 Puerto Rico, you wanna talk about Puerto Rico? Yeah, so I did message you yesterday actually about this because I saw the headline, there's these protests going on against the governor of Puerto Rico. And the last that I've heard, I put a link to an article at don'tletitgo.com. It's that officials in Puerto Rico have ordered the governor to, oh, and the aides also, not just the governor, but his aides to hand over phones amid some scandal. So there's been protests against the governor and it has something to do with the phones. Tell us what in the world is going on. So it's two things going on right now and they're being somewhat conflated, but two motivations for the demonstrations. Demonstration is a massive. We're talking about hundreds of thousands of people, over half a million people yesterday marched, they marched right outside my window after a lot of the highways or streets in San Juan were closed yesterday. So I was late for at least one meeting yesterday as a consequence and old San Juan is basically shut down. So even the tourist trade is hurting because cruise ships are not coming because of the demonstrations because the demonstrations in front of the governor's mansion, which is right in the heart of old city, old city in San Juan, the tourist area in San Juan. So two things happened about two weeks ago or two or three weeks ago, a number of former executives from this government, the Puerto Rican government, were arrested by the FBI for fraud. So they had assigned government contracts to friends and family kind of thing, to people in the know. So and in addition, the CEO of the largest accounting firm in town, the one that I was told I should use when I came here, luckily I didn't listen to anybody was arrested in the same fraud scandal. So there was all kinds of, so he was cooking the books to make I guess some of this possible. And the FBI came in and these were all former associates of the governor and the governor was on vacation in Spain at the time. So he rushed back and a few days. So there was a lot of stuff saying, well, if these are the people that governor hired is he fraudulent, you know, and everybody's known there's been fraud in Puerto Rico, but this is, these are real arrests and the FBI is not involved. So it's a big deal. And a lot of people arrested, not just these two officials, but the guy from the accounting firm and some other people. And then somebody released messages that the government had sent on a telegram. I don't know if you know what telegram is, but telegram is a texting application is the most encrypted texting application that's out there. Supposedly it cannot be broken into and governments cannot shut it down. So it's the favorite texting application of Russian dissidents, Chinese people overseas. So I am on telegram because I communicate with those people sometimes and that's the only way they'll communicate. They don't do email. So if you want to hide from the government. So he had, there was a group chat of government officials in Puerto Rico where the governor was on and they were chatting about different things. And it turns out the first few chat, first revelations. We was making homophobic racial comments, inappropriate comments about women, inappropriate comments about fat people. And then a week later, so that was just a few texts here and there. A week later, they published 850 pages of the governor, you know, making fun of all these people, making fun of some people in his own party, making fun of what's his name, the famous Puerto Rican singer who's Ricky, is it not Ricky Martin? I don't know, whatever. It's celebrities and just childish language now. The interesting thing is because it's telegram, it's not like somebody hacked this. It's one of the people in chat was saving them and then printed it all out and handed it to reporters. We don't know who it was, but it was somebody on the chat. Anyway, the island exploded. I mean, it was Ricky Martin. So Ricky Martin came out and said the governor needs to go and people in the streets said the governor needs to go and then they started rallying and then these massive protests. Now in the meantime, most of his cabinet has resigned. The number two, like the number two who would take over his position if he resigned has resigned. So there's actually nobody there to actually take the governor's position and there's nobody running the government right now because everybody's quit. There's a governor with no cabinet and no possibility of no knowledge of who would take over the governorship if he quit. And there are hundreds of thousands of people in the streets demanding that he resign. They're committed to doing this every single night, except Sundays. I guess Sundays, the Catholic over here, I think they're taking a day off, but every single day and Monday, yesterday was a holiday. They basically unilaterally, everybody went on strike. So no school, a lot of the restaurants closed, a lot of businesses closed and people just went into the streets to demonstrate against the governor. So there's basically a kind of a silent revolution to get rid of this idiot. I mean, I mean, he's an idiot, right? He says, these tweets are stupid. They're juvenile, somebody who tweets. Not tweets, message, yes, yes. The messages shouldn't be, well, I'm thinking of somebody else's tweets, which shouldn't be, and I was gonna say president, shouldn't be governor. There's only one guy in the world who can get away with saying these kind of things and gains voters, and that's Donald Trump. Nobody else can do it. You know, if you're gonna say homophobic, racist, anti-women, anti-fat, whatever, comments on, you know, don't pretend that you can be elected to office unless you're Donald Trump. And I don't think there is another Donald Trump out there, not yet. Thank God. So, you know, they're demanding he go and I think they're right and I think he should resign. Now, overlay that with the fraud, right? Overlay that with the corruption. Overlay that with the fact that the island has a rotten economic policy, has rotten, you know, is just devastating economy. It's been in recession for 10 years. And it's really bad. Now, I don't know what that means for me because I don't know if a new government is gonna be friendly towards people like me or not. I don't know if a new government is gonna move to the left or to the right or to the center. I don't know what's gonna happen. But this guy looks like he's toast unless he wants to hang on in spite of all this, but then there's basically anarchy in the streets. I mean, the cops literally right outside Alcando, it's the staging area because I live on the one road that goes into Old San Juan. So everybody goes into Old San Juan to where the demonstration now has to pass through here. So the cops have this massive staging area, right? You know, between the traffic over here. This is the first road that gets closed whenever there's a demonstration, whatever stuff is going on. So I'm right in the- That's what I was thinking. You know, that was my question to you yesterday and the message was, is this affecting you, these demonstrations? So- Yeah, I mean yesterday I was sitting here I could see and then at 11 o'clock last night, they decided to have a concert. I mean, this is the thing about Puerto Ricans. You gotta love Puerto Ricans. I mean, they're great people. You know, what the hell? Anything is an excuse for a party, right? You can't let up on an excuse for a party. So we want to impeach the governor, let's have a party. So last night at 11 o'clock, not far from where I live on the kind of on the side of the condo, on the ocean side of the lagoon side, we live on, we kind of see the lagoon. You have to come and visit Amy and see this, but we didn't sit on the lagoon- Before it all just goes to hell. I have to come- Gotta be a concert there. And they start, you know, they start blasting and there were probably about a thousand motorcycles and motorcyclists there. And there was a party going on and I'm trying to get to sleep. And I fell asleep on midnight, but somebody said they went on until 2 a.m., you know, a partying. And you know, this is Puerto Rico, but I give them credit for not standing up it. The people rising up and saying, enough's enough, this guy is a creep. This guy is probably corrupt. Politicians in Puerto Rico have always been corrupt. We want real change. The tragedy is, and this is the tragedy, is that they don't know what they want. They know what they don't want. Yes. But like everybody, they don't know what they want. And it's the same- Partiers, everything, yeah. Same with demonstrations everywhere. We don't want this, but what do we stand for? And the fear is that we get somebody worse than this governor as a consequence of it. So anyway, we'll see. It's kind of interesting being in the midst of it. Somebody says, am I running for governor? No, I mean, part of my big disadvantage for running for governor other than the ideas that I actually have, that's a huge disadvantage, is that I don't speak Spanish. I actually don't think Puerto Ricans would elect somebody who doesn't speak Spanish. I think if I spoke Spanish well enough to run a campaign, then the fact that I was American wouldn't hamper my ability to get elected, but my ideas would then. But the fact that I don't speak a word of Spanish, like three words or something, there's no way they're gonna elect me. But I have- I haven't had Revital teach you. Yeah, Revital could run, and I could. So Revital, my wife could- Oh no, I always say she could teach you, but yeah, she could run. I mean, my God, she would be better than the governor for sure, even though it's not her specialty, she would be still awesome. But I have thrown my hand in to advise any future governor who wants. Nobody's taking me seriously, as they never do. And anyway, that's what's going on Puerto Rico. It's quite amazing to see people who are willing to go out into the street and demonstrate for what they believe. And it's inspiring. This governor should resign and resign quickly. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual, would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning, any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims, or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of the stare, cynicism, and impotence, and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist.