What do you think? I get a couple of things I'm going to talk to you about today, and I'm going to talk to you about this awesome, awesome opportunity that I got and that Marlene Fab and Glam got as well.  Now granted, I'm not going to like zoom in close to my eyes because I can't reach the camera, but both these eyes were made up with different palettes. So I'm far from an expert. You know, I don't proclaim to be any kind of a makeup artist. I think every single one of you know that, but when I can almost duplicate a eye look using two different palettes at two hugely different price points, I find that so impressive. So let me just tell you, I have received a PR package from Sea Color Cosmetics and when I got the PR package, it was full of palettes and you probably saw some of these reviewed and discussed on other people's channels. Marlene Fab and Glam comes to mind because I know she's talked about these. I don't know if she's talked about every single one of these. I got five palettes from them and I mean, I'm like I'm over the moon about these and I know you guys think oh she's always over the moon, but in reality, I really am because these are so affordable. I'm covering up the Marra. This is the color, the sea color around the world. I mean, those are really nice, nice colors. So I got this and Marlene had raved about this because you can't really, for the price point, these products are amazing. So they sent me the fairy tale one. There's no number on it, but then they sent me the fairy tale two and I haven't tried them yet. One seems to be darker colors, the other a little bit lighter colors and I think they're really, really cute. I mean, really nice. The feverish palette, super, super cute and I love the colors in this. I have not even used this one yet and I haven't used this one. This seems to be more of a warmer palette, the Vanna palette. So, you know, I think this is warmer colors. It reminds me of downstairs, but some really pretty colors. But what I have tried when I am like super excited about is Obsessed 3, this palette. Now, last year I received the Huda palette, Mob Obsessions. I received this as a birthday gift from Sheila, simply Sheila. This has been throughout the year one of those small palettes that I can go to. I can put in my purse if I'm going somewhere and I don't need a whole lot because I know I can create an entire eye look with this palette. It has all the colors that I really not like from a neutral that I can use on my lid from the darker ones, a little bit of reddish color, some pretty, pretty shimmers. It has all the colors that I really like in there. This is the Huda Mob Obsessions palette. One of my eyes has this on it and just this on it. My other eye has from Sea Color Cosmetics Obsessed 3. He has Obsessed 3. This eye has Obsessed 3. I have to choose this one. I shouldn't even give it away. This eye has the Huda. Amazing, huh? I mean, don't you think this is amazing? I think this is amazing. Is it an exact dupe? Probably not. The colors are a little bit different, but hardly at all. Can you see that? Hardly at all. So the Huda palette, this one, and this one over here that is shaking is the Obsessed 3. I'm telling you. I have been since I got this. I mean, just I haven't used the other ones yet because I really, I want to use them before I tell you what my thoughts are. But I can tell you from my Obsessed 3 compared to the Huda palette that I have known and loved for a long time, this works amazing, amazing. And I've wanted to work. I've come home. I haven't had to do a whole bunch of touch-ups at all if the color has stayed. I am a person who has a lighter touch.   And that could be true for some of the palettes, but not for this baby. Not at least, and not for me. The color payoff on this, I think it's fabulous, fabulous. And it's only $5. It's only $5. So I took a look at their other Obsessed palettes, and I'm going to order myself a few more. The Obsessed 6 has my name all over it. And then I forgot now if it was the, there's a darker one, more of a smokier look that I'm going to get. Five bucks. I was like, whoa, because my Huda palette, it's a lot more than five bucks. A lot more than five bucks. And you can see the Huda palette. I've used it a lot. So I'm not just talking a one-time swatch or something like that. And this, I've only had a week and I've been using the heck out of it too. So anyways, I wanted to talk about that because for those of you that are like eyeshadow addicted, if you have an addiction to eyeshadow palettes, or you just like to try to play around with eyeshadows and you want something that is, I think, the consistency of the sea color Obsessed 3. I don't notice the difference between that and my Huda. I really don't. The amount of fallout is very minimal. Same thing with my Huda palette.   So I always have to do a light cleanup. There is a difference between wearing the entire eyeshadow colors all the way down your face, which I can talk about in a future video because it's happened to me on some palettes.  There's a huge, huge difference. So to me, that was super, super, super, super awesome. The other thing I wanted to talk to you about is, and this I received via the Octoly Network, you know, I'm a CBD fanatic. I use several, well, I actually, I'm sort of maybe not a brand snob, but I am loyal to those products that have worked for me. So I've been using the Macau CBD oil on my face. I've been using round. They have a roll on that I've been using on my body and for aches and pains and stuff like that. I really like that a lot. I love the quality of it. So when I had an opportunity to try this from the Octoly Network, and I said, Oh, this is from Radiant Labs via the Octoly Network. And this is actually a CBD hydrating radiance stick just for your lips. Now, I will tell you if you have a version to coconut oil, you may not like this, but this has 50 milligrams of CBD, does have some coconut oil. It does also have some sapphire oil and then turpans. I know I'm pronouncing that wrong. What they say is this big round stick. You put it on. And now I just put some lipstick on it. But I put it on when if like I said, when I first opened it up, I said, Wow, this is such a big super thick product. How am I ever going to make this work? But it actually actually worked really nice. I really like it. So this is something and I use CBD on my oil, my face. I use it. I use CBD.  So I said, You know, I'm having such a good luck with it. Why not try something for my lips? And that's what this is. This is for my lips. This was sent to me complimentary radiant laps via the Octoly network. And I'm going to give it a try. I'm going to see how I like it. But I've used it for about four days now. And so far, I'm really liking it. I have it by my bedside. So I've been using it at night. And I and I'm always using something at night. I'm always putting something on my lips. So it seems to be perfect for me for that. I'll link all the information below so you can check it out. Plushed hydrating stick for lips. And I like it. I like it a lot. I like it a lot. So hair talk. I I was like super, super thrilled to have had this opportunity from wig studio one. So those of you that follow along and watch some of my wig reviews or when I wear different wigs and create different looks, I think it's super fun to do that. But more importantly for me, I have thinning hair. And so when I can put a wig on and I can do my day to day thing or a hair piece or pin my hair up and use a fake bun. And sometimes it's I just do my natural hair on videos. But other times I have hair helpers on. And so because I have thinning hair and I'm trying different things to help my hair, I also sometimes believe over styling can hurt your hair. So to me, having an opportunity to have a wig, to have something I feel comfortable in that I can wear that is a very kind of natural look for me is a total win. I started searching on Facebook and I belong to a couple of different groups on Facebook. One of the groups that I found early on is Wigs Studio One's Facebook page. And they have an amazing Facebook page. So I have admired Wigs Studio One for a long time. And one of my favorite, and there are many beautiful women on YouTube, but one of my favorite wig reviewers that I have watched over and over again is Taz from Taz's wig closet. And recently Taz, and she's always reviewed wigs from different companies, but recently she's affiliated more so with Wigs Studio One. And she reached out to me and to Marlene Fab and Glam. And she asked us individually if we would be interested, but to be a guest reviewer. And as a guest reviewer, I reviewed this wig and it's on their channel. And by the time this goes live, I'm not too sure if you'll have an opportunity to already have seen it or not. If so, I'll link it. If not, I'll come back and link it. But I reviewed this wig that they sent me as a guest reviewer and I was like, oh my God. And it was so nervous when I did that video because it's one thing talking to you guys and talking about something on my hair. It's another thing talking to people that I mean, I don't know the people that are going to majority of the people on Wigs Studio One, the people that are going to watch those videos. There, you know, I probably don't know most of them. I mean, I know some of them, but not not all for sure. And so I was talking to like strangers and I know that sounds corny because you guys are going on West Rangers too, but you know, you're really not.  I can tell by my views that you're watching and I so appreciate every single one of you. I just hit 11,000 subscribers. Can you believe that? I'm all over the place in this video. But anyway, so Taz reached out to both me and Marlene separately and asked if we would be interested in being a guest wig reviewer. And I jumped on it. I know, I know Marlene jumped on it. So Taz sent me this wig. This is from Bell Tress. And this wig, I think this is the cutest thing. Now this, my mother, when she saw this, she said, oh, you look like you've been tussled in the wind. And I said, yeah, that's something that's supposed to be tussled in the wind. I love this look. I love this relaxed sort of beachy wavy look. I mean, to me, this is casual, casual, casual in the cutler. Even though at first I looked at it and I said, oh, I know the color is not light enough and all that. And I was concerned about the dark roots because, you know, rooted looks like this little bit of a darker root than I'm used to. But the color, which is sugar cookie with hazelnut, the color actually ended up being really good. Very, very natural. So I just wanted to, just wanted to tell you that this wig is super, super comfortable. And it was sent to me complimentary from Wix Studio One. I'm going to link their information, link their Facebook page for anyone that has thinning hair or has needs for whatever reason that a wig would help them out. Now we all deserve to feel beautiful. And sometimes when you're here in your mind falls shot, you can put something like this on and your beauty just shines through. The cap is an average size cap. It feels absolute. I can't believe how comfortable, how comfortable this is. So you can wash this wig and shake it dry.  But anyways, that's what I wanted to talk about this wig because I love this. I think it looks fun. I feel good in it. And I'm super thrilled to have the opportunity to review it. I'm going to link some information below for those of you that might be interested in. I'll insert a couple of clips here at the end showing me outside wearing it and maybe opening the box and all that. But I just wanted you to see that. I just think this is such, to me, it's such a fun look and having this opportunity has just been fantastic. Thank you so much, Taz and Wigs Studio One. I love it. So what do you guys think? Oh, the other thing I wanted to mention is my Serenity Bracelets. I keep forgetting. You know, if you guys follow me on Instagram, I talk about these a lot on Instagram and I keep forgetting to mention them in a video. But I have bought five Serenity Bracelets. These are the bracelets that Marlene Fab and Glam's daughter, Stephanie, has created with the proceeds or 20% of the proceeds, I should say, go to an addiction awareness center. And this is an honor of Marlene's son, Jonathan, who many of you know and love Marlene. And you know that she recently lost Jonathan and to, you know, to drugs. And all I can tell you is that drug addiction is everywhere around us. And we really need to do more to help those people that are addicted because it is an illness. It is a sickness. I don't think someone wakes up and says this morning, oh, I want to be a drug addict. They don't. So, you know, the more we can do to bring this out of the shadows and out in the open and actually work on something to help this issue, because it's an epidemic. And it's an epidemic that hits us all, all walks of life. So, the more we can do to help it, I think the better it is. And I just want to tell you, I absolutely love my Serenity Bracelets. I couldn't make my mind up. There's four different ones. I love them all. I ended up buying five. I really could not make my mind up. I just thought they were really, really nice. So, I've been wearing these every day. I love my Serenity Bracelets. Absolutely love them. So, anyways, I think that's it for now. I do have a couple other things, but I'll save that for another video. But thanks so much for watching, guys. Thanks you so much for supporting the channel. I appreciate every single one of you. And let me know. What do you think of this look? This is, I think, did I mention what it was called? This is Italian Roast. And the color is sugar, cookie with hazelnut. Now I'm hungry. And I'm on a diet trying to get rid of my double chin.


Greetings friends! This is Survival Doc. Today I'm going to do a food review. Today I'm looking at legacy which you can get from PrepareWise.com food with a 25-year shelf life. What I like about legacy's food is the very generous amounts that they give you in these bags and they don't skimp on the serving size. This bag makes eight prepared cups and a serving size is two cups. So this is four complete servings. Now a lot of companies will skimp on the serving size. Their serving size may be half that size. But with legacy when they tell you a serving size they mean a man's size serving size. Let's look at some of our choices. Cheese and broccoli bait. Vegetable and rice soup mix. Potato soup mix. I'm talking about complete mills here. Italian pasta with marinara sauce. Cheesy potato soup. Classic chili mix. They also have refried beans. Vegetables like green beans. Freeze dried pancake mix for breakfast. And they also have food items like powdered milk. And let's not forget the medium-rose ground coffee. Today we're having legacy's pasta alfredo. Have six cups of water coming to a boil in here. For four servings all you do is bring six cups of water to a boil. Slowly whisk in entire package. Reduce heat to a medium boil. Cook for 12 or 15 minutes. Remove from heat. Let's sit three to five minutes. Don't forget to remove the oxygen absorber. And the ones that I have tried so far are delicious and they are filling. And I'm talking restaurant quality mills with a 25 year shelf life. Delicious. This is a rival duck reminding you be prepared or be prepared to be fleeced.


What's going on is engraving here with another video and in this video We're here to talk about the game. We just finished watching between the Vikings and The Lions and that game. I think you're pretty much wrapped up the NFC North As if it hadn't been wrapped up already. I think the Lions were really the only team competing In the NFC North, but that's pretty much a wrap now The Vikings are definitely in a better position than all three other teams And they don't even have their starting quarterback And three out of the four NFC North teams don't have their starting quarterback either Well, Mike Glennon was the starter cause of course and Rogers and And the Vikings but the Lions were the only NFC North team with their starting quarterback, but Then they're probably not gonna get the division. That's probably a wrap now First before we get into this game, let me introduce myself. Me. I'm engraving vids This is my YouTube channel engraving vids, and I'm a Ravens fan. I'm a Ravens fan And even though my Ravens fan on this YouTube channel, we talk about Every NFL team that there is So if you're Ravens fan, if you're Viking fan, if you're Lions fan, if you're Packers fan, if you're Bears fan If you just love football Make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel Make sure you turn your notifications on so you never miss a video and make sure you leave a like on the video Click the thumbs up button. It's free. It's free. You gotta pay nothing for that but um in this game Who I can't believe the they said the the the Vikings won what seven straight eight straight now, I believe That's crazy, man That's crazy That's crazy But I Felt so bad for for Lions fans me in this one I felt so bad for him. The part where I felt the worst for them was on that field goal It was on that field goal On the field goal for that broke my heart for me. I'm not even joking. I'm not even joking I just I felt terrible for him. I felt terrible for him because I was playing 2k and watching the game at the same time. So I'm looking I'm like, okay Vikings about to kick the field goal to go ahead and and seal the deal and all of a sudden I Hear them kicking the field goal, then I look over and I see the Lions running back. I'm like, oh, whoa That's I'm like, how does that happen at all plays? It's crazy. That's why they say it ain't over till it's over But then I heard the commentators talking and they were like all the refs through a flag and I saw the flag with a ref through it and I was like, oh That's tough and with the commentators They weren't even getting excited doing a run back because they knew they knew and that the crowd was going crazy and stuff But not as crazy as they would have been had not had they not seen the ref through the flag on the plate so Well, I felt bad for them on that one because it's like when your team has struggled all game and Trust me the the time when my Ravens went through that this year will probably be when they played the Bears But when your team has struggled literally all game and they finally get a glimpse of hope At the very end of the game and it's like, oh, we can come back. We can come back. We can come back We can do it and then for that hope to get taken away But these are the worst kinds of losses right here These are the worst kinds of losses and then for that to be a division game for your record. What are they six and five now? I believe Still a winning record stealing the NFS. I mean not the NFC north stealing the The wild card hunt the wild card hunt So we're still up for grabs the the wild card because that's what they're fighting for now That's what they're fighting for now Now hopefully next week when they play my Ravens, they don't fight for anything. I want them to take it easy I just I don't want none of that. I don't I don't want I don't want angry lions. We want calm lions We won't relax lions Oh, yes, they rodeo. You're right Like I said that that play that play broke it broke my heart for them.  He is real deal That guy is great Case Keenan we talked about him before oh Feeling is stealing. Okay. Appreciate that QC and congrats on your boys winning me. I know you're happy about that So he I can't pronounce it because the way that it's spelled it looks like filing He just told me it's stealing But yeah, that that dude is real deal. He is real deal. He's nice. Um, yeah, he got it He got a great set of hands That dude he never drops now, but shout out to case Keenan because case Keenan the score the the Vikings walk by seven or whether you're by four There either way, they walk by one score. It was in the fourth quarter and They needed to get a third down to convert and Case Keenan, I think was two it was two third downs on the same drive The first one. Oh That's what it was. It was the play One of the craziest plays of this game where I it gave me even more respect than I already have a case Keenan Was he I think it was it was either second or third down. I think it was a third down though Case Keenan drop back the Lions blitz the Lions cornerback from um, I See Katie is having a bad day. He's upset. He must he must be new here because I'm not used to seeing his name I think he is new here. He got to be so again Let me let me let me do my introduction again for Katie who apparently is new here and apparently is having a bad day Me I'm engraving this this is my YouTube channel engraving vids and if anybody having a bad day Even if you're having a good day or bad day, I appreciate you coming through So I'm a Ravens fan.  You can still subscribe. I don't mind. I don't mind. I love everybody And I got no problem with nobody So I appreciate you coming through if you want to stick around you more than welcome If you don't you you more than welcome to leave to why you're in the jersey though I'm a fan of football So I wear jerseys from every single NFL team Wearing other teams jerseys is not that serious. It's a shirt. That's it Are you somebody that only wears Nike or you don't wear a Deedis? Is that how it is? Is that how you do? if it is That's that's on you me. I literally don't care at all. It's not a big deal But anyway, anyway Um Yes, uh case Kenan it was a play where he had to make I think I'm pretty sure the third down So he that's good for you Katie. He dropped back and the Lions Cornerback, I think T's table from Florida the Florida Gator. He blitzed he blitzed them and It looked like it was gonna be a sack and case Kenan dodged out the way regained his focus and threw the ball to Thelon and It was the first down That was one of the best plays I've ever seen case Kenan making his life That's one of the best plays I've ever seen case Kenan making his life and that played That was part of the plate. That was one of the plays that saved the game Then I think I believe it was on that same drive He completed another pass the one that got reviewed or did it get chopped? No, the one the way they brought the chains out where Stefan digs Oh, he had one last week to QCO. That's what's up, man. So he been making these plays But it was another one where It got reviewed. I'm not I keep saying reviewed but they brought out the chain game They brought out the chain game when Stefan digs stretched out and ended up getting the first stretched out So, okay, apparently Everybody in here. Can everybody just give a quick hi to Katie give him a give him a quick hi Because I think he's having a bad day. He's just trying to rain on Vikings fans raids He's saying if you're not from Minnesota If you're not from somewhere then apparently you can't be a fan of whatever team it is if you're not from where that team is from so He just He's apparently having a bad day because it can everybody just say hi Katie say hi Katie. Let's try to cheer him up Hey, Katie, how you doing buddy? I Hope your day brightens up. We do we we hope your day brightens up But we appreciate you being here. So hi Katie So anyway feel him He I mean I feel him case Keenan He he's great man. He's He is great. He is playing great for the Vikings and I know somebody did in the questions from subscribers They said when do you think Teddy Teddy Bridgewater is gonna come back in and take over? I Say he can't he can't do that right now He can't do it. He can't do it. What's up blockbuster? Appreciate you coming through there. They can't do it. I know a lot of Vikings fans want that guy back But it's not he can't You got you cannot mess that up y'all won seven eight games in a row You can't mess that up. You cannot mess that up if you you go with the guy who it's probably gonna be It started in the future you do that But you take you take out the guy that has been started and has been winning It's not a good formula. You got to go with what's working. You have to but this does make it Depending on how case Keenan plays out for the rest of the season. It makes a lot of this tricky It makes this so tricky reason being Say what if case Keenan? Best case scenario, what if they go to the Super Bowl? Well, or best case scenario for him. What if they um, what if they make the playoffs or they're gonna make the playoffs? And then win a couple of games in the playoffs What if they do either one of the two? What if they do that? What do you do then? You got case Keenan coming back. He says Keenan believe but um, you got case Keenan coming back Make sure y'all leave a like on the video too, but you got case Keenan coming back You got Teddy Bridgewater, and you got Sam Bradford You gave up what a first round traffic percent. Did they sign up to a new deal too? I'm not sure I don't remember. I think they did but I'm not 100% sure on that, but you got case Keenan You got Teddy Bridgewater. You got Sam Bradford What do you do? What do you do? What do you do if case Keenan leads this team into the playoffs and they have success in the playoffs too? Regardless of not whether they win the Super Bowl What do you do? That's such a tricky situation. I've never heard of one You got three starting quarterbacks And like I can't call case Keenan my backup because he ain't a backup no more and he's showing that he can start So I can't call him a backup So you got three starting quarterbacks three Three three starting quarterbacks All guys that are Very similar They they don't have the strongest arms in the world They have a pretty good completion rate, and they don't turn the ball over much So what do you do in that situation? I'm sure the Vikings would love to be in that situation because it would have it would mean that case Keenan Play lights out for the rest of the season and even in the playoffs too. So I'm sure that would be a situation They would love to be So we'll see what happens with it. Anyway Let's go ahead and um get ready for this next game Who's playing next is it is it charges and no reskins play cowboys tonight? Who's the other team? That's who's getting ready to play? It's charge charges and somebody right? I Forgot who the other team is I know reskins and cowboys tonight. I'm looking for it No, it's a charges and giants Or is it giants and reskins tonight? I thought those cowboys reskins tonight I'm lost.  That's what I'm asking y'all. I'm feeling real lazy right now. Oh It is San Diego, but okay It means I can say San Diego vs Dallas QC said charges vs. Giants Seem likes it's some confusion. Okay charges cowboys Oh Mitchell that block kick that was a salad. It was a block kick, but Darius slave was offside. So I had to get called back but Anyway, I'm about to go ahead and get off of here now. I can say I appreciate y'all coming through Thank you. Make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel if you haven't already Turn notifications on if you haven't already and also leave a like on a video if you haven't already too Appreciate y'all for coming through. Thank you, and I'm out


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 Thursday, December 7. We'll get to that date in a minute. Yeah, this is fun. I'm having a blast. This is already my second show today. First one in English, though, just concluded. But now and a bit ago, my first episode of the Iran Brookshow in Hebrew, we went now almost 45 minutes straight in Hebrew. I snuck in a few words in English here and there. I invented, I actually invented a new word in Hebrew. We discovered there was no real word for egalitarianism, so we made one up. And now we have a new word in English. Yes, I also seem to have broken Miroslav's app, but Miroslav has built such a great app that even broken, it's working. It's, you know, I jiggled with it. I figured it out and it's working. It is giving the wrong number on this super chat in terms of the amount raised because it is still carrying over the amount for the previous show. But more managed, I adjusted the goal, so we're in fine shape and that's not going to be a problem. And I'm sure Miroslav will fix the app so it'll work again. So it'll work in the future. I'll be doing these shows every two weeks in Hebrew. My Hebrew was better than I expected it to be. It was better than my wife expected it to be. It was probably better than boys expected it to be. It's only going to get better as we do more of these shows. My Hebrew will get better. Trying to have an impact on a small country like Israel, it's interesting. We'll see what happens. I'll also be visiting Israel at some point in 2024. Maybe we can leverage the show into some bigger following in Israel. So anyway, fun, exciting, and for me, fun, because you know I enjoy doing these shows. It was a little hectic finishing that one, starting this one up. That's a little challenging, but we'll see what we can do in the future. Maybe move this one one hour further in later in the day. And of course, we've got a third show tonight, a third show. So the next show will be tonight at 7 p.m. east coast time and that show will be in English. Unless Don Watkins has learned another language that we both share, which I guess the only other language is because Hebrew. So but that will be me and Don. I'll have Don on the show. We'll be talking about his new book, Effective Egoism. If you haven't yet watched the Effective Altruism show, you should. And if you haven't watched my show on selfishness from Saturday, you should. That'll kind of set you up for the Effective Egoism show that will be on tonight. So there you go. Never going to be, you're on in French. I took, I don't know how many years of French in high school. I remember, what, two words, three words maybe at most. Did I speak English or Hebrew at home as a kid? Originally English, then Hebrew, then English, then English, then Hebrew English, kind of a mixture of the two. So when I was three, I think I went to my parents and said, I don't want to speak English anymore. We live in Israel after all, or whatever I said, right? You said something about it. I don't want to speak, so I refused to speak English. So they tricked me and moved us to the UK where we lived in London where I forgot my Hebrew and learned cockney, which is a kind of English. And I spoke cockney for like two years. And then we came back to Israel and had to relearn my Hebrew. And from that point, I basically spoke English at home and Hebrew outside. But it was kind of a, at home, it was kind of a hybrid English Hebrew. All right. Where are we? I think we're at, OK. So let's get started. Today is December 7th. The 7th-7th is the anniversary of two horrific events now. It's the two-month anniversary of October 7th, which was the Hamas attack on Israel. We've talked a lot about that, so I'm not going to say more about it, but it is exactly two months when that shocking event happened. And as you said, I've talked a lot about it, so we're not going to talk today about Israel Hamas unless you ask about it in the super chat. But today is also Putin's birthday, really? I don't know. Today is the anniversary, of course, of Pearl Harbor. On December 7th, 20, got 20. Jennifer's comments confused me because she says, we were in Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 2011, and it was like, Pearl Harbor happened on 2011. It was just me. So December 7th, 1941, of course, the Japanese navy attacked Pearl Harbor, killed something like 2,400 US servicemen. About half of them died on the battleship USS Arizona, which was sunk within minutes after bomb struck. Its forward magazine ignited more than a million pounds of ammunition, and the boat sunk in about 1,200, over 1,000 Navy soldiers sunk with it. The attack damaged 19 US warships, 300 aircraft, and was just a blow to the US. It was just a stunning blow to the United States. If you really think back at it, Pearl Harbor is probably ranks as the biggest military error, mistake, a nation has ever committed. Japan could have continued dominating Asia, could have continued attacking Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Guinea, Dutch East, whatever. In Guam, the rest, Guam was American, but pretty much everything else, with the exception of the Philippines, and maybe even potentially going to Australia, without ever engaging with the United States. The United States was in the thawes of very much a non-interventionist perspective. It was very much, you know, the United States did not want to enter World War II, at least American people didn't want to debate whether Roosevelt did or not. But clearly, it was an unforced error. I mean, think about it. Literally, they could have dominated Asia. For who knows how long? And continued their murderous, horrific, fascist regime. For who knows how long? Instead, they decided to really awaken a giant. It is very interesting to read about why they decided to attack the United States. Really, it was motivated by the idea that while the United States was very large, had a large population, had an industrial base that was about 20 times bigger than the Japanese, they really did believe that America was rich and fat and spiritually weak. And that it would not engage, that it would fold, that it would not rise up to the challenge. They really believed that. You know, if you think about that, Putin believed that about Ukraine and about the West's support for Ukraine. He might be right, right now. But he believed that, that the West would never support Ukraine and he could take it. There's a sense in which Hamas attacked on October 7th out of the belief that Israel was corrupt and there was a lot of division inside of Israel and it would never rise up to attack it. And they had plenty of reasons to believe that, given Israel's previous responses. Clearly, the Japanese miscalculated. Not only did the United States rise to the challenge, but it crushed the Japanese and launched us into an atomic era by dropping two atomic bombs on Japanese cities. A pretty, and that story is an interesting story, but on December 8th, which is the next day, I mean, this is an interesting phenomena in American history because no American president does this anymore, but on December 8th, Franklin Delano Roosevelt asked Congress for a declaration of war against Japan, declaring war against Japan. Notice that he did not ask for a declaration of war against Germany because his sense was that he didn't have enough votes in Congress to declare war against Germany and that the American people were still against America's intervention in Europe. They had, they still remember the horrors of World War I and the mistake of the United States entering the war in World War I. And in the second biggest historical mistake by a country, four days later, Hitler declared war in the United States. Imagine Hitler not declaring war in the United States. Now, I believe that over time, Roosevelt probably could have convinced the American people that war in Europe was necessary given that we were already at war with Japan. But Hitler preempted him and made the decision easy. It's something Roosevelt wanted anyway. Mary Alene asks, is it true that Roosevelt knew about Pearl Harbor in advance? I mean, I think my answer to that is I don't know. There is some historical evidence that he did. Ein Rahn certainly believed that he did, that he let it happen. So that that would allow him to enter the war. I don't know. I haven't researched it enough. I would have to really dig in to figure that out. But certainly Ein Rahn believed that. And there was some evidence that suggested that is true. But in any case, Japan attacked, Hitler declared war in the U.S. Both sealed their fates by doing that. And the war in Europe would have gone a lot differently if the United States had never entered it. I think ultimately, more Jews would have died, but we probably would have saved ourselves a Cold War because I think the war would have basically crushed and depleted Stalin's Russia. And by the time the U.S. maybe would have had to intervene, both Russia and Germany would have been dramatically weakened and the whole war would have been easier for the United States. And we wouldn't have had to deal with a Cold War Russia. But we could have dealt with a Cold War Russia anyway by just doing what Patton wanted to do, which was kick him out of Eastern Europe, which is what we should have done. We should have never given the Russians Eastern Europe ever. At the end of World War II, we just should have just kept going. And Patton could have done it without many casualties and could have pushed, pushed it forward, all right. Anyway, so yes, today is an important day in American history. It unfortunately will become an important day in Israeli history. Let's hope, let's hope, I think this is hope beyond hope, but let's hope that Israel is as victorious over Hamas as the United States ultimately was over the Japanese. All right, there was a debate yesterday, another Republican debate. I watched bits of it. I couldn't tolerate these things really. Nothing really new, nothing really exciting. I mean, the most important thing about the debates is that Donald Trump continues not to show up and the Republican Party continues not to care. It is, it is really, really, what do you, what would you say? Yeah, I mean, the Republican Party is committed to Trump. It is truly unbelievably disappointing. It is what I kind of expected when I said before the 2020 election that Trump needs to lose in a landslide. Unfortunately, he didn't, he lost by a small margin and he pulled off the brilliant marketing tactic that I did not foresee coming at that level of consistency that it came, which is the clear that he actually won and didn't lose. So he lied, blatantly lied to the American people. Shockingly, a significant number of Republicans believed him. It just proves how mindless the Republican Party is. And yes, yes, yes, the Democratic Party is as well. Just to be clear, Democratic Party is as well. But it's just unbelievable how mindless Republicans are. Republicans have a field that is narrowed now to four candidates beyond Trump, all of whom would be better than Trump, all of whom are younger than Trump, all of whom are more interesting than Trump. And yet, the Republican Party is so blatantly committed to his, I don't know what it is, to his arrogant stupidity, that they will just keep going with him. Haley and DeSantis, and probably Christie, could all beat Biden face to face. I think beat Biden with a larger margin than Trump can. I think that Haley might be able to actually win the popular vote, which would be the first time that the Republicans have done that in, I don't know, how long, maybe since 2004 to 2004, did Bush win the popular vote? Maybe not, maybe it hasn't happened since Reagan. I really think Haley could win the popular vote. But that too doesn't seem to matter to Republicans. All they care about is Trump.  And you can't tell me, oh, it's Trump or Biden. That's the only choice you have. No, the primaries have not happened yet, and you have a choice. You can vote for DeSantis, you can vote for Haley, you could vote for Trump, you can choose. There's a real choice. And both Haley and DeSantis would be better than Trump. Better than Trump, not from my perspective. Better than Trump, from a Republican perspective. They would clearly beat Biden, whereas Trump might beat Biden, but he might not. He might also go to jail. He might also just self destruct. He might also, he is also getting close to 80 years old and his mind is not quite there.  Republicans okay, they're loyal. And this shows the extent to which America, and I'm not saying Trump is a dictator, although we'll see, but it just shows how ready so many people within the Republican Party are ready for a dictator, because this is personality worship. This is what happens in authoritarian regimes. You become enamored with the personality.  It's not about ideas. It's not about policy. It's not about anything. Nobody knows what Trump stands for. Nobody cares. No, the single Republican cares. He hates the left all they care about.  Even if Trump was wronged, move on. Why aren't they moving on? Why aren't they moving on? Because it's a personality worship.  And he's not macho. He's one of the people with the lowest self-esteem I've ever seen. He's a nothing. He really is a nothing. He's got the thinnest skin I've ever seen on anybody. No self-esteem there, no pride, no dignity. He doesn't have even the confidence of self-esteem of a thug.   And Americans are enamored with him. And this is personality worship. Of the worst kind, this suggests that people want somebody just to go in and break stuff. This is Republican nihilism. This is Republican nihilism. Better than Biden. But now it's not the issue of better than Biden. You know, one of the best comments I got on the show in Hebrew was, at least in Hebrew, Scott won't be there to harass, to harass. I think my comment was, I don't know, Scott might learn Hebrew just to show up for my Hebrew show in order to be able to comment and disrupt and harass. He might just learn Hebrew for that. Who knows? He seems pretty motivated. All right, anyway, I just want to say that about the debate. Ron DeSantis did better than he has, probably in any other debate. It still wasn't good enough to differentiate him in any significant way. I think Haley stood her ground. She did fine. This debate won't hurt her. It might help DeSantis a little bit, but not significant enough. He didn't break through enough. It's basically, for second place between Haley and DeSantis, the reality is though, at some point, at some point, they will have to go after Trump. At some point, they will have to challenge Trump. When? When are they gonna do that? After the election? 2028?  I mean, they can go after Christia. They can go after each other, and they can go after, you know, Vivek. It's irrelevant. It makes zero difference. The only peace people person they actually have to go after is Trump. I think the only thing that can explain their behavior is that they are hoping, praying, that Trump drops out somehow, that because he's arrested, because of the lawsuits, because of these things, he's gonna drop out somehow. But when are they actually gonna attack Trump? I mean, Trump has a gazillion things that could be attacked on, and they are silent. They are such weak candidates in that sense.  I mean, I know the strategy. Don't alienate Trump voters. Well, if you don't attract them, you have to attract them by pointing out Trump's deficiencies and why you're better. And they're not doing it. And as long as they don't, I mean, the only person attacking Trump, and he does it well, is Christie. But Christie has nothing else to offer. They do. So, I know Scott should be calling up his candidate, DeSantis, and telling him to start attacking Trump, because otherwise he is toast. They're all toast. The only way they can win is by differentiating and also showing why Trump is not a good candidate.  Because he is, and has been, and he's lost to a Republican huge. The only reason Trump is electable is because Biden is so bad. And senile, at 80 something is old. Anybody pretty much could beat him. Trump will struggle to beat him. But that's only because of Biden is so bad. It's not what I wanna see. It's about winning. Biden and DeSantis and Haley cannot win without attacking Trump. It's just a reality. That maybe they can't win even with attacking Trump. It's possible you cannot attack Trump no matter what. But, but, you know, attack him on COVID. There's a lot you could say about Trump and COVID. He was awful, awful in every respect from burying his head to the sand to advocating for lockdowns to changing his mind all over again. Complete disaster. Attack him on COVID. Maybe he goes to jail and that saves DeSantis and Haley. We will see. We will see. All the attacks are being mild and weak and pretty pathetic. If the Republican party is looking for is a macho fighter, then Haley and DeSantis needs to project machoism. And the only way to project that is by going after him properly, thoroughly, systematically. Of course, DeSantis has the challenge that he locked on Florida too. But, you know, we'll put that aside. All right. We continue to observe. I continue to observe. Really, the real panic that's going on around China and China's economy and the fact that China is imploding internally, not only the real estate market, finance, banking, tech companies, innovation, you know, with exception here and there, you hear something from chip manufacturer here or there or some. Mostly things are becoming going really, really slowly. And, you know, I think this is widespread. I think China will try to stimulate the economy through government. So maybe GDP numbers won't go down quite as much, but the economy in China through and through is really struggling pretty much in every sector. One strong indication of this is the fact that Wall Street, American investors are pulling their money out of China really, really, really fast. Over the last year or so, just under a year in the first 11 months of this year, institutional investors in the United States, these are people like Bridgewater Associates, Reed Dahlio's company, which has always been very positive about China. Private equity firm Carlisle and many, many others have been pulling billions and billions of dollars, 31 billion just this year. If you remember last year, Sequoia, the legendary venture capitalist firm that had a significant number of partners in China and invested huge amounts in China, basically divested, split the China entity into an independent entity and will now the Sequoia US will focus exclusively on US, Western Europe, but non-China investments. 31 billion dollars has moved out of China. Almost no money has been raised for China focused private equity venture capital from US investors. China, which to a large extent grew and succeeded economically because of large capital flows, particularly in the early 2000s and the mid, sorry, in the late 20s, but in the, from 2001 on, but even going back to the 80s because of massive inflows of capital from the West this is what drove, to a large extent, other than the economic freedom that was allowed, it was foreign direct investment that drove much of this boom. It was this capital. That looks like that era, it looks like it's over. It'll be interesting to see what happens in 2024. And look, Wall Street is not pulling their money out of China because of the way that Uggers are being treated. Wall Street is not pulling out of China because of, I don't know, COVID. During 2020-21, they were still investing heavily in China. Wall Street is pulling out of China because of the horrible economy that China has right now. And this is because, really goes back to the financial crisis and the shift in the economic model found the financial crisis on, which became far more dependent on government investment, far more dependent on a kind of a pyramid scheme based on real estate, based on real estate investment locally, and became far more dependent on state-owned enterprises rather than on the private sector. The private sector was, in a sense, sidelined during this period, during the last period since the great financial crisis, there was some momentum still, but certainly over the last five, six years with Xi and power, Xi centralizing power, and then basically crushing the private sector in order to accumulate power in around the governmental center, the state-owned enterprises, and so on. So China is in decline. Chinese don't want to hear that, they don't want to believe it, but it is a fact. Talk about decline. So I don't know if you know this, but the U.S. has this neat kind of program. It's stunning to me that the government gets involved in these nitty-gritty things, but it does. The United States government actually has organizers is involved with an au pair visa program. There's literally a visa program dedicated only for au pairs. I didn't know this. It was started in 1986. Reagan was started by the State Department, and it allows foreigners between the age of 18 and 26, almost all of them women, to move to the U.S. for up to two years to live with a host family and help take care of their children. It's intended to be affordable for Americans, so it's intended to be a program that reduces healthcare costs for Americans. Flexible, daycare, basically. Cheap daycare, and it's also an opportunity for ambitious young people from other countries to come practice the English in most themselves in American culture and spend some time in the U.S. This program has facilitated about 20,000 au pairs every year coming to the U.S. This is crazy. Why not just have a temporary visa program that allows people to hire au pairs from other countries? No, but they might state, they might dis, it has to be a special visa only two years, and it actually specifies how much the host family has to pay the au pair. So right now, host families, and this is on the Wall Street Journal article today, right now host families are required to provide au pairs, lodging, food, and weekly stipend, currently set at a minimum of $195.75 a week for up to 45 hours of work. Now, the Wall Street Journal article says, au pairs and families alike agree that the minimum stipend is too low, so why don't the families just raise it? Why don't the au pairs just demand more? What does too low mean? Too low for whom and for what? What's the market clearing price? What's the price at which families get the au pairs they want? What price is that set at? The government has to determine a minimum price. Anyway, the Biden administration doesn't like this. They don't like it because it turns out that au pairs are earning that this $195.75 a week after lodging and food and so on, is really based off of a $7.5 an hour minimum wage, which is still the federal minimum wage, but the problem is that many, many states have raised the minimum wage dramatically, $15, $16, $20 an hour in some states. And then au pairs come and they, let's say go to California or New York or somewhere like expensive like that, and suddenly they discover that the minimum that they agreed to is not enough for them to live off of. So the United States government is about to raise the minimum. And in some cases, because they're gonna adjust the minimum to the minimum wage in a particular place that the au pairs gonna live, in some cases we're talking about a dramatic increase to something like $700 a week, instead of $195, let's say $200. Like almost three X with no consideration, no consideration for the private decisions of the individuals involved. You can only get a visa under these terms. If you are willing to work for less, they won't give you a visa.  Why not just allow for temporary visas for people who wanna work? All they have to show is they got a job and they can come. And why shouldn't Americans get all the au pairs they want? Why shouldn't they be able to pay whatever they can negotiate? Ooh, they might exploit the au pairs. Really? Is that the problem? That au pairs are gonna be exploited? Well, then au pairs will start talking to one another and no au pairs will come to the US until Americans wake up and stop exploiting au pairs. Not a problem, really, it's not a problem. Why not just let anybody who can work in the US come to the US?  I'm not even sure that's true. I wish I got an au pair. I was too poor when I had kids to have an au pair. Although at $195 a week. I never thought of this, but at $195 a week. Now, I mean, later when they were older, I probably could have afforded it, but certainly when they were born, I couldn't afford it that. That was like expenses for the week. That was everything I spent on a week was maybe was less than $195, so there's no way I could have afforded it when my kids were born. Wow, just the stupidity of immigration policy, which brings me to the next story, which is about unemployment. So unemployment in certain states around the country is starting to tick up, and there was certain fear that unemployment is gonna increase, but what's interesting about unemployment ticking up is that unemployment is ticking up in certain professions. And there is a massive shortage of personnel in other professions. There is right now in the United States a real mismatch between the skills people have and where the jobs are, and we're talking about decently paying jobs. So right now, for example, Wall Street Journal again has a story about New Jersey, which is as the highest unemployment rate, or that unemployment rate is rising the fastest in the country. And where most of the people being fired are white collar employees from finance, real estate, other various pharmaceutical companies, others firing them. And yet, there's a massive, wow, that didn't come out right. There's a massive shortage of, for example, in the same pharmaceutical industry.  Sounds like au pairs. Massive shortage for the leisure and hospitality business, construction all over the country. Americans are losing white collar jobs, but they're not going to take these jobs. And the people who are unemployed right now either don't want a job, well, they don't want a job or they're not qualified for these jobs. So the United States today has this enormous potential for wealth creation, for job creation, for production, for economic growth, for better healthcare, and we're not meeting it.   And maybe then we could build enough houses to actually stabilize our housing markets. Healthcare is a massive shortage of, the highest shortage is in healthcare. We need doctors, nurses, nurses assistance, people to wheel the cuts in the hospitals. We need people to take care of old people. Americans are gonna do that? No, don't have enough doctors because it's socialized medicine. It's not lucrative enough. We don't have enough nurses. It's a difficult job, but there are plenty of doctors, nurses and just people who are willing to help other people, help the elderly, plenty of people around the world who would love to take these jobs. Imagine if we had more doctors in the US, well, healthcare wouldn't cost as much. It would be better. We wouldn't have to wait in lines to get in to see a doctor. I know how about by you guys, but in many states in America today, you want a specialist? Wait, months.  And you're not gonna solve it. A big part, you know why we don't have enough doctors, by the way, one of the reasons is because the American Medical Association basically has restricted, has worked hard, lobbied hard to restrict the number of students accepted into medical schools. Not Obamacare, not any of that, but the very fact is that existing doctors, doctors who already have the job, don't want competition. So they have lobbied and made sure that medical schools are shrinking. Now you could stop that, stop the cronyism, but it's actually easier just to import doctors and break the AMA that way. AMA is the American Medical Association.   Ukraine. Ukraine clearly needs, and I think deserves, given that it's fighting a clear American enemy, American military support. Not in terms of putting troops on the ground, not in terms of going to war, but in terms of sending them equipment so that they can fight for their own freedom, their own liberty, so that we don't have to when Russia, and in bold in Russia invades Poland or Estonia. We haven't given Ukraine 200 billion. I mean, that's a myth, and most of what we've given them is not dollars, most of what we've given them is old equipment we weren't gonna use anyway. So in terms of the cost, it's been really low. Once you take into account the amount of ammunition we sent them that was gonna expire soon anyway that we're gonna dump, the number of just military equipment that we weren't gonna use anyway, and that didn't fit what we needed on the Pacific side, might as well that the Ukrainian used it to go after Russia. So by demonstration, one of the few things that's done right has been support Ukraine, not aggressive enough, not fast enough, not, you know, it's been so, ugh, so slow. But I don't know if Trump would have ever supported Ukraine, probably not. So at least Biden did that. Douglas McGregor with all due respect doesn't know what he's talking about. He's awful. He's been wrong from the beginning and he doesn't know what he's talking about. Anyway, Republicans are holding up the spell to provide support for Ukraine. But Republicans are not gonna vote for it. Not because they don't wanna support Ukraine, they do, most by a big majority of Republicans in the Senate want to. House, I think the majority do, but a minority of magas, Trump supporters don't. But the majority in the Senate and a clear majority in the House would vote for Ukraine aid. But the Republicans have decided to link it with more border security, a bigger wall. What are the relations between the two? Nothing, there is no relation between them. But they wanna score political points at the expense of Ukrainian lives, at the expense of American national security, at the expense of freedom, liberty, who cares? We're gonna get Ukrainian aid at some point. I'm sure at some point the Republicans will vote for it.  They in that sense, they're no better than Democrats.  I mean, imagine if they were doing something, they actually meant something, like, I don't know, cutting them and spending, like they had an opportunity to do last month, or they had an opportunity to do in the past, is to squeeze Biden for more spending cuts. But God forbid they do that because they don't actually believe in spending cuts. Instead, the only thing Republicans are actually willing to go to the mat for is a taller wall, a more barbed wire, I don't know, some mythical protection on our southern border from the invaders from the south.   We really need a political revolution in this country. And what we're gonna get is Donald Trump. That's a revolution. That's the kind of revolution we're gonna get, sadly. Not the kind we actually need, quite the opposite. Oh wow, okay, that was longer than I expected. Okay, let's jump to the super chat. We are $80 short of our goal for one of these shows, which is $250. Please consider asking a $20 question, four of those, and we're done. And don't forget you can also support your one book show. On Patreon, that is amazing. That's a monthly support, so it's knowable in advance. You can also support the show on Subscribestar and on PayPal through your one book show dot com slash support. And, all right, let's jump in. Michael, Mike Dile says, "'Have you already talked about Basil III, "'a capital regulation scheme "'that would allegedly raise borrowing costs "'and decrease access to credit?'' I haven't yet. And Basil is a international regulation that certainly would affect banks in Europe and the United States, and ultimately the idea would be to make this global. I have argued in the past that Basil II, which was the previous version of this, actually significantly contributed to the financial crisis, was a huge mistake, encouraged European banks in particular to buy heavily into mortgage-backed securities, American mortgage securities, because it was treated as if they were risk less. And there's no reason to think that Basil III would be any better. I mean, the reality is that central planners cannot centrally plan. And to anything they pass will ultimately be, you could call it unexpected consequences or you could call it expected consequences but bad consequences. Now, I haven't dug into Basil III in the details, but they do want to increase capital requirements. Now, I understand wanting to increase capital requirements. And higher capital requirements are a good thing and are ultimately the solution to a lot of the instability and finance that we have today. To impose them from the top, to impose them through a regulation is a mistake. Although you could argue of all the regulations they do at banking, this is the least harmful. If they got rid of all the other regulations and instead just impose capital control, capital limits so that banks had enough capital not to go bankrupt, that would help a lot if they got rid of all the other regulations. But to load up banks that are ready, just volumes and volumes of volumes of regulations with also capital regulations that is increases in capital and also the kind of capital. I mean, this is the problem. It's more than just capital. It's a kind of capital. It's really getting into the nitty-goody of how banks are run. It's just a fundamentally wrong and disastrous thing. I think the way that bankers defended themselves the other day in front of Congress is not the right way to defend it because they were saying, oh, we'll have less capital to give the American people. Yeah, but maybe that's a good thing. Maybe there's too much credit out there. Maybe because in a free market, I think banks would have more capital. In a free market, there would be probably less credit than we have today. But the only way to know that and the only way to get to the right capital ratios and the only way to get to the right types of capital, the only way to do that is to let the market determine them. Let banks that overextend themselves go bankrupt. But that requires doing away with all the regulations because the regulations are what drive banks in a bankruptcy today and banks have no choice but to have low capital levels today because of government policy, because of the way the government runs because of the government's regulatory regime, which is too much for me to cover today, but at some point we can talk about. But so what you need to do is unwind the entire regulatory framework and let markets determine capital. All right, Savanas with 50 bucks, thank you, Savanas. Is Vivek lost down a rabbit hole yet? I didn't watch the debate because I was busy. Yeah, I mean, he's gone. I mean, what was the conspiracy yesterday? They was pitching, not during the debate, but right afterwards. God, I forgot, I just read about it. I don't know. It's like he's trying desperately to compete with Trump for the wacky vote, the completely nutty, crazy vote. And to do that, he's willing to embrace some pretty bizarre, ridiculous conspiracy theories. Now, the sad thing about Vivek is he has some really good ideas. He's good because of Alex Epstein, his impact on climate change, but so is the Santas now. The Santas seem to be impacted by Alex. He's good on cutting up at spending. He claims at least, who knows if we'd actually do it. But yeah, Vivek is lost. I mean, I can't remember the conspiracy theory. Anyway, maybe next time I'll figure it out. But yes, he's way down the rabbit hole. He's lost. And all he can do is try to mimic Trump in attacking, personally attacking his rivals. And it's all about personal attacks.  There's not a single politician that doesn't have these deep connections in and is not using those connections. It's not like the Santas has not gotten contributions from the right people. It's not like he, if he left the governorship right now wouldn't be going around giving talks for $300,000 a pop. You know, this is the way American politics is built to expect somebody not to give a talk when they're offered $300,000 or to not accept money from, I don't know, Jamie Diamond towards their pack in order to get reelected is to expect insanity and to expect somebody who can't win. So Vivek is nuts. I think he lost it completely really after the first debate where he got a bump, but then declined dramatically. And since then, he's just seems to embrace more and more and more kind of nutty conspiracy theories, which is too bad because some of the ideas he presents are actually pretty good. All right, here I'm Muroslav, thief in laws. I don't know what that means, languages. Well, for what that's worth, you did say you lived in South Africa for a time, for some time or parents. How much is Afikon is different from Dutch? I have no idea what this means. But the bottom line is I never lived in South Africa. I visited it a few times, I spent some time there, but I never lived in South Africa. My parents were born in South Africa. That's why they speak English at home and that's why we spoke English at home. How different is Afikon is from Dutch? I don't know, I mean it's different, but how much I don't know, I don't know Dutch or Afikon is well enough to be able to tell the difference. Andrew is the MAGA crowd capable of mass violence if Trump's leading Biden or wins and then is put in jail. Are institutions strong enough to shut down political violence in America? Just wondering how bad it could get. I think what you really should be afraid of is not widespread political violence because Trump loses or widespread political violence because Trump goes to jail. I think ultimately that won't happen. I don't think the MAGA crowd is organized enough, committed enough and would engage in that kind of violence. I think the real fear is Trump winning and eroding both the sense and just the very principle of liberty in this country in ways that no president has done in the past. And Trump indicated his intention to do this. He has, and in his first administration, first term, he tried but didn't have the power, didn't have the people around him. He actually surrounded himself the first time with some good people. This time there will be no good people around Trump. That's the scary thing. So last time there were people in foreign policy who really reigned him in, who really, you know, whether it was a Bolton or Kelly or Mathis or all these guys are like, head and shoulders above Trump, they're more knowledgeable, they're more American, they're more pro-American, they're more intelligent, they're smarter, they know more history, they know everything. Trump's like a buffoon has compared to them. So they reigned him in. Nikki Haley, she was at the UN, they were all better than Trump. Even Kushner, Jared Kushner, better than Trump. So we got decent policies. He had a good guy at Energy, the former governor of Texas. He had some good guys in pretty much every department and to shockingly, it turned out that the people he appointed for the Justice Department were independent enough to go tell Trump to take a hike. And that happened early on, I forget his name, the former senator who was one of Trump's biggest supporters and was appointed as the head of the Justice Department and then was fired, resigned, very, very early on in the Trump administration. It turns out even Barr, even though Barr's later, Barr at the end, had more integrity than I expected. I thought Barr was terrible. But when it really came down to Trump undermining basic freedoms in America, Barr drew a line. And this is true. He put into positions people who are good in economics. Jeff Sessions, thank you. Jeff Sessions, who was a senator, one of Trump's biggest supporters. From day one, when Trump started running, Sessions was right there. And then Sessions recused himself over the Russia investigation, over the investigation, and over the Komi investigation. And that was it. Trump was livid that he would recuse himself, which was the appropriate thing to do. And he appointed an independent thing. Now, remember, Sessions was 100% pro-Trump. He didn't let people roll him. He looked at the evidence and thought that it was what was required. He has, again, more integrity than some of you, I guess. And the result was that he got fired. So now let's think about a second Trump administration. Only Trump loyalists. Only people who do exactly what Trump tells him. Indeed, many of the people Trump brings in are more anti-freedom and anti-American than Trump is anti-American. They will push him to his crazy views. They won't moderate him. They will encourage him. Imagine a Justice Department run by a Trump yes man. Will you ever see a fair election again? Imagine a economic team that is committed now, not fight against it, but committed to Trump's 10% tariffs across the board. And industrial planning, telling CEOs what they can and cannot do. Before, his Treasury Secretary, I forget the guy's name, Treasury Secretary fought him. And he had a chief economic advisor. He had several chief economic advisors who all fought him on his instincts for higher taxes and greater central planning. Trump, you all forget, wanted to actually raise the top module income tax rate. Imagine if those people are replaced.  Because after all, China shows a lot of respect to Xi. And that's what Trump wants. I mean, you can't imagine the disaster that we're heading towards. Really can't imagine. Peter Navarro was the only guy who was worse than Trump on trade. So imagine everybody in the administration is a Peter Navarro. But even Peter Navarro was pretty good on COVID. Even Peter Navarro thought Trump was bad on some things. Imagine somebody who never challenges Trump, who never questions alternatives, whatever. Right now, you have lots of alternatives. Right now, you have Nikki Haley, you have DeSantis, you have Christie, there are lots of alternatives right now. So don't tell me what is the alternative. The alternative is any one of these Republicans. Choose, pick. That's what's relevant right now. Afterwards, we can talk about Biden versus Trump. Can't be Trump. Maybe you say it can't be Biden, but then the solution is not to vote. But it cannot be Trump. Trump cannot be an alternative. Given the kind of people he's going to bring into the administration. By the way, the whole Havatich Foundation has restructured itself. Basically, the more traditional conservatives, the more free market conservatives, more American. American values, American history, American founders, conservatives have left. The small libertarians have left. And what you've got left with is Trump conservatives who are not conservatives, not in the traditional sense, who are big government conservatives. That's what you got left at Havatich. They were always dominant at Havatich. And they have geared, the entire administration of Havatich is geared towards, there's an entire massive program at Havatich. I'm not making this up, this is public knowledge. To help Trump's staff, the next administration with people loyal to him. Loyal to him. That was a long answer. All right, Amir Khet, loved your Hebrew show. Disappointed my joke flew over your head. It was in Hebrew. It's hard for me to do jokes in Hebrew. Half the soccer team in Israel are named after the Maccabees. You were just as nuts. Who were just as nuts as the Taliban? Oh, in that sense, yes, they were. They were religious fanatics. Loved hearing, you say, Gaza, Gaza delenpa? I don't get that. Anyway, he liked hearing me speak Hebrew. That's cool. Thanks for joining today. And reminded everybody, I'm doing these shows every two weeks on a Thursday, 10 AM, East Coast time in Hebrew. Please join me. The Godfather, even if a peace deal is reached, should IDF still take out the Hamas and Pij leadership? What about Iranian leadership for sponsoring these organizations or the Hezbollah leadership? Yes, yes, yes, and yes. I mean, you can't reach peace unless the leadership is taken out. You can't reach a peace unless the entire leadership is taken out of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic jihad, maybe even broader than that. Maybe the current leadership of the PLO needs to be taken out. So I don't know what a peace deal. There's no peace deal possible with these people. And there's no peace deal possible with the current leadership of the PLO. The entire leadership of the Palestinian people needs to be taken out. The Palestinian people themselves need to be brought to their knees, need to be shown to them that they have no chance, or they have to believe this, that they have no chance ever to defeat Israel, that they have no chance ever to gain a Palestinian state. They have to completely accept that they have lost. That won't happen until Hezbollah leadership is dead. Not just Hezbollah leadership, the ground troops, the entire infrastructure of Hezbollah, and until the Iranian leadership is replaced. So that's a big task. It's going to be hard for Israel to do it by itself. But that is going to be a requirement. Why? Amy Peacock and Richard Salisman. Wow, there's a combo. Salisman had Richard Salisman on, and they were both hopeful about Mele. Does this presidency have real potential to promote freedom and movements? Freedom movements. Yeah, I mean, I'm disappointed in Amy for having Richard Salisman on. Richard Salisman is a nutcase and is explicitly stated how much he is an enemy of mine, so that is disappointing. But beyond that, an affiliate with the Atlas Society and everything else. I'm disappointed in Amy for having him on. But does Mele's presidency promote freedom movements? Maybe it really depends on how he does. I mean, I am very positive about Mele because Argentina needs somebody like that. I'm hopeful, although I'm not yet 100% convinced, that he will shake things up enough to get Argentina on the right track, that he will create enough cognitive dissonance, economic dissonance, really shrink government enough. I don't know if he's ever going to dollarize. I don't know if he'll ever shut down the central bank. I'm a little suspicious of his appointment to Treasury Secretary, Secretary of the Economy. It is a guy who was a Treasury Secretary under Marquis, and they didn't, Marcy, who didn't do enough. They weren't radical enough. This is the key question. Will Mele stay radical in his governing, not just in his campaign? If he does, it could be a huge boon because he could be successful. Even if he's only partially successful, he could be successful.  But he first has to be successful. And I'm worried. I'm worried because maybe he's doing this strategically and maybe he's smarter than all of us and certainly smarter than me. And maybe this is what you have to do. That is, he's playing to more moderate supporters. That's what he seems to be emphasizing. And to that extent, he's playing to them. I hope he's just doing that for political reasons and doesn't actually compromise them. Doesn't actually compromise them. Andrew, Trump at a town hall the other night was a scary scene. The audience wearing Trump hats, laughing at everything he says, jumping up and standing ovations, cultur personality, yes. That's what we have. We have a cultur personality. And that's how authoritarian regimes get started. And I don't think Trump can pull off authoritarianism. We'll see. But if not Trump, somebody else. But what this indicates is, is America's willingness to engage and facilitate a cultur personality, which is the path, the unmitigated path to authoritarianism. That's where this country's heading. There's no question. Left, right, it's heading towards authoritarianism and both are supporting it. Anybody want to ask me a question about anything the super chat is available? I'm not going to answer your questions. It's just in the chat. You have an urgent burning question. The chat is right here. The super chat is right here. Mary Eileen says, Trump has a personality?  But he has a personality. Larry says, have you located my book, Forks in the Road on Amazon yet? No, I haven't. I really haven't had a chance to even look for it. But it's on my, it's on my list to do. So we're working on it. We'll get there, I promise, Larry. Let's see. Mark. And Mary Benz did confirm that she paid me $500. Mark Thomas says, don't forget PLFP, Communist Life Zone for 80 years. Yeah, to the extent that they have any power today. Yeah, any one of these groups need to be destroyed. Spinemen 3000. Trump's semi-effective against the eco-nonsense. Yes, semi. But again, it comes from Trump. I'm not sure how effective it is in the long run. Biden put us back on track to destroy the auto industry almost immediately, not an alternative. Yeah, if you only want to focus on one industry that's true, I'll go back to the stats I gave you the other day. The United States is producing more oil today, barrels of oil today, under Biden, who's horrible, right, than ever in American history. I'm not saying that to complicate. I'm just saying Biden has also been put in a corner. We had no choice but to, quote, allow the American oil and gas industry to go out there and just produce the huge quantity of oil and gas that we're producing right now. So yeah, I mean, I think neither an alternative. And right now we've got primaries. So neither has to be an alternative. You can go and find somebody better. All right, everybody, thank you. I appreciate the support. I appreciate that we got to our target. Exactly, almost exactly. So that is fantastic. Let's see. We have a show tonight at what was it? 7 PM East Coast time. I'm interviewing Don Watkins. It's going to be a lot of fun. It'll be really interesting. I'm curious. I haven't read his book yet, but I'm waiting for the Kindle version to come out. But I'm excited about the book. I know Don's a great writer. I know he's a great thinker. And an effective egoism, what a great title. So I'm excited about the conversation we're going to have tonight about egoism. So join us, 7 PM. And yeah, I will see you there. Mark, last I saw Angela had emailed you. I haven't seen you applied to Angela, but maybe I missed it. But hopefully we can schedule something. Spine Man 3000 says, go see Godzilla minus one. Well, it's in theaters. Yes, everybody keeps telling me that I will try. My wife won't go with me. So I have to get a night out by myself and go watch it. Or my son is going to be here visiting me later in the month. And he really liked the movie. Maybe we'll want to see it again. And we'll go together. We'll see. But thanks, everybody. Wow, over an hour. I'll see you at 7 PM for the third show of the day.


Some of you might remember that, around about this time last year, I was lucky enough to get to announce every single game that Super Rare was giving a physical release to over the coming next year or so. And as of recently, I have acquired every single game that I myself got to announce was coming to the Switch physically. One through 14, from games like Flame in the Flood, All the Way to Snake Pass, these games that I fell in love with on the eShop, I was actually able to put into my collection physically, which is also why none of these are open. Remember, I review eShop games pretty much for a living at this point. I just like owning them in the collection, that's the whole point. And they actually just reached out to me again and asked, hey, wanna do it one more time? And how was I gonna say no to that? So today I'm announcing another five, six, seven-ish games coming to the Switch. Most of these games, or maybe even all of them, you probably already love and you've been playing as I've reviewed a few of them on the channel already. So whether I've talked about these games already or not, we're gonna take one more look at them today and go through all of the new games that Super Rare are giving physical releases to. Well, let me start by announcing the first game getting a physical release, and that's Rive. Rive is still one of my favorite gaming experiences I have discovered thanks to the Nintendo Switch eShop. It's a twin stick shooter platformer with fast paced, addicting gameplay and great voice acting. You play in this spider vessel, creeping and crawling your way through tunnels, air ducts, and big open rooms, all inside a spaceship you are trying to escape from. There are times when levels of the spaceship flood completely, or you're ejected out in the space, but don't worry, your spider ship can morph and adapt to any situation.  Oh, speaking of, between the platforming death traps lying around every single corner, enemies and boss battles, this game can be extremely challenging. It's a very arcadey feeling game, with the focus being mostly on aim, shoot, and destroy, but it still features some pretty great level design at times with interesting gameplay mechanics. Like these zero gravity bubbles that keep you afloat during the platforming. And as I mentioned earlier, it does have some really fantastic voice acting.  However, his progress is constantly halted by a floating AI robot with nothing better to do than to screw up your day. The dialogue and banter between these two characters are a highlight of the game for me. And I love that at any moment during the conversations, you can decide to just blow up the robot mid-sentence. It not only acts as a way to skip through conversations, but you also start to create your own running joke with the characters if you do it often enough.  With Rive being one of my favorite little gems on the eShop, you can imagine how excited I am that it's finally getting a physical release. And I'm sure that Gary Laserballs is excited as well. He asked about a physical release about a year ago on the Rive announcement trailer and got shut down. But it's finally happening, Gary Laserballs, so I hope you're ready and everyone else is ready to buy Rive physically on the Nintendo Switch. Gary Laserballs. Oh man. So hi, my name is Wood and I recently made a video on YouTube about best $5 games on the Switch. Well, one of those games was Toki Tori, an old-school Game Boy game that received a remaster and was super fun to play. Well, little did I know that I would be standing here just a few weeks later announcing that not only is this game getting a physical release, but it's packaged in with its sequel as well. Toki Tori 1 and 2 are on the way to your game room. So, since I recently reviewed that first game, I'll leave a link down below for you to go check that out for yourself, and right now I'm going to concentrate on the sequel. Toki Tori 2 is still a puzzle platformer just like the first game, but it's a lot more side-scrolling this time around, which actually kind of makes sense. Even though this game was released in 2013 on Wii U, it's still a sequel to a Game Boy game, and I have to imagine if it had gotten this release way back in the day, we probably would have seen it on a system like the Super Nintendo or maybe even the Game Boy Advance, and I bet it would have been a side-scroller then as well. So the sequel's direction here, even for 2013, was spot-on. You have two main abilities you'll be using for most of the adventure, singing and stomping. You sing to attract creatures and enemies towards you, and you stomp to scare them away. And that might seem quite simple, but you can actually do a lot in the game with just these two abilities. And it's not a linear experience either, you can explore the world back to front, front to back as much as you like, completing puzzles and finding collectibles. It's a very chilled out gaming experience. Unlike Rive, you probably won't find yourself in intense boss fights constantly dying and falling back on trial and error gameplay. However, the difficulty in Tokitori 2 starts to ramp up as the puzzles become more challenging, especially in some later levels. Oh, and speaking of Rive, both these games were actually made by the same developer, Two Tribes, so that's how you know that this one is good too. The next game that Super Rare is plucking out of the eShop Digital Space and giving a hard copy physical release to is Dark Side Detective. Finally, another cool point-and-click game gets a physical release on Switch. These are few and far between, so as a fan of the genre, I'll take them where I can get them. All good point-and-clicks need good stories to go with them, and the Dark Side Detective not only has good stories, but spooky ones at that. I mean, the developer's name is Spooky Doorway, so what do you expect? It's gonna be spooky. You play as Detective Frances McQueen, who leads the underfunded Dark Side Division and must investigate evil occurrences in Twin Lake City. And for those playing at home, yes, Twin Lakes is a direct reference to Twin Peaks. As McQueen, you investigate strange going-ons around the city. It doesn't really have one big overarching story, rather it's a bunch of short stories, kinda like picking up six separate creepy Goosebumps books and reading them all at once. Each part is different, but still equally engaging and creepy. It also kinda feeds back into the Twin Peaks reference, with every part being like a short episode of a creepy TV show. Honestly, the creepiest thing about this game might be the artwork hanging up on that wall. What are those things? From ghost to monsters, each case feels quite different, and they're fun to solve, but for me, the real enjoyment came from the writing and the sense of humor with loads of pop culture references. And if you already love the genre, then you should really add this one to your collection. This little guy has been screaming through this whole video.  What is with you today? You're so hyperactive. Alright, go. Go scream some more. I know a lot of you are really gonna love this next one. Earthlock is getting a physical release. I can't ever talk about Earthlock without first giving a little background on how this game came to be. Initially, this game was released in 2016, after which the devs immediately began work on the sequel, Earthlock 2. However, the reviews of their newly released games started coming in as very mixed. The overall opinion seemed to be that people enjoyed the game, but it was lacking in a lot of areas. But the team behind Earthlock, Snow Castle Games, actually agreed with the reviews they were receiving and decided they just couldn't leave their creation like that and immediately began work on fixing and remastering Earthlock. Massively changing the story and adding in tons of new content such as side quests, mini-games, new scenes and characters, better animation, improved cutscenes, huge performance optimization, they even gave the new version of the game out for free to anyone who had already bought the previous version of the game and do I need to go on? This story and any liker will never cease to amaze me. Sometimes it's hard to even accept criticism towards something you have made, no matter what that something is. But to not only accept the issues it may have, but to go back and put in the effort to make it better, to make it something you're truly proud of. It goes to show the level of passion and love Snow Castle Games has for Earthlock. And that passion really shines even brighter in this remastered version which is so much better. The game has been on the Switch's eShop for a while, so if you haven't had a chance to grab it yet or you love it so much you want it physical, now is your chance. It's just one of those games that you know will look great in the collection. The art style and visuals are similar to late 90s RPGs and the term-based combat has you controlling several different characters while switching their stances and using a large array of abilities and attacks. If you're looking for your next RPG fix and you haven't played Earthlock yet, start setting aside some spare cash for when Super Rare releases this game physically. So game number five, if you're not counting TokiTori 1 and 2 as two games, game number five is Wolverblade. But after I've talked about this physical release, there's actually one more, a secret one, a number six which you can pick up today. But before I get to that, let's talk about the amazing beat em up, Wolverblade. I guess that means the beat em up's YouTube channel is actually talking about a beat em up for once. It's like never happens. In Wolverblade, you start by picking one of three characters, each with their own abilities and attributes.  Pack and slash your way through levels, mincing up enemies and smashing on walls of watchtowers. Typically with an intense boss battle to be found at the end of every level. The art style and gameplay actually reminds me of a game called Shank. If anyone remembers that game from the last generation. Speaking of the visuals, they look pretty great to start with, but some of the areas throughout the adventure really caught me by surprise on how great they really looked. The combat's pretty straightforward, there are a few different moves you can pull off to mess up enemy days. But honestly, Wolverblade for me is a back to the basics beat em up. It took me back to the time of playing games like Streets of Rage 2 and Final Fight. And just like those games, Wolverblade is even better when you play it in co-op. Trust me, you're gonna want an ally by your side when all of these enemies start piling up on the screen. It can get overwhelming. Another really great game that I can't wait to get physical. Let's get physical, physical. And the game that Super Rare is giving a physical release to that you can go and buy right now by checking that link in my description is Joe Devers Lone Wolf. Again, this one just released today, so grab it while you still can. I honestly can't believe that I not only managed to squeeze in one Goosebumps book reference into this video, but I'm about to do it again. You know, my favorite Goosebumps books were the Choose Your Own Adventure ones.  So I wish I had found Joe Devers books back in the day. He released a series called Lone Wolf that played the same way as a Reading Choose Your Own Adventure game. Well, I mean, at least now I don't have to read them because I can literally play them in video game form on my Switch. And thanks to Super Rare, I can own it physically as well. So it's all kind of like full circle. The game plays out similar to the books where you read the adventure as normal, making your choices as you go. But when you get to the battle parts, you actually get to play them out in term based RPG combat form. It's a really interesting concept. And in many ways, it really works. Choose between ranged weapons, melee attacks, Kai powers, or defending. And once you've decided the battle, of course, is an over to successfully attack or defend, you need to be fast on the draw with some quick time events. And I actually like this as it adds in an extra challenge to the battles.  It's really interesting to see a Choose Your Own Adventure book come to life. And with Joe Devers brilliant writing, this game also manages to come to life. So if you're a hoarder of games, just like I am, to the point where I won't even open them because I've already played them, you're gonna want to at least bookmark Super Rare games website. You can find a link in the description below. Remember, Joe Devers Lone Wolf just released. And then all the other games I talked about today are getting physical releases through Super Rare at some point in the foreseeable future. Hi guys, if you liked this video or you're new around here, make sure you pay a flip all over that subscribe button as well as hit the like button while you're going down there. Click on top on anything you see on the screen right now because it would really help me out. And sorry if I seem a little tired or out of it in this video. I was kind of up all night hanging out with Boogie at Year Box here in Frisco, Texas. It was kind of a it was kind of a really cool night, but I'm also kind of really tired.