Hello! Welcome to the first Aughty Chat. Yes, so I'm going to be streaming on two different platforms which I haven't done before. Just because I feel like, for me, I don't really get involved in, like, the YouTube world a lot. Like, I'm wanting to set up some sort of regular, regular sort of live stream. So I'm going to try and get one out every, every Friday. So it'd be a place for, for you guys to, to come in, to ask some questions, etc. Hi Alyssa. Thank you for joining. Hi Kieran. Social Wave. Wow. As opposed to me actually being a bit proactive and, like, actually sorting out the, the live stream, like, scheduling thing actually has worked to some degree. So thank you all for joining so quickly. Cool. So, yeah. Basically, the idea around Aughty Chat is, you know, I don't tend to get very involved in terms of, I guess, I guess, like, comments and stuff. Because it's, it's, it's quite hard because my, my schedule at the moment is that I am pretty saying, you know, like a real a day or actually two reels a day and a post. And I'm trying to, trying to stay as active in terms of, like, talking to, to everybody and, and responding to comments and things like that. But it's, it's, it's being very difficult. So perhaps maybe I can have a little bit more engagement with everybody if I do, like, a weekly, weekly sort of live stream and stuff. Hello from Thailand. Hello. I used to be in Thailand for a year in Chiang Mai. I was doing a part of the university thing. Hello. Draw Beauty from San Francisco. Evolving lies. Your page is amazing. Thank you very much. Hello from the US, from Mina. Very cool. Hi says as well and no tricks. Wow. Everyone's here. Beautiful. Hi, see Minky Ladder on YouTube. I am to say I am live streaming on two places because I've been told that that's a good thing to do for small creators and stuff. So I will be responding to each of them. So if you don't see, like, a question going out on one side and I'm answering a question that that's, that's because of the multi thingy. So we already had a question so far, but I just want to put it out in. So put it out in the world, put it out on the stream. If you want to ask questions, this is the best place to do it. And I will be asking questions from, you know, YouTube and Instagram. So please go ahead. Hi, see Minky Ladder.  Well, good luck. It's hard, especially on YouTube, definitely. Yeah, so this is going to be a bit of an experimental thing because I haven't been live streaming in two places at once before. So we'll see how that goes. I've got a comment from Dan Dee. You're such an impressive guy, really good and interesting content. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Hello from BeautifulLingweeds and ADHD. Oh, yeah. How are you doing? Shenzo, appreciate the content man. Thank you very much. Stalin, hi, Tom. Hi from Ireland as well. So we're going internationally now. See, see, Minky Lad says, got 135 subscribers in 25 days. That's pretty good. Like if you're starting off from bottom. Very, very good. See who else is joining on Instagram. Hello from Finland. Wow. This is literally like an international hub at the moment. Crazy stuff. So yeah, please send in some questions. Whatever you want to talk about. Mostly autism related or personal questions. You're very welcome to ask them or contribute your thoughts as well on certain things. Bally Red says, hi, Tom. You've been so helpful for myself and my 16 year old son. Thank you. You are very welcome. I'm glad. Hey, so we've got a first question here from NoTricks, who's someone that I'm going to be podcasting with very soon on Monday. It's going to be great. What is the hardest part of your day to day life as an influencer, especially from a mental health point of view? Very good question. It's hard. It is. And to be honest, I am sort of balancing sort of full one time job, part time job with my gym goals and with, you know, Instagram and creating content and the podcast. So there is a lot to kind of juggle. And I am not always the best when it comes to organizing things. So it actually it's, you know, for the past two or three months, it's been quite sort of up and down, trying to find my feet, trying to sort out all the legal stuff for my business that I'm trying to do.  And, you know, even for even for someone who doesn't do all the influencer content creation stuff, you have people who are like texting you on Facebook Messenger, and you have someone texting you on Instagram or TikTok or Snapchat if you have it. And you've got some people texting and some people using WhatsApp and using all types of different communication channels. It's so hard to just like manage them all. And, you know, you could you could go and find an app that kind of concentrates them down into like one Apple one stream or something like that. But that is presents its own difficulties, because then you get loads of, you know, your inbox is pretty much just full and blowing.  So you got to manage the personal life, you got to manage the online stuff. So, yeah, it can be quite hard. I think it's really setting yourself time to do each of them and not going over it. I do have a tendency of working late into the night if I'm passionate about something, or if I want to get something done. So, you know, you just you just got to find that balance and sometimes the actual process of finding that balance is really hard. And especially with if you see monkey, it's it's it's hard. And it, you know, especially if you're starting off, if you wanting to be a creator on any platform, particularly YouTube, it's going to be tough, you know, you're going to put in a lot of work and you're not going to get you're not going to see those those kind of big numbers and big results. It's a very cumulative thing. And it's very based on consistency. And sometimes the act of just trying to upkeep that consistency is so hard. But it's so important. It's like the biggest thing when it comes to growing. So that can be really tough. And you just you just got to learn over time, you got to work on yourself, do all that kind of stuff. So I got a question on Instagram from Austin Henshaw. Hello, Austin, you're an Instagram as well.  What are your strength and hypertrophy or size based goals? I'd be willing to help with hypertrophy programming.  Because, you know, if the doctors say, you know, if you could take a pill that does the same or all the same benefits as exercise, it would be the most like popular pill out there, everyone would be on it. And that's kind of the truth.  Like I'm exercising probably about 12 hours a week, about six days a week. So it kind of feels like a lot to if you haven't got like properly into it and stuff and it can be quite difficult to keep up with everything. But I think I think over time, you kind of get used to it and you kind of you learn to enjoy it, which it just I know for a lot of people when there's been speaking to my family about it, it just seems just completely farfetched.  You will, it's just it's a habit. You know, you start off and it's tough and it's hard and over time you just like it. So to your question, Austin, I don't really have any particular goal. I just want to get better every day, make tiny increments and the amount of weight that I lifted, whether it's like urge for you or strong focus, I think you can kind of is it's a mix of the two. And I just focus on improving. So thanks for that, Austin. I'm going to scroll down. It says says says, I won't stay long as I have a quiz night, but great questions so far. No worries says I appreciate you joining and enjoy your quiz. I'm terrible at quizzes. Worst person to have on a quiz team. Yeah, absolutely awful. Please save this translation. What do you mean? Hello from Shaft to California. Another new place in US. Question message from Anthony. Hi, bro. Newly autistic guy here. If you just you developed autism. Yeah, I know. And just a joke. I recently lost my fancy. Alright, I feel bad for saying the joke there. Your videos have been really helpful thing for me. So I just wanted to say thank you. You're very welcome. It fills my heart with joy to know that I am helping people. That's my goal with all this kind of stuff. I want to do more of it. So I got to turn it into a business at some point to keep my my life and my food and everything like that. But that is the focus. Social medias. Hey, why definitely says one from CT parks. I'm waiting at the appointment for an autism diagnosis. What can you tell me about the process? Um, depends where you live. If you're living in the UK, it's either free or relatively cheap, but a very long wait time. And if that doesn't go well, you gotta wait longer. You know, if if you don't have a very good diagnostician, they don't really understand that making a small amount of eye contact is normal for an autistic person or making or even just an autistic person making a normal amount of normal amount of eye contact for neurotypical standards. You know, it doesn't mean that an autistic is you know, they can be over factors like masking and things like that.  You know, that all of those kind of factors play in so it can be very variable. And it can also vary a lot country to country. Place to place. I hope that answered your question. I know it can be can be quite hard. The actual diagnosis. It's a bit strange. I've done one post post having a diagnosis at 10 was very weird. Still showed extreme signs of work. I still showed strong signs of autism, even though that was like, hey, they're not going to pick it up this time. But yeah, they did. It was obvious. But it's me says says thank you for your work. You're very welcome. Thank you for joining the live. Could you make a live recording please from Moogilove?  I'm not going to go about an edit tool and re upload it and stuff. I'm just going to leave it. So if you wanting to catch up with live streams or you wanted to replay them or you wanted to click them, you are very, very welcome to if you if you want to use it that way. All good. I will I will definitely save them.  Delme from Brazil. Nice, nice to have you here. Very, very and Moldova as well. I have three ac ac you in says Republican Moldova here. I have a three year old daughter of autism. I am stressed regarding her and our future. Very understandable. You know, it can be a hard hard world for us. I say that the most most of the issues that perhaps we face during childhood because of other people. You know, it can be very hard, but I think just just being engaged with the community, learning more about it, supporting them as best you can understanding sort of the aspects around mental health that make them up and sort of being aware of them. I think that's always the best way to go, but it very much depends on the individual, I think. Yes, Cat Lily, thank you for joining her on YouTube. Yeah, I'm streaming on two places. I've been told that that's something that I should do. So we're going with it. I'm trying hard to keep an eye on both both streams. Very strange. And yeah, if you want to follow my Instagram, it's at Thomas and the UK, you can you can watch on there if you want. Or you can watch on YouTube, which is 40 or D podcast. You guys Instagram. Gary Matanus, Jr. says, I get it, I stretch a few times day every day. It's something I can control and it helps me feel the way it makes me feel as prices. Stretching is really good. It's a proper proprioceptive stim, like definitely for me, when I get stressed, I tend to stretch and move a lot. And I find that that stretching can really help solve with that. I don't know. I don't know if you guys have experienced it like this this sort of feeling of tension that you have in your body, kind of like ants crawling on your bones. I don't know if it's related to anxiety. I don't know if it's related to like depression or related to like, maybe hyposensitivity in terms of autism. I'm not sure, but stretching exercise that that seems to do it for me in terms of that kind of physical ickiness that you can get sometimes. Seamunkeylad. Was he the one that made the next commander video? Yeah, it was me. I made that one. It was a while ago, though. It was very poorly edited. Question from StallionSK. What's about girls on the spectrum? Should they exercise too? Of course. Exercise is not just a man thing. Like, I saw this this amazing sort of collation of like the benefits of strength training. Because I was like, most people, they're very big advocates of like cardio and sort of, you know, that sort of moderate to light intensity kind of cardio work. But I was so, you know, I feel so much better. And I hardly do any cardio. I gym like six days a week, which it's a lot. And it does really make me feel tired. And it does give me more energy afterwards and the day after. And I just feel calmer and I breathe my mood. So I was looking at like the statistics on it and, you know, there are a lot of benefits to it. Like, I think there was some part that was saying that for every one point on this strength scale that you go up, there's like a like it reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease. There's a guy who runs a podcast. He's called Andrew Huberman, which you might have known about. He's from like Stanford University. He makes a lot of exercise and physiology videos and stuff. And he was saying that, you know, when you exercise, you build up these, you build up a lot of lactate in your muscles. The acid is the actual thing that causes the burn. The lactate's the thing that sort of buffers it and removes it or, you know, makes it less acidic. And that hormone, because it kind of acts outside the body, it actually like influences your brain and your heart and all these other kind of things. So there is some like real benefits to like strength training. And, you know, a lot of people, they say that, oh, I'm too old to do this.  It's not actually true. You can continue to maintain much more muscle than you think into your later years and sort of, I guess, reduce the risk of falling and maintaining mobility and things like that. So it's really interesting. Yeah, Cat Lily says that they stretch, but they have a hard time exercising because of pots, postural of hypotensive stuff. Yeah, I've heard of that before. I think it's one thing that can be sort of related to waters and pots, as well as like something that's like a Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Yeah, but to be honest, my balance is not very good when I'm not thinking about it. But I did use to compete in Taekwondo, so I worked on my balance quite a lot. I don't know if that's sort of the same thing that you can actually work on it, but for me definitely, like, practicing coordination, things like that. It really has helped a lot. Were you ever scared to go to the gym? Yes, of course. I get scared a lot of the time, especially on the way there, but it's just one of those sticking points. And sometimes you've just got to push past it, and for beginners you've got to ease yourself into it. Don't do it too much, don't tell yourself that you're going to work for like an hour. Just give yourself like 30 minutes that you just do regularly for like a couple of weeks or a month or something, and then just scale it up as you feel comfortable. Headphones, mobile. Avoid the eye contact with the mobile, avoid the noise of your headphones. That tends to work for me, but I know that it can be very variable person to person. I'm just realising that I'm very far behind on the Instagram questions. Sorry about this. I did experience a speech delay. It's me, so it's only a little one, I think. Not too much of one. To be honest, like, things related to autistic children, it's not really my area of interest or speciality. I mean, I have word to watch autistic children, but it's not. It's not something that I want to or desire to focus on too much, which I know can be a bit annoying, but there are some really great sort of advocates and people out there who you do focus on that. So I would definitely go to them. Everything ought to sound cutty to have you as a guest on our podcast. Hey, me too. It's going to be grand. Let's have a look. Swimming helps a lot, exercise in general. Yep, definitely. Callum, 12 gauge. How are you doing? Thank you very much. Callum and 12 gauge were part of the group special that I did on the podcast, which was the neurodivergent crew podcast. Long one, but if you like the long podcasts and stuff like that, I definitely give it a listen or give it a watch even. I have about four guests on that one. Talked about different aspects of neurodiversity, things like that. So that was really great and I learned a lot about, particularly from Notrix about DID, got to talk with 12 gauge about dyslexia, got to talk with FMA about late diagnosed autism, got to talk with Dreadnought about ADHD and some other things. It was a really great stream. Stream, podcast. Ethan says, hello Thomas, greetings from Mexico City. Nice to see you. I don't think I've met anyone from Mexico yet, so we are picking up and no, I'm not from London. I'm actually the opposite side of the country to London. My accent's not very typical for the region that I'm in. People tend to be able to have more of a strong Yorkshire accent, whereas I think because I have sort of done YouTube for a while and things like that, I've sort of melded my voice. I don't know. I've practised and sort of, I've done voice coaching and stuff and tried to, you know, get better at speaking of some reason that just pushes me more towards sounding like I'm from London a little bit. But if you're actually from the UK, you'll be able to tell the difference. Harry gets a sort of a bit of a sort of middle-class kind of area as well. It tends to be, tends to be a bit sort of less Yorkshire-y in general than that that I've experienced. Andy, Andy Mama here. Absolutely feel a lot of relief from stretching tension, release cracking knuckles too, yeah. I am the sucker for cracking the old knuckles and everything else. I went, I won't put you through that that awful sound because I know some people don't like it, but yeah. So people talking about the Special Olympics, very cool. Swimming, nice. Advice for Artistics in Third World Countries. You know, that's a hard one because I don't have experience living in a third world country. I don't know what Thailand would be classed to. Is it a late second world country or something? I'm not too sure. I know that particularly the level of autism awareness and acceptance can be a bit lower in those sort of relatively underdeveloped countries and compared to places like the UK and places in Europe and things like that. So I think there's, you know, the advice would probably be try to get involved and talk to people who are not from, who are from those sort of developed countries because you'll typically see advocates and people online from those places and sort of ask advice and learn from them and not particularly looking at sort of the advice that some GPs may give in certain countries because there can be variable sort of stigmas and attitudes that can influence it. But it's very dependent and you can also find some people who do advocacy in those kind of third world countries as well. So you can search people out and I would try and mix and match and try and find some terms on Google. Connect them with autism and just see if you can find anyone who really sort of does work like that, you know, depending on the country that you're in.  I mean, to be honest, even in the UK it's hard to find mental health support. So that can be really tough. See you later, says thank you for joining. Okay, I was diagnosed, Samaka says I was diagnosed last summer but I feel like an imposter saying I have autism. I wonder if it's a common thing for autistic adults. Yeah, it's very, very common imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome can be really hard and I was diagnosed when I was 10 and I still get that and I want to gain even even though I create content. It's a lot to do with around sort of individual ideas of autism, the influence from other people, perhaps like things related to the, related to stigma. A lot of people may have ideas about autism that kind of, you know, they have a picture of an autistic person in their mind and they feel somewhat intrusive of putting themselves into that label because they don't know if they're autistic enough or you don't know if you explain display enough of the traits. You know, there can be a whole host of things. It can be stuff to do with, you know, stigmas around people who are women, you know, women particularly not being included within sort of the stereotype of white autistic cis man. It can also be, you know, as I said, related to race as well. There can be some aspects where minorities don't really feel as connected because there's there's sort of difference in maybe their culture or maybe people are putting some stereotypes on them. They're like, well, it's more common in white men or, you know, all that kind of thing and it can feel sometimes that, especially if you haven't met or talked to other autistic people who are also within that process, it can be quite hard to sort of accept, I guess, but if you have been diagnosed, I would go with that. If you haven't and you're looking and you're sort of in the self-diagnosis category, I would talk to as many people as you can. I would follow as many people as you can. I would talk to other people who are self-diagnosed and, you know, quite a lot of the time you don't have to fit in every single box or category. It doesn't need to be the case that you took every single box to be autistic. Everyone's very different. Every autistic person's very different. So, I would always try and be kind to yourself and not try to think so much about perhaps what other people may think of you for calling yourself autistic. It's something for you. It's something a part of your identity. You've got to work through it and learn about it in your own space and time. Some people, they might be a bit negatively reactive towards it but it's just the way things go and I get it as well. Even though I can say it's my diagnosis, some people just don't that really. Yeah, it can be tough. No one from Mariana on Instagram and then I'll have a look at some of the YouTube stuff. Mariana says thank you for the lovely informative reels. You're very welcome. I was transitioning from childhood to adulthood, childhood to teenagehood to adulthood, which was the most challenging period apart. Childhood was great. I love childhood. I was just blissfully unaware of everything. I didn't know that I was different. I didn't feel like I was different. I thought everyone was the same as me and I was just kind of chilling and no real cares or worries in the world. Other than perhaps feeling a bit iffy about big social situations and sensory stuff. Teenagehood, definitely the hardest part, mostly due to secondary school. That sort of teenage brain have become more aware of everything and more critical and you know high chances of developing mental health and things like that. So the majority of it was difficulties with bullying things along of that nature. It can be really hard but then I guess the transition to adulthood possibly fairly hard because even in teenagehood I was still given a set plan or a set schedule or set kind of thing to do during the day. I had times where I was around people to socialize. I had times that I didn't. So it's all kind of planned for me whereas when you're going to adulthood you have to form those friendships yourself. You have to build that community around yourself. You have to build those connections and groups around yourself and that's the hard bit. There's aspects of food and care and executive functioning and stuff but I think that's the biggest thing because if you're already predisposed to mental health if you have had mental health in teenagehood can be just the breaking point for a lot of people. So it's good to good to research and it's good to try and find stuff because a lot of people because a lot of people they struggle to find the things. If they know that it's there they'll do it like obviously we're gonna do it if we know that it's there but we just oftentimes we don't know it's there so it requires a lot of self-research and looking into things. Very very annoying it would be great if it was just all part of the program. Everyone just went for it and it was all good but it's you know we're not at a stage in autism awareness acceptance and education where that's possible at the moment but it is changing and particularly with my workplace we do a lot of work with that sort of transition from teenagehood to adulthood and it can be very difficult but it's definitely done. It can be done and I know a lot of people who have successfully done it. So I'm going to go over to YouTube a little bit, ask some questions. Cat Lily's talking about their experience with sort of tilting, being dizzy with pots yeah that makes sense. A lot of oxygen not being received by your brain, chronic fatigue. That sounds really tough I'm sorry to hear that. See Monkey's saying that they are self-diagnosed as well. Good for you, great. That sounded very sarcastic, I'm not being sarcastic. Khalid says, change her life. I went from walking all over the city to spending most of my time in bed. I can be really destructive for your mental health. You know when you have a physical condition and stuff definitely. We've got a question from Kevin which I'm going to address and I'm going to go switch back over to the Instagram. Is being a therapist or a social worker a good career for someone that has aspergers? I want to do this but people say that people with aspergers like skills to be a therapist. I think that autistic people can be exceptional therapists and social workers specifically for other autistic people because we have a more natural inclination to understanding the autistic brain obviously. I think yeah that you do have to do a lot of work on yourself if you're going to be supporting other people particularly around understanding the emotional world. Developing emotional awareness related to like a lexifier and stuff. Perhaps a bit related to cognitive empathy. Being able to notice and pick up on people's needs and emotions. And also the flow of conversation but to be honest a lot of autistic people tell me that in situations where they know the social context or the social boundaries of something and what they're expected to do and how it goes and they've had practice they often find it a lot easier than just general conversations. So I yeah definitely sure like I would encourage it. Please do become a therapist or a social worker if you're autistic. Massive that could really change a lot of people's lives. Definitely. Hey at university I often have to present to my clinical supervisor about my patients although I know what I mention I easily get confused and miss out information. Is this an autistic thing? I hesitate to say it's more something related possibly related to ADHD or something related to that. Perhaps stuff to do with certain learning differences like dyslexia possibly. Not very not very clear on exactly all of that so I'm not going to say one way or another like definitely. By definitely looking to things like like the learning differences possibly learning a bit more about ADHD that could be something to do but it could could be an I think that autistic people experience there's a lot of crossover between autism and ADHD so yeah it could be. But then then that that there's the sort of the perhaps the memory of the the instance and I struggle with the memory on the instance like the short-term memory. Long-term memory is great short-term memory is poor so yeah. Kyle says recently moved to a new province realized they are autistic haven't been diagnosed yet but nearly sure and have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Yeah I definitely consider if you go to my page and you check out the people that I follow there'll be some really good advocates really good people that you can just have a look through. If you like the look of any of the content that they're doing definitely do it. Go go and follow them and you know good thing about Instagram is that once you start following people who have like certain hashtags and certain post tags you get recommended more people so there is a wealth of experiential and actual scientific information on on this on the Instagram platform. Also perhaps on YouTube as well if you're looking for that sort of scientific informative angle go with Dr. Megan Neff from Neera Divergent Insights. Really really great person to learn from even yeah especially for me as well. Is it necessary to get diagnosed as this might be perceived not in a bad way by society and might affect an individual's employment and personal life. I think for a lot of cases diagnosis you know to get that sort of legal protection as a protected group can be very useful but for personal growth personal understanding that everybody needs those needs or wants those supports and the medical system is set up so that we you know it's set up so that so that we can get diagnosed when there's an issue when it's a problem so if you're not having a problem there's no issues but you just want to understand yourself quite hard to convince the one to go for a diagnosis so I you know I think there could be good things and bad things and you know it's particularly on the legal workplace kind of front could be very useful but then again I've heard that even in the US one of the reasonable adjustments is that they find some way to let you go which is absurd I don't know if the same in the UK do need to look into that. Mother says I got diagnosed in Pakistan any advocates out there I'm not sure and if anyone's an advocate there please try them up I don't know anyone in particular that's that's from there but um yeah Devrat Devan hi bro how are you I am good I do remember you definitely thank you for joining Kyle um sharing some things uh I don't I don't know if we want to talk about that on on the the the live stream but please feel free to message me um sounds like a really tough time for you and I I empathize cool I think um so yeah uh any more questions because we've got about 15 minutes left 18 minutes left whatever um you guys on youtube please um please send some some some messages uh some questions and stuff really cool that you guys are um connecting and all that and um you guys on the instagram as well like thank you so much for everyone who's joined already and supported and asked questions it's it's been really really helpful um and yeah do you think I should do more of these let me know let me know please the live streams um I'm thinking of making it a regular thing perhaps on a friday because I thought to myself that I would find live streams really hard because you know with videos with podcasts there's always that editing process you know I what I say is just not you know I can chop and edit I can I can put it out and with live streams you don't really get that it just goes out um and actually to be honest I find it quite relaxing just the fact that I just don't need to edit and stuff um so I probably might do a bit more I'm thinking of possibly obviously I'm gonna be trying to stream on on youtube and um stream on instagram a lot more um just for the time being because I am a small creator and perhaps if I was to go to another platform to do stuff it's kind of a bit of a like it's it's a bit hard I mean maybe when I get a bit bigger I might you know want to sort of move over to like perhaps something like twitch I could do some longer live streams like I think one of the other creators that I that I talked to or tnl they are doing twitch live streams of um stardew valley which I was like I'd really love to do something like that I just have like some time in the evening where I can just sit and chill and play and actually play video games and not feel like um somehow undercutting my productivity yeah sounds it sounds really talk to I I have an obsession with work I have to do stuff all the time and be productive and the thing is I've tried not doing that and I've tried being like hey look I'm just gonna do what I want and I just find that every single time I do that I just don't feel satisfied I don't feel um what's the word I don't feel good doing that stuff I like to to to be productive and do things and it makes me feel happy it beats my mood I'm like hey I'll say that I'm gonna do this today um so I'm gonna do it um and then I do it and then I feel great about myself pow great um so yeah uh we've got a comment from cat lily thank you so much for asking some questions and stuff I really appreciate it besides exercise what's one of the main things that have helped you um there's been a lot of things having a good family structure my family's been very supportive it's not something that anyone can really take from but it is something that you know it's it's it's important to me my family's important to me they support me a lot so yeah that's that's that's a big support for me um other things that actually I've done um if I happen to say it I mean it's it's obviously you know it's not a big deal um it's something that I've been on for a while but medication has been great for me um I've been on meds since I was 14 they've helped me through a lot of rough times we've balanced them you know we've tried and find the right ones can't say that that they haven't had a massive impact on my life um talking therapies typically you'd say that those things are going to be great those things are going to be good but actually finding someone who really gets it is really hard and finding therapy even just finding therapists who are autistic super super hard finding therapists who aren't autistic who do autism specialization very very hard still but even even then if they don't really have the knowledge of like the community and they're not like an ally or anything they're not really up to date with kind of what what we talk about what we advocate for still can be really difficult um and if you're just going through perhaps like the UK general general health systems um you're going to be put with people who who can be actually bad for you and if you find a good one who's really open and willing to to grow and learn that's great but you still have to teach them if you go for private therapy that's your money to teach them about you and autism and in general so that's that's tough um so i think i think a lot of it for me is setting goals around the things that i struggle with trying to fill my day with as many things that i'm good at trying to make my work about it trying to make my hobbies about it as much as i can has helped a lot you know playing to my strengths uh and i do that within within my workplace as well positive positive real small adjustments yeah positive reasonable adjustments those have been really beneficial you know building a workload around the things that help me um and i'm good at and i can do really well and it doesn't take all of my energy that's brilliant um yeah i mean other other things that i could test is the community massive resource of experiences knowledge absolutely brilliant and free and you can just a lot of people that you know the smaller smaller sort of creators they're very happy to talk to you and a lot of the the bigger creators they offer coaching and the other things like that and i would all heartedly say yes go for it not because i'm trying to be a coach because i'm not a coach yet but if you want to you can email me no just okay uh you can but there are there are people out there who who do some really great work um i know i know that the neurodivergent insights megan nath they do psychotherapy and things like that they are you know if i was to look for a psychotherapist i would go for that go for go for megan nath uh someone someone lie megan nath uh definitely um uh yeah i think i think for the negative side of things making small improvements over time on the things that you struggle with first highlighting them first visualizing what your life what you want your life to look like and going for that and and and learning about different things related to autism finding that some things are apparent in you learning about it finding ways to you know overcome things like alexa thymia finding ways to better communicate with neurotypicals um all of those things there's there's so many things that you can do and it can be very overwhelming so i i would just follow a lot of people and if you see something that interests you um just go for that um go for that research think about your life make notes about your experiences and and learn from them and and grow using them that's that's how i did it and it took me a long time i'm not gonna lie used to be very introverted very shy very um i mean i i've not got the best confidence in the world but i used to be very very not very confident at all outside and inside now it's just a little bit inside outside i'm pretty confident um so i hope that helps i know it's obviously i can't give a total recount of everything that's helped me in my life um it would be be very very long um but uh on that i am actually i'm trying to develop a a course on emotional social development stuff which won't be out anytime soon so yeah i mean follow me to keep updated with that kind of thing but i am working on something um definitely uh selana marie says great great role model thank you can i ask how and when is the best time to discuss with a nine-year-old who is autistic and help him understand and see that he's valued um i think it depends you know um i would tell i would tell them i would sit them down in a place after they feel comfortable and you know take them out to do the things that they enjoy make make sure that they're in a good headspace they feel well and i guess just just frame it frame it in a way that it's not necessarily a good or a bad thing they're just different and there's different ways that they see the world and perceive the world and behave and you know that could be classified as as as being autistic or you know you don't necessarily have to say autistic you could just say that they're a bit different they're a bit neurodiverse you know there's a lot of ways that you can frame it i think that one of the pivotal points in my life in terms of me feeling validated and me feeling understood was around when i was diagnosed and my parents told me which was about 10 years old and i still remember it very vividly and it was it was a great experience i cried but i i didn't cry because i was sad i cried because i was happy because i'd noticed things that were different i'd noticed that i was kind of on a different level different wavelength over people so you know that that can be incredibly incredibly important i'm just gonna plug my i know we've only got like seven minutes left but i'm running very low on battery so we're gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna uh i've got my little skull shaped thing that that my partner got me i'm gonna we're gonna put that in put that in there use it as a stand here we go oh yeah that's not that's not that's not working too well okay there we go sorted i think yeah it's a it's a bit lopsided but i'm sure i'm sure it'll be okay right seeing a lot of content you've created you've changed my life for the better thanks dude i'm so happy very very happy about that i'm glad that i can help you um and thank you for coming to support me and and everything like that it really means a lot do you feel like you have to do that to validate yourself um i'm assuming you're talking about the productivity aspect of things you know um i think it can be can be related to validation going to be very productive the thing is is that i will always have had extremely high standards for myself and so i'm always trying to meet those standards and you know it's at some point you can say that oh it might not be too good and i might might sort of be seeking validation and being productive and stuff but it makes me feel good um and it doesn't affect my mental health poorly usually things like this uh talking in videos podcasts they usually meant my mental health better um and and and quite often it's i enjoy those sort of interactions and content and stuff so it really depends everyone's got their own limit and everyone's got their own likes and dislikes and just like i said it's you feel your day you feel your life with the things that you like the things that you're good at you know if you're good at something and you like something that's related to work brilliant do that if it's not equally so do that um definitely you know i understand what you mean though okay it can be but we're in a time where it's like hussle culture you know you've got it we've got to be on the grind like we got to succeed and outperform your opponents so yeah i get what you mean um but to be honest it's more for me it's not it's not for other people um as in like i'm not doing productive things for other people it's well i am in a sense but going on going off topic going on a bit of a train for that um kyle again uh i feel like i have to do that to validate myself and i'm with you there my mom always said always do more than expected now well i would i would hesitate to base your goals and your actions in life based on whatever people want you to do or expect of you because that can lead you down some really bad paths especially if you have um expectations that are imposed on you that are not realistic for an autistic person in the short term or the long term um everyone's different you know um you want you it's got to be an internal thing you've got to want to do it if you don't want to do it it's just going to be a choice going to be hard it's going to be boring it's going to be stressful and you're not going to feel good after it so now to a certain extent taking in information from people learning from people that's brill that's great um but at a certain point you really got to think about what you want you know thanks kyle um see monkey like oh i'm sorry i i did not see your message i hope it is it hope it is in sync um it says that there is a warning that my stream's current bit rate is lower than recommended um i will try and adjust that for next time definitely we're gonna um maybe i'll go for a higher it's not codec um a different but bit rate maybe i'll try it hopefully a bit more fixed is it fixed now he's letting me know um autistic lotty how you doing i had that i went a good job and have a great life until i unmasked and like to work one to one or in small groups um i don't have that high standard anymore except it has given me energy and joy brilliant so that's another thing you know you like the small groups you like the one to one that gives you joy that does well for you you don't need to go out in big groups of people and go out on on the town and do all that kind of stuff um if you don't want to so yeah i think we've got two minutes now and um you know i really want to highlight to anybody who hasn't checked out my podcast to to go over there i i am really struggling at the moment um oh i haven't been for a long time asking for like ratings and stuff so if if you've got some spare time you know head ahead over to there you know maybe listen to an episode listen to part of an episode or just you know give me a rating that would be really appreciated no need for like long comments or anything like that just a star rating would be brill um Spotify 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new thing which it's a wall light it's it's one of those cheap neon wall lights on air and shoot no it's okay good um so i'm gonna have that up at some point which should be cool so i'm trying i'm trying to spruce it up a little bit i i realize it's a very plain white background so we're doing some work uh cool so um yeah i mean thank you for everybody who has uh podcasts is on youtube or Spotify uh youtube and Spotify if you want um so you can follow on youtube if you're on instagram uh it's the 4080 podcast or slash thomas henley on youtube um you can find the video versions over on youtube and if you if you prefer to listen to podcasts you can find the um podcasts on Spotify or on apple or google and all of those places definitely uh the places to go uh you can find all that in my bio in my link tree um you've got my link tree the link in my bio it'll come up with like this sort of branch of different places that you can look at and you can find some of my merch on there as well which i did in um sort of collaboration with this place called born anxious uh which is really great sort of uh label-less sensory friendly clothing brilliant stuff you can see it on there it's about like a strong powerful autistic one very divergent squad got some joggers got some hoodies got some t-shirts so if you fancy a go head over i i wear them pretty much all the time the joggers um very cool so yeah um not really sure how to win this but thank you all for listening and for anybody who has stayed through the entire thing please send a heart in the chat let me know let me know so i can i can praise thine thyself um just to start of interest it'd be cool let's have a look but if not it's okay it's an hour it's it's friday when the children relax i hope you guys are doing well um and i will be doing another live stream next week around the same time um if you've got any questions got anything like that head over to my dms give me a dm if you want obviously the best place to 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The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is the Iran Brookshow. All right, everybody. Welcome to Iran Brookshow on this Monday Memorial Day. We still commemorate Memorial Day. We'll talk about that another time. We're going to do a news roundup as usual on weekdays. And we're going to jump in in a second. Remind everybody that you can use the Super Chat feature to ask questions pretty much about anything, news related or not. I also want to mention that yesterday we did a members-only show. Those of you who are members who didn't catch it live, you have a link to it. You should be able to find it, and you should be able to watch it if you're interested. I thought it was fun and interesting, so hopefully some of you will enjoy it. And we'll see. At some point we'll play the members-only show for everybody, but it'll probably be a while before we do that. Okay, so let's jump in. I mean, the big news on the weekend was the fact that the Republicans in Biden have reached an agreement with regard to the debt ceiling deal. You know, it's an agreement in principle, and of course the details still have to be worked out, and of course legislation has to pass, and you have to get enough Republicans and enough Democrats to vote for this. With this deal, clearly some Republicans are not going to vote for it, and some Democrats are not going to vote for it. So you're going to get the people on the right and the people on the left are not voting for it. It's going to be interesting to see how all of this plays out and how McCarthy manages to get this through. It is his responsibility, after all, as Speaker of the House. So let's talk a little bit about what the details are within this agreement. So basically the Republicans have agreed to vote to increase the debt ceiling and to increase it by enough to carry it through past January 2025. January 2025 is when, and you or maybe the existing president will be voted in, sworn in. So 2025 kind of covers the next election cycle. So neither party wants to have to deal with raising the debt ceiling again before the election. So that kind of deals with that issue, that problem by extending it all the way to 2025. So it raises it enough to cover that. On the spending side, basically discretionary spending, which is a small part of the budget, small. Discretionary spending is going to be what do you call it? It's kept level at in 2024 2023 levels and will only be allowed to go up 1% in 2025. Now we'll see some of that is going to be achieved by just moving around money so that certain programs won't see cuts. Other programs will see deeper cuts or some money. For example, they're going to claw back some COVID emergency money and COVID emergency funds that have not been used yet. They're going to claw back and they're not going to cut the spending by that amount. God forbid you can't cut spending, but they're going to use that to backfill programs that are not going to grow as much as they would have expected to fill it in. What else? You remember the $80 billion that Congress approved to increase the IRS budget by $80 billion? As I told you at the time, it was kind of meaningless. It's a big number. It seems like a lot. They were going to hire all these agents, but the reality was most of those hires were to replace existing agents. They're having a hard time finding agents anyway because there's a massive shortage in accountants out there in the workforce. So the whole IRS is going to grow by $80 billion. It was always kind of a charade and unreal. Anyway, they're cutting that. And hard to tell by how much. One story I read said they're cutting it by $10 billion instead of $80. So $70 instead of $80. And another story I read is cutting it by $20 something billion. I don't think they know yet exactly what the numbers are, but the bottom line is the IRS thing. I guess that's a win for Republicans. They will consider it a win. They will play it a win even though I think in the big picture thing it's kind of meaningless. Let's see. If all 12 appropriation bills are not passed by the end of the year, so these budgetary bills, the 12 budgetary bills, then there's another 1% cut across the board in discretionary spending. That I think is to incentivize Republicans not to hold up budgets and to incentivize Biden not to veto budgets that pass the House of Representative, which is controlled by Democrats. A lot of this is gimmickry to get everybody aligned over the same incentives. Military spending in physical 2024 will increase by about 3%, which is what Biden has always wanted. So that will increase to about $886 billion. And let's see. There will be $121 billion for veterans program. And non-defense discretionary will be capped at $637 billion for 2024. What else do we have? We talked about IRS funding. We talked about COVID clawbacks. Yeah, Republicans got some minor increases in work requirements in order to receive food stamps, basically food aid. You're going to have to work in order to receive it. But it's limited right now, I think. So the tentative deal would largely require, I'm reading from the Wall Street Journal, able-bodied, low-income adults without dependence between the ages of 18 and 54 to work to receive food aid up from the current top age of 49. So the real differences, they've increased it from 49 to 54. No change other than that. And anyway, they're tinkering at the margins with some welfare programs so that they can go and pretend that they've done something major here that increases the requirement for work. Let's see what else. Yeah, finally, maybe the most significant thing, but this was bipartisan. So you think they could have gotten this without this deal. They could have gotten it outside of it, but maybe this will spur them. The permitting, environmental permitting for energy projects is going to be limited to two years. So to get environmental permitting, you have to do it within two years. If not, the developers can start suing the government agencies to force them to do it within two years. Currently, reviews take an average of four and a half years. So this is a major cut from four and a half years to two years for environmental reviews for major energy projects. Also, in addition to that, the agreement will require a single federal agency to take charge of the environmental review so that you don't have five agencies each doing their own review, each on a different schedule. There'll be one major agency that then has responsibility and can be sued if it doesn't meet that responsibility of getting all the reviews and the whole process done within two years. There's also a carve-out in the whole agreement, a carve-out to accelerate even further the permitting for the Mountain Valley pipeline, the 300-mile natural gas pipeline in West Virginia and Virginia, which Senator Joe Manchin has really been pushing for. And this is both parties want to please Manchin because he is kind of a swing vote in the Senate or can be a swing vote in the Senate.  Anyway, so there is a deal. As I told you, there would be a deal. There is a deal and the deal basically is blah. There's nothing much there. It doesn't change much of the status quo. Remember that most government spending is not discretionary. Most government spending is Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. That has not been touched. That will not be touched. That will grow. Nobody wants to reform any of that under discretionary stuff instead of really cutting instead of really making fundamental structural changes to the budget. All we've got is a capping and a slow increase of 1%. Now inflation adjusted. Maybe that is substantial. But at the end of the day, very little impact on the overall economy. Defense spending will increase at 3%. Again, 3% might be given inflation at over 4%, might be perceived as a cut toward Biden wanted 3%. That's what he asked for. So it's meaningless. So the whole thing basically, the bottom line on the whole debt-silly thing was Republicans got enough to be able to go to their constituency. See, we fought for you. We fought to reduce inflation.  And Republicans will cheer them and Democrats will go and say, yeah, Republicans want to gut the budget. We basically saved the budget. Nothing much has happened here. Look elsewhere. No big deal. So win-win, in a political sense. Who loses? The American people. We all lose. The economy loses. Government is spending continues to be out of control. Government deficits from here until eternity. There's no plan to start reducing deficits. The permitting stuff is good. But again, what is really needed is restructuring the whole environmental permitting thing. I would get rid of it completely. You know, at the very least, not just put a two-year cap on it, but actually streamline it, get rid of some of the agencies that are responsible for it, and set some clear rules. This two-year thing is just going to get bogged down in its own bureaucracy. But we will see. Maybe something good will turn out of that. Of all the things I've read about the debt ceiling, that is probably the best thing to come out of it. Again, look, without a fundamental change in the views of the American people about the role of government, you're not going to see a significant change in the budget. You're not going to see a significant cost cutting, and you're not going to see any attempt to reform or to rein in or to ultimately privatize and do away with the entitlement state. And it is entitlements that are the bulk of spending, and it's the entitlements that are the bulk of future deficits, future debt, unfunded liabilities of $100 to $200 trillion, but nobody will touch it because the American people don't want politicians to touch them. So until we get a leader who's willing to challenge the American people, or until we get a cultural change among the American people, who want to ultimately limit the scope of government, we won't get any significant budgetary reform. It doesn't matter who is in the White House. It doesn't matter who is in the House and Senate. They will spend, spend, spend, spend. Maybe when the House is Republican and the presidency is Democratic, they spend less than otherwise. That, by the way, is the best combination for government spending, is a Democratic president in a Republican House or Senate. So a Republican veto on a Democrat spending. Anything else, Republicans controlling everything, Democrats controlling anything, is an unmitigated disaster when it comes to the size of government, when it comes to government spending, and included the scope of government, the kind of things that government does. If you don't believe me about a Republican spending and Democrat spending, look it up online. You can find government spending by political party, and you can see that the best combination, the best combination since World War II has been Democratic president, Republican House or Senate. All right. So debt ceiling, the best thing about it is it takes uncertainty away. It takes a talking point away. People stop worrying and fretting and talking about default and all this stuff. It was never going to happen, but people were talking about it. It created uncertainty, markets were wobbly. This should, you know, else hold constant, which it never is. This should allow markets to at least regain some stability and some confidence that at least that problem will not happen. Of course, the big issue is are we heading towards a recession or not? Okay. Let's see. Bad news out of Turkey, but not unexpected. We talked about this already. Erdogan has won reelection. He won by 52 to 48 reelection in the presidential campaign. This is in spite of the fact that the Turkish economy has been devastated. Inflation is through the roof. It is well over 40%. By some estimate, it might be over 100%. Stand of living quality of life in Turkey is declining. I mean, this is, it's just, it's suggestive of how authoritarians get away with this stuff, right? That in, you know, this is Donald Trump shooting somebody on Fifth Avenue and still getting elected on steroids, right? I mean, here is a Turkish president who has destroyed Turkish culture, has, you know, placed Turkish in a, Turkey in a very difficult international scenario where they're members of NATO but kind of support Russia and supporting Iran. But, you know, and neither here nor there, overall, and it's really her, Turkey, is farm policy. They will never become a part of the EU as long as Erdogan is president. And of course, the Turkish economy is being shredded. It's a disaster. The Turkish lira, the currency, has devalued vis-a-vis the dollar by 90%, 90% over the last decade, 6% since the start of the year and probably more just in the next few minutes. This is in spite of the fact that the Turkish central bank is clearly manipulating the currency, that is holding it as high as they can. In spite of this manipulation over the last 10 years, the Turkish lira has devalued by 10%. Imagine inputs raising in costs by, you know, raising in costs by, I don't know what that would be, by an enormous percentage, right? So it's the quality of life, standard of living, purchasing power. By every measure, life in Turkey has become harder. There was a bad response to the earthquake, an ineffectual response to the earthquake. The nationalism of Erdogan pretty much across the board on pretty much everything he does, and yet he still wins.  Hard to tell exactly, you know, if it's any one source. I think it's all of those. It's, Turkey turns out to be a much more religious culture than one would have expected and a very nationalistic culture.  He has built up a personality worship during the first 10 years of his administration. Turkish economy did very well. He liberalized, he opened up, he did good things. Over the last 10 years he has been awful. Doesn't matter. He has now developed this personality worship and he gets the votes no matter what. Ertan, I assume from Turkey, because he just gave me 110 Turkish lira, which is worth five bucks. Right now it could be with a little less in a minute, says Turkish lira is so depreciated that this five minute super chat only makes five and a half dollars. Good news. There are people supporting you from Turkey. Yes, that is good news. Thank you, Ertan. And sorry for your loss. I mean, I'm sure the opposition guy was not that great, right? Was not that great. But really, really, really important to when somebody, I mean, this is my case about Trump. It's really, really, really important to penalize bad behavior. It's really, really, really important to penalize failure, to penalize doing bad stuff, even if the alternative is bad in and of itself. So, Erdogan was bad. The opposition, yes, the opposition was bad too. But you'll never learn. You'll never advance. You'll never get better unless you penalize the people who are in power who are really bad. And that's why you had a vote against, I think, Erdogan in this election. Just like in my view, you had a vote against Trump two and a half years ago. Even if you didn't vote for Biden, you had a vote against Trump. So, because they need to pay for the bad stuff that they do. Otherwise, if politicians don't pay when they do bad stuff under the assumption that the opposition is worse, then you're stuck in a cycle of things getting ever, ever worse and nobody ever learning anything. Nobody ever getting penalized for the bad stuff they do. So no incentive, no motivation to improve. All right, just a reminder. We've still got $200 to raise on the $250 goal. These shows are paid for, among other things, by the Super Chat. I devote a lot of time to doing these new shows. If we can't raise on a regular basis the $250 for the new shows, it's not clear that they're worth it. I might go back to the old format and not do the new shows. It is important that we reach these goals on a regular basis, not every time, but on a regular basis. So just a reminder of that because we are pretty short. And despite the fact that we have a significant, a decent number of people watching right now, if those people just came in with three bucks each, we'd be easily above our goal. So, Erdogan, president of Turkey for another five years, tragic for the people of Turkey who now have rewarded his bad behavior with another five-year presidency. And given his speech, once he won, it is clear that he's not going to change his ways. It is clear that he's learned nothing. It's clear that he doesn't care about the future of Turkey and the Turkish economy. He is going to stick to his failed agenda no matter what. Whoops, I didn't mean to close that file. All right, one of the big stories coming out of the UK. Let me see if I can find this file that I just closed by accident. Okay, there it is. One of the big stories coming out of the UK the last few days has been the official net migration numbers. So this is net people going into the UK and people leaving the UK, what the net number is. Well, that net number has hit an all-time record high. Last year, there were net 600,000 people, 600,000 people who entered the UK. Actually, the number of people who entered the UK is well over a million. And then you had about, I think it's 1.1, 1.2 million. But you had about 557,000 people leaving the UK, which is an interesting phenomenon which we'll talk about in a second. So right now, the number of people coming into the United States, into the UK is at record highs. A record in all of history supposedly, although not adjusted for the population, but record, the number of people leaving is relatively high. And the net is at all-time high. And this is an exact opposition to the Conservative Party's pledge as of 2019 to bring down immigration rates. Immigration rates are increasing in the UK. They're going through the roof. It's interesting to talk about the people leaving the UK. First of all, a lot of people from the EU, Poles and others are leaving. They're going back home. They're going back home to their countries. Partially because of the struggles of the UK economy. Partially because they feel less welcome, because of once Brexit happened, it's harder for them to renew visas. It's harder for them to become UK citizens. It's harder for them to exit and enter, go in and out. So a lot of the EU migrants who came in in the past are actually going home now. But in addition, you've got a lot of non-EU people leaving the UK. So actually more non-EU migrants left the UK than ever in the past. At least in the last 14 years. And then you've got UK nationals leaving as well. That number is pretty stable. You probably got a number of quite a few Ukrainians who came to the UK during the war and who are now going back to Ukraine as things a little bit more stable over there. So that is general. Alright, in terms of migration in, record highs, well over a million people. The numbers here, some of the reason for this is just what you'd call a post-COVID bump. That is people who would have come in 2020 and 2021, couldn't come in 2021, so they got delayed into 2022-2023. So that's why you get this delay, so they're coming in now. But also the number of work visas that the UK government is issued is at an all-time high. And that is a consequence of the fact that there's a massive labour shortage. In spite of the struggles of the UK economy, there is still an ongoing labour shortage in the UK. Maybe that has to do with the aging population, but the reality is, also has to do with the fact that because of socialized medicine, for example, wages of doctors and nurses and dentists in the UK have been low for a long, long time. They get paid by the government basically. So they're unappealing for Brits to become a doctor. It's very unappealing for somebody of British or UK origin because the salaries are low. But it's very appealing for an Indian or Pakistani or Nigerian or somebody from outside the UK to come in because they're higher than what they would make in their home country. So a big part of the work visas on nurses and medical staff and doctors and dentists, it's hard to find a dentist a doctor in the UK who are not migrants, who are not immigrants. So that's a big part of the immigrant and the driver immigration is that there's just a lot of work. Also, the UK has become one of the main attractions for studying for student visas, particularly as few and few people have come to the US, particularly from Asia, who felt feel whether justified or not feel less welcome in the United States. They have gravitated towards the UK, which has excellent universities. So you've got a huge number of study visas. It looks like from here it's like well over half a million study visas coming in. And then there's this program that allows students to bring in their family for their family to come with. That has increased, but it's still a tiny fraction of the overall. The overall big numbers are basically work and study. The kind of work that migrants have are care workers, nurses, senior care workers. So the kind of jobs that I think Brits don't want. Beyond that it's programmers, doctors, IT analysts, business analysts, chefs, accountants, finance analysts. Yeah, chefs. I mean, you don't really want a British chef. So restaurants are eager to take in fond chefs who actually cook delicious food. So these numbers are really, really high. They expect that they will come down because they expect this kind of a one-off because of COVID, but they're going to remain high, even if not this high for the foreseeable future. Countries that are sending a lot of migrants over. Well, one is Hong Kong, the UK to its credit. The UK provided expedited visas for anybody from Hong Kong who wants to come and work in the UK. And so I think well over 100,000 Hong Kongers have moved to Britain as a consequence of that. Quite a few Ukrainians. Again, there were special visas because of the Ukraine war that allowed them to come into the UK relatively easy. So you get a lot of Ukrainians coming in. And beyond that you get Indians from India, Filipinos, Nigerians and Indians are the largest group beyond those two. So significant migrant flow in. In terms of who they work for, their employer, the largest employer of immigrants is the NHS, the National Health Service. Again, because they keep wages low, they rely completely on migrants who are willing to accept low wages. And of course, it's the migrants and then their families. That's their NHS. Let's see. Students, most of the students are from India, Nigeria and China. Those three countries and Pakistan is fourth. Those are the big ones. Nigeria, remember was a British colony in Africa. So they are part of the crown and they know they have good English. So it's relatively easy for them to come in. So large migration, large, large net migration into the UK creating a lot of angst, a lot of political concern. You know how the world generally is anti-migration while they have no option but to take it particularly the rich world. The rich world, generally the wealthy world is seeing record levels of net migration in to a large extent because the rich world is getting old. And it needs young workers in order to keep the economies working, going. So you're seeing record levels of migration into Europe in spite of what you remember for 2015, which was the big Muslim migration into Europe. There's more migrants coming into Europe now than back then. Large migrations into America, we know that. Just in America it's completely haphazard and not organized and not thought out. UK seems to have a much better thought out system. While the UK has had 40,000 asylum seekers relative to total migration of 1.3 million, that's not that big of a number. Most of the people coming in to the UK as migrants are legal migrants that are coming in to work. People coming to work are families of people who are coming to work. And again, a big chunk of those were from Hong Kong and from Ukraine and from other countries. And a big chunk of it were actually, I can't remember what I was going to say. But let's see. Yeah, I mean, almost everything is for work, right? Work and work dependence. And then, of course, study. Study. And then the nice thing about UK is it makes it relatively easy for people who come to study to stay. So you get a lot of Indians, Chinese, Nigerians, Pakistanis who come in with student visas and stay in the UK. All right, that's a quick story about migration to the UK. It's a big political issue right now because, of course, the Conservative government is opposed to immigration, or they say they are, they're not really, and they make a big deal out of this. And they promise to cut immigration. And, of course, a lot of the people who voted for Brexit voted for Brexit under the assumption that there'd be less immigration. And what they're getting is more immigration. And to some extent, more immigration of the kind they don't like, the kind with brown skin. So they used to get immigration from the EU. Now they're getting immigration from Nigeria and from India and from Pakistan, which is a lot less appealing to a lot of the people who voted for Brexit. So UK is in the thrust of this pull, push, kind of trying to decide what its future is going to be. And immigration is a big part of that. It's time to decide whether Brexit was a good idea or a bad idea, and I think immigration is always a big part of that. Right. Finally, a quick word about NVIDIA. NVIDIA has been the talk over the last few days, both as a stock and as a technology company. It is probably the first chip company to become a trillion-dollar company to enter the realm of a Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, kind of trillion-dollar club. The interesting thing about NVIDIA, which you won't hear much, is they don't actually manufacture any chip. They are a fabulous company. That is, they don't actually make the chips that carry their name. The chips themselves are made in Taiwan and in South Korea. They're open to having Intel, which has been a competitive theirs in the past. Having Intel in the future make their chips. We'll see if Intel can get to the level of making these chips. NVIDIA has been a chip design company, and that has been its strength. They have designed a variety of different chips, but they are known for designing chips for graphic intensive applications. They are the company that made video games as popular and as successful and as powerful as they are today. They manage all the graphics that the video game industry requires. NVIDIA has been in many, many other companies' computers. They are in video cards. They have done phenomenally well. They have done phenomenally well in that industry, but that industry at the end of the day is capped somewhat. You can have a great business. You can do very, very well. But at the end of the day, it's a graphics card. How big of a deal is that? But that's being what they've really focused on since they were founded in 1993. I think it was 1993, and they brought out graphic cards throughout the late 90s in the 2000s. They really rode the wave of the gaming industry. They were a big part of the gaming industry. But what has really allowed them to take off recently is the fact that over the last few years, five, six, seven, I'm not sure exactly how many years, people have realized that these graphic chips, the GPUs, the chips that are used in the GPUs are actually perfectly designed for artificial intelligence, for AI. And what has happened is people working in AI have started loading these chips up into servers that do AI, the AI kind of work. So as AI has exploded over the last few months, the demand for NVIDIA chips, the demand for NVIDIA servers has exploded, and NVIDIA now stock is reflecting that and its valuation is reflecting that. NVIDIA has bought dozens of companies since it was founded. It has built up its capabilities, and today is the go-to chip for anybody working in AI. One of its chips is so sophisticated and advanced, used both in AI but also in defense systems, that the U.S. Commerce Department has placed it on the list of chips that you cannot sell to China that the Biden administration put together. In response to that, partially, NVIDIA is going to design a chip that's not quite as advanced as this and can be used quite for the applications this chip is designed for, but is advanced enough to still be interesting to the Chinese, and it is designing a new advanced chip in China called the A800 GPU that meets the export control rules and will be sold into China. So NVIDIA designs chips, but it doesn't make the chips themselves again. The chips themselves are made by ASML and by Samsung, primarily ASML in Taiwan and Samsung in South Korea. But yet, without manufacturing, NVIDIA is a service company. Designing chips is a service business. In spite of that, this service company that manufactures nothing, you could argue, is going to be worth a trillion dollars. It's fascinating that the United States, all the landmark stocks that reached landmark levels like a trillion dollar company have all been America. America still produces the most innovative, the largest, the most substantive, substantial companies in the world. In spite of the fact that supposedly, did I say ASML? I meant TSMC, sorry, I meant Taiwan Semiconductor. So thank you most of all. TSMC is the Taiwan company that makes their chips. So for example, US Steel became the world's first billion dollar company in 1901. General Motors became the first 10 billion company in 1955. This is market cap. General Electric became the world's first 100 billion dollar company in 1995. And of course, Apple became the first trillion dollar company in the world in 2018. The US leads, it leads in innovation still. And even though we supposedly don't manufacture anything in the United States, we obviously produce something to generate these kind of valuations and to generate the kind of companies that we have. So the US is still doing something right in this economy. All right, that is what I had prepared for the news today. Let me just see those. What is this? All right, let's see. What else do we have? Yeah, we've got a few questions. I will remind you again. I hate doing this, but it seems like if I remind you, it's more likely I get to my goal than if I don't remind you. We're about $170 short of a goal, which is substantial. The goal is $250 for these shows. We've got 90 people watching the show live right now. So again, basically two bucks from everybody watching gets us there. And you can do that without asking a question. You can do it with a sticker. And $2, I don't think it's that big of a deal. And obviously you're watching, so you will see some value from what I do. So I would definitely appreciate it if you could do a $2 sticker superchat to help us get to our target of $250 for these shows. We no longer have people who come in and just do $200 all in one bang and get us there. So I'm dependent on some of you just chipping in $2 at a time. Robert did that. $2 Gail, $5 Luke, $20. Thank you guys. We really, really appreciate it. And let's jump into Jeff's question. Could you talk about what about how AI is going to affect investing in Silicon Valley specifically since I live here? Will it make investing in broad index funds obsolete? No, I don't think so. I don't see why. What AI is going to do is it basically is it's going to enhance business across the board. It's going to enhance every business out there. It's going to create new winners and losers. There are going to be some companies that are going to lose because of the IEI boom because they haven't adjusted to it. They haven't prepared themselves. They're not ready. Their products are not up to speed or whatever it happens to be. And then there are going to be winners. There are going to be companies that take AI and they dominate. So you're still going to have a value in having a diversified portfolio if you can't tell the difference between those who are going to win and those who are going to lose. So I don't think it changes anything about investing. I don't think it changes anything about saving. I think what it really does is it just creates new opportunities for massive wealth creation. This will be potentially the most disruptive innovation in a long, long time and could change how business is done, change how we do our professions, change much of how the world moves, how business moves, and all of that could happen in the next 20 years. So there's going to be a lot of money to be made in that. A lot of money to be made in that. Adam says, always great to have a YB show to listen to heading home for a beach weekend. Thanks, Adam. And I'll be in touch about the topics. I don't really have any new topics beyond that initial list. So we should decide on which one you want to sponsor from that list. By the way, if anybody wants to propose a topic to be sponsored by Adam, you can do so on the super chat with $20. And I will add it to the list and Adam will choose which one he sponsors. And that's a $1,000 sponsorship for shows. So you get the opportunity to propose a topic that might get selected without having to put together $1,000. You can do it for $20. So please consider doing that in the remainder of the show today. Shaspat, if Michelangelo was alive today, who would he make a sculpture of? You know, I don't know. You know, the question would be is, I mean, I don't know that artists, great artists are that interested in making art of particular people. The whole point is to make art that represents a real abstraction. And you can do that with a mythological figures because they represent so much. Certainly with something like David or even Jesus or the pita, they represent real abstract values, you know, substantial and real abstract values. But if you just make a sculpture of Steve Jobs, you know, it's Steve Jobs and you have to do Steve Jobs justice. So creating a sculpture of a real living human being, I don't think it's that interesting for the real geniuses of art. The real genius of art are really mostly interested in doing something that has some kind of, you know, metaphysical value that goes beyond the personality of the life of a particular individual and a less interested probably in doing portraits. Although they would do great portraits. I don't know that if he could, if Michelangelo was alive today, I don't think he would be interested in doing portraits. I think he would be interested in doing magnificent sculptures. And I can't imagine what that would be if I could. Maybe I'd hide somebody to do it, but I'm not an artist. I don't have that kind of ability, even that kind of imagination. All right, thanks guys. Let's see, a number of you have stepped up. I really, really appreciate it. We've got Gail, Luke, Fendt Hopper, Leirin, Iron Mirkat, Linda and AI. AI. So we've got all of those. But we're still about $90 short. So maybe $5, $20 questions will do it. Or you can just make a contribution. Again, a buck now from each person online right now would get us there. Michael says, is it possible Iron Mirkat's ideas can change the culture absent any academic credibility? Seems like they have to some extent, they have to some extent already. Yeah, I mean, they have already changed the culture to some extent without any academic credibility. But I think academic credibility can accelerate the process. There's no question about that. Academia has leverage. They have to leverage because it interacts with students, thousands and thousands of young people, young people who are potentially open to new ideas. It also is where people go if they want expertise. If I want to know what's going on in the world, I go find an academic who can comment on it. One of those academics were, you know, were objectivist and that objectivism will start getting into the commentary about all kinds of other things. So I think it accelerates the process significantly. Can it happen without it? Probably given that I think overall academia is in decline. But it is a significant accelerated tour of cultural change. Alex, thank you Alex for 80 second. What is your stance on Adlerian therapy as a tool for getting control of one's life? You know, I don't have a stance on it, right? Because I'm not a psychologist. You know, I really, really think that you should stick to commenting on things you know and I don't know psychology. And this is not philosophy, it's psychology. So I would, when I have Gina Golan on next, when I have a psychologist next, I would encourage you to ask her about what her view is on Adlerian therapy. And so I'm going to pass, unfortunately. Okay, so anonymous user says, do you think the global economy will recover? Well, I mean, that's in a sense, it's your question. What does, what does recovery mean? You know, what does it mean to say the global economy will recover? Recover from what? We're not in a recession yet. We haven't hit, certainly haven't hit bottom of what I consider recession. You know, above and beyond that. Oh God, I have to initially initiate this once again. Click that. Recover to what? Recover, you know, to what level of, let's say, growth, economic growth. Inflation clearly is too high. I think inflation will come down. But when, how much and what will be the other economic cost of it? I look generally, I think the global economy screwed. That is generally, I think we're in for a low growth stagnation on a global scale. So, you know, if, if you're expecting high growth, if that's what a recovery looks like, then I don't think it's happening anytime soon. I think the global economy is not going to return to high growth anytime soon because of the statism, because of the controls, because of the regulations, because of the perverse taxes, because China has regressed. China was the engine of economic growth globally for a long time and China's not going to be able to do that anymore because its economic growth is slowed. But primarily because of controls and regulations that are limiting the potential of the economic growth in most countries. Thanks, Anand Moshiza. Okay, Adam, why isn't there a better organized boycott of companies that finance Putin's invasion of Ukraine? Operating in Russia and paying taxes to Putin. Lists exist, but Google, YouTube won't let us post the URLs of the boycott lists. Huh, interesting. I didn't know that. I don't know why there's not a beta organized. Partially, I think because, yeah, because we all know that Russia is getting around the boycotts significantly, partially, because there's just no energy behind it. There's just not enough people energized and excited enough about the issue of Ukraine. I mean, as I said in other shows, the issue, for example, of trans is much more top of mind for Americans, particularly on the right, and that's why you get very effective boycotts of Bud Light and you get very effective boycotts in our target. They're losing massive market share and market value. But something that is much more existential, much more important, much more dramatic, I think, like a war in Ukraine, people don't care enough about. There's not enough passion, there's not enough interest, there's not enough energy around anything like that. Thanks, Adam. Ian. With movies like Air, Tetris, Blackberry and The Founder, and upcoming movies like Madden about the creation of the video game, the flaming and flaming heart about the creator of the chip, why are we seeing a pro-business movie trend now? Good question. Maybe this is one of those really, really positive cultural trends under the surface that we haven't noticed. But you're right, there's certainly a certain nostalgia to kind of the start-up ages of the past, Blackberry, Tetris, I'm not sure what the founder, who was the founder about? Was that McDonald's? And that American can-do attitude that is reflected, I think, also in Air, which I haven't watched yet. I think, look, America is still fundamentally pro-entrepreneur, pro-start-up, pro-innovator, pro-technology, pro-business. And yeah, I mean, I think it is interesting, the trend. Let me think about it. That could be worth commenting. I still have to watch Tetris and Air, and then I don't know if Blackberry's out yet. I've seen The Founder, and I'm looking forward to watching Madden and Flaming Heart, and maybe let's see if we can find some threads there and some indications there. But America still has that, and it's interesting that it's arrived in Hollywood, but Hollywood at the end of the day needs to sell movie tickets. Hollywood at the end of the day is influenced by the general culture.  And maybe what we're seeing is all these streaming platforms allowing other voices, maybe voices that couldn't have been heard in the past, to express themselves. And maybe there really is something interesting, something worthwhile here going on that is indicative of some cultural change in some segments of our economy. That would be phenomenal if that were true. Robin, oh, a suggestion. Excellent. A suggestion for Adam's show. I'd like to hear about three to five business leaders who appear to have objective principles and how that influenced their business, i.e. business model, management style, and so on.  I'll add that. The challenge with that is that would be filtered through me. I would be telling you what they did. I don't know that I can get them on, although I'll try to get John Allison on the show. But yeah, that would be a good show. Okay, good. I posted it and adding it to Adam's list. Shazbot, should a great artist do a sculpture of Jewel No. 8 in 12 Angry Men, or some similar heroic figure from the movies? I don't, I just don't think so. I mean, I think what's most effective in sculpture is, you know, and is to, in a sense, to create a sculpture that tells a story in and of itself. Not a sculpture that is a subsidiary. For example, I believe that sculpture, mostly, sculpture should be nude. Clothing in sculpture, I find, is ridiculous and offensive and weird and very rarely appropriate. And, you know, sculpture should be some kind of reflection of heroism and perfection of the human body and man in action and man in certain situations. And yeah, you could be inspired by a movie or movie game or something like that. But I don't know that what you want is a direct sample from something like that. Again, other than, unless something like 12 Angry Men became mythology. And so that by identifying as Jewel No. 8, you bring the viewer a whole context that it triggers. But today, naming Jewel No. 8, most people don't, haven't seen 12 Angry Men, and it wouldn't mean anything. But yeah, you could imagine to the extent that a movie creates a certain mythology, just like David in the Old Testament creates a mythology, or just like Greek mythology creates a mythology, that you make a sculpture based on a character like that. Michael asked, it does not take a majority to prevail, but rather any rate tireless minority. Keep on setting bushfires of freedom in minds of men. That is what we're doing. We are trying. Frank says, do you think Andre from We The Living was stoic? You know, I don't know exactly what that means. That is, what do we mean by stoic? Like, does that mean living a stoic philosophy? No, I don't think he was. Do I think that he repressed some of his emotions? Yes. Do I think that he, you know, that he was good at detaching himself from the cruelty of what he was doing? Yes. But I don't know if to call it stoic. I'm not sure exactly what stoic means, even though we just had a thing with, I think it's overused. I think it's a term that's overused. It doesn't refer in people's minds to the stoic philosophy because they don't know the stoic philosophy. So I would just be careful on overusing the terminology. Alright, thanks guys. We met our goal. So I appreciate all the superchatters, all the people who asked questions, all the people who did the stickers. Those of you who watched the show afterwards can cheer. 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