Morning guys, okay, so, wow. Every time I look at that fan, I'm like, why is that there? We're just gonna have to deal. Anyways, I'm happy, I don't even know. Thursday, my new thing in the morning, this has really been changing the game for me, is okay, also the fact that my hands are so pale compared to my body, let's just forget that. I wake up and I immediately put on my workout clothes and then I go read and I typically will immediately workout after that or if I have to do a few work things, I'll do a few work things and then I'll workout. And then after that I shower and get ready for the day. I'll talk a little bit later today because I couldn't fall asleep last night guys. I feel like we're all having sleeping problems but I couldn't fall asleep and instead of like taking something or whatever I ended up just working on the I.L.B. so much Instagram because I'm so tired of it looking like trash. So I fixed that, anyways, I've been reading. Again, I'm reading the ruthless elimination of hurry. It's so good, I did my normal like, debone and stuff too. Today actually a new podcast episode went up so for those of you guys who are like wanting more faith content and like, or you just like want anything that's encouraging and like life is really hard right now and things are just like really, you know, life is just really confusing and overwhelming right now. Listen to that episode, it's really encouraging. Regardless of what you believe or anything like that, like it's not pushy or anything like that at all, I promise. So I'm gonna do my Melissa Wood health workout. I've been really, really liking it. I'm gonna have that podcast linked down below. I would love if you guys went and listened to it but yeah, I'm putting this stuff up. I normally read in my office but I just really wanted to come downstairs today. I don't really know why. But it is, I'm gonna do my Melissa Wood health workout. Like I was saying, it's actually amazing and I've really been loving them. A lot of you guys have been doing them as well. I really wanna get her on the podcast actually. I think I'm gonna like reach out today. I did some podcast outreach. I think I'm gonna maybe record remotely. I don't know, we will see guys. That is it, I'm gonna workout really quick and then after that I'm gonna shower. Get ready for the day. I'm excited because I'm gonna try out my new drunk elephant haircare stuff. I showed you guys in the last vlog and I'm really excited. I also need to edit that vlog. Here we are. I feel bad vlogging right now because like my vlogs are just literally the same thing every single day pretty much or they're just really boring and I'm not doing anything. So I'm really sorry but I don't know. Let me know what you guys want. All right guys, ignore my bun. Like literally why is that? I just finished my workout and it was so good.  But also it's a really good workout. I don't know how to describe it. Anyways, I'm gonna go upstairs. It's literally like already noon. I'm gonna shower. I think I'm gonna take Coco on a walk. Then I'm gonna get ready and then I'm gonna get some stuff done today. Also, I got this stuff. I did a live stream or a live stream. I did an IG live with Quinton yesterday and all of you guys are telling us to make the TikTok coffee. So I ended up getting the stuff for TikTok coffee because we had to run to CVS and they had it there. So I'm gonna make that today. Really trendy hip. I'm gonna be honest though, making TikToks is a lot harder than it seems. Because still I'm like, don't have the hang of it. I have a profile. I have TikToks but I feel like it could do a lot better. So I'm working on it. All right guys, so this is my outfit for today that I just laid out. I'm so sorry for putting these on the thing. I was just taking a photo. Okay, anyways, I just have this cute little misguided pink set I got recently. They have the best sweats I literally got. And a few vlogs ago, you guys saw 11 items for $100 with four pairs of really great quality so that's like, I couldn't believe it. So if you guys wanna go back to that, you can watch that haul and see if you guys wanna shop anything because it's literally so freaking cute. I want more but yeah, I just love these. So I'm gonna go shower and then I'll talk to you guys after. All right guys, I'm out of the shower. I'm wearing my misguided set. Super cute at my slippers. I'm actually going to throw on a jacket and then take Coco on a little walk, put some air pods in, listen to a podcast. But honestly, I'm feeling really good. Normally when I sleep in, I'm really anxious because I'm like, oh, I have to do this. I have to do this, whatever. The Ritha Salination of Harry is really helping me. Not that it makes you lazy by any means but I think it's just helping my anxiety. So guys, I literally feel like Paris Holt Center or something. Like I have my Uggs on, of course. Misguided set and then I just throw on my favorite pretty mobile jacket. So we're gonna go to walk. Coco gets so excited to try and put on my Uggs because she knows that we're going on a walk. So she just jumped up, currently listening to, okay, sis. Mood, of course. Oh, that was my air pod. All right guys, so, oh, I don't even think I showed you guys this. So I do have my little side tables. I'm not obsessed with these. These are really less for look and more for functionality because my chair is supposed to come next week and then that's where I'm gonna do like my morning reading and everything and it's gonna be like really cute. So anyways, I got this just to have like my coffee, I want my breakfast, like my Bible books, all that stuff. So anyways, I'm going to edit yesterday's vlog and get that all of good to go and actually just send out the newsletter. Guys, seriously, I think one, it's a combination of I always end up vlogging the same days. Like, so like, I've been vlogging Thursdays I guess so I'm not working in the newsletter or whatever. But I'm so sorry that these vlogs are all literally the same. I just like don't know what to say. I just like don't know what to do about it. Like, do you guys hate them? Are they really boring? I don't know. So anyways, I'm gonna import some footage, finish the mailing list. What finished the mailing list? So I'm gonna finish the newsletter. I've really been loving these. If you guys haven't joined the mailing list, you guys are really should. I think you would like them if you watch these videos. It's just like a fun little email to get every week. But the nice quote, it's like a nice little inspo thing. But also if you haven't listened to the episode, the other switch episode, please go listen. You guys will love it. All right, so I finished editing that video and it's actually pre uploaded now. I don't even have it up anymore. So all of that is good to go. Still haven't done the newsletter but I'm gonna take a break for a second and then come back to that. Just had some lunch and we are actually about to read but before I do that, I'm gonna make the whipped coffee that everyone has been talking about on TikTok. I'll probably make a TikTok of this. Just not the first time because what if I make it horribly, you know? So we have sugar, instant coffee. This is exactly the one that everyone uses. Hot water and then milk. But honestly the thing about this is that I just always have problems with this oat milk like oat beverage in coffee. So hopefully it works out. We'll see how good this is. If I, I mean it looks good on TikTok but I'm just like worried for myself, you know? It's also very important to note that I don't have a whisk or measuring spoons. So I'm gonna use this big spoon because this is typically one tablespoon. So you need two tablespoons, instant coffee, hot water and sugar, actually let me triple check. I also don't have ice, so it's fine. Guys, we're fine but anyways, you need two tablespoons, sugar, hot water and instant coffee. So I'm gonna start off with the instant coffee. Okay, I hope that this is actually, I mean this spoon is very large but I hope that this is actually what we need. Two, okay. Now I have hot water in here that I'm just gonna somehow, I guess I'll just do that, okay? All right, I don't have a whisk so I'm just gonna quickly whisk this together with a fork, a BRB. All right guys, so I just fake whisk that together for quite some time. Definitely will be easier with one of those mini frothers. I'm gonna get one, I think, off Amazon. But here we go. This just took a little bit of time, honestly I have no idea, but you just keep whisking, you think it's never gonna happen and then it does. So I also don't have ice, which is really unfortunate, but I'm gonna put in some oat milk. I thought that's kind of a lot, but it's okay. Here's the oat milk, here's the true test guys. I just mix it all together. Here's the thing, it's a very sugary drink obviously and I don't really normally drink sugary drinks. It's pretty good, I'm getting the milk for after I just ordered it on Amazon because it would make it better and then I'll try it again with that. It is definitely good. I just like am normally used to drinking black coffee. I just wanted it to be trendy though, you know? All right guys, here is the newsletter and we'll have to send it out. If you guys want, you guys can join the mailing list which is always linked down below. Guys, Clinton just, he's so cute. He just made dinner, Don and Vinnie style. Oh my gosh, this is so cute.  Maybe. Maybe? Wow. If you guys don't know, John and Vinnie is like one of our favorite. It's probably, I mean, that in honor of our our two favorite restaurants. It's an LA but it's kind of like family style so you just pick what you want but that's so pretty everyone. I look so crazy with this lip color but it's the only like traps I got out of my room. My hair is still in a braid. I just woke up, I'm in workout clothes of course. It's like 8.30, I'm gonna go downstairs and honestly I'm gonna read briefly but like for some, oh my gosh you guys, okay.  So then I started doing so much of the Excel stuff and then I'm like wait, I'm like really feeling good about this because I know what I'm doing so I'm in the middle of like an assignment. Anyways, I'm just kind of on like a school role and I have a lot of homework to do and I'm kind of actually feeling like doing it.  I mean we need to go go show me tonight like literally don't have any food. So that's gonna be that. I need to capitalize off of like being in the mood to go do a school. Also I just posted a new vlog, yeah. Hope you guys enjoyed and haven't enjoyed the vlogs. Let me know if you guys like more tweak, what? Let me know if you guys, but if you guys like daily vlogs and more frequently or vlogs like every few days of a few days. You know what I'm saying? Guys, it is 10.14 still doing this. I only have a few questions left just for Excel. I think I need to write a paper today and yeah, but honestly I'm really glad that I'm getting this out of the way.  All right guys, so I've actually been an adult this morning and I opened up like new savings accounts and stuff and was just doing some finance stuff because I mentioned I'm working with the financial advisor and yeah, but it's currently April 3rd. Dallas just extended the stay at home thing until May 28th. So I literally just wanna cry honestly. I know obviously staying at home is like the safest. Like we have the easiest job, hot as hell but like still it's just the fact that this is like so scary and it's been extended that long is just like really terrifying.  So yeah. Hi guys, so it is now Saturday. Okay, so I stopped vlogging yesterday after we talked. Honestly I ended up just getting like kind of bad news and then I was like not in the mood and then I got out of it and then I went grocery shopping, came back, watched Nashville, season five guys. Okay, so if you've watched Nashville I will be done with this series. I promise it in the next week so I'll stop talking about it hopefully. Oh my gosh, I got to season five, the really, really heartbreaking part and I literally cried for like two hours in bed while I was watching Nashville and then I faced my friend Val because we had like a FaceTime date and we talked for three hours and it literally made me feel so, so, so, so much better. I cannot even describe how much better I feel. You know those friends that you won't like talk to and hang out with and you always leave feeling like you can take on the world? That's about for me but the FaceTime in particular I think was just like one of our best chats. So anyways, that kind of inspired me to sit down and chat with you guys really quick before I end off this vlog. I know it was shorter than normal. Let me know what you guys think if you guys like shorter or longer vlogs or whatever but I know right now on the internet a lot of people are like this is the time to buckle down and like start this project and start this project and blah, blah, blah and then you know when I kind of first went to quarantine I'm like I'm gonna say so routine I'm gonna work I'm gonna get all this stuff done that I wanted to do for forever this is finally time I have the time and blah, blah, blah and like I think what we also forget is like we have so like like we have ample amount of time because we literally are not leaving our houses at all so that's one thing but too I think it ended up with me personally just speaking personally that I ended up like being really hard on myself I'm like why am I feeling this way why am I not productive and it's like obviously we are literally in a global pandemic like none of us have seen any of this I keep like waiting for my parents to give me advice and like they can't give me advice because they've never seen this either and so it's just like a really, really weird time and I think it's really easy to put pressure on ourselves to perform a certain way or to get a certain amount of things done and I will say like I'm sure there are gonna be huge companies and huge like amazing ideas and innovation all the stuff coming from this time 100% what I mean is that like that is not always meant especially when I moved back to Texas I had like a great childhood but there was definitely a lot of like really heavy things that happened to me and so I felt like I had dealt with them like I went to therapy a ton I did all of these things I, you know I grew up in my faith love the faith like I did so many things and I was like oh I've definitely like dealt with this and then I moved back and I, you know certain things started coming back up and I wanna talk about this because I know a lot of you guys are in college and you guys are now back living home and I know just by the nature or just in general a lot of people who are staying at home by the nature I think of going back home it brings up a lot of things and so when I moved back here there was a lot of things that I thought that I had like fully dealt with that maybe were kind of rising back to the surface and then I on top of that since I'm such a like overachiever and I'm so pro therapy and I'm so pro all these things I kind of felt like I was a failure because I was like, okay I'm literally preaching on the internet to like go take care of yourself and then I come back and like I'm dealing with all these problems that like I thought I had dealt with and I think that there's different levels and phases to heal and I don't think I'm actually a failure I think that you deal with certain things as a child and then when you become an adult I think certain things hit you a little bit different and then you have to deal with them and heal in like a different way so I think personally for me obviously I love routines I love being productive I love work I love what I do so like that's not something I'm not gonna be doing but I'm not gonna try to be this like extra crazy productive person that I thought I was gonna be going into this and that I think is like a lot of social media and I think again like not attacking those who are doing that like I don't mean that at all but I also I know there's a lot of us who actually just need this time to just be and to heal and to take care of ourselves and to figure things out if you're just like doing bare minimum every single day like congrats you're still making it through like this is a really weird time we don't know what's going on and I just think that there's no need to put all this added pressure on yourself and I was personally putting all this added pressure on myself of like I need to do this I need to do this and then when I really sat down I was like you know this is literally probably this is the one time in history where like I you can't like there isn't FOMO you know like you win you know when you're like oh I wish I just had time to deal with this and like be by myself and like I'm not missing out on things it's like we actually have that time right now like there's literally no FOMO like there's nothing else we can do everyone's in the same place we're all the same like none of us can leave our houses and so with that being said I don't think you are a failure if you are not like so productive in doing all these things and whatever like for me personally it's like I'm just like diving a lot deeper into my faith and like I think I'm I feel like I'm just kind of on like a new phase of my life almost and I'm dealing with a lot of things that like I need to and like healing from a lot of things and I also think in that time I'll probably will get new ideas and I probably will have you know just whatever I'll grow from this and whatever that might be like whatever it's supposed to be but I am just really focusing on not putting all this crazy added pressure on myself because we have more time because yes we do have more time but we're also in a global pandemic this is a really weird time especially if you're someone who deals with like mental health and all that stuff so I think for me personally I'm making this clip because I am working on like myself and just like dealing with the things that I need to be dealing with and healing from all of that so that I'm able to grow and that when all of this is done I'm just like kind of the best that I can be and the healthiest that I can be personally because that's all we can do and like this is literally the one time in history that you can do that without like quote unquote missing out on a bunch of things so I'm like this now or never you know what I mean anyways I hope that kind of made sense or resonated with a few of you I know I felt like I was kind of alone on this and I was like I really feel like this quarantine or social distancing or whatever the stay at home whatever you're calling it I really feel like this is gonna bring out a lot of things in me that kind of needed to be brought out and then I saw someone post about that in a Facebook group and they're like I feel like I'm home I'm dealing with a lot of things like I'm back where I used to be when all these things happened and like I'm dealing with them now and I feel like I'm gonna be such a different person and this is actually gonna be like a really big healing process for me and all that stuff so with that being said yeah I'm just not trying to like start the next Uber on this quarantine and like if that happens that happens and that's amazing and I think it's so amazing for those people that that is happening but like for me personally I really just feel like this is the time where I'm like healing and I literally had this whole revolution last night and I already feel like so much lighter I can't even describe it and I just have all these other ideas also random I think that my friend Val and I are gonna start like a Bible study on Zoom today's Sunday as you guys are watching this it will be on Tuesday so follow my Instagram because that's what I'll post about it I'm not gonna like only post that stuff on my YouTube channel guys don't worry but for those of you who like care or would be interested in whatever I think we're gonna start that Tuesday night so anyways follow my Instagram because I'll be posting all the updates on there but I love you guys comment down below how you guys are doing in quarantine and just like what's going on with you guys would love to know would love to hear would love to chat but yeah I'm gonna drink my coffee real now it's just been a very literally the past 24 hours alone a very big healing process and I think a lot of times I don't know who this is for but like a lot of times I feel like I'm wrestling with things like wrestling with God or like really just like questioning and thinking really hard about certain things in my life and I'm so afraid that I'll lose those certain things cause I'm wrestling with them in my head and my soul so it's like wait maybe this isn't meant to be or whatever it might be and then I was just thinking literally like 20 minutes ago like you know every other time I have really wrestled with something like there's been so many times where that's only come out stronger and that's only been more solidified like maybe the whole point in me wrestling with this is just to like kind of put it in its right place in my life or to reaffirm even though I think I'm gonna lose it or to just have a healthier view of it if that makes any sense but yeah it's a weird time but I love you guys I'm here for you guys enjoying the Facebook group if you guys want me to talk all the time in there it's really comforting and it's cool and it's just like a good escape from what's going on but I love you guys and I'll talk to you guys soon, bye.


This is my show. I'll ask questions. Give me a second. You have been on your show, so let me explain. Don't cut me off when I'm giving answers. I'm not cutting you off, but I do want to.   Now, let me be clear. You get paid to shape a liberal narrative. You get paid to attack this president. I don't get a dime for this president. When I'm African American, that's a legislation. Sir, I did not raise your license. Let me finish now. Let me finish. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You're not going to reply when I ask that question because you're black. So don't ask me that. You only ask me that because I don't fit your narrative. You need to accept that many other African Americans and others support this president because of his policies. And to insult me to say, am I getting paid? I've asked the same question. I've asked the same question. And that's representative of MSKVC and their narrative to keep blacks silent who happen to support this president. So I have to get paid. Do you ask Democrats or they get paid? I just said, I just said to you. I just asked, I just said to you. Have you ever asked any host for you? But they've been paid by Joe Biden. I haven't heard. Representative Jones, thank you. Do come back. Hey, welcome back, everybody. I saw this clip yesterday and knew I just had to comment on it. It's from yesterday on MSNBC and it's an interview between Craig Melvin and the Democrat state rep, Vernon Jones of Georgia. This guy's a pro-Trump Democrat.  We're going to get into all of this. Trust me, you'll want to see it. But first, just give me 30 seconds to tell you about this special offer for my subscribers. You likely already know what collagen is. Collagen makes your skin healthy and gives you a youthful look. It strengthens nails, hair, teeth, and gut health, maintains muscle, improves joints, and so much more.  I highly recommend it. As an added bonus, if you order today, they'll give you free shipping, free VIP, live health, and fitness coaching for life, and a free e-report on the 14 foods for amazing skin. If you order today, you can save up to 51% off Agile's Multicollagen. And rest assured, knowing this company offers a 60-day money-back guarantee, even on empty bags. Go to www.healthwithdronetech.com and order today. Or click the link in the description or pin comment.    And at one point, Craig claims that, oh, this is what I ask every Democrat, and I've asked other Democrats if they're getting paid off. I've asked the same question. I've asked the same question of Democrats who come on. Now, he says this, and, you know, I watch a lot of this stuff. I've never once seen that.  And that's a question you would think that you would hear because there's so many of these Democrats that were so anti-Biden, but now are, so why aren't they asking them if they've been paid off? So I went searching for any examples. I found zero, by the way, and I actually had some people from my Discord channel. We have a research channel, and I had people in there looking for any examples. They couldn't find any examples. Right before I started this video, I looked some more. I could not find anything. So, surprise, surprise, he was lying. At one point, he bristles at the suggestion that he's asking him this question because he's black, saying, oh, I can't believe that I can't let you get away with saying that I'm asking you this because you're black. Oh, really? Suddenly now the tactics that you use on a regular basis, what's there used on you? Suddenly it's out of bounds. I didn't even really have to go looking for examples of him asking Democrats this question because I know that that's BS.  How do I know this?  You always see this treatment of him in the media, but especially from MSNBC. Just look at this example from just a couple days ago. The president of the United States, Donald J. Trump and we as the country, Tiffany, have done a marvelous job and a wonderful job combating this China virus that has taken over our economy. So I just want to correct you. No, no.  It came from China. COVID-19. It came from China. That's where it came from. It's an easy thing. Where did the virus come from? I'm sorry? Where did the virus come from? Look, I think MSNBC has a lot of people in rotation to host this show. When you get in rotation, you can ask the question. What is wrong with these people? Like he said, it came from China. It's the China virus.  What happened next is what's relevant. She's so triggered and upset by the fact he called it the China virus that she then asked him if he's been bride for his blind support of Trump. I'm curious. This is my last question because we're running out of time. But I am curious because when I see folks like you support this president. Gee, I don't know. What do you think she means by folks like you? Folks like you support this president. Has Donald Trump ever promised you anything financially in exchange for your blind support of this administration or helping his campaign? On the record, can you tell us if he's ever promised you anything financially or otherwise? No. Okay, so there you have it. What did she ask her? She asked if folks like you are getting bride by Donald Trump for your blind support. So who was she talking about? She's talking about black people.  Of course he is.  Off the top of my head, I can think of several examples of MSNBC doing this, going back to the Obama years. For example, there was a time an MSNBC reporter interviewed a black man at a tea party acting completely confounded that this guy was at a tea party rally. He responded kind of in confusion because he hadn't experienced any racism from white people at these rallies, because it was largely just a narrative from the media trying to scare people who might actually want to join the tea party into thinking that they were a bunch of racist monsters and terrorists. Aren't a lot of African-American men at these events. Right. Have you ever felt uncomfortable? No. No, these are my people. Americans. Or how about the time David Shuster grilled black conservative Kevin Jackson for his support for the tea party rally, which he, the MSNBC host, described as violent and racist. Joining us is the author of The Big Black Lie, how I learned the truth about democracy, about the Democratic Party. And Kevin Jackson, first of all, what do you make of the latest information from Congress that, I mean, there are increasing concerns about this possibly getting out of hand, some of this violent imagery and rhetoric? Well, I've been to many tea parties around the country and I've yet to see anybody, any real violence towards anybody, so I think it's a bit overstated. Were you there on Saturday, though, at the Capitol when Congressman Lewis and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus were greeted with derogatory racial slurs when another member of Congress was spat upon? Were you there for that? Just a reminder about the fake news story he referenced just there, no evidence of that ever turned up. Even though there were cameras and voice recorders everywhere in that area during that rally, nobody, even though Breitbart put out a $100,000 reward, could ever come up with a shred of evidence to back up that claim. Wasn't there for that, but I saw the video about it and determined that a lot of what they were saying had happened, actually hadn't occurred. But Kevin, are you okay when President Obama, the first African-American president, is depicted the way he's depicted on some of these signs, whether it's the Hitler mustache or whether it's being depicted as like the Joker? I mean, is that okay with you? It's par for the course. The president that's been elected has gone through something like that. Bush has been, was demonized as a gorilla, as a chimpanzee, as a cowboy, cow poke, and a host of other things. In fact, he was depicted as Hitler many, many times. Okay, I just have to stop it here again because you notice the standards that he's applying to the Tea Party. He's trying to pick out individual examples of bad people and then smear the whole movement with it. Yeah, what is it that we've heard from the media in regards to the violent riots and looting that had been going on across the country for the last few months? They say that you can't pick out the aberrant actors to smear the whole movement with, yet as you can see, this is exactly what they do to our side. They did the exact same thing to the lockdown protesters. Niagara, New York, Rochester, New York, Arizona, Ohio, and Kansas, where Democratic Party offices, congressional offices were targeted with stones or bricks thrown to the window. And you're saying that that's happened with Republicans and all I'm asking is name them. Who threw them? Do you have the actual evidence of the people who threw them? In many cases, either Democrat operatives that are doing a lot of this stuff. So when you can bring the evidence to say, this was a Republican person that did that and I'll believe you. So this all just circles back to Craig Melvin and has claimed he wasn't asking these questions about this Democrat, Vernon Jones, being paid off by Trump for his support. Clearly, this is a tactic of MSNBC. They want to stop any kind of hemorrhaging of black people from the Democrat Party by bringing on anyone who does and shaming them on national airwaves. It just goes to show how weak the arguments are on the left and how little confidence they have in them. That's why they have this laundry list of labels that they can throw at you in place of arguments because they know nothing they're going to say is going to convince anybody. But they do know that if they call you a racist, that will not only shut you up, but it'll show everybody else that they just won the argument. That's all I got for you today, folks. I just wanted to show you those clips and just show you how the claim that he wasn't doing it because he's black is just totally bunk.  If you liked this video, please hit that like button, share, and subscribe. If you'd like to support this channel, you can do so by supporting its sponsors or donating on one of the platforms that are listed in the description or pinned comment. 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And I'm Rand, you know, I was telling you offline she is someone that I consider myself to be a increasingly a closet fan of I haven't read any of her books cover to cover yet, but I've been working my way through a number of her texts that are published online. And I have a high degree of resonance with her as it pertains to freedom relationship to the government or to the state and her ideas on property. So I'm hoping we can start to get into some of that today and I, you know, again, going to be really leaning on your understanding because I have not read enough of her yet, but certainly plan to do more of that throughout this conversation. So I started reading the virtue of selfishness today. And maybe I'll just open by reading an excerpt of that. So, I'm right, I'm Rand writes, yet the exact meaning and dictionary definition of the word selfishness is concerned with one's own interest. It does not include a moral evaluation. It does not tell us whether concern with one's own interest is good or evil, nor does it tell us what constitute man's actual interest. It is the task of ethics to answer such questions. My current view on this this is kind of like the the Jordan Peterson Sam Harris debate about ought and is right like we have science in the world telling us what is some extent. The struggle has been how to derive what we ought to do from this set of, you know, objectively determined facts. And it appears to me that I'm Rand is sort of surfing that edge a bit. She's saying there's an objective dimension to human reason, human morality. Perhaps this gets into natural law. And I'll just state my current views to see how they may be shaped about our conversation is I I've labeled myself freedom maximalist, which is essentially libertarian anarcho capitalist agorist. There's all these different terms just maximizing mutual consent and all action right no no coercion, basically. But the limiting principle of that in my current view is private property rights. Everyone should seek to maximize their own self interest or their own, I guess as I and Rand would say selfishness up to the point or up to the boundary of other people's person and property. That's how I think we create the most wealth in the world and it's also how we resolve the most conflict of our scarce resources. So a bit of a mouthful, but I just wanted to kind of put my position out there initially so we can see how it goes through the conversation. So, so there's a lot of obviously in common between your views and Rand's although. Again, she we've talked about this before she was not an anarchist. She believed in limited government government did not cause a government that protected you from coercion and we can we can get into that but. But let's let's talk a little bit about this is art and selfishness issue because I think this is really at the core of her ideas. And in many respects the politics are derivative of her ethics.  So, it is this question there's this fundamental question in philosophy about how do we derive and can we derive an art, what one should do from reality from the nature of existence from objective fact from science from from what's out there. And she said you absolutely can. And her the virtue of selfishness and the first essay in the virtue of selfishness the objectivist morality is really geared towards solving the problem there is art problem. The problem that philosophers have told us over and over again, cannot be solved that Sam Harris attempts to solve it I think somewhat superficially, but it's attempts to solve it and that Jordan Peterson is saying you can't do it forget it. Rand, Rand wrote about this, which is selfishness was published in the 60s that she wrote about this a long time ago. And I think she had it solved. She basically is saying, look, the fundamental question that human beings have to face at the core of everything else is to put in Hamlet's terms to be or not to be to live or not to live to survive or not to survive. We all face a basic alternative certain actions we take are going to lead to death. Certain actions that take are going to lead to life. Death is a one way street.  Human knowledge is irrelevant. Ethics is irrelevant. Everything else is irrelevant. What makes ethics morality relevant is the choice to live. And once you make the choice to live, then the question is, well, what are the things in reality that are required for us in order to survive in order to live? How as human beings do we live? And that's a scientific question. Right? This is poison. Don't take that. This is good food. Yes, take that. These are behaviors that will leave to destruction. These are behaviors that will lead to a full life as a human being. These are values that if you take seriously lead to death, these are values that if you take seriously lead to life. And basically the things that the ideas, the values, the virtues that are going to lead to life that are going to lead to success that are going to lead to flourishing. That's the good and everything else is bad. And that's the good is morality, right? The moral is the good. Morality is a science of values. It's a science of the values that are essential, that are important for leading a life, for living one's life. And that's the basis on which we make decisions about important things in life. So the values and virtues that lead to life are the good and everything else is to be avoided and therefore we would label evil or bad. So there is, if you will, there is this human nature. The fact that we face this alternative that we can die, the art is all the things and we can't get into the details of what the art is, all the things that make human life possible, that support human life and advance human life. And we can get into what those specifically are, particularly what are the principles, the ethical principles that lead to living versus the alternative.  Also, if you'd like to see the Iran book show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who already subscribers and those of you who already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.


l meeting then Uh, there are Check to Stephen on missing missing commissioner is going to be back Um, she may not be back till the 18th Um, I I have a vague memory, but I'm not sure And so it doesn't make sense. I have a special meeting without the full commission Yeah, and uh I can tell you that um, I will be out on the 14th. So, um That date may not work. Um, because you might just be in the same situation again So, um, so let's just uh So at this point staff, I I don't think we have any additional items on the agenda Uh, or tonight, um, we can hear from commissioners And probably Potentially hear this at our next Regular meeting. I mean, is that an option as well? I see mr. Marlott. Let's hear from him before we go to the commissioners here well with um with the Same issue at our next regular meeting On the 7th the meeting after that would be on the 21st. So we want to continue this to a date certain That would be the date Okay, so we would we would need a motion to Continue this to a date certain is that is that where we're at right now or does does that is that decision just made by staff? I think under the bylaw is it would be continued to the next regular meeting Yeah So but the next since we're not There's not availability at the next regular meeting and probably be cleaner just to do it by motion to continue Okay Okay, uh, let's go ahead and uh hear from commissioners who've been patiently waiting and then We can see if we can get a motion to continue for a date certain um I missed the order in which they came up. So i'm just going to go left or right on my screen here So commissioner conway commissioner miss eddie miller and then commissioner kennedy. So mr. Conway first I just have a question. Um Uh So I'm wondering Uh, I mean we've we've processed this whole item. It's going to get passed on city council Why does it need to return return to the commission? I think I I must have just missed that explanation And you can get that answered later just a question No, that's okay. Um staff. Could you go ahead and chime in on that and then we'll go to commissioner miss eddie miller Um, sure. I'll I'll try this one and then if matt has something to add. He can't so um, first of all, of course We would like to have a recommendation From the commission of either with amendments or of the whole package Secondly because this includes recommendations for rezonings. We need a finding from your commission before we can take those to the city council Okay Did that that answer your question commissioner conway? Okay, great. Um commissioner miss cd miller In terms of scheduling, um revisiting this item As I understand it, there's not enough room at the next planning commission meeting for this item to be Revisited um I'm wondering why it doesn't seem like it would take that long to vote Um on this item at the next available public Meeting of public planning commission um, and if a special meeting needs to be called what would be the optimum time And does does sarah Uh, I mean do that just said that the staff that presents tonight have to be there And do we have to you know, do we have to arrange a planning commission meetings so that every planning commissioner can be in attendance? Um, I think we just need a quorum to do business. Is that right? I guess I have three questions there Okay, I'm going to go ahead and turn that over to staff to answer those questions Uh, go ahead miss noisy. Sure. So um in answer to your first question um It of course it is that the the commission's prerogative to take something up at their next regularly scheduled meeting There will not be staff support for this item at the next regularly scheduled meeting on the 7th of july both matt van Waugh and myself are going to be on vacation And also it sounds like one of our planning commissioners may also not be in attendance And so that may not be we may find ourselves in exactly the same situation. So that was one of the reasons we weren't recommending um that date um I think your second question was do we just need a quorum to do business that's that is technically correct um and And I believe but I believe we always need Four votes. It's a four. It's a seven member panel. So we need four votes to pass a motion. Is that right? Matt and eric i'm looking at you. Okay, I do just want to add the The bylaws do also say if a if these motions were continued And there was a commissioner absent again And they've tied again Then the bylaws do say that that motion would that motion fails by a tie And and then it would go on to to council from there So the discontinuance would only happen once if if there were another tie Okay, and and to add to what matt said I'm looking at the planning commission bylaws and they do actually stipulate that for tie votes The matter automatically gets continued to the next meeting. So that would be on july 7th and Both the planning director and myself are available to staff that meeting So we could we could have that meeting on the 7th Okay, thank you. Um, commissioner me tv miller. Did you get all your questions answered? Yes, thank you Okay, thank you commissioner kennedy Oh, I'm just still needling around these dates. I just want to move this through as soon as we can but I have Lost my good idea for getting that done. Let's get everybody else okay, um so right now before the commission is Uh, the idea to bring it on the 7th Um, or if somebody would like to make a motion to bring it on The 20 let me get the calendar up here uh 21st Yes, okay um The 21st, okay, so, uh A couple hands going up again. I was looking down. So I'm just going to go left or right on my screen. So commissioner kennedy I will move to uh continue this item to the 21st date certain. Okay Uh, commissioner master Okay, that's a second on that Uh, to mr. Conway, did you have a comment before we vote on this motion to continue to a date certain on the 21st of july Okay, sorry, uh, commissioner k your hands up. Is that just uh Okay, okay All right, so Motion on the floor to continue this item to a date certain on july our regular skills Regularly scheduled meeting july 21st. It's apparently is hard to say at 942. Um, uh Clerk will I have a roll call vote, please? Commissioner Conway I am going to vote no because I unfortunately have to miss that meeting. So I would prefer it was a different date Commissioner kennedy I we got to move this ahead and people should just zoom in. Sorry, julie Maxwell Okay, the cd miller Hi Different Hi, and chair gawson Hi, all right. So we have uh motion passes With uh Five one And that is continuing this the object item number two the objective standards to date certain on a regular schedule regularly schedule meeting july 21st and um That is all we have on the agenda for this evening. I want to thank the public and staff for um For attending again a big thank you to staff for uh, the thorough work and um, I will call this meeting into Adjournment. Thank you