The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Brook Show. All right everybody, welcome to Iran Brook Show. On this Thursday, August 24th, I hope everybody is having a fantastic week. Today, this is our News Roundup. This evening, we've got an interview with Duncan Scott, the person who's bringing We the Living, the movie, to the world. It's going to be a fascinating discussion. I think you're really going to enjoy it. He's going to talk about the making of We the Living, the movie, which is, wow. It's an amazing story, then how the movie was discovered, Iran's attitude toward the movie. And what's happening with it right now, which, again, is a fascinating discussion in terms of what is going on with it. So I hope you all join us tonight at a little unusual time. It's going to be at 8.30, instead of at 8 p.m., 8.30 tonight. Duncan Scott, We the Living, whether you've read the book or haven't read the book, I think you'll really enjoy this and get something out of it. It'll be enjoyable and entertaining. Let's see. Yeah, the reason I'm doing it at 2 p.m. is at 1 p.m., I had a book club meeting. I'm part of this network, and we had a book meeting with Chris Miller. Chris Miller is the writer who wrote Chip War, which was one of my favorite books. I talked about it a few months ago, probably my favorite book of 2022. It was an excellent book, a really interesting, thought-provoking, blew my mind in terms of the strategic implications and everything else. And so it was great to have a Q&A with Chris Miller and the author of the book and see his thoughts and how they've changed it all and what his thoughts are moving into the future. Yeah, so that's why an hour later, we'll talk more about Chip War and a little bit about what I've learned from this Q&A with Chris Miller. But always trying to learn more from world-class experts, and Chris Miller certainly is that when it comes to the chip industry and the geopolitical implications of what's going on in the chip industry. So the kind of everything involved. And you listen to somebody like Chris Miller talk about geopolitics, China, Taiwan, I mean specifically China, Taiwan, United States, chip manufacturing and all of that.  I mean it's just, I mean God, this country, I mean maybe the best illustration of how in decline this country is, none of us have video recordings of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. But one can imagine, imagine those debates, right? And put that Lincoln-Douglas debate up against what we saw last night or what we see in every four years, I mean last night was nothing unique. In terms of the quality of just the rhetoric, the discussion of ideas, I mean what Lincoln-Douglas debates were hours long and long expressions of ideas and about fundamental principles and about big issues and big things. And yesterday was just, I mean all of the debates. I don't want to say yesterday was extraordinary to be at because I don't think it was. It was just bad as usual, maybe a little bit better because Trump wasn't there. But just blah, just awful, just awful. And at this rate Democrats will continue to win because if this is the best they can do then, I mean again, Democrat debates are blah too.  And it's not a projection on the candidates necessarily, right? Somewhat on the candidates. But it's a reflection on the American people, on the audience, on what people actually want and expect. They don't want thoughtful, deep, principled debate. They want sound bites, they love when these people start arguing with one another and insult each other. They love the fact that somebody can rattle off 55 things they're going to do when they become president but can't discuss any one of them in a little bit of depth. And look, I get why they don't. I'm not blaming the candidates. It's not the candidates' fault. It's the audience's fault. Like nobody wants them to talk about it, right? Imagine somebody up there yesterday would have come up and said, Social Security Medicare is going to bankrupt this country. We need to really reform them. I suggest we privatize them over a period of 30 years. I mean the booze would shut that down and this is Republicans, right? Imagine a Democratic convention. And nobody, I mean there's no discussion could happen there. People on the stage would be yelling you down. I mean there were so many times where you wanted somebody like Vivek, you know, in a number of times had the opening and started to say something radical, interesting, controversial, meaningful and just shut himself down and said blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, just to fill in the time rather than actually go depth. I think the most meaningful moment in that sense was when he talked about the possibility of school choice and what he would do with the education department budget that he shut down. And it was a real opportunity to really begin and attack government education and to attack government schools and to present private education as an option and to present school choice as a real ideal and yes, can do much at the federal level, but here's what I can do and here's how I would encourage the states to embrace school choice and this is what I would do in order to push the states to embrace school choice and this is how we change the tax code to make education saving accounts on a federal level more meaningful. And I mean you could really have come out with three minutes or what is it? It's not even three minutes. What are the 45 seconds, a 45 second answer or a minute answer that really encompassed a big chunk of that and just gave people a sense of I'm really against government schools and I want to give you the parent options. I want to give you the parent control over the dollars we spent on your kids' education but you get to control them. You get to decide that solves the war curriculum problem. That solves the transgender problem. That solves all these problems because you, the parent, you get to choose the kids' school. God, just 45 minute seconds like that. One issue, dive into one minute with depth into that. But no, his introduction of school choice was latched on to a gazillion other things he wanted to do because he doesn't want to go deep, because nobody wants to go deep into any particular issue up there. And if he'd done that, I think he would have, I mean as it is, there's no question that he won that debate and he got what he wanted out of the debate. I mean there's no question about that because everybody else paled in comparison and everybody, everybody after the debate was only talking about one thing and that is about Vivek. How long that is sustainable, whether he can maintain that, I don't know but that was, the debate yesterday was basically Vivek's coming out party. He did a great job at doing it. I mean he did an awful job actually discussing ideas but he did a great job at bringing attention to himself. He got everybody to argue with him.  You get those 30 second response times constantly. You get the same more than anybody else and you get the attention and what Vivek needs right now is attention because nobody knows who the hell this guy is. And yesterday millions of Americans learned who he is, like him or dislike him.  I wouldn't be surprised if he climbed significantly in the polls, particularly the national polls. I'm not sure how well he's going to do in Iowa but I do think he'll climb in the national polls because of this. So yeah, so in terms of content, thumbs down. It was awful. There was nothing good about it. Everybody said exactly what you expected him to say. I mean, now the good line, the only good line, Vivek had in a thing and this is Alex Epstein's direct influence. There's no question, this comes from Alex. Is the line about more people dying from attempts to deal with climate change rather than with climate change itself, that was really good and it would have been, again, he could have said more. He could have gone deeper into that. He could have been less suggestive of this conspiracy theory. Oh, not quite a conspiracy theory, but this idea that this is all a facade for something. He could have gone more into this issue of energy and the importance of fossil fuels and why that is instead of just sloganeering. And again, Alex could have given him a one minute statement about energy that would have blown everybody away and have been amazing and dramatic.   He probably knows more about what the voters, what the audience actually wants than what I know. So I just know what I think would be effective intellectually, would be effective in terms of an argument, would be effective in terms of stimulating people thinking about this issue in a different way, but he knows what his audience wants and his audience, Republicans, Democrats, it doesn't really matter. The audience doesn't want to think, God, the last thing they want is to think.  All right, so overall, I thought Vivek won, not because he made the best points, but because he got the most attention, because everybody talked about him. I mean, the stories are that afterwards, if you went into the spin room, the room where all the press was, nobody wanted to talk to anybody except Vivek. They all waited for him to enter the room. They ran up to him. What are your takeaways? How do you do tonight? What comes next for the campaign? How do you build on the momentum? That was the story last night in terms of the press, and that's exactly what Vivek wanted, because that means he's going to hit all the new shows tomorrow. He's going to be on all the stages. He's going to be invited to speak everywhere. He is now the guy that I think everybody is chasing in terms of second place. I think you'll overtake DeSantis in the polls. I think you'll see that soon. Again, the national polls, I don't think you'll overtake him in Iowa, but in terms of the national polls, he's the interesting guy. He's the challenging guy. He's got something different to say.   I mean, Pence looked angry and offended, and it's like, oh, I've got all this experience. Yeah, and that's why this country is in a mess, because people like you have experience. In terms of content, I think the best person up on stage yesterday was Nikki Haley. By far, she was good on foreign policy. She was as good as you can be in that context on abortion. She's the only one who had a, quote, reasonable view on abortion. I think she was the only one. God, she was so good on this. Just on this, she should get, I don't know, some prize or something. She literally said, the reason we have a debt problem in this country, you cannot only blame on the Biden administration. We Republicans did it. Many people in this stage, DeSantis, Pence, others, voted for government spending under Trump. The deficit and everything else is something Republicans made happen. Wow, just for that, she should be the nominee.  It was the best statement of the night by far. It was a grown-up statement. It was, again, a statement that took people seriously, that took the audience seriously, and it absolutely true, a true statement without being sloganeering, without actually explaining this. I thought Nikki did really well. Nikki's not going to be Secretary of Treasury. She doesn't have that expertise. You've got to get somebody from Goldman Sachs to be Secretary of Treasury. That's a must. If Nikki is part of a future administration, she might be Secretary of State, but she is the one candidate up on that stage. She is the one candidate up on that stage that I would suggest that Trump, that I think Trump would take as a VP candidate. I don't think anybody else there, there's no way he takes Vivek. There's no way he takes DeSantis. Nikki is the one who I think he might. She's not going to overshadow him like Vivek would. She's not going to out-energy him like Vivek would, and he hasn't said awful, horrible things about her like he has about DeSantis. There's no way he takes Rand Paul for VP. He gains nothing with Rand Paul as VP. It would be political suicide for Trump to do that.  I think that's likely. Of all the candidates up there, I think the only one that is viable for VP is Nikki Haley. I thought DeSantis didn't do himself damage. He didn't do anything awful, but he didn't do anything spectacular either. He had a solid, boring night. This is not going to allow him to challenge Trump. Again, I think at this point, there's no way DeSantis challenges Trump. The only way DeSantis becomes the nominee is if Trump somehow drops dad, implodes, falls out of a window. If something happens and Trump is not running, gets thrown in jail and actually decides not to run, or somebody decides maybe it's not a good idea to run as a Republican while in jail, that's the only way DeSantis might rise.  He's not comfortable. Haley's comfortable up there.  He needs to stop smiling so much. God. Except for that, it's vivic is more energetic, youthful, with more ideas and more radical. Bottom line is, this is how bad the Republican Party is. The Republican Party is in really bad shape and just horrible. Trump can not come to any debate. He can skip every single debate and he'll still win. This is the other very disappointing thing about yesterday. The attacks on Trump were mild. Even Christie was mild. Come on, guys. What do you have to lose? Trump is not going to take Christie as a VP candidate. Go after him. Really go after him.  What do you have to lose? DeSantis, if DeSantis is serious about the nomination, who cares if he's going to be booed?  You're talking about chipping away at Trump's lead. So either DeSantis needs to bribe Christie to do it or DeSantis needs to do it. And yes, he risks short-term booing. He's not winning anyway. DeSantis cannot beat Trump right now. The only way he can beat Trump is by chipping away at Trump's supporters.  I don't see what else you can do. That he can't win now. Everybody was hinting. DeSantis kept hinting, I won. Florida had this big margin. Other people haven't won. No, say it.  He lost four different campaigns. I don't know who the strategy just saw, but at some point you have to say, I'm going to swing for the fences. Because unless I hit a grand slam home run right now, the game is over.  We're down three runs. The only way I can win is with a grand slam and what am I going to bunt for those who know baseball? I'm going to bunt. And the probability of bunting is I'm going to lose. It's not an issue of the testing. It's an issue of telling the truth. Telling the truth about Trump. And again, what do you have to lose? You've got something to gain and you've got nothing to lose because you ain't winning this. So DeSantis, in spite of Scott's prediction, was not spectacular. He was okay. Again, didn't do himself harm. Wasn't the scent of the tension. He wishes he was attacked like Vivec because then everybody would be talking about DeSantis. Nobody today is talking about DeSantis. Everybody today is talking about Vivec. You look at the headlines. It's all about Vivec. DeSantis, it was an okay night. Okay night. But it wasn't the kind of night he needs in order to break through. And again, I'll say what I've been saying for six months now. DeSantis will not be the Republican nominee. At least as long as Trump is running. All right. Let's see. We got two other topics. We'll do them quickly. Oh, three other topics. I forgot. Okay, Pigosin. As you know, the reports are, we don't know, reports are that Pigosin died. Even Putin now has sent his condolences and described Pigosin as a talented businessman who made serious mistakes in life but also sought to achieve the necessary results. So even Putin is mourning, quote, mourning Pigosin's death. It seems like he was on the plane. It appears that FSB did it, that the Russian security services did it one way or the other, whether it was ordered to shoot it down or whether there was a bomb on the plane itself. But that plane was brought down by something. It wasn't just an accident. Putin said in his address that the investigation is going to take time. Of course, it's going to take time. They have to have the right story and they have to make sure to cover up and they have to send the message but not be too explicit about assassinating opponents. All 10 people in the plane died, including Dimitri Utkin. And maybe this is why they chose this moment to assassinate Pigosin because Dimitri Utkin was with him. Utkin was his number two. He was the co-founder of the Wagner group. Utkin was really the military leader of Wagner. I remember that Pigosin was a hot dog salesman. Pigosin had no knowledge, never served in the military. He was a small-time cook before he became a hot dog salesman. He was called a Putin's chef. He was like the marketing guy. He was the guy out in fun. He was the political schmoozer. He was the one who got the Pentagon, the Kremlin to pay them the big bucks. But it was Utkin who really ran military operations. And I think that part of this goal was to take up both of them at the same time. Utkin is a nasty, mean type of person served in the Russian special forces. Reportedly, it was a neo-Nazi, had multiple Nazi tattoos. This is rich coming from regime that claims that the Ukrainians are Nazis. But Utkin had multiple Nazi tattoos, including the SS insignia. Supposedly, Utkin insisted on calling the operation the Wagner group named after Richard Wagner, the composer, the Nazis that Hitler himself and the Nazis appropriated. And he used to greet subordinates by saying hi-all. And often signed his name with the SS insignia lightning bolt. Anyway, nasty character, probably a neo-Nazi also died in the plane crash. I mean, good riddance to both of them. He goes in and him, both nasty characters. This opens up a lot of questions of what happens to the Wagner group now, particularly what happens to their Africa operations, who takes them over. Also in Syria, do the Wagner group disintegrate? Do they get a new leader? Does the Kremlin take direct control over them? What they do for the Kremlin in Africa is way too valuable, you would think, for this just to go away. It might be that it took so long to kill Pogosin since the mutiny, because the Kremlin had to set up a backup plan of what to do with Wagner and what to do with the military operations in Africa and in Syria and who knows where else they have people. I don't know, but that seems likely that you would need to create an alternative setup for how to run those operations. I mean, there are tens of billions of dollars at stake here that are really crucial. And yeah, so, you know, hard exactly to tell, but exactly why it took this long for Putin to get revenge, hard exactly tell why now, hard to tell exactly why this way, what the message says, but the message is clear in Russia. Do not oppose Vladimir Putin in any way.  One way or another, you will be dead. This is particularly, you know, noteworthy given the ongoing, I see on Twitter, constant comparison of the Russian regime to the American regime. So many people keep writing to me, particularly after Veerik's comments yesterday about Ukraine, which were awful, I think, just awful. And he has a geopolitical understanding of China-Russia relationship of a five-year-old. And that's a compliment.  He's trying to rationalize a position that probably doesn't even believe in because he thinks that's what are getting votes, but it was a five-year-old analysis of the Ukrainian war. But, you know, God, what was my point? My point was the people responding, supporting his position by saying, yeah, the US regime is just as evil as the Russian regime and Ukraine is even worse. Indeed, if you read General Flynn today on Twitter, then Ukraine is Ukraine, the country of Ukraine is responsible for most of the child abuse and child trafficking in the world. They're responsible for drug trafficking, money laundering. Every single evil in the world today is centered in Ukraine and run by Zelensky. That's how insane some of these people are. But with all due respect, the United States still does not drop its political opponents out of windows. It just doesn't happen. You know, many people might accuse the Justice Department of going after Trump using the Justice Department. At least we have courts, you can appeal, you can go to Supreme Court. You might assume that all of that is completely corrupt. Yeah, but Trump did not get a bullet in the forehead. He did not fall out of the Trump Tower. His plane was not shut down or blown up. Just that. It's just a little bit of an improvement over the situation in Russia.  Yeah, Pope Zelensky was a lying, I think, vivic throughout there. Just disgusting. So I can't support vivic, although I want to support vivic. Right, God, I really do want to support vivic because the climate change is excellent, and some of the economic policy is excellent, and, you know, but on everything else. Who was it? Who was it? It was, no, it was the Santas. The Santas who was sending special forces team into Mexico to deal with the cartel. Another one who is going to send us to war. You know, let's end the war in Ukraine by going to war with Mexico. That is brilliant. Just frigging brilliant. Let's take a war far away from us, and let's let the bad guys win that one, and we're going to go and engage in a war here in our territory. For what exactly? The world is going to hell. I mean, it really is. I don't see a way out of it. Anyway, new bricks for all of you conspiracy theory advocates. You remember the bricks, we talked about bricks. Well, I talked about the fact that the bricks in the meeting in South Africa this week, we're going to invite other countries to join them and to become to grow the bricks. I'm not sure that we'll be able to pronounce it. We'll be able to call them bricks anymore because they're going to add. So 23 countries applied to join the bricks, and they have accepted six countries, six countries that are going to make the bricks now the real powerhouse in the world. Who are the countries that they've accepted? So in addition to bricks, Brazil, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The bricks have expanded to include now Iran. Sorry, it's just so funny. Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, God, four big Muslim countries have just been added to the bricks. And then on top of those two, we've got Ethiopia. Ethiopia is kind of mixed Christian and Muslim and Argentina. Why? Why those? I don't know. What does this do for the bricks? I have no clue. Iran and Saudi Arabia together there. I guess we can find a brick, a brick, you know, we can do, we can do, I don't know, some kind of battle between Shia and Sunni over there. I don't know. This just makes the bricks even more ridiculous than it was before. So the whole bricks thing and the whole conspiracy theories around it and the whole, you know, there's so many libertarians out there that think that bricks are going to do away with the fad and destroy the dollar and we're going to have a gold currency because of bricks. Yeah, Iran wants a gold currency. Yeah, no question. Egypt, Argentina, and Ethiopia, you know, want to get off the dollar and they want to establish their own central bank and they're going to trust the Russians and the Chinese to put.  This is what in the 1970s and 80s was called the non-affiliated group. There was a non-something group of countries. These were third world countries that claimed not to be on the American side or on the Soviet Union side, but were actually mostly on the Soviet Union side, where they were non-affiliated, non-something bloc. And that's what bricks is and it's meaningless and it doesn't do anything. All right. Finally, a quick story about Jordan Peterson. So Jordan Peterson, if you remember, we covered this on the show a few months ago. God, I'm having to speed through these. We covered this a few months ago on the show. Jordan Peterson, there was a complaint to the College of Psychologists of Ontario in 2022 about things that Jordan Peterson said that people found offensive. Oh my God, they found them offensive and unsensitive. And they complained to the College of Psychologists of Ontario. The College of Psychologists of Ontario told Peterson that he had to undergo sensitivity training. That he had to, and if not, and if he did not go through sensitivity training, he would be kicked out of the College of Psychologists in a sense, lose his license to practice psychology in Canada, which is just unbelievable and horrific to do. Now, I wouldn't have no problem with that. If the College of Psychologists was truly a private college, a private licensing organization, and there was competition and you could be licensed by somebody else, and you could still study practice psychology, but you can't. They have a monopoly, a government-granted monopoly, over the issuance of licenses for the practice of psychology, so they control the market. So if you lose the ability to practice psychology from the College of Psychologists, you lose your ability to practice psychology in Canada. And therefore, Jordan Peterson was going to lose his license, which is just such a violation of free speech and so horrific. Jordan Peterson sued, and it went to what's called a divisional court in Canada, and the court ruled for the College of Psychologists yesterday. And the court says this in response to his lawsuit, quote, the order is not disciplinary and does not prevent Dr. Peterson from expressing himself on controversial topics. It has a minimal impact on his right to freedom of expression that he has to go and do sensitivity training here. He can express himself on controversial topics as long as he does it sensitively. He just does it nicely. He just does it by the speech code dictated by the College of Psychologists. So, no, this is just one example of the fact that Canada is much worse in America in this sense. There really isn't free speech in Canada, and the court has just backed this up. It's a horrible ruling. I feel bad. I'm not a fan of Jordan Peterson's, but I feel bad for Jordan Peterson. Basically, I don't think he's going to allow himself to go through sensitivity training. Basically means he can't practice psychology in Canada. Now, maybe he can do something else. Maybe there's another form of appeal, but this is bad. This is horrific. This is a really, really bad state of affairs. Yeah, I mean, just terrible. All right. You can ask me questions, of course. $20 questions get priority. 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And Silvanos now with another sticker. Really appreciate it. Thank you guys. All right, let's jump in with Michael.  He was nearly quoting Alex Fteen. Yes, absolutely. At this point I would love for Vivek. At this point I would vote for Vivek. The right needs more young tech intellectuals, and Alex could have access to him in the White House. Yes, I mean, I think that's right.  Again, he's not going to beat Trump by doing that. The best he can do is position himself a VP and Trump indeed praised Vivek for his performance. Of course he did because Vivek was bootlicking Trump's boots. But there's no way Trump chooses Vivek as his VP candidate. That's just out. Vivek would just outshine him intellectually and charismaticly. So Vivek infuriates me about some of the things he says. And I love some of the things he says. And that's the challenge with him. That he's the best and the worst at the same time. How will we deal with that? At this point I'm just going to let the election play out. I still think if I was voting in the Republican primary I would vote for Nikki Haley. But the reality is that Nikki Haley doesn't have a chance at this point. I don't think Vivek has a chance. I mean, it's Biden basically. And Scott, stop it. Right now the question is which Republican are you voting for? Forget Biden for a second. I know you can't. I know it's all single-minded here. But this is my point about Trump. Trump is winning the Republican nomination. Even as awful, as horrific, as terrible as he is. Republicans are voting for him. So later on don't say, well, we only have it's a two-party system. There are only two candidates. Right now you have eight, nine candidates. Pick one and fight for them. And then we'll talk about Biden when we get to that election. But right now it's all about which Republican. And Trump is the worst of all worlds. So pick somebody other than Trump. Find somebody good other than Trump. God.  And I'm not the only one. I know other people who feel the same way. Constantly frustrating, frustrated by Vivek, by the fact that he is so good and bad at the same time. So positive and so negative at the same time. And the worst thing about him, I hope this is just strategic. I hope this is just an attempt to that if Trump falls out, he captures the make America great again crowd. Is the bootlicking for Trump is just disgusting. I find disgusting. Wes says, it seems odd to me that there's no discussion what happens to Joe Biden's health takes a nosedive before the next election. The only way I can see Trump winning is if Joe Biden can't run or is dead. Well, but then it depends who Trump is running against. I fear that any Democrat can beat Trump, except maybe Kamala. And I think the Democratic Party, would the Democratic Party rally around Kamala if Biden can't run or will they pull out the governor of California or will somebody else come to the forefront. Hard to tell. I find it hard to believe that anybody really wants Kamala on the Democratic side, but as you see, there's a lot of people who don't want Trump on the Republican side in the end, they can't get rid of him. Once somebody is instantiated in such a position, very hard to eliminate them. And unless you're Putin and then it's easy to eliminate them. So I don't know how you do that. But, yeah, I mean, it is, it's going to be interesting to see what happens on the Democratic side as we get closer. You know, nobody's excited about Biden, but again, he's the guy. Nobody will challenge the status quo.  They're all cowards. Nobody will take on Trump, nobody will take on Biden. Come on, people. Biden's obviously not the person the Democrats want to run. And Trump shouldn't run, even if a majority of Republicans want him to. You know, the Republican Party should be doing everything in its power to undermine Trump. But they won't. Harper Campbell, do you think the GOP base will vote for a young, swarmy, Ivy League, tech bro like Vivek? No, I think at the end they won't. Again, I think in the end of the day, I don't think he can win, but he is the guy everybody's talking about and to the extent that name recognition is big. So I think he can win in some states. I think he can win Republican votes and certainly in blue states, I think he can win Republican votes. I think he can win Republican votes in certain northern states. If he can win Republican votes in the south, I don't know. He might be able to win Republican votes in Texas. Can he win in South Carolina? I don't think so. Can he win in Iowa? I don't think so. I don't think so. You see, even here, the questions, everybody has questions about Vivek because he won the debate. Everybody, he's top of mind. Clark says, Vivek gives me Ben Shapiro vibes. There's a little bit of that. Are younger conservatives looking for a fast-talking more intellectual type as opposed to a slow-talking Bible thumper? Well, but I don't know. I mean, I don't know. Maybe they are, maybe they're not. I just don't know who people are actually, what young conservatives are looking for, how many young conservatives they are. I mean, you'd have to ask somebody like Charlie Cook, who's Charlie Cook backing? Obviously, he's backing Trump. But if he had a second choice, what would Trump go for? My guess is he would go for DeSantis. But I'm not 100% sure and he might be. I mean, who is going to speak at Turning Point USA's big conferences? Who is the guy who is driving young conservatives? I think it will probably be between DeSantis and Vivek. I can't see any of the other people. Scott was very disappointing last night. Tim Scott was just blah. He was boring. Again, didn't do anything terrible. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing stood out. He was just boring. So really the only people out there that I think are viable is Vivek DeSantis and Hailey coming out of that. Other people could win, but Scott didn't make any impression Tim Scott. And Christie obviously can't win. And what's his name? You know, again another of the best statements made yesterday was Pence saying that he explicitly said, unbelievable he explicitly said on that stage that Trump asked him to put Trump ahead of himself Trump above the Constitution. I don't know why that isn't getting more play. I don't know why Republicans don't make a big deal out of that. But he basically said Trump thinks Trump is more important than the Constitution. That's what Pence said. And that was, it was a great statement and he said, I put the Constitution first and you can sense how uncomfortable that made the audience feel. They didn't know what to do because it was a great line but by applauding that line they would be attacking Trumps. They didn't know what to do with it. And I don't think so I don't think Pence can win because he doesn't have a base of support. So it really is one of those three I think who are going to vie for second place and yeah, I mean I don't know how that plays out. You know, I'm not a particularly good political procrastinator prognosticator ultimately. I mean, I never thought Trump would win. God, I mean I never thought he would win the primary. When he won the primary I actually on election day thought he was going to win before the election day. I thought there was a good chance he would win. So I wasn't shocked when he won at all but I was shocked that he won the primary. I was shocked that he kept winning in South Carolina that evangelicals kept voting for him. That surprised me. So I don't know how the dynamics all of this plays out but it could be that Vivek is the candidate of the youth and maybe I still think Trump is the candidate of the youth. Alright interesting. Almost all the questions are being asked by people who always ask the questions and yet we've got a lot of people listening live right now don't usually listen live. So I encourage you to become maybe a first time super chatter or just ask a question if you've already asked in the past but use your time here to both support the show and to ask a question. Challenge me. Tell me I'm full of it but do it on super chat because reading the chat is hard. James Taylor says I kind of like Chris Christie yeah of course who doesn't like a straight talking New Yorker New Jerseyer. He seems like the guy the only adult in the room.  So yeah I mean he's just I mean when it comes to actual policy he's super bland and he's super uninteresting and they're not going to get anything anything new or exciting from him and you're not going to get the kind of policies that this country needs unfortunately from Chris Christie. He's too mainstream. He's too conventional he'll be like a bush senior like boring and when it comes to actual policy issues I don't think that's what you want urban porcupine I think Vivek was the winner DeSantis the loser because he needed to stand out and didn't yeah I think you could that is a good reading of it. Overall the debate was just affirming on my decision to leave the GOP. You get a thumbs up for me I don't understand anybody who remains a GOP registered Republican I mean maybe vote in the primaries but then leave immediately I couldn't stomach being a registered member of the Republican party couldn't stomach it. Michael what happens when Trump views Vivek as a threat and starts going after him I don't see Vivek going after Trump given how much he's been defending him. Yeah I mean I don't know but I don't think Vivek is going to rise that far as to make it to be a threat to Trump. If he is that would be amazing I mean look I'm going to support pretty much anybody who can overthrow Trump so I will throw my support is worth exactly zero but I will throw all my support behind Vivek if he is a threat to Trump. I will support DeSantis if he is a threat to Trump and I don't like DeSantis at all because I really do think that Trump is the enemy.  He was the first term and I think a second term would just instantiate the threat that he poses to American Liberty and to the Republican party and its sanity in the future so pretty much any of these guys as I tweeted last night every single one of them even the guy from North Dakota is a better candidate than Donald Trump as a human being and as a potential president any one of them is more of an adult and more rational and more reasonable than Donald Trump is so let's hope somebody poses a threat to Trump that would be amazing Frank says I can't see Trump winning blue state primaries or being the convention nominee when he is under indictment and maybe jail center, GOP won't do it he is overwhelming by 40-50 points leading the group I just don't see who's threatening him I don't see blue state Republicans I mean that's like upstate New York, are they really offended by Trump? They care about the indictments? I mean I hope you're right I think it would be great if you're right I just don't see it yet Wisconsin is a blue state or at least a borderline state that group yesterday in Wisconsin was very pro-Trump I mean every time somebody criticized Trump you could hear the booze and they were not a small fraction they were real booze and they were a real significant number Charlie says I've been thinking everyone demonizes political fascism while the whole world seems to have embraced economic fascism but it seems like economic fascism inextricably leads to political fascism yes absolutely that's what you're seeing the rise of the populist right to fill in that gap to bring us more economic fascism there really is nobody left or right who represents socialism or communism out there I mean none of them are real socialist almost all of them are various types of fascist they all want to use the state to impose their will on the people all because they want to do it one way and Democrats want to do it the other way but they're all more fascistic in a sense than socialist nobody even on the left is arguing for a dramatic expansion in the welfare state almost all of them are encouraging a dramatic involvement in the government in our ideas, in our education and in regulating businesses and that's fascistic and that is across the board left and right oops I didn't mean to do that let's see Mary Alene says thanks for watching the debate so I didn't have to not my pleasure but my responsibility my commitment to you and thank you Mary Alene for all the support so my commitment to those of you support me to do that so that you won't have to it's not fun to watch these things so many other things I would rather do but it is work so it's necessary for me to do to do my job all right again I just remind the 150 people watching that several of you have not traded with me a value for value so now is your opportunity because I only have four questions it's going to go fast Yvonne who do you know now find the exercise prescriptions put why do you now find the exercise prescriptions put forth by Peter T. I'm more convincing that those in body by science look I come at this from the perspective of ignorance right from the perspective of ignorance but I'd say a couple of things one is I still am a huge advocate of body by science for gaining strength and gaining muscle and if I if there was a super slow high intensity super slow place here in Puerto Rico I would be doing that probably twice a week I'd probably go up from once a week to twice a week when I did it there was no question I got stronger and and made a huge difference so it was fantastic so I'm a big supporter of body by science for that but I do agree with Peter I do and I see this in myself one of the things as you get older is that you lose things like balance and I don't think body by science helps you there I really don't you could increase bulk and strength and a lot of the muscles get stimulated and then they grow but balance is more than that balance has to do with body mind coordination it has to do with small muscles for example in your feet I know when if you stand up on one foot bare foot you can sense those muscles little muscles in your foot working muscles that you're not going to work in body by science so I think that spending a significant amount of your time that you would spend with the machines in body by science spending some additional time on core on small muscles on coordination on balance on things like that on doing stuff on one foot God I find that hard is really important and again in the 20s and 30s you'll think I'm ridiculous and you'll think I don't need to practice that that's all down but when you get into your 50s and 60s it goes and it goes quick slowly even if it seems silly even if it seems stupid the more you'll train yourself the more the muscles will grow and the more the brain muscle communication will improve so I'm a big supporter of doing that and that is something Peter Atia talks a lot about and then finally I just it just seems to me that and I look at people out there and I know it in myself body by science got me stronger but did it increase my ability significantly to climb stairs did it increase my ability significantly to run at the airport to run to the gate at the airport did it increase significantly I think the strength of my heart and the impact on cardiovascular disease and if you look at did it increase significantly my VO2 max I mean that would be interesting did VO2 max does VO2 max grow up significantly because of body by science I don't think so I mean when I did body by science most of the exercises did not increase my pulse that much I did not get to anywhere close to my max except maybe a one or two exercise of the six that you do so you have to do something to get your heart rate in and it might be high intensity interval training but it sounds like zone two really really matters and again I don't know I'm not an expert I mean you just have to go at this point by who makes the most reasonable argument so I would today if I were doing it right if I had the tools to do it I would combine super slow high intensity weightlifting with zone two zone two walking running I do it in the elliptical you can do it on a bike with high intensity some kind of really high intensity workout where you really getting you know your heart rate up to zone five heart rate up to close to max so and that's so what I'm trying to do is instead I can do the high intensity and with balance training and now that's a lot of work and that goes against the body by science which says just work out once a week for 20 minutes I just think that as you're getting older that's not going to be enough so I work out pretty much every day now you know an hour an hour and a half in the gym every single day I'm feeling great I don't know if I'm as strong as I was when I was doing the super slow probably not as efficient because I'm spending so much time but I have no problem running to a gate right now you know we'll see I'm about to get some blood tests I'm hoping and again Peter Thier claims and I believe him that there's a high correlation between VO2 max and generally cardiovascular health and low probability of cancer, low probability of heart disease and it's the best that I can make sense of right now I'd love to see Peter Thier and McGuff debate this and have a discussion about it I don't know enough about physiology to do it but I guess what I'm trying to say is I'd like to combine the two to the extent that I can but McGuff would say you're wasting your time on the zone 2 and you're wasting and not only you're wasting your time you're doing damage to your joints and I you know and so that makes sense but I do not have the knowledge to be able to figure that out and I so I'm doing the best that I can with partial knowledge and the time it would take me and the effort it would take me to figure this out like to study the biochemistry I don't think I can so you know I'd love to see that discussion between Peter Thier and McGuff and maybe I'd learn more from that discussion and maybe I could enhance you know enhance my knowledge that way but short of that I just don't see how to do it so I'm trying to do everything because being 62 the amount of life left to me is shrinking and I just want to try different things to stay alive James says what will cause a civil war in Russia is it even possible for Wagner to retaliate how does a Russian civil war impact people in the west will impact Africa and the Middle East only no I mean Russia collapse will impact the whole world I mean a civil war in Russia would stop the war in Ukraine a civil war in Russia has the chance of somebody better coming to power or somebody worse coming to power which would impact the rest of the world you know I think a civil war in Russia would impact China and it would be interesting to see how China responds to something like that no I mean it would have global impacts on pretty much everything so it is it is a major would be a major geopolitical event it would have impact on everybody have impact on oil and gas it would it would raise prices it would impact India because India buys most of its oil now from Russia but I don't think there's a huge probability of it but the positive is if two factions within the military you know decided to fight over the fight over the war over leadership of the Kremlin if one faction sided with Putin and another faction fight with somebody else but one of the pagosan things illustrated is that there's a lot of incompetence there's a lot of and it's not clear who's left there to challenge Putin I mean one of the things Putin has been brilliant at doing is eliminating all opposition and surrounding himself with yes men and it's part of why he's losing the war in Ukraine it's because nobody will critique him and it's all you know he's just surrounded by yes men surrounded by people who won't challenge him and therefore who's going to fight him who's going to take it up so I don't see a civil war you might see a coup where they get rid of Putin they decide he's a loser or if the Ukraine war suddenly flips and Ukraine makes substantial advances and Crimea looks like it's being threatened you might see them kick out Putin but I don't think it would be a civil war in that case I think it would just be a consensus among the generals or among the people in the Politburo and they would just kick him out and it would be substantial geopolitical event Stephen thank you Stephen Burnetti says I do not have any question I do want to thank you for being such a tremendous value thank you $100 really appreciate that really really appreciate the support thank you Andrew Republicans in a quandary a portion don't care about winning per se there after political bloodlust against the left or is that getting carried away should we want a splintering I think a splintering would be good a splintering would suggest that there's enough mass there's enough energy there's enough principle behind the anti-Trump side of the Republican party to splinter away I don't think that's happening I think much more likely is that the people who are more and more and more dominating the party and everybody else is just cowering to them so a splinter would suggest that the cowering is stopped and something more substantive is raising as an anti-Trump movement I don't see it I don't know where it comes from the people who are clearly anti-Trump are super marginalized within the Republican party Trump dominates the party I mean this is why he should have lost 2020 by a much much much bigger margin and it's the only way that this party would be shaken up and something better would have come about and I said this at the time Trump needed to lose by a landslide unfortunately not only did he lose by relatively small margin but he then spun it as I didn't even lose which was brilliant just brilliant and allowed him to maintain control over the political party but that's why he had to lose by such a big margin that the message would have been clear Americans don't want him he is a loser and that would have sent a clear message to a Republican party the small loss was not clear enough maybe that's because he was facing Biden Biden was such an awful candidate all because people just vote for him no matter what I'm for splintering even if it means a period of losing I'm for a third party quickly James G says 5 channels for video to review under 20 minutes uneducated let me copy this so these are channels that I can review but I need specific videos all channels are great to watch you guys have to give me specific content I don't have time to start watching a whole bunch of channels and watching random videos find a good video James G says was 150 enough for UK vs USA housing market yes I just need to I need to find that video again I apologize I basically forgot about it and I need to resurrect that there's a bunch of stuff that I'm behind on again even though I promised you it wouldn't be on anyway we'll get there PB says glad I I got you life today could you please explain similarities and differences between neo-conservatives approach versus Nikki Haley's view regarding Putin Ukraine etc thanks you know I don't know if the neo-conservatives at this point have a particularly unique approach I mean neo-conservatism as an ideology and as a driving force intellectually and within the Republican party and to a large extent died out after the failures of the Bush administration and the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan they are still out there you know different people but it's not a I don't think it's a cohesive approach anymore and I don't think they have any kind of significant influence I haven't really monitored if commentaries of the magazine, the neo-conservative magazine if their approach towards Ukraine and Russia is significantly different than let's say pro supporting Ukraine and non neo-conservatives are so I'm not sure I mean neo-conservatives have this view that it's it's America's responsibility to be the policeman of the world it's America's responsibility to bring democracy to the world and to enhance the world democratically and it's okay to sacrifice American troops in order to bring this vision of the world in that sense they're very similar to the left's what do you call liberal internationalism which is Woodrow Wilson's progressive internationalism views about America's not just a shiny city on the hill but a shiny city on the hill that sends its army established little satellite states all over the world that mimic America and that's our job and that's our responsibility and that's our moral responsibility so I think you can support Ukraine in the war from that perspective Ukraine is a country in my view and I've talked about this moving towards greater liberty, greater freedom towards being a good country, a decent country and you could support the war and support Ukraine from that perspective of bringing democracy to the world but I also think you can support the war and you come up with the same outcome basically from the perspective of purely American interest Russia as a geopolitical threat to the United States supporting Ukraine as a very cheap very cheap method of reigning Russia in also to a large extent I think reigning China in because I think that as long as as long as you know it's very difficult for the Russians to take Ukraine that I think has implications to our China views taking Taiwan and the unity of the west the unity of the west in the face of this and everything else I think is a warning sign for the Chinese vis-a-vis Taiwan what else so I think you can be a America you know I don't want to call myself an America first but you know kind of a properly defined America first America self-interest let's call it that American self-interest foreign policy foreign policy and still be a strong support of American support for Ukraine in order to hold back on a authoritarian who might start a war with NATO and that would involve US troops directly unless we leave NATO but that's a very difficult process and unlikely to happen anytime soon so I think the worst case scenario imaginable is Putin invades Poland or invades Lithuania Latvia or Estonia and the United States suddenly has suddenly has to go fight in Europe that would be horrific let the Ukrainians let them do the fighting let them diminish Russian military force let them show the world that Russia is a paper tiger let them destroy Russia's capabilities and discourage it from engaging in further war and American can just send equipment mostly equipment it's not going to use anyway it's not costing the America taxpayer that much money because this is equipment that wasn't going to be replaced anyway let the Ukrainians use that equipment to push back the Russians and to harm them as much as possible alright Daniel says don't forget the cognitive benefits of exercise especially cardio that's what I read but again I'm not in a position to say yes these benefits are absolutely unequivocal if Duff came up and said but look here the argument why it doesn't really provide you with any cognitive I don't have I mean it certainly seems that way and it makes sense and this is why I'm paying attention to Peter Tia because he makes sense to me without given that I have limited knowledge what doesn't make sense to me are some of these fanatics some of the this is the diet this will change your life I'll tell you this is virtual if you just take this virtual you will live longer it's just not true and once you dig into some of their claims you find that they're based on flimsy medicine I liked Peter Tia's approach from beginning to end in that it was an approach that recognized the limitations of our knowledge today and that was I think his biggest strength he approached it from a completely objective perspective he approached it from the perspective of what do we know and what do we don't know and let's not pretend that we know a lot more than we know and he says I'm going to emphasize the things that we actually know and I like that approach so because I like the approach I'm willing to take his prescriptions seriously right given my lack of technical knowledge all right JPS 1776 are you still doing an annual health human longevity yes still doing it do it every year try to do it every year I'm doing it next in October so I'll be in California in October and I'm going to the San Francisco office and I'm doing but I'm also I'll be in both the San Diego and the San Francisco office because I'm also doing a stress test so I can get my VO2 max and get my maximal heart rate you know the real numbers not the estimated numbers that the algorithms give you but an actual real number under stress test so I'm kind of excited I like data so I'm kind of excited to get more numbers but yes I'm absolutely doing human longevity still Daniel says do you think Trump has any shot at winning a general election the thought gives me hippie gibbies I don't know if hippie gibbies is good or bad I assume bad yes I think he has a chance I think he has a shot I mean Biden is so weak Biden is so pathetic Biden could be mumbling up on stage during the debates I mean he might not even be cognitively there there is a chance and who knows given that the recession is probably not going to happen anytime soon could happen next year we could go into an election year in a recession an incumbent almost never wins when there was a recession when he's up for think Jimmy Carter think George Bush senior they didn't win mostly because during the election year there was a recession even if it was over by election year nobody knows that so if there's a recession in 2024 the Republican is likely to win and maybe the Republicans suffer in the House and Senate because of abortion and again that might be not be a bad idea right I'm all for the divided government right I don't want Republicans to win at all and I don't want Democrats to win at all Ma, quarterly and monthly zooms summer shows left I don't know what that means quarterly and monthly zooms what are we talking about maybe in the chat you can tell me what you're actually asking quarterly and monthly zooms for big time supporters yes we're doing those and if you have not got an invitation to do one of those in a while then please email me youron at youronbrookshow.com not anything else youron at youronbrookshow.com and I'll make sure that we get you scheduled I don't know what summer shows left but you know we're on schedule so far until I start traveling starting in mid September 250 tier picture on like myself and for shows left I don't know what for shows left means but yeah email me right email me and we'll get you scheduled I don't know why you haven't been scheduled but yes you should be on a quarterly thing and if you haven't got an email from Angela then please let me know that you haven't got that email and I'll talk to and make sure we get you scheduled we'll get you scheduled for September so just email Angela email me if you don't hear from Angela just we'll make it happen yes they will be one-on-ones they're coming up Michael Sanders interesting you say Trump is the candidate of the youth the Hitler Youth Gen X seems to be way more sympathetic to fascism and an idolistic strongman they're more interested in a strongman but look you only hear from the people who are most vocal I don't think most Republicans are fascist I don't think most Republicans are nihilists but most Republicans do support Trump including most young people do support Trump for whatever that's worth and that is the reality I don't want us to jump too far to to what that means all right thank you guys terrific job in the superchat we went hour 15 which is not what these news roundups are supposed to be so long and I love it that you have a lot of questions that's great sometimes I can go over sometimes I have how it stops today I could go over a little bit but now I do need to run and yes I will see you all I will see you all tonight hopefully we've got Duncan Scott for an interview we're going to be talking about we the living the movie fascinating really really interesting story of how the movie was made when it was made the role fascist had in making it the role the Nazis had in maybe banning it and how it was destroyed how it was rediscovered and where we're going to be screening it today no one has a final question are you familiar with the systematic iterate anti-aging protocol Brian Johnson is developing the stuff he does is pretty remarkable with every effect on his body precisely managed yes I mean I am familiar with it I am following it from a distance obviously you have to be a billionaire to be able to afford to do everything that he does and monitor everything you also have to have an enormous amount of free time you couldn't do this and actually have a life and a career and stuff going on to do it but I am following it a little bit the last thing I read is about I don't know if it is specific stimulus that he does to his penis you know go figure but you know all kinds of stuff that he does for that organ I see no problem with that it certainly should be a part of your anti-aging protocol I do find what he is doing interesting he is like this massive one man guinea pig how much you can learn from one man's experience is questionable scientifically you know he is taking one track how much can you learn from that is going to be interesting but yeah I mean I wouldn't do what he is doing he is nuts because it is all consuming it is the only thing that matters it is all he does but yeah follow it absolutely and I hope a bunch of scientists are following it because how much can I learn from it but I hope a bunch of scientists are following it and in five years ten years we will be able to write significant papers about what worked and what didn't work one of the challenges you are going to get is he is doing so many different things how do you know which of them actually had the effect there is no control group there is no control Johnson it is only making one change he is doing all the changes it is going to be fascinating fascinating to see what actually happens all right guys thank you I appreciate the support I appreciate all the questions keep the questions coming again we will be available for questions I want to stick to we the living and stuff for for tonight show but certainly we will be doing a show tomorrow we will be doing a show Saturday so keep the questions coming on health and politics on Pagosin on Russia whatever you think I will see you tonight and if not tomorrow morning it was great to have so many people I assume a bunch of new people were on today I hope you subscribe please like the show before you leave we had 150 people watching at any given point of time so we probably had 400 people watching 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be making salmon patties tonight, cream potatoes, and some fried okra. And it's going to be delicious. The kids are eating. Mae's already here. Amy's on her way. And so I'm going to open up this salmon and pick the bones and stuff out of it because that's what I do. And then I have already chopped up our potatoes and our okra. And so we'll start frying it up in a minute. All right. So this salmon, of course, has the skin and the bones when it comes out of the can. This is just double-queue pink salmon. It's actually, I grew up calling it salmon, but when I went to college, people taught me to say salmon. And so now I, most of the time I do say salmon. All right. So I just grab it out of the can. I take a little bit of the skin off. And you don't have to. You can just mix it all up. I know a lot of y'all do. And then I put the good meat in a bowl that I'm going to mix them up in. And I leave the juice and the other stuff in this, in this one over here. Y'all let us know what y'all are doing on a Friday night. Are kids still playing football? Yes. So I imagine a lot of people are at football games tonight. It's been kind of rainy here. So if you're at a football game, you won't be watching us, I guess. But if you're like us, and you don't have any kids to go watch football, you're at home. So y'all tell us where you're from and where you're watching from tonight, since we're live. I don't think that they're going to be able to hear me, Tim, if I talk. I bet they can. Y'all hear me when I'm talking. That's the first thing we need to find out before I start talking. Okay. You got people from Tuscaloosa. Tuscaloosa. Maryland. Oh, they can hear me if they're telling me where they're from. North Carolina. Can y'all help hear Korea? Y'all let us know if you can. Lancaster, South Carolina, Tamsville, South Carolina. Some Carolina people. All right, I'm going to wash my hands. And then we're going to add our ingredients in our salmon patties. And I'll show you how I make mine. All right. Milton Florida down there here in Tuscaloosa. We know where Milton is. The Tusca County, you sure know where that is. Have they told you if they can hear you or not? Somebody said yes, but I'm not sure. Awesome. You'll have to talk pretty loud, I'm sure, if you want them to hear you. All right, I got some green onion. We're going to take three green onion. And I'm just taking off the, I always take off the outside peel when I do green onions. That's just what I do. That's what mama did. So that's what I do. So I always just peel the outside off of it, the outer most one. I cut some of the leaves off. And then we're going to chop these up. And since my chopping block is on that side, I'm just going to come around, chop these up and we're going to throw them in here. So I like green onion in our salmon patties and my hands wet from just washing my hands. So I got to be careful. So if you've never put green onion in your salmon patties, you ought to give it a try. It's really good. My daughter, my Amy, my youngest absolutely loves salmon patties. My potatoes are starting to boil over there. I need to go rescue them. Let me get these two big pieces out. When you boil potatoes, I bring them to a bowl with a lid on, but you can't leave the lid on unless you want a big bowl over mass, can you? Okay. I'm going to come back around there and I'm going to throw these onions in here. And then I'll trade with Chris again. So we're just going to chop these up a little bit, get them in here in our bowl in Kedoki. I like having my sink right here next to me. Should have got me out of, now so do you can't get right there right up under my feet, honey bun. All right. So we're using this recipe. It's in our first cookbook on page 100, actually. So you put an egg in there. I use flour, a lot of flour compared to most people, but most people that try my salmon patties love them. So we're going to use a half cup of flour. We're going to use a quarter cup of cornmeal mix. That's white lily self-rising cornmeal mix. So it does have flour in it already. And we use about half teaspoon of pepper. We use about a quarter teaspoon of cayenne. And I typically put a little juice in here as well. And I mix them up. I'm going to get me a real spoon to mix these up. It's going to clink a little bit, but that's all right. We're lying tonight. We're cooking just like mama did. And we might make a little noise. I noticed somebody from, let's see, I saw somebody from Long Island, New York. Oh, wow. We used to have neighbors that were from Long Island. Yeah, our neighbor across the street, probably Kenny was from Long Island. You know, I saw Iowa. Remember that? Do you remember Rudy and Irene's last name? Uh, no. Me either. Their names were Rudy and Irene. Ms. Rudy. I mean, Ms. Rudy and Ms. Irene and Collie. We love them. We lived there long enough. We did see them transition to heaven. And I'm adding a little bit to this because I put a little bit more juice than I normally do. Sorry about that, y'all. But hey, it is what it is. It is what it is. I want to be able to form into patties. All right. So we're going to get these over here. I'm going to turn on my oil. And while this oil is getting warm, we're going to mix up some okra. And I'm using corn oil. If you want to know what kind of oil I'm using, that's what my granny used. Uh, when she cooked with everything, she used corn oil. And we're going to turn both of these up because we're going to fry our okra in here. And we're going to do our salmon patties in here. Now it's not going to take years long to fry up some salmon patties as it is to, um, cook the okra. But, you know, I haven't cooked on the stove, so it may cook fast. So, um, our potatoes are boiling good. And I don't want them to splash in my grease. So I'm going to turn them down just a little bit. I don't want them in the middle. I had them in the middle earlier, but I just don't really want them over there. Just not what I want. All right. We can step over here again, baby. I'm going to mix this up. Okay. Here's our okra. I cut it up. There's a lot of it. I'm going to put some buttermilk on it and toss it in that buttermilk. And then we're going to put some flour on it, salt and pepper as well. Let's toss it in the buttermilk first. You want to get enough buttermilk on there that your batter is going to stick to it, but not so much that it's runny runny. So just put a little buttermilk on it. See, it's coated pretty good. The buttermilk takes so good on fried okra. And I'm using whole buttermilk. If you use the low fat, then it's not going to be as thick. It's not going to stick to it quite as good. But if that's all you can get, that's all you can get. Now I'm going to be honest with you. If that's all you can get, you might be better off getting a little bit of sour cream and tossing it in some sour cream. That would be delicious.  But you know what? Your mama probably had whole buttermilk, and now they don't even hardly sell it no more. But back then, everybody had it. We didn't have this low fat stuff that we do today. Which is fine if that's what you're drinking, but when you're just using it to batter something, it's nice to have thick buttermilk. Okay, so now I'm just going to toss some flour in it. And my mother did use cornmeal and flour when she battered her okra. But I don't. I use flour only. And I use self-rising white lily flour, and it's nice and crunchy. And delicious when you make okra with it. It's some good stuff, ain't it, Chris? I'm trying to get all that flour on it. That's down in the bottom. All right, that's ready to drop. So we're frying some stuff tonight. There's me a piece of okra in there. It's already hot. So this oven's gonna work pretty doggone good. I do believe. So I'm gonna have to, I don't know which one I'm playing with at the time. There it goes. So that's nice and hot. I would say it's ready. Boy, there's a big difference in this oven and what I've been used to. Yes, it does. Makes me happy. Makes me happy. And I loaded it. So it needs to be hot, don't it? As a matter of fact, I'm gonna turn it up. Turn it up since I loaded it down. And then these are my salmon patties and I just, you can turn them around like a croquet.  Mom never did. She just threw them in there. But I don't think my oil's ready over here yet. It's not quite ready. So while we're waiting, I mean it, I'll roll a couple of these and then I got to get me some paper towels and stuff ready for when they come off. I haven't seen the kitchen yet. I'll back it up. All right, Daddy, are we ready to drop these? They're sticking to me. Sticking to me. I usually just use my spoon. I was trying to do it pretty for y'all tonight. Guess I should have stuck with my spoon. I'm gonna rake this off. Go wash my hands because I got half the salmon patties on my hands. No, I don't really. Just a little bit. But we don't want to waste none. Amy's taking some to a friend of hers. So that's why I'm cooking a lot. She's gonna take a plate home tonight. She had a test today and she should be on her way. I hope. Here's me a rag I can use right here. All righty. So we got it cooking. Come on over here, Chris. Let them see the food. I'll turn up my potatoes a little. Looks good, don't it? You can see them onions in there good. Make some pretty too, y'all. Make some pretty. They're okra's frying good. Now you don't want to touch it until it's golden brown. And I've got it in my wok today. I can test the bottom and make sure it's not burning, I guess. Right in the middle. Oh, it's fine. We're just gonna let that sit in there and cook until it's nice and brown. I love using the wok because you don't have to use as much grease or oil, whatever you call it. You don't have to use as much when you're frying them. And when I flip my salmon patties, I kind of smash them a little. So I flip them and smash them. You're gonna let them get golden. Now I put a lot of flour in them, so I do cook mine a few minutes because you want to make sure that they're done on the inside and that they've raised up puffy and pretty. I don't like mushy salmon patties on the inside nor crab cakes. I like them to be done. So this is, they're really pretty and golden. I'm gonna turn my heat down a little bit now that I've flipped them over. I can't, I haven't figured out which ones want yet. I'm pretty sure that that's the front. You turned down. I turned down the back. I'll get it eventually, I guess. All right, so let's get us something to put these on because these are gonna get done pretty quick. How is everybody tonight? We got many people watching? 700. Oh, that's pretty good for Facebook. Thank you all for watching. All right, we're gonna let these get golden. We're not gonna rush them because you want them to get good nice and done on the inside and then we'll drop the rest of them and I'm gonna put them up here under this light when they're done. They'll be good, good, good. Let's see how much our potatoes are getting done. I need to forward. I'm just running Chris out of the kitchen. Now I doubt I stay on long enough to cream the potatoes in front of y'all. I'll probably just fry up this food, get it under the warmer, let that be it, and then cream my potatoes once we're off here. Mostly y'all know how I cream my potatoes by now. Time's faster than that other. Yeah, it's still not quite ready to flip. Not quite there. Getting there but not quite there y'all. We can get these out pretty and one can of salmon goes a pretty long way when you do it when you cook it like I do. All right, we'll turn that on, drop some more. This time I'm just gonna drop them like mama would. She would drop them and then smash them. Let's just make a big one. That'll be a big one. Okay, I'll smash them. I know I'm sticking to it. Okay, let's let me use this and smash them. It'll be wet. They're sticky. Leave this out. Did y'all notice my new canisters I got from a flower and stuff? I don't have them on the website yet for y'all but I really like them. They're big. They're gallon size and they hold a five pound bag perfectly. Perfectly. All right, that up from smelling it, I better turn it. Starting to smell it means you better turn it. Oh, it looks good on it. Still not quite there. You want it to get nice and brown before you flip it. Let's see how this over here looks. It looks brown. You don't want to flip it too much. Well, it looks good though. All right. I'm going to put this stuff back over here. Clean up my space while daddy and look shall watch the food. I'm sure when I walk wearing this thing to talk in, I've never had one. I've never had a lapel before y'all. Do you like it? Can you tell? It should help with the echo in here. We do have high ceilings. Show them how high up it goes, Chris. It goes pretty high. My cat would like some of that. I'm going to put it right there for her. Everybody's going to be happy to not even the cats.  It's real life. There's flies. Oh, did y'all see my swing can opener? It's pretty cool. Y'all hadn't seen it. See how it works. It's kind of like a commercial one. I do have that on the website. I love that thing. I had one woman send me a personal email and tell me that she got one and that she was amazed at how much easier it was for her to open cans because she has arthritis. So if you suffer from it, it is a good handy thing. My sister thinks I'm crazy. She uses an electric one. She's like, tell me why in the world don't you have an electric can opener? And I'm like, because I don't want to get out on the counter. I got all this other stuff out on the counter, but I don't know. I just, I've never had one since we've been married. Have I, Chris? Getting very on the nail. Maybe I'll get you one for Christmas or something. I'm going to turn this light off so y'all can see the pretty okra because that red light makes it look weird. You'll see how pretty it's frying up and what I like about using flour. Look at that. See that beautiful crust. It's crunchy and delicious. And let me show you something else. You look down at the bottom of my grease and it's not full of cornmeal because that's what happens to okra when you put cornmeal on it. Half of it goes down in the bottom of skillet. If you don't believe me, just give it a try. I bet you if you try your okra with buttermilk and self-rising flour, you will make it again. I have people tell me all the time they try that too. They like it. It's pretty warm standing over this stove though when it's on high. Well, that's pretty though, ain't it? I love my new stove, y'all. Oh, and let me tell y'all something about it. You know, if you were on here the first time I made biscuits in it, they didn't brown. I put them in this little oven. I didn't know it, but the oven, the little oven don't have one. But somebody taught me a trick. I haven't tried it yet, but I need to. Me and Chris don't get up and make biscuits every day. But anyway, it has a convection on this side.  So that's nice because I was worried about that not having enough. I was afraid my baked goods wouldn't get them brown good, but they do. They're going to. All right, let me fix me something to get this okra out on. Put it on a pie plate. I think it's ready, don't you? You think it's ready, daddy? It looks a lot better than the first okra I've tried in this kitchen on that electric stove, don't it? Oh, yeah. Yeah, we like it. I didn't know what I was doing. Yo, I'm just used to gas. I cook better on it. You know, you get used to what you get used to, but now I grew up with electric. We just had a plain old electric coil stove like most of us did back in the day.  She still had electric. Well, that's the reason Tammy wanted this oven because her grandma had a double oven. Yes. That's the whole purpose. We wanted that double oven. And now we got it. And a lot of y'all are like, it's only you and Chris, but lots of times now I cook for May and Amy and their friends. So we have more to feed than we did back in the day. But that okra is absolutely gorgeous. Now that is perfectly fried okra. Not too brown, not too light. I mean, it's good. See, and I turned it off and it's off. And see, it's just wonderful. It's just wonderful. So we're going to turn on our heat lamps and keep this stuff warm up here while I cream some potatoes. How many we got going on now, Chris? 694. Do y'all want to stay on while I cream my potatoes? It's up to y'all. Might as well. Made you start our video? Good. We're playing a video on YouTube tonight for Pimento Cheese. I'll show y'all that in just a minute. So y'all can go up there and watch it if you want to.  Let's see the front. Is this one? All right. Now you can tell that there's some stuff down in the bottom where I fried my okra, but it's not a lot of cornmeal. Cornmeal makes it just like powdery looking on the bottom. Okay.  We're going to need milk. We've got deviled eggs. I'll just show them this. We made Pimento Cheese today. It's playing on YouTube right now. Some sweet tea, some milk, some sour cream, some butter, salt and pepper. And I see it, right? And then we should have some potatoes. And I got my mixer right here, handy dandy. And I will put this right here. And I do believe my things are right here. So we're going to mix up some cream potatoes. So we got a big supper tonight. I don't have bread made, but Lord of Mercy, we got everything in the world. We don't need no bread. We hardly ever eat bread unless it's breakfast. Now we'll eat cornbread if I'm having collard greens or soup or something. But I don't make bread for dinner and I never have. Have a crisp. Never, never really made bread for dinner. My mama made biscuits almost every night. But I don't. And when she, my mama hardly ever had dessert, moose soda. She hardly ever had dessert. And she would just butter a biscuit and put some sugar in it. Some of y'all probably had this. Mama would put sugar in the biscuit. And then when we would come in there and say, mama, I'm hungry before it was time to go to bed, she would give us one of those sugar biscuits. Did your mama do that, Chris? Really? Well, she didn't make biscuits that often, did she? Lord, my mama did. Chris's mama made canned biscuits, y'all. His mama did. Did she? His mama, but now his mama cooked, his mama worked. My mama didn't. That's the difference right there. When a woman's got to go out and work, it's hard for her to have the energy to make a real big supper. That's why they use their crock-pots. Eat a lot of spaghetti, chili, soup. Don't you? All right. So I put a little bit of milk, some salt and pepper, some butter, and I'm about to put just a little bit of sour cream in here. We had friends come over Monday and I cooked a big supper. Well, a lunch. Let me get finished with this. And it was so funny because he said, and she don't make mashed potatoes, she makes cream potatoes. He goes and she puts sour cream and all that good stuff in there, don't you? And I said, yes. And he was happy. That's what I made. I made them green and green beans. All right. There's our potatoes and salmon or fried okra. I want to hear it crunch. I'm going to post the deviled eggs this week too sometime this weekend. There it is. Crunchy. I forget I have this on. I guess I can hear it. Oh, good. Man, now that's a mama that can cook. And that's why the kids still come. Right. And it's because I grew up people watching people cook. I'm going to tell you, a recipe book is not all you need. You need to be able to watch somebody in the kitchen, throw a whole supper together and watch them time it. And it really helps a lot. And y'all have a wonderful day. And we thank you so much for watching Collard Valley Cooks, where we cook like our mama's dad. Love y'all.


Hi, today I'm going to talk to you about a new book which I read. It is called The Secret Life of Organizations. And I'm going to give you three reasons which I think are fabulous things that you will get out of this book. It's written by Shalini Lal and Pradya Parashar. And one of the first things that struck me about the book was that it's a terrific one for somebody who's actually getting into the first job. If you are making the transition from being in college and then getting onto your first job, this is probably a very significant time to ask a lot of questions, what kind of an organization really works well for you. And the answer to that lies in the kind of organizational culture. So the very first thing that which I marked out was that you must focus on that chapter which talks about what is it about the organization that people can see very readily and figure out and what is it that they can't. And the organizational culture is an important segment to think about because it is really like saying the soil conditions in which a lily can bloom is very different from the one in which you expect to grow a rose or a cactus. Every one of the flowers actually needs a different kind of a soil condition. Think about that soil condition as the culture in which you can thrive. So really which one is going to let you thrive is an important segment. The second thing that I liked a lot in this book was this whole chapter which they talk about on power and politics. Now in organizations when people join for the first time, they're inevitably dismayed about the level of politics and it is nothing to get worried about and neither should you feel that if you change jobs, you will get into an organization where there is no politics. There's no such thing. Wherever there are scarce resources and whether it is time, whether it's money, whether it's any other resource that people are competing for, there is going to be the method of influence and so politics is just a name which has got a bad press. But it's about the way in which people compete with each other for resources. So that's really politics and the book actually tells you how do you deal with that because how do you deal with a scenario when you are not getting along with your boss or you're not getting along with your teammates and there's a particular colleague who is giving you grief. Then this is a great chapter for you to read. The third segment which I liked a lot in this book and probably my favorite segment which is really what it comes to at the end which talks about know thyself. So until you know yourself, knowing something about the organization's culture is not good to help you make that wise choice. So the segment which is really around what are your motivators, what are the kind of things that could be your potential derailers is a terrific one to read and probably the one that I recommend the most that you might want to really start thinking about many of those questions. The other thing that I liked about the book was it's got these little nuggets of things that are relevant but it's not put there. So, you know, don't worry about something like this, take a look at this, go and talk to somebody. So everything about the book made me feel that I wish this is the book that I had read when I started my first job and throughout my career I've made a whole lot of mistakes, a whole lot of mistakes. And if I had read a book like this, then I think I would have made much less a number of mistakes. I would have still made mistakes. I can tell you that about myself. But you know, I also think that having a mentor in the organization sometimes is a great way to, you know, get your bearings right and the segment also talks about that. So a lot of questions which you will find really terrific. I liked it and I highly recommend that you read it. If you like this particular kind of a book review, let me know. I will put out some more because there are plenty of good books that I think you would benefit from. I will also put a little summary which I think you can find useful. It's there on my website and if you like, follow me on LinkedIn at Abhijit Badri. Till the next time, see you.


Well, I missed my flight to Medellin, Colombia, so here we are with another whiteboard video. And if you guys are wondering, Frank, are you working out? You bulging out of your t-shirt, no I haven't. I was carved out of marble in Italy before being exiled to New York. Anyway, I'll digress. So two years ago, I made a video explaining why non-ionizing radiation is harmful. And that's the typical argument given when talking about all this technology, cell phones, routers, everything we have, oh, it's non-ionizing so it's not harmful. We are electric beings, down to our atoms, everything in our body in the world is made up of energy. And any sort of deviation from that outside of nature will cause variations in our body's natural electric fields. And really any modern electronic device can cause different sets of health issues. The elite know this and certainly take their own measures to protect themselves while poisoning the masses. It's safe, it's okay to use it. Putting it simply, these different electric fields disrupt calcium metabolism in cells. The energy excites the cell, causing calcium to flush into the cell, resulting in many different metabolic reactions. And this happens at high levels consistently. It can actually cause cell death, leading to degenerative diseases, especially cancer. But even more acute reactions such as heart attacks. So if you want to know more about that, you guys can check that video I made, why non-ionizing radiation is harmful. But that's not the topic today, that's just a little intro, knowing what we're talking against. If we're suffering so much from these modern devices, what are those elite doing to protect themselves? So of course there is protective clothing, I mean I'm wearing it right now, I wear it every single day, 24-7, I sleep in a Faraday cage, bed canopy. But celebrities and politicians are not visibly wearing protective material. And we know there are many drugs that can be prescribed as calcium channel blockers for rapamil, dilatism, typically to high blood pressure patients. But those drugs the masses are given have undesirable side effects. I'm guessing the elite have their own versions of calcium channel blockers that are very effective against EMF so they can function with minimal side effects.  You know if I could walk around in an astronaut suit, believe me I would, but you know it impairs your day to day functions. So I'm not shielding 100% of my brain. And there are different nutrients and foods that seem to help the body tolerate these unnatural levels of radiation when you do have to leave your house and look normal. First up we have magnesium. I've done several videos on it, have a whole podcast on magnesium. So most of you are probably familiar with its role in regulating calcium and it would make sense that magnesium can protect the body against EMF by keeping calcium where it's supposed to be. I don't think I said this earlier. If you guys are unfamiliar EMF stands for electric and magnetic fields. It's just a general term for devices that emit any type of radiation that is unnatural. Now there are studies comparing magnesium to calcium channel blockers, those drugs. The outcome being that magnesium has a synergistic effect in working to relieve high blood pressure. Other studies have found that magnesium on its own can block calcium channels in high enough concentrations. Personally, out of everything I've taken, I think magnesium is the only real effective thing. I would say you need at least 200 to 400 milligrams and then on top of that an oral spray pretty frequently depending on how high radiation the environment is. And to my understanding, the magnesium has to be in your bloodstream and it's only so effective. You can't exactly fry yourself for 20 hours on an airplane and think that mega dosing magnesium will alleviate all the damage. It can only go so far. It's kind of hard to find studies on this but there are a lot of different vitamins, especially B6 that increase the effectiveness of calcium channel blockers as well as other amino acids such as L-Arginine. But is that because most people are deficient in B vitamins and amino acids? Probably other B vitamins have shown these properties as well and that's likely because every single B vitamin plays a large role in cardiovascular health. It's kind of difficult to know because the treatment of high blood pressure tends to be intertwined with calcium channel blockers in these studies. We want to know that in the context of a healthy person with no vitamin or mineral deficiencies what can be taken to directly counter EMF. Yeah, if you're deficient in B vitamins, omega fatty acids, vitamin D, you're going to feel better when taking those or eating foods that contain those nutrients. Thing is, we want to prevent the damage from the radiation, not fix the cellular damage afterwards, although we probably have to do both. I have a B complex as well as an antioxidant support supplement that certainly help with reducing the oxidative damage on organsupplements.com and I would say that damage is guaranteed if the EMF levels are high enough or sustained enough for a long enough period of time. But those things only apply if you're deficient in the nutrient, if your body isn't capable of producing the extra antioxidants. There are some specific nutrients in cases where like vitamin C, NAC and acetyl cysteine in excess amounts will help regardless of your nutritional status. There are a few foods worth mentioning and I've noticed when drinking water kefir, even just getting drunk off wine, I've had relief from EMF. If it's a quality organic alcohol source, otherwise it can actually make things worse by inhibiting your liver function, taking shots of bourbon, not comparable to a biodynamic wine. So that could be relaxed blood vessels from the alcohol, as well as gut bacteria being able to produce B vitamins for the antioxidant cycles. Alcohol also has B vitamins itself if it is high quality. Eating a decent sized meal while drinking some water kefir has always fixed my headaches without fail. It's the only thing that you can genuinely do because you could take Tylenol, Motrin, Aleve, whatever it is, you need a high quality meal to push the toxins, relieve your liver and give yourself the nutrients and feed the gut microbiome. Coffee is one of those weird ones where it might make some people feel better temporarily but without it you will be worse off than the average non-coffee drinker. I don't think the magnesium content in coffee is significant enough, but the caffeine can relax your blood vessels. Problem is, if your adrenals are shot, your blood pressure might increase. Chocolate seems like a safer bet than coffee, has a much higher magnesium content and contains calories for sustained energy. The caffeine release would also be a bit slower than less stressful on the adrenals compared to the coffee. You do have some sugar that might be feeding your gut microbiome and those bacteria might be helping you deal with the high EMF environment by producing nutrients and detoxing. However, with the high fat content of chocolate, you might be causing bile to be released from the liver and then that's going to be reabsorbed unless you eat something quickly afterwards that has more starch, more carbs, more fiber to increase the gut motility. The problem here is getting the right combination of foods and nutrients without overdoing it as balance is necessary to not stress your liver too much. Magnesium taken with vitamin C is a pretty safe start, vitamin C increases magnesium utilization and those two nutrients aren't too hard on the liver. The more stuff you put in your body, whether good or bad, the more your liver has to process. If your liver is dealing with the oxidative damage from EMF radiation because your liver is what's physically producing the antioxidants, glutathione, you don't want to burden it with too much of anything, even a vitamin, B vitamins, whatever it is. I usually take magnesium and vitamin C in the morning. Then with my meal, I might take vitamin B1 or folate or B complex, but for the most part, I just drink water kefir. You can try to isolate different B vitamins and experiment to see which ones make you feel better and beyond that, you want a hair mineral analysis every few months to make sure you're not depleting any other minerals. We did a video on the hair mineral analysis and we got plenty of information on my channel guys if you want to just learn more about health in general. If you want the quick solution, if you're having health problems, you can reach out to me on frank-defino.com for a consultation where you can also see all of my businesses. We have of course wi-fi-shielding.com where we have some new products and of course the shielding clothing. That's very important. Most effective thing you can do guys is just wear shielding clothing. Organ supplements.com, we have different types of magnesium and other supplements that will help you alleviate the oxidative damage from EMF radiation. On frank-defino.com, we do have water kefir available, but guys just check out frank-defino.com. We have a lot of interesting products, new stuff coming soon for pretty much every business. I didn't listen to my own advice. I went to an event on Sunday in the city, I thought I was just going to be down there for like an hour or two, it was going to be nothing crazy, so I just took some magnesium and vitamin C in the morning and I didn't stay hydrated, ended up being down there for seven hours straight in like the highest EMF environment I've been in for years and years and years. I felt scrambled, you know, my brain, I couldn't think. I was wearing full protective clothing on my body, but I regretted not wearing a hat and a mask. I would have probably felt a lot better. So I would have done differently there as I would have forced myself to stay hydrated. I would have brought some water with me and I would have had a meal, especially something with like white rice, water kefir, some starch to keep me going throughout the day. Depending on what type of environment you're going to be in, you know, that can kind of gauge how locked in you have to be with this and how strict you have to be with your routine because some days you can get away with being in a high radiation environment for a short period of time with no issues. Other days you want to make sure you're on top of your nutrition. So thank you guys for joining me. If you could please drop a like on the video, leave a comment down below, subscribe so that YouTube can unsubscribe you next week and be sure to check that notification bell so they don't notify you of my videos. Maybe I'll end up in Colombia on a beach somewhere nice before I jump off the Brooklyn Bridge. We'll see.