One of the first things I'd like to do is thank all our sponsors that helped us put together and provide input and money for today's event. I'm going to just read through the list. South Dakota Wheat Commission, Farm Credit Services of America, Wheat Growers, Mustang Seed, Monsanto, Prairie State Seeds, Next Level Ag, LLC, Millboard Seeds, La Crosse Seeds, Dakota Best Seed, Agronomy Plus, Farmers Eliacs, Mitchell, First Dakota National Bank, C&D Operations and Davis County Ampliment, Scott Supply, CropTech, Ducks Unlimited, Aurora County Conservation District, Davis County Conservation District, Hanson County Conservation District, South Dakota Noxel Association, SDSU Extension, USDA and NRCS, and Pioneer Hybrids of Dupont, so let's give them all a welcome round of applause. Corey Cronin, Casey Cronin, and we're seeing such a big value in bringing livestock into our farming operation because it was a few years ago we decided that wasn't the thing we should do and now we're going to excuse me if you guys can't see but you know that Casey and I are going to kind of tag team this but you know and see the date on the bottom 2007 so we've been grazing cover since 2007. The more we learn the more questions we have. We're trying to put sense to this in dollars-wise because that's what we really feel we have to do. You can say whatever you want to do but it still comes down to the amount to dollars. They said they said on the Leopold Award you guys and and you know besides Janet because she's a young one but just look at right here cut this in half and look at the age of these people right here. Everybody on our farm understands soil health what we need to do to make soil health and when we talk we talk a lot of carbon we talk a lot of soil health because soil health is a driving force and if a person doesn't think it is if we keep doing what we're doing the next ten years we're going to every year we see it so soil health is it is it really a driving force. Casey is going to or Corey Casey. No we've got about 775 cows cow calves that we have out every year we run on about 8,500 acres mostly along the river here on pastures and then we we take them back up to the farm in the winter time and that's where we do all our cover crop grazing corn stocks get out on the fields so this slide thought it was pretty interesting this is I I didn't ever understand that well why can't we just mow this pasture off what's the big deal with that I mean it's there it's growing well this pretty much explains it once I got used to that to where if you are leaving something you're gonna have a lot more to graze later on you know and I and I really appreciate what Casey and Corey are doing and not saying Bonnie wasn't there also but they're really understanding the the divide fences and the moving and different water systems and so but I mean that I just think that's something you guys you don't think about that but just think I mean that's and this is something that you know you can't put a value on this is Casey and Wiley you cannot put a value on what the what Casey's doing to build for the future because that's what we have to do you know but the one thing is is so there's three generations of building the last in legacy so on our farm we want everybody to understand what's going on we want to understand why we're doing this we're not doing that's just because it's it's doesn't cost as much whatever we understand and we're all building soil health you know one thing we talk about rain and everybody's gets everybody talks about well yeah you got this rain we got this rain and so you know 19 inches as our norm but so we these are our pivots down here so in in May June and July we had half as much rain as what we normally do in the last 30 years so you need the soil health you need to have the the good growth you need to capture every bit of water you can do and that's where our pivots come in because it used we used to be corn bean guys and we found out where that really isn't what we should do and then another thing and we will protect our resource we we farm we ranch up along this river and we are going to protect that resource so these are some of the rotations but this is the neatest thing about the rotations is anytime we can we come back with the cover we come back with the cover we come back with that cover it's a Grayson cover Casey so this is just kind of yeah there's a pointer okay his is green so we can tell each other apart we can do all here so this is one of the circles down on the river up above we planted peas on it combine the peas then went in with a with a six-way mix like it says there we luckily had the the pivot on it we watered it up and then we ran ran our cows on it for a couple weeks and then after that we turned in we fence line weaned our calves which we really like and they were what we turned the cows in there cows were on the others or calves were on the other side of it and the cows just went to eatin and everybody just kind of weaned themselves after that we harvested the lower circles the cows went down on that we put the calves in for a couple more weeks on that and got quite a bit of value on it calves did great on it really really excited to do some more of that so you know another thing in what Doug brought up and we'll get into it later too is the neat thing about Grayson covers I mean I usually figure a cow will take in 20% we're always going to leave part of our residue we're going to leave a third of our residue that's carbon that's protection for the ground we're never going to graze it in the ground we've got at least 10% but you guys there's snow here so they Casey what you probably kept the calves out of the feedlot for another two three weeks and then just touch once on on Grayson younger cattle how they how they adapt where the older great yeah so these calves well we went to a fence like we need system last year 2015 was the first year we did it and those calves they just seem to take off by themselves I mean they're out there on that grass they're doing what they're supposed to do rather than being in the lot and now we're calving out there well this is the second group of efforts that we have now and those cows they spend more time out grazing on fields and everything we get them up to the place then anything we've ever had they'll they'll go after that stuff you can pull your tractor weighing out that's where they want to be is out there I feel it attributes to the fence line we need and then get them out early on you know this Toby Stothe's from and you know it takes a while to click especially for me because I'm I'm old I'm gray haired I listen to it I don't believe it I don't believe it don't believe it the fourth time I say well you know there's something here but you know all you're doing is cycling your residue faster and you but you want to leave that third but you want to cycle that residue faster to make it available for next year's crop I'm going to talk some on carbon because carbon is a tremendously important thing to this whole system we have to harvest carbon we have to harvest carbon and what do you how you do that is you do it through plant management carbon the key ingredient to organic matter everybody talks about organic matter carbon is 57% organic matter 50% carbon so the only way we're going to harvest carbon is we're going to have things growing that are green we're going to take in the carbon from the air so and I I think that there's just not enough emphasis put on this because with us we've got a full system approached where our covers are harvest and carbon we don't want to we want to leave our residue so it's a it's a kind of a holistic reproach you know this is a nation that destroys it soil destroys itself so this is the way we were this is the way we were and but now I don't know so what's that grandpa telling his grandson he said I made a mistake it took me about 10 15 years of mining your organic matter but I made a mistake it's up to you to fix it it's up to you to fix it and this is the best way we can do it with covers I'm not saying only farming but as long as we think about the carbon it's just a win-win this is what we've done on our place not going to spend a lot of time this is grass soil sampled it was been grass put in after the 30s and so that's kind of what we've done on our place benefits of organic matter water-holding capacity is a huge one and then the I just you just can't emphasize what organic matter will do with what a percent of organic matter will do we've got to start a great deal of carbon once stored in the soils now stored in the atmosphere we need to retain this back into the soil as humus just have to do that so I'm not talking about building organic matter I'm talking about building soils on our full season cover this is a shovel full of soil Casey's holding the shovel but so what we're building soil so it's residue humus good job Casey organic matter top soil so you know and I never you know how things kind of slow I'm slow but I hang around doing back we went to Montana for a week great week geez just unreal but one thing he said he said when if you guys ever noticed when you walk along down in the in town and all of a sudden the sidewalks down in this and you say boy that sidewalk sunk that sidewalk didn't sink the organic matter is building soil so you're building soil so when you walk out in our fields even the ones that we there are grazed all the time with your with though if you manage it right it's just like walking on a really nice shag carpet you can feel that push well what you're doing right now is you're building humus you're building organic matter it's just a win-win situation you've got to feed these Doug talked on that you've got to feed these it so this is a mistake in 2006 we planted our first field of cover crop everything went 2007 it rained and boy that's a nice field but you know where the mistake was made we didn't pay any attention to the carbon I went in there with a very low carbon no carbon so all of a sudden I was paying it took me about three years after that to make up for that for so now anytime we talk about cover crop we want we want the carbon and nitrogen ratio to be up there carbon you know and then so these are just three different mixes I will get back to Casey someone said Casey and I are going to talk and he said yeah I feel sorry for Casey so cover crop and carbon and nitrogen this came from Ray Ward and this all makes sense the one thing you guys and this is where the NRCS has got to help help and they will when you start talking about a cover crop with the carbon and nitrogen ratio what you want I want a 24 to 30 a lot of people say well why are you even talking about that on cover crop I think you have to talk about that on cover crop but we have to find out what plants because if you get into the middle of August towards the end of August you can't plan a it's hard to get a high carbon it's hard to like a forage sorghum it's too late in the year so yet like an oats is a good one but also get mature so you have to understand how late you can go in this season with still your carbon and nitrogen ratio so this is where we want to be I want to be like it right up in here 26 to 1 because our soils are active enough I want to slow things down I want to slow things down when I did it the other time I was right down in here and we just speed up these are kids from Gettysburg FFA one's the teacher he just looks like oh the ones the teacher with the teacher want to raise your hand okay you guys find a find a chair there's chairs around you know these are two good books you guys and I really as especially this one any question you've got on how much carbon what you're going to do you can download this it's a PDF you can download that off the internet it's just a really good book okay Casey so so this is it's not we don't have all this but this is kind of the chunk of pasture we have most of it you know will never ever be farmed because it looks a lot like that it's pretty rough country thank goodness great great but no back to the the rotational stuff when I got back it was well I think we should probably move them well we don't really have a lot of help around so let's just open the gate they'll move themselves well after a couple weeks of that you got them turned in on everything yeah so what we've done as we've started cross fencing we're nowhere like Doug is but that's kind of the end goal is to try to break everything up it's going to be a lot easier because Cory and I run all the cows for us to handle them in smaller pastures like that water is going to present a challenge but we're working on that and that's then bringing them home Casey yeah and then this is where we bring home to we'll just trail across country bring home this is where we run on home now back to when I got home again when we started growing cover crops in 2007 we just turn them on everything we had around there so they go and they eat the green stuff first and then you know they're they're taking too much so now we're starting to cross fence that let them have certain things and then we're controlling how much carton how much we're leaving we're taking two thirds leading a third and that's our goal we're seeing a lot more benefit from that rather than just turn them out letting them graze let them pick and choose so you know what's new for 2016 and Casey I'll let you touch on this this is the heifer it can't quite see the top but it's the heifers yep so our first half heifers will bring them home and they'll run this was a full season right out back it's kind of a basically a 30-year lot is what it is so they'll graze this down and and we don't control this this is where we feed everything and then this is where they run but there's also the quarter out to the west of here that was planted we went back to cover crop the graze on that and then to the north of where that this is this important stocks and they've also ran on that now everything got covered up the gate stayed open for them because they didn't they once they got through all this we got covered up with snow now that we've belted off they've headed right back out to that cover and they're digging through it and hammering away on that again so really really like raising the covers up there you know this is something that I did so I talk about carbon talk about carbon look at this cover crop mix there's no carbon what I like is this price here turnips I'm you know I I think that we're going to go to a podge a turnip because the purple top it grows but I mean the cattle will kick it out easy and a podge you'll get more of a tuber on it more relief more of a grazer I love flax or mycorrhizae the four-inch peas I don't know if I'll do that again it's just because of the we have we have pulse crops in our rotation I don't know if I'll do that again but the reason I did this is this is 70 80 bushel stripper headed shell boring stripper headed winter wheat stubble so we had all kinds of carbon we had all kinds of carbon from that old straw so all I was trying to do is put some low carbon then another thing when that first flush of volunteer wheat came when I wanted to be able to take it out with cluthidum so you just take the grass out and you leave everything else alone this is what it was the four-inch peas had a great year my big worry was is what was going to happen now because with the cattle eat this in case y'all let you do this and they sure did we had it fenced out and they went out there there was a ride field that we planted that we're gonna go into our full season cover with this year next to this and they just they hit both too well but they camped out on this and moved them along through that before we got to a full season this is the cab okay down there where where we take our caps to and start backgrounding them we had a hundred and eleven acres to this this is kind of our feedlot area here it's more we had that picture but this was a five-way mix that was planted and our goal was to get out on it but we thought we had more time than what we did and snow hit we didn't just didn't get it done so it's a goal but to be able to at least for the calves that were keeping car replacements to keep them grazing on that as long as we can you know and other thing in case he already said this but our cattle really under are or I'm I'm the cowepnull but their cattle really understand electric fences I mean they respect him they really understand them and and the kids can move a fence in a hurry so in 2016 we're gonna have a full season graze this sounds really good on paper and it was that will work on paper but so we're gonna have a full season graze so this is our mix and there's a reason for everything in here what I was trying to do see the carbon and nitrogen ratio was 32 to 1 that was real important to me the buckwheat you know a lot of people if you got buckwheat if you have wheat next you got to have a two years off wheat otherwise they'll the wheat can be rejected if there's buckwheat in the export I don't know probably I like what it did enhances phosphorus the okra is going to go away the and then and then the turnips is going to be a be a podge of turnip kale I love kale a half a pound of kale goes a long ways they get they'll say green until November it gets tall and then but you'll see all these after the mycorrhizae association and I think that's really important and I'm not saying we're ever going to have it to where we cut out phosphorus all together but it's really what they'll do is it'll actually go out and it'll it'll go out it'll trade carbon and it'll go and it'll trade it for organic phosphorus but look at here the mycorrhizae so look at the root system 700 times more root system on a mycorrhizae plant and I just think this is something we just have to keep keeping the back of your mind I mean the you guys and I hope there's no seed dealers in here but if they do I hope you learn from what I say is don't ever be satisfied with the guy goes in and say this is what you need to plant you research it and you be able to you know enough what's going on where you're telling him what you want this is a we planted in test stubble we we took a cut in the teff off and then we always leave the second cut and come back and so the cattle graze this there's about a foot of snow so there's a foot of stubble left I mean they weren't on it very long or cover crop mix everything goes together July 10th we're going to get rid of the okra I like this the it's it kind of scares you and you look at the plan it's a shorter it's just shorter brown midrib but I like brown midrib because of the pressic acid it takes some of that thread away or pressic acid and then start field layout and I wanted to find out so there's a three-way mix node in and then the rest of this we put on we had 40 units of of we had about 80 units of in on this and a lot of people said you know it's it you shouldn't have to put fertilizer on covers and so we just wanted to see so this is a full season graze July 29th there's our in our non in strips there's a biomass the 14th so we did a Jason Miller came up in August 14th we did a biomass and then this is kind of what bothered me a little bit because within there's 7100 pounds of biomass and without in there's 7600 pounds of biomass but you know you stop and think about it the without the end the others the the undergrowth like the forage peas and the and the cow peas and everything they had more chance to grow because they didn't have the competition for sunlight so you know I thought well did we waste our in second biomass 11th 28th so I really recommend everybody you do a biomass if nothing else just to find out where you're at so we just took a yard square went out but you can see on our 12 way within look at the difference there that went away but look at here so 25 to 1 I said I wanted to be 26 27 but I was still happy 11% crude crude protein but this is something that we've got to get answered and I don't know how we're going to answer this right down here we had 8200 pounds of biomass less 960 pounds of protein or 144 pounds in so how are we going to get that back to next year's crop someone says don't worry about it but if you're if you're talking financially you have to be thinking about it so what we're doing is we're grazing it so you graze the top two-thirds you leave the bottom third that cycles through the cattle and so it should be more available we still Jason's we're going to work on this quite a bit next summer we're trying to get an answer to this on our farm so here's our here's a this is Ray Ward and one thing I like about sending down there and I know there's a lot of good labs but he'll actually give you a carbon-nitrogen ratio so I mean it just we felt really good about our mix so here we go so we had a yield biomass we're going to graze pounds had 80 840 thousand pounds 650 26 pounds a day if the temperatures right so we had 46 pounds of graze and that sounds easy that's a slam dunk so we had $147 that's charge yourselves we're in $147 into the cover crop mix so we're gonna we're it's gonna cost 75 cents a day 11% protein and here we go I mean we slam dunk $1.65 at 20 degrees to feed through the wagon so that's $172 an acre so let's just write that down because we've already made that I mean that's that we you know so I figured on 70 bushel spring we've which that field would have gone to at 475 we would have netted $76 an acre so you know we're kind of making headway plus we left a minute on the field there's a lot of benefit of what happened on the field Casey then we got into the winter and Mother Nature had a different plan for us we started out well I mean hindsight is 2020 could have went back brought him home from the river sooner and got on this quicker and you know we would have had all of that but it started snowing and between the snow and the deer the deer itself it took away one of the paddocks for us but it just we didn't get everything out of it that we thought plus it was cold so they were eating a lot more than what we participated in this is a picture after seven days of grazing one of the paddocks now you'd say well you didn't leave a third there well that snows a couple feet deep to there's a lot left but the cattle I was happy with them once we got them up there there was something never ever left it I mean it they got it's just out in the open on the flat there's not a lot of protection and they dug through it you want you know so we've got another one so we got to make sense of this we have to make sense of this so just like right now so you increase your feet as the temperature drops so this is 24 degrees we figured it was going to take 23 just about 24 pounds a day okay so now all of a sudden we are average temperature with the wind shield was minus three well we were on that so you take that so I take 31 pounds a day did they really need it we're not going to let our cattle go backwards our cattle didn't go backwards right Casey so so this is our average we had average temperature average wind speed wind shield but look at our max wind speed you know so I mean it was a it was just a tough winter you guys tough winter but another thing 36 inches of snow and everybody knows that Christmas what three-quarters inch of rain will do and so we were still grazing this so we had to keep working at it yeah so and we might have created a few monsters that by start of the feed but like you said we didn't want to let our cows slip like I said earlier some of them cows never ever left to come back into the feed but we were putting out through the wagon we're putting on a little silage and hay and then we feed pieces are protein this is just so they were given up to eat everywhere and then yeah so it says loss of $35 per acre is kind of what we figured but but there again I mean you got to look at it as you're kind of doing this for the future too so what is it going to do this year for our crop a few things like that it's hard to put a value on some of that go ahead case yeah we've got a lot of deer far to do it over I wouldn't record the deer or the snow but we had them my dad left his ranger in the tracks so he didn't figure he needed them in Arizona so we use that we probably would have wore out a set of snowshoes but they tore down our fence pretty much every day the cows stayed pretty good they didn't they still didn't like to step across it even though it was on the ground we battled it a little bit but these deer they'd sit there we started on started on the east end give them give them that chunk or there's five chunks and then we just worked our way started on the west end worked our way east and these deer you go out there to move fence and they just kind of hang they move off a little bit and then they just stayed on the stuff that the cows were not until we got to the to the end of it I mean they they have the goodie taken out of it so we definitely lost part of it to that the whole north side was it was tough for them cows to get there I mean it was it blew in I mean it was chest deep on me so but after after it settled a little bit those cows did go in there you know Casey then another thing too with this is your size of paddocks were you all right with it or would you do it different or what are you thinking gave everything enough space to get around and everything with that number of cows out there I thought I thought it worked out real well okay then we did do a bale raises here for the first time so this it's about 63 acres that it's kind of between the windbreak and the feed yard and the water and everything so it stays open to the cows every year so we just got to be used I mean every year I just got abused well what we did is we planted it back to grass we took our first cutting hay off of it this year we took the bales off and then we decided well let's let's go ahead and bail raise it so we took that where that took all the bales back out and we had that wrap on them but I I got to run the loader before we cut all the matter off put them on it so it worked very very well you can see how deep the snow is I was worried about them getting out around in there but and then just like Doug's today I was across that and there's a layer of ice underneath there that's at least a foot deep a thin layer of hay on it this year we'll probably rest it our bulls get a little anxious they're right along with highway 83 so get close to breeding time they like to venture out on their own so we're gonna bring them up and graze this with them just kind of as a just to clip it for two three weeks and then that'll rest for the end of the year and then we'll decide whether we want to bail raise it again this year or you're interested in this is just kind of a layout so this is the farm here this is where we bail grazed here this is our feed yard here this was corn stocks this is winter wheat so this will go back to a to a grazing cover this is gonna be our full season so just kind of the layout the thing that I've learned the most since I've gotten back even on the grass pastures is if you have a plan going into something you're a lot more likely to do it rather than just saying well maybe I should do this if you set yourself up with some some sort of a plan and you can go deviate from that whatever but have some type of plan in place I mean it's worked a lot for us because it's so easy to say well yeah let's go ahead and move them cows today or whatever you have if you know what direction you want to go with it it's a lot easier to stick to you know another thing I want to compliment Casey and Cori on because they came up with the plan before cows had come home and it was just wherever they wanted to go and they actually had it where they had a fence here they ran the corn stocks for a while we kept them off of here because this is winter wheat and but excuse me it is not this winter wheat down here but anyway so this is a full season graze but everything they had a plan on how they were going to raise them you know so and like you say this is planted back to rye I like rye but so this is corn stocks and the and the heifers ran they came to the fence they ran here and they ran here so what we'll do after corn stocks and we want to keep our carbon up we're big believers in carbon so what we'll do is we'll come back with oats we love oats we love oats so oats will come back and then and then we'll actually then come back with the cover after our oats so our heifers next year full season graze which that's just the way it works and then here and then this will be corn stocks so they run on and then another thing this is a this is a slough area of what we call it's where they feed fed for a lot of years and what we do now is we put a full season cover in there one thing too you guys on a full season cover when you do a biomass we did a biomass on this and we send it in and you clip it at the ground so all of a sudden you say where you are where are you there on nitrates that's something you've got to be very concerned about don't ask your neighbor if this is safe to graze find out find out a nitrate test and so what we were like we were just when what clipped all the way to the ground we're right at 1400 parts per million so that didn't really concern us because we knew we were only going to let them have two-thirds and then case you as far as will they ever go back to the old paddock once they graze the paddock and they move it will they go back they do I mean that's kind of a good telltale to when you need to when you need to move them to as if they do come back to the other one but no every time we moved it they seem to go after the new stuff now after we were all done we knew we've had so much under the snow that we let them have it for the whole thing for another week and they pretty much even we spanned out of the whole thing but they they love it up there I mean that's that's where they wanted to be this is just a picture that this is going to be next year's cover so we cut silage and are kind of our goal I don't know if we'll get away from it right Casey it's to maybe eliminate silage but I don't know if we will or not but we really like to plant rye back on we're in winter wheat country but we really manage our rye we don't let our rye get very big but it's unbelievable that what the root structure will be from rye you know and Doug talked a lot about Canada and the round you know and so we say we can't do this and but they're doing it but one thing I think and this is what we need to do I mean I'm not saying any of these but this is what we need to do they've got it they've got a number for their nutrient cycling and we need to do that as a farm we need to do that and we will find that out some guys say well what difference to make take half take half I think we really need to to understand what's going on you can tell your soils healthy by looking at it as great texture crumbles like Maurice chocolate cake it'll have a smell as a freshly dug potato so if you guys ever come to our farm the first thing we're going to do is we'll get some soil I'm not going to call dirt I'm going to call it soil I'm going to ask you to smell it because it will smell if you've got healthy soil yourself soil tell you our farm and ranch fields we should do everything we can to make this a better world you know we do not ask ourselves why we know the answer and the picture is worth a thousand words we've got a little clip here of the time lapse that we're going to show and it was kind of neat the NRCS they put a camera out when the cover crop was this tall and it's still out there right now but they're going to Josh is going this is in the middle of the like the third week in November so you can kind of see what we're up against but you can see on a normal year where we would have a pretty good graze even there we could handle we do Randy Helverson it was a contract with the NRCS and and and there are it on Dakota lakes the cameras are still there and the cameras still out there so it's going to be but you can see here now we're getting to the end I mean that's the cows are out there grazing right now and you'll be able to see the deer right see there's some deer but now this so you think well that's about enough snow so you can see what we were up against I mean so I feel really good about what happened because I don't you Casey still say by doing all this is this so is this a one year out of ten it probably is that's just like saying is it going to be dry next year why I'm not going to go plant my corn very heavy because it's going to be dry so we're going to go ahead with things and we're going to take the average so


Bonjour tout le monde. Thank you all for joining us. It's a pleasure to be here in Hamburg, Germany, as we conclude another successful meeting of the G20. I'd like to thank Chancellor Merkel for being a gracious host and welcoming myself, the other visiting leaders, and our respective delegations to her country. It's always a feat to host these events, and we appreciate the Chancellor's hospitality. Last time I was here in Hamburg, I gave an address at the St. Matthew's Day banquet a few months ago, and in that speech I talked about the growing anxieties facing folks around the world, anxieties around automation, growing inequality, and the rise of isolationism. I know that in Canada we try to keep those fears in mind as our government charts a path for the future, and I'm proud that this G20 summit has been focused on addressing those very real, very universal challenges as well. I am happy to announce that we have come to conclude very productive work sessions during the last few days. In the context of these sessions, we have, among other things, discussed our common objective, which is to increase our economies so that everyone can benefit from the fallout, and not only the 1% of the best. We know that there are certain steps that we can undertake, certain things that we can do in order to achieve this goal. To begin with, we can seek to make trade more progressive and more open. We can proudly make women's equality champions and full socio-economic contribution of women in their communities, and we can see whether our economies will be able to access their own growth by encouraging sustainable and responsible economic development. Indeed, we agreed on the establishment of a task force on women in business, a task force that will connect leading business women in all G20 countries and enhance networking opportunities. Further, it will make recommendations to leaders at next year's summit on how to accelerate the implementation of G20 commitments on gender equality and the empowerment of women. And finally, along that same vein, I'm happy to announce that Canada will contribute $20 million toward the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative led by the World Bank. This program will help women business owners in developing countries access financing and tools they need in order to grow and sustain their businesses. Ultimately, this will lead to stronger economies, stronger communities, and a stronger world. Ladies and gentlemen, in an increasingly interconnected world, we realize the importance of partnership. We know that working together isn't just the best option, it's the only option. Indeed, it's the only way we can meet the challenges of the 21st century. So we continue our history of strong cooperation in multilateral bodies like here at the G20 for the benefit of Canada, for the benefit of Canadians, and for the benefit of the whole world.


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The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Book Show. All right, everybody. Welcome to Iran Book Show on this Friday, February 9. I think today is going to be a fun show. It is a lot of laughs. Not because anything is really that funny, but because the alternative is to sob violently. So I think that, I think that, oh, no video. OK, yeah, sorry about that, guys. Anyway, I think that it's kind of aesthetically funny, actually, in a sad, pathetic kind of way. So let's just jump into it. And I think almost all the stories have a comical, pathetic view. All right, I want to talk quickly about Taka interviewing Putin. It turned out exactly the way I suspected it would. I've listened to some of it, not all of it. And I intended to listen to all of it. I might do tomorrow's show just on this interview because it's so good. It's so perfect. It so reinforces things that I've said about Russia, about Taka, about the whole, about the whole, about the right. It reinforces everything I've been saying for months and months and months and months. So it's great to, I might just go over the whole interview with you guys or, you know, segments of it because, right, it's two hours long and I can't comment on everything. But I wanted to show you this one segment because it is so funny, absurd. I mean, this is the theory of the absurd. So not only is Putin feeding Taka in this interview Russian propaganda, but he's also feeding Taka Nazi.  And Taka, Taka challenges him? What do you guys think? Do you guys think he challenges him? No, no. All right, so let's watch this segment. I'm going to show it to you. I think it's pretty self-explanatory. Just read the translation on the first slide. Now, I have verified with Russian speaker that this is indeed what Putin said because I thought this was a joke, right? I think a lot of people online thought this was a joke. But, you know, watch this, right? The polls overplayed and forced Hitler to start World War II by invading them. Why did World War II start on September 1, 1939 in Poland? It didn't want to negotiate. Hitler had no other choice but to start bringing his plan to life in Poland. What do you do but laugh? And Taka's facilitating this. He's facilitating this nonsense.  And worse than that, Taka didn't prep. So he was surprised by many of Putin's answers, in spite of the fact that his answers were obvious. I knew exactly what his answers were going to be. And Taka was surprised by them, particularly his whole thing about why did you invade Ukraine. And Taka's surprised that he goes into a history lesson. If you've watched my discussions of why Putin invaded Ukraine, why Putin invaded Ukraine, then it's basically Putin confirmed everything I said on his interview. And Taka just bought it. Taka just swallowed it. And Taka did nothing, right?  That is integration.  There was no real pushback, except the one point about the worsty journal journalist. And that led nowhere, Putin handled it. And it just moved on. And Taka got nothing from it. It was, sorry, but it was pathetic. He shouldn't have done it. No American journalist should be interviewing Putin. And it turned out exactly the way I expected it to be. That is just providing Putin with just one more avenue for his propaganda. That's it. And Putin doesn't lack avenues. So for Putin, what the hell? Why is this not working? Yeah, maybe it is. OK. All right. So yeah, I thought it was despicable and ridiculous. All right, let's start to bite in. Talk about funny. This is the president of the United States of America. As you know, he withheld documents, top secret documents, just like Trump. But he withheld them and had them on his premises. He didn't at least engage in obstruction of justice when they came to take them away. He didn't hide them. He cooperated. But he had these documents. And not only did he have the documents, he read them aloud to people without the right classification. He read them aloud to somebody writing his, I guess, biography or writing stuff. He wanted to show that he was right and that Obama had been wrong with Afghanistan. Anyway, the report from the independent council is filled with, wow, I mean, filled with this guy's president of the United States, really? Are you guys serious? This is a segment I'm going to read to you. He writes, in his interview with our office, Mr. Biden's memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended, and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began. He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate. This is the debate with Obama. There was one so important to him, among other things. He mistakenly said that he had, quote, had a real difference, unquote, of opinion with General Carl Eichenberg, Barry, Eichenberg. When in fact, Eichenberg was an ally who Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Biden. So Biden couldn't remember stuff, stuff that you would think is pretty straightforward and pretty obvious. And, yeah, the memo goes on to say, why were you not prosecuting him? Why do we not recommend that he be brought to trial? This is, I mean, I don't know. This is hysterical, right? This is why they don't recommend that he be held criminally liable and put in front of a jury trial with regard to this. He says, quote, these are lawyers. This is the independent counsel. Quote, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury as he did during an interview of him as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. So they probably wouldn't get a conviction because they're going, you know, he's kind of nice. He's kind of sympathetic. He's well-meaning. He doesn't have. But he's really clueless. President of the United States, let me remind you, not just some trivial second character. They later in the memo describe Biden as having, quote, diminished faculties in advanced age.  This is who is the representative for the Democratic Party, for presidents of the United States. I mean, this is insanity, insanity. I mean, and this just reflects either Biden is delusional, which is quite possible, given his diminished faculties.  I mean, this is truly absurd that somebody in the state could be president of the United States. Is, not could be, is currently, never mind another four years, president of the United States. Biden was offended by all this. So he immediately called the press conference, declaring that he was not diminished, that he had a great memory. He had a perfect memory. Within a few sentences of declaring his memory fantastic, he confused the president of Egypt, El Sisi, with the president of Mexico, Obogado, and confused the two. God, there should be an age restriction on presidents. It should be probably something like 75. Presidents should be able to not only have their full cognitive abilities with them, but they should be able to multitask. They should be able to be thinking about multiple things at the same time. There are lots of things going on. In the case, let's say, of a war, it's complex. There's a lot going on. You're going to get conflicting advice from conflicting generals and so on in terms of font policy, in terms of you need to remember who you spoke to and who you told what. In terms of domestic policy, you have to handle Congress. You have to deal with them. You have to do it all at the same time. War, font policy, domestic policy, Congress, economy. All of that, you have to be able to juggle. This guy is not capable of doing that. And yet I know you won't like this. But neither is Trump. They're both too old. And they were never that smart to begin with. I mean, Biden was not exactly sharp when he was young. I'd like to see our presidents be in their 50s. I mean, I think that's peak performance. It's you've got peak energy. You've got peak mental acuity. You've got enough of the worldly experience. Enough of a worldly experience. Or Trump is a disaster. Who is he confusing the other day? Oh, yeah, Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi.  But his mind is fried. Now he never had a mind to begin with, right? I don't think he's smarter. I don't think he's smart at all. And he's losing it. And again, four more years, right? In four more years, he'll be over 80. I'm 62. And you know, I'm all together and everything. But you notice this. My memory is not as good as what's 10 years ago. It's just not. So I think 50s, right? 50s, you've got enough life experience. You've got still youthful energy.  And it can multitask. And it can handle multiple things. Your memory is intact. That's presidents should be in their 50s. And they should not be God. They should not be in the 80s, not even for a portion of their presidency. That could be the portion in which important stuff happens. Anyway, you know, what do you do with this situation that we're going to have? You have to choose between Trump and Biden. It is an absurdity that America is in this situation, is putting in this situation, could be in this situation. It is just an insane. It says so much about our political culture. It says so much about our philosophical culture that this is a possibility. All right, that's working. OK. All right, don't forget, you can ask questions on the Super Chat. You can engage. You can support the show, just $1.99, $5.99, $10.90, whatever you want supports the show. But we do need to kind of make targets. All right, another funny one. It doesn't stop. So some of you, particularly Scott, but some of you were super excited about Ron DeSantis. Ron DeSantis brought kind of a conservative attitude, a free market attitude, a attack the woke attitude to running for president. And he was going to be the savior of the Republican party and, of course, the savior of the country. The country, he was going to be a great president. But every day that passes, he seems to disqualify himself more from being president. In spite of the fact that he is not 80 years old, the guy has lost it. And basically, with this latest move, disqualified himself from being president. Ron DeSantis supports HB435, that's the House version in Florida, and SB586, which is the Senate version. Both these bills, I mean, this is the same bill basically, would ban the production. I mean, again, it's just so hysterical. It would ban the production of cultivated meat. And any restaurant or store that sells it would risk having its license suspended. That is, Governor DeSantis has decided that in the state of Florida, no more fake meat. You can't grow meat.     You cannot grow meat. Not acceptable. No more lab meat. It's gone. So any restaurant and store that sells it, God forbid, to a willing customer will lose its license. Republicans in Florida claim there's not enough research has been done to ensure the product's safety. So they know. Republicans in Florida are experts in product safety. They are experts particularly in meat. Experts particularly in meat. And they think it's the government's job to stand between a consumer and a producer and tell them what they can and cannot eat. Even though the FDA and the US Department of Agriculture, our regulatory agencies from above, have approved the sale of cultivated meat from two companies, GoodMeat and Upside Foods, the state of Florida is not having any of it. And the reason is, it's not about safety. It's not about safety, right? We'll get to why in a second. So this is DeSantis. I know the legislation is doing a bill to try to protect our meat. You need meat, OK? You're going to have meat in Florida. We're not going to do that fake meat. Like that doesn't work. Even if you as a consumer, as an individual consumer, would like it, Florida is not going to allow it. Not going to allow it. And Scott, of course, trusts state regulators much more than he trusts federal regulators. So he's on board with this status intervention in our lives. The reason is, of course, that farmers don't want this. And the reason DeSantis is partially using is, look, this whole thing about fake meat is all a ploy by the left to reduce greenhouse gases. And eliminate cows. And we like cows. And we're not going to buy into anything that has to do with the environmental climate change stuff. So he is anti-woke, anti-left, and therefore he's pro-meat. And he's anti-you making a choice about the kind of meat you get to consume. It is now the state of Florida that determines what meat is appropriate for consumption by individuals. It's bad enough that we have to rely on an FDA and whatever. Now we've got a second layer of state regulators that are going to ban stuff that the FDA has approved. God. I mean, are these people electable? No, DeSantis is not electable.  And the next person is Elizabeth Warren. DeSantis Elizabeth Warren, perfect transition. This is Elizabeth Warren on Twitter. Fewer Doritos in your bank. Fewer Oreos in your box. Less toilet paper on your roll. You aren't imagining it. Big corporations really are making you pay the same amount, sometimes more, for less. It's called shrinkflation. And we've got to crack down on it. So now they're going to have a bill that says, once you have X number of Oreos in a box, you will always have X Oreos in a box. X Oreos in a box, right? So when both sides do nutty things, both sides on the Iran book show get called out. They get called out because they're all frigging fanatics out there. They're all statist. They all want to intervene in your life. They all want to regulate your existence. They all want to regulate what you buy and how you buy it and what price you buy it and what quantity you get in the box. Of course, if the food companies actually did the opposite, they kept the same number of Doritos and Oreos in the box, but increased the price to reflect inflation, then Elizabeth Warren would be freaking out because inflation is called by the profit motive. And the Biden administration would look bad. This is actually this fewer stuff in the box in order to keep the price stable actually helps the Biden administration because the Biden administration doesn't want inflation. And this reduces, appeared, perceived inflation. But she wants to have a crackdown on shrinkflation. There's a good one, shrinkflation. You didn't know that existed. But then President Biden figured he'd outdo Elizabeth Warren. God, I told you this was a funny show. It's hysterical. He says in Twitter, you ought to be able to fly with your child and sit next to them without paying an additional fee. It's time all airlines offered free, fee-free family seating. You say that fast. Free, free family seating. Now, what would happen if they offered that? It would mean that all of us, all the rest of us on the plane, would be subsidizing this kid. So basically, I think conservatives are actually going to like this because they want more kids. And if we could reduce the cost of flying for kids, maybe more parents would have more kids because it would reduce the cost of having kids. And Republicans are really into that. So maybe they'd support this bill. And to help with that, all us who are not flying with our kids would subsidize the people flying with their kids. I think we should do the opposite. I think we should penalize them for flying with their kids because their kids are so often obnoxious on the airplanes. And they make flying much less enjoyable. Anyway, President Biden wants to regulate how much the airlines charge for who, where, and what's he. All right, finally, here's one where the Democrats are right and the Republicans are wrong. Go figure, right? And this was bizarre, right? So this is a bill. It's local. It's in Minnesota. And what the Democrats in Minnesota want to do is they want to actually eliminate a regulation that restricts builders to make sure that their X number of parking lots, parking spaces, for any unit that is billed when they build condo buildings. So it's these parking requirements that exist all over the country. And what the contractors are saying is these parking requirements are arbitrary. They're crazy. They often require you to create a massive amount of parking when people are using cars less and less because they're using Uber more. Why not let, here's a concept that maybe everybody should learn from, why not let builders and consumers, developers and consumers figure out how much parking consumers actually want and developers will build that into it.  They have to be, and all of this, dictated from above by government. It's all these parking regulations dictated from above by government. Anyway, the Democrats in the state of Minnesota, and God forbid, but it's true, represented Ilhan Omar. I mean, so some of the worst Democrats are sponsoring this bill to deregulate a little bit of building in Minnesota to reduce the cost of building, which is great. Who opposes this? Republicans are going apple-plactic. No, no, no. We can't support anything promoted by the left. If this is a leftist bill, basically I've seen tweets like this. If this is a leftist bill, we're against it. We don't want it. We're done. The one thing Democrats and Republicans share, 100% no qualms, is a complete dedication to statism. The state must run our lives. The state should be all-powerful. They just differ on the details, on the details. But this is just today pulled off of some of the news stories. Four stories, two of the Democrats are bad, two of the Republicans are bad. Right there, right? All right, final two stories. Rogan, Joe Rogan, and if you saw this with Joe Rogan, cut a deal with Spotify, $250 million. His previous deal was $100 million. This is two and a half times, but it's not just a number. It's not just $250 million. The $100 million deal that he had in the past gave Spotify exclusivity. This deal doesn't give them exclusivity. He can post the stuff on YouTube. And I think everywhere else, he can distribute it broadly. This expands his market dramatically. Theoretically, Spotify's revenue from his show could reduce it quite a bit. And yet he's getting more money. And this is astounding. And what it suggests is just how much money this guy is making Spotify. It truly is astounding. And as I've told you in the past, making money is great. Whether it's a Democrat or a Republican or a populist or kind of a nothing like Joe Rogan, he's a good interviewer, but nothing much more. It doesn't matter. Good for him. He's great. Fabulous. $250 million. I thought one aspect of this that was interesting beyond the sheer magnitude of the deal that he cut, do you remember not that long ago when the $100 million deal was cut all the way to a year or two after that, there was a lot of calls within Spotify and outside, within the leftist community, to cancel Joe Rogan? I mean, massive calls, including employees of Spotify itself, to cancel Joe Rogan. Not only has Joe Rogan not been canceled, not only has the left failed to cancel Joe Rogan, but they've 2 and 1 half times his income on the second deal without any restrictions on what he says, without any restrictions on who he has guests, except, I guess, no objectivist. But unbelievable. So it's good to see that at least people like Joe Rogan who can afford to stand up to the work, stand up to them and Spotify stood up to the work and will continue to stand up to work, given this massive contract and the amount of money Joe Rogan is making Spotify. So good for Joe. Thumbs up. Finally, this one's just an interesting, not a funny one, but just an interesting one. You remember Sam Altman? Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI. He is a massive innovator in the space of artificial intelligence. He has been a very successful entrepreneur. He was, of course, the guy who was fired and then brought back by OpenAI. Anyway, he has a new project in addition to running OpenAI. He has a new project. And I guess this one could qualify as funny, too. Because basically what Sam Altman wants to do is compete with the US government. The US government, if you remember, has this bill. I think it's a $200 billion bill called the CHIPS Act, which is to build chip manufacturing in the United States, bring chip manufacturing back. The government is subsidizing it left and right. It was a bipartisan bill. Democrats and Republicans trying to manipulate our markets again. Anyway, Sam Altman is like $200 billion is penny change. This is way too small. This isn't going to have an impact on the world. So he is out there raising money, raising private money to really blow up chip production, blow up, I mean, in the positive and not in the sensitive of blowing it up, in the positive in terms of growing it. He is out there raising somewhere between $5 to $7 trillion, God, that's $5,000 to $7,000 billion, to basically dramatically, I mean, orders of magnitude, grow chip building capacity in the world. Mainly AI chips, but any kind of chips, the whole gamut, including very sophisticated chips. So Sam Altman is out there raising money from private individuals. He's also going to places like the United Arab Emirates for their state fund. But this is basically a private initiative to go out there. It's a for-profit initiative. The idea is to make money.  And it also shows how, OK, we need more capacity of chip manufacturing. We probably need to diversify where it's made. It's too dependent on Taiwan and South Korea. And he is a private entrepreneur stepping in to actually make that different, make it different. Solve the problem. This is not a solution sitting around waiting for the government. Not a solution that the Democrats or Republicans. This is a solution of private markets. And this is how it's done. And people always say, ooh, there's too much capital, barriers to entry. I've never heard anybody trying to raise $1 trillion, never mind $5 to $7 trillion.   Total US corporate debt issued last year is $1.44 trillion. The combined market capitalization of Microsoft and Apple, the two highest valued businesses in the United States, is $6 trillion. She's talking about raising more capital than the total worth of Microsoft plus Apple. I don't know if that's possible. But just the scale of the ambition of it is exciting and thrilling and I hope is successful. I think it's just fabulous, just fabulous. Good for Sam Altman, good for the markets, good for capitalism, good for whatever free markets we still have and I hope he succeeds. I hope he succeeds. But the reality is that our world in the future will be powered by chips, will be driven by chips that already is. It's hard to survive without it. But it's, you know, this is the key product of the 21st century, no question. And Sam Altman wants a big chunk of it.  That's really what he wants. He thinks that what is constraining his AI is not the algorithm, what's constraining his AI he believes is computing power. I'm a little, I'm skeptical of that, but you know, obviously I'm not an expert on AI. All right, that was the news for today. Most of it quite entertaining. Hopefully you guys were entertained. Let me see, we got a few stickers, maybe not. We need some stickers. We got Graham. Thank you, Graham. I really appreciate it. And we've got Scott, but not the normal Scott. We've got Scott M. I think that's a different Scott. So thank you for the sticker. We're still pretty far from the target. Remember, this show is exists because of support by viewers and listeners like you. Those of you who watch live get the special privilege of being able to help fund the show by using stickers as super chat. The rest of you get to fund the show by using Patreon and PayPal, which all of which basically makes the show possible. So important to keep that going. And thank you, Paul. Maybe 9.99, a few people doing 9.99, which is, if we get 15 people doing 9.99, we're basically done. And you can ask a question, but you can also do a sticker like Paul did and get us the Gale, the 2.99. That's great. That is the way we get. We chip away at the target, but Siberian did $50 as a question. What do you think should be the model evaluation of Russians of modest means who choose to stay in Russia instead of emigrating? You know, I don't think that one has to have a particular strong model view of them. By staying in Russia, there's no question they're supporting the regime, but one can understand that it's very difficult for some people to leave. It's not clear where you should emigrate to. And of course, it's not clear that, you know, again, where they were emigrating and how they would support themselves. The people who have left are predominantly people who either have money or people who have jobs where they can work from anywhere. There are a lot of Russians in tech that have moved, and of course, there are a lot of Russians, you know, with other abilities that they can use their skills in Georgia, Kazakhstan, or somewhere in Europe, or in the United States, if they can get here. I mean, part of the challenge for Russians would be that most of the West is closed. Most of the West does not accept them not because they're Russians, it's just because immigration is very, very difficult. Legal immigration, getting a job, taking care of yourself, very difficult. I want a few minutes at Armenia. I guess they're in Armenia as well, but you know, I know that in Tbilisi, you went through the roof, real estate prices through the roof because the number of Russians that have moved there, somewhere in Turkey, a lot of in Turkey, ones who have maybe Jewish heritage or in Israel, they're all over the place.  And it's sad for them, it's sad. People who want to leave, but can't leave for a variety of reasons, it's tragic because they have to suffer whatever this unleashes on them, whatever Putin unleashes on them. All right, Cassandra, thank you. Alex, thank you. All right, we're chipping away, but we still got, I still need 10, 12 people to step in here with a sticker and something, not asking, yeah, 299, 5999, anything like that would be great. Thank you, Siberian, really appreciate it. Siberian from Siberia? Siberian, that was one of his, only his third Super Chat question, so thank you, really appreciate that. John, Elizabeth Wan wants DOE, Department of Energy, to restrict Bitcoin miners' use of energy. Well, of course, why not? Which industries might be restricted next? Miners have been required to submit detailed records of use of electricity to DOE. It doesn't surprise me at all. I mean, Elizabeth Wan has been in a campaign against Bitcoin and crypto since the end of 2022.  I think she played a role in the banking crisis in the spring because of her kind of going after banks that dealt with Bitcoin, signature bank probably was shut down partially because of her and she's generally wants to try to make everything related to Bitcoin more and more difficult. So she's definitely anti-Bitcoin and anti-crypto more broadly. The excuse of climate change, energy, it makes a lot of sense. So I'm not surprised that she's using that tactic to try to shut it down, but just one of many ways in which she's going after them. And she will, and I think you should expect that it's gonna become very difficult to mine for Bitcoin in the United States. And I think a lot of miners have moved overseas, they've moved to other places. There was a time when a lot of them moved to Russia. I'm not sure they're doing that anymore, but Kazakhstan I think has quite a few. I mean, what they're looking for is places that have cheap energy.  Yeah. So what other, you know, what other industries you know, it's so hard to tell. Any industry that they don't like, gun industry, private universities, private colleges, Elizabeth Warren went after them for years. There's probably other private industries that she decides that she hates and payday lenders. I don't know, they haven't used the energy argument on those guys because none of those are heavy consumers of electricity, but who is a heavy producer of electricity or consumer of electricity who she might not like? The list is probably long. I would be very wary, but that is gonna be another tool in the tool baskets of the fascists. All right, let's see, Neocon, I used to be a Trumpist and you helped me get away from it. So I am thanking you and I hope you can get more people out of its cancer to America. I appreciate that and I hope so too, I hope so too. I mean, it seems that whatever I've done, whatever impact I've had to the extent that it exists is too late. It looks like the Republicans are nominating Trump. In Nevada, Nikki Haley couldn't even win. He was not on the ballot and she couldn't even win against none of the above, none of the above beat her. And then he won the caucus. I mean, Nevada has a weird structure. So I don't think she has a chance in hell at this point. Sadly, Trump is it for them. Wyatt 516, Valiant claimed that ARC UK not produces the most popular objectives, content by views on YouTube. Was that a dig and is it even accurate? It was probably not a dig. It was probably just boasting. Is it accurate? Probably for longer videos, I think my one minute videos probably do better than their videos, but they're long form videos, which are 30 minutes long, are doing phenomenally well, much better than my videos and much better than my live shows. There's a life. They have shifted to doing almost everything Israel. They have mastered the quality of provocative, what do you call it, titles and provocative thumbnails. And it's one issue. And on any other issue, the videos do not do well, but then the Israel issue, they've gone through the roof. Good for them. I mean, the same thing happened if you remember to AI when they published two things on Israel and those two things went through the roof. For some reason, the stuff I published on Israel, which I think has equally good titles and stuff doesn't take off. So I don't know why, maybe because I've probably so many things, maybe the algorithm, maybe you guys don't share it enough. I don't know. I don't know how these things happen. They've also spiked in terms of subscribers, although they're still significant below where I am and where I is, but they've spiked in terms of subscribers, but views on the videos on Israel are very, very high and probably the highest of any objectivist out there. It'll be interesting if they can translate that into broader action, broader visibility. We'll see. And good for them. Justin, please invite more guests. Jason was great. I mean, I tried to do it once a week on Thursdays. It doesn't always work out because of my schedule, but Angela basically has a list of people. She's trying to contact and trying to get guests. Sometimes can't get a guest for a particular Thursday or sometimes I move things around, like I think next week it's on a Wednesday and on a Thursday and Wednesday is Valentine's Day, so we're not having a guest. So, you know, I'm trying to have a guest every Thursday. I thought Jason was great as well and he seemed to enjoy it, so I'm sure he'll be back soon. Akira Felix says, Scott's actual name is Scott the Rhino, you're on. All right, true, true. I don't think Rhino is right.  So, I mean, hating to the point of, I'll cooperate with anybody as long as they hate the left. So, I don't know if it's Rhino. We need to come up with something that describes that particular feature of, you know, be a status, be everything, it doesn't matter, control what beat I eat, tell me when to get up in the morning, tell me when to go to sleep and what exercise to do. All of that is fine as long as you hate the left and with you. So, I don't know, there has to be some new acronym we have to come up with to describe that particular form of attitude. I was gonna say thinking, but it's not thinking. E-A-E-Ots. I think AEI is an important factor to consider in the election. Who almost like to keep their hands off it and keep it relatively free to develop? I don't think either one, I don't think either party will keep their hands off of it. I think they'll all wanna regulate it. It really, the question is who do you think is more likely to regulate it in a way that helps them politically? Put aside controlling the industry, but literally helps them politically. And actually think the Republicans are more dangerous here just because I think the Republicans are thinking more about any assistance they can get politically whereas the Democrats just wanna regulate it because it's a business. The Republicans I think will wanna regulate it in a way that helps them win elections. And you already seen that and I gave the example of the one in Slovenia, Slovakia, not Slovenia, Slovakia. All right, Brownie 003. If you could plug into the current Boston Celtics roster any NBA player of all time in their peak to help them win the championship this season, which player would you pick? I mean, God, any one of the players, you know, there's so many players you could pick that would instantly make them a winner. You know, you could, you know, you could put Magic Johnson as their guard, but you know, you could put, and they'd win the championship without any problem. You could put Larry Bird as the power forward and you know, move Tatum to small forward and what's his name to and Brown to another guard position. You could bring in Bill Russell to be a center. Now I'm only thinking Celtics players, right? But any great center, that's what they're really missing. Imagine if they could bring in right now a Shaquille O'Neill or Bill Russell, Bill Russell was a Celtic, so that would be more appropriate. That's it, I mean, nobody will ever beat them.  All right, Frank, Jason called Charles Mario Races based on what? We didn't ask him, so next time he comes, you can ask him based on what? You know, Jason suggested that there was stuff that he had written in his past, which suggests racism. I think it's just bizarre to even conceive of these IQ, racially IQ graphs, who the F cares? There's something suspicious in making a deal out of that and talking about it and publishing it, and not to mention the fact that it's the whole discussion, I think, is anti-scientific. But anyway, I've talked about IQ enough in my past. Propos says, according to Fox News, the state representative that introduced the meat bill said the meat is an affront to nature and creation. There you go, it's a theocracy. But Scott is okay with the theocracy as long as it hates the left. Affront to nature and creation, maybe next, they will make us use bows and arrows to hunt for meat. Yeah, it's completely insane. And this is the modern, this is the Florida Republican Party that so many people want the federal Republican Party to emulate. They are the standard, but this is a theocracy. This is theocratic. J-Dog, what preparations would you recommend before attending A-R-C-E-U? I know there's a reading group, any other resources to review beforehand, also any suggestions on what to see or do in Amsterdam. Oh, wow. You've got the red light district in Amsterdam, definitely worth a walk through once. I wouldn't go back necessarily, but once you want to see it.  They've got unbelievable Rembrandts. They've got a number of Vermeers. They've just got great art. It's just one of the great museums of the world. The other thing that's great about Amsterdam, I mean, if you're interested, the Anne Frank Museum is very powerful, kind of about Anne Frank and the Holocaust in there. What else? You know, the thing about Amsterdam is that one of the most fun things to do in Amsterdam is just walk around. It's such a pretty city. The weather's not going to be great because it's going to be March. It's going to be cold. Bring warm clothes. But really think about walking the city, enjoying the canals, maybe even take a boat thing, go on a boat tour through the canals. That's really fun and really interesting. You'll get a little bit of the history of Amsterdam. But just walking around, getting a sense of the place, it is, and I might talk about this in my talk in Amsterdam, it's in many respects, you could consider Amsterdam as the birthplace of the modern world in many ways. Certainly modern capitalism, it's the birthplace of the first stock market. It's also the birthplace, unfortunately, of the first central bank. But it's the ideas that come out of Netherlands and the attitude that comes out of Netherlands in the 17th century, out of the 16th to 17th century, Netherlands changed the world, changed the world much more so than Venice. It's because Venice is rich and successful, but it's unintellectual. Amsterdam, the Netherlands are the intellectual start of the Enlightenment. And it's a really, really important place from the perspective of the history of modernity, which I think is the most important period of time in human history. And so just enjoy it, walk around, go to the flower market, see what's going on. It's a thrilling place. I'm trying to think of the other... I mean, if you want to take a ride over to the Hague, it's not that far. You can probably take a train. There's some more Vermeers at the museum in the Hague. Go with a pole. Maybe the most famous Vermeer is at the Hague. So that is worth doing. So encourage you. Yeah. And by the way, anybody interested in attending my public speaking workshop, I will be doing one right after the conference. So the conference ends on Sunday night. I'll be doing it on Monday all day, small groups. So far, we have four registrants. We can take six more, but no more than that. But if you're interested, please email me. Iran at youronbrookshow.com. $750 for full day, a lot of one-on-one. And I think it'll be fun. We've got four people. Yeah, so if you can afford it, if you've got the time and you get any value from it, please consider joining us. It should be interesting. And this is true of people participating in the conference or anybody anywhere in Europe who may be not coming for the conference but would like to come to this, would love to have you, would love to be able to do this, particularly those of you in the Netherlands. I know there are a lot of objectives now in the Netherlands. If there's anybody out there who would like to do the public speaking seminar, please let me know. Iran at youronbrookshow.com. Optimus, this is his first Super Chat question. So thank you. This is from India. And he's figured out how to use the Super Chat. So thank you. Rediscovered your channel lately as the American right has gone nuts. Appreciate the sanity and objectivity. Cheers from India. Thank you, Optimus. Really appreciate that. And yes, the American right has gone nuts. I'm glad you find this channel to be a haven of sanity. All right, guys. You know, I don't like to do this, but we got like $77 to make it. We've got 112 people listening. Like $199 from half of you gets us over the top. Please consider just doing less than what, a cappuccino, a latte. In the next like one minute, two minutes, because we've got one more question, and then we're off. And I'm doing an interview with a guy in Nigeria today. So I'm doing an interview on tribalism for Africa, for an African audience. That should be interesting. Ruedown says, I went back to your blog talk radio show to get some clarity about cartels and learn so much. You used to go deeper into subject, also happier, huh? Yeah, I think I was, I've been worn down by the politics. I'm curious what topics you found interesting and that I went deeper into back then. Would love for you to send me an email with a list of those that you found particularly interesting. I'd love to redo them. Yeah, because I think there are a lot of shows. You know, I feel like it's a part of the challenges that I think, oh, I've talked about that already, right? But I forget that I talked about that, what, six years ago. And most of my audience now either doesn't remember that or wasn't with me six years ago. It's a new audience. So please consider sending me just lists of topics even if I've talked about in the past that you think would be interesting to bring back or interesting to talk about today and resurrect, happy to do that, a work on trying to be happier. I did a happy show today. It was very happy. We laughed a lot, didn't we? I mean, we laughed at people, but we laughed a lot. Kudababa says no doubt about the happier part. And somebody said, yeah, I come across too angry. All right, we'll have to change that because I'm not an angry person. And in my day-to-day life, I'm not angry at all.  It's so... I guess Trump did this to me. This is my Trump, whatever. Trump really did this to me. He changed my life in negative ways. If you're interested in the African show, it's Gebenge De Woyin. You can look him up. The way to spell it is, well, let me put it in the chat. I'll put it in the chat and then you can maybe search him. Maybe you can find his podcast somewhere. It's right there. That's his name. And I think he's a podcaster in Nigeria. I think it's Nigeria. I've done his show before, right? Yeah, he's definitely from Nigeria. I've done the show before. And I'll post, he'll send me a link. I'll post the show on my videos so you'll be able to see it at some point down the road once he is on his channel. I'll post it on my channel so you'll be able to see it. I did it before. It was a good interview, so I was happy to do it again. Thank you, Roo. Let's see, Robert Nayser. Another good show as we near the end of the week. Yes. Oh, tomorrow. Two announcements quickly. Two announcements. Tomorrow we'll have a show at 3 p.m. East Coast time, usual time. Maybe I'm going to do Putin. I don't know. I'll be angry again. I might do Putin in the interview with Tucker. I might choose to do something completely different. We will see. We will see. And then on Sunday, I'm doing a members-only show, members-only. You can still become a member and join that show. So this will be a members-only show on Westons, on the movies, Westons. And what I think what I'd like to do is assign you homework for the show on Westons is bring your favorite five Westons, you know, and why you love them, what you like about them. But we're going to do a show on what makes Westons Westons, why they're interesting, what was the heyday of Westons, what happened afterwards. We'll talk about spaghetti Westons, the collapse of Westons, spaghetti Westons, modern Westons. We'll talk about the whole thing on Sunday. It'll be Sunday afternoon because in the evening there's the Super Bowl, so it'll be probably Sunday at like 2 p.m. eastern time or 1 p.m. eastern time. I'll be advertising it. But yeah, if you're not a member, please become a member so you can attend the show. You can become a member for five bucks a month. So please do that and I hope to see you there. All right. Vandy says, where is this African podcast? I just told you. Robert Nasir says, too angry. What the something something or what the actual heck is the tone down version? Thank you, Robert. Hey, Iran wanted to support the show and point you to my email in your inbox subject, the YouTube analytics. Thanks for the great content. I've seen the email. I've read the email. I'll be in touch. I'm so behind. A lot of you have sent me emails, particularly people who've offered to design the website. I've seen those emails. I will get to you. I will answer everybody probably this weekend. I need to catch up on email. I'm behind. There's just a bunch of stuff that just needed to get done this week. And I'm getting I'm slowly clearing out to the point where these are the next. And I really appreciate the help with the YouTube analytics.  But part of the part of the thing to think about. I write in the email is what are we actually looking for that? There's a lot of data. But what can we use the data for? What is achievable? Yeah, I mean, how do we how do we turn it into something useful? But that you're the analytics expert. So maybe you can also think about that. Robin Asia says, considering the topics you cover, this is the least angry show out there, at least without being a complete hippie like Lex. Let's be nice to Lex. Lex is a friend. He's a good guy. We want him to have more moral, you know, certainty and resilience. But take my stance, but it is what it is. Jason says, tell them now, Star Wars is not a Western you're looking for. Star Wars is not a Western. It's not a Western. You know, it's got certain characteristics of Westerns. It builds on a certain Western tradition. A lot of movies do, a lot of action movies do. But Westerns have particular characteristics. Particular characteristics that are, I think, interesting and that make the conflicts more intense, make the conflicts stronger. And we will talk about that. Aesthetic characteristics that are uniquely Western. A way of shooting, the particular scenery, a particular place and a time, particular types of characters. Star Wars is not a Western. Star Wars is, what is that? It's the Japanese guy, Kawasawa made a movie that Star Wars is based off of the Fortress something. I can't remember. Anyway, thank you guys. Almost made the target, but we got pretty close. I appreciate everybody's support. I really appreciate all the superchatters and all the Monte contributors and everything. Everybody who makes a show possible. I will be here tomorrow, 3 p.m. I don't know if to do the show on Taka and Putin where I basically show.  Maybe I should because people forget. Hidden Fortress is the name of the movie, Kawasawa movie that Star Wars is based on. But Westerns on Sunday, like Mark just listed his five favorites, but what Mark really should be doing is becoming a member and joining us on Sunday to tell us why he loves Hainoon because I could make the case. I could make the case. I'm not saying this is my position, but I could make the case that Hainoon is a pretty anti-American movie. So, yeah, we can talk about it. It's in my top five, too. But yeah, top five Westerns. Bring top five Westerns to Sunday show. Members only. Become a member. Don't forget, it's not that difficult, not that expensive. Music in Hainoon is phenomenal. It's not grating. It's phenomenal. All right, everybody. I will see you all tomorrow. Bye.


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