The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Book Show. All right, everybody, welcome to the Iran Book Show on this Tuesday night, Tuesday night second show today. I have to admit, I'm tired. It's 8 p.m. over here in Puerto Rico. I know it's much earlier where you... Oh, well, no, some of you in Europe might be much, much, much later than it is here in Puerto Rico. So it depends on where you are located. So again, welcome to Iran Book Show. Let's see, today we're gonna talk about Thanksgiving, about production, about economic growth, about technology, and the relationship between that relationship and I guess the program to save this country and to save the West, I think the two are, I think they are heavily related. So we will talk about that, at least in terms of buying us time to have a philosophical ideological impact on the world. Let's see. 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What else did I want to say before we get started? Yeah, remember the show sponsored by the Einran Institute. Don't forget to go to Einran.org slash start here. Einran.org slash start here. And there was an event next week about the fountain and I think it's on the 28th. The Institute spends a lot of time and resources and effort to try to get young people to read the fountain head. It is a book. I'd say for young people. Yeah, I mean, it's a book for anybody age, but it has particularly appeal, I think, for young people. Get them young before they're completely corrupted. You should tune in to the event. It's free. You can tune in to the event, but you do have to register and you can register at Einran.org slash start here. URL is right beneath the video in the description. All right, so we're two days away from Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is, is it my favorite holiday? Second of Christmas, maybe? But it's a great holiday. It's a great holiday. It's an American holiday. Einran loved it because it was an American holiday. And what makes it an American holiday is it really is, it's kind of a benevolent, positive celebration of what? What do we celebrate on Thanksgiving? Who are we giving thanks to really at the bottom of this? Do you know the, I've told the story before, but it's a good story. So some of you might have heard this, but there's a movie called Shenandoah with Jimmy Stewart. It's a movie I like a lot and I encourage you to watch it. Anyway, in the movie, James Stewart says grace over dinner and he is very secular, but he promised his wife who died that he would raise his kids with some Christianity, some religion. So they say grace over dinner. So grace goes something like this. This is Jimmy Stewart's grace over dinner. He goes, we tell the earth, we planted the seeds, we watered the plants, we harvested the vegetables, whatever, the corn. Everything that is on this table, everything on this table is a product of our work, of the work. The people around this table have engaged in. Thank you God anyway. It's the best grace ever. Jimmy Stewart does it much better than I just did it. I need to find the clip and show it to you. There's a clip of it on YouTube, you can find it. It's really, really good. Anyway, Thanksgiving is that. Thanksgiving is, it's giving thanks to the producers of the world. It's giving thanks to the bounty that we have. It's giving thanks to our ability to live good lives in this world, to live materially complete lives really with our material needs. Really, we can take care of those material needs. People out there keep producing stuff, right? Keep producing stuff that we all benefit from. Our standard of living is unbelievably high. I think it is a holiday, it is a day, to really remember that and to think about it and to embrace it, right? Take your iPhone out and show it some appreciation, right? Appreciate not just the food on your table and the abundance of it, I assume, and the tastiness of it and appreciate the money, the effort, the challenge of producing that food and bringing it to your table, not just of yourself by producing the money to buy it but all those farmers and supermarkets and grocery stores and logistics engineers who bring it to wherever you might live and make a meal like that possible, right?  Think about all the rest of what our material lives look like. The TV, you're probably watching football on Thanksgiving on, the furniture, the house, that all of our material goods that we have and we cherish and we survive through. Think of the internet, think of all the technology that makes the Iran book show appear in your home pretty much every day. I sometimes take Sundays off and I will be taking Thanksgiving off. But that is amazing, didn't exist not that long ago. It was super expensive to replicate this technology would require gazillions of dollars in the past. And now basically most of this technology certainly the online stuff is all available for free. I use OBS, which is for free. I use Restream, which is free. No, Restream I pay. Anyway, it doesn't cost a lot. I mean, all of it is really truly amazing. And it's something to be appreciated in a sense. Thanksgiving is the one day of the year where you're supposed to, you're not just allowed to but you're supposed to, you're encouraged to. You should be thankful for the material wellbeing that exists in the world around us for your material wellbeing, for your wealth, for your wealth made possible because of your own productivity. And this is fabulous. What an amazing holiday. Where we celebrate material wealth, where we celebrate material comforts, where we celebrate great food and we celebrate great stuff, stuff without some pretense of some guy on a cross dying for our sins with some, you know, deeply out of ourselves meaning and spirits and, I mean, I think it's a very spiritual holiday because if you understand where material goods come from, they come from man's mind. They come from human reason. Then it's definitely a spiritual holiday because it's a holiday that celebrates the ability of man to create, the ability of man to build, the ability of man to use his reason to change the world out there to make it comfortable and amazing for man to live in. It's the anti-environmentalist movie. Anti-environmentalist holiday.  So yeah, it's a very capitalist holiday. It's a holiday that celebrates markets, markets that make it possible for us to access all these goods, to have them produced at prices that we can afford and then for us to be able to go out, reach out and get them, whether it's through Amazon or whether it's going to your local store or whether it's some other way in which you buy and consume and some other marketplace that exists out there. It's a celebration of capitalism, of markets, of free markets in particular. So Thanksgiving is a day to think about the producer, but more importantly, our ability to produce. In a sense, it's a holiday to celebrate production. Ability to produce, change the world around us and create the material wealth, the material stuff that we need in order to maximize the quality of our life on this earth. And it's also, so let's think about this from both a personal and an economic societal, if you will, level. At a personal level, it's a celebration of our own careers, our own productive endeavors, the meaning we get from the work that we do, the meaning we get from producing and creating values. This is the real meaning. This is real purpose in life, not something outside of me, but something I create, I produce, I love. It's a day to celebrate whatever career you have, whatever career you engage in. And maybe this is a time of year to really think it through, is this what I wanna be doing? Is this, am I doing the best that I can? Can I do better? Should I switch career? Should I stay with this career? It's a great time of year, generally between Thanksgiving and Christmas, a great time of year to contemplate and new years, the future, and to rededicate yourself to your purpose, rededicate yourself to your meaning. But the reality is that we get our self-esteem from our work. The reality is we'll spend more time at work than doing pretty much anything else. The reality is that we get more of our joy, our satisfaction, our sense of competence, our sense of efficaciousness in the world, from the work that we do. Thanksgiving is the holiday where we celebrate that, that satisfaction, meaning, career. Indeed, that career is a really essential purpose. The material wealth that we create is, makes all other values possible and makes life possible, makes it possible for us to eat. It makes it possible for us to have the self-esteem, to know that we are, from the knowledge that we are capable of producing what we need to eat. It makes it possible to buy all the stuff that we buy that we need in order to live and in order to thrive and in order to survive. So it is the central purpose. It is what integrates the rest of our lives and it makes possible the rest of our lives.  So at a personal level, production is a manifestation of that meaning, of that career of, you know, the work one does in order to sustain oneself from a material perspective. Economically, of course, production is everything. Production is what drives the world. It's what drives our economy. Now consumption, we're taught by Keynesians and by others, pretty much everybody agrees. Consumption is what drives the economy. Right now the economy is doing great. Why? Because people are consuming. But consumption is an effect. Consumption is not the cause. The cause is always production. In order to consume, one must have something to consume. Something must have been produced. But also in order to consume, one must produce oneself. Otherwise you yourself will have nothing, no money in order to trade for the production of others. So every act of consumption requires at least two acts of production. One on the side of the thing that you're buying rather than the side of you in order to get the money to be able to buy the thing that you're buying. Production is at the heart and at the core of all of economics. It is the essential characteristic in production here. In the broader sense, it doesn't have to be of stuff. It couldn't be of services, of values to human beings. And in that sense, what drives an economy, what drives economic growth, what drives wealth creation is production. There's a sense in which this is supply side economics, Robert says, but you know, I think it's deeper than that. It is economics. Everybody else is faking it. Economics, in my view, is the study of production and trade. But those are the fundamental activities that we engage in in the economy. It's production and trade. Production is what drives us forward. Production is made possible through, again, the use of reason. It requires kind of a view of the future. It requires long-term planning. It requires a certain optimism about the future. A certain confidence that people will want your product, that they will buy it when you produce it sometime in the future, that you are creating real values, not pretend values, something real that people will indeed value. And in that sense, people's attitude towards production, people's attitude towards technology indicate a lot about a state of a culture, indicate a lot about the state of the economy in terms of its long-term prospects. A world in which people poo poo production and the producers view it negatively, I don't know, it's polluting, it's exploitative, or it's not going too far with this technology, I don't know, artificial intelligence, because it'll end the world. We'll all die, so let's not do it. A culture like that will see, ultimately, very slow economic growth. Because people don't value production. They don't value the future. They don't value progress. They're never afraid of it. And therefore, they will do what they can to suppress it. They won't invest the entrepreneurial energy and the entrepreneurial force to make it happen, to make the production happen. And this is very much a state of the world in which we live in today, where these kind of attitudes are bubbling up to the surface or bubbling away from the universities, however you wanna call it. You're seeing it all over the place.  That general attitude is prevalent out there in the world and it is growing. And to a large extent, it is inhibiting. I think investment, it is inhibiting entrepreneurship, it is inhibiting real energy behind what is required in order to grow, create wealth, produce values, not easy, not simple things to do.   America's built on exactly the opposite. America's built on a confidence in the future, on the energy of producers, on a generally positive attitude towards production and producers ultimately we celebrate Thanksgiving, we celebrate the holiday of production. America's built on the idea that technology will make our lives better, that we should produce more, the material goods are good for us. We want more, it's a culture of more. That's good, not bad, it's a culture that says we wanna be rich, all of us. At least that has been the culture in the past. That culture is under attack, it's under attack from universities, it's under attack from the left, it's under attack from the right, under attack from the crazy left that is upset because all this economic production actually creates inequality. But it's also attack from the right who thinks, ooh, a consumerist culture and we've lost God or we lost the spiritual values or we've lost meaning outside of us or whatever because we're too busy consuming and producing and engaged with the material. This has been the conservative attack on capitalism since it's beginning, really. So, to a large extent, you could boil down the battle today for the future of America, to a battle around this idea of producing, of technology, of the future. Is production good? Is economic growth good? Is wealth creation good? And are we committed to a program to build and create? Or are we committed to a program of stagnation? Which so many of our intellectuals and our politicians seem to have embraced. Do we wanna just stagnate? Is this good enough? And do we care more about the temperature of the planet or our fears of technology? Or just our fears of working hard? What do they call them? Did this debate with this conservative, front porch conservatives? God, all I want is to have enough money so I can have a little house with a porch and a rocking chair out front and I can walk in my rocking chair without having to worry about anything. Kind of the unambitious, I ran and talked about the mentality of stagnation. Any, the divine right of stagnation that these people have, the unwillingness to take on any risk, unwillingness to accept any risk, unwillingness to let other people take risk. They just want everything to stay the way it is. Isn't that good enough? And those of us yelling, no, it's not, well, we don't care, we'll regulate the order of existence, we'll control you, we'll tax you, we'll do whatever's necessary to stop you. And that's much of the battle that really is happening in America today. I mean, yes, there's a social, there's a war of all kinds of social issues and there's a war over wars and there's a war over, but at the end of the day, in terms of the future of this country, I think the main war is happening in the boardrooms of America. It's happening in Silicon Valley. It's happening in the industrial facilities of this country. It's happening in the mind of young people trying to decide what they wanna do with their future and whether they wanna be ambitious, whether they choose to be ambitious or whether they've given up on that. And one of the manifestations of this recently, I tell on the positive side, it's something I talked about a little bit with what's his name, Mark Andreessen. Mark Andreessen has really been a voice in the wilderness who rejects the notion of stagnation, rejects the notion of passivity, rejects the notion that this is the best that we can have. A few years ago, he wrote an essay about build, build, build, how America does not build anymore and how we need to start building. We need to start being ambitious and allowing for building, getting rid of the regulations and controls and the environmental certification so we can build, build great things, build big things, build little things, but build, create. And that that was the essence of America, the essence of the entrepreneurial spirit, the creation of values, the creation of wealth. And I think it's right, that is, the essence of the American spirit. That is the essence of Thanksgiving, build, build, build. More recently, Mark Andreessen wrote an essay about techno-optimism, a manifesto, a techno-optimist manifesto. And while it has many flaws in it and it is not grounded in any kind of philosophy, it's not grounded in any kind of fundamental ideas, it embodies the spirit of this country. It embodies the American sense of life. It embodies the producer's sense of life. It embodies the idea that we can make tomorrow so much better than today. The idea that the future can be so much brighter than anything we produce, anything we have in our world today. And I've seen since then people attacking Mark Andreessen as you would expect in our culture. But I also see people supporting him. And people advocating for America, for economic growth, for unleashing the entrepreneurial spirits, for artificial intelligence, because it has, really it has, the potential to revolutionize our economy, to revolutionize production, to revolutionize value creation to make more easier, to make more better, to make the stuff and the services that we produce so much more efficient and to free up so much more of our time to do what we're really good at, which is innovation and ingenuity. It takes, it has the potential to take all of the rot routine things that we do, the boring stuff, the uninteresting stuff, the stuff that does not require reason, has the potential to take all of that off the table and free us up to think, to think and to enjoy, to think and to enjoy and use that thinking to produce values that I don't think we can even imagine today, given how much brainpower will be freed up by AI, how to imagine what that brainpower will actually produce for all of us. I think the conflict right now going on at the open AI board is part of this battle.  Precautionary principle says don't do anything until you're 100% sure no negative outcomes can come from it. If you did that, nothing, no progress, no advancement would ever happen. Well, I think the board of open AI came to conclusion AI is too dangerous and we're moving too fast and that's why we need to shake things up in spite of the billions of dollars that investors have put into this country, into this company for the purpose of speeding up innovation in artificial intelligence. It's a battle for the soul of this country. Do we have confidence in the future? Do we want the future to be better? Do we want to invest in that future? Are we willing to free up the resources and liberate our entrepreneurs to create that future? Are we gonna embrace Thanksgiving? Are we gonna reject it? Are we gonna embrace economic growth? Embrace production, embrace technology, embrace value creation. Are we gonna turn our back on it? And it's a great debate to have. It's a debate that's happening all around us. I also saw there was a article, a talk that won by Katherine Boyle. Not accidentally, also venture capitalist, not accidentally a venture capitalist from Andreessen Horowitz, from Mark Andreessen's firm, talking about a dynamic vision for the future of America. It's called how to win the fight for America. Doomsayers, technophobes and neurotics want to undermine America from the inside. Our dynamic vision must prevail.  American dynamism. A lot of people are offended by this, by the idea of growth, by the idea of dynamism and by the idea of American dynamism. That seems exclusionary. But I think it's exciting. I think these are the kind of initiatives. Technology, optimism as Andreessen launched. American dynamism that somebody like Katherine Boyle has launched. These are the kind of initiatives that will buy us time. They won't save America in the long run. They can't combat the philosophical ideological weight of the left, of the anti-progress, anti-enlightenment. They're not enough to win an intellectual battle. Then they don't have the foundations to defeat them, but they embody the American sense of life. And in embodying the American sense of life, they can buy us time.  But that's gonna take time. In the meantime, this economy better grow because if it starts shrinking, the fascists will take over. The Andreessen's of the world, the Boyle's of the world, and there are thousands of others all over this country. They have to be heavily concentrated in Silicon Valley because that is the dynamism of this economy whether we like it or not. They better be there. That's why it's so good to see Andreessen and Boyle from Silicon Valley. They need to buy us time by building and creating and shaping and molding and expanding this economy and showing that it can still be done and showing that wealth can still be created and showing that life can continue to be improved. They're the ones who do it. I can talk about it. They do it. The great promise of AI must not be suppressed. It must be embraced. They need to radically embrace this and push it forward. I'm not worried about the machine waking up and killing us all. It's bizarre. And neither is Mark Andreessen to his credit. So sure. Is Mark Andreessen a, you know, laissez-faire capitalist advocate? No. Did he sick? The Justice Department on Microsoft 30 years ago? Yes. Is his manifesto unshaky philosophical foundations? Absolutely. In reading Catherine Boyle's article, Speech, is a third of what she said, a quarter of what she said, eh, not exactly right. Absolutely. Absolutely not grounded in the right philosophical premises. Absolutely. But this is the best we have. I'm not talking about the politicians and the intellectuals. They're hopeless. Right, left. They're hopeless. They're not gonna buy us time. Jordan Peterson is not gonna buy us time. Even Ben Shapiro is not gonna buy us time. They're hopeless. At the intellectual front, the two options today are the nihilism of the left, the nihilism of the right, maybe the three options, and just the nothingness of everybody else. We need time to build an actual pro-progress movement that is grounded on true philosophical foundations. But that can only be done by business leaders. That can only be done by entrepreneurs. That can only be done by wealth creators, by people who create those values out there. That can only be done by people like Andreessen and Boyle and others. So I don't know what their politics are of any of the people involved in this techno-optimism. For that matter, and any of the people building today, the amazing AI tools that are going, that are coming down the pipe, I've already seen a few of them, and they're pretty amazing, and they're gonna save us all huge amounts of time. The people who will save this culture in the near to medium term are not gonna be intellectuals. The people who will save this culture in the near to medium term to save it for long enough for the intellectuals to catch up, for the intellectuals to actually save it are the business leaders, are the producers, are the entrepreneurs, are the Silicon Valley types, no matter what their politics are. They'll do it not by spotting politics. They'll do it not by spotting philosophy. They'll do it by having a positive attitude towards the future. They'll do it by embodying that confidence that the world can be changed, and then they do it by going out there and actually changing the world, by creating wealth, by making our lives better, and by showing, showing that economic progress and economic success are possible. So I have always been, and I know I get a lot of flack for this, I've always been pro-businessmen, even the ones that do some cronyism. I don't think they have a choice. I'm pro-businessmen because they're the ones who produce the world in which we live. They're the ones who create the world in which we live. They're the ones who build the stuff that we consume and create the society and the culture in which we live. Business is crucial to shaping young people to the extent that business becomes weak and woken. To that extent, the whole culture deteriorates. To the extent that business is focused on production and creating and building, and it does that, to that extent, we live in a much healthier culture. So I'd say celebrate Thanksgiving by thanking the entrepreneurs, by thanking the builders, by thanking the creators of values, by thanking all those businessmen out there who have made the world and who I hope, who I encourage to continue to make it. Keep pushing, don't give in. Keep trying to change the world. Keep trying to create values. It really is our only hope at this point for a better tomorrow. All right, let's see. We have a bunch of questions. Don't forget, you can add. By asking a question using the super chat, or yeah, using the super chat, you can also support the show with the sticker. We are far goal, but the night is still young, so please feel free to jump in with any questions you might have. And one more thing I wanted to say. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of movies out right now. I mean, there've been a few movies. There was the movie about, what was the video game Tetris, which I thought was quite entertaining and quite good, about kind of technology a little bit. There was the movie about Blackberry. I definitely encourage you to watch the movie on Blackberry. It's not, I don't particularly like the way it's shot, the way it's made. It's got the style of the office, which I hate, but it's really fascinating and really interesting. How these guys did indeed change the world. I don't know if any of you used a Blackberry. I did, I loved my Blackberry. I thought it was amazing. It was like the best technology ever until the iPhone.  And then I told you, I just watched this TV series on Uber, which I found really interesting and entertaining. I think they're doing another season next season as on Facebook. Yeah, there should be more TV shows about business. There should be more TV shows about technology, about startups.  They're so exciting. I'd love to see a TV show, like a multi-episode TV show about the founding of Google and how that all came to being. It certainly beats reading a dried book about Google. I mean, put it into, or even Microsoft, or any, you know, through the antitrust trial, imagine a multi-season show on the history of Microsoft. That would be like super fun. And it would be a celebration of genius, a celebration of ability, a celebration of production. It would be perfect movie for Thanksgiving. All right, Michael asks, does the left not want to destroy wealth but concentrated in big cities where the philosopher kings are? Look at European wealth distribution. Almost all of it is in London, Paris, Berlin, et cetera. Outside of these mega centers, there isn't much. But that's true everywhere. I mean, cities are magnets of wealth. Cities are where wealth are created. Cities are these amazing places. Look at China, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, it's in the cities. Look at the United States. Where's the wealth? You say it's in Texas. No, it's in four cities in Texas. Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin. It's in New York City. It's in three or four places in California. It's not that the left wants to concentrate wealth in big cities. It's the fact that by their very nature, big cities are where wealth gets concentrated. And there's very little outside the cities. You don't travel around rural America. Not much there. Not much wealth, certainly. People are much richer in the cities than they are in rural America. Never mind Europe, never mind anywhere else. No, and cities are amazing because they create these amazing networks. Everything is close and you can connect with people which allows you to share ideas, shape plans, stimulate conversation, challenge one another, hire people, create businesses, be entrepreneurial, find capital, all of that is in the cities. So no, wealth is in the cities because cities are great. Cities are great. That's what facilitates wealth creation. It's the, to a large extent, interaction with other people. And think about the 19th century, where was the wealth created? It was created in Pittsburgh, in Cleveland, in Cincinnati, in Boston, New York. It was created in cities, always. That's where production happens. That's where people are. That's where factories happens. That's where you get the logistics, the talent, the ability to move stuff around. So cities are massive advantage for production and that's why the wealth is concentrated on, not because some effort of the left to do so. The left has nothing to do with this. This is in spite of the effort of the left to redistribute that wealth away, in a sense, from the cities towards people who are poor. Look at America. We tax California and New York and we send the money to Alabama and Mississippi. That is the reality. We take it from the rich and we give it to the poor and the poor are not in the big cities. The majority of the poor are outside of the big cities. All right, Richard. Richard Witt, thanks for Adam Wakeling's Why the Enlightenment Matters. Happy to have shared that. I'm getting the book. Getting this, I also found free online in PDF, the anti-enlightenment tradition. Oh, can you send me a copy of that? Because the anti-enlightenment tradition is an $80 buck, $85 book on Amazon. So if there's a free PDF, please send me the link to that. By Arthur Zev Stearnhill, he seems a controversial figure, no of him. I do not. I'm curious about him. I'm curious about anybody writing about the enlightenment. So yes, I would definitely like to see that book. So send me a link to it. All right, Adam. Thanksgiving equals production, division of labor, capitalism, free trade, meaning of cultures with different innovations for food production and football and a nap. It's a great day. Yeah, absolutely. It's a fantastic day. A lot of, you know, you missed the most important one. Food, you talk about food production, but what about food consumption? Isn't Thanksgiving to a large extent about food consumption? And great food at that. We have, my wife and I have a tradition of spending Thanksgiving in the best restaurants in Puerto Rico. And food is amazing. He does a turkey, God, best turkey I've ever had. So that's where we will be in Thanksgiving. So it's all about the production that ultimately makes the whole point possible. And the point is consumption. It's the point of the holiday. Consumption, it's the point of the holiday. It's to consume the food and appreciate where it comes from, which is the production. All right, Adam says, it baffles me. People don't understand this concept of production. Money is frozen production. Production is wealth. When you prioritize those that demand over those that produce, we all become poorer. Yes, and that, you know, we live in an economy that is clearly focused on consumption, focused on demand, focused on fulfillment of demand, oriented towards that. We live in an economic world that believes, that really believes that society is driven by, or economics is driven by consumption. And to that extent, we regulate, we tax production. We have an income tax, which is a tax on work, on production. We have a corporate tax, which is a tax on production. We have a capital gains tax, which is a tax on investment for the sake of production. We try to control and limit production as much as possible when it is what drives the world.   Produce the goods. Demand, that's easy. I can drop any of you off at a mall and you will go and consume and demand. How to produce, how to make the stuff, how to get it to market, that is unbelievably hard. Requires effort, requires innovation, requires skill, requires thinking, is a real challenge. All right, thank you, Stephen Hopper. Thank you, Nick Bruno. Thank you, Antonio. Let's see who else did a sticker. Thank you, Catherine. Thank you to all of you for doing stickers and getting us, inching us closer to your goal, which is still far away, far, far away. Actually, that's the new one. All right, Rob says, a prominent media personality in my country, this is Australia, I take it, claimed recently the corporate profits are the real driver of inflation. How would you respond? Well, that is a, it's a common belief. It's a belief right now in Canada, the grocery stores in Canada, the supermarkets are being lambasted because their profits supposedly are driving inflation. The same has been true in England and actually Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Warren for a long time during this inflationary period has been touting the idea that inflation is caused by the greed of producers, by profits of producers. I mean, basically this is reversing cause and effect. Profits are the consequence of inflation. They are the consequence of the fact that people, you know, that produces can raise prices because people can pay higher prices because there's more money circulating. That the more money circulating is bidding up the price, but the profits cannot sustain themselves because they don't just bid up the price of the good that you're making, but they also bid up the prices of the things that go into producing the good, including the price of labor. But in the short run, if you think about the short run, prices go up cause there's more money in the economy and consumers are driving the prices up by bidding higher prices for them. Maybe the prices of the inputs going into producing the goods have not yet gone up and maybe the cost of labor has not yet gone up. So for a while profits go up. And then over time, what happens is all that inflation starts manifesting itself, not just in the prices of the final goods, but also in the prices of the inputs and in the prices of wages, which causes profits to shrink and often for companies to lose money. I mean, a lot of these people claim that it's greed that drives inflation, but isn't it true that greed is always there? Did greed just get invented in 2021 and thus we had inflation? Are people not as greedy right now as they were a year ago and that's why inflation's coming down?  Profits are consequence. A consequence of government intervention in the economy, in some cases, excess profits, if you will, excess in quotes, higher profits. A consequence of the misalignment of supply and demand. And businesses always pay for that because ultimately that misalignment will hurt them on the other side in rising costs of inputs and rising costs of labor. And you're seeing that right now. So for a long time, egg prices in the United States was just going through the roof. And everybody in Elizabeth I, everybody said greedy egg manufacturers. And recently, egg prices have been growing down like this. And I haven't seen Elizabeth I come out and say, ooh, isn't it amazing to see those wonderful altruistic egg producers? This is driven by supply and demand. It's driven by the quantity of money that is available. It's driven by the cost of production. And inflation is and always has been basically a monetary phenomena and an expectations phenomena. That is, if I expect inflation in the future, then I raise prices now with expectation that my input prices would rise. I raise them already now. But if the amount of money is stable, then only relative prices change. My price might go up. Other people's price might have to go down because the amount of money is stable. So at the end of the day, it has to be some form of increased demand, increased supply of money that is demand for goods. Supply of money is demand for goods. All right. Chipping away at that goal slowly, but we're getting there. If you wanna support the show, you can do it with a sticker or a question. And you can also do it by supporting the show on a monthly basis on Patreon or SubscribeStar or you're on bookshop.com slash support. And finally, don't forget to subscribe if you're not a subscriber. And don't forget to like the show before you leave. Please, if you like the show, like the show before you leave. Jeff, Jeff, this is his first super chat. How cool is that? Thank you, Jeff. What degrees will hold their value and survive an AI future? Wow, that is hard to really tell. I mean, suddenly AI will require more and more and more highly sophisticated programmers. I think the simple programming AI will do for us. But the very sophisticated programming, including programming AI itself, so computer scientists at a high level will be required. I think any degree, and it's not about degrees, it's really about professions. Any professions that involve interacting with other human beings, communicating effectively with them, being able to provide guidance to them are gonna be fine. Although I do expect to see a lot of AI tutors tutoring our kids, maybe even one-day teachers, but certainly tutors, one-on-one, I think that's gonna come soon. In many respects, it could be far better than human tutors. So, but certainly, I think for now, psychology, psychiatry, a lot of the healthcare professions are still gonna be fine. Some, there'll be just a shrinkage. There'll still be radiologists, but there'll be fewer of them, and they'll be working with AI. While civil engineers who design buildings, you'll probably need a lot less of them, but you'll still need the kind of civil engineer that goes onto the field and makes sure the work is done right. Anything that has to do with the physical reality, observing it, understanding it, is gonna require human interaction, so the actual supervision is gonna require to be human, so construction managers will still be human. I'm trying to think, I still think historians and economists and so on are gonna have to be human at the end of the day. Anything that requires the kind of inductive understanding. Lawyers, but a lot of the legal research will be done by AI. Judges definitely will continue to be human. And then I think there'll be a lot of new professions, I can't imagine what they are, but there'll be a lot of new professions that add. You're not gonna, there's a lot of things like, anyway, so I think that anything that has to do directly with observing understanding reality, which I don't think machines can do, inductive reasoning, which I don't think machines can do, and anything that has to do with human interaction. You will still need people, human beings, whether they are degreed or not. All right, Daniel, what is the relationship between altruism and conspiracy theories? Quoting Atlas Shrugged, each was devouring himself while screaming in terror that some are noble evil was destroying the earth. I mean, look, conspiracy theories fundamentally epistemological, and they're fundamentally a rejection of reason, and reason is a means for knowing the world, and they are a search for simplified explanations of the world, explanations that can explain complex phenomena with something understandable, like somebody's manipulating it, it's the Jews, it's rich people, it's, you know, whatever. So anything is, so it's primarily epistemological, issue, but suddenly altruism plays a role in it, in that altruism prevents us from taking our own life seriously, and therefore prevents us from taking our own reasons seriously, and altruism divorces us from our own identity, from our own world, and from our own values, and therefore we are in this position of searching of what is it, devouring ourselves, of suffering, which causes frustration, which I think leads again to why? Why is this happening? I'm a model, I'm trying to be model, I'm really making an effort to sacrifice for the common good. Why are things not going my way? Well, there must be somebody out there who's got it in for me, somebody out there who's screwing with me, somebody out there, I don't know, the Chinese, the immigrants, the Jews, the elites, they have it in for me and not making it possible for good Christian me to just follow my, to benefit from all my sacrifices. I think that's part of the, quote, logic of it, if you can call it logic. All right, people, we have to pick it up if we're gonna make any kind of goals here. Somebody has to come in with a nice chunk if we're gonna make the goal tonight. But then again, maybe we won't, we will see, but it would be good if we did, all right. Dudo bunny, no man is free who cannot control himself. I don't know what that means, right?  It's, you know, people who can't control themselves can still be free politically. So there's something they can't, they can't be truly pursue their values, not in a meaningful sense, because they can't control their urges, their whims. But they're not being coerced. Force and coercion are not used against them, so in what sense are they not free?  I should be, freedom means, should be able to do whatever you feel like doing. But that's a false concept of freedom. Freedom is something particular and it's limited. Let's see, the Dudo bunny says, enlightenment is loving reality. Yeah, it certainly starts with that, recognizing reality and loving it and building a life around facts and real and never turning your back on reality. Adam, thank you. Adam just came in with $50, really appreciate that. Being a hero of my own life by providing this chunk, I appreciate that.  I think you'll enjoy it. It's highly motivating. It's very positive. I did it in Hauda, Hauda, that's how you pronounce it. In the Netherlands, it got a great reception. It's really good Q and A. A lot of new people to objectivism in the audience and they asked a lot of questions, a lot of challenges. So I encourage you to watch that video.  So thank you, Adam. I assume you watched it already. And I appreciate the support. Liam says, I don't think Millay is possible without Ayn Rand. The absolute sonny has his constant use of objective terms like collective status, parasite. I mean, there's no question he's been influenced by Ayn Rand. He's read Ayn Rand. He quotes Ayn Rand. He knows, he knows of Ayn Rand. You know, religious people are pretty confident and have this, I can have a certain sonny, certainly fascists and communists are very certain and confident in their beliefs. So I wouldn't say it's all about that and it's all about his objectivism. But certainly, yes, the objectivism gives him, even if he doesn't accept the morality, even if he doesn't embrace the morality, it gives him a sense of the kind of moral confidence that is possible because of that morality. And look, objectivism is clearly influenced by people around him, even if it's only partially influenced him. So yeah, I mean, there's no question in my mind that directly and indirectly Ayn Rand made him possible. Whether that's good or not, whether he'll be good or not is to be determined. All right, James asks, more relationships you want, at what point does enjoying the short-term fun, pleasure, enjoyment of getting to know someone, having new experiences end and being aligned of long-term values and getting serious about the relationship begins? I mean, when it ends, right? It really is, I mean, there's no mathematical answer to that, there's no, it depends on the context and it depends on you and on who, I assume, on the other part now, party to this and what that relationship looks like. So you have to, the fun, the pleasure, the enjoyment have to be sustained for long enough and then you have to have a perspective on it that says to you, wow, this is amazing and I see we have this connection and now I can project into the future and I can see us having a future together and at that point, there has to be some attempt and some alignment around that future but only at that point, right? So you can't start out a relationship with, you wanna have kids, right? You start a relationship with the fun, pleasure, enjoyment, seeing what values you share and what values you don't, seeing the effect the other person has on you and the effect you have on the other person and as that matures and as that develops and as you get the sense of, yeah, this is solid and this is something that I can see sustaining itself into the future only then does the question of the future come up. So I don't know, it can be for some people, it can be three months, for other people, it can be six months, for some people, it's two years but it's that point where, yeah, this is really good and this is sustainable and I see it because I understand it, I understand what it is that attracts me to this person I understand what values they have that I think are sustainable over a long run. I can see us being together over the long run. Let's talk about the long run. Let's see if there's alignment and the alignment doesn't have to be complete and it doesn't have to be immediate and it can evolve. People don't know exactly what they want long-term but you don't wanna have that conversation until you have a pretty strong bond and a pretty strong sense of this bond can sustain itself into the future and now let's see if other values are sustainable into the future. Robert says, if you kiss and see fireworks, that's how you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Robert's a romantic. He says then it helps if you do it on 4th of July.  It's no point in raising a long-term until you have a sense. Now I wanna spend a lot of time with him. Now the question is, do we share long-term values and is that spending a lot of time really possible? I don't know if that's helpful, James. My being a relationship coach, it doesn't come naturally to me so I hope I'm providing some value. Jennifer, do you think some people won't let go of privacy of consciousness because it scares them that there's no being out there? Yeah, fear is a big part of why they don't let go of privacy of consciousness. But some extent they don't know they have it. They don't identify it as such. They don't realize it's a problem. And then I think more broadly it's not even, privacy of consciousness is not even about God. It's about your privacy of your consciousness. And I think people have a hard time abandoning it. A lot of time it leads them to be narcissistic, particularly if they're not religious. And abandoning it means you are now, in a sense, behold into reality.   It's never been in your control.  And that's scary. To them it's scary. And a lot of people who have privacy of consciousness bring privacy of consciousness to most of their lives. And to suddenly abandon that. And to actually, my mind, reality, that's it. That's hard. That's scary. Now, to me, the opposite is scary. Oh, there's a consciousness out there dictating what I'm gonna do and penalizing me or not. I can create the world out there that everybody else is doing the same thing. That's a little scary. I like reality. But people who have privacy of consciousness are afraid of reality. And they're afraid and they don't have the self-esteem. Particularly if they've been privacy of consciousness for a while, they don't have the self-esteem to reject it and to stand on their own two feet with their mind. And reality is the only thing, right? That's it, that's it. My mind, reality. That's the only thing that matters. That's, again, that requires confidence and esteem. Liam says, suppose by some miracle, Malay turns a netina into a free market masterpiece. Will anyone copy it? Or will 2000 plus years of Christian altruism drawn it out? I mean, people, it will inspire people. But look, Chile did really well. Became capitalist, became rich, relatively capitalist. Became rich, became the richest country in Latin America. Did anybody try to copy it? Did anybody try to emulate it? No. Now, one difference is that Malay is going into this saying, this is what I'm going to do. This is what I believe in. This is my agenda. Whereas in Chile, it was foisted on the people. So they never, it was never advocated for. It was never explained. It was never an ideal that was pushed. One of the good things about Malay is he really believes in it. He's obviously passionate about it. Obviously, to ridiculous theatrics. But he really believes in it. He explains it. He's passionate about it. He wants it to happen. He has a better chance of influencing a global conversation about it if he is successful. If he is successful. And to the extent that he's successful, right? We'll see what he can get done and how much of it will have an impact. But yes, I think it does have an impact. They're doodle bunny. The only thing you can do about it off of people is not be one of them. Well, you can ignore them. You can avoid them. You can do all kinds of things like that. Frank says, historians are crying over errors in Napoleon film. They always cry over every historical film.  So what? A film is not a history. A film is a film. A film should be judged as a film. As a work of art. As an artist's depiction of reality as he sees it. It's not a work of history. Historians don't matter for this. And they'll never be happy. And historians can't agree on what actually happened in history.  So my view on stuff like that is who cares? Who cares what historians think? Is the good? Is the film interesting? Is the film evocative? Does it present any values? Is there some value to rewatching it? Scott, it's part of the lesson we lay that people want liberty leaders who will stand up to the left without the usual libertarian both side equivocating. Is this a question, Scott? I mean, what's the point of the question?  You want me to say what I will say? No, that's not the lesson I'm going to lay. Not at all. At all. There are lots of lessons I'm going to lay. That is not one of them. There are lots of people out there who are unequivocal anti-left. There's a whole right in the United States that stands for nothing other than they hate the left. Is that good? Is that positive? Is that getting them elected? Is that going to get them winning? It's not. For a minute, it's not because indeed, and of course, you're comparing Argentina to the United States, you're comparing, I mean, he was anti-the conservatives. He ran, it was a three-party race and he ran against a leftist, a conservative, and him, and he was against a conservative. He ran against the conservatives, not with the conservatives. Now, ultimately, the conservatives voted for him because it turned into a two-man race. Yeah, he was anti-establishment. Any free-market person running for president is going to be anti-establishment. The establishment is not free-market, never is. But he went after the conservative party for being conservative, for not being radical, for being part of the establishment, for being corrupt, for being all the right things. But if he had only focused on the left, well, put aside me later, but only focusing on the left, if only the left is a threat, then only focus on the left. I don't know why I buy this, God, you're hopeless. I'm gonna skip that. All right, Papa, is pushing for unions pushing for stagnation? I see a call to go back to when you could get a simple, is pushing for unions pushing for stagnation? I see a call to go back to when we could get a simple union manufacturing job with a high school education and then get promoted because of seniority. Yeah, I mean, clearly, the push for unions is a push for stagnations and sadly, unions have been pushing for stagnation. It doesn't have to be that way. It shouldn't be that way. They should be as interested as anybody in progress. Progress means higher productivity. It means higher wages. It means better jobs. It means better conditions. AI means getting the drudgery out of work. Robots mean getting the drudgery out of work. So yeah, it is unions, unfortunately, have become a big, big, big part of the problem. And if you read, I ran, writing in the 1960s, she's kind of, she's not anti-union and she has a certain respect for the unions. And in a certain way, the unions at that time are less anti-business than many of our politicians because they realize that their livelihood depends on business. And that's union should be pro-progress, pro-production, pro-technology, not anti because their life depends on it. Their livelihood depends on it. Apollo Zeus, thank you. All right, we're almost done with last four questions if you wanna step in, feel free to do so. Adam says, regarding AI, look up theoretical and astrophysicist, Mikio Kaku. He has a vast knowledge in the subject and a very positive pro-human outlook. I think I have looked him up and yeah, I mean, I think I liked what I read from him. So yes, another positive voice and other positive voice on AI. We need them, we need more of them. But should one run in local politics, politics if one has a chance? I mean, it depends, right? Do you want to? Are you gonna get satisfaction out of it? Maybe you have a chance of winning. Can you actually have a chance of impacting anything, of making any changes, of influencing the debate? Are you doing it? What are you doing it for? Will you be able to untangle government? So it depends. If you enjoy it, if you like it, sure, run. If you think you can have an impact and you like it and it's on a sacrifice, then run. So there are a lot of reasons to do it, but it has to be aligned with your values, first and foremost. Richard says, as AI creates more value in supply chains, do you think the US will adopt a value added tax to supplement the income tax? Oh, good question. Quite possible. I mean, I think that would be a good trade-off actually, get rid of the income tax and have a value added tax or better than a value added tax is a sales tax. The problem of value added tax is it's a hidden tax, although a lot of times it's listed as a tax. So yeah, I mean, a value added tax and consumption tax are better than income taxes. So a shift that eliminates income tax and creates a value added tax is better.  And look, income taxes will still be lucrative because the reality is as AI creates more value in the supply chain, it means human beings are being more productive and therefore your income and your job will go up dramatically, right? All right. So yeah, as AI creating value, increased value in the supply chain is super, super beneficial to all of us, both because our wages will go up, the standard of living will go up, prices go down, basically everything else is constant. Standard of living quality of life go up. Mark Thomas says, the quote is from Pythagoras. If I recall, wanna ask if you or anyone here is familiar with the work of Patricia Churchland on philosophy and science, I am not. I am not familiar with Patricia Churchland. Any particular book, any particular thing, I can look it up. Steven, what are your thoughts on what is called a Thanksgiving movie? Plains, Trains, and Automobiles with Steve Martin and John Candy? I mean, it's a super funny movie, so it's very entertaining. It's about trying to get home for that skipping, I think, and I can't remember everything goes wrong on planes, trains, and automobiles, and every plane goes wrong, the train goes wrong, the automobile. So it's a road trip, buddy, well, not buddy, you know, obnoxious human beings to one another movie, but it's super funny, as anything pretty much Steve Martin and John Candy do. Enjoyable, fun, family, kind of movie of everything going to hell, things not working out, and everybody yet getting to Thanksgiving and, yeah. All right, I think we are done. That is all the super chats we have unless somebody wants to come in. Remind everybody, tomorrow we'll have a usual show at either 12 or one o'clock PM East Coast time, Thursday no show, Friday we'll have two shows, one in the morning and one in the evening. Not sure what the topic will be, and then Saturday there'll be a show at two PM East Coast time, so we'll be back on regular schedule. Next week should be regular, I thought I was traveling, but I'm not my debate on, whoa, in Iran has been canceled, which is too bad, because I was looking forward to that. There was a debate with Dennis Kucinich, but it's been canceled. So hopefully, hopefully that we schedule it for some time, but for now it's not happening. And yes, all right, have a great rest of your evening, have a great rest of your week, if I don't talk to you before Thanksgiving, have a fantastic Thanksgiving. I talked about the ceasefire in my morning show today, Edward, and you can always ask a super chat, we're only $250 short of the goal, so you can ask a $250 super chat and we can make the goal and I'll answer the question. And yeah, have a great Thanksgiving. Don't forget, what you're celebrating is production, what you're celebrating are the producers, what you're celebrating is your own career, your own productive work, your own productiveness, the virtue of productiveness. All right, see you tomorrow guys, bye everybody.


From Hollywood, it's time now for Johnny Dallin Good your sergeant said he could locate you in a matter of minutes I have talked with a yes And I ended up getting sucked in the jaw No, she didn't hit me it was a guy who was hiding out in a closet Somehow I doubted look Garcia. It was the man. I came down here to question her about I'm sure of it I know Apparently his death was faked. I think he's here hiding out somewhere in Panama City. You think you can find him Then go to it his name is Ed Morgan, but he may be using another one the charge is embezzlement He's been one of my best friends for years Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-pact expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators truly Johnny dollar From special investigator Johnny dollar location Panama To the home office eternity mutual insurance company Hartford, Connecticut Assignment the confidential matter Expense account continued item 14 $12.85 telegram to Hartford Advising them that the case had turned in a completely new direction I've taken the case with the idea of digging up a man's past A man who had been one of my best friends a Finding out why after a life of complete honesty and loyalty to his company. He had suddenly gone wrong and embezzled $80,000 I found out that part of the why was probably a lovely young widow named Nikki Barrett But I found out more the man we thought did who'd supposedly drowned when his car went off a cliff into the Pacific Ocean was still alive So now it was a matter of finding charges Requesting extradition for Panama and of course capturing the fugitive That I left a captain Garcia for the moment I went to bed when I came down to breakfast the next morning. I still hadn't heard back from Garcia But I did get a return engagement from my little playmate of the night before Good morning, Mrs. Berry I came into town early especially to see you why a deep concern as to whether I survived that sock on the jaw No, no concern really. I imagine you have a pretty tough jaw Do you mind if I sit down if you promise not to double up your fist I Can explain that Johnny with all night to think about it. Yeah, but you can how about some breakfast? I don't really they got a special this morning fried fish and papaya Tastes even worse than it sounds. I'll just have some coffee that we already have Sugar cream just black Thank you. All right, you're on spin it off well I'll admit it was silly to claim.  Of course. It was silly. I know who hit me You don't it was Ed Morgan. He was hiding in the closet in your hotel room. You're wrong Johnny It you don't mind if I call you Johnny, do you I mean you and Ed were such close friends I feel I almost know you you could be wrong Mrs. Barrett I used to think I knew Ed until he met you and Decided to tap the tail for 80 grand All right, call me Johnny if it gives you more confidence in your act. It's not an act Okay, if you didn't hit me and Ed didn't then who was it? Let's Just say it was a friend It wasn't very friendly to me. He misunderstood you coming there He shouldn't have been there himself. He's Well, he's married and not that I knew it though until last night That's not a bad attempt mrs. Barrett at the snow job, but I still don't buy it I'm gonna drink you coffee Johnny Ed was drowned in San Francisco when his car ran off into the ocean.  I did that you don't even smoke but the man who was there last night does and I tore the cigarettes in that peculiar way I picked up the habit from Ed. I just did it absent-mindedly. I guess this gets better as it goes along I'm not lying. It's true. No, I mean this fish and papaya I guess you just have to get used to the mixture please Johnny you're not even touching your coffee if I drink it Will you please listen to me? I am listening to you. I just don't believe you look We all make mistakes Last night you made a guess you thought that was Ed, but you were wrong So why be stubborn about it and cause a lot of unnecessary trouble Let's forget it and be friends. Can't afford it sweetie. I haven't got that kind of money Do you think I sell my friendship? It cost Ed $80,000 of the company's money No, how much of that did you get half of it? No, more than half of it. No, I don't know what you're talking about How much does he have left now? Stop it! Stop saying such things Can't you understand once and for all Ed isn't here nor anywhere else. He's dead No, he isn't But I wish to have anywhere What do you mean? Just that He was your friend that's right. He was my friend When I heard about his accident heard he been killed it hit hard It hurt plenty and I guess it hurt even more when I learned he'd been stealing from the company So I took the job of digging into the mess and trying to find some answers I didn't want the job didn't want any part of it, but I took it anyway Somebody had to do it and he had been my friend once And then I find out he's still alive. So you say the means Now I've got to catch him and take him back to stand trial And that's gonna be even tougher than facing his death and the fact he was a crook If Ed were alive you'd take him back Help send him to prison like any other common criminal. That's what he is isn't he? But he was your friend. Oh skip it. You wouldn't understand. I might if you'd let me try The only thing you're trying to do Mrs. Barrett is to con me into thinking I might possibly be wrong Thinking maybe it was somebody else in your room last night I told you the idea is to throw me off balance just long enough so the two you can make a run for it Nice try only it won't work. So knock it off Ed and I were going to be married Johnny and the shock of his death I said skip it Ed used to talk about you He told me you were this way hard and cold and ruthless and he has no excuse. He knew what to expect I didn't believe it. I didn't think anyone could be a senior. Oh Good morning. I don't believe you've met my Companion I have not been so fortunate senior. This is captain Garcia of the Panama police Mrs. Barrett. Hello. Greatly honored senior might be a good idea to take a careful look at a Garcia You will probably be arresting her in the next day or so as an accomplice to fraud Let us hope such regrettable necessity is not happened. Thank you captain. I'm sure it won't Mr. Dollar has a rather boorish sense of humor. I comprehend Mr. Dollar it is possible. Perhaps that I speak a little with you sure Imagine Mrs. Barrett will be happy to excuse me at this point. That's the la vista senor remember Johnny He was your friend. I Did not wish to mention this matter before the senior. Oh, I think it's better.  So we have looked at this man Ed Morgan. I Gone into the police car with Captain Garcia and we drove out of town and followed the shoreline for about six miles Then we pulled up near a cluster of rickety wars built around the edge of a tiny inlet There were numerous native fishing boats tied against the pilings with no village no shacks or any other sign of a habitation Garcia cut them water and let a cigarette Well, it's a key as Thomas here we are senior here He's hiding out here. Yes, and you're he's live on one of the little fishing boat, which are tied to the wharf The number three one there, which is blue painted. You see yeah, I see it Well place like this will be safer than a hotel You're pretty sure it's him Well, it's Miguel Ronesto who is on the boat say this man come out here one month ago He pay Miguel much money just to live on the boat tie up at shore And he is like you describe senior I think so is him all right I'll go on board and talk to him and I think I'd better go along whatever you wish senior. I wait for you here, okay? Ed Ed Morgan, I know you're here. See you might as well answer Cabin's unlocked come on down for a long time and Yeah, it has Sorry the place is so littered up temporary quarters. You understand sit on Thanks Johnny why did it have to be you? It had to be somebody had sooner or later You should have known that but not you How'd you get out of me? I traced mrs. Barrett down here. I Thought you were dead until last night She wasn't supposed to show here for six months last week here. She was couldn't wait Why did you do it it you wouldn't understand you've always had dames crazy about you without lifting a hand But not me this face always stopped him sure I used to laugh about it, but You just wouldn't understand and this woman was different is that it Nikki fell as hard as I did I didn't know women like her even existed. She's for me all the way. Is she worth the price tag? $80,000 cut it Johnny. It's not that way It's just that Nikki had always lived well, and I had to live that way too in order to be around her I got in further and further and finally I was in too deep to pull out did she know you were stealing from the company Not at first The blame's all mine Johnny not hers You picked your own apples that in call it that and I didn't spend all that money We decided to get out of the country start a new life together. I figured I'd need that much and Nikki agreed to that plan Sure. That's why she's here. She sold out and came on down only she didn't Ed She still has her apartment in San Francisco. You're wrong Johnny. She sold her furniture or clothes The stuff is all there Ed. I saw it. You're lying Johnny. She pulled stakes. She told me Okay, she told you I Guess you know why I'm here. I know why you think you're here Hold it Johnny Don't move Have at this gun on you since you came on board. I know you have But I wonder if you'd really use it don't try to find out and don't tell me I'm in a spot I know that but I'm going on as far as I can and if I have to kill to do it, then I'll kill Maybe I could have stopped him Maybe he wouldn't have fired I don't know and for one reason or another I didn't feel much like finding out I let him go He backed out of the cabin hatch and bolted it on the outside I heard him cross the deck and run along the wharf and I waited for Garcia to call out to challenge him The only sound was a car motor starting up and speeding away Then I heard somebody come running down the wharf Get the door open Garcia Where is he what happened? He take the car senior. He's me to blame. I am not alert before I know it Never mind. Where's the nearest telephone two miles in your two miles? How do we get there with how else and you're we walk? 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Dale, it's the 40th anniversary this year of the WMPG. Tell us a little bit about the history of the station. Well, we have an interesting beginning, Brian. We started as a pirate radio station out of a dorm room in Gorham at the university. The fellow who started this whole thing, Howard Allen. He's still around in Portland. I guess it started with a Mr. Microphone Toy. Broadcasting to the dorm there. And then it moved on to having a turntable set up with those stackable, remember how turntables used to be with a big spindle? And when they'd go to class, they'd just put on a stack of records and then come back and change them in between classes, that kind of thing. Well, it was a pirate radio station. And here's something that really speaks to USM and the kind of community it is when it finally came to the attention of the administrators that there was this pirate radio station, rather than shutting them down. They said, well, if you want to make radio, let's do it right. And they got the license. And WMPG went on the air, legitimate and legal, in 1973. And what's the relationship with the university today? You're on their campus, but are you part of the university? We are. We operate somewhat independently. And that's good because we're a radio station that's devoted to free speech. So nobody tells us what to say or play. But we really work with the university in that we have a lot of students around. There's an audio production course that's taught here. We have work study students and interns. We involve students every way we can. We have one of our rock and roll shows in the afternoons. On Tuesday afternoons, it's called Husky Tunes. And it features a different USM student every week.  And talk about the range of programming that you have on the station. Well, I always say we play everything from folk to death metal and everything in between. And it's true. We're run by volunteers, as you know. And so people who have a passion for a certain kind of music, or we also have a lot of public affairs programming and spoken word, people get to follow their passions here. And they get to share the material, the discussions, the music, the audio drama, the movie reviews that don't get heard on mainstream media. So it's very varied. It's very eclectic, which makes it a little hard for me to actually market it and explain what it is, because it's not a simple answer. We have a few hundred volunteers that help run the station with the staff of three people who actually professionally work here. And it's quite sometimes the chaos, but it's a beautiful kind of chaos. It's a lot of creativity and energy in this place. And the goal is to have the unheard heard, have the underrepresented represented. We have programming in languages other than English. We have a Cambodian show and a couple of Spanish shows. We have a show that's partially in Russian. We have other programming that's not in English to reach out to the communities in our neighborhoods. And really, everyone is invited to come be a part of radio here, much the way it is at community television. And how do you pay for all that? You're in the middle now of the shamelessly named Megathon, so talk about that for a bit. Yeah, well, now that you mentioned it. Yeah, we're here today. We've had a busy morning as you got to see before we could have even a moment to sit down together. Yeah, this is Megathon right now. We run through the 30th of September, and we go on the air and ask our listeners to help pay for this. Now, I always like to remind people that we have to have a Megathon, twice a year at least, not because Dale Robin forgot to do something else. But it's actually part of our design. Our design is to ask our listeners to support it. Because if the community is not engaged in many ways in making radio and in supporting the radio by doing different work around it, but also by donating money, if there's not that community commitment to community radio, then either we're doing it wrong or the community doesn't need it. And as you heard this morning, our phones were ringing off the hook. And that tells us, undoubtedly, that people are listening and hearing something that they can't hear elsewhere. And they're willing to ante up and help us pay those bills. Now, for this drive, we're trying to raise $50,000 to run a radio station that's not that much money, really. And for an area like Southern Maine, it really is a very affordable campaign. And we keep it affordable because we want community radio to be accessible to this community and not to be a financial burden to it. And if people want to send you money or donate or volunteer, how do they contact you? Oh, OK. Well, during Begathon, it's 874-3000, of course, in the 207 area code. If somebody wants to volunteer, we always welcome new faces. And there's on-air, there's off-air ways to get involved. And I would say, oh, just go ahead and call me, 780-4151. That's direct line. To me, I'm Dale Robin Goodman. And I'm the development director, as you know. If there's a great way to learn more about the station to donate, to even listen right online, is our website, WMPG.org. So it's simple and easy to remember. Maine Community Radio. It is. And the community means you. I mean, it means everyone. And we really mean that. Yeah, we really do.


It is now time for members statements the member from York Center. Yes, thank you very much Simple sorry and today I would like to bring a voice from the riding of York simple into this house the first-hand accounts of my constituents are very important to me but they're also growing daily people are telling me how getting by under the policies of this government are becoming more and more difficult more and more constituents are telling me they can't make ends meet scarcity of good jobs the cost of living these are common themes but my constituents say the price of electricity is causing them the most trouble one constituent wrote I tried to conserve energy by using only one light in the house in the evening no lights during the day use cold water to do my laundry during off peak hours seldom use my dishwasher cook meals every other night and microwave leftovers the second night during the winter months I keep my house at 17 degrees Celsius during the night and from 18 to 20 during the day I open all the blinds to let sunlight in during the winter to increase heat and close blinds in the summer to keep heat out my furnaces checked to make sure it's efficient I must keep my house relatively cool and humid in the summer electrical appliances have been replaced I expect that my hydro bill will increase by at least a hundred dollars a month next year that number does not include any increase of hydro rates that hydro one may get permission to add these are repeat real people having these difficulties it's important for us to recognize what we are doing to the people of Ontario Mr. Speaker I'd like to rise today and discuss the passing of Niagara Falls firefighter Tim Ode who died in a line of duty I want to send my condolences to his friends and family who are present at an incredible moving funeral that was held in his honor I'd like to recognize the Niagara Falls Fire Department and the Niagara Falls Professional Fighter Fighters Association for organizing such a moving tribute I'd also like to thank all firefighters and emergency personnel from across the province who made the way to Niagara to pay their respects to brother Hodeye. Tim's passed away from a workplace cancer that he contacted through his years in the line of duty for his community. Tim's passing highlights how far we've come and the need to ensure that injuries that our first responders are vulnerable to be covered but also how much further we need to go especially when it comes to the issue of PTSD for first responders and illness which still isn't covered these brave men and women put their lives on the line to serve our communities and for that they deserve our respect I am always proud to stand in this house and support our local first responders this legislation has made great strides when it comes to workplace illness coverage when it comes to our first responders who put their lives on the line for us we should never stop working at trying to make all workplaces safer and expanding coverage to those affected by work related illness thank you mr. Speaker thank you Thank You Speaker I rise today with a heavy heart to acknowledge the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide which began on April 24th 1915 today on behalf of Cambridge constituents I want to pay homage to those who perished and suffered in the Ottoman Empire 1.5 million Armenians were killed between 1915 and 1923 and many millions more were displaced and affected by the deaths of their families and friends many Armenians immigrated to southern Ontario where they contribute greatly to the diversity and vitality of our communities this past Sunday I was honored to event attendant event in my riding of Cambridge to mark the centennial of this tragedy the event was held at the Cambridge Armenian Community Centre the largest Armenian Centre in southwest region I was pleased to be invited by Cerro Sarmazian from the Armenian National Committee of Southwestern Ontario I was one of five MPs two MPPs including my my colleague across the way and a local city councillor who spoke in memory of the Armenian Armenian genocide people from all around southwestern Ontario and even as far away as Michigan came to share stories of their families and contribute to the healing process when we come together in remembrance of atrocities like the Armenian genocide we take a stand against unspeakable acts of violence so I encourage all my colleagues and all Ontarians to take a moment tomorrow to look back upon the Armenian genocide and remember those who have senselessly suffered thank you thank you thank you thank you it is with great sadness that I stand with the Armenian Canadian community here in the Ontario Legislative Assembly today to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide the systematic deportations and massacres of Armenians from their historic home lands began on the 24th of April 1915 by order of the Ottoman Empire hundreds of Armenian public figures politicians clergymen educators artists were arrested and executed in the capital or sent into exile in the next phase of the genocide Armenian people were taken from their homes and forced to march for hundreds of miles without food and water into the Syrian desert later to be killed the horrendous tragedy took the lives of over one and a half million Armenians on April 24th people of Armenian descent all over the world recall the memorials and memories of Armenian genocide what has what has been called the first genocide of the 20th century this tragic history must never be forgotten and it must never be denied such terrible acts of hatred cannot be tolerated in a democratic society just last week Pope Francis said it was necessary and indeed a duty to remember the Armenians killed for whatever memory fades it means that evil allows wounds to fester concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without damaging it speaker as MPP for Kitchener Conestoga I would like to assert that I stand shoulder to shoulder with our Armenian community as you observe this most solemn occasion thank you Mr. Speaker thank you member statements the member from Windsor West thank you speaker the John McGivney Children Center preschool program in my writing of Windsor West is much too important to lose the preschool program offers a highly specialized setting for children in their early years and teaches families best practices when caring for children with special and in many cases complex needs graduates of the program go on to the John McGivney Children's Center school or attended neighborhood school and all our proud ambassadors of this program in our community program participants benefit from dedicated teachers and the preschool is placed to take advantage of the highly trained staff and state of the art facilities offered at the John McGivney Center this one-of-a-kind program is a jewel of Southwestern Ontario and services family from Windsor to come see Essex and even as far as Leamington it's no wonder that when the program announced it would need to close due to a provincial funding shortfall so many in Windsor and Essex County united to keep the program open whether it was young Gabby Wilkinson who launched a go fund me page Brianne Denneau who quickly started an online petition or all of the concerned parents and community members who dropped off a signed petition at my office it was clear that this program had the overwhelming support of the community it is truly unfortunate that this year's class will be the last to graduate from this outstanding program I hope everyone in this chamber can recognize the value of this program and the need to make up any funding shortfall to ensure that it can continue to service children with special needs and their families across Southwestern Ontario speaker it's a privilege to voice the concerns of my constituents here at Queens Park and on this issue the simple and overwhelming consensus is that the John McGivney Children's Centre is just too important to lose thank you Mr. Davis to know from Scarborough Agent Court thank you Mr. Speaker rise in the house today to recognize Toronto's outgoing chief of police and one of Scarborough's very own Chief Bill Blair. Chief Blair spent his early years in my riding of Scarborough Agent Court where he attended Sir Johnny McDonald Collegiate known thereby many as the football star bleed. Chief Blair's 35-year policing career began as a foot patrol officer in Regent Park he will continue on with assignments in drug enforcement organized crime and major criminal investigations but he never forgot his roots eventually returning to Regent Park as Division 51 Superintendent in 1995. In 1996 I met the young and energetic Superintendent Blair at a Regent Park School event speaking with Councilor Pam McConnell after the event I predicted one day Bill Blair will become Toronto's chief of police clearly he left his impression on me at that time in April 2005 he was appointed as Toronto's ninth chief of police over his 10 years as chief Bill Blair has modernized the police service improved community relations and supporting diversity inclusion within the service and broader community Mr. Speaker and this includes being the first Toronto chief of police to walk in the Pride Parade and increasing the percentage of women and visible minorities employees on the force as we thank Chief Blair for his exceptional dedications we welcome Toronto's 10th chief of police Mark Saunders thank you Mr. Speaker Mr. Speaker last week we remembered the Jewish victims of the Holocaust on Yom Hashawa yesterday we remembered those who died to recreate the Jewish homeland on Yom Hazika run today we celebrate the reestablishment of the Jewish state the creation of the state of Israel it's young hats mode my maternal grandparents traveled to the British territory of Palestine in the early 1930s with groups of their friends from Hushmar Hatzir a Zionist youth organization to establish one of the early Kibbutz cooperatives by planting trees building homes and having children of their own these pioneers helped Israel grow into the flourishing land and democracy that we know today we all bear witness to the result Israel is the only true democracy in the Middle East there are Arab members of parliament women in the army and those of any sexual orientation are celebrated it's these values that Canadians and Israelis share and these shared values that enable the unique relationship between our two great countries it's for all of these reasons that we've come together to celebrate Israel today and why we must remain vigilant for the anti-Semitism and persecution that continues to persist regretfully Al Kudze has been celebrated for several years on the grounds of the provincial legislature the very institution that acts to protect the rights and dignity of each and every single ontarian mr. Speaker it is your duty to ensure that a gathering of such a reprehensible nature will not be permitted near our institution I'm Israel hi statements by members the member from thank you mr. Speaker mr. Speaker I'm pleased to rise today to talk about a very special event in my writing of halton an event in which three chambers of commerce came together and showcased halton's economic strength it was also a perfect introduction to the innovative leaders we have working in our business community the luncheon began with a speech from the premier our guest of honor and the event was hosted by the Milton Oakville and Burlington chambers of commerce our bit together these chambers represent nearly 3,000 businesses throughout halton they foster innovation attract new investments and encourage the talent creativity and dedication of halton's business community to create new economic opportunities and keep our region at the forefront of economic growth I commend the chambers on their ability to collaborate and closely work together and put on a successful event following the event we had an opportunity to engage with leaders of the local business community leaders like Damian and Kevin longtime friends who founded orange snail brewery Milton's first craft brewery these two young gentlemen perfectly represent the talented motivated and innovative individuals who are creating jobs supporting their local communities and helping to grow ontario's economy these are exactly the kinds of businesses and the kinds of business owners that our government is committed to supporting because when they succeed ontario succeeds the day ended in Burlington at the Canadian Croatian Chamber of Commerce business awards speaker the entire day was a wonderful reminder of the strength and diversity of halton's economic climate thank you thank you for their members statements the member from Burlington thank you mr. Speaker I rise in the house today to acknowledge and congratulate the next ice synchronized skating club based out of the Burlington skating club in my riding this winter I had the privilege to watch the next ice novice team in action as they performed at my first annual family day fun skate at mainway arena their team motto connected in the pursuit of excellence is fitting if you've ever watched them glide across the ice in unison they are the personification of grace and athleticism on April 10th and 11th the next size senior team competed against 25 teams from 20 different countries at the ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships in Hamilton led by coach Shelly Burnett and choreographer and shelter for the first time in six years on home ice on national television next size to comb the first gold for Canada since 2009 so exciting the event marked the largest crowd ever for the Synchro World Championships with over 7,000 fans and attendance each team is comprised of 16 skaters and they must perform two programs and fulfill several program and technical components making for a very entertaining event next size produced two perfect skates skating to mud by the road hammers in the short next size got the hometown crowd going performing to Gershwin's Rhapsody and Blue in the free program they skated with beautifully executed executed lifts and clean lines from start to finish lending them in first place as the new world champs I speak on behalf of everyone in attendance when I say that this team and their coaches have worked so hard to get where they are today and I congratulate each and every one of them on their recent gold medal at the ISU World Championships go next size go thank you


Your Excellency, Paul Kagame, the President of Rwanda, Madam Secretary General Doreen, my sister and friend, Administrator Akim Steiner of UNDP, and I often call him my partner in crime on the ground where we try to keep the promise of the SDGs. Excellencies friends, ladies and gentlemen, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development we've heard in the last two days it's off target, it's in peril. The first time in decades development progress is reversing under the combined impact of interconnected crises, be they climate, conflict, economic downturns, debt distress, and the lingering effects of COVID-19 pandemic with developing countries most hardly hit. And if the trend persists by 2030, a staggering 575 million people will remain trapped in extreme poverty and 84 million children will be out of school. At the midpoint of winning or losing humanity's most important race, the SDG summit is a vital opportunity to move from rhetoric to action, to build on the successes that they have been in spite of all the crisis, in spite of our 15% of the targets being met, there still is some good news. The glass is some full and so we need to take the rest of it to full at 2030. Friends, we are convinced that we can still turn things around. Today we start the second moment of the SDG action weekend. Today we focus on acceleration, our compass for the next seven years. If we really want to rescue that promise made to billions of people. Strong political will, and we just heard that from a great leader of ours on the African continent, Paul Kagame, resources, solidarity and knowledge can enable breakthroughs to a better future. Digital technologies can be at the heart of this acceleration. They are key drivers to put the SDGs back on track. We know that internet connectivity, especially in rural and developing areas, can rapidly accelerate economic growth, inclusive economic growth. We know that artificial intelligence can be used to track, manage and even predict public health crises. And we know that the cost of renewable energy is dropping rapidly, and that digital technologies can provide benefits for climate, power, system resilience, especially in our developing countries. We know that women and girls are underrepresented in scientific fields. There is massive untapped capacity there that can be leveraged to make the next digital breakthrough in health, science and technology. Digital technologies when used safely and responsibly can be the catalyst of economic, social and societal transformations of real and deep transformations by creating the efficiencies at scale and expanding the reach of existing solutions to support many more people. From universal internet connectivity and infrastructure, building digital innovation, abilities and skills to unlocking the promise of digital public services as in health, education, capacity building and social protection, but also with impact on key sectors such as climate, energy and food systems. And that really is what this session is all about. I'd like to commend Doreen and Akim for setting an example of leadership and partnership collaborations across many countries, across many agencies and sectors. Initiatives from both organizations and other UN entities are bringing a wide range of partners around accelerating internet connectivity, leveraging data and building digital literacy so important in our developing countries around the world. Their work is helping to get us back on track. I'm also pleased to announce the launch of the joint STG's fund new window on digital transformations. The STG fund is the UN flagship financing mechanism for trying to catalyze STG acceleration at the country level. Leveraging the convening and the integrating power of the UN resident coordinators and our country teams, we will be able to support governments towards a digital transition, act as a convener and facilitator in building critical partnerships and strengthening these ecosystems with the private sector and civil society. Thanks to the support and the leadership of the European Union as its first funder, this digital window will provide catalytic funds needed to trigger countries on their digital transformation journeys. However, we know that we need more resources so that we can raise the ambition, the scale, and play to the urgency that is needed today. Ladies and gentlemen, in this upcoming year leading to the summit of the future, it's essential that we develop a joint vision of digital transformation. The global digital compact put forward by our common agenda does set out principles, objectives and actions to advance an open, free, secure and a people-centered digital future. These are public goods that should be anchored in universal human rights and the STGs.  Together, let's explore ways to unlock the power of the digital world and accelerate the progress that we need to see with the STGs. Let us continue to fight to win the promise of the STGs in the second half and by 2030. Thank you.