 Hey everybody, welcome. I'm hoping you're having a good weekend. I'm sitting here in my hotel room in Atlanta, Georgia Where I'm broadcasting the show today. I spoke yesterday at a conference here for students about a hundred and fifty Sixty students, you know, really really great events. It was a lot of fun And in the meantime, you know, we keep tracking the news and watching going on in the world and I have to say It's not the Country is just crazy. I mean things are just insane. I don't know Maybe maybe it's just Watching it more closely these days or maybe that's just just it's always been like this I don't think so. I think things are getting worse. It's just just the insanity is getting Crazier and crazier and crazier all the time. Well, the Democratic Party needs seems to be imploding with accusations of The elections being rigged now We all knew this that Hillary Clinton would do anything to get the nomination on the on the Democratic side So it's not really surprising but other Democrats themselves are kind of admitting this that that's kind of that That I'd say is the surprising part of it Um and and of course on the Republican side, uh, the Republican Party is imploding Uh, the two Bushes father and son both former presidents came out uh You know really going after Trump and and uh stating how much they disliked Trump. Yeah, I'm no fan of the Bushes Of course, I'm no fan of Donald Trump either as as you probably know, but it just it it's more illustration of how Of the insanity of of just both political parties are imploding. I still think I don't know nobody nobody is listening to me, but I still think we need a third party in this country And yeah, I know if we have a third party You know, it'll probably hand it over to the Democrats or whatever Oh, who knows what the realignment is going to be so many of Donald Trump's policies come from the left that, uh You know, we need a realignment of politics because what we have today is so it's just nutty and nobody nobody In politics today actually represents America nobody in politics today actually represents the founding principles or the constitution or what does country really represents Nobody on the political map today represents anything close to, you know, free markets the capitalism to to What we've traditionally thought of as As as America individual rights. There's nobody talks about that And and we'll we'll cover a few topics that show that although Ah, I'm just so sick of politics. Um So it's it's a crazy world out there. What can I say? Uh, it's uh And and it's not getting better. It's going to get much worse before it gets better. We're going to talk today I want to talk about what's going on on campuses particularly I don't know if any of you have even following what's going on and at reed college reed college in puttland, oregon, uh, one of the best liberal arts colleges in the country Huge number phd's in the humanities Come out of reed college. So future professors future professors in humanities Are today's reed college students? So Huge huge impact on our culture in the future So what happens in reed college turns out to be very important to uh to the future education in this country and that's scary because I'll tell you what's going on over there, but it's it's mind-boggling How ridiculous and how how insane What is going on a reed is actually so so we'll talk about that we'll talk about middlebury college I like talking about what's going on in universities because Look, that's the future. That's the future. Those are future leaders. Those are future professors. Those are future business people It's it's the future right young people are the future by definition And uh those who attend the more prestigious colleges those who become phd's have a disproportionate impact On a kind of world. We're going to have in the future All right, so yeah, I think we should have going back to politics I think we should have a third party a third party that stands for I don't know It doesn't have to be a third party that agrees with me necessarily that would be insane and would probably result in Losing in a landslide Because even you listening don't always agree with me. Never mind the people are not listening who Dramatically disagree with me But we need a third party that at least has some semblance of sanity because the republican and democratic parties have completely lost our principle or sanity all integrity And and it's it's just uh A disaster Tax reform is a good example of that So we're getting more information about the tax bill Every every every day a little bit more trickles out. I think we'll we'll get a much better sense much better sense of the tax bill Next Yeah, next Next week when the senate bill is introduced We've got we've got a lot of indication of what the house bill is going to include But but this is one thing we know At the personal tax level It's an utter confusing Uh disaster. It's It's more complexity not less complexity If this was intended to simplify our taxes and reduce our taxes. It's not going to do either one of those This tax bill is going to massively complicate our lives. It's going to create more Ways to game the system. It's good You know, which might be good if you if you can pay for a high priced accountants who can help you do that And it's going to increase taxes on many people. It's not going to tax rate. It's not going to cut taxes For the wealthiest Americans Where you get the most benefit from cutting taxes because the wealthiest americans tend to do what with the excess money They have what do what do you do if you have a lot of money? What do you do with excess money you have? You save it Because you can only consume so much so wealthy americans are the ones who save and That's what you want You want more saving in the u.s economy because saving is investment investment is job creation investment is increased opportunities investment is increased economic growth investment is what drives the u.s economy saving is what drives any economy But no this tax bill is the logic cent Driven towards increasing consumption and not increasing saving Which is nutty And and is is destructive to the long-term health of the u.s economy But long term there's a word politicians have no idea what to do with long term who cares about the long term You know, they think in terms of two years or six years Or maybe one year. I don't know. They certainly don't think in terms of anything approaching You know the long term So, uh, yeah, we have a completely insane You know ridiculous tax Proposal that is this is going to be introduced Complex the only good part of it. You know, I have to say something good The only good part of it is that they're going to cut to corporate taxes corporate taxes is going to go down Going to go down probably to 20 percent. I think that's that's the one thing that's probably Really going to happen nothing else Once it goes through the senate and the house and Everything else who knows what's going to appear in the final bill But the one thing we know is the corporate taxes will be cut to 20 percent. That's good But it's good for all the wrong reasons for all the reasons different reasons of what people claim actually cutting corporate taxes does a few things it It reduces prices in the economy. So it's anti inflationary in a sense of price inflation because It increases competition If your profit margin goes up, it gives you more more Opportunity to cut prices somebody in a competitive market will cut the prices and force everybody else to cut prices So it actually reduces prices in the economy and it turns out it raises wages. It raises wages Directly again because of competition for labor. So an interesting and it actually does not Increase profits over the long run profits come down competition drives profits down The nature of competitive markets is To reduce profits. This is economics 101. So all the people who think that cutting the corporate tax rate You should see spikes in In the stock market Are just wrong. They don't understand economics. They don't understand how finance and economic actually work Cutting the corporate tax rates actually does two things one it results in Prices going down generally in the economy and two it results in increased wages Now the additional advantage of of this tax plan is it will encourage american corporations to bring some of the Of the of the dollars that they have overseas back to the united states. So it might encourage increase Increase investment increase and they're also going to allow Deductability of capital investment in in year one without depreciation. So that will increase investment That's also good for wages. That's also good for job creation. So that's the one part of the bill That's good. I mean, I believe that the only good corporate tax rate the only appropriate corporate tax rate Put aside even the model issue, but from a purely economic perspective Is zero again because corporate taxes are passed on to consumers and to into workers the only legitimate corporate tax rate is zero and if you want to tax workers and if you want to tax consumers make it explicit have a You know have a uh a sales tax if that's really your goal but of course politicians love hidden taxes, which is what a corporate tax is And everybody loves everybody loves To tax corporations because they're kind of evil and they're bad So it's easy to tax corporations But the fact is corporations don't pay taxes only individuals pay taxes And it turns out that the individuals actually pay the tax are not even shareholders The individuals who actually pay the tax Are consumers and workers and the people who benefit when the taxes cut are consumers and workers So, uh, yeah, so that's a good part of the tax book. So You know Once in a while, I see something positive about what's happening politics, but it's it's pretty unusual because so little Good happens In that world. All right, we're gonna take a quick break to pay the bills You're listening to your roundbook show on the blaze radio network and we'll be right back after this break All right, we're talking about the insanity in american politics, but the insanity is even greater on american campuses. We'll get to that I want to say something about something a little bit more about taxes and what a What a proper tax Simplification tax reduction tax elimination would be good bill would actually look like and then why I think taxes And this might come as a shock Not that importance In in the in the from an economic perspective in terms of what the united states is looking at So what would a tax bill look like? Well, first It would be flatter And it would be simpler The amount of lost wealth Devoted of figuring out loopholes and deductions and exclusions paying Tax accountants, and I hope my tax accountants is not listening to the show To paying tax accountants huge amounts of money to figure out how to minimize our taxes and how how to just not even minimize our taxes How to just figure out what taxes We're supposed to pay by law and i'm not sure there is such a thing because I think it's all ambiguous And partially we're probably all violating the law at some point because of the complexity of the system So many regulations that government puts together and tax code the government puts together are purposefully done in a way that you're always in violation So they can choose when they go after you and we're not to go after you when you're a criminal and when you're not a criminal They get to decide You know, it's it's it's this is the violation of the rule of law laws are supposed to be simple So that anybody who has to bite by the law can understand them I venture to say that none of you not a single one of you listening today Unless you're a professional tax accountant Understands the tax code or will understand the tax code after the republicans have finished with this ridiculous bill that they're putting together So the first principle has to be simplicity Then it has to be Flatness is it's unjust. It's immoral For for for somebody who makes a lot of money creates a lot of wealth produces a lot works hard To pay more taxes than anybody else By working hard by producing by creating You know, you want to penalize that is that the system we live in in america city We want to penalize hard work. We want to penalize innovation. We want to penalize wealth creation Oh, no, we don't want that behavior You know what one principle you can always think about is this anything you tax you get less of Anything you tax you get less of anything you subsidize you typically get more of So if you tax people for working if you tax people for wealth creation if you tax people For innovating you'll get less of that That's another reason why the most important tax to reduce is the top marginal rate They're the most productive the most innovative the most worth creating people in our economy They shouldn't have to pay that much that much more taxes they Already contribute so much to all of our lives By creating the wealth that we all enjoy By creating jobs That we all benefit from Their taxes should be cut first Deeply as much as possible so Simplicity and flatness not happening in this tax bill They're keeping the top marginal income tax rate at 39.6. They're increasing the complexity They're decreasing some of our deductions, but not completely the zero I would like simplicity would mean no deductions no exclusions No social engineering we talked about that last year None of that is happening so so in that sense it's a disaster What a waste what a wasted opportunity Publicans have a majority in the house a majority in the senate and a president who will basically sign anything they send him What do they do with that opportunity? Squander it throw it away Do nothing with it just like they do with Obama care nothing right and then second point is That from an economic perspective Even from the perspective of the wall of government Taxes are not that important What's really important is government spending The more the government spends The more it's intervening in our lives the more it's getting involved in the economy the more it's distorting The world in which we live the more the government spends it means it's regulating more It means it's redistributing more It means it's growing in terms of the scope of its activities If you want real reform of government what you have to do is cut government spending Now there used to be a theory actually Milton Friedman held this theory One of the one of the things I disagree with Milton Friedman on Is that if you cut taxes You cut government revenues You starve government for funds Then Congress will be forced to cut spending That's turned out to be completely bogus It turns out that Congress has no problem spending money it doesn't have over and over and over again It has no problem no problem Spending and spending and spending and filling that gap up that gap up with borrowing it keeps raising the debt limit It keeps increasing borrowing It keeps increasing the deficit Increasing the size of government debt With no end in sight That's politicians have no Sense that they're being starved that they that they need a cut spending because there's less revenue now And as long as the bond market as long as the chinese Or whoever's buying japanese and others who are buying american bonds government bonds And insurance companies and pension plans are willing to continue to buy those bonds At historically low interest rates There's nothing to stop our politicians From continuously Raising the debt limit continuously borrowing more and more and more And from an economic perspective that's like taxes because they're sucking money out of the private economy Now I know some of you are saying but wait a minute. It's cool because the chinese get to fund all this But if the chinese weren't buying government bonds, what would they have to do because they have a lot of dollars You know because they we buy their stuff This is this is the story donald trump and all those anti-trade people never tell you they buy We buy all their stuff and they get dollars they get these pieces of paper called dollars and they have to do something with these dollars They don't just sit in the bank in china What do they do with the dollars? Well, they buy a lot of government debt, but if they couldn't buy government debt, what would they have to do with those dollars? They'd have to invest them in the u.s economy They'd have to bring them here and buy Real things and we would all benefit from that The dollars would flow back to the u.s. They'd flow into american industries They'd be more money to invest they'd be more money to produce to create to create jobs so The money has to flow back to the u.s. Whether through government bonds or all suede when they flow into government bonds All they're doing is funding government consumption instead of funding Expansion of business instead of funding job creation. They fund the government. What a waste what a waste So whether government raises money through taxes Or through the bond market through debt Doesn't really matter and at the end of the day we all know That the debt has to be paid At least we think we know. I mean, I think a lot of americans under the delusion That you can keep borrowing and borrowing and borrowing You keep increasing government debt and increasing government debt and never have to pay it back. I mean that's Seems to be the premise under which we all live But you have to pay it back one day and how you're gonna do that that the debt I think now is 20 trillion dollars It means you're gonna have to raise a lot of taxes for my children and grandchildren And by the way, the debt is gonna increase at least another 10 trillion dollars 20 trillion dollars And that's doesn't include medicanso security where the debt from those is probably somewhere around 100 trillion dollars How are you gonna pay that? I mean the only way to pay that is to raise taxes or to print money Either way a disaster for the use economy A disaster for our kids and grandkids So at every level what the government is doing it's bad for economy today And it's a disaster for economy in the future And the republicans instead of starting to cut spending reduce the deficit are putzing around With a tax plan that is meaningless that's gonna do nothing for this economy or very little for this economy except for the corporate side of it And pretending that here they are they are the defenders of free market Nonsense I mean if I could swear I would swear but I'm not I'm not supposed to swear on the radio But you know because it's so frustrating It's so frustrating. I mean, okay, you can understand when obama was president they raised taxes You know and and the other republicans house senate white else They can't cut spending and they can't even Really significantly meaningfully Cut or simplify our tax code We need a third party We need to get rid of these democrats and republicans. I mean I for draining the swamp Really draining the swamp not donald trump style draining the swamp After the break i want to talk just a little bit about his selection for the federal reserve his nomination of power for the federal reserve More swampiness I have a draining the swamp getting rid of all of them and we need something new Not trump new trump is old And trump is mindless We need something new and thoughtful All right, you're listening to your own book angry about washington and and We'll be back after this break You know and my frustration only grew this week because we've talked about this in a previous show about the federal reserve and and trump's nominees for the federal reserve and and the options he had and and i predicted he wouldn't do anything Radical that he would nominate somebody he could control Like i thought he would go with the status quo and just keep yelling on and he didn't do that He went with even somebody less informed and less meaningful this guy pow Uh and it's just it's just stunning to me But but not i guess it's not stunning because it's not surprising. It's exactly what i predicted And nobody powers. Nobody who's done nothing who stands for nothing. He's a middle of the road compromiser he's a republican but meaningless He's always sought compromise. He's always been in the middle. He supported ben nanky supported yellin he has no Interesting position on on monetary policy He is a nothing and nobody And all of you trump fans. I don't get it. I don't I really I still continuously don't get it When he continuously proves that he's not doesn't believe in free market. He doesn't believe In in in limited government. He is a big government You know central planning Central planner in charge. He is the swamp trump is the swamp And yet People still support him. I don't I don't I really It bewilders me it bewilders me that how people can continue to support this guy in spite of everything that he does no matter What he does now as many of you know I believe that The federal reserve should be abolished. I don't believe this should be a federal reserve and and not just abolished Not just turned over to the treasury or something like that. I mean private banking I mean banks issuing currency the way it used to be in america the way america used to function Right, but better than it used to be we could design a a banking system Far far better than it was before we had a federal reserve with no federal reserve But that's not gonna happen so at least appoint somebody to the federal reserve Who has a point of view who stands for something and and one of the nominees was like that A guy named john taylor who's a Stanford economist who's a free market economist Maybe one of the better economists in the world today Uh, and and you know an interesting guy. I don't agree with them again. I don't believe there should be a federal reserve Which I suddenly I suddenly don't think Uh, john taylor believes he's a he's a pro federal reserve guy, but at least He has a View of monetary policy. He believes in in in limiting inflation. He has something called the taylor rule, which Adjusts anyway. I don't want to get into the technicalities of it. And I'm not sure the taylor rule is the white rule to have but the point is He's he's somebody with gravitas And it's exactly what trump doesn't want He doesn't want anybody with an opinion He doesn't want anybody to challenge him. He wants somebody who will do what he tells them to do And so much for the fed for the fed's independence Let me just address one quick issue on the fed and maybe I can do a Whole segment one of these days on the federal reserve and what it is But I know there's a certain percentage of the listeners out there who believe That the fed is a private institution and is run by private bankers for the benefit of private bankers And there's a whole conspiracy theories around it. Maybe even by jewish bankers that that that's the ultimate, right? And let me just say None of that is true the federal reserve is a branch of the u.s. government the federal reserve Is a government entity the chairman of the federal reserve is nominated by the president and approved by congress The members of the board of the federal reserve are ultimately government appointees the federal reserve Reports to congress It is a government entity. It's supposed to be relatively independent But it is Beholden to the president and to congress What do you think happens to the profits federal reserve particularly over the last few years has been incredibly profitable I hate to use that term Profit when it comes to the federal reserve because it doesn't produce a creed anything It's not a productive function So the the money they have left over what do you think happens to it gets distributed to the banks The people who control the federal reserve supposedly know No, like any government entity what happens the profits is they get sent to the treasury It goes to the government It's part of government spending So the federal reserve is a government entity a government program through and through all right so, you know it's um It's sad that you had an opportunity to appoint somebody A talented economist like john taylor and and they skipped it of course I'm not even talking about appointing somebody to the federal reserve who would have actually maybe Even talked about at least used the opportunity to talk about How much better life could be without a federal reserve um, like somebody like john allison who who was the CEO of vb&t and and uh The CEO of the kato institute and is on the einrein institute board of directors At some point he was talked about as a possibility But that would have never happened congress would have never approved him and the president certainly would have nominated an independent thinker Like john else and not this president not trump trump is not interested in talent He's interested in yes, man, and and most of his conflicts have been With with people who are actually independent And who have an opinion Okay, I want to switch switch dramatically switch, um context and I want to talk about I want to talk about weed college weed college, uh Weed college is is one of the top colleges in the country Uh, it produces more phd's in the humanities, I think then, um Then any other college in the united states, let me see let me see if I got that statistic right, but yeah, I it's a It's one of the top humanity's Projects right, so it's rank second. No not first a second For future phd's in the humanities and fourth in all of the subjects It's also it's also and this should tell you a lot about this the most left-wing liberal student body So to consider to have The most left-wing liberal student body now that should tell you something about future future professors if This college produces Rank second for future phd's So these are going to be influential phd's which means teachers And they start off before they even get to college. It's the most liberal And then you'll hear what's happening over there You'll get a sense of what the future of america Is going to look like You know in terms of education in terms of what the education is so, uh, so, um There's a lot to say about weed college because a lot has been happening. They uh most recently There's being a sit-in. You remember like the uh The sit-ins that students used to do in 1960s where there's a sitting sitting basically Students have occupied the administrative building now for 11 days. They're rotating 40 50 students at a time sitting in and occupying the administrative Building that the school has actually had to close down its finance office. It's actually act to move Sensitive documents to a new location Of course the one thing that the administration is not considering Is bringing the police and dragging these students out and maybe putting them in jail That would be that would be a suit of and that would be violent and oh my god, you can't do that And the sit-in is organized by a group called readies Readies from read against racism Readies against racism As if anybody from read is not against racism As if we're not all claiming to be against racism. We'll see how against racism. They really are In a minute, but not only are they sitting in but they are abusing staff members. They're harassing staff members and uh And what is the administration doing about it? Nothing now. Why are they sitting? Why are they sitting? They're sitting in to protest the fact that Reed college has a business relationship with Wells Fargo Who is considered an unethical bank and why is it considered an unethical bank? Because I guess it has some corporate partnerships corporate partnership with private prisons And with the decoder access pipeline So when I talk about I don't know Wells Fargo Funding terrorism or Wells Fargo. Uh, I don't know I don't know even being uh I can't even think what what could be Incredibly horrific. No They have a relationship with private prisons and they have some kind of business relationship with the decoder pipeline and for that Staff members are being harassed physically threatened For that the the administrative building parts of the administration to be shut down and uh you know This is what this Reedies for racism against racism. Although they their name should be Reedie's for racism. We'll get to that in a little while um I'll just give you uh You know, it's just it's just unbelievable You know that they they they claim that the relationship that the school has with Wells Fargo is racist Um, and that it harms Brown students and black students and creates potential for the system to be continuously perpetuated the system of racism institutionalized racism. Why? Because Wells Fargo has a business relationship with private prisons in the decoder access pipeline. How does that have any impact on brown and black students? Nobody says I guess because Brown and blacks are disproportionately In the prison system or something like that. I don't explain it, right? They don't have to explain it They declared Wells Fargo as a racist organization and therefore having to do anything with them Is banned and all they have to do is declare it any explanation Would be oppressive to them and I'll explain why any explanation will be oppressive to them These people don't have to explain anything When we come back, we have to take quick break here. You're listening to your run book show on the blaze radio network All right, you're listening to your own book show. And by the way, I have a have a new website A new website. You should all go visit your own book show Dot com your own book show dot com and also on the website You'll see some information how you can support this show and and and keep it going If you want in on the conversation today, if you have any commentary on the state of american politics or if you'd like to Talk about your experiences in american campuses read college and such Call in 888-900-3393-888-900-3393 any students out there who have experience with this nonsense I've just got started when we college because It's just amazing what's going on there. The sit-in is the least of what's happening this readies against racism Uh, which was founded a couple of years ago actually last year on september 26 2016 Uh, it was a response to the police shootings and a facebook post Everything's a response to facebook post. I think our lives revolve revolve these days just around facebook posts But it was a post by actor isaac washington who urged quote every single african american in the united states That has really there was really fed up with being angry sad and disgusted. So rise up Make your voices heard so a response on read was the creation of readies Against racism right and they they boycotted classes for one day and then they put out 25 demands on that day And the number one demand that they had Was reforming a class that every freshman At read college has to take it's called humanities 110 This is a year-long course That all freshmen take together right and it it has both classes taught by professors and then Small breakout classes where the students learn how to discuss debate and defend their readings. There's some quoting out of reads kind of manual on this The the humanities 110 class Is basically a western Civilization class It is a class about the foundations and the basis of western civilization or of libel Humanities thinking and here I use the word libel not in the modern sense to denote crazy leftists, but in the traditional sense of You know western libel freedom uh market kind of Kind of a view of of of individual liberty. That's what liberalism used to mean so So they defined Readies against racism defined this class as a racist class. Why? Why because they were reading Greeks and they were reading Persians and misopotamians and egyptians right so the the text includes mediterranean misopotamia persia and egyptian Readings and they decided that this was eucentric Caucasian I didn't even know that was a word and as a consequence oppressive It was offensive to students of color one one of these Readies against racism Quotes are saying it feels like a cool test for students of color It traumatized my peers. They're traumatized by reading play dough. They're traumatized by reading avastar and they have demanded That the syllabus be redesigned to include of course More readings from more different parts of the world now The fact is that the fact is That this part of the world Mediterranean misopotamia persia egypt and primarily greece Is where most of human knowledge originates from It's the place where writing mathematics science logic Work discovered invented This is where civilization comes from The fact is that in sub Sahara africa There is no civilization was no civilization the fact is that in You know, there's there's there's chinese the civilization in china Which is worth i guess Studying but this is about western civilization This is about the world in which we live and indeed even china today is much more western than it is It's much more rooted in ideas of the west than it is rooted in ideas That come from chinese civilization. So the most important ideas that we understand today Are western ideas now western ideas happen to be the best ideas and and let's let's Define what best means best means Consistent with human nature best means consistent with human flourishing with human success with human prosperity with human freedom Those are the right ideas to be studying good for humanities 110 good for reed college Having a course on western civilization indeed some universities Some universities don't have a course on western civilization because Of opposition for me the faculty of students So here's reed college one of the most liberal colleges in the country actually teaching students about Greek civilization getting students to read the priestocratics And play dough and amistar on the great plays and studying the art of the of the greeks These are the foundational ideas That all humanity benefits from no matter what skin color you have no matter what your ethnic origin is no matter where you come from The only good ideas The only pro-life the only pro-human flourishing ideas come from This western tradition they come from They originate with The greeks the greek philosophy philosophy was discovered As a field of human study by the greeks No, this is racist. I don't even know That the greeks the original greeks were whites in a sense that we understand their term today I don't know what white even means But you know because it's a it's a complete fiction the exact genetic makeup Of the greeks of the of the historical greeks is not the same makeup the greeks today Who knows they were they they're probably an asian tribe somewhere from central asia But who cares who knows What differences they make you're not studying their genetic makeup. You're studying their ideas Ideas are not racial ideas are not genetic ideas are not about ethnicity This is why I say Readies against racism are really readies for racism. They are racists Because any attempt to identify The ideas of a person with this race Not study certain ideas because of the race of that person not study Aristotle because he was So-called supposedly white is racist Any attempt To place race as a primary or as important in any way is racist Racism is The the primitive barbaric collectivistic idea that says that what defines you is not Your character what defines you is not your ideas what defines you is not Who you are and what you are as a human being but what defines you is your genetics It's a disgusting ideology It's a disgusting ideology that these Leftist students have completely utterly unapologetically embraced in totality I cannot think of more racist people today than these now They are racists on the right as well But these racists make those racists on the right. It's in many ways possible all right, so They oppose they oppose this humanities class And they have uh, they've occupied the building and they occupied libraries and they've they've uh, they've disrupted class more than 60 times We're gonna take uh, we've got the newsbreak coming up here So i'm not gonna get too far into this but when we come back from the break I want to go deeper into what they're actually doing how they're intimidating faculty members Intimidating Students they're using violence how they're taking over classes and what they're doing to disrupt these classes It's fascinating and disgusting at the same time so Stay tuned for after the break You're listening to your run book show on the blaze radio network and we will be back Hi everybody. Hope uh, hope you're having a good weekend so far. Welcome to the second hour of the Iran book show by the way, if you if you've missed any past episode or you have Missed a portion of a show you can catch all of that on my new website iranbrooksshow.com in addition to of course any podcasting app or soundcloud.com and You can pretty much a youtube you can pretty much find the iran book show everywhere on the web so Don't miss out and please visit visit my website A lot of cool content there a lot of past shows and past podcasts and lectures i've done and courses i've given so Everything iran book on the iranbrookshow.com website So we were talking about these students at reed college One of the most liberal colleges in the united states But a place that trains many of the phd's of the future many of our teachers in the future A place that is considered maybe the most liberal college in the united states And it has it it has this group Reads against racism which i would argue Who are real or the real racists in the story? Anyway, at reed college, they have a course called humanities 110. It sounds like a pretty good course I mean i'm i'm tempted i'd like to sit in although my guess is that it's being taught by very very left-wing professors So the content i would probably be pretty upset but content although They claim they encourage debate i wonder i wonder if somebody challenges the professors on somewhat they say Whether they would uh, whether they would actually Be open to that debate i don't know and i don't want to judge them maybe they're great, right? But this reed is against racism wants to shut down this course and what it's done is it's it's disrupted the classroom 60 times mostly last year the school years just started this year And what did they do? How did they disrupt the class? We'll get to what they did this year But how did they disrupt the class what they do is and i've seen pictures of this It's pretty wild the professor standing at the podium kind of lecturing And what the reed is against racism do is they all They sit right next to professor up front in the class facing the students with big signs The signs say We demand space for students of color Well, I think they have space they're right there I don't know what that means right we demand space for students of color. Oh We cannot be erased Who wants to race you who's trying? I mean F 110 lots of vulgarities that I can't say on the radio lots of vulgarities, right? Stop silencing black and brown voices the rest of society is already standing on their necks And on and on and on just signs and of course many of the signs Have photos of black americans who've been killed by police So this is in front of the class your professor I've been a professor standing on the stage standing on a by the podium trying to lecture and you've got these students Waving things and you're a student more importantly your student trying to learn And he's a freshman. This is their first encounter With class at a college level And and they're standing there and they want to learn And instead of actually having an opportunity to listen to professor talk about Greece and and the the birthplace of civilization and and maybe even talk about rome instead of that They can hear the professor, but they're constantly distracted by these signs in their face and by these messages that mean nothing other than to obstruct And this is the learning environment these freshman phase phase The professors are harassed. So there's a professor about her name is lucia matinez Val divya I can guess she's hispanic And she has pre-existing ptsd Don't know what the source of that is but she has ptsd And she said look it's these protests. It's going to be difficult for me to face them It's going to reignite my ptsd. Please don't cover protests when I teach the class And the reedy's for racism You know, they they wrote an open letter to her they offered a little bit of sympathy for her ptsd And then they accused her of being anti-block and discriminating against those with disabilities I don't know where that came from because she's ptsd And they never specified the charges. They never actually said why she's anti-black or why she discriminates against disabilities And when they were asked could you give us some specifics? What has she done? What's her crime? This is the answer and this is this is very revealing. I think they said Quote asking for people to display their trauma So that you feel sufficiently justified is a form of violence So asking people to actually give reasons for the accusations they make against other people is a form of violence I mean This is nuts This is what's going on in american campuses. This is where you're sending your kids to school. This is what you're paying Thousands no tens of thousands of dollars for their tuition So that they can encounter other kids who believe this crap One of the accusations against this professor Is that she wore a t-shirt that said poetry is lit Poetry is lit Okay And they say that's wrong. She can't wear a t-shirt like that. Why? Because she's appropriate appropriating african-american vernacular english And that is a form of anti-blackness So I guess lit LIT Is a form of african-american vernacular english. I didn't know that that's new to me And that anybody who is not black is not allowed to say the word lit because then you're appropriating their language And it's a reflection of anti-blackness. I would think it was a form of respect Isn't flattery A form of respect But yeah, I mean now there's this big thing you can't dress up Like somebody from a different ethnic group. You can't listen to their music Oh, I've got a I've got a great one about listening to the music. So there was a dance At this there's a party at this um At reed college And I guess they were gonna play some music sung by It was by black people, right? I guess I mean a lot of the popular music is such So the reedies for racism Put out a declaration saying and and i'm quoting. This is what they wrote They're requesting that students specifically white students So white students give a suggested amount of five dollars To reedies against racism if they planned on consuming black and brown culture at the ball This money explicitly Regarded as reparations Was collected at the door by student activists So this is So you have to pay them reparations Because you are consuming They their culture Because black singers Are primarily black and belong to black people And if a white person listened to a song by a black person that is Cultural appropriation that has to be compensated for you have to pay reparations for the damage you're doing to black culture by listening I mean, I can't even repeat this stuff. It's such garbage And it's so nonsensical and it's so racist racist racist Racist and I wish somebody would call them I wish some of these guys would come to my lectures and ask questions. I could say no you are the racist Because that's exactly what they are They place race above all else and therefore they are racist now the theory says And this is a theory that a lot of professors support that a black person cannot be racist Only whites can be racist. This is the whole intersectionality theory that exists today on american campus Only the pressed only only the oppressors Are racist they oppressed can never be racist but exactly what Readies for racism is doing is oppressing It's exactly what they're doing by by by disrupting these classes Indeed at the beginning of this year. They stopped the class they started They took over the microphone and stopped the class and wouldn't let the professors teach They wouldn't let the professors teach and they've done that now three times this year Not letting the class go forward not just standing there were signs But taking over the class and not letting people teach Coming up with their own statements Claiming that it was just as important to hear them that it was to hear the professor Not what your parents are paying not what parents are paying kids paying the universities for To listen to some crazy nuts Rather than listen to now often the professors are crazy nuts, but okay The professors they've educated crazy nuts supposedly It's just unbelievable. So they stopped classes three times And it and and of course what's the administration doing and this is this is I think indicative It's appeasing them So they've given it to their demands. They've had meetings. So they've had meetings. So so the administration Has given it to most of the demands. They've hired. They've had new hires in the office of inclusive community So there's an office at this university, which you are paying Full with your tuition money for the office of inclusive community They're fast-tracking the reevaluation of humanities 110 syllabus And they are having the having these six by six meetings. Think about this six Racist Sorry, readies for racism students and six Humanities professors to solicit ideas for the syllabus. Now remember So they're basically soliciting ideas for class from students but not from any students the most nutty crazy racist students Now it turns out that the the meetings have ended Because the students were were offended by the fact that the faculty members Were insisting that like avastado being included in the new syllabus and and they found it to quote That they were forced to sit in hours of fruitless meetings listening to foregrown adults cry about avastado The most important philosophy in human history philosopher in human history They felt that was insulting now I want to end this segment just on a little bit of good news and the good news is that That the freshman class now the freshman class at re-college is Up in alms about this. They're not tolerating this. They're actually uh speaking up against Readies for racism For the first time in the past the the freshman has just gone along and they've been silent partially because they were intimidated Not because they agreed most of the students that we don't agree with what's going on, but they've been intimidated They've been they've been harassed. They've been violently threatened This freshman class is standing up for them and indeed readies for racism has seen a dramatic decrease in their In the number of people affiliated with their organization So the good news is maybe If we look across american campuses the good news might be that There's a rebellion against The craziness that students from the students are standing up and even the faculty so One of the faculty members published a editorial in the washington post attacking readies for racism Students now are standing up. Maybe maybe maybe maybe All of us talking up against this issue all the free speech Campaign that the ironman institute and many others are being engaged in over the last year or so Maybe it's finally starting to resonate. Maybe maybe maybe one can hope on american campus now. There's a backlash against The sheer nuttiness of what's going on and then we can go back to the regular nuttiness that is american campuses But the the craziness that's been happening recently on some of these universities not all of them, but some of them Maybe that's declining. Maybe there is some hope. All right You'll think they're on book show where We're fighting against these trends And we're gonna be back a lot more to talk about right after this break All right, so um, this is the show where uh, you're gonna be challenged And we're no topic is off limits and you're gonna hear perspectives and you're gonna hear opinions That you're not used to that are not mainstream that are not part of the traditional left or the traditional right or the traditional anything This is the Iran book show where we discuss ideas from the perspective of My philosophy the philosophy of objectivism the philosophy of ein rand the philosophy of atlas shrug Most of you read the book atlas shrug And so I want to take up we just talked about the nuttiness of the right So now I want to take up an issue which is part of the nuttiness of the left and and and a And a sensitive issue for the blaze listeners, but you know, here we go So the u.s. Department of health and services Health and human services why we even have such a department why the government is involved in health and human services at all Don't even get me started, but okay, there's an apartment US department of health and human services And they put out a five-year plan just like the soviets They put out a five-year strategic plan. This one's for 2018 to 2022 And this new plan unequivocally states that life begins the human life human life Begins at conception and deserves protection human life begins that conception Now put aside the fact That this contradicts the supreme court ruling of ovus's way Put aside that this is biological ignorance This is just plain not true And this is fundamentally the placing of religion into government The bringing forward of a religious idea As fundamental to the future to the strategic plan of a government entity Beyond that The new plan Has 40 references All friendly all positive all cooperative 40 references to faith-based organizations And upholding the rights of faith-based entities Again in my view the clear violation of the separation of church and state The government has no role in religion. It has no role in faith What about my Secular beliefs what am I my secular preferences? What about my rights as an individual human being who has no faith as The list is of this show regular list of the show knowing those who be first time about to find out. I'm an atheist a proud atheist I don't have rights under the constitution. That is absurd. That is anti-american And yet 40 references to faith-based organizations the work we're going to do with them Protecting this protecting that off from the perspective of religion. This is a clear violation of the american constitution But nobody cares. Nobody brings this up. Nobody talks about this. It's okay. It's okay to violate the constitution For republicans if it's in the name of religion You just elected. What's his name judge more to to to be to probably be the next senator from alabama who has explicitly violated the constitution and then when told that he was violating the constitution by the federal court Just ignore the federal court and was deemed in what you know I mean Talk about disrespecting america talk about disrespecting the flag talk about disrespecting the principles on which this country was founded judge more is disrespectful of all of those things And yet he's the nominee for senator the republican party again Why I believe it's time to end the democratic and republican party. It's time for a third party that actually understands The american constitution. I want to talk about why You know why and by the way the health and human services also implies that they're against assisted suicide also I think a perversion if you ever write a life Which the declaration of penance secures you have a right to life liberty in the pursuit of happiness You have a right to life which means you get to decide how to live your life That also means has to me that you have a right to end it You have a right to decide when your life should be over It's your life. That's what a right to life means. It's yours You can't have a right to life if you don't have a right to end it but not based on the health and human services they They have the phrase in it conception to natural death Three times in the draft three times Just for emphasis to make it clear what they believe again the interjection of religion into government into government policy But I want to say a little bit about this idea Of human life beginning at conception Which I think is just scientifically wrong now think about this in a laboratory Put aside sex think about it in a laboratory where human eggs Are fertilized almost every day for in vitro in vitro outside of the human body The human egg is a single living cell And A sperm is a cell now this single living cell the the it's it's a cell like a skin cell like any cell in your body It's not a human being. It's a cell It's alive, but it's not human life Now when it gets fertilized by the sperm What it becomes is a one cell embryo Not a human being Just a single cell entity. We are not single cell entities and You know the egg and the sperm were ready alive separately and now they're together and they're still alive But again, not human Nearly 48 hours pass from the time the sperm first Binds and enters the egg Until the first cell division and now you have two cells 48 hours 48 hours is just one cell That's not human life Now these two newly formed cells Then have the potential the potential To give rise to human being Only if they can be implanted into uterus And properly nurtured in that uterus And and and that there's no there no problems 50 percent 50 percent of normal embryos Whether implanted or Naturally conceived 50 percent of them don't make it Don't make it and when they don't make it that's not death of a human being That cells that didn't divide enough that didn't it didn't work But it's still a clumps of cells. It's not more than that at that point All it is all an embryo is Is a collection of stem cells Each of which has the capacity to grow into any part of the precincture Or into fetal tissues on organs But it's not human life It's not human life To define it as such for the for the health and service service Is just an attempt to bring religion Into its policymaking It's an attempt To justify restricting certain forms of contraception I don't understand how you can limit contraception. What kind of You know What kind of attitude limits the ability To control whether during sex you have children or not You have you know, you ultimately get pregnant or not and to restrict abortion That's the only purpose of this and restricting abortion is goes against supreme court rulings so look And and ultimately this is going to be restrict the ability to have in vitro fertilization. What happens to to You know IVF so or That are discarded is that is that murder? Are you destroying human life when you destroy Just These cells that are being conceived outside of the human body really Is the after you know the day after pill is that murder really? It's no human life there guys I know I know All right. You're listening to your own book show Where we don't shun controversy and we'll be right back after this break All right, you're listening to your own book show where we take on all these issues nuttiness on the left nuttiness on the right and look Well, the nuttiness on the left is is in you know, so so Outrageously obvious. I consider the nuttiness on the right as just as dangerous and I'm sorry Religion has no place in politics You don't want to use contraception Don't use contraception. You have every right not to use contraception But the idea that you can force me not to use contraception Is absurd You want to Ignore science and ignore facts And define life human life. There's starting a conception Do it Don't use in vitro. Don't use contraception. Don't have an abortion. Fine You don't get a dictate that for me You don't get to tell me how to live my life You don't get to tell me what values I should pursue You don't get to tell me when I'm on the side of science That the clump of cells that is an embryo certainly in the first three months of pregnancy Is a human being and should be treated as a human being it's not and it shouldn't be it's a potential But it's not So you can have a debate I think Over abortion in the final trimester, but you cannot have a debate over abortion on the first trimester There's nothing approximating murder in the abortion in the first trimester. There's nothing About the fetus in the first three months that is human life. It's a potentiality not an actuality And you know in that sense the right is trying to violate my rights and and we talked about in a previous show We talked about religious freedom and it's the same thing when when when you give when you write laws that provide Those with the religious conscious special rights Or or maybe freedoms which which they deserve but you deny those freedoms from somebody who does not share their faith That is discrimination That is not the rule of law that is not equality before the law That is not the protection of individual rights that goes against all that there is no such thing as religious Liberty or religious freedom. There is just liberty and freedom Somebody who does not believe in what you believe in has just the same rights as you do That's the principle on which this country was founded That's the principle that conservatives I supposedly Want to conserve well then do it stand up for liberty Freedom without any qualifications and don't Try to use government force to dictate other people's morality All right, if you want in on this conversation 888-900-3393 And the last segment of every show We do we call it a moment of reason and you can call in with questions about anything anything so Call in 888-900-3393 and you can ask me anything you want And i'll take your question the last segment I know tyler skyler is called in and he's going to wait patiently till that final segment because his question is Not about something we've covered although I think it was skyler on one of the comment sections online said that I was not I was not Correctly understanding what lit means in In poetry is lit Because you know, I'm not part of I guess popular cultures I don't get what lit means and lit doesn't mean literature what lit means is cool exciting thrilling You know in I guess rap culture or whatever and and it's misappropriation when Some white dude like me uses that word although I don't even define myself as white because I don't know I don't know what that means Um Particularly if you if you do a An actual genetic analysis and you figure out where all of us comes from we all started out in Africa I don't know what that makes us today. What that means either. Uh, all right, so, um I've got a bunch of like, uh Just crazy stories to share with you just some crazy news articles in further on on the steam of The world's gone insane That I thought I'd share with you and It's just not right. All right, so you know how We have to replace all our lights with leds because That's how we're going to save the planet from from from global warming and it reduces the use of electricity and therefore Reduces the use of co2 emissions and and this is just a huge value and led lights are pushed everywhere, right? I'm sure you have led lights in your house. It's almost impossible to buy lights. That's not led light today I mean the government is really pushing this and incentivizing us and subsidizing it's and and really getting behind this and And you know, it seems pretty innocuous. Okay. Well led lights. They last longer and all this stuff So it turns out that the city of Winnipeg up in Canada, which snows a lot and it freezes a lot and it's really cold They put leds in their traffic lights, right? That makes sense. They they replaced all the traffic lights. They put leds now. The problem is this The one of the advantages the great advantages of led lights Is they don't generate heat Right, so that's why they're more efficient more expensive But also more efficient because they don't generate a lot of heat says they're not wasted energy The energy just goes for light And and that's what defines their efficiency Well, Winnipeg is cold And not generating heat is a disadvantage when you're talking about traffic lights. Why? Because in traditional traffic lights the heat What the heat does is it melts the snow and ice that accumulates on the traffic lights And in Winnipeg it doesn't So the ice and the snow Are obstructing the ability of drivers to see Whether it's green red or yellow. You can't see the light. There's too much snow in front of it, and it's not melting So the city of Winnipeg has hired people basically their staff, I guess During snow storms and when it's cold, which is pretty much all the time in Winnipeg They would really benefit from some global warming They go around town To wipe clean the traffic lights now think about The efficiency the energy saving the enormous advantages Of actually having human beings Drive around town in in gas guzzling on a field I To literally engage in manual labor Of wiping the traffic lights clean I mean I don't know more insanity. I mean the world is going nuts And you know What do we do about it? What do we do about it? I guess Education education education. We talk about it, right? So we're going backwards. We're going backwards Technology is consumes too much energy. So let's shut it down, right? Let's turn off electricity Let's turn off our computers because you know what it's it's Harming the environment and and to hold with human life who cares about human life I see I care about human life not Sells not embryos. I care about human life Human life requires energy human life requires consuming energy human life acquires Lights that melt the snow in traffic. Otherwise people are going to die from traffic accidents It's insane the world is going insane All right, so that's one example of of this uh of this Insanity. Whoops Whatever the skylight he he dropped off the call. All right, maybe he'll be back. He'll call back. All right. Um All right, so that's that's led lights, right? All right, then you get You get prince william. I don't know. He's like Something to the throne. He's gonna be king of england one day that really important job of Of ruling over the british empire. Oh, I guess they don't do that anymore Do they they they don't believe an empire or ruling or anything like that? Anyway, he's gonna be king of england one day. Maybe He's the duke of cambridge and he is really worried Really worried about the terrible impact of having too many people in the world Overpopulation that's his concern. That's the worry right as if this is new overpopulation Um and and it's not new the duke of edinburgh in 2011 the same thing voluntary Family limitation as a mean of solving overpopulation No, how is overpopulation a problem when is overpopulation ever been a problem? human beings are a value human beings are good things not bad things They don't create problems. They solve problems. That's the beauty of freedom when human beings are left free Where they right to protect it where they're free from force They produce more than they consume They increase wealth. They make the planet better for human beings. They make human life better I want another billion people to live on earth If they are free if they can produce if they can think if they can be productive because life will be better with another billion people My life your life But this panic about overpopulation by the way a panic That every few years comes about right 1800 you had Overpopulation is going to cause the population of europe to shrink dramatically And in the hundred years to follow the population of europe triples And we get fat because we're so well fed And we're so you know our living standards have gone up so much. That's the 19th century And then in 1970s 60s we were warned. Oh my god overpopulation is going to cause again in europe hundreds of millions of people to die of starvation It didn't happen And then every few years somebody comes up with this time it's going to happen overpopulation is going to but that's not how The world works. It's not how life works People don't just consume. They're not dead pests human beings are pests. They just eat up everything Human beings are producers And they produce more than they consume And they create highest standard of living and make wealth possible and make technology possible And more humans being beings mean more production means more wealth means More technology means more good stuff So pince william Sorry You're wrong all right insanity All around me craziness all around me. All right when we come back We're going to do the moments of reason if we have callers 888-900-3393 to call about anything you want to talk about 888-900-3393 call to disagree with me call to argue with me Or call to to bring up a topic we haven't talked about yet 888-900-3393 And we'll be back after these break this break. You're listening to your unbroke show on the blaze radio network All right, I think we'll title today's show the world's gone crazy left and right. I don't know Yeah, I'll try and be in a better mood Next show it'll be from from london And actually the show after that will be from warsaw poland So you're gonna get if you follow the run book show You get you get me traveling around the world and experiencing a little bit through the internet of Through the magic of the internet a little bit of what what I experienced when I'm out there traveling around Around the world you can also find Everything that I do on the run book show not the just you run book show dot com And you can also support this show if you're so inclined help us Improve the marketing of the show improve some of the technical aspects of the show just to help support And what hopefully you're getting some value out of and value for value I believe in that win-win. It's all about win-win All right, uh, we have got a number of people Oh my god, we've got like how many people have we got now? We've got mike skyler brian and izzy All right, we're gonna take skyler first because he called a long time ago Then we're gonna go to mike then we're gonna go to brian and then we're gonna go to izzy So, uh, let's start with skyler. Hi skyler. You're on you're on book show And you want me to talk about dr. Brooke Greetings and we don't have a lot of time so jump in with a question and it's I can go to next one. Yeah Why is it that Motz are composed symphonies at eight years old and usually takes a novelist in their 20s or 30s To compose a novel why what is it different the fundamental digital dream art from music and literature Oh my god, are you gonna you're gonna kill my audience skyler. What are you? What are you doing to my show? I'm just trying to bring it from from politics to aesthetics. There you go. Well, the fundamental difference is that Literature is conceptual literature is about words literature is about ideas Literature is about the conceptual nature of man. It's about the ideas that guide man and and uh Literature evokes emotion. It's the it's the conceptual Nature of the story that evokes an emotion and we experience literature Emotionally, but it comes to us Through words through concepts through ideas that evoke that emotion Music is is goes direct somehow To emotion you respond emotionally. They're no ideas. They're no words. They're no concept There's there's nothing to understand in terms of conceptual Words conceptual knowledge It goes somehow and I don't know how and I don't know that anybody knows how it's suddenly I don't know how I ran had some theories about it But even she said these are just theories. There's just my musings about it about how music affects us directly in a sense They're gonna skip over our conscious conceptual faculty and go straight to subconscious into our emotions That's the fundamental difference and look Mozart is a is not a good example because Mozart is a An unbelievable genius, but but you can find children humming tunes It's very hard to have a child articulate Something conceptually it's far harder to learn Concepts than to come up With with a tune now what Mozart did? I don't want to belittle what Mozart did because Mozart was a unique genius But for whatever reason that's I think it's because of the nature of concepts and how hard they are and music somehow So convince them in in some interesting way, which I don't have an explanation for All right. Thank you. Skyler appreciate it. We're gonna go quickly to mike in georgia. Hey mike Hey, how are you doing? Mr. Brooks? I'm basically had two questions. Um, the first question was Where in the constitution does it actually speak about the separation of church and state? Yep The second question I had is where do you believe your liberties and freedom come from? All right. Good. Great questions go to the heart of the issue Um, I believe that the second amendment uh separates church and state. Oh, that is its intent It uses language that is a different a little different than the language We use today you can tell jefferson at least intentioned by the virginia declaration of rights of man Where he talks about a wall of separation between church and state this country was founded on enlightenment principles on secular enlightenment principles on the idea that I that uh the ideas held by politicians Including their religion Should not guide government that what guided government was the protection of individual rights period That the responsibility of government was not to impose or not to restrict or not intervene In the realm of ideas in the realm of religion But only to defend our rights only to protect our liberties and otherwise to leave us alone. So, uh I believe if one understands the founding fathers when reads the context of the constitution And when reads the enlightenment figures that led To the creation of of the greatest country in human history and the only moral country in human history Then You cannot ignore the fact that this is fundamentally essentially a secular country built on the idea that religion Has no place in government has no place in government It the only place it has is in your life You are left free to believe and to practice your religion How you see as long as you're not using violence against your neighbor You can believe whatever you want and you have a right to practice your religion In any way do you want as long as it's not harmful to other people The second question is where do rights come from rights come from the nature of man they come from Who we are as as biological entities it it is a requirement for human survival It's a requirement for human flourishing without individual rights There is no ability of human beings to flourish and succeed and and uh and and You know survive as it's fully conceptual human beings rights cannot Well in my view they cannot come from god because god there is no god But right the argument that rights come from god is a very very weak argument because what you're basically saying is I don't have a reason-based argument for why human beings have rights Therefore, I must resort to faith And that is very weak and that's why individual rights You know are not protected anymore in the united states of america the constitution is not is disregarded is not regarded anymore because uh In a conflict between faith and reason reason will always win and unfortunately The the conventional convention conventional positions in politics have no reason bait the Defense of individual rights only iron rand has such a defense and that's why I encourage you all to read iron rand Particularly she has a wonderful essay called man's rights. You can find it on our website iron rand.org a y n r rand.org Individual rights are a requirement of human survival in a social context. They come from human nature And you don't need faith. You don't need religion. You don't need certainly don't need christianity or judeism or islam Any specific religion or religion at all To advocate for individual rights, and I think most of our funders completely understood this now I know that brian and izzy on the line and unfortunately I'm gonna take brian quickly if you could brian. Can you say something really quickly about led lighting? Because we have less than a minute to go brian All right, he's not there. I I have no idea what he was uh, what he was planning on saying but uh, all right, so You know as as as I've always said you're gonna hear a different perspective on the show You're gonna hear a different philosophical cultural political point of view on the show. Hopefully Mike, I know you disagreed with my statement about individual rights But hopefully it gets you thinking and hopefully to get you reading Exposes you to a different approach to life to reality To to ideas. All right You're listening to your own book show. There's the blaze radio network, and I'll see you same time I won't be in the same place, but hopefully you will be talk to you then listening to the uran brook show on the blaze radio network