probably did not object to having certain controversial positions they took during that period attributed to Rockford. Clearly the Rockford and Mises Institute moved in different directions with the onset of their differences. While one threw itself happily into controversies and enjoyed publicized disputes, the other returned to its roots as an institute teaching and defending Austrian economics. By no means parenthetically, while the Rockford Institute spent its energies and resources on a number of causes, not all of which brought it rewards. The Mises staff succeeded financially and institutionally by focusing on academic outreach and economic construction. In general, the Mises Institute eschewed the path of controversy pursued by its one-time allies and turned inward toward what it had done before and would now do again. This may have been a prudent decision considering where the two institutes landed. One is flourishing as a far-reaching and educational enterprise, while the other exists in a less visible role as the board overseeing the magazine that I edit. But if a tight form of cooperation between the two groups was originally the shared goal, then their collaboration did not culminate in success. Perhaps the fusion of the 1990s failed partly because it was tried too early and was not launched in the best of circumstances. The consensus between paleoconservatives and paleoliberterians in the late 1980s may have been more apparent than real. Such a relationship may, however, be more promising at the present hour, but there shouldn't be an honest recognition that the two camps have differences. Although there are those who can easily work with both sides, paleoconservatives and paleoliberterians are not entirely interchangeable. A thoroughgoing libertarian like Walter Block will feel happier being identified with Mises than a purely paleoconservative institute. Listening to our young assistant editor at Chronicles calling for a right-wing welfare state might even drive Walter over the edge or knowing Walter to extreme contentiousness. Another assistant editor of mine, a Catholic neo-Ristitian who despises free trade, would certainly feel more comfortable editing Chronicles than the Austrian Quarterly of Economics or the Quarterly of Austrian Economics. As the old saw goes, different strokes for different folks, shouldn't we be surprised that the paleos on the popular's right reacted to this statement by Hans Hermann Hoppe in Chronicles in 2008 with flamethrowers. A program of economic nationalism must alienate the intellectually and culturally indispensable bourgeoisie while attracting the, for us and our purposes, useless proletariat.  In short, differences do remain between our sides and even within them and it seems futile to deny their presence. If the unifying figure of Murray Rothbard allowed the earlier forms of fusionism to go forward, his presence also concealed the differences that were even then evident between our groups. Once Murray was gone, the discord became obvious starting with the sulfurous debates at the Randolph Club over free trade versus protectionism and over conflicting conceptions of the state if memory service such debates did not unfold in a spirit of amity. Having made this point, let me assure my listeners that other problems that beset our first riot fusionism or close cooperation are not likely to return. I doubt the personality issues that came up in the 1990s will ever again become as critical or as divisive as they were then. From what I see, there is goodwill on both sides as we try to expand our areas of cooperation. We should not imagine that the situation that doomed in earlier lines has jinxed us a second time. We are also blessed with what Germans characterize as Grenzganger, figures who be stride our borders in camp and who belong in a sense to both our groups. Jeff Diaz, Tom Wood, C.J. Engel, Lou Rockwell, several German correspondents of mine and most of Chronicles editorial board would fall into that category. Such overlapping types were rarer in the 1990s. Despite affirmations of friendship, the two camps were split and after Murray's passing, their relations fell apart. Of course, neither side circa 1990 knew much about the other, say for the fact that they shared the same enemy lists and were desperately eager to make the match work. There should be coordination and deliberation if we take joint action, such as holding conferences together or issuing joint declarations. Although we are certainly free to disagree on points on which we don't concur, we should do everything possible to avoid rankerous debate. On a positive note, I noticed that my gloomy views about past failures is not that of Chronicles' current publisher. In his opinion, our previous collaboration resulted in fascinating polemics and lively conferences, which my colleague still recalls fondly from his youth. I myself form friendships with Petri libertarians that have remained intact and I have been reading with Prophet Murray Rothbard, Hans-Hem and Hoppe, David Gorton, Lou Rockwell, Tom Woods, Tom de Lorenzo, Joe Salerno, Walter Block and other authors with whom I first became familiar decades ago. Although being widely identified with the paleoconservatives, I've obviously formed personal friendships with the Mises crowd. In my case, our first efforts at achieving fusion or close cooperation continue to bring benefit. Finally, I would call attention to the changing situation on the intellectual right, which seems in some respects to be more open to our influence than was the case 30 years ago. A younger generation of right-wing thinkers and publicists no longer groove on Jonah Goldberg. Run to read George Will or subscribe to National Review in its present executable form. The conservative crack-up we were hoping to see in the 1980s and 1990s may be at last upon us. Although what we are witnessing may be more of a paradigm shift than a total collapse. Further, this transformation is operating along chronological lines. Self-identified conservatives under 40 and certainly under 30 are reacting against those ideological commasars we were fighting 30 years ago. This change does not exemplify what my late friend Sam Francis used to refer to as happy talk. Rather, I'm perceiving as an editor and conference speaker significant movement in our direction. A neoconservative foreign policy based on global democracy and global interventionism, what Maury Rothbard famously ridiculed as, and I know it was actually Randolph Bourne who said this first, as endless war for endless peace, does not speak to younger representatives of the right, certainly not with its representatives of whom I've had contact. If anything, neoconservative rhetoric and neoconservative policy disturb profoundly this rising generation. This is equally true for what I have designated as conservatism incorporated or just con ink, which for decades has imposed its belief on both the vulnerable and the easily gold. Among the dubious practices of this misnamed conservatism with its panoply of media outlets and institutes has been canceling and running down to centers, a practice going back to the dawn of post-World War II conservatism. Purges have in fact been a defining characteristic of con ink, which it has either hidden or else justified by declaring everyone expelled to have been a raging Nazi. This flies in the face of historical reality and what Harley described those Jewish libertarians who were among the first to be driven out of the reconstructed conservative movement. Of course, those who sit at top con ink have never been concerned with factual accuracy when going after unwelcome dissent. In response to this difficulty, the Mises Institute has been a pace-setter, building parallel institutions and conferences to those of the conservative establishment. And I think Tom Wood's praise of Lou Rockwell is fully deserved because I think it's his strategy that has worked so brilliantly. This is exactly the path I've urged chronicles and its sponsors to follow, creating their own parallel organizations, the ones from which they continue to be denied full access. But this isolationism may soon end as a new generation on the right aligns itself more and more with paleoconservatives and paleoliberitarians. I would finally call attention to a perspective shared by our two sides, which sets us even more apart from con ink, namely a willingness to view the last 70 years of American history more critically than does the establishment right. We emphatically reject the implausible dishonest view that our political and cultural problems are all or mostly of recent origin. We deny that our political institutions who were moving in a just and humane direction up until the last 20 to 30 years when suddenly the bad guys took over. What is ailing this country in much of the Western world is a long entrenched ruling class that is still expanding its power. There is no quick fix or GOP program from America that is likely to remedy this situation. Let me also note and here I won't hide my hand that it is impossible to understand the origins of the woke totalitarian state that is now oppressing us without focusing on what most Republicans and conning talking heads won't even speak about. A metastasizing welfare state that engages in massive social engineering and a war against discrimination that has long been in progress on all levels of government provides the background for our present ills. This oppression comes from somewhere and the reference point that may be the most relevant for our analysis goes back to at least the 1960s. Although conning may not have been able to reverse this entire course of events, it could have achieved more if it sought to unite the right rather than purge the centers and seek accommodation with the dark side. I also believe in my research that only a small percentage of those whom conning went after would fit the neo-Nazi label that Jonah Goldberg and others of his ilk have attached to the independent right. If only the conservative establishment had been as judgmental in dealing with the entire left as it was in gatekeeping the right, it might have gone much farther in battling leftist totalitarianism. On another note, I'm not glorifying pre-1960s America even if that temporally distant country was far saner and much freer than what has taken its place. Nor am I saying that every American was treated justly in that period or that there was nothing that could have been improved. Unfortunately, all the wrong steps were taken supposedly to create a more just society and the result is a government and secret service that are destroying our freedom and privacy in the name of equity and rooting out nationalists. Let us therefore recognize an obvious turning point in consolidating our victim obsessed regime and the anarcho tyranny into which we have descended. And let us admit that things have not been all right politically and culturally for a very long time and that we're now seeing what we're now seeing is the latest phase in the destruction of a free and virtuous society. For the real right, the work ahead will be necessarily difficult because the threats to freedom and dignity are so deeply rooted. Systemic evils are not likely to be cured by Kevin McCarthy's midterm Republican agenda, although I intend to vote for his party as the better of two abhorrent evils. Our descent into tyranny requires major political surgery of the kind that may cause those in power and those who front for them to screen bloody murder. But the young and dedicated on our side may be open to the challenge. Like Murray addressing the Randolph Club, a younger generation on the right may hope to break the clock of the 20th century or at the very least the clock of the second half of that century, the consequences of which continue to plague us. Those are my remarks. If anyone would like to ask me, I probably have not used up the full half hour allotted to my talk. If anyone would like to ask me any questions, I think we must have at least 10 minutes remaining of the session. So please go ahead and, yes, go ahead. In your opinion, what's the most important to real life? Yeah, I think they can work together on most issues. I think they have the sense of the same dangers that are facing us. I don't think, by the way, paleoconservatives are entirely impervious to the solutions that the Austrian economists come up with. And I think we certainly, our side can benefit from its insights. I think the paleoconservatives are more predictably on the right on cultural, moral, social issues. But I don't see any kind of incompatibility. Do I have only one minute remaining? Okay, so one more question. Then I will have exhausted my allotted time. Go ahead. Yeah, is there really a copy of that photograph that says this is done online? Copy of what? Excuse me. Photograph. They might make it available. This photograph here? Yes. I think the Mises Institute may be able to make it available. They want to copy it. I have the original picture with me. So I think it's a very important historical artifact. Right. Okay, so that is the last question. And I think I have exhausted my time. Thank you for your patience. Thank you.