 The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Book Show. All right, everybody. Welcome to Iran Book Show on this Saturday afternoon. Hope you're having a great start to your weekend. Looking forward to... We're going to do two shows this weekend, so one now, today, and then tomorrow night at 8 p.m. East Coast time, we'll have our Ask Me Anything show with some of our supporters here, so they will join me live on Zoom, and the rest of you can be on the chat and use the super chat to ask questions. All right, we've got quite a bit to cover today. There's a lot going on suddenly in the world. Things happen at a fast pace, so we'll be talking about the latest from Ukraine, the Crimea Bridge explosion, Biden's comments about Armageddon. We'll talk about Musk. Musk now proposing peace between China and Taiwan. And then I think we'll talk about basically California insanity. And I've got, like, I don't know, six, five, six stories about California insanity, so we'll just go over the list. Just the latest, a day in the life of the governor of California going nuts, so we'll cover those stories and ask the question, why the hell is anybody still living in California? I guess Mark Andreessen, the venture capitalist, said recently that California is like Rome in the last days of the empire. He's staying to fight it out, but it's, you know, from his perspective, it's about gone. So that's an interesting perspective and an interesting time. This is one of the top venture capitalists in California, one of the richest people in California saying this, so that is interesting. The word is getting out. All right, let's just remind everybody you can use the Super Chat to ask questions. We've got a goal for the Super Chat, $650 a show. Those of you who are not on Super Chat can support the show on Patreon. I think Patreon at the end of the day is probably the easiest way to do it, but you can also do it in your own bookshop.com slash support, which is PayPal and unsubscribed stuff. All right, let's start with just the kind of breaking news from Ukraine. So two big stories, the big one was yesterday was Putin's birthday as a birthday gift. It seems as though the Ukrainians manage, we think it's Ukrainians, we'll find out. It's like the pipeline explosion. Who did it? This one is a gift for Putin's birthday. The bridge that Putin had built after he annexed Crimea to Russia, the bridge he had built between Crimea and Russia. If you've ever seen maps of that region, Crimea is like this piece of land that juts out of Ukraine. It's not exactly, it's indirectly connected to Russia, although now that Russia's occupied southern Ukraine it is, but it wasn't after Putin took it. So he built a bridge that basically connects Russia to Crimea. And this Crimea peninsula has a long history of being fought over and so the bridge includes kind of a highway for cars, two directions, and a rail line that crosses between the two and it's being used as a main way of supplying troops, particularly in the Gershon area of Ukraine where the Russians are occupying and there are battles almost daily between the Ukrainians and the Russians as Ukraine is trying to retake the Gershon area. Anyway, yesterday there was a massive explosion on the bridge, this video of it actually exploding, how to tell exactly what happened, how to tell what exploded exactly. It looks like a truck or maybe something under the bridge or it might have been a car bomb. It's hard to tell, but it exploded. It basically destroyed half of the highway. So one part of the highway fell into the Black Sea and so that's, you can see pictures of that. That's going to take them a while to fix. And then there was a train, so it exploded strategically because it exploded, it appears. Again, this is all still I think speculation, but with the pictures it exploded just as a train was crossing on the train and that train exploded into flames. Now it could have been that the train exploded, but unlikely given the damage on the highway, it looks like the explosion happened on the highway and then the train ignited. So the train, you know, the train was in flames and the consequence of that is that why two shows today? Only one show today. The train exploded so the train track is significantly damaged. So that's out of commission. It seems like the train is what's really important and what they're focused on and maybe that'll be repaired in a few days or maybe it's already repaired or they're working hard to repair that. The highway is going to take them a while. That really was destroyed. But a huge blow to the Russians, symbolic and material, material in a sense that it's just more difficult to continue resupplying the troops in the south. They do have alternative paths through Donetsk to supply the troops in Gesson, but the easiest way was through Crimea. It's also kind of a, what do you call it, a morale issue, right? I mean, this is the third time, I think, the Ukrainians have reached into Crimea and had created massive damage in Crimea. They hit an airport. They hit some other ammunition depot and now they've hit this symbolic bridge that is very much Putin's. Then it happened on Putin's birthday. Can't be particularly good for Putin's morale. So good for Ukraine. I assume Ukrainians did this. They seem to have reached. The rumors now also the CIA believes that it is Ukrainians who killed Dugan's daughter. So if that's true, then they have reached right into Moscow and have the ability to assassinate people in Moscow. It shows a certain reach and a certain, I don't know, daring of the Ukrainians to be able to pull this off in the bridge that was hard to imagine that they would be able to do at the beginning of the campaign. You know, could they have blown up the pipeline? Very unlikely. Ukraine, as far as I know, does not have the kind of submarine technology that would be acquired in the North Sea. Nevertheless, to go to the North Sea and do something like this. I think it's highly unlikely that Ukrainians blew up the pipeline, although clearly the Ukrainians have the most incentive to blow it up and to create, you know, to kind of force Russia's hand. As I said, I don't believe Biden had anything to do with that. I think it's one thing for the United States to be providing the Ukrainians with intelligence on various issues. I think it's a completely different ballgame for the United States to actually use its own submarines to go out there and blow up something that is European. Right? The pipeline is actually European. So anyway, so I think as time goes on, we'll discover more and more and more about what happened and what's going to happen. I think the Swedes, because it happened in Swedish Danish water, I think the Swedes are heavily investigating the pipeline explosion. So I think we'll get a lot more information out of Sweden and out of Denmark in terms of how it happened and who was responsible. Once they get the munitions that caused it, we should be able to tell pretty easily who did it given the nature of the munition. All right, let's see. Of course, it could be, what do you call it, a something flag where you do it, pretending it's somebody else and use their munitions or something. Who knows? So that's one story coming out of Ukraine. The second one is this one's very speculative, very kind of on Twitter, hard to tell if there's any truth to this. False flag. Thank you, false flag. Hard to tell if there's any truth to this, but it is something that Twitter is imploding over and coming out of Ukrainian intelligence. So hard to tell if there's any viability to this, but I'll report it anyway as highly speculative. And that is that there's a rumor that there have been arrests in Moscow that senior military officials, senior officials in the Defense Department are being arrested by the Russian authorities that in a sense there was a cleansing going on that the explosion on the bridge yesterday was the final straw that Putin is cleaning house. He's getting rid of what he views as incompetent people. Now, whether this will work in Putin's favor or not, it's hard to tell because already the people in important positions were Putin's allies. So now he's getting rid of his allies and putting in other allies. It's hard to tell. More confirmed reports suggests that, so that's more as these people are being arrested and dragged off by special units of the Russian military. I think more reasonable reports suggesting that actually what's going on is that Putin has just fired his Minister of Defense and has fired the top general in the Russian army and replaced them with what he considers better people. So, you know, that is, I think, much more reasonable and pretty likely to be happening right now. I mean, the kind of losses the Russian military has suffered, the kind of humiliation Russia has suffered requires Putin to find scapegoats and to shift the blame. And this is, I think, reasonable in terms of what I think he is doing. So, yeah, you know, that's coming out of... By the way, if you remember the head of the Chechen guy who has threatened nuclear, who said Russia should use nuclear weapons and who has criticized the military and everything, he has been promoted to general within the Russian military. So, in spite of him being critical of Putin, I guess Putin figures bring him closer, make him more responsible, and let's see what's happened. And, you know, and let him based on the responsibility of whatever happens now. So, it'll be interesting how this all plays out in terms of the internal politics within Moscow, which is clearly an upheaval. I mean, they didn't expect the Ukrainians to pull off what they've pulled off over the last month and a half. They didn't expect any of this. And Ukraine is still in their offensive. They haven't stopped yet. There's still movement. They're still chipping away. Expect to see big moves from the Ukrainians in the south and some more significant moves in the east. In the next few weeks, this is going exactly the opposite of how Putin and his Russian fans would expect. So, it's a complete and utter disaster and its people are shocked, shocked, shocked by this. All right, while I was just doing that little intro, we've raised 1100 bucks. I mean, that's kind of, whoa, what is happening here, guys? So, Dave Goodman is basically asking me to do a review of the Shoshak Redemption. Now, that's a movie I've seen at least twice, maybe three times already. So, I'll probably watch it again just because it's a fun movie. So, that one's going to be fun because I love that movie and it's going to be fun to talk about it. I think there are a lot of elements to it. So, I will actually watch it again and will, you know, do a thorough review of it because it is, I think, a really interesting movie and in many ways an important movie, a good movie in terms of the values it projects. I also have Shazbats, Fantastic Beasts and Way to Find Them. My list and Glenn came in with 100 bucks. No, 100 and then another 50. So, 150 just to get us the 650 right off the bat. And then Vadim has come in with 399 dollars and 99 cents, a 400 bucks. So, we're at 1100 bucks and 10. Hoppa Campbell put in five, but wow, that's the fastest. We've raised $1,000 in the show's history. So, while I'm a little disappointed, I have to say, I was going to mention this, a little disappointed in the viewership, particularly in my last episode, the one on Iran. I mean, I thought it was really good. I thought it was important. I thought it brought out a new story that needs to be highlighted, that needs to get the word out there and very few people relative to other shows that I do, very few people are watching it. You know, it's getting about half the viewership of normal and that is, ah, that is super frustrating and it's like, that's the one I want everybody to watch. Ukraine had a little bit here, a little bit there. We keep talking about it and so on. But what's happening in Iran is so important. It's so crucial and requires and demands. I think our support, if you love freedom, is so crucial and yet that's the one that, eh, because it's not about left or right, right? How do you deal with Iran? Is it, is it, nobody knows how to even deal with it. Plus, it's a Muslim country who cares what's going on over there. Let the Muslims, you know, uh, fight. So it's, it's like nobody cares because, and that's sad because here are people really fighting for freedom, really fighting for liberty. Here are unbelievably courageous girls standing up to one of the most, if not the most authoritarian regime on the planet and my subscribers are like, eh. So, yeah, I mean, everybody watches it. I'm talking about watching it after it's is. I'm not talking about live. I'm talking about watching it afterwards. But, you know, it's just, it's just not resonating in the aftermarket after the live. So let me ask you guys, the ones who have watched it and if you enjoyed it and if you liked it, please share it. And I know we turned my stick on Iran into a shorter video and that's not getting a lot of hits. Again, I think because it's just Iran and who cares? And nobody wants to talk about it. Share it, you know, do a little bit to just help help it along. I think it's really, really important. I think it's one of those crucial topics. And it really is to me a mark of whether you really offer liberty, whether you really offer freedom or whether you're just playing politics or playing wood games or playing something or other. I don't know. So Jeff said he tried to share it. Why, why only try? Why can't you share it? Now, it could be the YouTube is suppressing it in the algorithm, but I don't know why they would do that. It's not exactly offensive to anybody at YouTube. So yeah, I mean, it would be, it would be a good one to share, particularly, I don't know, I was going to say particularly if you weren't, but no, it shouldn't be particularly if you weren't, particularly if you care about liberty, if you care about freedom. And if you want to be inspired by 15 year old girls, what better is there than that? So anyway, let's try to get those numbers on the Iran thing up just to give partially to help the girls out, the girls in Iran and partially to put me in a better mood. All right, I'm going to let's quickly read these super chats and then we're going to go down again. Glenn says through all they got to be on this live often don't have opportunity, but watch them later. I get huge value of the discussion. Thank you and keep speaking out. Thank you, Glenn, for the for the $150 really, really appreciate it. And then Vadim says what motivates some to proceed in logical order step by step from perpetual concrete to high level abstractions and others to skip process and go approximately approximations vague indefinite generalization. All right, so I am going to see how can I undo. So I'm going to put that on hold because that's a big issue and I'm going to get to that Vadim later in the show. Let me let me try otherwise I'm never going to cover these topics and I have to get to California because I promised you California and I know several times and I just need to get it out of the way and you get out and I've got like seven stories just in California to talk about. We're going to do them fast, but still so Vadim your top priority as we when we when we end the California topic. Okay, let's quickly go on again. So back to Ukraine as you might know probably know in a in a I guess a meeting with high level donors Biden said something like you know we're closer to Armageddon now than we have been in any point of time since the Cuban Missile Crisis. And you know that might be true that might be true. I'm not sure we were that close to the Armageddon during the missile Cuban Missile Crisis. But yes, there hasn't really been a nuclear crisis a global nuclear crisis since then. Although one could argue that Yom Kippur 1973 I think I think the US had nukes in the air. Israel certainly had nukes in the air. Russia was intense because Russia was supporting the Arabs the US supporting Israel and there was a little bit everybody was on pins and needles and in those days I think we weren't talking about tactical nukes in Ukraine. We were talking about Russia US annihilating each other. But you know but what a stupid thing to say. I mean I know Joe Biden doesn't quite realize this but maybe somebody should whisper in his ear that he is the president of the United States of America that his job is not to scare the bejesus out of people. It's not to terrify people particularly not if he wants to continue supporting Ukraine. But it's actually to calm things down. It's not to spur Putin on. It's not to reveal our strategic options. It's actually calm things down and to actually plan with his military generals to plan for how to make sure that we don't achieve nuclear armageddon. That is that even if the Russians use a tactical nuke how do we try to encourage them encouraging quote not to use the tactical nuke and be even if they do use the tactical nuke how do we make sure that doesn't turn into a humanity ending global armageddon. Instead he tells them yeah we're close time again you know they use tactical nuke we could be a damn again. And you know that is unhelpful. It's stupid. It's you know instead what he could do is say look I'm drawing a red line and this is a red line. We the United States is the most powerful military on planet Earth is drawing. We is right now the guarantee of security in Europe is drawing as a NATO as the leader of NATO is drawing and that is we will not accept the use of nuclear weapons in Europe. If nuclear weapons are used that would be a declaration of war against NATO but that would be more than that. Not only is would Putin have written a death war on himself but everybody in the line of command everybody in the chain of command in Russia associated with this decision. Everybody from congressman to to military leaders who associate with the decision to use a nuclear weapon in this war will be you know will be a war criminal and will be open season for assassination every single one of you. We will not tolerate this now that is strength that is kind of a Ronald Reagan Empire you know evil Empire you will not do this if you do you all die and it doesn't mean and he could even say we're not going to nuke Moscow. There's a lot of innocent people in Moscow. We don't think it should suffer from this but Putin look right into the camera Putin you're a dead man one way the other you and everybody who is so assist you you all dead if you do this. I think that would stop them. They don't want to die. They don't want to die. So anyway that would be what I would do. I'm not president of the United States Joe Biden is but I don't think he realizes it quite or at least you forget sometimes and you know he like almost every president in American history in recent American history is just a bubbling idiot and and they these people they don't think strategically. This is one of the the great fallacies of foreign policy American foreign policies since World War II I do not think the United States has had a foreign policy strategy. I don't think we've had presidents capable and competent enough to actually think strategically think strategically by the way there's no reason to invade Russia in order to kill Putin or to kill a few generals or to kill some military and you unlikely to ever have to do it again. Don't have to invade any place in order to do it. First of all you destroy every piece of Russian equipment that's in Ukraine today you could do that by air you could do that within days the NATO Air Force would absolutely demolish the entire Russian military that's in Ukraine and in Russia but you know if you don't want to attack Russia itself you could just stick to Ukraine you just demolish every single piece of that bridge. Imagine what F-22 and F-35 would do to that bridge one plane I mean that bridge would be gone it would be you know they would it would be it would be complete in rubble if the United States decided to do that. So no I mean you don't have to invade Russian or to inflict so much pain on them and describe that pain in detail in advance so that you know it just wouldn't exist this idea I mean the Russian military is a paper tiger always has been was in the days of the Soviet Union certainly is in the days of Russia under Putin it's a paper tiger it's a nothing entity and our president needs to stand up and say that and project strength and project certainty and project commitment and draw red lines draw red lines so and and look Russia's poor Russia's getting poorer 60,000 plus Russians already dead in this war you just articulate and spell out what would happen without being vague without Armageddon Armageddon means we're going to launch against I mean really spell it out in detail and it will you know they were backed out they will not use tactical nooks they do not want to die all right so surprise surprise Biden is pathetic and is a is a is a pathetic leader and a pathetic communicator and and just ridiculous all right I don't think I have anything else to say about Armageddon that's about it all right let's talk about pathetic let's get to the real pathetic one I mean you expect pathetic from Biden he's pathetic he always was you know and everybody knows it it's not a surprise but Elon Musk is going from pathetic to lower than pathetic I mean alone Musk is I mean for a long time I didn't like Elon Musk because of all the subsidies Tesla God and all of that and all this global climate change and all that crap and then during COVID I guess my opinion of Elon Musk went through the roof right is is refused to close the plant in California him telling the state to come and arrest everybody including himself you know his shake the fist at at at the satellites tweet he just had tweet after tweet that was just really really really good right just just really really good then the Starlink and the Starlink with Ukraine heroic timely beautifully done amazing and my Elon Musk reputation in my mind went through the roof and then he was buying Twitter and that was cool and all that and then in three days his reputation is basically sunk to below I think where it was originally God now I've already talked maybe too much enough about you know his proposed peace plan with between Ukraine and Russia which is ridiculous right and completely completely appeasing of Putin and complete capitulation and and basically just in the midst of a war God how pathetic was it and I and I said I've said I think Jordan Peterson has gotten to him and because it sounds like kind of the stuff Jordan Peterson's been spouting lately about the need for peace between Ukraine and Russia and I'm all for peace but you have peace from strength on peace from weakness so it's it's it's kind of it's kind of you know really really really horrible what he says but then he managed yesterday to top that not in a tweet I haven't seen a tweet where he says this but this is an interview interview I guess with the Financial Times in this interview with the Financial Times he's asked about China in Taiwan and what he says is we need a deal we need to force the Taiwanese to accept a deal with China which is like the Hong Kong deal we saw how well that worked the Hong Kong deal two systems one nation where Taiwan recognizes the fact that it's part of China but it becomes the special territory that's self-governing and so on just like Hong Kong was and we need this because otherwise there'll be a war and otherwise China will be upset otherwise and we can't afford to piss off China you know Russia's bad enough but now if we piss off China that would be a complete disaster and we need to appease the Chinese at all costs this is what we have to do so we actually have to have a deal right now you know we pretend that you know the Taiwan is a is an independent place even though you know right now we're silent on the whole question but for Elon Musk to just state that the Taiwanese should just appease the Chinese just like the Ukrainian should appease the Russians that the path towards peace the path towards prosperity the path towards success in life and a foreign policy and in the world is through appeasement I mean there's some being some great memes online that I've seen of Chamberlain and Hitler and you know what you what you get from appeasement but Elon Musk must know better but not only in one week is he appeasing the Russians now he's appeasing the Chinese now I understand the motivation around China a little bit more because later on in that interview he also talks about the fact that China contacted him when he deployed the Starlink satellites over Ukraine and supplied internet access to Ukrainians and the Chinese called him up and they said hey Elon you're not going to do this in China right you're not going to launch satellites about China so that the Chinese people can have free unfiltered access to the internet we can't allow that along you better not do it and a lot said well of course not no not in China China we don't touch why well because I have a big big big big Tesla plant in China it's my second biggest market I build Teslas in China I you know we can't can't do this can't can't can't put Starlink we don't want upset the Chinese government God forbid yeah all the Chinese called him I don't know who called him somebody from the Chinese government called him that's what Elon says I you know I have no independent verification that this is true but that's what Elon Musk says that he was approached by the Chinese and told not to deploy Starlink and he basically agreed with that basically agreed with that I mean so just as we were starting to view Elon Musk is kind of a heroic character as somebody to stand up to the authoritarian's somebody who could maybe really shift people's thinking over social media somebody who's not really associated with right or left in any kind of major way just a disappointment just a massive disappointment Starlink covers the entire planet but you have to be able to connect to it and countries can ban your ability to bring in stuff you can bring in stuff to a black market anyway I'm just citing what Elon Musk said in the interview I'm not I don't have an opinion about but Starlink is not available in China as far as I know it is not available in China Chinese do not have it the Iranians I think do but not the Chinese so well theoretically could probably access it from everywhere although I don't know because they're still deploying more and more and more satellites ultimately it's supposed to be a global network with with global reach but I'm not sure it is yet yeah engineers tend to be very pragmatic and very utilitarian and not very principled so sad sad about Elon Musk yeah it is what it is all right I see because we reached our goal so early in the show people are just not asking question they figured out you ones got enough money for today we'll keep it for next time but you can still ask questions because otherwise we're going to get by the show pretty quickly we basically got two super chat questions and that's it alright let's see next topic is California alright this is going to take a little bit of time just because we've got a bunch of different stories so California is a basket case it's a basket case in so many dimensions and I want to touch on just a few today just to give you a little bit of flavor of the nonsense that is going on in California and look I am not typically a California bash or California is a phenomenal place a great place to live you know super productive people incredibly productive Silicon Valley still knows productive place on the North Hollywood is still you know amazing in Los Angeles Orange County San Diego I mean it's just just from every perspective from from a productivity perspective from a in many ways a sense of life perspective just California stunning beautiful amazing productive but insane insane literally crazy so let's start with just a few simple you know just a just a simple one now you all know the gas prices are really high I know some of you are in Europe right now but you'll have to you'll have to try to do the translation into your your your local currency and of course in Europe gas prices are a lot higher than they are in America but remember Americans live on their you know they live in their cars so so they use a lot of gas so gas prices constitute a big chunk a big chunk of your regular expenses so gas prices in in the United States have risen quite a bit they rose a lot in the summer they've declined since as global oil prices have come down but they they have not come down in California I don't know how much this means to you if you don't live in the United States but right now in California it costs $6.42 a gallon a gallon that is about twice the cost nationally it's double what it costs anywhere else in the country now gas in California is always more expensive than the rest of the country primarily because of taxes on environmental fees and state taxes and all kind of dues but not enough to justify a doubling and by the way in in the Bay area I heard the gas prices at $8 a gallon in some places in the Bay area $8 a gallon which is insane so why is this why is California so much more expensive than the rest of the country well and this is something I've known since I live in California and I've known this a long long time but I don't think people realize this including people live in California during the summers California forces gas stations to sell a special summer blend of gasoline this is a blend of gasoline that supposedly is less polluting and therefore creates less smog with the summer heat and this blend is very few states use this blend California and I think five other states use this blend so they're very few refineries in the country that actually produce the blend so it's typically refineries in California producing the blend that California uses so what happened in California and this has happened in the past this is not the first time is that this year three refineries that you that do this blend have temporarily stopped production this plan maintenance and then another refinery in Los Angeles unplanned maintenance a stop production for refineries off the grid now theoretically California could import gasoline from other states refineries out of state but they can't because only these refineries only refineries in the state and certain other refineries very few of them produce the California blend of gasoline so the supply of this blend has shrunk and yet the demand is as usual everybody's driving in California California is a state that requires you to drive a lot so demand is high supply is crumbled because of this ridiculous idea that California needs its own summer blend even though it's October and therefore prices are gone through the roof so in California you now pay in some places in California eight dollars a gallon in most of the United States it's three and a half in some places it's about three but three right I don't know where Tom is I don't know where he's paying six six bucks and ten cents so I know that that's Canadian that's Canadian right so no I mean you're paying nothing as as compared to as compared to California now Governor Newsom has a solution for this don't worry California Governor Newsom is given right to the rescue and in this case he's done something rational given the irrational state of affairs it's not that hard to do something rational what he's done is so what happens is the summer blend is typically used until November one I can't remember when it comes in I think June one but it's used until November one and then they switch to winter blend and the winter blend is the same blend as the rest of the country and all of this has to do with with also with what do you call it the stuff they make from corn ethanol right so it has to do with ethanol and the production of ethanol and the availability of ethanol and sometimes sometimes the corn harvest is not that big so there's less ethanol so there's a less less less less supply so prices go up because a shortage of ethanol so it's a mess right it's a complete mess anyway November one they shift to the winter blend so what Governor Newsom has done in his brilliance is he is suspended I guess he can do this unilaterally he has allowed everybody to switch to the summer blend as of September 30th so in California you should start seeing prices decline over the next few weeks although this is happening the switch to the winter blend just as Saudi Arabia in OPEC plus slap bite in the face basically it was spat in his face I don't know if it's slapped him in the face or spat in his face but whatever it is that they did to bite in his face they basically announced as beige assistance to the Russians that they are going to reduce the supply of oil by I think two million barrels a day or whatever so that prices are going to go up so prices are going up of oil just as California is trying to reduce prices so they'll come down but they won't come down anywhere near as fast as if OPEC had done something different and of course we in the global market should be less dependent on OPEC and on Russia if the United States has cranked up our own fracking and our own ability to produce our own natural gas and oil and of course Europe would not be as dependent and prices would be lower if Europeans were fracking all over Europe and of course if the Europeans had kept their nuclear power plants running but this is the consequence of no strategy no energy strategy in this case none none so gas prices are going up but that you know again they're not going to be as high as Jordan Peterson predicted they would be prophesized not predicted prophesized that they would be there is no such thing as the energy independence that term is silly because energy is a global market it's not like the gas produced in the United States goes to the United States all produced in the United States go to the United States and we become independent and that the price therefore is independent of the global price global markets energy markets are global markets prices are set on a global marketplace the prices go up they go up in the United States as well because U.S. energy companies have the option of selling them abroad you could stop American companies from selling their energy abroad and it detach American energy from a global market but then you'd see a sharp decline in production you'd see massive distortions in energy it would not be good for America so we have a global energy supply we should be net exporters of energy right now we are the largest producer of energy in the world also the largest consumer but the largest producer of energy we should be able to export we should be able to affect world energy supply as much more we would if we'd built that you know the pipeline if we'd be fracking more if we'd be pumping more energy out if we'd be encouraging the Europeans to do the same and the rest of the world to do the same but you know if Venezuela Venezuela you know Venezuela remember Venezuela Venezuela is the there's a second largest oil reserves in the world imagine if Venezuela had a revolution and they kicked out the socialist and they actually allowed Western energy companies to come in and exploit their massive reserves the oil problems of the of the world would be reduced because Venezuela has more oil than Russia much more oil than Russia so lots of ways to solve these issues lots of ways to solve these issues that we're ignoring evading by the way again should the CIA get involved in a coup to get rid of the regime in Venezuela yeah why not I mean what's the downside exactly the upside is freedom from the Venezuelans and lower energy costs for Americans and just a better saner safer Western hemisphere so as part of the Monroe doctrine you could see the United States I'm not sending the Marines in don't need to just hoping the Venezuelans get rid of the horrible regime that they have but you know we can't even do that so we're just pathetic pathetic pathetic doesn't matter who's president they're all pathetic alright let's oh we're still in California okay so that was that was energy costs in California alright oh is that there was another oops let me just find this sorry second one alright that let's let's talk about inflation checks so I don't know if you know this but the state of California is so rich there's so much money and they do they have a surplus over and above they they have taxes are so high and there's so many wealthy people in California paying those taxes and there's so many companies in California particularly last year that did well in California and there's so much capital gains particularly last year not so much this year last year that paid taxes capital gains taxes in California that California has massive amounts of income so California has you know has more money coming in than it spends and has these massive budget surpluses as the content now I'm not sure we'll have one next year because you've seen the stock market this year go like that when the stock market goes down California has a hard time raising money because they all that all those capital gains don't get collected because they're no capital gains everybody has capital losses that they can actually write off so California decided this year instead of putting the money in a reserve for linears or instead of cutting taxes or stuff like that they really should be doing is just cutting and spending dramatically but anyway they decided they're going to send checks to everybody so California is sending checks one-time payments of anywhere between $700 to $1,050 so 700 individuals and up to 1,050 to married couples this is not to poor people this is all middle-class so in order to get one of these checks you have to have filed a tax return in October of 2021 not eligible to be claimed as dependent in 2020 where California resident for six months or more or California resident on the day the payment is issued you get it if you made more than $500,000 as a household or more than $250,000 as an independent and everybody in California is going to get a check so they're sending out 18 million checks out of out of 23 million people in California 18 million people are going to get checks so this is called vote buying this is called you know kind of left-wing populism this is getting the voters on your side the middle class is the biggest voting block there is so people kind of who are now so it's not it's kind of giving them their money back there's a sense in which you're still redistributing wealth because the rich are not going to get any of this corporations clearly not going to get any of this so the very wealthy are subsidizing the middle class that is the most popular thing to do in America it's not America welfare state and this is one of the differences between the American welfare state and the welfare state in the difference between the American welfare state and European welfare state the European welfare state is very very concerned about poor people and very very efficient about redistributing wealth to the poor and the American welfare state is very very concerned about the middle class and redistributing wealth to the middle class but also and and and not taxing the middle class too much particularly the lower middle class and putting most a burden of taxes on the wealthy so it's it's really interesting I mean all our big programs Medicare so security are aimed at the middle class these checks that California is sending aimed at the middle class it's not about so it's it's it's much more about vote buying than about and much more about old people than about you know helping the poor I think you know it's all equally wrong it's all equally ultimately motivated by some form of altruism or another it's all more equally motivated by a hatred of the wealthy and the rich and success but it is interesting how the focus is different and as a consequence Europe you know I think I think at a huge cost has managed to you know reduce the levels of poverty that you don't get as many homelessness and people like that in in in the United States we just there's just no emphasis on that nobody really cares about that the main thing is to keep the middle class voting for you to keep this big block voting for you and to keep keeping on benefits to them and never claim you want to reform so security or Medicare Medicare Medicare because that is the holy grail that's the one thing you cannot touch in American politics why because it's the middle class it's a majority of taxpayers it's majority of workers in America so interesting anyway California if you live in California expect to check from the government another one all right let's now go to some of the more ridiculous stuff that's going on okay that's checks all right this one is spooky this one is spooky let's see if I can find this I mean they're all spooky but this one is like this one could be out directly out of Atlas Shrugged so California earlier this year it's in September early September instituted a new law to regulate fast food restaurants what they have done is they have formed a what do you call it a a committee a 10 member council it's the 10 member it's a it's the fast food labor council the fast food labor council it is a 10 member council composed of representatives from labor and employers and they goal is to oversee the fast food industries labor practices in California now what this council could do is it is allowed to raise industry minimum wage as high as $22 an hour next year and then match it to inflation following that that's instead of a 15.5 minimum wage right now and on top of that that's just one aspect they cannot control the cost of labor for fast food companies on top of that now they will be able to determine labor practices hiring firing safety health so it's not a legislative process anymore no laws all rules will be determined by this 10 member labor council which is truly spooky scary scary if you own a fast food business now this is what you call the robot full employment act this is the kind of thing that will speed up the adoption of robots computers and the elimination of jobs in the fast food industry this is guaranteed to reduce the number of employees in the fast food industry and it's it's it's going to be interesting to watch it but notice the state is now going to be responsible for labor practices of particular industry yeah it's going to decimate franchise owners small businessman now this is an attempt at the state level to impose what the left would like to impose on a federal level which is what they call sectorial bargaining what they would like to do to get around the weakness of the labor unions is what they would like to do is to have employees of a sector the entire sector warehouse workers or warehouse workers not just Amazon or not just Walmart or warehouse workers negotiate their wages as a sector with the entire industry not with individual companies I think this is a model that is kind of modeled maybe after Scandinavia but it is a disastrous model it would bring about massive increases in the cost of labor which would decrease the quality of life standard of living of the same labor whose costs are going up because employees would have to pass the cost on to consumers who are the consumers the employees and of course they're not just raising their own cost of labor they're raising the cost of labor for everybody because everybody has to compete so craziness in terms of fast food industry in California all right let's move on to social media to social media bills passed in California one is going to require this is AB 587 but by the way both of these had some Republican supports of these were not just Democratic bills these including Republicans but they these are policies both of the policies are basically aimed to regulate hate speech in social media they are going to require companies to post hate speech disinformation harassment and extremism the policies with regard to these they want to they can have to post them they have to post data on this they can have to file a semi annual report to the state attorney general disclosing these policies and how they've been applied and you know they're going to make them available to to the public this is a way to for the California to try to rain in so called hate speech and social media it seems like the pressure government has put on social media to kind of regulate speech has not been enough not California wants to make this explicit where the state intervenes and helps them define what social what hate speech actually is the industry will fight this they'll fight lawsuits what's interesting is there are very very similar lawsuits sorry very very similar laws have been passed by Texas and Florida so this is a bipartisan issue this is a bipartisan issue this is not uniquely nutty California this is Republican states very Republican states and very Democratic states are passing the same kind of laws because everybody hates California right everybody hates California so that is I think this one is going to go to the courts and going to be ruled unconstitutional on first amendment grounds but we will see this is clearly state intervention second bill on social media and this one was bipartisan it actually passed the Senate in the House in California I think unanimously over Republicans voted for it over Republicans voted for it and this one is going to it says that social media companies that operate in California have to consider the health and wellbeing of children in their policies so it requires makers of social media apps like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok to study products and features that are likely to be accessed by minors and mitigate any potential harm before releasing them to the public so just broad you have to protect not from violence you have to protect the health and safety ambiguous and we're talking about mental health primarily right wellbeing of kids you have to protect the wellbeing of kids how do you do that isn't that the job of parents this one as I said bipartisan support everybody agreed with this right it's going to require companies to craft all kinds of policies specifically for children limit I mean the easiest thing for social media companies to do is to restrict children's ability to use social media ban it or something like that which is what Republicans really want and some Democrats really want but it's unbelievable it's unbelievable to me that we're now I mean imagine the lawsuits about the mental health and wellbeing of children how do you measure that how do you know which children is the children of the children got insane parents and that's why them into health is bad or is it social media and can can words really have that kind of impact and are now we have free speech but not for children we already limit what can be said to children what can be shown children somewhat rationally but this is completely non objective completely nuts and again another chipping away at the first amendment another attempt to chip away at the first amendment by both left and right this is what's so scary this is not in question this is not you know this is not a partisan thing this is not oh when the Democrats out the Republicans will save us now this is the one thing they both agree on regularly control and limit our ability to speak on social media is the one thing Democrats and Republicans are unanimous on okay and then finally this one is like I don't know I mean I think this will be all done constitutional but it is it is fascinating so California is passing a law that basically that the way they presented is the protects the protects transgender children and protects them and allows them allows them to get the kind of hormone treatment surgery psychological treatment whatever whatever to transition to to transition and you know on the one hand it bans discrimination so fine but it protects these children's ability to do it starting at very young ages in California California parents it has all kinds of restrictions on parent rights and what parents can interfere with or what parents can decide it's really scary if you have kids in California right now kids who are susceptible to kind of the social pressure around the whole trans issue and it's very dangerous now for parents to say to kids no you're not taking these hormone blockers you're not doing you're not transitioning you're not doing this stuff the state of California is now focused on the kids not the parents but what's scary is that this goes beyond the state of California and this is where the insanity really is if you have a kid and you live in anywhere and the kid wants to transition and you don't want them to transition and they run away to California and they're 15 let's say the state of California will protect they right to transition now we'll see again I don't think this will stand up in court but this is this is what the law is intended it's supposed to be a sanctuary for people particularly kids to escape parents who want to allow them to transition or to escape states where transition is going to become illegal like maybe Texas and Florida um courts now it's again the law is ambiguous but it could be interpreted in a way that suggests that courts could take custody of kids who are seeking gender transition treatment out of state and enroll them in California's foster care system and not allow the parents to have any say in what happens to them and parents out of state and not provide the parents with information about what's happening with them so California doctors and I'm reading for a story from what newspaper is this some some newspaper anyway I think the daily something daily signal California doctors will be able to offer security barkers hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgeries to minors without their parents knowledge or consent potentially for kids who run away or another example what if one parent wants to support the kids transition and other parent doesn't well one parent can in a sense illegally take the kid out of state and the other parent would have no ability to find out what's going on what's happening medically had any say in what's going to happen California will provide them with quote sanctuary so exactly how this will be interpreted it depends on who you read again I you know I don't want to sound too hysteric here but it sounds awful it sounds awful within the state of California but but the idea that it applies to everybody it applies to run away kids it applies to one parent another parent has no say it's terrifying it's terrifying and again I think the federal courts are going to rule this that one state can interfere with another state and you can't kind of over in a sense overwrite your state law from another state so we'll see I hope that's the case but it is truly terrifying that they're doing this and that is my take on on California scary stuff scary stuff it's it's an insane state why anybody stays there I don't know I think more people I mean I do know the weather the people the productiveness the environment of entrepreneurship I get that but if you have kids I would want to put them in the public schools in California or put them through this craziness or all of this it's just what a tragedy I think the best state in America in so many respects is committing suicide and completely nuts completely nuts let us turn to the super chat again thanks guys we're way way over our goal today and happened like that so thank you for to Dave and to Glenn and to Vadim for sending us over the thousand dollars before I even had a chance to finish my my intro so let's jump in with Vadim's question for which he put four hundred dollars so I'm going to read it again what motivates some to proceed in logical order step by step from perceptual concrete to high level abstractions and others to skip this process and go by approximation vague undefined generalization I think it's the amount of time a child is given to understand a given concept I think most people are rushed I don't know I don't think it's time I think it's I think to some extent there is no issue of motivation it's it's an issue of choice and choice is unmotivated choice is primary the choice of some children to focus and to pay attention and to engage and to observe the process of concept formation and what's involved not conceptually but to at least you know embrace it and apply it and just all they really need to be doing in a sense that the heart the wiring to have concept formations already there what you need is just the child to engage it to engage in its reason to focus its attention on the world not just to absorb stuff passively but to engage with the material it's absorbing the material the parents are talking to them about the material the teachers are teaching them on the material in a Montessori world in which they are engaged with the material itself they need to literally turn it on it has to be some kind of mental ambitiousness the opposite of mental laziness it has nothing to do with nature or nurture it has to do with the choices that they make literally the choices that they make and this will also answer your second question Vadim now it's also true that environment can make a difference that is a child who is discouraged from doing it asked too many questions asked too many probing questions a child that is not I think if you don't go through Montessori Montessori encourages this kind of self-study the self-motivation the self-analysis this time if you will Vadim about the concept formation most other educational systems just even at a young age cram it down their throat and they are motivated they don't understand what's coming from they don't understand why and then they never learn in a sense to use their mind you can imagine certain parents getting impatient with the child for asking all the questions and for going through the motions just don't you get it? here it is just don't and this is also relates to the time they're rushed but it's more than rushed they're discouraged they're oppressed the mental process that they're going through the reasoning process the rational process that they're going through to observe to observe understand integrate the world around them every time they do that somebody slaps them in the face in a sense that destroys their motivation to do it and they back away they back away so it's a combination of those of the choices that they make of the home and I think the school environments that they're in and I'd say broader than that the cultural environment that they're in so it's a combination of those two things their own self motivation self drive willingness to engage and the flip side is an environment around them that it might be so crushing curiosity crushing motivation crushing which might decrease generally the number of people who would naturally be choose to engage and to focus and to be ambitious Vadima has a second question related why is Dagny so fundamentally different from James despite the fact that they grew up the same parents I know that evil in James and two he starts very early in life yeah I mean I think she's she does it on purpose I think that they're both from the same family grew up in the same place and with the same parents Rand is doing this important purposefully to to divorce morality from the nature nurture issue they basically have the same or similar genes not the same but similar genes and they have the same upbringing and yet one turns out to be a second-handed scumbag and an evil and unthinking and Dagny turns out to be a hero of independent thought and what I read is trying to emphasize here is that is choice it is you it is something in you it is your choice at a relatively young age to turn it on to be in focus to be first-handed to ask the questions that demand answers to look out into the world for answers if they're not given to you and at the end that the standard is always looking out into the world so what she's trying to emphasize here is it is not family I mean and this is a parent you can be the best parents in the world and your kids can turn out lousy because they can make wrong choices you don't make choices from them for them there is such thing as free will and that's she's trying to make free will real to you by making them of the same family free will is real and you can see it you can see families in which one kid is amazing another kid is a complete loser and and it's it's it's an issue of the choices they make and you can't connect it to genes and you can't connect it to the environment they all have an impact in one way or another but the fundamental cause of how you as a human being turn out the fundamental cause of who you are what your characters is you the choices you make that's why Dagny's different than James they make very different choices when they're young Dagny chooses to be reality-oriented James chooses to be people-oriented that's the main one all right Colt asks I appreciate you doing the show earlier today because I'm helping I'm helping out for Ukrainian fundraising concert also I think we should employ the term you use neanderthal right but I feel like it's an insulted neanderthal neanderthals I can't remember when I used neanderthal but yes it's probably an insulting neanderthals given that we all have some neanderthal genes in us we shouldn't insult neanderthals too much because it's kind of too self-insulting in some perverse way Michael asks thank you Michael are Americans more superficially altruistic while Europeans are more committed to altruism intellectually and viscerally homelessness to almost any degree would simply not be tolerated politically in Europe yeah I mean there's no question Americans are much more individualistic much less altruistic in action in spite of being Christian you know the culture in America is a culture of self-reliance of independence at least used to be and there's still some remnants in it Europe is much more Christian in that sense even though it's abandoned Christianity as a religion it's not abandoned Christianity as a morality that's Kant's influence you have a duty to sacrifice you have a duty to take care of the poor so Europeans are much more committed to achieving it this egalitarianism are much more committed to egalitarianism than our Americans Americans are much more tolerant of success of achievement of standing out which is the great virtue tolerant is the wrong word but they're much more accepting of that because that's the intellectual tradition from which America has come from that idea of individual rights therefore of individualism of individual responsibility in the deeper sense responsibility for your own life and for your own happiness and you know and responsibility for your own failures which Europeans don't have that's why by the way Europeans have a very negative view of failure so because everybody's in it together you fail it says something about me Americans are not because it's a personal responsibility so it's very much America's past culture that is keeping us afloat but we're becoming more European as we get we're becoming more and more and more European Michael says California has ended its death penalty I'm a bit torn in this issue while some people morally deserve to die I don't want the state to have the power to kill people who are not an immediate threat yeah I mean I grew with you Michael I'm torn on the issue too suddenly murderers deserve to die there's still too much I mean think of how many death row inmate rulings are being reversed because of DNA evidence there's just too much error possible so I'd rather not kill an innocent so I don't want to give the state that power particularly when when there's so much fallibility in the rulings we are getting better at that but you know but you know and I don't think it's a moral issue certainly if you take somebody's life you forfeit your I mean if you take it on purpose all right thank you for all the 20 plus ounce askers of questions I will now turn to five dollars and ten dollars so hopper Campbell as California is choking on its own leftism but if you make high six figures you can still live comfortably pretty much anyway that is true of course the more high figures you make the more they take and and and at some point it really really really gets to you you know if you're making nine figures I don't know if you if you if you if you got so much money they take 50% of it doesn't really but when you're in the six figures in the take 50% it affects your lifestyle a lot but yes you can still live well in California even if even with the insanity there although as a parent I'd be scared these days Gail says what do you think of Michael Schellenberger does he have a chance I know he has lost recently yeah he lost quite significantly I don't think he has a chance yet I like Michael I don't like all his stands I think he's wrong on on homelessness I think he's wrong and a lot of economic issues he's not a free market guy but he's very good on energy very very very good on energy and a few other things he's excellent nuclear energy in particular so yeah I would vote for him I would definitely vote for him Frank asks can Aaron judge reaching 62 home runs be the true single season record despite reality saying the tainted record of 73 by Barry Barnes is the real one I mean it depends on your view of of of of steroids if you think steroids are cheating and then Barry Barnes record doesn't really count because he clearly used them and therefore he achieved 73 through cheating so Aaron judge if we assume he is not taking steroids he has the record if you don't care that much about steroids or if you think they should just be made legal then it's a different issue but I think it's all that the issue and right now in baseball they view steroids as negative so so Aaron judge is record holds because he's the only one who hit he hit the most without steroids as far as we know Valdrin says Greece and Italy used to rule and build continents now they have they would starve without the EU money and no great intellectuals anymore that I know of strange yep ideas the power power power of ideas referral says I want to send you an email for a podcast while you're in Portugal not sure if you have time for it I hope I do have time for it I'm definitely interested in doing it so if you can squeeze it in between when I arrive and when I leave let's do it I'll send you an email with my times and see if we can arrange it that will be that will be cool if we can do it James says California is a failed state bad policies incoming soon or bad policies have been incoming for a long time not just soon James also said have you have you been to southern UK thoughts and it's southern UK yeah Plymouth Exeter Bristol yeah I mean I love that whole part of UK it's foggy and damp and wet and cold but so it's a beautiful so it's a beautiful so big fan of the UK generally in a southern UK James says is home insurance raising a Puerto Rico of Florida I don't think so but my policy hasn't renewed yet so I'll find out soon James she says do you like Bentley Porsche Mercedes more God probably the Porsche probably the Porsche I'm not a big fan of Bentley or those ways that too big and audacious I mean I like Porsche Mercedes more than I would like Bentley Valdrin says banks markets drugs are regulated yet US is rich yes because there's enough freedom for people to become rich so a little bit of freedom goes a long way Jonathan you've said you like Star Trek cook or Picard cook I think cook is more philosophical less well-made but more philosophical Jeff asks we are grateful to the whales for their contributions whales and so some money and it allows you to ask cheap questions contribute content 140 watching ask questions yes questions but also press the like button you know we were at 140 watching live and we don't have a lot of likes and I'm sure you guys like the show I think you do so please like it helps the algorithm it really really does it makes a big difference for YouTube that you guys engage the comments the chat the likes the the the you know any way in which you can engage with the show helps on the algorithm and helps the algorithm make up so let's go from 84 to 100 right now it should be a hundred right now all right Jeff also says how do you feel about Christian families forcing the gate children into conversion therapy should the state be allowed to separate gate teenagers no I don't think the state has any wall in this you know particularly with gay gay conversion therapy is not physical abuse you can argue it's mental abuse with our physical abuse the state has no business in it families can have a choice to try to convert their children out of gay gaynessness the state should not get involved if it gets involved in that it could get involved in a lot of other things so no no state involvement in in their parents vis-a-vis their sexual orientation mister were most less most lessness you're on what are your thoughts on paying to fence bacon this is who I meant back when I saw Milo was like fence bacon Augustine Rose I still don't get at the relationship between fences bacon and Augustine Rose so yeah I'm looking for some fences okay so I'm looking at the painting you meant the painter oh yeah I saw I saw a live exhibit of his an island once at a museum there kind of a retrospect on him I hate him I mean he's awful so what is the question about him relation yeah okay I see now the relationship with St Augustine yeah I mean some Francis bacon as an artist is all about pain and suffering and it's it's very much about the horror of life and the ugliness of life and the and just the suffering of the horror of it in that sense he is very much since Augustine so yes I get it yes I agree I think I James says since you go to the UK a lot and besides the weather what are your reasons for never living there or getting a second condo there it has potential oh the weather the weather and the weather that's enough of a reason I mean the other reason is affordability if I could afford to have a condo in London would I do it absolutely I love London I can't afford it to have a second condo and have a second condo in London of all places which is a super expensive place so no I wouldn't live there but it's too dark weather weather weather it's too dark for me I James he says new California real estate laws policies are coming soon okay I'm not surprised some of them are good some of them are trying to do away with this not in my backyard nonsense but I'm sure some of them are terrible so we will see alright thanks guys great fundraising day I think we had a lot of people watching live as well thank you for the supporters thank you for all the superchatters I am going to get well it's a little early for dinner but soon going to dinner I hope you have a great rest of you evening a great rest of you we can tomorrow at 8 p.m. East Coast time we will have asked me anything show with my $25 and up supporters on live video if you want to join and of course super chat will be available and yeah I guess I'll see you all there don't forget to use patreon subscribe star you're on book show that comes last support to provide monthly support for the show which is which is greatly appreciated by yours truly you're on book of the Iran book show Jeff has a last minute question my beautiful me Sydney is now my handsome nephew Sid whoa a suicide threat caused us to accept his choice because we want him to be happy I still hope he does not transition physically thoughts yeah I mean you can't fight it beyond a certain level right you can fight it may be doing teenagers but they they reach a certain age and it is they are what they are and and and they have they have to take responsibility for their own life and have to live their own life with it the surgery is brutal and it's not reversible so you don't want them you want to do whatever you can to discourage that and to give them enough time to potentially change their minds with at least the least amount of damage caused so generally I think what parents and relatives should do is delay delay delay delay delay delay delay you know and hope that the kids come to their senses and in some cases maybe this is inevitable but not with the numbers that it is happening today the numbers suggest this is a kind of a fad that is going through the world of teenage primarily girls historically it was primarily boys transitioning to become women but now it's a girls thing transitioning to become men and it's it's it's become it's become a fad more than anything else I fear and it's one unfortunately promoted by certain doctors certain psychologists and psychiatrists certainly by certain gender quote theorists out there it has become a a theology it's become a religion that people ascribed to and they ascribed to it and then they recruit young primarily girls to this religion and and that is just horrific and it's it's a horror and any stuff you fart intellectually and and and I admire like JK Wallins and I don't agree on much but certainly I admire her for on the one hand respecting the the the rights of transgender to live their lives not be discriminated against on the other hand to realize the insanity of what they're doing and the insanity of of of the the gender police out there and the insanity of the way young girls are being treated primarily young girls but also young boys are being treated so if you're if you're a parent the thing to do is delay and hope that things change delay until they become adults and they can they can make the choice of themselves and certainly avoid any surgery until their adults. All right, I will see you tomorrow for the Q&A probably a show on Tuesday on Monday and then after Europe and from there we'll see it will be kind of in and out depending on internet connection and my my availability for those of you. Oh, let's just do that. I just want to go those of you in Europe. Those of you at 99 likes. Let's get to a hundred. Come on people. Somebody like the show but those of you in Europe. I will be in the UK next week. I'll be on GB news by the way both I think on Friday and on Saturday on Mark Dolan show and Neil all of all of a show next week. So if you're in the UK and want to see me on you can see me on those two shows on Friday and Saturday. But I will also be speaking at a number of different venues. You can find all the information on that on your own book show dot com website. Also I will be in Edinburgh. I will be in Berlin in Laguna. Lugano in Switzerland. I will be these all places I'm speaking in public so you can come and see. I will be in Oslo, Paris, Lisbon and Madrid. Information about all those events are available on my website. You're on book show dot com. So please if you're in Europe, please come advertise the events. Let people know bring friends. Let's make these big events and suddenly come and say hello to me and tell me you listen to the show love to meet you guys. So those of you in Europe, I know some of you are listening today. Please bring people come and hang out bring them over. Let's let's let's make these events as big as possible. That will depend on you help market them help promote them on social media and other places. Thank you in advance. I'll be promoting them on Twitter, but they're all available up there on your on book show dot com. All right. Michael asks I'm seeing a lot of California license plates in Miami and people from LA used to hate and make fun of Miami. Yes. Suddenly people are moving for California to Texas Miami, Tennessee, Arizona, Colorado, all over the country. But there's still a lot of people in California and still a lot of people moving to California go figure. I don't know if I can get a P.S. Morgan. If somebody knows P.S. Morgan, please let him know I'm coming happy to go and P.S. Morgan show. All right everybody. I will by the way next weekend. I'm on I'll be doing two panels on battle of ideas in London. So if you if you want come to the battle of ideas, it'll be fun. All right. See you all in Europe. See you all in the U.S. See you all in the show tomorrow.