The radical. Fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Brook Show. All right, everybody. Welcome to the Iran Brook Show on this, what is it, Monday? Monday morning. It's been a while. I thought I would do a lot more shows from Austin when I was there than I ended up doing. I need to adjust my expectations more appropriately to the extent to which I'm busy and to the extent to which I don't sleep well on the road and make more appropriate plans in terms of shows. It was disappointing in that sense. It was a great time in Austin. If you haven't seen my talk, Uniform Ordinary Life, about Iran and the fight for freedom in China and the fight for freedom, then please watch it. I think you'll enjoy it. I think you'll get a lot out of it. Please, it's a kind of a talk that I think can be shared. It's a kind of a talk that I think a lot of people could be interested in. It's not explicitly objectivist in that sense. There's a lot of stuff. Why not just share it, guys? If anybody's objecting to that talk, then you've got other problems with it. If anybody unfriends you because of that, then they've got problems with you. So just share it. Let's get it out there. Let's try to get this. I don't know that it can go viral, but let's try to get a significant viewership of it. There is a version of it that we put out yesterday, I think, or Saturday, that is cleaned up a little bit in terms of the beginning. So the technical issues that happened in the beginning are cleaned up and you get the video directly. So yes, share, share, share. I mean, this is exactly the kind of video where we can get some real visibility, where you can get to people who are not already fans, who are not already familiar. Put tags on it. You run protest tags. Put a variety of different tags on it and let's try to get that prominent. Interestingly enough, the rest of the weekend I spent at Texas at a seminar held by the Salem Center, by Greg Samiri, on racism with a number of objectivist intellectuals. And it was fabulous. It was really interesting. It was an opportunity to really talk about these issues and discuss them and really figure out what I know and what I don't know, what are their blind spots. And anyway, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's bad. Okay. I was broadcasting live on the Salem Center YouTube channel and so I'm glad I caught that and turned it off. So anyway, we did a seminar with a bunch of people at the Salem Center at the University of Texas on racism. And I won't say who is there because I don't know that's public. But anyway, on racism and it was really interesting and I learned a lot from it. And I'm sure that will benefit some of my analysis of topics in the future. Starting with, let's talk about right now, let's talk about Tyree and Nicole's. I mean, I don't know if you guys saw the footage of the weekend. I don't generally recommend it. It's brutal. It really is horrific. And it's unexplainable in a sense of the irrationality and the brutality of the police here and just the way they treat this guy. And it's, you know, the way they treat Tyree and it's inexplainable why they stopped him. These guys, the five policemen are all part of a kind of a special police unit, Skopjean, that's been dismantled since. But Skopjean that was put together to reduce violent crime in the city and it was focused on that. It wasn't doing traffic stops. Why were they stopping this guy for unsafe driving or something like that? Why were they two police cars and mock cars doing the stopping? Why was he put to the ground on a traffic stop? He didn't have a weapon. He didn't go for a knife. He didn't go for a gun. It's just unthinkable what happened here. What happened here? And there are questions about race. There are lots of questions about race that this brings up that I don't think one can ignore. One, if you were a white driver, would this have happened, played out exactly the same way? The fact that the cops are black makes no difference. Second, if the cops were white, would there be people all over the media defending them right now? I don't see anybody defending them right now. Anybody. Even the generally poor police people don't seem to be defending them. If there were white cops, would they be defending them? Would they, at the very least, be going out and saying, well, we don't know the facts, maybe this, maybe that? Everybody's pretty uniform. So is this race-free in America? There is no race-free today in America, particularly not when it comes to cops. I'm not saying any of this is related to, I'm not saying what they did to him is related to race. I don't know, but we don't know. And there's very much, you can't ignore the possibility that it is. The way that five policemen can't really subdue one guy, not particularly strong, not particularly, you know, and why is he on the ground? What has he done? And why are they all yelling at him? I mean, I saw one analysis where they said that in the span of 13 minutes, they, 71 commands from different people. This goes against all the training these guys had. Suppose they have one guy in charge giving the commands. Why is everybody yelling at him different things? He complies with them. They keep yelling at him. He complies. He's saying, I'm doing everything you're telling me to do.  And it's not just beaten up. In order to subdue this guy, they tase him. They pepper spray him. They kick him in the head at least twice. They kick him and beat him everywhere else. I mean, the beating was such that it killed him. I mean, this is completely and utterly messed up. He did comply at every step. They tell him to do something he does it at every step. They say, get on the ground. He gets on the ground. They keep yelling and getting with the guy. Finally, he figures out they want him to lie on the ground. He lies on the ground. They keep yelling at him. So he turns over on his stomach. They keep yelling at him and beating him. It doesn't matter. His compliance was not an issue. You watch this video. He's complying. But if you're getting beaten up for no reason, are you going to just lay there and do nothing? Well, she's fighting with him. Why would he get out of the car on a traffic stop? He's arguing with him. Yes, don't argue with police.  These are thugs with uniforms. And not only that, again, I go back to what I was arguing. I've been arguing since George Floyd and I've been arguing. They're untrained thugs. They don't know what they're doing. They don't know how to subdue somebody without killing them. There's absolutely no reason to use deadly force here, as there's been no reason to use deadly force in so many of these police beating cases. They should be trained to be able to subdue a guy one-on-one quickly, effectively without killing him. It is absolutely ridiculous that these guys would do what they did. I don't care if you're speaking back to them because they're asking you to do something unreasonable. They put handcuffs on him, taken to police, and say that he didn't follow orders. Why is that difficult? What does that require beating him? What does that require putting him on the ground? What does that require kicking him in the face? What does that require pepper spray and tasers? All of them, not just one of them, all of them, all of the above. Would you just comply with being kicked in the face? Why aren't we training these people? Why aren't we training these people to subdue? I don't know who we're recruiting to be policemen. I don't know why. I guess part of the problem is you give them special designation in a scorpion squad, and suddenly they feel like they're above the law and they're supermen. So, you know, truly horrific.   These cops, you know, they've got body camps. Do they think they can get away with it? Is that the issue here? Is that in spite of the fact that they know they've got body camps, in spite of the fact that they know that their behavior is going to be reported, they continue doing it? And then I don't know if you saw from the video, it takes the medical staff, minutes, to treat Tehvi. They're just hanging out. They're not washing him. I mean, who knows if his life could have been saved if he'd been treated immediately. But there's a nonchalance. There's a disregard for human life, a disregard for an individual's life. This guy is not some murderer on the loose. This guy has not shot anybody and is escaping the police. This guy, according to the police, will stop for a traffic violation, a traffic violation. How many of you have not been stopped for a traffic violation? How many times will you ask to step out of the car at a traffic violation?   I've said this before, they should be trained to subdue quickly, effectively. There should be almost no circumstances where a policeman has to beat up somebody.  But you should be trained in ways to subdue a suspect in any other circumstances without risking life to yourself or to other people. But we kind of hire policemen and we don't really train them and we give them a gun and once in a while they go shooting and maybe we give them these seminars on how to be a nice cop and what to do and what not to do and probably don't test them on a regular basis. And we certainly don't require them to be in physical shape. You can see that across the border and cops. I mean, actually cops all the time and it's stoning to me how they can be in that shape. They couldn't survive in the military that way. And police is about force and therefore they should be world experts in wielding force. They should be the best in the community at wielding force effectively while minimizing damage. Anyway, it's just a horror story. And you know, it's I think for most reasonable people this is now it's scary because again, this is just a traffic stop. And you know, I'm the kind of person who if the cop is asking me to do something completely unreasonable, I'm likely to tell him to argue with him to debate him while complying but to give him a little lip because I don't like injustice and I don't like stupidity. So I need to be careful, I guess is the answer. It's just I mean, the video is just horrific. So don't watch it. Watch it if you feel the need to if you need to see a concrete, a real visual of it, you can just read the accounts on how horrific it really is was. All right, I mean, we'll keep watching this. We'll keep watching this and monitoring it and seeing what happens. As I said, I definitely do think I'm glad they're being prosecuted for second degree murder. I think it's definitely definitely second degree murder. You know, from what we've seen, we'll see what the court says, what the trial shows. And I do think I do think race is an issue.  And I don't think you can ignore the fact that nobody is coming to the policemen's defense. But if they were white, would they be? I think there would be people coming to the defense anyway. My sense of this. But as we say, it's still a lot of holes in it. So a lot of stuff we don't exactly know. Let's see what happens. Let's see what comes out in the trial, of course. All right. Over the weekend, there was a drone attack on an Iranian military facility. An interesting military facility in that this military facility is right in the smack of the center of, I think, a big city in Iran, Isfahan. Isfahan, I think, has about two million people in it. It's a big city. Right smack in the middle of the city is a military facility. It's a facility that supposedly is responsible for both research and development and building of missiles for the Iranian military. These are missiles that potentially could be targeted at Israel. Glenn, thank you, really appreciate the support. Could be, that's $100 from Glenn. It could be targeted at Israel. But these are some missiles that there is some talk about the fact that these missiles might be sold or given to the Russians with regard to the war in Ukraine. The attack is almost certainly the result of the Israelis, almost certainly this was an assault by the Israeli intelligence, I assume, the Mossad. It's interesting, the drones that attacked this facility, the Iranians said they knocked them all down, but there was a large explosion in the middle of, large explosion in the middle of, what do you call it, Isfahan. So it appears that they achieved their target. These were done by quadcopters. These are drones with four of these, what do you call it, like a helicopter. There's no way these drones could be launched from Israel and travel hundreds and hundreds of miles all the way to Isfahan. You know, you could imagine they could be navigated by satellite, but it's hard to believe that they can go all the way, propellers. Thank you, Rob, that's the word I was looking for, propellers. Nobody's talking about this. None of the stories I read, they talked about this, but these must have been likely launched in Iran by Israeli operatives in Iran or maybe from neighboring Iraq or some way neighboring, but almost certainly not from all the way, flown all the way from Israel. That would be, I think, impossible. So it is interesting. It's also true that this is not the first attack by drones on Iranian facilities, by what we believe is Israel. In August 2019, Israel sent an exploding quadcopter into the heart of a Hezbollah-dominated neighborhood in Beirut, Lebanon, and to destroy a machinery vital for the production of precision missiles. So they literally brought it into a room and blew it up. I mean, that's pretty cool. And that was in 2019. In June 2021, quadcopters exploded at one of Iran's main manufacturing centers for centrifuges, which purify uranium at the country's two major uranium enrichment facilities. A year ago, six quadcopters exploded in another Iranian manufacturing and storage plant for military drones. So they were already attacking the Iranian capacity to produce drones, although it seems like they're still producing huge numbers of drones that are primarily going at this point to Russia. And then in May 2022, a drone strike targeted a highly sensitive military site outside Tehran, where it is assumed Iran develops missiles, nuclear, and drone technologies. Israel has been using drones pretty regularly to attack sites and targets within Iran. I mean, this is pretty cool. You know, drone technology allows Israel to do this at relatively low risk. It doesn't involve flying jets into Iranian airspace, which is, again, hundreds and hundreds of miles away. You'd have to travel over Jordan, over Iraq, or over Saudi Arabia in order to get there. It's been done. Israel, of course, bombed a nuclear facility outside of Baghdad, but Iran is even further than that. And they would have to fly in some kind of stealth mode to avoid detection. It would be a very, very complicated operation to fly actual airplane in drones, allow them to use, I guess, local agents or local special forces units in order to do all this stuff. And if you think about it from the perspective of special operations, when you think about it from the perspective of what is needed and kind of intelligence that they have to have in order to launch this, it's pretty amazing. A lot of these installations, remember, are secret. A lot of these installations are not known. Generally, the Iranians don't advertise that the Israelis not only have the intelligence to know where these installations are and to know what exactly to attack, but they also have the intelligence and the resources and the personnel to actually be able to deploy within Iran and actually be able to destroy targets within Iran. All I can say is good for the Israelis in doing this. I think this is something the whole world benefits from. I think the Ukrainians must be happy, but mainly this is an act of self-defense of Israel, Israel defending itself. I mean, if you consider this plus all the attacks on Iranian targets in Syria, Israel is an ongoing sustained nonstop war against the Iranians on Iranian soil on an any way Iran sends its troops, its military and its equipment. And this is a way to just degrade the Iranian capacity for significant, for war with Israel. So again, I think these are all pretty impressive from a military strategic intelligence perspective and pretty important from a self-defense perspective. All right. Yeah, there's a story again over the weekend, over the last couple of weeks really about Ukrainian corruption. I'm not going to get into a lot of details here, but Ukraine before the war was a very corrupt country. It has been corrupt since its separation of the Soviet Union. I'm sure it was corrupt before then too. But recently, I think before the war, it was ranked 122nd in the world in terms of corruption. The only country in all of Europe listed as more corrupt than Ukraine was Russia. But this is the difference. First, I think Zelensky was taking steps to eradicate corruption in Ukraine. They were slow. They were partial. They were not very effective. They were far from ideal. They were far from ideal. But this is the difference. Over the last couple of weeks, there's been breaking stories in Ukrainian media about corruption in a number of different places within the Ukrainian government. Some of it having to do with deployment of the money and the resources being provided Ukraine by the European Union and by the United States. And corrupt individuals were named. Immediately, an investigation was launched. Those people were fired. They're going to be prosecuted. And there was outrage within Ukraine. And there's clearly, at least in this segment, a cleaning of the house. And indeed, I think this just provides Zelensky with an opportunity to get rid of people he might have wanted to get rid of anyway because of corruption. But now, because it's kind of an international story, he can do it more freely. Imagine if this story had broken in Russia. But corruption within Russia, one of the oligarchs or something like that. Does anybody think, or Putin himself, does anybody think that actions would have been taken to address this, that people would have been arrested? There would be courts, that people would be fired? No. I mean, quite the contrary, the reporter would be arrested and put in jail. That is, the people complaining about the regime would have been punished. And that's really one of the many differences between Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine is not a Western good country when it comes to its political regime. It is indeed corrupt, and it does have significant problems. And it does have problems of political corruption, economic corruption. And also, it has problems of massive cronyism and so on. The differences that there are forces in Ukraine trying to fix it, and there is a relatively independent media, and when the media reports on a occurrence, something is actually done about it. Something is actually done about it, whereas in Russia, there is no independent media, none whatsoever. Indeed, the last fragment of independent media last week, the last fragment of independent media in Moscow was shut down last week, and anybody linking to, referring to an article by that media will be tried for treason in Russia. There is no independent media. It's gone, finished, kaput, completely. But it's just as corrupt, actually more corrupt than Ukraine, and yet there's nothing. And nobody complains about that. Very little complaining about Russian corruption. So a big difference in the level of freedom between the two countries. Ukraine is more free than Russia and is moving in the right direction. Russia, before the war, was less free than Ukraine and moving in the wrong direction. And then after that, the fact that Russia invaded Ukraine, and you've got the bad guys and the good guys in this conflict, pretty well sorted out and pretty clear cut without much ambiguity. All right, anonymous user. Thank you, Jeff Bannister. Thank you. Appreciate the support, guys. We're about $60 short of our goal, but you know, should be pretty easy to get there. Let's see. Finally, just an update on the chips and China story that I am monitoring on a regular basis. The United States, as you know, has placed severe restrictions on the export of technology to China and not just the export of technology, but also the export of microprocessors themselves, particularly the advanced variants of the advanced microprocessors. For a while now, it has been the case that the ASML in the Netherlands has never really sent to China the extreme ultraviolet lithography machines that cost, I think, what do they cost, $10 million a piece or something like that. Those machines have not been sent to China and ASML is committed not to sending them to China. But again, over the weekend, further development is the Boat Japan, which also produces equipment for the manufacturer of semiconductors and ASML, have now agreed not to send to China even the one generation less advanced equipment than extreme ultraviolet lithography. So that would cause China to be even further backwards. Japan's Nikon, which competes with ASML in supplying parts and technology processes that are deep ultraviolet lithography, which is one step less sophisticated than the extreme ultraviolet lithology. Again, Boat Japan and the Netherlands have agreed to deny China even that technology, which makes it very, very difficult if not impossible for the Chinese to catch up in terms of chip manufacturing. The best the Chinese can do, and another story that broke this week, the best that the Chinese can do is basically steal the chips themselves. They can't produce them, but they can steal the chips. Indeed, the story that broke last week is that chips that have been illegal to export to China for a couple of decades now, I think they were first made illegal in 1999 or something like that, have been, you know, it's come out that the Chinese are using those chips in various military equipment. So China is finding ways to get their hands on American chips. Just like China and Iran, Iran drones, Iranian drones are using American chips. Russia and China are finding ways to get around in the black market. There's a massive black market, it turns out, in advanced chips. It's still not the same. Smuggling chips in is just not going to be as effective, certainly in terms of quantity. And then it's, you know, as long as China does not have the capacity to develop the most advanced chips in-house, and as long as it is difficult for them to access the most advanced chips in the world market, they can access them in the black market, I guess, but not more than that. It does retort their progress. It does make their weapons systems at least at some level less effective than American weapons systems, potentially. And it certainly makes it impossible for them to achieve what they sought to achieve, which is technological independence from the West by 2025. That's not happening. It's been extended to 2030, but that, it's just not going to happen. The China is going to achieve technological parity with the U.S. or with the West by 2030 if these kind of technologies are denied. It just, I mean, once you understand it, it's impossible for them to basically develop extreme ultraviolet lithography in 10 years. It might be impossible for them to develop in 20 years. 20 years, it might be impossible for them to ever develop it, given the expertise that has to go into it, and the amount of subcontracting that has to go into it. In ASML's case, the company in Holland, the expertise, they get to access companies all over the West, and companies that are world-class at a little, tiny little thing. That expertise is not available to the Chinese. All right, so that was the news. That was the update of the news. Thank you. We've reached our goal. I really appreciate that. Thank you, Maria. I really appreciate the support. Thank you. $50 got us over the top. Vladimir, thank you. Friend Hopper, thank you. Anonymous user, thank you. All right, let's quickly do some super chats, and we'll call it a day. Martin, by the way, if you want to support The One Book Show, if you particularly like these morning shows, like regular morning shows, somebody texted me today said, oh, I want to become a monthly supporter of The One Book Show. I really like the morning shows. I want to support the morning shows in particular. How much should I give? And I said, 25 bucks a month is good. Anything above 25 bucks a month is fantastic. If you can afford more, 25 is great. Of course, if you can't afford 25, any amount. But those monthly contributions are super beneficial, again, because they give me predictability of income into the future. And it's steady, it's regular. So please consider doing that at whatever level you can afford and find a value in terms of the value for value exchange that's going on here. So if you want to support The One Book Show, just write Morning Show and do it. You can do it on Patreon. Subscribe, star, and you're on bookshow.com slash support, which is PayPal. All right, Martin, Martin, 50 euro. Thank you, Martin. I visited Bratislava on Thursday last week to see Nikos' talk about the anti-liberal right. He was brilliant as usual, excited to attend more upcoming live events in Europe. Also, Discord server sounds like a cool idea. Yes, there is a Discord server. I'll get you more information about that once I figure out what a hell the Discord server is. I don't know. But there is now a Discord server for The One Book Show, I think. It's either here or it's about to be launched. Miroslav can fill you in on the chat. I don't have a Discord server. You guys have a Discord server. How about that? Martin, I will be in Bratislava. Let me pull up the calendar so I can tell you exactly when I'm going to be in Bratislava. I mean, I've got this killer schedule that they put me on. We've got a new coordinator for AERA Europe who's just, you know, he's trying to really work me. Okay, so on the 21st of February, I will be doing two talks in Prague. One at Severeau and one at another university. What university is that? That is at Anglo-American University. So I want the Anglo-American University and one at Severeau. That'll be on the 21st of February, on the 22nd of February, at 10 a.m. in the morning, and I have to drive to this place. I'll be at Bruno, I think I'm pronouncing that, at the University of Bruno, at 10 a.m. giving a talk. And then in the evening at 6 p.m., on Wednesday at 22nd, I will be in Bratislava giving a talk. So stay tuned, all those talks out there. I think there's information. If there isn't, there will be going up on my website. There'll be information on the Einren Institute website. Yes, Miroslav, you're going to have to take a vacation. Actually, you should come with me to Bruno at Bratislava. Just take the whole week off. So Martin, I hope we have an opportunity to see you in some of those talks. I'll be, right now I'm planning to drive from Prague to Bruno to Bratislava and then to Vienna the next day to fly to Belize. All right, thanks Martin. Appreciate the support. Michael says, thank God for YouTube and bodycams.  Also, are you doing a show Tuesday evening? I have a ton of super chat questions I've been thinking about. Yes, I will be doing a show Tuesday evening. I don't have a theme yet, but it will be at 7 p.m. eastern time. I don't know what the theme will be. There's a bunch of stuff I want to do. I want to do a show debunking the vaccine nonsense or presenting evidence clearly the vaccines are not killing people. I want to do, which is plentiful and gushing over. But there's so many graphs. I can probably do a whole show just showing you graphs. And then I want to do a show on Tate and Andrew Tate. I think I was way too nice in my comments before on Andrew Tate. Andrew Tate is much worse of a human being than I thought he was after doing a little bit of research. It didn't take long to discover what a scumbag he is. So I'm thinking of doing a show on Andrew Tate and maybe touching on issues of masculinity. But those are some of the issues. Those are two issues that I want to do shows on before I leave for Europe. But we'll see what I do it on tomorrow. Jeff wants stats on Vax. I've got Amish coming on. And I have to ask Amish if he wants to do the show with me on the vaccines or whether I should do it and then have him on to kind of give more of the background and more of the higher level stuff. I'm going to strategize with Amish before I figure out because Amish is coming on maybe in the early March. I don't have, let me just see. Yeah, he's coming on in early March. Just to give you a quick update, we have Gina Gorlin on Thursday. The second of February. We have Jason Crawford coming in on February 9th. He runs the Progress Studies Institute. We're going to be talking about progress and progress studies and what he's doing and what the institute is doing. But generally we'll talk about progress and some of the work he's doing. I think he's writing a book. We'll talk about his book and everything else. And then we have Alex Epstein on the 16th of February, obviously to talk about everything that's been happening since the publication of the book. We had him on just when the public was published, I think, that was it. And now we'll have him on like a few months later to kind of see what's been achieved, where we are, what can still be, you know, where he's seeing progress. So that's exciting. And then so I'm just giving you a quick update on the interviews coming up. And then we've got Amish coming on on the 9th of March. So Amish will be on on the 9th of March. And let's see if I've got anybody else. Yeah. Well, no, I'm not sure if it's the 9th of March. Wait, I've got Amish on two dates. Either the 9th of March or the 16th of March. I've got him on twice. And those will be Amish. Anyway, so I'm looking forward to all those shows. Hopefully you guys are too. All right. Michael, thank you. Paul, Ayn Rand's essay for the New Intellectual is one of the best essays of historical analysis ever written. Yet it is really referenced by objectivist intellectuals. Can you please devote some time on your program to analyzing this essay at some point in the future? Yeah, absolutely. And I don't think it's true that we don't. I mean, we haven't analyzed the essay qua essay, but we refer to it all the time. I mean, every time we talk about a witch doctor and a tiller and the world of intellectuals and in changing the world. And I mean, I think it is inspired and inspired a lot of how we talk about history and a lot of how we talk about the world and in particular a lot of how we talk about how to change the world and certainly has inspired the Ayn Rand Institute's strategy about trying to change the world. So I wouldn't say it's been ignored or hasn't been referenced, but I do think we could focus more on the essay itself and talk more about it in more detail. J.J. Jigby's, I'm excited for your debate with Brian Kaplan. You're both among my favorites. Could you invite him on YBS for more casual conversation afterwards? I might. I'm particularly interested in talking to Brian about immigration. I think he is one of the best people out there on immigration. Let's see how the debate goes. Let's see how friendly he is. I don't know exactly what to expect from him because I don't know Brian. But, you know, is he hostile towards me or not? I just don't know. He is friendly towards some objectivist. Obviously Alex Epstein and others, but I don't know. I have a reputation among libertarians and so I don't want to invite him on the show if he lands up being hostile. But if the debate goes well in terms of just our relationship, then I'll definitely invite him on to talk about immigration. I mean, him and the guy at Kato are the two best people in immigration today anyway in terms of arguments. A large YouTuber lost his channel. This is Bree. A large YouTuber lost his channel to an email phishing attack. The attack defeated the two-step verification. The email claims to be about a copyright issue. Wow. Wow. That's scary. That's scary. These phishing attacks. I noticed they're getting more and more sophisticated. I got one by text the other day and I almost fell for it until I dug a little bit deeper. But they can get really, really, really, really, you need to watch yourself. Speka1223, hey, Johan, I was on vacation at Serbia. What do you think about Serbia, past, present, and future? I've been to Serbia several times over the years, over the last, I'd say, eight years or so. I've spoken there on several occasions. The problem with Serbia, as is the problem with much of that region, is the extent to which they are tribal and to the extent to which their identity all tied up in the particular tribe from which they are is particularly bad. Obviously, as we saw in much of the Civil War in former Yugoslavia during the breakup of Yugoslavia, they are brutal. They are brutal. But that brutality really comes from that tribalism, tribalists are brutal because they dehumanize the other. Others stop being human and therefore they can be treated in the most horrific, horrible conditions. They are, of course, in a position today where there is the risk of real war in Serbia between Serbia and Kosovo, which I think is horrible, but again, the Kosovo and the pretty tribal as well. So it's often hard to tell who's to blame, but everybody there is tribal and the Serbs are among the worst of it and the most aggressive about it. I think they still resent the breakup of Yugoslavia. They would have liked to rule over all of it. I think they really view it that way, that it's theirs, that land is all theirs and they should be the rulers over the entire territory. Again, there are all kinds of people, but there's also a real liberty movement in Serbia. There's a pretty good think tank there that is pro-liberty. There were a lot of objectivists who came out of Serbia. I've spoken there many times and the people who hosted me and the people I spoke to were amazing. So there is also, at the certain level, a real rejection of that tribalism and a real rejection of that militancy and a real embrace and a real fight for liberty and freedom. I think there's some politicians, if I remember right, people explaining it to me, that there is a force for better and freedom within Serbia. I think Belgrade is kind of an interesting city. It's really got potential to be a beautiful city. I think as they get richer, it could be a beautiful city. There's still a long way for them to go to get richer. It's still a very corrupt country. It's up there in the corruption index. It also has made, I think, the strategic error of aligning itself with Russia versus aligning itself with the European Union. I think it would be much better for Serbia from an economic perspective to align itself with the European Union and along as there was aligned primarily with Russia that will hurt them economically. A place like Croatia and I think Slovenia are joining the European Union. Croatia is actually adopting the euro and I think that will benefit Croatia enormously whereas I think that Serbia, to a large extent, is going to be left behind by not joining the trade union as the European Union as leftist and as corrupt as the European Union is. Serbia is worse. Croatia is worse. That's why for them, entering the European Union is a step forward, not a step backward. And suddenly, after we think there are lines with Russia, the fact that there are Slavs is part of the tribalism involved. Racism, right? This is all racism. The hatred of other people because they belong to a different tribe, the judging of other people because of what tribe they belong to. All just aspects of racism. Unfortunately, Europeans are quite racist to the extent that they are tribalists. Anonymous user says, why doesn't the US produce the most advanced chips? For a variety of business errors, business mistakes, we don't. So Chang, who is the founder of... Actually, the first and best way to get the answer to this is to go back and listen to my Chip War show, the episode I did on the micro-processing wars. I think I discussed this in great detail but just a quick answer is that when Texas Instruments... When Chang, he was the number two, I think, at Texas Instruments, proposed Texas Instruments move to a business model where they specialize in the production of chips without designing them. That is producing other people's designs. TI turned him down and he couldn't really find any interest in the United States to build such a factory, a factory that only producers doesn't design the chips. And to really realize his dream, he went to Taiwan. He's not from Taiwan. He has no real connections to Taiwan other than he was born in China and raised in Hong Kong. But he went to Taiwan where they were interested in this idea. And what happened is that that is an idea, the revolutionized chip making. It allowed for specialization. It allowed TSMC to specialize in the production of chips and other companies to specialize in the design of chips or even to the level of specialization design. There are three U.S. companies that produce all the software to design chips, but the actual manufacture of chips happens in Taiwan. The other challenge the U.S. has in producing chips is a workforce. We just don't have enough people with the skill set to be able to compete on the production of chips. You have a lot of such people with that kind of skill set and that kind of education in Taiwan, in China, and in South Korea. And that's why chip manufacturing is gravitating over there, although there's probably less of that in China. And of course, low in chip manufacturing is also being done in a place like Malaysia. There it's cost of labor because of these very simple chips. So cost of labor matters, but also skill set. Most of our engineers do different things and we don't have enough people with the right kind of skill set for chip manufacturing. And then the other aspect of that, and I'll end with this, is the fact that Intel screwed up, Intel did not keep up with the latest technology. In spite of the fact that Intel was the one who really came up with the idea of extreme ultraviolet lithography, they ended up not being able to use, to be the most advanced user of that lithography. They messed up, they didn't invest enough, they focused on the wrong things, they didn't put enough into R&D onto the right things, and they lost out, a competition. And other American chip manufacturers like AMD and Micron all landed up being chip designers and couldn't compete on the chip manufacturing with TSMC and with Samsung. So yeah, division of labor, competition, markets, basically the United States was not the best in the world at this particular thing. Taiwan was, in South Korea. All right, let's see. One of the famous says Intel finally put out a chip with 7 nano-meter technology. It beat AMD apart, but no, they're putting out 3 nano-meter soon. But the reality is that none of that is Intel. You know, ultimately TSMC, at least the 3 nano-meter chip are going to be all TSMC. I think the 4 nano-meter is also all TSMC. So TSMC is actually the one producing those kind of chips. The only ones who are capable are producing those kind of chips. All right, thanks everybody. I will see you tomorrow morning and tomorrow evening. And have a great week. Thanks everybody. Don't forget support to show you.


Hi folks, Basel Chapman here for the 11 o'clock Tiger Financial News Network market update. The Dow is up 62 with $35,984. So you're stuck in this little range of between that nine and 14 per cent in the daily chart. It's just stuck here. Magnets turned down stochastics at 59 per cent, on-bounds volumes pullback sharply, relative strength is turned back sharply. There is some residual strength, and you can see that in the overall market in the different sectors, but the Dow just doesn't seem to be able to find its energy since it made its $36,565 all-time high at the beginning of the week. And now we're looking at, just make it simple, $36,272. Above that, anytime next week says, hey, there's enough residual strength. Maybe you can even retest the highs, but that's where we're looking at it now. Any close below $35,850 says, nah, this is a problem right now. My thinking is that there's a bit of a problem. But look at the S&P. The S&P, they're 500 stocks acting a little bit better. They were acting better all week. In fact, they have pulled back from the high of $47,18.50 at peak D in the Chapman wave on the daily pullback. And now they're holding the nine-period moving average up $18 at $46,67. If they can start trading the $46,87 or higher area sometime next week, that's good. Any pullback under the $46,28 says, nah, you've got to be real careful. We're also looking at the QQQ, NDX100 trading vehicle. We're looking at it up 2.63, nice bounce, $393 above the nine-period moving average, but it's way below the $499 high that was made last Friday, a week ago. So it needs to get to the $398 level to say, I've got enough strength to try to tackle the highs. In the meantime, the IWM, the Russell 2000 small caps is trading down $0.16. It's kind of stuck off. It's all-time high. You're looking at gold, gold right now is trading up. Now it's about unchanged at $18.60. If you're holding all of this week's really good gains, you're looking at the dollar, and this is really interesting. The dollar is holding quite nicely. It's down 66 at $95.10, having made a recovery high in a recovery high. In fact, in a yearly recovery high, acting quite well. Crude oil has been stuck in the range, making lower highs and lower lows. And we'll see how that trades over the coming week. I didn't do anything today. I'm going to show the Tiger technicians out on the TLT. We're watching it real closely. It's in 147, and we'll do a little bit more of it coming up on Monday. Say, Junior, you've got Larry Presavento, you've got Thinkorswim, Steve Rhodes, Dave White, and Tom O'Brien raps it up. Have a wonderful weekend. See you on Monday, Basel Chapman sign.


I want to also thank all of you for coming today. This is our, for Jim and me, the Simons Foundation is our home away from home. And we really hope to make it into a place for great science and math. And we're really happy to partner on a day like today with IHES, which is also a wonderful institution for math science research. I first went to visit IHES when I was in my early 20s, and Jim was going to meet with Dennis Sullivan to do some research and I was supposed to come out from Paris a little while later that afternoon. And it's really memorable because I got off at the wrong train stop and I had to somehow manage to figure out how to really get where I was going. So, but when I went there, I was just really impressed with the atmosphere. I'd never been at a place like that before where everyone was consumed talking about their research in addition to a lot of great food. So anyway, Jim and I have been friends of IHES for a long time. And as Emanuel mentioned earlier, we're now co-chairing the Friends Organization. And I see a lot of other board members here. Do you want to raise your hands or wow. Thank you all for coming. And so Jim and I have been supporting friends for a long time. And one of the role of Friends is to help spread science and reach more audiences in addition to helping support the organization. We think IHES is terrific. And Jim's going to tell you a little bit more about our fundraising efforts. Well, fundraising is always fun. And IHES has an endowment of how much is the endowment? Yeah, 45 million euros, which is invested as an endowment should be invested. But the rules in France are so strict that what the endowment can be invested in is things that at best return 2% a year or maybe in a good year, 3%. So it's not so helpful. So we thought once we became co-chairs of Friends, almost all of whom we've met, that Friends could have a separate endowment in accordance with IHES, an endowment of 10 or maybe 20 million dollars, which could be invested in an intelligent manner. I know something about investing, to say the least. And I think we could... So Marilyn and I will match contributions to this new endowment. And there's already, I think, $50,000 in it or something like that. But if we could get this to 10 or even 20 million dollars, it would really be a big help. Because if we could make 10% instead of 2% and we have 20 million dollars, that's $2 million a year that could go to IHES or at least part of that. And some could be kept to the endowment to grow. So Marilyn and I will match contributions to this domestic endowment. And I notice a lot of people in this room who are not poppers, to say the least. I've met five hedge fund people here today. So we hope you can see your way clear to making these contributions, which we will happily match. So I hope you had a good time here today. It was supposed to be a breakfast. I expected eggs and bacon. But there were no such things. But I had coffee. Yeah, well, whatever. But happily I was allowed to smoke since this is my building. I allow myself to smoke. And I hope you all had a good time here today. And thanks for coming.


Hey guys, it's Monica. I went to share with you a couple of things that I have really really been loving and A couple of things I haven't been loving all that much So I'm gonna go through a little bit of my trash, but I'm also gonna talk to you about some new things that I have So many of you know that Jay and I went on a trip We went on a trip to Vegas and we went to the Grand Canyon and right before I went I've already shared those vlogs and all that but right before I went I've received this package from a Balzano And Balzano is a handbag Subscription monthly subscription service much like BoxyCharm is makeup and any of the other ones are skincare and FabFitFun This is a handbag and accessory So if you are like a handbag and accessory person you might really enjoy this So I received this package and I thought it was really fitting that I was going on a trip When I received this so this is and I shared this before so this is like you strap this around your waist and You can you know you have it's a waist pack or I used to call it a fanny pack Anyways, this was a godsend on my trip. I was able to secure all my money My tickets everything in this compartment and then there's a few zippered compartments in there for credit cards and For your lot driver's license and ID and if I was going overseas my passport and other compartments Big enough to hold my cell phone big enough to hold a lipstick or you know a few items that you want to be able to reach readily then two outer compartments one would hold a cell phone now I have the iPhone 10 The iPhone s max or whatever it is anyways a really big iPhone It would not fit in these two outer compartments, but it fit beautifully inside here So I was able to slip it in here and then in this outer compartment. I had all my change I had my actually put my boarding passes in here as well And then in this compartment, which is quite secure, but it's a little thinner You know if you wanted to slip a couple of bucks, so you didn't have to open up a zip anything You could just open this up it actually connects snaps so to speak and You know to open it up you have to squeeze these two things together and then it opens So if you like just wanted to give the bag man bell man Curbside attendant a couple of bucks for taking your bags and you didn't want to open anything up That's what I did. I put ones in here so that I had some tip money on travel day And you know you could you could I mean this came in so handy I was like so super surprised. It is well well constructed and the band was big enough that It was comfortable the only thing is I was worried that these would you know like attract attention and all that they really did it I mean I had to you know put this off and put it inside my travel bag. Nobody opened it up you know not my you know like when you're going through the TSA the Regulations where they're searching you and all that I didn't have any any problems at all with this and I thought it looked really cute I thought it was really really cute. So along with this bag that day when I was traveling They sent this accessory pack and they sent these moisturized gloves now I've used these Twice they are reusable. I forgot. I think you could do like I'd have to read it again I think it said like it was like 240 Times you could use it But you take them out. I just put them back in here. You don't have to you can store them any other place that's a dark and You just put them on for 20 minutes. Oh My gosh, I must I don't even want to put them on right now because I'm gonna not want to take them off But oh my gosh, these were heavenly and already they feel Fabulous fabulous So you know you make sure that your hands are obviously clean and dry And then you put them on and you keep them on for 20 minutes and they're reusable You just seal them back up or put them in a dark place. I just put them right back in here. Keep them on. Oh Wow, they feel it felt awesome. So these were like super super awesome to receive the other thing that they sent that I used and washed is This little accessory. These are these accessory packs.  They're not like, you know the but they feel so They feel so good and so Soft really really nice. I really like these and they're perfect size for traveling So I thought that was like amazing. So let me just tell you a little bit because Normally it's a hand handbag you know subscription and Then they have an accessory pack that you can get one you one time. I got a beautiful scarf I've gotten some little jewelry. I have like little earrings. They sent with a little bracelet So the accessories that go along with your subscription are really cool But you can also get this other pack That if you really wanted to add it on for ten dollars a month, you could but the subscription because people always ask me I'm gonna link all the information below the subscription. If you just did a monthly subscription. It's 35 3395 if you did it quarterly it says here. It's 101 80 and if you did it yearly, it's 36666 so, you know, obviously yearly is a better buy than you know quarterly or monthly But you get two to three beauty products each month if you're going to be doing the the you know That comes with your two to three products that'll come with your handbag and accessory subscription and And then you know, you can sign up for the purse accessory accessories and all of that stuff You can add purse companions if you want these were the purse companions. They sent me with the gloves The beauty blender. They also sent me a little travel eye Pallet which I haven't opened yet. I haven't used this yet, but just you know I'm gonna open it up and swats it swatch swats it La la la and see how it looks because this might be the perfect size with somebody that just wants to throw One thing in their travel bag and have some shadows with them But anyways, I'm gonna give you all the information below if you're at all interested in subscribing to this It is like it's I think it's a lot of fun last month I got a bag and I and I showed it to you all and I really love it I Got a bag that holds my laptop and it's like it was burgundy and it was I could just stick my laptop in it and a Couple of work items so it's sort of like a almost like a briefcase if you want to think about it but cross-body type of a bag that held my 13 inch MacBook Pro and number of other things perfectly fine for work and This was just awesome. I was so so thrilled with that. So I just wanted to share that with you because that You know, that was that was really super and I want to thank Malzano for sending me this I truly truly appreciate it. I've talked about their their story their brand story Before but if you're not familiar with it, it is really a heartwarming story I'm going to link my previous video so that maybe you can listen to the video but it is all about removing the labels and Yeah, and she the owner of this company and her daughter Definitely removed the labels. So I'm like super thrilled to help support them and I'm so thankful They sent me this wonderful package The other thing that had come in right after I left so it was waiting for me when I got home from my trip was this wonderful wonderful package from Sigma brushes and I'm telling you I absolute this This is I'm in a demo of this not in this video, but this is their brush cleaner and Or and I absolutely love this. I thought this package was awesome So I did get a few brushes and I have used these brushes this particular one. This is the small Tape bird and they have the numbers and I will make sure I leave the numbers But oh my god, I was having so much fun Applying my eye shadow with this and this one I know it's not you're not really supposed to be you know, I used it for my blush anyways. I use this for my blush and This is the f35 tapered highlighter, but for me it was a great blush brush This is the big powder and so yeah when you're putting on any kind of powder and you want to powder off That was really awesome. I am loving loving these Sigma brushes that I got the whole Sigma package I'm loving. I have not tried they sent a neutral a warm neutral palette. I haven't tried that yet I did show it last in one of my previous videos and they also sent a lipstick they sent a highlighter a contour brush I haven't opened this one to use it yet and a lipstick and a Brush cleaning fluid liquid. It's really awesome. I love it. I absolutely love it So thank you so much to Sigma for sending me that a couple of things that I bought I am now granted I have my Raquel Welch flirt alert wig on and either you're gonna like the wigs on me or not I you know, I love them I love having the different looks and I love the ease of being able to put a wig on my head and Being able to sit and do a video or run out to the store or something without having to fiddle with my hair But many of you know that I do have thinning hair and you also know that I have been you know that I highlight my hair and Touch up my hair. I think it was Mary Ellen after 60 And if I'm wrong, I will have to correct myself But I think I had heard about this product on Mary Ellen after 60 channel This is called wow and this is a powder That I'm gonna try to put my Sigma thing over the mirror This what I really like about this. This is a root touch up They have a small end brush and a larger end brush so what you do is You just can dab this into your roots if you're starting to see some gray and it'll cover them up So I got I think this is the the brown the light brown or the medium brown I think this is a light brown is the one that I got. I got this off of Amazon I really really like this. I had I took this with me to Vegas and When I was just feeling like some of the grays were showing on my temple, which is the first place They go. I just covered up with this and I really liked it the other thing that I bought at the same time was Something called cover your gray or cover the gray. It's a fill-in powder. I bought this Because I saw this and I said hmm I just kind of is interesting to me the only thing I don't like about this. It comes. It's a little tiny square It comes with a brush. I don't like having a separate brush I wouldn't mind if it was a smaller brush and it was a nestled inside this container Like the brush for this container, but it isn't so this is really cool because I'm gonna cover up the mirror hair It's got a light brown and a dark brown and it is the same idea You can take whichever blend of color you want and you can clear, you know clearly cover up Any gray in your temples that you want or anywhere else for that matter if you have gray going down your Your center part, you know in your hair, etc So I really like both of these products. The one thing that I thought was the best thing ever on them is that None of them. I mean, I suppose you could color in your scalp if you pressed it on your scalp But none of them colored my scalp I was able to brush it along with the flow of my hair and coat the gray on my temples without coloring in my scalp Which I thought was really nice. So this worked awesome for traveling I really liked it an awful lot the color worked out perfect for me this I'm keeping mostly at home Because of the separate brush and all that So yeah, this might go to work in my bag just in case, you know I'm gonna film a video at work and I want to shut up the gray and this might stay at home on my my cabinet So I really really liked that a lot and I'll link it below it. They were not expensive They were not expensive and for me they covered up my gray really really nicely and lasted all day Which I thought was really really super awesome The other thing is YSL. I had received from YSL I don't know quite a while ago and I'm almost embarrassed to show you because it's a little dirty But I had received this mascara by the octaline network and I had actually reviewed it and said that I really liked it I like the brush. I Liked how it applied. I still have some in here. It's not empty. Well, they had shown another one And I said and I said to you know, I said wonder if they'll send me this as well So I requested it via the octaline network and this is the YSL This is the shock mascara as is this one, but this one is black and this one is blue Remember when we were kids? Used to have the white eyeshadow and I anyways used to use blue mascara whenever I could I Love to blue mascara. So I said wouldn't that be cool if I could get my hands on this And it's a really I can you see the blue? You can probably see it really well on here, but you can't see it so well I'm gonna look in the mirror. You can't see it so well on my eyes now. I Haven't been coating and doing my whole Mascara in blue at all. I've just been doing the tips and I really like that. So I'm using my base mascara blacks this or any other mascara that I'm using I will use and that I go over this YSL the shock mascara in cobalt I think it's cobalt it wills in blue and I go over the tip of my lashes And I really like it and then I actually brought it down a little bit more just like a one or two You know swipe over after I've applied the mascara and it kind of gives me this Kind of you know blue tinge to my my mascara, and I really like that a lot. I think that looks really really cool So I was really thrilled. Thank you so much YSL. I advise the Octoly Network for sending me that I've really Appreciate it and love it a lot So the other thing that I got that was a total. Oh My gosh, I'm looking for it. Here it is. I It wasn't a it wasn't a surprise that I got it It was a total surprise that I loved it as much as I did I had requested by the Octoly Network from Becca To try both their eyeliner or their their lip liners and their lip stick So I didn't get approved for the lip liner And I was really kind of bummed because the lip liner is actually what I was hoping they would send me and The lipstick was sort of like okay, you know that'll go be nice companion piece to it So I ended up getting the lipstick So I ended up getting the lipstick and I I showed this briefly in my other video But I just had to come back and tell you after I think I've never quoted that video was like two weeks or something I just had to come back and tell you that the shock for me, and I'm going to show you the lipstick. I Don't know if you can see it I'm going to you know, hopefully you can see that the shock for me Was truly how much I like it now Every now and then someone will say to me What's lipstick you're wearing because I never do a face of the day I just I you know, I figure my face is kind of like sort of boring So who would really care what I have on necessarily so I never really do a face of the day so every now and then some will say what is your lipstick you're wearing today and I would answer them the rest of my recollection, but since I've been using this every day I every day get somebody that either sends me a direct message on Instagram or On YouTube or in real life when I'm talking to them and they'll say to me What is that lipstick you have on it looks really really good on you? And I will be like wow I have never in my life gotten so many compliments about lipsticks as I have about this now when I Showed you guys this before we went to Vegas. I was like really I thought that little snapping noise was really cool I thought that was awesome But the most awesome part about this lipstick is it actually lasts Doesn't last 12 hours 18 hours or any some such nonsense, but I can drink my coffee I can have my breakfast.  So I am like thoroughly amazed at how Wonderful this feels on my lips and how long it's lasted so this is the back and this is in the color orchid and I think it's beautiful. Now. I have been topping it off with lip gloss I've topped it off with I have a Lancome a Lancome clear that I've used I've used my Buxom That I have bought because I like the white Russian. I use that I Use the city lips that I've received from city lips in PR So I've used a number of different lip glosses on top of this and the lip liner I'm using is my Avon lip liner because I didn't get approved the lip liner from Becca But it's my Avon lip lining liner and I think it's like all about mauve or on the mauve or something like that And I really really like it a lot. I think it goes really well with this. So I'm like I'm like so So excited about that. You know, I think this video I think I've gone I don't even know how long it is, but I think I've gone on and on about Everything and I never got to my empties and to my trash So I'm gonna probably do this in two. I'll break it down into two videos So that it isn't a hour long hour long video because I have a what look at this I have a bag of stuff Empties now I've thrown a lot of empties out, but I've also saved empties Got some hair in my face. So Yeah, so I mean it I think I will I'll definitely break that into two videos I just wanted to share those things with you. I love this mascara.  Do you like this lipstick on me? What do you guys think? Let me know. Do you think that looks really good? And I'm just I wish they had sent me that lip liner I think that would have been really really awesome and on my head. I think I already mentioned this I'm not too sure but yeah, this is my flirt alert Raquel Welch and I really like this This is the heat defying fiber So you do have to be a little bit more careful with heat defying fiber or heat Friendly fiber or whatever it is. It's like you can stand the heat where most synthetic wigs can't so being that synthetic It's not human hair. I think you know, I've been doing pretty good I've been watching a woman I watch a number of people religiously But this one woman that I watch her name is Taz and I will link her channel below her it's Taz's wig closet and She has got to be the most beautiful beautiful woman and physically she is absolutely gorgeous and But underneath it all she's friendly She she is you can talk to her her and I've been engaging on on Instagram I started commenting on her videos in YouTube. She started to comment back on mine You know, that's kind of how it goes you you reach out to different content creators that you have something in common with and You develop a relationship and so Taz is just she's just a beautiful beautiful person and a wonderful woman wig reviewer And I know for many of you in the mature beauty community you watched Nisha sugar puff and fluff her wig reviews Nisha's awesome And I love the reviews that she does and she loves that shaded this color the really blonde blonde color. She looks gorgeous But Taz recently reviewed a wig that I'm getting in a color I'm getting and I can't wait to get it and try it on me Not that I look nearly as good as she in it But I'm really super excited. So I know this is kind of a gabbing about all sorts of different weird things but But yeah, you know, it's just really nice when you can connect with somebody on YouTube and and you actually say well You know people I would like to have coffee with this person And I can't say that about everyone, but I would like to have coffee with her someday or a glass of wine it just like you know some of my my YouTube content creators that I feel super close to I I want to meet them in real life And I know that I can I know that we could sit around the fire And we could just chit chat for hours for hours and I hope that comes true So news I'm gonna end this video before it goes super long and then I'm gonna do another video Yeah, I'll do another video all in and that way, you know, yeah So thanks so much for watching guys if you have any comments or suggestions about the lipstick leave them below Please be sure to like the video Please, please, please be sure to subscribe to the channel when before we went on vacation. I actually looked at my statistics I'm not totally statistic driven, but being a real estate agent. I am very concerned about statistics so I did look at my system my statistics my back end of my YouTube channel and I have a high ratio of you that watch my videos Almost all the time, but you're not subscribed. So if you're watching the video Wouldn't you please please consider subscribing because it would truly truly help me out growing the channel a lot I'm getting close to 9,000 And I'm putting together a huge giveaway for that and I I just can't believe that I'm getting close to 9,000 I really can't and You know, it's been slow going but it's it's organic You guys that are watching me are watching me because you want to watch me Those of you that have subscribed and subscribed because you want to or I picked you to I don't know But it didn't pay you and I think that's I mean to me that I Like knowing that you guys are real.  It would never want to pay to have subscribers I don't care if I could get 80,000 subscribers next week. I don't really care I'm so happy with what I have and I'm so happy with every single one of you Now if the rest of you watching this could subscribe you'd get me to 9,000 a heck of a lot quicker and that would be like the nuts So anyways, thanks so much guys. Bye


The coronavirus crisis is a serious situation that deserves our vigilance and attention. But for some people, the constant stream of information including warnings, threatening statistics and demoralizing news can result in feelings of worry, fear and panic. When does being informed cross the line into too much information? When do caution become overaction and alertness become fear? My name is Robin Wallast, I'm a doctor in psychology and in this video I will introduce you to the psychology of coronavirus fear. Fear is a universal emotion experienced by everyone around the world as well as among other animal species. Emotion theories define fear as an unpleasant feeling caused by the threat of danger, pain or harm. The main function of fear is to act as a signal of danger, threat or multivocional conflict and to trigger appropriate adaptive responses such as fighting, freezing, running, increasing vigilance and so on. Importantly, there are strong individual differences with some people being more disposed to experiencing fear than others. In the coronavirus context, emotions including fear may manifest via three main components over the behavior, verbal cognitive and physiological. First, an individual's fear of contagion may be exhibited by behavior responses such as avoiding all contact with other people or excessively hand washing. These behavioral responses generated by fear will motivate individuals to avoid and protect themselves from the perceived danger. Second, people may verbally report what they feel and think about the coronavirus. This is the subjective experience of emotion when the brain cognitively interprets the situation. Third, fear is associated with physiological responses such as an increased heart rate or accelerated breathing in the presence of threats like watching new updates on television. Physiological responses depend on the nature of the threat and the best response option. For instance, crying can appear as a physiological process to cope with fear, stress or anxiety as it may assist in generally maintaining biological homeostasis, perhaps consciously through self-suiting via purposeful breathing and unconsciously through regulation of heart rate. At the psychological level, scientists have demonstrated that fear is closely related to intolerance of uncertainty. One of the most prevalent fears people have is that of losing control. This is the fear that if you don't manage to control the outcome of future events, something terrible will happen. The fear of coronavirus is likely due to its novelty and uncertainties about how bad the current outbreak might become. Demanding certainty in an uncertain world is impossible. When people don't have certainty, they worry and ruminate about it. These ruminations can be amplified in a threatening context such as the coronavirus pandemic and may lead to anxiety, fear or panic. This feeling of fear and lack of control can emerge from several sources in the coronavirus situation. First, health anxiety, which is the perceived vulnerability to disease, is one of the strongest predictors of fear and anxiety. The more concern you have for your health, the higher is the risk for you to experience unpleasant emotions. Second, risk for loved ones. Another important factor to consider is whether the threat is personally relevant either to oneself or to loved ones. As such, one would expect more worry and fear if the threat of the coronavirus is highly relevant for one's own general health or to loved ones like parents or grandparents. Third, economic instability. Millions of individuals all around the world have been told to stay at home and most of them have not been able to work and earn money because they are unable to do their job from home. Consequently, many people have started to be worried and panicking about a financial situation. Four, media exposure to threatening information about the virus is known to elevate levels of fear and worry. If you are experiencing unpleasant emotions such as worry, fear and anxiety, I encourage you to watch my coping video in which I give 8 useful tips to cope with negative emotions related to the coronavirus. The link will appear at the end of the video. Thank you for watching. Let me know in the comments how you cope with coronavirus fear and if you find this video helpful, please consider sharing it. You never know who might need this. Stay safe and healthy. Bye.