Okay, the recording is on. Good morning, room one. Welcome to BC 309, our course on urban church planting and It's house, I see your response Okay To pray for your father, okay All right, let's take a moment to pray and then we get our class started and as we pray We can Yeah, just pray for Charles is Charles shared his father still feeling weak. So Let's just pray as well for his father Okay Could one of us just pray and we'll get the class started somebody pray for Charles's father also Asha, you want to pray? But I'll start getting Should come on, please pray. Thank you Precious father we thank you and praise you for this wonderful day, which are given to us We give you all the glory on Iran praises of father Once again, you have given us this platform to come together to learn a lot master regarding to the church planning We pray that father release your wisdom and father God give us the understanding to grasp everything What we are going to learn today and we could able to implement it in our ministry in our personal life for God strengthen You're servant of father God Lord master fill him with the revelation fill him with Lord master with with his with your wisdom So that father when he's going to speak Lord master let it be from you and also we pray for brother Charles father The word father we ask that father Let us let the strength of God Lord master strengthen him and father God let this prayer revive him Lord Master let he be healthy and let he be let his health be restored in the name of Jesus Thank you that father God you honoring our prayer and you are answering it in Jesus name be pray Man All right. Thank you. Thank you, Ruan. Good morning. Once again, welcome to the class So this would be our I think would be our final lecture unless there are a lot of discussions that happen This would be a final lecture in this course on urban church planting And then what I'm going to do is I will work on setting up an assessment Put it out. I think I'll have time at Wednesday to create up an assessment which will be more like a review of the whole course and You can take time through November to just do the to work on the assessment Review the course content of course and then also rest to the assessment It's not gonna be very difficult just more of a review and then the assessment, of course will give you a grade for the course Right. Now. I want to just make this is more like an announcement for all of us We at And so we we launched in Bangalore now we we started this year for the first time we We started what is called as a church planting accelerator program You can read about it in our church website at apcwo.org Cp You go there you can read about it This year we introduce this program mainly for people within India where we Have invited people to share up submit their application if they're interested on planting a church anywhere in the country and We would you know, we have two options one is if they are already by the college graduates Who have studied with us for three years? then You know, we they can just submit the application and then we would review it and if it's It's good if it's if it's a clear vision and has a plan then we would basically Financially support them for three years to help them plant a work The other option is if they're not If they haven't graduated from our Bible College Then we would want them to come and train with us for one year here in Bangalore and then we would After that we would evaluate and then fund them for church planting But then they had to fill up the application form now the interesting thing about the application form is It's based on what we have studied in this course, you know, like in the first part of the course we talked about the natural dynamics that is you have to be aware of The what is happening in the natural in the particular place where you're going to plant a church Then the spiritual side of things you need to be aware on the spiritual side Then you need to have strategy You need to know how are you going to go about carrying out the church? And then this is where Not only strategy, but also the financial aspects come in, you know, how much money you need How are you going to live etc? What are you going to do in salt? So the application form that you will find here on this apcw.org Cpap Page that you can download is basically kind of a practical application of a lot of things that we have gone through in this course So this year we just opening it out for people within India We just be just trying, you know, whatever I should say launching it within India But next year will be it'll be open for our International students that means whichever part of the world you're in You can submit this thing, but you have to complete three years of study, right? So it'll be only for those who have studied with us for three years Sorry So all of you you will be graduating next year the international students From next year onwards and then you could you know, so you could take the application now It's going to be the same application form and you can start using that as a way to prepare in case you're interested I'm not saying you have to do it I'm just saying it's an opportunity that's available So you can start preparing and and then you know in and next year when we open it up I think we'll start taking applications from February next year So that by the time you graduate end of April then the application would be reviewed and approved And then we can you know once you graduate you could start doing work. So if you're interested You can go to this web page at pcw.org slash cpa pay download the application just look at it start thinking about it and you know next year Month of February can submit it We'll open it up for our international Bible College graduates and hopefully we'll you know, we'll have everything organized as well on the financial side to to do that So something for you to think about pray about it's not compulsory. I'm just saying it's an opportunity That's available All right. Okay. Shri Kumar. You have a question. I see your hand raised Yeah, thank you, sir. I just want to know that do you do we also have ordination before we start this and Are you going to ordain the like as a pastor or whichever it is after that is one thing I just want to know and second thing We need this licensing and other part so how Like how we can get all these things so I just want to know that these Yeah, so the way we do it is yeah, so we will pray and so the prayer is the ordination so we will pray over Those whom are appointed as in the go out and start a work We pray over them point them as pastors and then we also provide a letter from APC Bangalore saying that You're officially the church. So The church or the ministry that you're doing is under APC. So we give this letter That's what we have done for all our current outreach pastors so They use that letter to show that It's official. It's legal. Whatever they are doing And they are connected to APC Bangalore. So there's an ordination prayer that happens. There's a Letter, it's given there's a ID card. It's given so they use it in the ID card. They use it to You know, whenever example, they go to a hospital or something. It's an identification card It shows that it's official and they are Under APC Bangalore The only thing is like it's not the same as like the CSI or the CNI, you know, those those are different denominations or the AG They have their own things. So this is this will become from APC the letter and everything come from APC Yeah Sir, is it only for this ordination is only done for the people who are going to apply or is it going to be happened for every Graduates or who are available in Bangalore just want to So what we have done traditionally is I see the prayer when we pray we pray for everyone but then we don't give a letter like, you know, an unofficial letter to all this to everyone because Students would be Doing the whatever if they go and do their own thing their own work so We don't Give an ordination letter as such for all the students, but we do pray for them So we just tell them to you know, when they are questioned then they can say look I was prayed for and ordained by APC by the college Upon my graduation, you know, but then so the graduation certificate is there your diplomas there That's what we do But for the actual church and ministry is a different letter saying that's an official work supported by APC Thank you Abrams question does it apply to those who have already started Yeah, you can have your already ministry started, but then when you submit the application you can share the plan for the next three years You know, so when you submit the application next year in February You can basically we want to know what your plan for three years and how are you going to go about it and then How we can help and so that's okay if you've already started. Yeah, okay? All right That's just a little information for you to think about and pray about for next year for international students and And for those who are graduating next year It for those both within India and outside that's available. You can get some information on it So let's go to our last lesson our last final Okay, see a question there from Charles Charles it's for India only this now that means we've just launched it in India only this year Next year in February We'll open it up for everyone else. That means for anyone all across global And we'll take up applications a bit reviewed so that when our students graduate in end of April They'll have something to start with From me right so next year we're opening it up to everybody right now this year We've just launched it only for in India for people within India Okay, so let us Look at our All right, I was going to start here. I see another question Abraham Question is are we all ordained as pastor after graduation? Well We will pray and ordain you For ministry whatever ministry God's called you to right so we pray now in even if for our students here in Bangalore We actually have we actually have a time of prayer where we all the staff faculty get together We pray over our all our graduating class That's we do that in Bangalore, but now since we have students online and internet, you know overseas We will have to kind of do this online So we will pray and ordain you into whatever ministry God has called you to Now some may go into pastoral ministry Some may serve in their own churches like where they're already serving some may go into different kind of ministry That's okay. So basically we pray and ordain you into the ministry You got is called it to it won't be specifically for or pastor or whatever because each one so many people each one Is called to a different kind of ministry But our prayer is going to be to ordain you to recognize God's call to bless and Set you in whatever God is called you to do Okay So Abraham your follow-up question is how do you know the difference? So You're asking about how do we know? Whether somebody is called to be a pastor or an evangelist or an apostle or is that what you're asking and I didn't understand your question Okay So, you know, so this this depends on each person's calling Right and also remember the calling can grow and expand with time Right that means somebody may start off Just maybe as a teaching, you know a teaching the word and then they may grow into the role of a Pastor and then they may move into maybe an even an apostolic calling or they may move into Anyway, so the that whole journey with God is what each person is going to make right? So we can't we're not going to dictate that journey So each one of us Has our own journey in the ministry to make with God and God is going to expand and clarify and Expand this calling on our lives. And so we all start with where we are, you know Somebody may already be pastoring. Okay, you start from there somebody may be Right now serving as an itinerant preacher. Okay, you start with that Somebody may be doing some other kind of ministry. Okay, all we all start with that But you know over time and over the years to come God is going to grow each one of us into our calling and so each one of us has to journey with God Right and we will go through various stages as we grow in the call of God on our lives So basically we are praying and when we upon your graduation next year We're going to pray over all our graduates and ordain them into the ministry. God has called for them and Pray and bless them for for the whole journey ahead, but that journey each one has to make and we have to grow in the call Yeah, so now how to recognize that call, you know, I would refer us back to the The you know that some of the things to be learned one is on You know the book little book on fulfilling God's purpose for your life And also receiving God's guidance, you know, when you look at that And it's okay. This is how God is going to guide me. These are the signposts. He's placed in my life So let me journey with that over time And and as you grow you can say okay now I'm serving as a pastor now I'm serving as an evangelist or now I'm serving as you know, whatever God has called you to do you grow in it and People will recognize what you're doing. Yeah fine Let's get into our lesson Okay, another question, so I was planning to give them a lesson like another question here from Christopher Just to confirm CPAP will be available from April 22 next year in India Okay Christopher So CPAP so we have long we have already launched CPAP this year in India, right? So we have already welcomed applications for this year This year's application which was to be submitted in the month of November. Sorry October is for within India But next year we'll have an so every year will take we'll be taking applications every year So next table taken applications again, but from next year on what that is from 2023 onwards It'll be open globally India and everywhere else today Is that clear? I guess my point is that we will only graduate next year in April 2023 We'll only be able to Utilize if select utilize that that fund Or that program only in 2023. Yes, I'm just in here from my from a from a utilization point of view It'll only for international will only be 2024, right? I mean, is that correct or it'll it'll be in from next year itself Okay Yeah So from for for all students in local India as well as international from 2023 all students can apply Yeah, so Yeah, so and then, you know, basically we'll open an application sometime in Feb So it can all be reviewed. We can get everything ready So that when the batch graduates and the way pro We can get it started, you know, they can start their work from right after that from may onwards So it'll be open 2023 next year be open to everyone Okay Shreya Kamaria question is is there any time limit meaning? I didn't understand that question. I just want to know that like If I don't want big for me if I don't want to apply now But I want to apply later or because I am a graduate so can I and anyone do that? That's yeah Also, if it is it applicable or it's there is any time limit that because I'm graduating and now this 2023 So I have to apply within this year. That's something No, no such time limit. So we will as as what what we have planned right now every year We will take in applications, you know, so there'll be Invitational applications every year so you can apply in the future as well. Yeah, thank you Okay All right Prabhakar you have a question go ahead Yes, pastor. Thank you. So After our graduation we then only our eligibility will be I mean to like to be a part of this So what for those pastors those like we already started at certain place So can we apply or like we wait for my graduation to be over? okay, so So so we have two options right one is You apply as somebody who is who has who has a three-year degree from a PC Bible college So then you wait till you graduate and then you apply And then you know you're selected then you can start the work Or if you've already started it's okay You can still apply but you know the criteria we're looking for is that you've graduated with a three-year degree from a PC Bible college and Then you apply and then we can assess it and then you continue the work even if you've already started that support comes For those who have not studied with us because there are a lot of pastors around the country who want to work with us Which is what we're doing right now If they have not studied with us that means they haven't graduated with a three-year degree from a PC Bible college Then we tell them they have to come to Bangalore and be with us for one year So that's another track right for those who are not students of a PC Bible college So that would not apply to all of us That will be for those who have not studied with us then but they have already been doing ministry Then we say you have to come to Bangalore be with us for one year so we can train you and You know for of course the whole selection process happens and then they go but for those who have studied three years with already with a PC Bible college then you just apply and Then you're selected you can just continue or start or continue the work you're doing Thank you possible. Thank you Okay And the questions Yeah, I think we will have some more time for questions on this, you know late next year when we Officially open it up for everyone Feel free, but I just wanted to give you a heads up so you can start thinking you can download the application form start thinking about it I'm preparing for it. So you left time Okay, let's go to today's final lesson Just a quick it's more of pointing us to the future, you know, I haven't written much on this But it's more of these are some things that is start thinking about So as we think about church planting in the future. So, you know in this course so far we talked about all the practical things that we know of based on past experience But remember Cities are changing the world is changing things around us are changing But it's good to you know learn from our past experience and what others have already done and what we have already done We also have to look into the future so These three, you know main points here offer us to Think about the future meaning What will the future the first thing is the future of urban life What will the future of urban life look like? What will the future of urban life? look like and Sadly Some of the things are the trends that we are seeing are actually very scary Urban life you say what do you mean? And and and this this is not new these kinds of things started, you know, maybe a few decades ago But it is now becoming mainstream or it is now becoming the accepted norm Which then therefore is going to be Define future of urban life and I'm not saying this is you know, you know Like every person is going to be like this, but I'm just saying that's the things we are seeing happen All right, so what are we seeing some of the things about urban life? We are seeing, you know, the whole concept of marriage family All of that is being And all you could say has disintegrated and it's being redefined Without any standards so We are seeing people who just live together They're not Legally married. They just live together some they have children Or we are seeing people of the same gender, you know, same-sex marriage and They are adopting children and So and and these things are, you know, almost like they're coming into mainstream These things used to be on the sidelines in the past But these things are like coming slowly slowly slowly they're coming like, okay It's part of urban life Which is very very challenging And now how much of society is going to become like this We don't know In different parts of the world there will be different Responses or, you know, different ways This is gonna Take on shape and form But we have to keep in mind and especially when you're thinking about the parts of the world where you are working Keep an eye it means be observant on On how things are changing in your context, right? So Along with this the kinds of challenges are also going to New challenges are going to come up, you know, how is the church going to respond? How's the church going to? Stand in these kinds of situations in this kind of environment you know, so Look at the future of urban life The other big thing is more and more cities, you know It has already happened in many parts of the world, but it's progressively happening in more and more cities is that You have to be from all over the world and they're melting pots be from all over the world living in the city Not only from within the country, but you have people all across other countries all kinds of people and so It's very complex now And this is only going to increase as businesses expand industries expand. You're going to have people moving with work with job with Abid businesses coming into the to your city To cities and then so you'll have to interact with people from different backgrounds languages cultures and The church is going, you know, we'll need to serve all of them So that's again another thought to keep in mind and Then what we have seen Is The other part we look at is what will the future of urban church and Christian ministry look like Now, how what will the ministry look like in an urban context? Now what we have seen again technologies become a major player in The life of the on the ministry of the church So we can't rule that out especially in the urban context that In the past people came to church if there were four Sundays in the month they came for Sundays But now they have the option maybe they'll come to church physically to Sundays and to Sundays they'll be online But they still say that's my church.  We don't know They just decide what they want to do and you can't force that. I mean, yes, we would love to have everybody in person but And people are making their choice Then the church is, you know being online people are connecting from different places and And they're attending the they seemingly say I'm part of that church, but it's an online connection You know for whatever reason they may choose to be part of that church, but they are in a different country But that's what they feel connected to or they want to receive from and so so that's just again something You know, we can't we can't push them away. We can't say no. No. No, you cannot be connected to us online No, we've got to engage with them we got to be willing to serve them and Yeah that's again something that's happening right now as judges reopen and You know, we've in some ways we've gone past the pandemic and we're kind of getting back to normal but this normal looks a little different because of How technology has influenced the church and the ministry? Now where did all this is going to go? We have to see, you know What are the new expressions of church urban church? We have to see But this this is something we need to be in touch with and observe what's going to happen and Along with that like we're saying The local is being influenced by the global You know Before in times past There was a clear separation between the local and the global okay Something happened in the church in another part of the world. It really didn't bother the church locally. Yeah, it happened there It's only news But today it's so different because everything is so connected What happens to the church in some other part of the world is affecting the way? believers are thinking locally Their mindset that thought process is being affected by things happening in the church in other parts of the world So that's something you to start thinking about, you know that okay Urban church is no longer in the church in your city is no longer insulated from what is happening in the church worldwide In fact, if it's an urban church, it is very connected and very influenced by the global church The church worldwide is in some way the other and so how can you as a pastor? Respond to those kinds of challenges, you know How do you handle it? How do you process it? How do you journey through it? How do you serve people? like that, you know so That's something to think about when you are Considering urban church planting or Christian ministry in an urban context. It's no longer isolated or insulated Just to that region it's being influenced by what's happening globally and Then think about the local dimensions of what is happening In various parts of the world there is seemingly, you know an increase in Opposition to the church and what the church stands for And Jesus spoke about it, you know, he said The love of many Matthew 24 the love of many will grow cold But he also said, you know, you'll be hated by all men for my name's sake so that that that opposition to the church is being visibly expressed in many places and You know, but we have to love we can't retaliate with hate These two have to love the people who Think that our are the truth. We are preaching is outdated the values We are holding to is no longer relevant We still have to love them and we have to be far in the truth. We preach and the values we live by So think about the future be in touch with this. All right, so whatever we've covered in this in this whole course is useful is relevant But what I want to leave us with is hey keep in touch with what's happening and Keep thinking about the future because the future may may look very different From what we have been used to in the church and so we have to you know, keep our eyes open Be in touch with what's happening locally be in touch with what's happening globally in the church and How that is affecting the way Believers in the church are thinking and so on Okay, because these these are the challenges we will have to address So be in touch with urban life Be in touch with what's happening in the urban church and with that information we need to Envisage and prepare for the future that means you begin to Imagine what the future is going to look like giving the trends with giving the directions things are going in urban life in the church urban church and Then you say okay, I need to be prepared for the future So how do we do that? You know like I like I was emphasizing keep looking at the trends Keep looking at what's going on in urban life. Keep looking at what is going on in the urban church Be in touch with that Then of course you need to listen to Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit has to tell us The Holy Spirit will tell us certain things you'd say just stay with this these things don't don't change this Don't change this and the Holy Spirit will tell you here are things you need to change adapt here So these are two things things that the Holy Spirit tells us You must stay with us. Don't compromise. Don't change. Just stick with us.  Hey change adapt make this change do this differently We need to do it differently So obviously the teaching of the ministry of the word of God will not change You stay with it Example of things that you can adapt Would be maybe the way you communicate the same truth maybe You know we were communicating it and again you need to see you need to know what's happening Right so Depending on the on the people you're serving and what's happening in your local context and how it's being affected by What's the global church, you know You speak things that you speak it in a way that the people you are serving are able to receive the timeless truth But it has to be communicated in a way that they can understand So maybe the methods in Communication may be the way you're communicating maybe how you are presenting maybe those things miss like the Holy Spirit me tell you to adapt Okay, but the truth What you're communicating to the message the truth Will not change Right, but listen to the Holy Spirit as he guides you into preparing for the future And you know from a both a personal perspective and a church or a ministry perspective we need to Envision and we need to prepare ourselves for the future that means You and I as ministers have to be constantly learning Right, so I want us to leave. I want to leave us with that thought, you know constantly learn Keep keep looking at what's happening. Don't say, okay. I've you know, I've been through Bible college Five years ago.  Okay, that's good But in ten years so much can change In five years so much can change and so you have to constantly keep learning Keep in touch with what's going on the word of God is not changing but The people be administering to the environments in which we are ministering and How we are communicating to the people those need to be constantly adapted changed Refined so that we can stay relevant, you know that the the urban church can continue to make an impact in the city of In the place where we administering Okay, so I want to leave us with these three thoughts. I know I haven't really expanded on this and it's still something I'm Trying to figure out myself Trying to you know journey into this You know, how do we do this? How do we keep on? prepare be future ready so to speak be Be prepared for the future. It's something we are still looking at and learning But I want to leave you with those thoughts that While you take whatever we've learned in this course you start applying it but keep yourself future ready for Urban life things in the city are always changing and We don't want to be outdated or left behind in any way. All right Any questions on that any thoughts on that so What we're going to do is We will close in prayer that you know, we've we've come to the end of this course What I will do most likely on Venice day not tomorrow. So tomorrow. We won't have class But on Venice day, I will I should be able to set up assignments for this course and It'll be basically be a review of the course start start to finish So the assignment is meant to be a course review So it'll walk you through the course so can review the course and of course you'll end up with a grade so you actually answer the questions and Yeah, so, you know take your time to do the assessment we have the month of November to do it take your time to do it and That you know, we'll be done with this course But most importantly, I'd encourage you to go to our receipt of a page and download the application There and just use the application I mean, even if you're not going to apply next year use it as a way to think through Okay, this is what I would need to think through if I'm going to start a church which are pioneered church planted church or If I'm going to start some sort of a ministry, these are things I need to think through so just use that application more as a help for you and If you're planning to you know apply next year This application the same application will be used. So anything you do to prepare on it will be useful next year So use it to think about what? The work you're planning to start in the city or you know, either a local church or ministry in an urban context All right Any final questions and thoughts before we close? Otherwise, if there's there is no people close and prep She come on your question Thank you, sir. So I just want to know Do we have any any kind of you know Meetings like how we used to have this In the past like we used to gather once in a week regarding to the mentor mentoring session and kind of a thing Want to know that in future for this for for us when We are now Getting involved in the ministry and once in a month or something. It can be gathered and To ask the questions or something. Are we planning like that? Thank you, sir Okay, so My two things one is the monthly mentoring of So it's being done monthly and We we have moved it to the first Wednesday of each month. So actually this coming Wednesday the faculty will be on available online and it's being done the same way, you know through the through the Main auditorium Google classroom So the faculty will be available online for question answers the other thing we are planning to introduce is So hope I'm not sounding like I'm promoting a lot of stuff today So one minute that we finished typing this so what we have been thinking about planning to set up is An entity called pastors and ministers fellowship international P a m fi That or G and it's mainly for our Bible college students and this is more of Now and we haven't launched it yet, right, so it's not launched yet, but we have been thinking of setting this up but this is more of Like a platform for fellowship Spiritual care and nurture, right? So it's it'll be open to all our students as well as other ministers outside Anywhere in the world who want to be part of it? and that's it'll be a platform for us to to Fellowship To provide nurture share, you know ask questions so on so forth. So That that will be set up and you can sign up for it, you know, it's it's not like it's not a paid membership or anything. It's more of a People who'd volunteer who voluntarily on their own accord want to be part of it For fellowship spiritual nurture and spiritual oversight So we'll set that up and you know an email will go out and so that might prove that I think will provide what you're asking for Which is a platform to share and ask questions and discuss and that's all Thank you, Pastor You will come I think so that you had a question did you raise your hand? Okay, no problem all right, so the cover these these ideas are just you know things that are we're working on and over time we will launch them and We will you know, of course, we'll send emails to announce it and we can continue You know the fellowship we have and the nurture we're able to provide and also spiritual oversight And there's no compulsion for any of these things. It's all just open and free for people to participate Okay. All right, so thank you all for being part of this course. I hope you know, you found this journey useful and And you know, we'll continue our journey next semester We still have the other course to finish so we'll do that Charles your question we'll fill the app from the link you provided Yeah, so Charles for the CPAP the church planting accelerator program. Remember, it's for next year We will we will send an email next year Right now the web page is restricted for people in India. So if anybody from outside India try to submit it won't accept But next year we'll open it up globally. So all all the students can You know can participate But it'll be the same link. Yeah We will send an email on it Okay, thank you everyone's been great turning together may I request somebody to please pray and then we will close Anyone could pray Go ahead Dear god, thank you so much for this course that we did on the urban church That we need I'll put it into a hard right on campus of a hard spot and pray that As we're about to end this course lord that we need meditate on the things that's been been taught and Things lord that's been poured out and planted in your hearts god That we may remember what you didn't talk for us god I pray blessings over my classmates and our pastor god. Thank you for everything that we may have a great Day ahead and also that we may journey this semester with your Guidance and interpretation. Thank you for everything lord. We pray Amen Thank you everyone. So um look out for the assessments. You'll get notified Take your time to do it and Yep, god bless See you all soon. Bye now Thank you pastor Thank you everyone. Thank you so much God bless


Woo, I'm excited about today's video because it is all about radiology. There's this huge page called medical, I can't, I can't say. There's this huge page called, there's this huge page called, sorry. Hold on. So there's this huge page on YouTube called med school insiders and they do this group of videos highlighting every specialty in medicine. It's called so you want to be or so you want to be a radiologist, so you want to be a surgeon. So they go through the entire specialty and all the specifics about the specialty and I thought I'd watch this video, react to it and give my thoughts on how well they describe radiology. Let's go ahead, get into it. That was such a bad intro, oh well. So let's go ahead and start this video. So you want to be a radiologist by med school insiders. Do you like the idea of sitting in a dark room looking at x-rays and steering clear of patient contact? This is the reality of radiology. If you'd like to see what being a radiologist looks like, check out my second channel where I do a second series in parallel called a day in the life. Now why didn't he ask me to be a part of this day in the life video? I'm kind of heartbroken a little bit. Unless that problem is skin deep, you can't actually see what the problem is with your own eyes. Only a few causes of the commonly presenting complaint of abdominal pain can be diagnosed with just history, physical exam, and lab tests. See this is so important already. I'm already loving this video because there's only so much a history and physical exam can provide you. Everybody has abdominal pain coming through the ER. You can try to localize the pain, but you don't really know what's going on until you get imaging on that patient. A CT scan will clear up everything you want to know. Radiologists are experts in interpreting these images and leverage the power of these machines to both diagnose and treat disease. Anytime a non-radiologist physician orders an imaging study, a radiologist will analyze the images and provide their assessment. I mean, I don't really look like him when I'm analyzing images. It's mostly on a computer screen, but cartoon is cute. Some radiologists use these imaging technologies to improve the precision of certain procedures. A suspicious mass in a patient's kidney can be sampled through an ultrasound guided needle biopsy rather than surgical excision. Interventional radiology, this is me. And while the common stereotypes suggest radiologists are shy, socially awkward, don't like talking to people and just sit in a dark room all day, that's far from the truth. This is exactly the reason I started this entire channel, my Instagram, everything. I kind of wanted to completely get rid of that stereotype of all of this that they mentioned here because I am not that way. None of my colleagues in residency were that way. And hardly any of the faculty I worked with were that way. I wanted to prove to everybody that radiologists are actually fun. We're not socially awkward. Not everybody's an extrovert, but I am and all of my friends in radiology are. So I wanted to shed some light that radiologists are cool too. While not as high energy as the hospital floor or operating room, physicians regularly visit or call the reading rooms for assistance with their patients. This is so true. So many times when I was working overnight on call, so many physicians would come in our room, ask us to go over imaging studies throughout the day when we're at work, when there's multiple people in the reading room, they're constantly calling our reading rooms asking us about their patients imaging, asking us about what's the next best step? How should we treat this patient next? Are there any other imaging modalities that could further elucidate the finding on the current x-ray or whatever? So we're constantly communicating with other providers throughout the entire hospital and multiple different hospitals every single day. Radiologists work isn't confined to just reading rooms. While most spend their time in reading rooms, they can also perform several procedures. I'm loving this video already. He's really hitting the nail on the head here because this is what I've been talking about through all of my past videos. You always hear me talking about how many procedures we do and we don't just sit in a dark room and read studies. We do a lot of other stuff too. Ranging from life saving procedures such as embolizing or ablating cancers with radiation infused particles, Y90 or yitrium Y90 or trans arterial radio embolization, which is what I do. Radiologists can choose to be more reading room focused or patient facing. Non-procedural radiologists choose to spend the large majority of their time in the reading room. On the other hand, you can choose to be heavily procedural as every subspecialty within radiology involves procedures and provides the opportunity to be patient facing either in the procedure suite, at the bedside, or in clinic. This is so true. A lot of radiologists choose just to do imaging only and they just crank out diagnostic studies day in and day out. Others want a mix of diagnostic studies and also procedures. For instance, MSK radiologists may read a whole bunch of MRIs on the shoulder, knee, hips, but also they may do some arthritis or some bone biopsies or whatnot. As you know, interventional radiologists do almost 100% procedures. As an academic radiologist, your responsibilities will include a combination of reading films, teaching residents and conducting radiology related research. In private practice or community-based practices, the large majority of your time will be spent in the reading room and your primary responsibility will be in completing reads of imaging films in an accurate and timely manner. I literally just spoke about this in one of the videos I filmed yesterday, the differences between academic and private practice, and how I'm trying to figure out which one I want. I'm leaning more towards private practice, but I can be convinced through the academic lifestyle as well. I don't know. After four years of medical school, radiology residency is a total of five years. The first year or intern year, you obtain clinical training focused on various internal medicine or surgical rotations. I did surgery. This internship is often performed at a different institution. Mine was at a different institution. Why is there an ambulance going by? All right. I did my surgical intern year at Linux Hill, as you probably already know from my prior Linux Hill videos. And then I did my radiology residency at North Carolina. Now I'm up in New York for fellowship. Diagnostic radiology is middle of the pack in terms of competitiveness with an average step one in recent years around 240 and an average step two CK in the mid to high 240s. This is good information because so many people ask me what the step one scores are, how competitive radiology is. This is dead on. Radiology ranks at 14 out of 22. But you see interventional radiology right there. I think interventional radiology is actually the most competitive specialty on the market. If you go directly to an interventional radiology residency program, it's a bit more competitive. Is he reading my mind or am I reading his mind? I haven't seen this video yet. I promise. This place is interventional radiology at seven out of 22 in terms of competitiveness. Oh, I thought it was the top. I thought I had like a 30% match rate last year, which is crazy difficult. Medical students that typically apply to radiology are friendly, laid back and humble. That's me. Friendly, laid back, humble. Although someone who was saying I wasn't humble on TikTok the other day. I'm getting into TikTok, by the way. So if you want to follow me on TikTok, as cringy as it is, I think I might have to jump on the bandwagon. We'll see. If you enjoyed your preclinical years of medical school more than your clinical years, you may prefer the intellectual aspect of medicine. I sort of agree with that, but I also love my clinical years way more than preclinical years. And the reason I went into radiology is because I wanted to continue my knowledge in every single field. In radiology, you have to know a lot about every single field because we read imaging on every single field. And that's what kind of drew me to radiology. You can subspecialize further with fellowship, all of which are one year in duration except for IR. Not exactly true. IR is actually one year fellowship after residency. There is a two year pathway, but that is only for somebody who doesn't match into the ESIR program while they're in residency or their diagnostic radiology residency does not have an interventional ESIR pathway. And if you don't know what ESIR pathway is, just look up early specialization of interventional radiology on Google, you'll find it. Interventional radiology is the most procedure-heavy radiology subspecialty. Procedures are minimally invasive, performed using wires and catheters. You can cure cancers, stop life-threatening hemorrhage, salvage critical limbs, and reverse disabling genitourinary conditions through an incision merely centimeters long. That is a beautiful description. Thank you for that. And as you've seen, cure cancers via the liver treatments, we stop hemorrhage. I literally just posted a video where I saved this person's life, who was hemorrhaging to death or an hemorrhagic shock. We stopped the hemorrhage with literally a small, centimeter-sized incision in the wrist. Salvation critical limbs, we treat peripheral arterial disease and genitourinary conditions such as prostate artery embolization or uterine fibroid embolization. I mean, it's kind of like we do it all. While you can do this as a two-year fellowship after completing your radiology residency, you can also go directly into an integrated interventional radiology residency after medical school, which is a six-year path. You can also do ESIR, which is what I did, so like I was just saying, that's the third option to get into interventional radiology. I'm actually surprised he knew as much as he did because this whole interventional radiology pathway is the most confusing thing ever. And while they were transitioning over to eliminating all the one-year fellowships after residency, this just got super complicated and a lot of program directors were having trouble with this whole thing for a long time. And I was too. Neuroradiology is for those who are highly intellectual, have a passion for learning, and are driven by curiosity. The job of a neuroradiologist is to diagnose pathologies involving the brain and spinal cord and to guide clinical decision-making. You can additionally pursue a neurointerventional fellowship afterwards if you're interested in more procedural interventions with the brain. Yes, you can do a neurointerventional fellowship or an interventional neuroradiology fellowship after radiology residency in which you do some high-end neuro procedures. Breast radiology is heavily patient-facing whereby you'll hold clinic performing mammograms and biopsies on primarily female patients. You'll refer to hematology oncology or surgical oncology for the next steps depending on the type of cancer. Breast radiology is like the best kept secret in medicine. It's super chill, not hardly any call whatsoever. And it's like the most straightforward hours amongst all specialties. And my brother actually wants to do this. And I'm jealous because as you see, I take a lot of call. This has the best lifestyle of all the radiologies. Again, he's reading my mind There are no breast emergencies requiring overnight call. MSK radiology, your responsibilities will revolve around sports medicine and orthopedics in both diagnosis and management. It's a highly procedural field with joint injections for pain, joint aspirations for diagnosis, and kyphoplasty to treat vertebral fractures. So they do kyphoplasty as well. We also do an interventional radiology like I showed you in a prior video. And MRI is the workhorse of radiology and the backbone of the hospital. If I didn't do interventional radiology, I was going to do body imaging. I still love body imaging. I don't know if it's like the surgical anatomy I'm used to and all that kind of stuff. I just love it. There's a lot to love about radiology. Radiology is one of the road lifestyle specialties standing for radiology, ophthalmology, anesthesiology, and dermatology. So that's kind of an antiquated acronym. Radiology and anesthesia aren't really part of that lifestyle specialty anymore. The demand for imaging has increased so much and we can actually read faster and more efficiently now. So naturally, the demand increases alongside that. Everybody wants their reports immediately, which is why private practice lifestyle radiologists, it's not super laid back like it used to be way back in the 90s where they had to like hang up all the images for a CT scan. They read like 10 CTs an entire day. It doesn't happen anymore. Given the lower acuity work environment, the atmosphere is lower stress and colleagues are more amicable and collegial compared to higher stress specialties. Your daily task as a radiologist have a direct impact on patient outcomes, whether it's helping to diagnose a disease or provide an intervention. You won't have to deal with the difficulties of healthcare delivery such as arguing with insurance, sorting out patient disposition, dealing with non-compliant patients, or pleading with consultants to evaluate your patient. This is so true and this is a lot of the reason why I went into the specialty. Radiology is an innovative field and you'll be able to play with new toys and gadgets. It will likely augment and make their job easier rather than outright replace them. See, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I did a video on artificial intelligence probably a year ago. I'll link it up here, but that's essentially what I said in so few words. It's going to help us read faster and more efficiently, but it's definitely not going to replace us any time in the near future. You won't be on the receiving end of gratitude from patients after making the critical diagnosis that allows the primary physician to best manage them. You are less commonly seeing patients in person, but rather remotely through images. That's very true. We often diagnose multiple patients every single day. It's kind of a thankless job, but it is what it is. Much less often are you the one fixing the problem, as that's the ordering physician's responsibility, unless you're in interventional radiology. If you like the satisfaction of being the one to solve the problems or treat the disease, diagnostic radiology may not be able to provide that for you. So what if you could diagnose the disease as a radiologist, me, and also treat the disease as an interventional radiologist? Now you know why it chose my field. If you value work-life balance with time outside the hospital and high compensation, you can have your cake and eat it too with radiology, but make sure you enjoy the day-to-day of what radiologists deal with, namely reading images which may leave some of the more outgoing or adrenaline-fueled individuals feeling unfulfilled. But you'll have time to do adrenaline-filled things outside of work, or exercise the creative part of your brain like I do with YouTube. If you have a big ego, radiology may not be for you. You have to be okay knowing that you'll often be underappreciated, but your non-radiology physician colleagues will find your help indispensable. A good radiologist is worth their weight in gold, especially to a lot of surgeons, etc. I'm telling you, not all radiologists are equal, and the good ones you definitely won by your side. You'll develop good relationships with your colleagues. Big shout out to the radiologists at Med School Insiders that helped me in the creation of this video. I didn't see myself on that list. I'm a little heartbroken. I'm a little upset. All right, so that video was surprisingly really, really, really good. I did a great job, and it was completely unbiased, which I thought it was going to be more biased on radiologists being introverted and all that stuff. They did a fantastic job, so shout out Med School Insiders. You crushed it. Call me if you want to do another one about interventional radiology or other radiology videos. Should we collab together? Comment below if you think Med School Insiders and me should collab. Anyways, as always, make sure you smash that subscribe button. Follow me on Instagram. Follow me on TikTok now, because that's my new thing apparently. See you on the next video.


Hi and welcome to Bookbuzz and to my dogs. I'm Susan. I work at the Billy Jean King Made Library. Bookbuzz is our monthly feature that highlights new and interesting books aimed at an adult audience. My goal is to recommend books that will go equally well with a morning cup of coffee or an evening cocktail. Since we're celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, I'm going to start by highlighting a few titles by Latinx authors as part of our Vida Latina series which runs through October. Hopefully you've heard of Vida Latina and hopefully even attended a program or two. But if you haven't, it's okay. There's still time.  With that said, let's just jump right into things. The first title I wanted to bring to your attention is called Children of the Land and that's a memoir by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. Castillo was born in Mexico and he immigrated to California with his family at age of five. He's a poet and teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and he also teaches at an MFA program at Ashland University. He's a founding member of a group called the Undocu Poets. So that's a group of undocumented poets who support other undocumented poets and they've campaigned very heavily to petition against citizenship requirements in various book prizes. So Children of the Land is a memoir about growing up undocumented in the United States. When Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States, he suffered temporary stress-induced blindness. He did recover but this theme of sight and being able to see and having to remain unseen and you know having to kind of hide an in-plane sight as as an undocumented family really runs throughout the entire book.  The next book that I wanted to talk briefly about is called More Than Ready and that's by Cecilia Munoz. So Cecilia was born in Detroit Michigan but her family came from Bolivia so that her father who was an automotive engineer could attend the university in Michigan. So Cecilia served for eight years on President Obama's senior staff. She was first the director of Intergovernmental Affairs and then became the director of the Domestic Policy Council. So this is her book. This book is is her advice and inspiration for women of color who are seeking you know new heights of influence, they want to become more visible and powerful in their current positions, really you know blaze new paths for future generations. As the first Latin acts to direct national domestic policy issues, Munoz knows you know the difficulties of getting ahead without any role models or exemplars to follow. So in this book she offers lessons from you know the challenges that she's faced and also celebrates the victories that she was able to achieve. Okay the next book I'm very excited about it's called Mexican Gothic and it's by Sylvia Moreno Garcia and I have to confess that I have not read this book but I have read lots of reviews about it and I'm super excited to pick it up.  So this is her latest book and the book jacket summarizes the story as an isolated mansion, a chillingly charismatic aristocrat, and a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. Kirk's reviews called it a terrifying twist on classic gothic horror set in glamorous 1950s Mexico and The Guardian offered kind of my favorite description of the book ever. It described it as lovecraft meets the Brontes in Latin America. So this book is also in development as a Hulu original limited series and the story is summarized like this. Knowing Noemi Taboda, she receives a frantic letter from a newlywed cousin begging for her to come save her from a mysterious doom. So she heads out to high place which is a distant house in the Mexican countryside. So she has no idea what she's going to find there.   But it is, you know, it's a wonderful gothic story so there'll be lots of, you know, troubling potentially frightening secrets that are all going to be exposed. I'm really looking forward to picking this book out. The next book I wanted to talk about is Trejo's Tacos. So this is recipes and stories from LA by Danny Trejo with Hugh Garvey and photographs by Ed Anderson. And the reason that I wanted to talk about this book I was reminded of it I was watching an episode the other day of Muppets Now which is a new Muppet Show on Disney Plus. And I think there's a new Muppet Show on Apple TV too, sort of the competing Muppets shows. But this was the one on Disney Plus. And so Danny Trejo came as a guest on the Muppet Show to go to a head-to-head, you know, taco battle with the Swedish chef. So it's this epic battle where, you know, they have to make the best tacos ever. And I don't want to, you know, I don't want to spoil it for you because I'm also recommending that you check out that show too. But the tacos that Danny delivered did look delicious and it reminded me that he had this new book out. So Danny Trejo is probably very familiar to you from his acting career. He was in Desperado, he was in Heat, he was in From Dusk Till Dawn, and of course the classic Machete. So he's a Los Angeles native and he began building a restaurant empire, I think back in like 2015 or 2016. He opened Trejo's Tacos and then he's followed that up with Trejo's Cantina and Trejo's Coffee and Donuts. So I think he has six restaurants now and even a food truck. And in this book, Danny shares his favorite recipes for bold Mexican food by way of Los Angeles. So he includes stories about his lifelong love of food and how he bonded with his mother over cooking food and dreaming, you know, dreaming about opening a restaurant together. He includes a map of his favorite restaurants and hangouts in Los Angeles. And he also talks about how the time that he spent in prison really led to his acting career and to, you know, eventually opening up his own restaurant. This is just a really vibrant Los Angeles story. The next book I wanted to talk about is also kind of a food memoir. It's an intimate account of really the making of a great chef. So this is Eat A Peach by David Chang. And really the book is a lot about, you know, how success can sometimes be so much harder to understand than failure. Chang grew up the youngest son in a deeply religious Korean family. He graduated college. He was aimless. He was depressed. You know, he felt like everything he did, he was failing at. So he ends up going to Japan and he's teaching English in a small village. And there he experiences his first full blown manic episode. So fast forward to 2004, he opens up a Momofuko noodle bar in New York City with some friends with kind of the idea that like, what if you could take, you know, the underground and make it mainstream? You know, is that something that you could really do? And it doesn't sound like they believe that they that it would be successful or that they could do it. But of course, we all know that it was it was wildly successful. He has opened, you know, numerous restaurants. He's a celebrity chef. Now he has, you know, a TV show on Netflix, Ugly Delicious. And so this is his story. And in it, we get a glimpse of, you know, the restaurant industry. But we also it's also a personal narrative. So Chang, you know, talks about his struggles with feelings of otherness and an adequacy. And again, always, you know, feeling like a failure. And I think those are, you know, those are things that everyone can relate to. It's a really candid memoir, but it's also filled with a lot of humor, too. The next book is called Wandering in Strange Lands. And this is by Morgan Jerkins. So she's a cultural critic. And the bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing. So Wandering in Strange Lands is the story of her journey to understand her family's northern and southern roots, the Great Migration and the displacement of Black people across America. So between 1916 and 1970, over 6 million Black Americans, they left the rural south to head, you know, to cities in the north, the Midwest, and eventually the west for jobs. And so this is this movement is called the Great Migration. And it really transformed the complexion of America. So certainly, you know, it provided Black people with new economic opportunities in the cities, but it also served to really disconnect them from their roots, their land and their sense of identity. So in this book, this is really Jerkins' personal exploration of her family. You know, she, she recreates the journeys that her ancestors took from, you know, from the south, from Georgia and South Carolina into Louisiana, into Oklahoma, and then eventually to California. So through interviews and just hundreds of pages of transcription, Jerkins, you know, connects the threads of her own, of her own family's journey through oral histories and tracing back over 300 years. Okay, so that is going to wrap up Bookbuzz for September. I've gone ahead and tagged each of these recommended books in the library's catalog with the tag Bookbuzz920. So they're all available in print. Most of them are also available as ebooks. Some are audio books and even downloadable audio. And even though our buildings are close to the public, we do have our LBPL to-go service that we're offering at seven locations. So you can just go into the library's catalog, place holds for the books that you want. And when they become available, we let you know.  And it really is as easy as that. So with that, I just want to say take care and we will see you next month.


Welcome once again to Mises Weekends. I'm your host Jeff Deist and this weekend we are talking about the alt-right and the socialist left and what both of those emerging political forces might mean for libertarianism in 2016 and beyond. I actually gave a speech on this very topic about two weeks ago at our Mises Circle event in Houston and I got quite a bit of feedback on it as you might imagine. I got alt-right people telling me I don't understand the alt-right and I got some Bernie Sanders progressives telling me I don't understand the left. So I thought it would be good to extrapolate a bit on my talk and answer perhaps some of those criticisms or questions about it. Now sort of underlying all this is this notion that the libertarian moment has passed, right? Rand Paul didn't do as well as a lot of people hoped and there's been some events around the world, the rise of ISIS, terrorist attacks, the immigration and refugee crisis in Europe, the shootings at the nightclub in Paris. So the mainstream media is telling us that well you put all this together and people have just sort of gotten over this non-interventionist isolationist libertarianism and that it's peaked perhaps with Rand Paul in 2012 and that it's had its day. Of course I certainly don't agree that the libertarian moment is over and we'll get into that a little more here as we progress but I will say that I don't see libertarianism per se as a political movement and that I see political movements generally at least at the national level as not only a waste of time but actually counterproductive to what we're trying to do in terms of winning people's hearts and minds and hopefully separating and segregating us from this beast of a federal government. But what's so interesting about what's happening I think this year is that we're really starting to see that this great lie, this great myth that there's a democratic consensus that can be reached in America is being laid bare and social media does so much to make this apparent to us, right? People say things on social media, people say things in internet's comment section they would never say to each other face to face. So in many ways for the first time in human history we really understand what other Americans think of each other in a way that we never did before. You know in the past maybe if you got really angry about something you saw in a debate, a political debate you sent a letter to the editor of your newspaper, a physical letter and maybe that got printed or maybe it didn't but now we have this sort of instantaneous stream of consciousness commenting and I think it is very healthy in the sense that it's allowing us to move past this notion that we can all decide things on some mass democratic basis because we can't. And I think we're seeing this breakdown even in mainstream media you know just this past week we've had two articles one in the Washington Post and one by Mona Sher and everyone's favorite neocon just absolutely unhinged at the Trump phenomenon. You know the idea that Trump could win a majority of electoral votes to become either the nominee or even the general election winner in the fall has gotten neoconservative so bent out of shape that it's interesting to watch. I don't care what you think about Trump pro or con but elites like Mona are actually starting to exhibit in public what they really believe which is that they don't believe in democracy they never have right elites only believe in democracy when the right candidate wins and we see this time and time here we see this in domestic politics and we see this in foreign policy where lowlifes like John McCain will support a revolution and say well this is democracy in action when the Washington DC foreign policy establishments candidate wins the supposedly democratic election in country X or Y or Z. So again I think from the libertarian's perspective the idea that the myth of democratic consensus is being blown up is a healthy thing and I'm not just talking about a scenario where one side of the other loses and says well the other side engaged in electoral fraud like we saw in the Bush v Gore debate in 2000 and we're now talking about one side just saying well because of campaign finance rules you know special interest money can kind of buy elections and the real democratic will of the people is never really shown the ballot box because you know their message is suppressed or another message that is better funded prevails. That's not what we're talking about today we're talking about a situation where millions of people in this country ordinary people simply will not accept it if Donald Trump becomes a president of the United States and millions of conservatives in this country so simply will not accept it as valid or legitimate if Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton becomes the next president of the United States. People have actually gotten to the point where they understand that just because the other side is able to garner you know 51% of voters not of of the population but voters you know that doesn't make the resulting government legitimate right. Why should anyone be governed by someone they hate whose policies they disagree with and whose supporters they don't like right well it's a perfectly valid question the answer is nobody should be governed by such a person and there's no political or legal theory that has ever been forwarded that answers that question and I include in that so-called social contract theory right there really isn't a good answer to that question of why should I be governed by someone I hate simply because that candidate was able to get a tiny majority of voters and look as libertarians you know we understand the dangers in this breakdown of democracy right when the great questions of a society are no longer decided by politics well there's two ways that society can go one is that it can devolve into authoritarianism but there's another way it can evolve and that is to a more libertarian society society where the great economic and social questions of the day are no longer decided by the state or they're decided by the state less often or less frequently and to me that's my definition of a libertarian society where we don't decide things politically so in that sense I think we should applaud what's going on with this sort of division in America but I do think as libertarians we should celebrate the death of the democratic myth and I think as libertarians we should be fundamentally opposed to democracy because it in itself is fundamentally incompatible with human liberty so one last point on this democracy issue I'll leave you with a great quote from Hans Hermann Hoppe writing in his book democracy the God that failed of course Hoppe makes the point that democratic mechanisms are a disaster both economically and morally so quoting Hoppe here he says democracy promotes short-sightedness capital waste irresponsibility and moral relativism it leads to permanent compulsory income and wealth redistribution and legal uncertainty it is counterproductive it promotes demagoguery and egalitarianism it is aggressive and potentially totalitarian internally vis-a-vis its own population as well as externally in some it leads to a dramatic growth of state power democracy is doomed to collapse just as soviet communism was doomed to collapse end quote so I think that pretty much sums up everything I have to say or feel about democracy so that's the good news is that the death of the libertarian moment has been overstated and that the faltering state of American democracy is something to be celebrated but as I said much of my talk in houston was devoted to talking about these two forces that seem at odds with each other the progressive left I will say the socialist left versus this newly emerging alt-right phenomenon so it's fun and it's interesting and I think educational to talk about both of these forces and understand them a little bit so what is the new progressive left embodied by the bernie sanders phenomenon well you can find it in places like black lives matter you can find it in places like occupy wall street democratic underground salon dot com feminist ing dot com another website and I think to understand today's socialist liberal today's progressive is course how they turn themselves you really have to use the term social justice warrior because that's at the heart of today's progressive this is not your parents or your grandparents democratic left-wing politics from a few generations ago which was much more focused on money and economic issues and union power that sort of thing today's social justice warrior is almost completely focused on identity politics right identity politics and social justice is at the heart of the bernie revolution so every issue from the social justice warrior perspective has to be viewed through this filter of sexism and racism and homophobia and privilege and transgenderism etc and so America's past viewed through these filters is ever and always shameful and hence we have to progress past that old bourgeois America into a new greater society right so that's really at the heart and the mindset of socialist Americans today and of course the socialist left it believes in internationalism and global government they love the UN they love the IMF they love the world bank and ironically of course they call themselves democrats but they hate localism they hate secession they hate actual local control where things are most democratic and of course they hate the marketplace which is that the only truly democratic mechanism we have in the world on foreign policy your left progressives will tend to be a little less bellicose at least in rhetoric than neo-conservatives you might call it sort of a peace core foreign policy but they still believe in meddling they still believe it's the role of the United States to spread democracy maybe your typical Bernie voter would like to see this done more with foreign aid or with NGOs and that sort of thing but they're not really against guns and butter and and we've seen this in the disappearance of the code pink types who who were so busy when W was still president but who went strangely silent during the Obama administration because at the end of the day they're not so opposed to wars when democrats prosecute them on monetary policy Bernie likes to talk about the Fed so I'll give him credit there but he doesn't understand it and he's mistaken about the harms it does he has a dim awareness and I think social justice warriors have a dim awareness of how the Fed creates inequality but they don't understand that what we need to do is get rid of the political control of money altogether and return money to the marketplace and let money operate as a commodity so they certainly don't understand that and Bernie is actually shown that he is a bit of a greenbacker he's hired a professor who's behind the modern greenbacker movement as one of his economic advisors now on economics of course the progressive left is completely socialist they believe in outright if not de facto nationalization of whole industries education energy banking of course they believe in vastly increased amounts of welfare and entitlements to give us more of what they would see as a just european style safety net they believe in outright wage and price controls and they're open about it to their credit they believe in guaranteed minimum income which unfortunately some libertarians have adopted as well they also believe in income limits something they're very open about that no one should be allowed to make more than x dollars per year they are of course entirely animated by the notion of global warming and that government ought to have overarching policies to prevent this calamity that's coming from the earth overheating and to that end most progressive socialists actually believe in banning fossil fuels outright and of course free speech is not a cornerstone of the new left in america on the contrary a significant number of democratic voters in this country would vote and would advocate criminalizing certain types of hate speech and banning it and you know on the non-governmental quasi private level like media outlets facebook etc they certainly work very hard to suppress conservative and libertarian speech with which they disagree and we're seeing that you know unravel today in twitter for example which is using different algorithms to sort of dampen the voices of conservatives and the outright and libertarians so the final point i will make about progressives about today's socialist left in america it is very interesting because it's something they actually share with y'all right and that is that the left is not seeking consensus with you or anybody else okay they're not trying to win your vote they're not trying to engage you in some intellectual debate and win you over they're interested in federalizing or better yet globalizing all decision-making with or without popular support so the left is very comfortable with the idea of using executive orders of using the the judiciary to accomplish things through judicial activism which they cannot accomplish at the ballot box so for all our talk about democracy which we could think of as the popular will they don't really believe in it right they intend to enact their programs for america with or without your support or your blessing and they're also very frank and honest about how they want to use demographic shifts to accomplish this bring in millions of new voters who will vote left and through demographics older more conservative voters dying off and younger more conservative voters having fewer kids so they're not shy about about saying this that you know oprah said something to the effect that we have to wait for some of these older white people to die to to eliminate racism right so i think this is you know one of the interesting hallmarks of today's left is that they're not seeking consensus with you they intend to do this one way or another so with that said let's talk a little bit about the alt-right the alt-right is sort of a new term of art that has come into being in the last year or two its origins have been ascribed to a couple of different bloggers i'm not sure exactly who owns it but the thing to understand about the alt-right is that they're conservatives but they're not part of the republican party they're not part of the right wing establishment in this country there's certainly very anti-establishment they hate people like case itch they hate organs like national review and they hate neo-conservative organs like the weekly standard for example so really the alt-right is is very much defined by what it's against there's not a natural home in a certain publication for the alt-right per se you can find certainly alt-right thinking in a website like breitbart which is a very high traffic right wing website but really the alt-right finds its home primarily in social media especially on twitter there are some alt-right people who are very active on twitter and who have managed to advance a narrative using social media without any kind of mainstream publication behind them one interesting thing about the alt-right is that they skew much younger traditional conservatives really are dying out the left is right about that whereas alt-right people tend to skew younger more millennials and they're certainly more active on some of the newer platforms one hallmark of the alt-right is populism populism combined with nationalism right unlike the left the alt-right says that it's okay to have a uniquely american identity and that america's past is not necessarily an inherently shameful there's certainly things that are regrettable but by and large america is a good place in a great country and i think one of the great things about the populism we see in the alt-right is there's a suspicion of elites right which i think is always a healthy thing because most elites in this country became elite through nefarious state connected means so to the extent the alt-right is hostile to elites i think we should welcome that now where the alt-right parts with libertarianism rather abruptly is is that the alt-right tends to be non-ideological and they look at libertarianism with great suspicion because they don't like the idea of ideological movements they're more interested in identity politics like the left on the issue of borders the alt-right certainly disagrees with the left and with many libertarians they think that we should have limited or no immigration into america certainly not islamic immigration now on culture and christianity and religion you really start to see the split between the old right and the new emerging alt-right i would say the alt-right is culturally christian but they're not animated by christianity in the same way that the religious right or the pro-life right is they don't believe in this sort of weak simpering christianity that has taken root in america this turned the other cheek christianity this christianity that says we have to welcome immigrants from third world countries so while the alt-right is certainly not pro-abortion and while the alt-right is certainly sympathetic to christianity it's more of a cultural christianity rather than an evangelical or a zionist christianity now this distinction between what we might call cultural christianity and evangelical christianity shows itself reveals itself also in the alt-right's view towards foreign policy right the alt-right is much more in the papu cannon camp of an america first type foreign policy the alt-right is tired of endless and intractable wars in the middle east and i think most people on the alt-right feel like we shouldn't be expending american blood and treasure to save iraq or any other country syria in the middle east so in that sense there's some room for agreement between libertarians on foreign policy but there's less room for agreement certainly between the alt-right and libertarians on economic issues the alt-right is openly protectionist while suspicious of central banking not necessarily clamoring to end the fed and i think what's most importantly here is the alt-right is not made up of free market ideologues right they believe that there are other issues the health of the nation the identity of the nation that are more important than just dollars and cents or gdp so to that end they're openly protectionist they believe that we ought to have trade policies that benefit american workers at the expense of cheap imports and they're not afraid to criticize right-wingers and libertarians as sort of these you know derasinated economic actors who only care about the financial bottom line in our country one thing that's very interesting to me about the alt-right and and one thing that distinguishes them from more traditional or mainstream conservatives is they're not afraid of this identity politics game right the the left considers most right-wingers and certainly most alt-righters as racist or xenophobic or homophobic or whatever it might be and the alt-right actually pushes back on this and says look identity politics is a two-way street and the fact that whites or white males have been marginalized and demonized in society gives us a rallying cry to mobilize those white male voters and we're not going to be apologetic about it so in that sense it is more honest and open and refreshingly so than mainstream conservatives has been because mainstream conservatives have unfortunately fallen into this trap of accepting the premises of the left and trying to co-opt and talk about nonsensical status programs about diversity and inclusion etc so in that sense i think it's refreshing and finally you know one last point i'll make about the alt-right is something they share with the socialist left in this country which is that they are not really seeking consensus any longer right they're not trying to win people on the left they're very much unafraid of being marginalized or called names and i think a lot of this stems from the fact that alt-right people are younger and they've grown up in a political era where they don't feel like there's anything left to lose right mainstream conservatism has utterly failed to stop the incremental march of progressivism throughout the 20th century so for a lot of these younger people the dream of a nice affordable house and no student loan debt and getting married and having kids in a white pig offense has really been blown up it's blown up in their faces and so they blame conservatives for not conserving this element of america and so you know they're really ready to go to battle with the social justice warriors and they're not afraid of it they're not afraid to use coarser language or to be more strident and and just admit it so i think what's so interesting about the alt-right is that just like the far left they're not trying to obtain consensus for their views they're just trying to find an avenue for their views to prevail so that being said let me wrap up with just a few thoughts about what we can learn from all this now a lot of people in libertarian circles feel that populism and demagoguery are always bad things and maybe there's an element of truth to that but is there anything good that libertarians can take from these two emerging movements let me give you a quote from Murray Rothbard on demagogues this is from 1954 but it really reads perfectly today and i think it especially applies to the trump phenomenon quoting Murray he says is the fashion belief that an idea is wrong in proportion to its extremism to the professional middle of the rotor a species that has always found in abundance the demagogue invariably comes as a nasty shock for it is one of the most admirable qualities of the demagogue that he forces men to think some for the first time in their lives out of the muddle of current ideas both fashionable and unfashionable he extracts some and pushes them to their logical conclusions i.e. to extremes he thereby forces people either to reject their loosely held views as unsound or to find them sound and pursue them to their logical consequences far from being an irrational force then the silliest of demagogues is a great servant of reason even when he is mostly in the wrong so i think that's a fantastic quote and i think it tells us that there's something we can gain from the environment that's brewing today in America behind this 2016 election so just a few thoughts in conclusion if we understand that the socialist left opposes what it sees as an unjust economic elite and if we understand that the alt-right opposes what it sees as an unjust cultural elite and maybe we can make some headway with both sides in arguing that you know these elites are to a large extent created and funded by the state if you were to reduce the size and scope of the state in our lives i would argue that you would reduce the power of both cultural and economic elites over the rest of us so i think we ought to stand ready to make this point that we can ratchet down some of this lack of social cohesion in society by reducing the state and really i think that we need to make the point and we need to make it more frequently and we need to make it better that the future is really what works versus what doesn't americans are not necessarily ideological animals so what we know about liberty and markets is that they work what we know about the state and democracy is that they don't work so since the state can't work we ought to make the case to people that the solutions to our problems are actually non-state solutions right the state can't remake the middle east they can't win wars it can't pay entitlements and welfare much longer particularly with the actual real reality behind the medicare part d prescription drug benefit and most of all the state can't create social cohesion right in fact you can only make the social disruption worse so we don't necessarily need to convince people on either side who are hostile to liberty to become libertarians but we need to explain to them how the state makes things worse and more importantly for our own self-interest we need to focus on the process of unyoking ourselves from them right because at the end of the day i think that the alt-right and the progressive left represent far more of a cultural divide than they do a political divide so i think what we need to explain to people and do a better job of explaining is that radical decentralization of political power may be the only way to save america from some sort of unpleasant and authoritarian future so that being said ladies and gentlemen have a great weekend