 Iran, can you hear me? Yes, you probably do. Okay, great. Question about Elon Musk has been in the news quite a bit lately. And you've talked before about your mixed feelings about Elon Musk in that on the one hand is this audacious bold innovator that's pushing the limits of just technology in general. But on the other hand, he's taking a lot of money from the government, right? So, and I've asked this question before, but I think I didn't put it correctly. So previously you mentioned that when individuals take money from the government, you mentioned that that's fine because ultimately it's your own money, right? Because government is taking your money in taxes. So how is that different from Elon Musk saying government is preventing me from making all this money because of regulations or taxes or whatever. So I'm taking this money back. How can he not legitimize that? If he actually said that, then I would say it's okay for him to take the money, right? So when I said it's okay for individuals to take the money, it's okay for individuals to take the money if they're anti-taking the money and they're publicly anti-taking the money and then they can issue out of not taking the money that the money shouldn't be distributed, they're not taking the money, that the money shouldn't be distributed. So the people who are anti-government doing this stuff, it's okay for them to take the money. If Elon Musk came out and said, look, I don't think government should subsidize solar, I don't think government should subsidize electric cars, I don't think it's any of the governments, I want this to be a competitive market, but look, they're handing out the money. I don't think they should, but they're handing out the money, I'm gonna take it and it's my money partially and partially my competitors are gonna get it if I don't get it, right? Then I'd say, okay, but that's not what he's saying. He actually, as far as I can tell, he lobbies, he encourages the government to give him more money and to get more involved in climate change and in electric cars, right? So that's what upsets me on the other hand, I have to say that since COVID, my respect for him has gone way up and I'm willing to ignore some of the bad because he's left California, he stood up to local government and didn't shut his plant down, he's been very vocal about the best thing government can do if he wants economic growth is leave us alone. So he's been far more spoken in a positive way. He hasn't in a long time talked about the fact that the robots are gonna kill us all, right? He used to do that, he used to have this whole AI, the government needs to regulate AI because AI is dangerous and you need to be careful. So he is so frustrating because he's obviously off the charts intelligent and off the charts admirable in his entrepreneurship, that is he's willing to take an idea, just run with it and he comes up with these, I mean, like the tunneling company, right? Who would have thought of a tunneling company? But he's got this amazing technology to build these tunnels really, really fast. I don't think the environment else will let him, but imagine, you know, cause there might be some worms under there or who knows what kind of species under there. But what a mind this guy has and he thinks out of the box and he's constantly thinking and changing and innovating and the ambition of going to Mars and having that ambition 20 years ago and setting up a company when it was like, yeah, you gotta be kidding. And then achieving everything that's achieved and getting to the point where we are today where, yeah, I think SpaceX is gonna go to Mars. If the government doesn't stop them, I think they're gonna go to Mars. What's gonna stop them, right? He's got the capital, he's raised the capital, they've shown that they can do the technology, they've got a business model that produces revenue right now, they will go to Mars. I mean, this is cool, right? So I become a big fan of his and at the same time, I wanna spangle him on the global warming stuff and on the electric car stuff and on the other stuff. And even Tesla, you know, it's a good car. It's, you know, as Alex Epstein calls it, it's a coal car, which is fine, you know, you're running on coal, but it's a, you know, if you sit in it and you friends who have it and drive it, it's a cool car to drive. Yep. Has Alex done any kind of analysis or showing any numbers as to how much Tesla is polluting quote unquote, the environment compared to the regular car because it uses coal, right? I don't know, but the numbers are gonna be amazing because A, you've got to use, you know, given that we're not using nuclear, you know, you have to use carbon fuels to fuel it, right? And the second and coal is still a major source of energy for electricity. And second, you know, people have looked at battery, the batteries and batteries are unbelievably polluting or whatever and, you know, from a carbon perspective, carbon, whatever inefficient or whatever they call it. So there's no, you know, it's not, it's, you know, I don't know why Musk does what he does. I wouldn't be surprised if Musk thought it would be cool. It would be really cool to build an electric car. You know, one way to do it is I can manipulate the government into giving me a lot of money to fund this and help me raise the capital. I wouldn't be shocked if he actually thought that and went about and did it just like he does. He just does it and it works, right? So I, yes, I am, I'm really, really mixed about him, but you know, when I listened to him, half of what he said is amazing and admirable and then it's cognitive mishmash. He's got, his mind is like, goes all over the place and it doesn't mean anything. Doesn't mean anything. And I don't understand a mind like that. I have no idea how it works, but the part that is rational is amazing. It's one of the best minds in the world today. Thank you. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, wins or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of the stare, cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist broads. All right, before we go on, reminder, please like the show. 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