 All right, Jason has a question. Put a lot of money behind it, so he gets first dibs. I would love to be Howard Rock, but I have a cushy-gummer job with a pension. What should I do? If we had more freedom, I would return to the private sector, but given how controlled business is today, it seems smarter to keep my secure-gummer job and watch the world burn. I don't know what to do with it. What am I gonna do with you, Jason? Let's hope you don't sit there and watch the world burn, partially by supporting the Iran Book Show. You are helping prevent the world from burning. But look, it's your values. You're gonna have to decide, right? Is the cushy-gummer job interesting? Stimulating? Does it push you? Does it engage you? Does it get your juices flowing? Or is it just eight, nine, 10 hours of just a job? Boring just gets done and you got the cushy pension, right? Now you only live once. I keep saying this, but I know I keep saying this and I know it's kind of cliche and boring, but it's true. Every day, you don't push yourself. Every day, you don't do something exciting. Every day, you don't do something interesting. Every day, you're bored. Every day, you're uninterested. Every day, you're just there. Is a day you never get back. And it's one day closer to being dead. So if you do your cushy job and it gives you money to go out and do exciting things after work and you've got a full life and you're doing great things afterwards, you've got a great hobby, whatever, right? Then fine, maybe that is the best outcome in the mixed horrible world in which we live. But you have to make that evaluation. I can't do it for you. You have to make that evaluation given your life, given your values, given what you do in life. My point is this, don't waste your life. Don't get to the point where you're 75 years old and you look back and you go, shit, what did I do? Ooh, did I swear? Sorry, what did I do? Where did it all go? What happened? You know, how did I get to be 75 and didn't do all the things I dreamt about doing? How did I get to be 75 and I didn't get to be Howard Walk when I really wanted to be Howard Walk? How did I get to be 75 and I didn't, you don't pursue my passions? Don't let that happen to you, whatever age you are now, don't let it happen to you. Live fully, completely, given the circumstances. Given the circumstances, I recognize you have to take the context into account. So I'm not saying leave your job tomorrow. Take everything into account and everything that's possible into account. And then make an evaluation of is this the best that could be doing in the world we live in today with my life? And you have to make that decision. I can just guide you in that's the perspective to take. And it's hard perspective to take because it's hard to take risks. It's hard to change. It's hard to imagine the future, a different future. But that's the job of thinking. That's what being rational means. That's what being independent means. It means the hard work involved in thinking about your life. That's what it means to be an egoist. That's what Iron Man's ethics boils down to about the hard work, thinking about how to live the best life you can live for you. Yep. Anyway, that's my advice. And my advice for everybody, not just for... And the pension, hopefully the pension, it's transportable. Hopefully you can get something out of it. Hopefully it's not just all lost. And if you're young, be aware of government jobs. Because they're very difficult to leave because they entice you and they seduce you and they... And right now the government is paying more than the private sector for some jobs. But be aware because you can get stuck in a job that is not passionate, that is not exciting, but very difficult to leave. 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 despair, cynicism, and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist, the world. All right, before we go on, reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now, 30 likes. That should be at least a hundred. I figure at least a hundred of you actually like the show. Maybe they're like 60 of the Matthews out there who hate it, but at least the people who are liking it, I wanna see a thumbs up, there you go. Start liking it, I wanna see that go to a hundred. All it takes is a click of a thing, whether you're looking at this. And you know the likes matter. It's not an issue of my ego. It's an issue of the algorithm. The more you like something, the more the algorithm likes it. 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