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 Sunday afternoon of night Sunday night it's eight o'clock over here I hope everybody had a fantastic weekend. It is 9-11 and it's it's However, you you cut it. It is kind of a sad day Although it is long time ago. It's 21 years. It's hard to believe I still remember I still remember that day as if it was recent but 21 days years a lot has happened a lot of has been forgotten a lot of people have no clue a lot of people were born after so it's it's definitely It's definitely good once a year and I actually do this more than once a year because it turns out I talk about 9-11 often because it's such a I think monumental event in American history but it is important once a year I think to remember to reflect and To Think about lesson learned or not learned Lessons that should have been learned And so on so we will do that. We will do a little bit of that today and talk about that Update just an update in terms of I told you we'd start to show on good news.  Ukraine has added I think a lot of the stuff I said yesterday where I said We're not sure rumors suggest that they've reached this now is pretty well established that they've reached these places the Russian high command is Acknowledging that they are leaving They of course are claiming that they're leaving in an orderly manner and that they're leaving in order to Strategically move their forces to better locations, but that's all I think the technical term for that is bullshit They are being defeated and they are trying to save face They are obviously taking all their troops and putting them in the areas that they held That they hold in the south and also that they are holding That they're holding in That they've held since 2014 in in close to Donetsk So yeah, the war in Ukraine is going about as well as it can be for the Ukrainians Which is interesting what I find fascinating I Mean I find the war fascinating in kind of a morbid kind of sense wars are horrible and and an awful and Evil and and people are dying and people are suffering and really really bad stuff is happening And the Russians are gonna get nasty now and they're gonna bomb cities and they've already bombed a power the power company in the power supply in Kharkiv So that I think a court of the city or half the city is without power or water because the pumps they rely on electricity But you know, that's part of war. I you know, why would you expect anything different? I? do not believe that in war one should Avoid You know civilian infrastructure civilian casualties if you're the good guys Russian of course the bad guys Anything Russia does in the war is is bad. So Russia you know Russia in this case. Yeah, they're gonna do a lot of damage They're gonna try to lash out. They're angry. They're upset. Of course when they send those missiles in there They're using cruise missiles or other types of missiles Those missiles cost. I think it was 13 million dollars a pop They launched 11 of them today Nine of them were knocked out of the Stakai with by anti aircraft Defenses that the Ukrainians have Western anti defenses so the only only nine out of 11 I think so only two of them made it to their targets That's pretty bleak for the Russians that those kind of odds Particularly given how expensive they are particularly given the fact that they don't have the production capacity to build Many more of these missiles so they are going to run up against the limit but anyway, I was talking about what actually particularly fascinates me about the war in Russia and It's a phenomena that I don't think I would have ever known about would have never Really encountered in my life if not for social media and if not for The fact that you know YouTube and everything people can leave comments and engage in discussions and everything else so What's fascinating to me is How many people are pro-russia? How many people who I think subscribe to my channel or at least listen to my show a pro-russia? It is astounding to me that the people who are pro-russia No matter what a defending Russia Claiming that I don't know what I'm talking about that.  I mean the whole thing is a joke and ridiculous but It truly is it truly is stunning The number of these people who actually exist and the extent to which they take themselves seriously and to the extent to which It doesn't matter how many facts you present in front of them. It doesn't matter what evidence you provide them It doesn't matter what is right there in front of their eyes They are convinced that Russia is winning that Russia are the good guys that Russia is the bastion of civilization and will Will rescue all of us from I guess the evils of of the left that anything that by the administration supports and anything the Europe supports must be by definition evil and horrific and disgusting and horrible and therefore And it's God, I don't know what I make of the phenomena Of course, it's the same phenomena and I know now some of you are gonna get upset But it's the same phenomena observed with Trump. No matter what evidence you provided no matter what facts on the ground existed No matter what was going on Trump was somehow the good guy Trump was gonna win Trump was gonna be president of January 26 No matter how many times, you know, he lost and then after January 6 He you know the the Congress didn't Reappoint him and oh pens didn't do I know I know what happened. No, no Trump is going to be president. He used to be present It facts don't matter They have absolutely No relevance in their life. They have a perspective they will defend their perspective to the death They will distort Reality they would distort You know everything in in their field of observation in order to justify in order to affirm their preconceived their preconceived conceptions and What you know on the left does exactly the same thing the socialist you can show them socialism fails You can show them examples. You can show them different types of examples in different types of errors in different cultures and different societies and different Ways and different all kinds of things and it always fails and I don't know socialism's good And here's why it doesn't like facts reality evidence logic reason Have zero impact on them and To some extent I've always known this exists on the left because I've always fought the socialist and argued with the socialist and combated the socialist and everything but until Trump I Didn't see the same phenomenon on the right and I didn't see it I didn't see that it was basically the same Mindlessness the same mindlessness a lot of people who for years and years and years. I thought kind of Basically agreed with me turns out they didn't they held Ideas that were similar to mine, but they held those ideas completely Unconnected to reality completely divorced from facts and evidence and anything related to reality And therefore they didn't hold those ideas and then once there was something that caused a Diversion and and I think we'll talk about I think that already happened in 9 11 but I Didn't know the extent of it because there was a lot of people who I didn't understand what the hell they were talking about 9 11 after 9 11 the position they took we're just bizarre But it turns out that I didn't know because I didn't have access to all the different people who responded differently than 9 11 Because there was no social media in today the response in 9 11 would be far more diverse and you know radicalized and You know confrontational and contradictory and and problematic If it if it happened today in the inner world with social media And I would have been a lot more aware of it at the time I wasn't aware how many people disagreed and how deep those disagreements How deep those disagreements were so It's it it's another aspect of 9 11 that is We commemorate today Is that it happened at a time before social media and I think everything about 9 11 would have been different With social media and with the world we have today Well, the world we are today somewhat shaped by 9 11 as we'll talk about but certainly It's also shaped by by social media in a way that 9 11 the response to it was not shaped by social media For what it's worth, but it really is fascinating to me the the people who No matter what facts don't matter what the Russians even admit it doesn't matter Russia's winning. I mean literally the Ukrainians could be You know put up putting up the flag on top of the Kremlin and And and the supporters of Russia would be saying no no this is a trick the Russians are tricking the Ukrainians You know, they're gonna get them. This is all just a trick It's it's Amazing to me the inability not inability. Sorry the unwillingness unwillingness a people to think to Literally engage in cognition in identification of the facts of reality and coming to conclusions Based on those facts All right Vadim Based on those facts All right Vadim. Thank you really really appreciate the support. That's a hundred dollars or 99 dollars and 99 cents really appreciate that No question I take it, but that's that's great Ryan. Thank you too for the support also with not a question Ryan is also a seven month member one of the first I think members and he reminds us to don't forget to like the show before you leave and And and the thing about the people in Russia and the people Some people who support a trumpet some people who support the left and all of this is Not that they're stupid.    He was never gonna be and I said, you know, if you're right I will apologize. I will say I was wrong and apologize But if you're wrong I want you to come back on the show and on the chat and admit you were wrong and not a single one of them ever did that They're all gone. They're all disappeared And and some of the Russian supporters have disappeared from our channel as well and my guess is as Russia As Russia has clearly defeated many more of them will disappear And I guess they keep chatting among themselves trying to figure out what went wrong or or or why You know, there is this alternative parallel universe in which they were right and why we were wrong anyway It's it's truly it's an interesting phenomena lack of thinking Lack of acceptance of facts of reality even at the most basic level is truly interesting But this, you know, you shouldn't take anything I say I say seriously because ultimately all I am is a vehicle for the Ukrainian government propaganda machine All I do is recite to you what I hear And what the Ukrainians ask me I hope they pay me well. I really do hope they pay me well Patriot Pete just posted something really good. So it's it's not a super chat. It should be a super chat It's not a super chat. It's in the it's in the chat, but it's worthy of repetition because it's actually really good He writes the Russian army losing so badly that put it is at risk of losing the support of the Republican Party That's really good. I thought it would just be a conventional thing Oh, Putin's losing support of the Russian people or losing the support of the Kremlin or something like that But but no, he's at risk of losing the support of Tucker Carlson He might actually lose Tucker Carlson and the rest of the Republican Party. What will he do then? All right That was funny. Who is it? Who said that? Patriot Pete cool All right, so as you know You know, I will do my spiel a 9-11 in a few minutes, but as you know You guys get to dictate much of the program and what we talk about on the show you can do so With the super chat you can ask questions You can ask you can ask big questions small questions You can ask questions on anything I see a number of questions already on 9-11. That is great or in Russia That would be great So so any of those any of those kind of questions that relate to the topics we talked about on the show would be Fantastic and appreciated, but you can really ask questions about anything. So feel free to jump in with those and 9-11 so 9-11 I think we'll go down as one of those real Moments in which history shifted in which it will be one of those moments in the decline of America That is going to be noted and remembered and historians will study and try to understand What and how and and and explain it? It is of course We know and we've discussed often that ultimately ideas shape history and as a question We'll talk about this that idea shaped America's response to 9-11 But existentially what happens things like Wars things like a terrorist attack on the scale of 9-11 Things like particular elections or particular responses. They accelerate or slow down particular historical processes They're not Determining of the decline the rise of decline, but they are accelerants or they slow down The rise the kind of inevitable rise and decline that is driven by ideas. So all ideas Give you the the broad framework of the direction a culture is heading it The specifics how it declines Speed of its decline the way in which the particular way in which it declines ultimately determined by The people the facts the events if you will on the ground on the ground and Certainly, this is the case of 9-11 Now America has been in decline for a long time certainly By certain measures economic freedom certainly America's been in decline for about a hundred years That decline was slowed down a little bit maybe by Ronald Reagan, but then accelerated later on by Compassionate conservative George Bush, but of course George Bush's whole tomb was dictated by was To largest in the tomb by 9-11, but the economic economic decline of America Economic Liberty has really been set in place by the progressives by progressive ideas with ideas of collectivism and altruism and socialism and Just a rejection of the ideas of the founding fathers the idea of Individualism and of individual rights In other funds Liberty and freedom have increased in the United States over a certain period of time, but generally The ideas of our intellectuals the ideas of the forefront of our culture have been for the most part in decline with I think a slight reversal during the 1970s 80s and 90s, but Then a continuation of that decline and those ideas are basically be shipped be shaped by the left by ideas coming out of The left is manifest in the progressive movement started in the mid 19th century and on going into the 20th century that progressive movement has became has become more radicalized by Postmodernism that has morphed ultimately morphed into kind of the the hippies of the new left the rejection of traditional Marxism and and basically an embrace of pure subjectivism pure Emotionalism and which has reverted into what we have today, which is critical race theory in DEI and and ESG and and and doomsday climate change and all the rest of it Those are the ideas at the forefront and one of the great tragedies Not one of the great the fundamental tragedy of America is that the people who position themselves the people who position themselves as The defenders of the ideas of the founding Which means the ideas of individualism of individual rights of capitalism of freedom of liberty the people who position themselves as a defenders of that as the lovers of our history and our phonic fathers and the Declare in our in our Institutions and our documents and our constitution the people who position themselves defending that Have no clue What those ideas are based on? that the great tragedy is that the people who position themselves to defend all that are not men of enlightenment But are men of regression They are conservatives conservative Conservatives have always opposed the radical nature of the formation of the United States of America. I mean real conservatives America was radical America goes a big change America goes a big shift And it didn't fit so we're left with religious Conservatives to defend a radical fundamentally secular fundamentally individualist revolution We're left with a William F. Buckley's of the world And he's the best among them To defend a revolution that was completely foreign To William F. Buckley's mentality so the right basically left open to the left to have influence over the culture and the the policy the fundamental policy issues of America so come 9 11 and And what are the dominant ideas? gating American politicians and really gating the nation well Religion is important You know the president George W. Bush was in evangelical or born again Religion played a central part in his life and played a central part in America life In addition to religion or hand-in-hand with religion America had embraced At least explicitly if not completely implicitly the idea of altruism That he have turning the other cheek that he have the The idea of not being too self-interested not being too selfish of Loving the enemy Or at least if you don't love them not be too harsh with them the idea that The purpose of a great country like America is to serve others. I'll remember George W. Bush won an election Just barely if you remember against Al Gore Against a real leftist anyone running on a platform of compassionate altruistic collectivistic conservatism compassionate conservatism so altruism combines With religion and respect for religion and ration for religion and of course a declining Confidence in the greatness of America declining confidence in the specialness of America because if America is built an Individualism if America built and count on liberty and freedom and on capitalism or that the respect for individual rights And yet we've spent it a hundred and fifty years undermining individualism undermining individual rights And certainly undermining capitalism then what's so special about America? These are false ideas fake ideas Nonsensical ideas, so there's a certain You know lack of confidence among Americans Leading up to 9-11 for 20 years America is humiliated in the Middle East Humiliated by terrorists Whether it's the taking by embassy in 79 we do nothing The the murder of 244 Marines and their barracks in Beirut. We do nothing The kidnapping and murder of Americans in Lebanon and other places around the world by Iranians We do nothing The slot of Americans in In Saudi Arabia, you know, you know in a marine barrack that this slot of Americans in In embassies in Kenya and Tanzania this slot of Americans I'll forget the name of the ship the coal. I think it was the killing of Americans over and over and over and over again In this case by by Islamists over and over and over again Americans don't seem to care They talk and they do nothing. I mean America by 2001 by September 11 Was a shell of itself It was a country that did not stand up for itself was not proud of itself and the reason I'm rehashing this history is because So many people don't know history And certainly very few people know So many people were not even born in 9-11 so many young people have no idea Yeah, 244 Marines and Beirut is twos and fives and tens That's right You know the the marine barrack the barracks in Saudi Arabia, I forget the number of people who died there Yeah twos and fives and tens Richard I don't know why you persist. You're so full of shit that it's it's it's hard to imagine why you persist and America did nothing The job of the American government the job of any government is to protect its own citizens protect the life and property of its own people and yet America did not protect its own people Defaulted on protecting its own people and then came 9-11 and the country was shocked It was shocked because not just 3,000 people were killed murdered It was how it was done the theatrical nature of it The size of it the scale of it scale was enormous The fact the audaciousness of it the fact that they were willing To attack the heart of our most important maybe the world's most important city the fact that they were willing to attack New York Pentagon a symbol of American military power Was helpless as a plane descended into it fourth plane heading who knows the Houses of Congress to the White House Luckily was stopped so we we don't exactly know what the damage it could have caused So 9-11 woke America up flags came out People people demanded action Everybody declared themselves a patriot America they said was indeed exceptional but exceptional in what? the response to 9-11 revealed all The ideas that were at the heart of America leading up to 9-11 We couldn't identify the enemy. We refused to name him. We refused to say that it was Islamists There was Islamic totalitarians.  We don't want to offend a religion. We're religion Religion is peaceful and Islam George W. Bush right after 9-11 in front of all the Congress declared Islam is after all a religion apiece so religion Prevented Bush prevented the American people prevented our Leaders from daring to name Islam as the culprit. I mean imagine imagine How the world would be different If we had announced Unequivocally that it was Islamist that it had to do with Islam that these were militant Islamists They will give me diminished.  You cannot do that. So let's cow up before the Muslims and pretend That it wasn't them. So we never named the enemy We launched a war on terrorism Can't have a war on an ism on terrorism, which terrorism like terrorism in Peru Terrorism in Cambodia, which terrorism?  No, you can't we use any of those words but We launched a war to bring democracy to the Middle East We launched a war to civilize Afghanistan We launched war wars to bring food and aid packages. I remember That saw the first bombings of Afghanistan by the United States You would have B-52s bombing and then airplanes coming in and dropping food packages and bombing and food packages Yeah, let's feed the enemy before we kill them or maybe we feed them after we kill them I'm not sure what order that goes in but the idea of actually going in and Destroying devastating defeating the people who need defeating that's inconceivable That would be too selfish. That would be too self-interested. She saw the full blossoming of altruism manifest in the response to 9-11 and We're still in the Middle East When I'm not gonna study more. We're still in the Middle East nation building We're still trying somehow to salvage Iraq and to salvage Syria and to do something Scott Horton Horton is clueless. Sorry So our policy is completely altruistic completely self-sacrificial completely divorced For what is necessary if your American self-defense wasn't necessary for American Protection of individual rights America responded. Yeah, Scott Horton will destroy Bill Custall and Kathy Young in debate, but Scott Horton is Is clueless When it comes to the Middle East when it comes to what actually happened when it comes to actual motivations And when it comes to actually understanding the Middle East But that's okay. I mean it's part for the course, right? As I said almost nobody out there understands the Middle East almost nobody out there. I Don't think he's better than Kristalln Young. I think he's worse than Kristalln Young He just defeated them in a debate. That's a different skill set than actually knowing he is a lot more ignorant than will Kristalln and Kathy Young are about the Middle East but They're all wrong. I've disagreed with book Kristalln in the Middle East from day one. I Disagreed with Bill Kristalln about pretty much everything He's a neocon. I wrote a book condemning neocons. I did articles and lectures condemning neocons Neocons got the wars that they wanted neocons fought the wars that they the way they wanted to fight them and the result that we've Got as a result of the neocons Nobody tried my policies Nobody has the balls to have my policies so 9-11 really revealed The emptiness of America the emptiness of American patriotism the emptiness of American nationalism in the positive sense of Caring about America and wanting America to be successful empty Won't name the enemy won't fight wars to win fighting the wrong wars was the big democracy Who cares about democracy in the Middle East?  They you know, that was Obama administration. They've done everything in their power Everything in the power they gave suitcases of cash to the Sunnis in Iraq cash that was later used to form ISIS everything in America's power to broaden to To strengthen Islamists in the Middle East Everything in our power to embolden them indeed. We've given them Afghanistan back Handed to them on a silver platter We've given the Iranians Iraq although they're finding you rock a bit of a mess. We've given the Iranians Syria and Lebanon We let ISIS Slaughter people in Europe not in the US some in the US, but mainly If you want to ask me a question about people about events about things there's a super chat feature everybody else is participating Kyle you can too It doesn't cost a lot of money. You could ask a question about anybody and anything I know sometimes I ask stuff in spite of the fact that it's not done in a super chat, but It's not fair other people are putting their money where their mouth is you can too if you care and if you don't care What are you doing here um? Two bucks you can do for two bucks So the altruism selflessness the religiousness of America Made it weak Made it uneratable unable to deal with 9-11 and the way our government dealt with it was by lying to us by Creating fictions creating excuses. You remember weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. I As I said at the time, why does it make a difference if you rock his weapons of mass destruction? Let's say they do they have massive quantities of chemical weapons that they're using on their own people Which they did for a while they used in the codes. Why is it our business? Syria when I was in the Israeli army and in military intelligence, we knew that Syria had chemical weapons They had chemical weapons and yet Did that mean that the United States should invade Syria and take those chemical weapons away from them? Why is the name of our business indeed the Syrians use the chemical weapons against their own insurgents Against their own in their own civil war, but is that our business that a bad guy has chemical weapons? No, not unless they're planning to use it on Americans Why ever go to Iraq and lie to the American people about the reason you're going I mean you could argue the reason was to bring democracy to the Middle East I think they were serious about that the New York Conservatives were Maybe it was about finishing a war that they started 10 years earlier under Bush the first and they wanted to see it through finally So that was a awful Sadistic horrible Disgusting human being and not one American soldier to die in order to get rid of him He was the responsibility of the Iraqis now I'm not against wars I'm against Wars of self-sacrifice. I'm against wars against people who are not our enemies or not our explicit threatening enemies The war should have been waged against Iran. It should have been waged against Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan Iraq Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11 Iraq had nothing to do with the many terrorist attacks against the United States Saudi Arabia Was funding terrorists in those days funding the schools funding the madrasahs where they studied the ideology that led to terrorism Qatar United Emirates in those days were all funding the terrorists funding Al-Qaeda ultimately funded ISIS They were the enemy but Iraq Iraq was a nothing By the way, American troops are still in Iraq and in Syria One of the great myths of the Trump administration is they never Brought our troops home not from Afghanistan and not from Syria and not from Iraq We still have troops there So 9-11 Revealed the American government as weak as deceptive as Manipulative it manipulated our patriotic feelings in order to pretend that it was doing something in our favor 9-11 revealed that we were paper tiger That we would not really fight That we were going to lose more wars as we lost in Afghanistan It's not only Russia that's a paper tiger. So is America and revealed our politicians as cowards and liars And I think it is the beginning of The real Distrust the I mean distrust we always make is always been skeptical a lot of government skeptical about politicians Didn't really trust them that much, but I think there was a real shift During Bush's presidency a real shift. It was 9-11 and the financial crisis.  It wasn't Islam even though we all knew it was Now Muslims not Islam's don't worry. It's not religion. God forbid. It can't be religion How scary would it be if it was religion and the consequence of this is that the American people lost all trust all faith in Politics in elites in talking heads and they Absorbed this idea that we're cowards our politicians are cowards and they absorb the idea That America did not place its own interests as primary and This explains the popularity of the American first slogan and the American first because it's it has no content There's no content to the American first idea that they're talking about They don't know what it means to have an America first partially because they don't know what America is But they don't understand enough to know what that is But it sounds good and it sounds the opposite of what we did in 1911 in 1911.  We placed the interest of Iraqis and Syrians and everybody else ahead of our own So America first sounds like a good slogan Until you discover how empty it is of any kind of content By the way, I've told this story before but you know that the original in Attack the initial bombings an initial attack of the United States on Afghanistan was called operation infinite justice and As the planes are heading towards Afghanistan to launch operation infinite justice the Saudis Complained to the Bush administration that infinite justice only Allah has different justice How dare the United States use a term like infinite justice to fight Good solid Muslims And what did the Bush administration do tell them to go to hell now it changed the name of the operation and Know that operation the war against Iraq was not called operation defend America operation kill the bad guys It was called God You walk your freedom. I don't think we could we needed a bomb the Saudis The Saudis would have caved if we just threatened and put a little bit of pressure on them. They would have caved but We did nothing they were friends they were allies they You know and when we formed the coalition the coalition of the willing you remember that the coalition of the willing to go after Iraq The one country we excluded the one country that the United States explicitly excluded for the coalition of the willing was Israel Why not to offend the Arabs not to offend the Arabs so we can't have Israel another sign of Weakness just pathetic so in many ways 9-11 is when Americans realized That the ideas that we have are empty The futile the nonsense in a sense the left Has been chipping away and chipping away. I'm undermining and chipping away at America for Since the progressives and they kept on doing that they kept they were consistent. They kept on But what happened to the right and to Kind of the center kind of patriotic Americans Americans still believed in America is That they were the ones who became Disenchanted they were the ones Who gave up and they were the ones who actually fell for the empty slogans of an America first nothingness and A hatred of the elite for being an elite hatred of experts for being experts lump everybody in But all because of 9-11 now I also think financial crisis that a big part to play from an economics perspective It's certainly 9-11 from a from a Perspective on America and what America is and what it stands for what it represents. I think it was 9-11 and I think that turned America and it is We're living with the consequence today We're living with the consequence today. The consequence had been Obama and Trump and you know pathetic Biden and and you know The complete capitulation of America and I don't know how you I don't know how America will recover And and what's interesting is the while we've got a lull in terrorism Generally the slumber seem to be quiet they have taken a real beating Isis has taken a real beating. I think primarily from the Russians more so than from the Americans in Syria And the Kurds were very good at killing Isis in Syria The Al Qaeda is taking a beating it. We have managed to kill off its leadership But and and the Muslim Brotherhood while victorious in Egypt and actually gained American support in Egypt then was defeated in Egypt and now is is suppressed by the authoritarian regime of Sisi in a general Sisi in Egypt and yet they are still there The ideology has not gone away. Even in Africa We hear less and less about them They they at some point they grew and they grew and they grew and they succeeded and they achieved things and then it all collapsed on Isis collapsed and in Africa They reached a certain limit that they couldn't go no more and they collapsed But they're still there. They're still teaching the same lessons They still view the week the West is unbelievably weak although Maybe a victory over Russia will change that They view America as weak certainly our pathetic Retreat from Afghanistan shows them that is true and they're taking their time One of the things you can say about the Islamists is they have their perspective as a perspective of generations not a perspective of years They're taking their time They're building up They're recruiting new people You know Boko Haram is still out there, but it is weak much lower profile than it was a few years ago when Isis was at its peak all of these organizations are just Al Shabaab in in Somalia. They're all just lower profile quiet building up Of course now with the Taliban taking over Afghanistan they now have a new home a new base of operations They're playing the very long game They're out there They'll wait Nothing's urgent for them. They will take their time They will be Islamic terrorists terrorism in the future And who knows I will respond then Who knows we're so pathetic and weak that it's so hard to tell It's so hard to tell so The enemy still out there. It's been subdued.  All right Nothing positive here But this is the battle The battle is to reimagine what America is The battle is to remind Americans of what we used to think America was and to give it content To return America to the land of individualism To return America to the land of liberty a land of freedom The land of individual rights to return America to its declaration of independence To its constitution Maybe maybe it's too late. Maybe it's over but then I don't know Why we're wasting our time and I don't think it's over. I don't think it's too late Otherwise I wouldn't be doing this and if you think it is what are you doing here? But that's the only hope The only hope is To educate Americans about what this country really is and what its potential really is and doing that by showing them It's great achievements. This is a great country the greatest country in human history But that shements are all the consequences of its virtues. It's real virtues Not religion not altruism not collectivism not statism It's real virtues and that's gonna take a long time and that's gonna take a lot of work And that's gonna take a lot of allies to help us and God There's almost nobody out there to help us. That's the depressing thing Prethings thing is when I read I read the comment section and and and all the apologists for for Russia and the apologists for All the bad ideas out there they so Number the good guys that it makes it very difficult To be optimistic about our potential in the future, but that's what we fight for and This is something Joe wrote. This is something That I completely disagree with with Saddam in power. There's no ISIS with Gaddafi in power There's no modern-day slave trade between Middle East and African continent in the West who benefits notice that that's just not true About it with Gaddafi in power. There was an active slave trade between the Middle East and African continent with Gaddafi in power Plane exploded above Scotland a plane that was As a consequence of a terrorist attack sponsored by Gaddafi with Gaddafi there Generating all money the worst terrorists in the world were getting funding We're getting funding to attack us Was that I'm saying in power there was no ISIS sure But there was funding for ever for a lot of other terrorist organizations. Maybe not directly to al-Qaeda But certainly to Hamas and Hezbollah and a lot of others and there was always the potential of Him doing something worse again I don't think that necessitates our invasion of you are but to pretend that the world is somehow a better place with these monsters in power is Delusional and is detached from reality. It's detached from the real world. It's to play pretend On a scale and with people that you don't understand in events. I mean, this is the kind of stuff that libertarians do I'm not saying Joe is a libertarian, but this is the kind of stuff libertarians do They have no conception of the real world. They have no conception of the monsters out there They have no conception of what people will do and won't do they have no conception of What actually happens in the real world particularly outside of the United States? They can pretend and Be delusional. Yeah, we knew to get our feet somewhat in 86 But that's only because I mean imagine if we killed him then that would have been the right thing to do I think we tried We killed his kids or whatever. We should have killed him But no often a power vacuum is great because a power vacuum creates an opportunity For the bad guys to start killing each other and they're so busy killing each other that they don't have time for us If now I'm not saying we should have gone to Libya You know Libya was not a war the United States had any interest in being in And we can talk about it's isn't it ten years since I've been gauzy Hillary Clinton's been gauzy. I mean, I don't know how much you guys know about being gauzy But but gauzy is just another example of the and and here Hillary Clinton is just the same as Bush and Rumsfeld and all these bastards But gauzy is just an example of just incompetence and the stupidity and the weakness of America and just the Non-existence of any kind of Coherent foreign policy I did a I did a show on Benghazi But Benghazi basically was we sent in we sent an ambassador to Libya in the when there's chaos when there's anarchy Why are we sending an ambassador? Who cares about ambassadors? Why do we have a diplomatic mission in Libya when it's on the in the middle of a civil war and when there's no rule of Law and when all you have is is is militant gangs fighting each other and Then when he gets in trouble We refuse to launch airplanes to go bomb the people who are trying to attack him because God forbid their civilians there They might get hurt So for America's the ambassador and three of his security personnel gets slaughtered by the masses Because we won't launch Because we're afraid We're afraid to win. We're afraid to fight. We're afraid to hurt anybody. We're afraid to be condemned I mean, why are we in Libya? Why did we ever go to Libya? Why do we ever engage in a war? I mean the Europeans wanted to take Gaddafi out fine. Let the Europeans do it. Why did we Go to Libya? Why wouldn't he engage in Libya? But why did we have an ambassador in Libya? God, I don't think we should have an ambassador in half the countries we have ambassadors in but in a Country in a state of war. It just is completely Absurd and ridiculous, but it wasn't Hillary. I mean Hillary was just acting like I think almost any Foreign secretary we'd act there's nothing unusual about Hillary how many how many American State Department People would have launched the attack to save those guys. I don't think any of them. All right Okay, Katherine you've got your job. You got a you got you get you got your job cut out for you We're still short about three hundred seventy seven dollars We're running out of time here. We've got a few super chat questions. We're gonna start going over them But Yeah, all right, let's see. Let's see if we've got some questions about Let's see we get some stuff about All right Okay, friend Harper says I'm looking for 9-11 related questions first Last year 9-11 video with on car and Ilan was an excellent video. I agree thought I would bump it For newer listeners the comprehensive analysis of the events leading up to 9-11 was a lot of the stuff I'd never heard of yes, it is it's an excellent video, but I and I would recommend it I'd also recommend Ilan Jono's book that he edited winning non-winnable war I have three essays in that in that book that I think are really really really important essays that In terms of the conceptual shaping of our foreign policy in the future I also recommend Leonard Peacock's lecture That he did in for her form which a lot of people ignore But is it that you shouldn't called America Americans versus America? We this is just before the invasion of Iraq and and he talks about the weakness of America and And the shallowness of the American response to 9-11 and why it was so horrific So I definitely recommend liner Peacock's Americans versus America I'd also recommend maybe somebody can actually take these down these recommendations down and And add them to the to the comment section that would be great if you listed these so Ilan and on cause video Leonard Peacock's video the book Winning done winning the willable war America versus Americans sorry America versus Americans and then I did I don't know three four five lectures And I did some of them one of them which is online was to the Air Force Intelligence Center So to the military and I think 2003 About my perspective on the war so somebody in the military valued what what I my perspective on the war and what I had to Say about the war and but many a number of others They're probably four five of my lectures on 9-11 on your conservatism. I did I did a lecture one year after 9-11 I did one I think two years after so You know all of those videos if you want to see what we had to say right after that Right after 9-11 in the months years particularly in the years after 9-11. I think what you'll find is that Shockingly I Was right again almost everything I predicted in those talks came to be almost everything Which is pretty Anyway, I've been right about Russia, but I was also more importantly right about 9-11 and the consequence of 9-11 Okay, we'll get to that in a minute Liam says did you think societal breakdown would come from 9-11? Were you anticipating some kind of nuclear chemical attack? I was not expecting a chemical and nuclear attack I actually believed that what we were doing after 9-11 was enough to at least suppress direct attacks on on the United States There wasn't enough to end and it wasn't enough to actually to actually silence And and to stop the terrorists and we saw they were I actually predicted in a sense the rise of ISIS But I did not I did not think at the time there would be nuclear chemical attacks and they haven't been I did not think there would be a serious terrorist attack on the United States for at least 10 years It's turned out to be 21 years You know, there were sporadic attacks. There were lone kind of wolf attacks Inspired by Islamist, but there was no anything close to 9-11 like attack Since 9-11 and that I anticipated that did I think society break down? I Thought that it represented a real And and and Leonard Peacock in in America versus Americans says this that it represented a real break that it represented a real Step down in terms of American society American culture and America's view of itself the way exactly it led to where we are today politically in the and The attitude of Americans towards one another. No, I don't think I I expected that right I don't think I expected or or for so that that in particular Yeah, another book by Elan Giorno failing to confront totalitarian Islam has essays by lawn and by on-car But again, there's a ton of content I I wrote and I gave I wrote a number of essays. I think my best essays Essays I wrote post 9-11 on the foreign policy situation The just war theory essay. I think it's an important essay and we'll go down as an important essay If you want to understand my views in foreign policy, that is an essay you have to read that and and and the one on New York Conservatives and the one on Forward strategy of freedom Bush's forth strategy freedom. I had an essay and a lecture Disagreeing with that. I did a number of panels. I did a number of events with Daniel pipes Daniel pipes is one of was one of the best Voices post 9-11 one of the few good voices post 9-11 other than objectivist, so it was It was it was he was a good friend in those days. I don't I find myself disagreeing with him more and more today But in those days, I thought he was very good. He's become I think unsurprisingly More cynical and therefore more open to kind of the authoritarian right Hopper Campbell Was the reaction to covert? Was the reaction to covert worse than the destruction from 9-11? No, I don't think so. I mean in many respects the reaction to covert was What you did? I mean it was surprising and how bad it was But it was the outcome of everything that came before it It was the outcome of 9-11 the outcome of the financial crisis the outcome of the of the just mindlessness and spinelessness of the American people so 9-11 I think was a was a You know worse in a sense not of economic destruction covert who's worse in the sense of economic destruction, but a sense of revealing the soul of America and In the horror of that revelation and the consequence of that to the speeding up of American decline That is much bigger than covert. I think Let's see I'm looking for questions on 9-11 Yeah, Bree says there was no consequence of the Islamic intellectuals. So killing the bad guys has no effect They can still make more bad guys. Yes I mean you have to root it out the source partially by identifying the source and then by You know destroying the source and and that means destroying the the intellectual foundation intellectually and destroying the the the the capacity to reproduce these intellectuals by by starving the madrasas and and destroying the places where these ideas Or making sure they're not funded. There's no funding for these ideas to propagate around the world We did the opposite. So and that's what we should have gone after the Saudis for the Saudis and the Iranians for basically Expanding this and propagating this Richard says Government won't focus the one terror should have been the hunt for Akhira. Well, it should have been more than that It should have been the hunt for the Islamists. It should have been Akhira and anybody who is going to use Islam To come after Americans and that would have included Iran and Hezbollah and and and Islamic jihad and a number of Islamist organizations It should have been the war on Islamism Or a war on their countries and the organizations that represent Islamism al-Qaeda being one of them Richard says, I hope this super chat saves me from Catherine Mendez as cat of nine tails. I don't even know what that means But I assume Catherine's giving you a hard time for not All right, let's see Let's see if there are any ones that have to do with Russia Okay, Adam says we're big national theocratic pro-prudent parties in Ukraine and Poland vanished when Did they vanish when Russia invaded? Analog parties in Hungary and Austria are still in power. Is it because they once ruled Western Ukraine? Is it ideas? Um, well, I think it I think in Poland and Ukraine the pro-russian parties vanished because particularly in Poland because They could see Because those parties were nationalist parties. They were pro-russia in the sense that they wanted to be Like Russia they they they like the authoritarian nature Putin. They supported the kind of nationalism the Putin Embodied but once they saw Putin's willingness to go to war Once they they they understood the implications for their own countries. I think they particularly in Poland they shifted to being anti-russia and It'll be interesting to see in in five years if Russia is defeated where those political parties land up, but The ruling party in Poland was relatively pro-russia But it was also It was pro-russian model Not pro-russia and in what what they what they really are scared of Is russian occupation? They remember the soviet union. They are nationalist. They want their poli state They're not good guys the people running poland But they at least understand but they understand that they do not want to be ruled by russians They don't want russians occupying them. They remember way too well what it was like under soviet union They remember that it was the Stalin and Hitler started world war two not just Hitler And so they are reluctant in hungry They're not afraid of being occupied right they don't have a border with russia and Hungry's trying to have it both ways Hungry voted for the sanctions with the european unions Supported the sanctions in the european union was anti russia with the european union But also is saying oh, we should have a negotiated peace. Oh, we should so they're trying to have it both ways because Partially because they get a lot of their energy from russian partially because Orban has gotten a lot of support from putin in the past financial and otherwise and because of orban Ideologically intellectually philosophically Is aligned with putin so the polls Aligned with putin on a lot of things but are nationalists and therefore want the russians away The hungarians are lined with putin are less afraid of russia Taking over hungry and therefore are willing to be friendlier with the russians, but and and austria the same thing They they are nationalist authoritarian type parties That are doing this i would Joe i would never call it a war with islam i think and i've said this many many many many times since 9 11 A war with islam is a really really bad idea because it's not a war with islam You're you're fighting a particular political manifestation of islam There is no war against religion You're fighting those people who want to use islam to go to war not if he muslim does So it's distracting. It's not that i'm pro islam. It's distracting. It's it's not strategically useful To identify islam as the enemy is malaysia an islamic country. Is it the enemy? No, because it's not ruled by islamists is um yemen Enemy country no Partially because it's too poor to be involved in anything Who is the enemy those countries the fund or support and make possible and those organizations that execute On an islamist vision of world domination And that's not all of islam. That's some people with islam and the more you can differentiate The more focused your war becomes Rather than islam. Oh, does that mean the muslims in my neighborhood are the enemy? Well, maybe they are maybe they're not depends Are they secularized modems? Are they pro-american muslims? Are they? Assimilated muslims or are they islamists? Well, if they're islamists they're the enemy and they should be watched if they're not then they're not So it's Really useful if you're going to go to war war is expensive was expensive in life was expensive of money to know Exactly who the enemy is exactly who the enemy is You want to call it fundamental islam? You can I mean we can we can come up with a name, right? I like islamists or jihadis or The coin the term we coined. I think at the ironman institute was islamic totaltarians People who use islam to advocate for totaltarian ideology and acting on that ideology All right, let's see anything else on Russia or ukraine quickly to All right cold savage says the only pro-russia people have encountered I've encountered online and there's a lot of them Everybody I know in real life supports You crazy, you know you support something supports Support Ukraine Even horrible people who are like anti-semitic and ultra-nationalistic support Ukraine. Well, I yeah, but there seem to be a lot of them online All right, so let's just general topics. We will start with michael By the way, we're 287 short, so You know Was it 15 20 dollar questions? We'll do it 15 20 dollar questions Also, we could do just five 50 dollar questions would get us very very close So nobody's done a 50 dollar contribution today. Nobody nobody's asked a 50 dollar question That would be great and would get and would get priority I mean catherine is threatening to go to bed in tears It's sad Don't let that happen All right, michael asks how has a free How has the free sector of society been able to outpace the unfree sector? Politics keep getting worse, but technology gets better every decade. Maybe politicians don't actually want to destroy everything Well, I mean they haven't got around to it yet So those sectors technologies has gotten better Dramatically those sectors that have been the least regulated Technology silicon valley has been under regulated one of the things that is really really scary About the days to come is the fact that both the left and the right want to regulate the technology industry We saw the beginning of that with the chip bill that just passed congress with I think 13 or 14 republican voting for it A lot of republican support Which is government direct government involvement in a really really crucial sector of technology They have avoided that in the past and as a consequence that sector has boomed. They are one to get in bed with it So that's one reason the other reason is That markets entrepreneurs Are very very good at figuring ways around regulations They're just smarter than the politicians and the regulators So they can't get around all regulations. They can't get around regulations at no cost. It's expensive It reduces our quality of life and standard of living But they do get around many regulations and because of that The private sector can continue to grow and thrive and be successful in spite of all the Damage that our politicians do to it All right free trade. Um, I have to give you credit for properly identifying the irrationality of trump conservatives I knew they were bad, but I didn't think they would keep supporting russia after it launched an explicit genocidal invasion Doesn't surprise me. They were enamored by authoritarians They really are and particularly authoritarians who are european Who and who represent claim to represent christianity? It's hard to beat that combination strong christian european white West instead you you talk to western civilization thing You got him. You got those conservatives Now not all of them a lot of the a lot of their Pro trump conservatives are still anti russia But you know a lot of them Bought right along with russia Shah's but says have you heard of upside down from the show stranger things? What do you think of it represents? I have not sorry I I haven't seen stranger things. I think I watched part of the first season I found it too childish too. I don't know. I didn't I couldn't get into it. So I never watched it Uh andy looking at movie to austin texas in the next few years and he thought Is it going blue same direction as new york city? um austin has always been blue austin is A bastion of leftism in texas it votes democratic. It's uh, it's a university town. It's a government town So austin itself is very blue the outskirts or not and austin is the perfect combination of blue and red that is austin is also very Because it's it's not because it's it's blue It's secular. It has culture. It has art. It has music It has all the things that you need to live in a civilized place And yet it does it and it doesn't have the crazy religionists For the most part So it has a nice combination of red and blues I I like austin a lot because of that and you can live in the outskirts of austin that are not Regulated like a blue place. They're regulated like a red state, but you can work And you can hang out in austin, which is where all the cool kids are So I I love austin. It's a great city You have to get through the summers the summers are not easy I am going to be in austin a lot in the years to come You know, I'll be there in uh, I'm doing an event in austin In the sem in uh, sorry At the very end of november, I'm doing a debate discussion Comparing c.s. Lewis and iron rand c.s. Lewis says Um diagnostic of the problems in society post world war two and iron rands views of the problems of the world post world war two So c.s. Lewis versus iron rand should be a a really cool event. I'm looking forward to it So that's at the end of november and then I'm there again in january and then again in june So i'm in austin quite a bit all right Super chat is still slow guys. Where where where my wales when I need them, you know, I'm not I'm not going to be You know, who knows when the next show is going to be I fly to asia on tuesday I don't think i'm going to do a show tomorrow. I fly to asia on tuesday from asia It's going to be impossible to do shows. I mean i'll do some it'll be early in the morning my time I'll have to get up really early um, so There's no point in saving up for the rest of the month because they're barely going to be any shows the rest of the month Then i'm going to be in south america, but really really busy So, um, I don't know how many shows we're going to have from now to the end of the month I get back here on october 2nd So the next show is probably from home The next show from this location is october 3rd probably so, um I'm not threatening to quit. I'm just saying if you want to support the show in september Tonight's the night. I should have said it's the beginning of the show, but tonight's the night. Yep. I will be in south korea japan brazil in argentina i'll be giving talks in those four countries So, uh, argentina brazil south korea and japan And you can find information about all the events on my website you on book show dot com and on einrann institutes website All right, I guess my appeal is not working. All right I'm not Is blocking someone of social media friend hopper asks a type of economic power Since it is part of someone's right to voluntary institution. Absolutely Absolutely, there's not political power now. When is it political power? It's political power when the government tells you to block somebody And then it's the government that's violating The first amendment and there's actually a lawsuit right now by the the attorney general of I forget which states two southern states uh, assuming the federal government Claiming that federal government has violated the first amendment By putting pressure on Social media To block certain information to block certain people now. I think that's Exactly the right approach. I've said from the beginning Don't complain about social media Don't attack social media companies Because all you're doing is giving more power to the politicians to then intervene in running those social media platforms What you need to do is attack the politicians attack The the government For intervening for violating our first amendment rights They are the bad guys It is they Who are violating our rights? They must be condemned. They must be Attacked and they must be sued So it's really and the suit is actually going well that they've subpoenaed a lot of documents from the government The judge seems to be favorable towards getting those subpoenas. They want emails from people like Fauci who might have been telling twitter you can't you know take this stuff off or don't say this or whatever Government officials putting pressure on social media that needs to be exposed and that needs to be stopped and that needs to be There needs to be a lawsuit and and the courts need to say you cannot do this It's a violation of first amendment. I don't care if it's covered. I don't care if there's terrorism You cannot tell social media unless it's a national security issue, but they cannot cannot post Whoops. All right Michael Michael Revelling asks My son is getting ready to choose a college Any guidance of choosing a college what to look for and what to avoid? Do you have a favorite college? Um It depends on what he wants to study. So I'm going to assume he's not going to study stem Because if he's going to study stem and by the way, thank you Carolina Uh, really really appreciate 500, uh, uh, mexican Pesos is it pesos? Uh, really appreciate that. Thank you. I think it's about $30 something like that 30 40 dollars. So, um, Thank you So it depends what he wants to study. I'm assuming it's not stem because stem you just go to the best school that'll teach it mit caltech Depending on what stem depending on what exactly so so stem is relatively easy. I think I assume it's humanities in that case Then you want to be very very careful Because the better the school is the worse the curriculum is going to be the more brainwashing the more BS he's going to get the more cutting-edge leftist progressive ideology he's going to get I would look at I think I think what programs like There's a there's a program at There's there's a program called the lyceum scholars at Clemson University, which I think is phenomenal Now granted I until very recently sat on the board of directors of that program Uh, it's run by the Clemson Institute for for capitalism, which I was uh on the board of so I'm Call me biased, but maybe I just know a lot. So that's an excellent phenomenal college There's uh, so john and other schools that have great books Programs There are new universities popping up that offering a a more Called the pro-american curriculum. So there are a lot of universities like that. I think Clemson is probably the best of them um, you know, it's bad thompson's program and Um, you know, it's very competitive to get in but if you can get in I think it's definitely worth going and then If you want to study economics, then, um, you've got, um George mason university Clemson also has a good economics department. So there's a number of different programs out there depending on what he's interested in That are worthwhile definitely worthwhile if you want to study history or political science You might want to ask bad thompson. What are the best programs today? Um, there's some good universities with some good professors who teach that But you have to be careful again All right. Thank you, michael. Oh, we got another one for michael, um, Revelling He said did you do a show on biden's anti mag make a make a great Again speech if you did when if not, what did you think I did not? Um, what did I think? I mean, I liked a lot of it I agreed with a lot of it But it came out of biden's mouth. So it's useless and pathetic and offensive um But I think his observation about Uh trump and about many of his supporters Is right on is right on so, um I didn't want to really do it because they didn't want to give it too much credibility because Biden is such a nobody and then nothing and a speech like that from him is just It just feeds The bad guys, I think All right, justin. Thank you for the 50 australian dollars. Really appreciate that um If a vastly intellectually superior alien species Held the objectivist view that their individual flourishing was pama Would they be morally justified to eliminate the relatively inconsequential human species if we stood in the way of their aims? Oh, wow, vet him vet him just came in with 300 bucks. Thank you. I really really appreciate that Wow That is incredibly generous. Thank you um No, I don't think so and the reason is that imagine you This amazing species an amazing, um That have this amazing knowledge and amazing ability and dedication to reason and rationality And you encounter species that has a lot less ability than you but that has The potential At least In principle to To use reason to achieve something Then it would make sense for you to To trade with that species Educate that species Teach that species how to better utilize their reason how to Maximize the use of their of their philosophy Remember any species that's going to be superior to humans is still going to have free will They're going to have reason this superiority is going to come from either Sensors and skills that we don't have Or just a superior Hospital or superior intelligence, but that will still require Free will it will still require the willingness to engage in that And they would necessarily have to have an appreciation for Humans who might not be as intelligent as they are might not have all the let's say sensors. They are But are in principle similar to them and therefore I think they would Want to trade with us so we wouldn't be able to trade with them At at at the very top level, but there's certainly levels in which we should be able to contribute It doesn't make sense I think To eliminate a species that can reason In the name of being Selfish I don't think if we're all truly self-interested truly self-interested rationally self-interested There's no conflict of interest between us. There's no conflict of interest between us and the superior species They're better educated. They're more advanced. Well, but they can educate us and they can make us more advanced And they can trade with us in the meantime All right, um Roosevelt thank you for the $50 really appreciate anonymous user. Thank you. I've seen a number of small contributions from you really appreciated God we've gone well over a thousand dollars now. This is fantastic um, all right Shazbot wants me to review Uh, a glorious dawn sun by call. How can cause say and sing a song? It's just something wrong with that All right, um I've added it. I know I I still owe you two episodes of star trek um, and I owe Uh, I owe somebody music Song compliance by muse So I've got us two songs and two episodes of star trek the episode of star treks I've already downloaded from amazon video To watch on my flight to south korea. So those are ready. I will watch them on the plane on my way to south korea. So what so Uh, one of the first episodes I do from asia will cover those two Episodes and then the songs I will also try to download or at least have access to so I can listen to them on the plane If not, I'll listen to them in asia probably. I probably won't have time before I leave But thank you shazbot very very generous and you have been uh with a lot of this really appreciate it friend harper writes, uh, josey yanza asks If that new university of austin will have an objective course not Now that is not at launch as far as I can tell Um, there was some talk of that but nothing ever came Focus on iron rand university. Let's make iron rand university the best The greatest university in the world. Let's make it humongous So I am all for promoting iron rand university.  I mean the courses are fantastic. I can be teaching two courses Introductory and then advanced course on public speaking Um, and I will be doing those in the summer of next year But I intend to also develop maybe a class on the new right or maybe a class on national conservatives Or the intellectual origins of the new right or something like that Which I might teach in the 23 24 school year, but um The iron rand university is terrific We don't need a ybs university because you already have the ybs shows. They are a university All right on the leeway Much recent opposition to monarchy has been due to monarchy's perceived imperialism racism and wealth As an admitted opponent of the monarchy are these correct views? If not, what are the proper reasons to oppose the monarchy? Well, the the the fundamental I think reason to oppose the monarchy is that it's arbitrary that is There's this family an individual Who are anointed with some extra special powers Over other people's life in some way small or large Why? You know just because they were born with particular genes. I mean why it doesn't matter who they are doesn't matter What they've done in their life doesn't matter if it's deserved or not Your queen because your father was king So it's just irrational It's undeserved. It's unjust And then what do you need a monarch for now in the past monarchs ruled And that's bad because it's anti-freedom It's a authoritarian But in an era where monarchs are symbolic. What are they symbolic of? of a past where they ruled Of an empire that oppressed people's individual rights Fact that people are irrational and therefore like them none of those are good reasons Sorry monarchy is a waste of money a waste of time a waste of energy a waste of focus and All it reminds us of is of a time when monarchs oppressed us stomped on us Finally that writes So I can't think of a single reason To have a monarch today Sorry brits You got to get rid of that monarchy. It's time queen Elizabeth the last probably good monarchy I'll ever have is gone. Maybe she's the only good monarchy. You ever had is gone It's time to get rid of the entire institution turn the whole thing into a tourist attraction and get rid of any semblance that this has any meaning at all All right, we've got under twenty dollar super chat questions. We're going to go fast through these How did you get easy access to japan to japan open? I wasn't easy how to get a visa how to submit a bunch of paperwork Um, I basically am going there to give seminars and to give talks. So it's a business trip It's not a tourist trip. Japan is somewhat open as of september third. It's more open than it was before I don't need a a pre-flight test for covid test. That's good Um, so it's it's it's a lot better than it was But it's still, uh, japan is still, um Um You know, they're still limiting the number of people visiting. They're still requiring visas They are still a tourists Are not really that welcome unless they're in a group So it's it's it's there are kinds of regulations and who can cannot get in because I was traveling on court business It is business It wasn't hard to get a visa All right, uh, james taylor asked off topic But he's imposing a 30 day waiting period before you purchase a firearm a rights violation So impulsive people don't just buy a gun and do something heinous right then and there Look, the law is not there to prevent us from Doing impulsive things It can't um It's not the purpose of the law the purpose of the law is to prevent rights violations and the question is Does a 30 day waiting period prevent rights violations? um in and of itself and It probably does not um I am not against regulating guns But i'm not sure this is a legitimate way to do it um But you know i'm open to arguments. I think guns are an interesting difficult complex case of how to apply individual rights iron man thought the same thing. It's why She basically didn't really comment on on gun gun issues because it was too complex, but I don't think I don't think it's right for the government to do that but What exactly is right and what isn't right and I think that's murky still in my mind. I don't have a clear view on it Hopper Campbell says why was a blatantly irrational neurotic? I can't take it so seriously for so long as a college students. I knew he was nuts. Well because He's a genius because he presented a systematic philosophy because he presented himself often as the defender of the enlightenment um Defender of the enlightenment a A unifier and completing the enlightenment he presented himself that way um, and because he was clearly brilliant, you know and uh um, and there was nobody Nobody who came after him challenged those ideas that he had nobody came after him ripped the shreds his books They all went yeah, and let me do this spin on it And that you know, hey go and shopping hour and mocks and all the rest of them. That's what they did They just took Kant and did a spin on him But nobody who ejected his ideas until I invented and I think the people who thought he was nuts left philosophy Mr. Remorseless Yaza you said uncut gems was yaza. I'm Iran not yaza. You said uncut gems was naturalism at its worst Please expound. What does naturalism means for you? Um, naturalism is the you know philosophically or aesthetically is the rejection of um Of uh, free will it is the presentation of the world as it is If you think of Aristotle's view of aesthetics Present the world as it could and should be Recognizing that people can be different A can attain great things uncut gems is the world as it is with losers who um Can't it everything is inevitable Where they they can't rise above what's happening And he asked the you know everything about it is in a sense inevitable predictable deterministic The the main character is pathetic has no Guts has no free will has no energy so In that sense it's naturalistic in the sense that it is It is present just life as it is a slice of of of life of Somebody who gets into trouble and As always the trouble just spirals and spirals and spirals and makes it worse and worse or worse now on top of that It is filmed in the most naturalistic way possible, which means that is filmed As if you are right there in the action Looking at it and moving around with it's it's Moving all the time and jumping all the time and it's as if You've got a guy who's running along with the camera, you know Following the action. It's as if it's in real words. It's if it's a documentary Following this guy around with that with a handheld camera an old style with no uh with no what do you call it? What do you call the motion adjuster the so I I I mean I thought it was a I mean it's a very well made movie Um, it's it's very well made But it's a horrible movie in theme. It's a horrible movie and in in in the feeling it gives you I mean What's the point of that movie? What's the point?  That's stylistic naturalism versus A tv series. I like and have mentioned many times on my show Mr. Sunshine With the shots a slow Purposeful every shot is composed Every person is where they offer a reason every color choice Every angle every movement is chosen Convey something there's none of that in uncut chips it's You're jumping you have no time to absorb what's going on It's purposefully Pushing you in the midst of the action, but that's not what a movie Should be doing it should yet you Contemplate the actions so you can emotionally respond without feeling sick because you're right there wobbling all over the place Very mask. What do you think of the good demand and ugly? Very good cinematography Look, I the good demand ugly is is very well made. You know, it's it's the great spaghetti movie the great spaghetti western, but and and cinematography is beautiful the music By is it massione is magnificent all the All the um Music in the spaghetti westerns are just phenomenal But it's a movie with no point Why has anybody I mean there's no values being presented there. It's a mockery a purposeful mockery of the western It's the gunslinger who's shooting up the place, but and he's shooting up bad guys We think but is he think they're bad guys. Is it because they're bad guys? You see a good guy. Does anybody really care that he's good? Is he good just because he wants to steal the loot rather than anybody else What makes him good? It's it's a it's a it's it's not a It's an anti-western western and that was the purpose that the purpose of the spaghetti westerns was to mark in a sense hollywood westerns And to make them italian in that way um But some of the cinematography is truly beautiful and uh the music my favorite part of those westerns of the spaghetti westerns is the music And clenin easter was good in them Francis asked how do you think miss rand would have reacted to oh to 9 11? Well, I mean, I hope she would have reacted in a similar way to the way Lena pick up did in the way I did. You know, I don't want to compare myself time ran, but I was everything I did I hope is consistent with iron rand's ideas and I intended it to be and I she would have just been deeper and smarter and more Cutting through the the nonsense you would have cut through it I mean, I think she would have responded like lennard And if you read lennard's statement after 9 11 Though we put out in a full page ad in the washington post in new york times Then I think iron rand would have signed off on that Andrew $50. Thank you Um How has the content conflation of reality with unreality affected artistic imagination? Well, it's Basically what it's done is It's allowed in quotes the artists to Detach themselves from reality It makes possible Splashing paints on a canvas It makes possible just drawing anything you want just emoting on the page And it even made possible picasso who is a magnificent painter who then Purposefully, but you could say inspired by Kant Um Decomposes deconstructs reality Breaks it up. His cubism is breaking it up And it's still art what picasso does is is art and some of it is pretty powerful But epistemologically what he's doing is he's decoupling Our senses from reality And he's projecting that back to us And in that sense he's doing what can't I mean and and if you think about uh, the I think even the impressionists are trying to You know, uh, well A brain integrates all the stuff that he gets from the senses So let's go to what the senses actually provide us. They just provide us dots of color this pointillism or they just Impressions we don't actually see reality. We just have impressions of reality All of it is inspired by this separation of reality from our senses We are a separation from reality from from reason and and and that's how it's Inspired these artists, but by inspiring them. It's I think ultimately destroyed art Depends on reality It depends on artists having a proper conception of reality and then having values related to reality Deep important values related to reality Scott asks thoughts on dave smith I mean dave's a nice guy. I've met dave. He's a nice guy. He's funny Um, but he's wrong He's an anarchist I think anarchists are I think it's it's a horrible position It's one of the worst positions you can have politically and and morally um From what I understand He is kind of a paleo anarchist So he is the worst kind of anarchist because he's on top being an anarchist.  Um He's anti-american I think they're all anti-american They they think that america is the worst. I mean I take it back to my Rothbard who used to um Drink a toast every time an american pilot was shot down over vietnam That's how much he hated america You can be against the war in vietnam as ian ran was It's still a one america to win or b if it brings the troops home bring them safely But that whole wing of the libertarian movement hates america and and there's a reason for it They hate all successful countries All successful governments Successful by the standard of human Success human flourishing the hate america the hate israel. They generally hate western europe Because they're successful and they somehow have respect for Authoritarians They're not against tyranny Again, um Marie Rothbard celebrated The victory of north vietnam over south vietnam because communism was the will of the people The communism that vietnam was now enslaved under when north vietnam won Was the will of the people so not against tyranny They against american imposed tyranny But they're not against tyranny quite the opposite. I think ultimately The more nihilistic type of anarchists, which I think the mesas institute is part of There's a there's a nihilistic streak there Are a fundamentally pro-tyranny. They're kind of anarchy leads inevitably to tyranny Robert asked suppose donald trump could save america by stepping aside accepting a lesser role and letting another leader Take the spotlight and credit. Do you think he would no? No, no way Or would he let america bone he would let america bone He and some of his followers again have this have a certain nihilistic streak and in in trump It's not so much nihilism as it's this narcissism. He has to be at the center of everything It's it's it's all the really matters any particular position any particular thing is irrelevant. He it's it's that narcissistic view Mr. Muffin, how do you read study deep topics? Do you take notes on the line highlight? Yeah, I do all of the above. I mean I read books articles. I underline I underscore if I'm gonna study something deeply. I don't listen to it on tape I listen to a tape stuff that I just want to get a Because I don't I won't retain it but if I end the line stuff I a retain it better and then I can go back and find it and and Read it again and emphasize it. So read read read read after 9 11 I read I don't know 20 30 books on islam 20 30 books on the middle east on the history of the middle east That's how I did my courses on the middle east and on on the history of islamism Which are available for free on youtube on the podcast channel, so You all can enjoy them for free Oz fast buy All right Thank you for talking to alex at playing with fire For young men lacking confidence to talk to women. Do you have any general advice? I mean like mindset or self-esteem not pick up lines. Yeah, I mean I mean it's very general advice And that is um Well first look To be attractive to somebody else first you have to be attractive to yourself You have to like yourself You have to have self-esteem So the thing you need to work on is your self-esteem is gaining that metaphysical confidence In your own efficaciousness now not in your not in a particular skill not in everything. I mean I I can't win surf never will be able to win surf, you know, it's that's not what self-esteem is about self-esteem is that I belong in this earth. I can learn what I need to learn. I can survive. I can thrive I can do it. I don't know everything. There's a ton. I don't know Huge amount. I don't know but I can learn it if I need to know it I can learn it. I can figure it out if I need to figure it out I'll figure it out if I need to I'll talk to the right kind of experts. I can survive on this planet and survive well You've got to develop that mentality And and again, I would read rand I would read her ethics I would take her virtue seriously because the virtues are what help you attain this kind of self-esteem They're the virtues that lead to the values of reason purpose and self-esteem So you've got to have a certain confidence in I'm a good guy I'm a fundamentally good guy And I want A relationship I want somebody who's good.    They have to be they have to be You have to be able to to match you. They have to be able to be a challenge They have to be able to Challenge you to be the best that you can be part of what love does Romantic love does and a good relationship does is it makes you want to be better You want to be the best? so I would so develop those skills know what you want in a woman And then it's intimidating Starting a relationship. It's intimidating going to speak to somebody new but If you know that this is something you value relationship If you know that you are fundamentally good and you know what kind of person you want Then just just go and try and and you're not going to find it easily It's going to take a while. It's going to take some work It's going to take an hit and misses like everything in life. You're going to fail Failure is something you learn from and That's what You need to embrace failure That's part of what it takes to be an entrepreneur It's part of what it takes to be the best that you can be in whatever profession you have You have to embrace the fact that sometimes you'll fail because part of that is the need to try the need to to Put yourself out there to challenge yourself to push the envelope to try new things Knowing that some of them will not be good. That's fine. I hope that's helpful fast. Bye Thank I recall a professor said the United States deserved the attacks And even bill ma got in trouble for calling the hijackers heroic What is behind this? Well, it's behind it is a is a hatred of america and a lack of understanding what america is And a a a sympathy for the downtrodden altruism A sympathy for those who don't have I mean ron paul said the same thing ron paul Said in a sense. We deserved it. It was our fault so, um, it's it's a it's a lack of understanding what america is and what it represents and what the world is like And what the terrorists in this case actually stand for represent believe It's it's a certain type of nihilism too Catherine did you go to ground zero nine eleven site with the museum? Yes. I did quite Powerful my friends said there were phone recordings from the voice Males and dispatch calls if he did what do you think I think it's very powerful I think everybody should go. I think it's a day that needs to be remembered I think it's a day that changed america I think if we if we if we're gonna change america back we need to understand that day And we need to to fix america And to make sure it responds differently And I think part of the horror of what they they represented is in that museum And people should go and and listen to that and then remember remember The cowardly politician that a made nine eleven possible would have never happened If not for cowardness And then the response is going to make the next nine eleven possible So next time you'll know where it came from Stephen gave me two dollars my intellectual g-string. I have no idea what that means Francis please say a few words in the heroes of flight 93. Yeah, I mean Flight 93 was They are truly heroic from everything we know of what happened on that plane They had already heard As the plane was heading towards dc It had been hijacked The hijack was in the cockpit. They taken over they had box cutter knives And the the passengers Had their cell phones. They were violating f a regulations by the way by using their cell phones on a plane, but forgivable, I guess And they were they had already heard that the planes that hit the world trade center Maybe they had heard about the pentagon. I can't remember But basically they knew what the fate of the plane was They knew that the plane was going to be crashed into some Something that would kill a lot of people And they had a choice to make at that point. They could have waited and died like sheep Hope that somehow it wouldn't happen that they were wrong that these guys were different whatever Or they could fight And they chose to fight They chose to be heroes They chose to take on evil and fight it Even knowing They would probably lead to their death, but they were going to die anyway They were going to fight to prevent the plane from killing other people They were going to fight For the small tiny probability that they could actually prevent the plane from crashing at all But they fought To prevent another pentagon to prevent another world trade center And You know The rallying call of that of of from what we know of that flight Because on the call they said they're talking.   Don't let them destroy The good people in this country Go out there and fight And fighting in this case means an intellectual battle always has been always will be And if you're not equipped to it then support the people who are If you are equipped with it use that Don't let it go Let's roll I wish that was the end of the show that would be good, but colt has another question All right colt One thing I wanted to do in life is teach history But I also want to be an intellectual to confront the right and left any advice Also Well, I may not always agree with you. I hope I'm one of the good guys. I hope so too. Um, I think you are History is a great way to be in a public to be an intellectual Teach history become a history teacher Uh, teach history and then go out into the world and use history to help People understand the world in which they live to help them understand the past help them understand the future Help them understand the values that they're fighting for history is one of the most important fields Where we need objectivity. We need the proper approach. We need to understand A past So we can understand the present and the future so we can fight for the right present and the right future so Go study history become a history teacher and then use that To teach your kids to teach your students, but then go beyond that to everybody else All right, everybody. Thank you, uh, please don't forget that like this show before you leave It really helps the algorithm. We've got 121 people watching live and 80 thumbs up We could do better than that. Hopefully we had more than 80 people who like the show From the three 400 people that have watched it so far today Let's see But it really does help just that little click of a button really helps If you want to support the show you can support in your on book show dot com slash support It's one of the ways you can fight is by arming me to fight for you You can also support me on patreon And thank you for all the super chat us today. We crushed the goal you made katharine's day We raised uh over 1100 dollars today. So that's fantastic I will see you from asia. I will be in asia when I do the next show. I won't do one tomorrow The uh It will probably be on They might be in weird hours. Certainly. They'll be weird hours for me Um, so just be patient with me I'll try to do them when I'm available when I'm uh when I'm out there Um, I will thank you oosval to really appreciate the support Um, I will do them also from latin america of south america and on there So I'll do them sporadically when I can when I wake up early enough when I plan for it Um, I will try to let you know, but I won't always be able to let you know well in advance because of the timing differences I mean, it's it's bizarre to me That when I'm in asia, I'm 16 hours ahead of california And you can tell just from that you try to do the math. How do I do a show? That's in a reasonable time for california and a reasonable time for tokyo Hard hard to do a phone call never mind a whole show all right I will see you from japan wish me a good trip um long flights A shazbot i'll catch up on all the things i owe you and uh one of the person and um, yeah Have a great night everybody. Have a great week Uh, I probably won't see you talk to you until wednesday or thursday from tokyo Bye everybody


Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Tom Drives from Romeo's Gold. How are you today, Tom? Great, Tracy. Tom, Romeo's Gold, 26, 27 years old. This company has been collecting assets located in juicy locations for 26, 27 years. Let's start there. How old is the company? I started the company back in 1995, so it's about 26 years old, Tracy, and over the last 26 years, we acquired major assets in major mining camps in Canada and the US. We had a lovely investor talk that you hosted this morning, and everyone was asking you questions about the announcement you just made earlier this week. Let's start there. We have decided to hire or to bring in Stephen Burega as president because Romeo's has all these great projects and we want to get the story out. We need to be more active and also tell investors what we have. We're excited that Stephen has joined Romeo's as president a couple of days ago, and we're laying down a plan of how to move forward from here on in terms of the different projects. Which one do we work on and which one do we spin off or do we option out? So we're getting a plan ready for the Romeo's projects. Well, you invested a great deal into Romeo's Gold and you have a lot of die-hard shareholders. They've been with you literally since the beginning. Would you say that's accurate? Very much so. We've got some shareholders that have been with us since the IPO 26 years ago, and they're actively acquiring more shares on every financing that we do. And also myself, I've been buying shares over the years. So we think we've got a very good close group of investors, maybe 20 investors that have the own nabalko for shares. There's no question that the market responded very favorably to the appointment of Stephen Borrega as president. And of course you have numerous assets. We asked you this morning, I'm going to ask you this for the investor intel interview. What would you say would be your top three projects that you are going to be focused on in marketing moving forward here with Stephen Borrega? Tracy, we're actually currently drilling for Copper Gold in Ontario, the Landmarker Cowlick project, which is right next to the Musselwide mine, which is owned by Newmont. We also have about 10 properties in the Golden Triangle in B.C. Five properties. We think the Galore Creek deposit, which is owned by Tech and Newmont. And we've got one property there, the track that we've drilled before. And we know we have a Copper Porphyry deposit on on the north, what we call the north zone. The ice melted recently and exposed an area to the south. And we feel there is potential for another Copper Gold Porphyry deposit there. And this is right next to the proposed Galore Creek mill site. And the Galore Creek Road is going right through our track property. So that's another project that we're excited about. And we've got this Nevada project that was a past producer, and they were producing Gold over 1200 ounces of per ton Gold those days. And we drilled some holes, and we had four or five ounces of Gold on our drilling. So that's another one that we've done some work recently, and we increased the size. So we've got three projects. And unfortunately, I'm asking the same question to our geologists, which one do you prefer? And they basically saying they're all equally exciting projects. But being a small company, we're going to have to sort of decide which one we attack first and what we're going to do with the rest of them. Now, myself, when I was listening to your group, Communicate, in that presentation earlier, I heard two companies or two projects really prioritized, the one in Ontario and the one in the Gold and BC, the Golden Triangle. Although I did hear the Nevada one had the heel in the door. So could you explain to me why the Ontario project was pulled out first, why you think that one was naturally gravitated towards? Our VP of exploration, John Bigstuck. He was the exploration manager for the Musselwide mine, the one that is owned by Newmont right now for 12 years. So he has looked at the whole belt there. So we do have a very good understanding of the geology. And we've been working on enough for the last 20 years on that project. But two years ago, based on John's guidance, we drill in a new area and we came up with very exciting results. The best gold drill intercept since the discovery of the Musselwide mine, which is 60, 70 years ago, on the entire belt, eight and a half grams over four and a half meters. Plus we have a VMS target right there and copper, gold and silver. And also we've seen cobalt on this property. So it's a natural, you know, we had some really good results. We had some targets, the new targets, and we did some more geophysics, some more work in the last few years. And, you know, we're going to drill, we're starting drilling that one first. But we're quite excited on this track property also. And because, you know, over the last two, three years, John has been going there, our geologist, and is getting more and more interesting indications. So, and that being next to a major mine and next to a mill site and within the ground of Galore Creek, and it's also, you know, all the infrastructure will be there too. So it's very exciting. And of course, indeed, this is very exciting. We've had a new appointment for a president to join this illustrious team. This company has been around for 26 years. Many of the shareholders have been holding long and steady here, all for the last couple of decades. We have numerous projects and we look forward to an update. And if I recall, I've heard copper, gold, silver, and yes, even cobalt. Is that correct, Tom? That's correct, Tracy, yes. Thank you so much for joining us and have a wonderful day. Thanks, Tracy. Appreciate it.


I think some people watching this might be a little manipulated by some cognitive bias. And I think our political climate right now being so exaggerated and extreme. Some people tend to go to extremes of belief. Like maybe since I don't like Trump, everything has to be bad and no one can say anything positive about them unless they're our idiots. Cause I can't stand that cognitive dissonance. Or I do like Trump, everything negative about him has to be false because it's uncomfortable to hold those two ideas at the same time for people. This happens because their beliefs have penetrated into a place that beliefs are not supposed to be and this is identity. So that's where it really gets dangerous. So as we go forward, keep in mind that you can hate somebody who's still capable of honesty and good intent and you can be a strong supporter of someone who's still capable of error and deception.