 Hey everybody, welcome and I hope you're having a great weekend. I have, I've often broadcast the show from lots of different places around the world. You've heard me from Europe, all over Europe, from Azerbaijan, from Baku, from Tbilisi, from Geneva, from all kinds of places around the world. And today I'm actually broadcasting to you from my new home. I have moved recently and I have moved to a new location and I'm actually broadcasting to you today from of all places, Puerto Rico. I have moved to Puerto Rico. I have left California and moved to Puerto Rico. It's beautiful and sunny and tropical. I can work from anywhere in the world. And I've chosen Puerto Rico because basically I get to stay a U.S. citizen. I get to pay Puerto Rican taxes which for Americans moving to Puerto Rico are very, very, very, very, very, very low. So I get to escape the ridiculous taxes that exist in California. I get to escape the ridiculous taxes that the federal government has imposed on us even after tax reform. Taxes are insanely high. And I get to live in a tropical country. Now granted, sometimes there's no electricity. So it's an adventure and it's kind of exciting. But yeah, we're broadcasting today from my new studio in Puerto Rico. I hope sound is good. I hope you guys are listening and everything's cool. We had a little bit of some challenges, sound challenges when we started out today. I think it's working okay. We will see as we go along. But cool, your Unbrook show from now on is going to be broadcast from Puerto Rico. Happy new year everybody. I mean, last time we broadcast it was literally the end of 2017. Now it's the beginning of 2018. And I want to do a couple of things on this show. I want to focus on two things. I want to do something. Actually, I got this idea from the Atlantic magazine that is doing something like this. I want to look back 50 years. I want to look back to 1968. I think gaining some historical perspective on where we are today is of enormous benefit. I think getting a sense of what life was like in America 50 years ago. And there are fewer and fewer of us still around who remember 50 years ago. I don't because I wasn't living in 1968. I was not in America. Where was I living in 1968? Wow. 1968 I was actually living in London, in the east side of London, in Hackney. For those of you who know anything about London. In those days, a very, very lower working class area within London. I actually had, again for those of you who know a little bit about accents, I had a Cockney accent in those days. I spoke Cockney. I have some way I have tapes of me speaking Cockney. I should probably put it up on YouTube. I'll probably get a lot of hits on that. And, but I wasn't in the U.S. and I was only seven years old. But 50 years ago, 1968 was a really, really important year for the United States. I think it was a, historically, one of the most significant years in American history. Not for the good. Not for the good, by the way. I think the country took a turn in 1968 away from sanity. It was building throughout the 60s, 68 and 69, what particularly bad years for everything American. And we'll talk about why and we'll talk about it. So I think it's a good, it's a good time as we start 2018 to look back 50 years to 1968 to that turbulent year and get some perspective on where we are today. Get some perspective on life in America in 2018. And maybe even tease out some of the causes for why life is the way it is today in 2018. What can we learn from 1968 to explain some of what is going on today in 2018? And I also want to use today's show to look a little bit into the future. Okay, what can we expect from this year? What can we expect from our economy? What can we expect from our politics? What can we expect from our foreign policy? What can we expect from Donald Trump? To the extent that it is sane to make any kind of predictions, I will try. I will be careful not to make too many and too broader predictions because I know, I know how dangerous that is, predicting the future is for fools for the most part. But we will try to do the best that we can. So again, happy new year. It's kind of exciting to be starting a new year last year was a pretty nutty year. I talked about that last week. I think hopefully 2018 is going to bring a bit more sanity, although I expect probably not. What was going on in the United States in 1968? What was going on in the United States? What kind of a world were we living in in 1968? And how much of what happened in 1968 echoes or predicts or reflects what we're living through today? And I think much of it does. I think much of it does and we're going to talk about that. But let's just give you a quick timeline of big stories, big stories in 1968. Just to give you a sense of, in many respects, other than maybe the Civil War and maybe there are other periods in American history, but at least in modern American history, maybe the most chaotic, crazy, nutty, dangerous year in American history. Started out the year in January of 1968 with the Tet Offensive during the war in Vietnam. So, 1968 reflects the escalation of the war in Vietnam, a war. I think people at the time had no clue why we were fighting. And as we progressed into the early 1970s, more and more and more people came to question and doubt. And ultimately, you have to admit, we surrendered that war, lost that war, retreated from that war and gave it up, but not before thousands and thousands and thousands of American died in that war, tens of thousands, actually. In March of 16, the Lai Massacre, where American troops massacred hundreds of Vietnamese civilians. This was disclosed only a year later, but this is the intensification of that war and that war becoming central to American politics. Because in March 31 of 1968, LBJ, a president who got much of his agenda passed, I think as a consequence of the fact that JFK had been assassinated, massive agenda, the war on poverty, the civil rights bills, so much of what he was seeking, actually he got passed. He announces in March 31 of that year that he will not seek re-election, which suggested that the war in Vietnam was becoming central and that he was unpopular because of the war in Vietnam. Nixon wins the election that year, promising to get us out of Vietnam. Of course, it takes him a long time to fulfill that promise, but that was a big basis for which he got elected. Notice that it's the Democrats who got us into the war, the Democrats that wanted to continue to fight the war, and the Republican who suggested getting out of that war and got elected based on that, didn't actually do it and did it very badly, but yeah, we got out of the war in the end. April 4, Martin Luther King is assassinated, 1968, April 4. Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in a motel and he had riots in 100 different cities that last several days, so race riots all across the United States. So the largest riots take place in Washington, D.C. and Chicago. April 11, to some extent, inspired or motivated is a better word by the assassination. You get the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which has all kinds of stuff about fair housing and all kinds of restrictions on the ability to discriminate in housing policy. Later in April, you get substantial protests, riots in Columbia University, in an Ivy League University, in a major university in the United States. Now you've got, before it had, you know, in the early 60s, started in Berkeley, spread across the United States and the riots, the student riots on the university, which I think play a huge role in this era actually reach Columbia. Ultimately, student protesters are forcibly and violently removed by the New York Police Department. These protests receive nationwide, nationwide appeal. Again, we're looking in 1968 to see if we can learn something from 1968, about 2018 and partially to get a little perspective. Everybody is so down on the world in which we live today. Sometimes looking back in history and looking and seeing that things were even nuttier maybe 50 years ago is a good exercise, good exercise. On June of that year, Robert F. Kennedy, the leading nominee of the Democratic Party for President, probably would have beaten, probably would have beaten Nixon, is assassinated on live television. Television plays a huge role because before 68, television was not that popular in the sense that, not that popular, it was a new technology, it hadn't been adopted. But by 1868, most households had television and it was broadcasting all of this. In August of that year, you have massive demonstrations and riots and chaos and police beating up demonstrators at the Democratic National Convention. Massive demonstrations and riots, tear gas, all filmed, by the way, live on American television. It's again, perspective, perspective is as bad as some people might have thought that the National Conventions were last year, nothing is compared to 1968. And then this one's kind of funny, right? September 7th, 1968, it's kind of funny given all the talk and giving Donald Trump and everything else. Massive, a big protest, over 100 women protest, Miss America Pageant, the Miss America Pageant, which was dominated by Donald Trump or run by Donald Trump later on, you know, in the 2000s, is kind of the beginning of a new wave of feminism. The demonstration is viewed as that. And then on November 5th, Richard Nixon wins the presidency, right? The Republican wins the presidency as a kind of a backlash against all of kind of the liberal agenda, the war, what's going on in campuses. And this is the first use of the term, of the term, the silent majority, the silent majority of Americans vote in Richard Nixon in spite of the elites supporting the Democratic nominee. All right, that's a quick outline. Let's tease that out a little bit and find some parallels and find some causal relationships. When we come back, we're going to take a quick break, the listening to your Ron Brook show on the Blaze radio network. We'll be back after this. You're on. Alright, happy New Year everybody and we're back and we're talking about 1968, 50 years ago exactly and you know a lot has happened since then and a lot has kind of stayed the same or maybe not so much stayed the same as circled back in a sense that I think we moved away from 1968 and in some respects I see a lot of similarities between what was going on in 1968 and today we've still got a war going on we don't have quite the troops committed we're not taking the casualties certainly thousands of kids dying a year in Vietnam I mean there's nothing like that today and much of why I think we don't fight wars in any kind of intense way anymore is maybe because of the lessons of Vietnam we're not willing to take those kinds of casualties that's part of the backlash away from what happened during the Vietnam War but we're in a war we're in a war we're in a war all over the Middle East you know the other side the people who are attacking us the people who want to kill Americans at every opportunity they know we're at war we just haven't figured out and it's a it's a it's a war like on a low flame kind of thing it's not like Vietnam where they did nothing to us they were not interfering in American anyway they weren't killing Americans we should have never entered that war it wasn't our war we had no business being in Vietnam you know we had no business trying to slow down the spread of communism communism wasn't coming to America I mean other than if you count what's been happening in America the last 50 years but communism wasn't a threat a military threat to America what the hell are we doing in Vietnam now we're raging a war where they came to America they blew us up and they're seeking out Americans all over the world and trying to blow them up they're engaging and trying to kill us but we don't care we don't care partially because they're not that smart and they're not that successful that is at the big picture very very very few Americans are dying in the hands of Islamists the jihadis the jihadis are just not that sophisticated they're not very smart they're not very they don't have big weapons you know the Iranians don't have a nuke yet and and they're just not that you know they're not that smart terrorists are not that smart they're just they're just not that able so they pulled off a very sophisticated attack on 9-11 an attack which could have been easily thwarted if the CIA and the FBI had been talking to one another or if Bill Clinton had gone after Osama bin Laden when he had the opportunity or if George Bush had gone after bin Laden when he had the opportunity if if they'd acted just semi in American self-interest that would have been thwarted but they didn't so that was a sophisticated attack and they really haven't been able to attack us since in any kind of sophisticated way what you get since are these one-off one-off attacks against the United States these lone wolf attacks nothing very sophisticated nothing with mass casualties tragic horrible disgusting worthy of defending ourselves against but not something you know that is upsetting Americans so much as they they I don't know they would stop going shopping or volunteer to serve in the military or actually advocate for military response actually to defend us now it's like a it's like a mosquito bite rather than rather than anything more dramatic than that and therefore nothing really much has happened you know we've been appeasing the people who actually do this in place like Saudi Arabia in Pakistan President Obama to his credit not President Obama man President Trump to his credit but just a little bit of credit has just cut a little bit of the funding we're giving the Pakistanis we've been giving them billions of dollars over the last since 2001 what is it 17 years 16 years billions of dollars to one of the places where which is training training grounds of of terrorists one of the places they harbored being London for years and years and years and don't give me that they didn't know where being London was of course Pakistani intelligence knew where he was they were helping hide him and yet we still gave the money Bush gave the money Obama gave the money now Trump is cut off some of the money and some of the rhetoric is pretty good about they have to shape up but nothing really was done about it right not nothing substantial we will see what happens let me let me be skeptical we will see if this is sustainable we will see that we cut the real mass amount of support that we give Pakistan we shouldn't be giving them a dime it's very simple we shouldn't be giving them a dime they are harbours of terrorists they are supporters of terrorism the military and intelligence support al-Qaeda and have supported and supports the Taliban and and a supporting ISIS in Afghanistan this is not a regime that should be supported at all at all all right anyway so we're fighting a war we're not we're kind of fighting a war we're kind of not fighting a war we're pretending to fight a war not fighting a war but I would I would cut off immediately all ties take away the ambassador stop funding everything from countries that are that are supporting those who would destroy America that's real America first again I'm gonna contrast my farm policy with with Trump's I am the real America first guy right no embassy in Pakistan no support no money zero not cut 300 billion but zero nothing we're still giving in the much you know hundreds of billions but we're cut 300 just like I said the other day out of the United Nations no presence in the United Nations no money to the United Nations we should not be supporting organizations or countries that are dedicated in any way to the destruction of the United States period it's very simple very simple right this should be a real America first strategy Donald Trump strategy is sometimes a little bit when he feels like it America first ish America first ish not America first but first ish why why are we still giving money to Pakistan why are we in the United Nations I mean Nikki Haley seems pretty good I'm kind of impressed by Nikki Haley why she in the United Nations what a waste what a waste and why we sanctioning this evil organization by having such a talented woman there who's every time she speaks sanctions the existence of an immoral organization of an organization that should not exist or somebody's asking why does the US support these countries at the moment what is the reason well because the idea is that you can buy people's love this is an idea about Democrats and Republicans adhere to this is an idea by the way the General Mathis and Petrae support it's the idea that if you give people money then they're less likely to fight you that they're more inclined to listen to you that they're more inclined to change and to shift now Pakistan is an important country Pakistan is important because it is a Muslim country with nuclear weapons it is the only Muslim country in the world with nuclear weapons and a lot of them not just a few a lot now they developed them particularly in response to the Indians to the to what they perceive as a threat from the country of India but they have nukes it's a Muslim country they could export those nukes to Iran Saudi Arabia any of those people if they chose to they could give it to a terrorist organization and the idea is if we pay them money that appeases them that quines them that that prevents them from doing really really bad things but that's never worked in history appeasing your enemy doesn't work it never has giving money to the people who are trying to kill you doesn't work ask George Bush Mathis and Petraeus who gave suitcases full of cash to Sunni tribal leaders during the surge to stop the insurgency it stopped the insurgency but then just a few years later it created ISIS ISIS was funded by the Bush administration 30 by our generals who believe that if you give money to the enemy that'll make them love you that'll make them your friend pony all right when we come back we're gonna continue drawing power those were 68 I went after they're on a tangent a little bit but we'll keep doing tangents and but but we have to take a hard break here you're listening to Iran book show under blaze radio network you're listening to the Iran book show all right we're back you're listening to the Iran book show we're taking on 1968 50 years ago and we're gonna talk about 2018 what's expected 2018 I know Mike Mike from Pennsylvania is called in I'm gonna I'm gonna keep you on hold for a while buddy because your off topic the off topic segment of the show is the last portion of the second hour so if you want to stay online until then that's fine but but I want to I want to stick to talk I want to try to stick to topic for a while and by the way you can call in if you have thoughts of 1968 if you remember 1968 oh if you having concerns about 2018 and what what's in our future if you want to discuss any of that you can call in 1-888-900-3393 1-888-900-3393 so one thing we can draw from the discussion about Vietnam and the discussion about the war that we engage in today is that America first foreign policy we haven't had that in the last 50 years the one Vietnam was a stupid war of self-sacrifice the war engaged in today is not focused truly on American interest it's again a war of self-sacrifice we're sacrificing ourselves for what who knows at least in Vietnam we were supposedly sacrificing ourselves to combat communism in the globe how did that work out South Vietnam became communist less than a year after we withdrew after sorry after we signed a peace deal right Kissinger by the way got a Nobel Prize for the South North Vietnamese peace deal which the North Vietnamese broke as soon as he got the prize invaded South Vietnam and took it over and communism continued to expand globally during the 1970s Vietnam was just a waste tens of thousands of American kids died for absolutely zero nothing nothing because our politicians did not put an America first truly an American first not a Donald Trump American first farm policy together and we still don't have we still don't have an American first farm policy why don't we have it we don't have it because an American first farm policy would be self-interested we were declared to the world that the only thing we care about American interests and the fact is that even a politically incorrect president like Donald Trump cannot do that because at the end of the day even Donald Trump is too conventional to do that even Donald Trump right lobbed those bombs into Syria when I don't know when chemical weapons were used and women and children were being killed and oh my god right was America first about that nothing zilt zero even he not even he is manipulated by the common idea that farm policy just like everything in life which is just the traditional way in which we're raised should be guided by self-sacrifice a true America first farm policy whether it's applied to Vietnam or whether it's applied to the world today would require that we have a willingness a moral understanding of self-interest or rational self-interest why rational self-interest is the appropriate way to live one's life only when we have a culture that is willing to accept willing to embrace self-interest and denounce and reject the idea of self-sacrifice the idea of living for others and sacrificing for others can we have a rational farm policy that gets us out of the United Nations it gets us out of funding Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and a million other countries that were funding gets us out of having troops all over the world fighting for other people's causes why are guys dying in Niger why are our guys dying in God forsaken places on this planet there's no American interest at stake there's no self-interest at stake but then again nothing's changed as it said from 1968 just the numbers in 1968 thousands and thousands were of American youth were dying in the jungles of Vietnam for what for nothing for the sake of I don't know South South Vietnamese democracy really that's what we were dying for sacrifice self-sacrifice that was the guide for Vietnam and it's still the guide about farm policy today it still dominates once in a while Donald Trump does something not out of any principle who knows why because he's got you know some of his advice is a half decent but if it was principle he would be more all-encompassing it would be more substantial but once in a while like you'll cut away a little bit of support from Pakistan but not all support not all countries that advocate that that are that are fighting against us actively inspiring terrorists against us no just some and a little bit you know that's that's a that's a pragmatist who promised America firstly is floating with a little self-interest but can't actually do it can't actually do it and of course he cannot do it he cannot do it all right I've already articulated what I what a proper proper farm policy of self-interest I indicated a little bit about what that would look like what it would have looked like in 68 what it would look like today but I but I what I would recommend is a couple of books that articulate the full case of a farm policy of self-interest oh looks like looks like my caller gave up on on waiting on waiting this out but all right the first book is winning an unwinnable war but Ilan Joe know I've got a few essays I've got a few essays in there as well and it's it's a book specifically about the war on on on the jihadis on the ideology and the the manifestation of that ideology in all these terrorist groups and the countries that fund and support them we articulate what an America first true farm policy would look like with regard to that war and the second one is Peter Schwartz's book which is which is basically about self-interest in farm policy and a farm policy of self-interest it's called a moral ideal for America it's exactly right that's what we need it's what we don't have it's what you know Donald Trump is a pale pale pale attempt at no well it's not an attempt at anything but he uses the language of it right America first with nothing of the action nothing of the understanding nothing of the principles that would lead to a real farm policy of self-interest a true America first farm policy so I encourage you pick up Peter Schwartz's book it's on Amazon farm policy of self-interest and and Ilan Joe knows book winning an unwinnable war two books that really are to create that particular case on farm policy okay so that's kind of my argument about nothing much has changed in terms of vis-a-vis farm policy from 1968 but there's a lot more there's a lot more about that because if you look at it what's going on in the universities what's been going on in the universities if you look at the election of Donald Trump the motivation some of the motivation behind that kind of the backlash against the wacky left is a lot of that in 1968 but we're gonna take a quick break here when we come back I want to talk about the universities and I want to talk about the elections 68 and today I want to talk about I want to talk a little bit about crime because again Donald Trump made such a big deal about crime I want to talk about crime and yeah well a lot to talk about all right we'll be right back you're listening to your own book show on on the blaze radio network we're back right after this all right you're listening to your own book and we are on the blaze radio network and we've got actually Otis on the line Otis wants to talk about oil prices I don't know if that's related to the farm policy question but go ahead Otis yeah actually calling in from the UK all right cool yeah hello yes I can hear you yeah I was I was listening to you a couple of minutes earlier you mentioned that we can ask questions about 2018 prediction so the oil prices yeah I was actually watching an economist on YouTube I'm not sure if that's a valid place to be getting information but he mentioned that oil prices at oil prices are currently very low a bit too low compared to what the data shows is going to be produced from shale oil from America so he expects it because it's going to be an astronomical or at least a significant increase in oil prices for 2018 I just wanted to confirm from your from your understanding of how much your research if this is true or this is false now was this Peter Schiff did you were you listening to Peter Schiff no it was Chris Madsen okay I don't know Chris Madsen um no I don't know I don't I don't think oil prices are too low I don't know what that means there is a market in oil there's a market in oil and there is supply and demand and yeah shale the fact that we can produce so much oil with the use of a fracking technology has increased the supply of oil dramatically which has basically led to a reduction in price now what could happen in the next coming year is if the economy the global economy is doing fairly well particularly developing countries their economies have picked up Europe is one to admit those into our United States will support our country whoops has done the United States has done okay economically and the consequence of this increased economic activity is an increased demand for oil she's seeing a slight increase in demand which might put pressure on all prices to go up but I think I think supply will match it I think there's no there's no question there's plenty of supply as the sanctions on Iran are lifted there'll be more supply coming in from Iran there'll be more oil coming in from from the country of Iran as some of their oil fields in Iraq have been taken away from ISIS and now in the hands of the Iraqi government you'll see an increase in supply of oil from from Iraq so I just don't see the dynamics by which all prices take off the only the only question is is if inflation picks up this coming year and if inflation price inflation if we finally get all that money that is being printed and circulated well it's been printed hasn't been circulated that much if that causes price inflation and drives up the price of oil as a consequence of just the printing of so much but I don't really see that in 2018 as a big spike in all prices but then again I'm not an expert on all prices it just strikes me as demand is high so that would tend to increase prices of oil but supply is healthy and plentiful fracking is going strong I just don't see the dynamic that would limit the supply and then we just heard one of the one of the again better things that Donald Trump is doing we just heard that they're gonna allow oil drilling off the coast of pretty much the entire United States anywhere now that'll take years before it's actually implemented but that is a positive sign in terms of the lowering the price of oil because we expect that way in the future there'll be more oil and you know people will will hurry up and dig up the oil in the meantime so I don't see the dynamic of unless these economy takes off the global economy takes off and is massive demand that outstrips the supply of oil I just don't see any of the economies taking off in that way I just don't see it okay thank you for the answer sure pleasure thanks for calling in Otis I appreciate it yeah and anybody else wants meaningless predictions from me about the stock market or about the economy about anything like us like that I'm happy to give predictions I'm not sure how much I'll be able to live up to them but but we can I'm sure you'll call me on them if if if I don't you know the price of oil right now is high enough so that the oil-based economies in the Middle East and in Canada are not suffering too badly as a kind of sequence in other countries that are dependent but they're not also booming like they were during the $100 a barrel days of oil and and I think I think you can expect that to sustain itself now again a wall would change that a massive terrorist attack would change that anything that increases global instability that creates question marks in terms of the supply of oil in the future would place that all into questions so that's the best that I can do in terms of an answer all right if you want to ask about predictions for 2018 any more predictions for 2018 you can call in 888-900-3393-888-900-3393 so I want to I want to shift away from foreign policy although if you want to call in with the question about foreign policy I will take it but I want to shift away from that topic and I want to I want to get back to this comparison of 68 to today and I'd say from 68 to today very little has changed on principle in terms of our foreign policy if anything we are much weaker today than we were in 68 and 68 we willing to bomb people we willing to actually deploy massive numbers of troops to try to win not kind of half-heartedly today we don't even pretend we don't kill anybody we don't want to kill anybody we try to avoid casualties if our people die that's okay as long as the enemy people don't die we don't deploy troops we we stay away so there's a there's a in a sense in which the self-sacrifice has gotten worse if the last war we won the last war of self-interest was World War two then ever since then we've had less and less and less and less and less self-interest more and more and more self-sacrifice and that's where we are today we have a self-sacrificial foreign policy and Donald Trump has not done anything substantial yet to change that at all all right let's let's look at some other aspect of 1968 the student rebellion now the student rebellion in the 1960s dominated the 1960s it was a major major feature of the decade it was it was from 1964 from the Berkeley riots in 1964 through Woodstock in 1969 through the anti-war demonstrations into the beginning of the 1970s it was dominated by the hippies by the anti-war demonstrations by the student revolt by a counterculture that you know just you know wrecked havoc on American academia and American institutions in 1968 the student protest at Columbia University were major national news and you know really shook people up the extent to which the students were willing to violate property rights and just occupy university buildings and then the extent to which the police were willing to use violence in order to remove them but this is also an era in which there was a lot of a lot of demonstrations now people today think that this was the era of free speech this is the you know the era in which students demanded free speech and got free speech on campuses no no I mean this was not that at all quite the opposite here's here's an article granted by a conservative from the era from the period it was written in 1969 about what was going on in campuses and see if this doesn't sound like today the right of unpopular political figures to speak without disruption of campuses was being violated that is if you were this I'm not quoting if you are an unpopular political figure people would demonstrate and prohibit you from speaking on campus that sounds like today the right of professors to give courses and lectures without disruption that makes it impossible for others to listen or to engage in over discussion that was being threatened and being attacked in 1968 sounds a lot like today the right of professors to engage in research that they have freely chosen again sounds like today that you don't have that right this is all the stuff that the student movement this the so-called free so-called free speech movement was questioning the right of government and corporations to come into campus to give information to recruit personnel that was not being allowed the right of students to prepare themselves as officers on the campus that's ROTC were banned from university campuses you had those crises here today today they're just banned so you don't hear about it so all of these things were being attacked in 1968 two minutes and yeah they're being attacked again today we're seeing exactly the same thing on American campuses today as we saw back then even more intensely in the name today of what is called identity politics what is called tribalism in another word but the hippies of 1960s became the professors of the 70s 80s 90s and 2000s trained a new generation that is even more radical and nuts radicals a bad word even more nuts than the 60s that now is attacking free speech now from the perspective of just going after the establishment but from the perspective of going after the establishment and proposing to replace it with a racist ideology of identity politics but it was amazing to me when I heard this article how similar it was how similar the concerns of intellectuals were in the 1960s to the to the concerns of the intellectuals today it's just today much much worse what the left is advocating for is much much worse and what's interesting is that nothing has gotten better in in in that sense in academia in it's gotten a lot worse over the last 50 years and if you project out another 50 years it becomes really really really scary then all right you're listening to your own book show we're here on the blaze radio network this is the end of the first hour we'll be back for the second hour right after these messages welcome to a discussion of radical fundamental principles of freedom rational self-interest lays a bare capitalism and individual rights the you're on brook show starts now we're right we're back and today we're kind of previewing 2018 by looking back at 1968 a little bit of compare and contrast what has changed what is the same and trying to predict a little bit about what's gonna happen in 2018 we'll see how much of prediction we actually get to we're still we're still doing a lot of this comparison if you want to help me make predictions for 2018 888-900-3393-888-900-3393 and yeah that would be that would be great if we if you could help me with the predictions all right so one of the things that strikes me when I when I was reading all the events of 1968 is how bad things were back then I mean yeah campuses were bad campuses are bad today the war was much worse than than anything we're experienced today just in terms of the casualties the number of people we had a draft can you imagine if you're young listening out there we had a draft wait where you had to go into the army whether you wanted to or not you got shipped overseas to die in a jungle for for for an award that nobody could explain to you why we were engaged in political leaders major political leaders were being assassinated from JFK to 1968 you get Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy Robert Kennedy the the the the guy who is leading the Democratic field going into the going into the 1968 election possibly could have become the president of the United States was assassinated we haven't had a president assassinated since JFK for over 50 years we haven't really had an attempt where somebody actually pulled it off since I think the assassination attempt on President Reagan there was real chaos there was real demonstrations and then you know I looked up crime statistics now what's interesting about crime and this is in the whole context of one of my goals in life I guess is to debunk this idea that Donald Trump presented to the American people that were living in an age of carnage in the streets of America it just really ticked me off when he did that and and it I hated hated hated I find it despicable when politicians create an environment of fear in order to convince people to vote for them that is so authoritarian that is so the methodology of every fascist I didn't call Donald Trump a fascist but every fascist in history you know cause people to really really be afraid and then I'm the solution law and order what law and order what we talking about so in 1968 was before crime really spiked in America from 1968 till 1991 crime went up almost every single year at an alarming rate from 1960 sometime in the mid-60s all the way to 1991 since 68 was not anywhere near the peak in terms of crime during that period here's some statistics okay in 1968 or 199 million people in America and 13,800 murders were committed I'm just using murders as a proxy but you can take other kinds of crime as well particularly things like auto theft auto theft the examples are even more dramatic and boogaloo even more dramatic but 999 million 13,800 murders which is about 69 murders for every hundred thousand people I think I did the math right there 1991 they were ready 250 million people but murders had almost doubled to 24,700 to the rate of almost a hundred per hundred thousand people so 98 murders per hundred thousand in 2016 and I think 2017 is even better than this the 2017 numbers even lower but 2016 we had 323 million people in the United States 17,250 murders were committed still too many but that is only 53 for a hundred thousand in other words per capita 2016 was much safer much safer than 1968 indeed 2016 is about a safe in terms of murder including terrorist activity and turning all the terrorists to stuff right in terms of murder was about the same as 1960 which is one of the lowest ever right one of the lowest ever so carnage in the streets really we're actually so in terms of crime things are much better today than the one 1968 68 so real problems on campuses very much resembling what we're seeing today on campuses with old demonstrations against Ben Shapiro and Milo and all all the stuff going on in campuses professors not being allowed to teach back then professors today not being allowed to teach it's just today the students are even more radical than they were back there radicals of bad wood they were more they were they're more nutty they're more crazy they're more lefty they're more subjectivist they're more detached from reality and actually and their ideology today post-modernism is more entrenched the lack of belief in reality and reason and that of course comes from the ideology that they had back then they were they were nihilist then and then nihilist now and somehow something happened so that between 1968 and today or let's say between sometime in the 70s and sometime in during the Obama administration we had I don't know relative sanity it wasn't crazy it wasn't nuts and then we're back to nuttiness and and that's kind of interesting because things calm down at the universities starting in the mid 70s so once the Vietnam War ended things calm down partially because I think the students who were demonstrating in the 60s a number of things happen to them some of them got jobs at those universities and now they got to teach now they got to be the establishment now they got to train future generations in the in the in the crap that they were arguing for in the in the horrible ideas that they believed in right and then some others got jobs and suddenly realized oh wait a minute life is not the way you know my I pretended it was that the Marxist nonsense my my professors were teaching me is wrong and they actually you know they became normal I guess middle of the road Americans so something happened but then as these professors were teaching more and more and more crazy leftist stuff more and more and more anti-wheez and anti-capitalism it's got worse over the decades then now it has exploded erupted in a new student movement if you will of the left now I'm a little optimistic about about the backlash to that and I also think by the way in American culture there was a huge backlash against this and this is this brings me to the election of 1968 I think one of the reasons that Richard Nixon won that election is a backlash a backlash to the craziness on the left I think people said wait a minute the stuff on the universities this is nuts and this is the same people who are pushing you know Truman and pushing Humphrey I mean it's the same party and this is the Democratic Party that had these massive demonstrations outside not demonstrations saying that the Democratic Party was too conservative was too liberal it was too leftist it liberals a good word I hate to give it to the left but that they're too conservative so that the the real force the real energy in the Democratic Party was on the extreme left and I think that parallels today I think to a large extent Donald Trump was elected as a backlash to kind of years in which it the feeling was and I think the reality was that the left had become nuttier and nuttier and nuttier less that less connected to reality more and more statist and more and more anti-American I think the Obama administration to a large extent money manifested this and cultivated this that on universities the professors were becoming crazier and crazier and crazier and at the left was winning the so-called cultural battles and all these fields and as a consequence life was getting horrific and there's needed to be a backlash in Donald Trump is the backlash now I think Donald Trump is a lot worse for America than Richard Nixon and Richard Nixon was really bad really bad but it makes sense the left is worse and the response to the left is worse the response the left is not a response to not a response towards capitalism towards individualism towards freedom but a response to a different form of collectivism a different form of emotionalism a different form of the prevalent problem and I'll get to the prevalent problem when we come back we're gonna take a quick break when we come back we'll take a call from Russell in Virginia although it might take me a little while Russell so please be patient and because I want to talk about the underlying causes here and and we'll talk about what is what drives left and right today in America and what drove left to some extent right in America back in 60 but I think we've gotten a lot worse in this respect you're listening to your own book show will be right back all right you're listening to your own book show and we're looking at 2018 a little bit through the prison of 1968 50 years ago exactly and I think we'll be returning to 1968 often this year because so much happened that year that's meaningful and important but it's interesting this student movement on campuses is really interesting it's interesting because of how much it parallels the world in which we live in today and you know here's an example another example so the argument provided by the students marching demonstrating rioting on campuses in America 1968 was that the country was ruled and I'm quoting this article the country was ruled article written in the 60s the country was ruled by a cool and selfish oligarchy devoted to the extension of the power and privileges of the few and denying liberty and even life to many to the many and to further assertion that the university was an integral part of this evil system now note that this is the argument made today both by the radical by the by the nutty left and by the people who elected Donald Trump right it's the establishment it's the intellectuals it's the 1% it's the people who control everything they're controlling things for themselves we're all being exploited and we got to do something about it we got to elect this outsider to drain the swamp but the swamp was identified in 1968 and it's still you know they talked about it in the same terms and of course they misidentified the problem then and then misidentifying the problem now a misidentified a problem on the left and they misidentified the problem on the right because the problem isn't I don't know power and privilege and rich in the 1% the problem is statism the problem is collectivism the problem is unlimited government the problem is government that has the power to do anything that has unlimited power and reigning in government reducing the power of government reducing the influence of government nobody talks about that nobody really talks about that again that would be self-interested nobody's talking about you know reigning in the welfare state reigning in entitlements reigning in the regulatory state a little bit again that the fringes here and there sporadically from the Trump administration but nothing systematic nothing principle in the name of capitalism limited government in the founding principles of this country nobody talks about that nobody talked about in 68 Nixon wasn't the solution Nixon was just a backlash and then he embraced the swamp just like Donald Trump to a large extent embraces the swamp what I what strikes me is so common between 68 and today and maybe a winner maybe it's always been there maybe it's there every year in the middle but maybe maybe went away or maybe I don't know it manifests itself differently was the nineteen the 1960s are basically the first time in which as I ran made the certification I ran during this era during this period wrote some of her amazing essays just amazing essays that I highly recommend they're in the virtue of selfishness and they're in capitalism I know an ideal and it's on the newsletter she published but amazing amazing essays about the student rebellion and about the culture of the 1960s and about the politics of the 1960s and she was spot on spot on and fundamentally she recognized that the conflict going on in the culture was a conflict between emotion and reason what do you elevate what do you see as important what do you cultivate emotions are the hippies of Woodstock the hippies of the student movement and demonstrations and just emoting and also I would say the emotion of of just a you know a backlash to anything you know when blaming the the 1% but just an error of you know the idea was free love now I'm a big proponent of aspects of the sexual revolution but the idea of free love of sex with anybody again all emotionalism all instant gratification no reason no rational thought no planning no long-term thinking and vision contrasted and I ran contrasted this with the Apollo launching with represented reason and technology and and and the freeing of the human mind and therefore capitalism the idea that man's mind left free could produce amazing things and in Apollo landing it's it's an example of the government doing something amazing right and she wasn't for the government funding the Apollo project but you still had to admire the Apollo project in what it represented and the technology companies at the time and the businessman at the time producing creating building making stuff and you look around today and you see the same conflict you see the same conflict basically between emotion and reason with if anything today I think emotion being even more dominant than it was back in the 1960s because you could say at least in the 60s I think to some extent that middle America most of America was on that kind of on the reason side not explicitly not consistently not fully but it wasn't driven by emotion it was driven by trying to live a good life and trying to think things through and valuing reason and part of that I mean and identifies part of the response to Apollo 11 enthusiasm around it was that the reason side was being awakened or or be manifesting itself not awakened but that a vast numbers of Americans rejected the emotionalism of the students the emotionalism of the demonstrations the violence all around them and and and as a backlash to all that voted for Richard Nixon who while not a very good candidate was not an it was not exactly an emotionalist I mean he appealed to reason even if he was wrong about most things versus today the left is still as an emotionalist actually much more emotionalist than it was back then driven by emotion through and through the right has become driven by emotion as well so that this time the candidate as the backlash against the left was not a Richard Nixon as bad as he was but a candidate who exuded emotion there was all about emotion that manifested emotion that expressed only emotion there was the anti-intellectual anti-cognition anti-thinking anti-rational anti-reason candidate of the right and that's what you had left you had emotion on left emotion on right and in that sense what has been what 50 years post 68 what we're seeing is that the emotionalism that characterized the 68 among if you will the fringe left is now everywhere in this country it's now dominant and the and the the space for reason and rationality has shrunk and the only place for that reason or rationality in my view today is in technology it's in Silicon Valley I know many of you hate Silicon Valley because there's such a leftist but the fact is that that is where reason still holds it's in some parts of business that have not become 100% crony so not G not Boeing that's where the elements of reason still hold on but more and more and more of our culture is dominated by raw brute emotion and therefore we will see more and more and more of that you know dominated ultimately through more and more force more and more courage and more and more violence because that's where emotion has to lead there's no other place for it to lead so you know we still latch on to our respect for technology far respect for science far respect for business it's what saves America it's the it's our saving grace is that we still admire those things but less and less so less and less so as so many people here even a temp upon to criticize Silicon Valley oh without showing the kind of aspect that they deserve for their productive genius for their innovative genius for the for the fact that they've increased our standard of living okay one other thing I want to I want to say about the last 50 years and that is and this goes off of this emotionalism emotionalism point this is this is that is that the left is one or is winning it doesn't matter who gets elected the left is winning the left is winning across the board we are we are more and more of a status country in terms of in terms of economics the status the gender with regard to I don't know on the way that sorry the leftist agenda where it's a better agenda in terms of let's say women in terms of glass ceilings in terms of gays they've won that they've won that it's good that they've won that but they've won that in terms of abortion they won that it's good that they won that but they won that so we become a more emotional society which is what the left was really pushing for the right has become emotional around you know Donald Trump but also around religion become more and more and more religious I'd say Americans are more religious today as a cultural phenomena religion is more of a cultural phenomena today in America than it was in 1968 and that leads to more emotionalism less respect for reason so one of the things that strikes me is the extent to which the left is one and the only thing the only positive I would say 30 which is pretty amazing and I don't have a complete explanation for this is how good life is in spite of all that standard of living is higher great technology we got supercomputers in our pockets life is pretty good in spite of the left-winning so many of these battles and culture and being so much worse all right we'll be right back after break you're listening to your own book show on the blaze radio network you're listening to the Iran Brooks show on the blaze radio network so I think we can see we can say that during the 1960s 1968 call it 68 call it you know beginning of the 1970s both the old left and the old right died I ran has a famous talk that she gave and it's also an essay and I think it's capitalism under an ideal called conservatism and a bituary to an idea where she declares conservatism is dead the good conservatism the conservatism that believed in the founding principles of the country the conservatism that believed in free markets and individual rights she declared is dead the conservatives had become motivated by religion and by utilitarian arguments about the benefits of capitalism but had adopted basically statism and the welfare state as they won't and we're not true defenders of the founders and not true defenders of the founding of the founding principles of this country and at the same time the old left died the socialist Marxist old left and I would argue and I have that the people today on campuses and the people in the late 1960s and campuses were not Marxist and socialists they had studied Marxism and socialism and found them lacking they were and they are nihilists it's not that they believe in some utopian social system one day somewhere where all can be happy it's they reject the idea of happiness it's not that they believe that we just need to regulate and redistribute more wealth it's that they want to destroy wealth nihilism which is what these students in the 1960s were advocates for and what the students today on American campuses advocates for does not believe in a better future it's not striving towards a better future it just believes that what exists today is evil and bad and needs to be destroyed and that's where we are today and that's where we were in 68 and we took a breather from that ideology for a little while unless you on a campus somewhere and got it from your professors but it wasn't it had no energy behind it and something has happened over the last few years to being the energy behind it the differences that now you have nihilism on the right as well as on the left not just is the old right dead but now the the new right has adopted the nihilism of the new left and combined it call it the alt-right whatever you want to call it nihilism on the left nihilism on the right nihilism has been the winner of the last 50 years principle the ideas of the founders capitalism but thinking reason has been the loser in the last 50 years and we stand here you know facing 2018 and it you know it's hard to be optimistic it's hard to be optimistic given the state of our universities given the state of our culture and given the state of our political culture and given the inhabitant of the White House the House of Representatives in the Senate on the other hand just you know who who would have predicted 1968 that in spite all of that in spite of our bad things when the late 60s how bad things were to become during the whole 1970s economically we would recover from that and economically speaking doing as well do as well as we are doing today and we need to explain that that needs to be explained how come and I have an explanation that's not very popular among the people who listen to the show are not very popular among those who support Trump I have an explanation but it needs to be explained makes clearly the culture deteriorated clearly in many respects you know government has grown government is regulating in some respects more and yet here we are doing pretty well doing pretty well okay let's we're gonna take a call I promise to take Russell's call from Virginia so hi Russell you're new on Brookshaw oh Mr. Brook I have a good prediction for 2018 for you sure I think by the end of 2018 we're gonna see the housing housing bubble in Australia in Canada pop because I was reading an article for the United Kingdom saying like one one out of one in three sellers have reduced their prices which is the highest proportion since the recession of 2012 so I think I think their housing bubble is pop I think they're seeing a chain reaction so what happens after Canada in Australia what's the chain reaction I think from Canada Australia then it's gonna be America then after that point it's just gonna be a complete we're gonna go right back into a full depression I think we're gonna have like a world depression like we saw during the last great depression okay yeah so so you know it's hard to argue against that I'm and I'm not I don't think it's gonna happen in 2018 I don't see it the world ready yet I would I think it's a I think it's further out into the future but I do I do agree with you I think that there's a there's one looks like a housing bubble in in Canada and Australia this suddenly in parts of the United States very reminiscent of 2006 and 7 there are housing bubbles in the United States the Fed has created huge quantities of money that is sitting on reserve at the Federal Reserve at the bank reserves if that money starts circulating more aggressively in the economy you could see other things going up on the price we talked about oil but food prices and you might see general price inflation you might see a bunch of these kind of prices going up I think what would trigger the kind of scenario that you are predicting is is inflation is price inflation which then would result in the Federal Reserve increasing interest rates dramatically which would then result in all these bubbles crashing the bond market would crash and and that could turn us into a great recession again or another or great depression or something worse so I think the sequel of a sequence of events is going to be a what seems to be like a strong robust economy but really is driven by printing money resulting in bubbles and price inflation which causes the Fed to raise interest rates which then causes the bubbles to burst including housing and that's where you get the recession and and maybe worse than a recession so that's where I think it's going to happen interest rates already increasing slowly I think there's a good reason to believe they'll increase more next year but I think you're gonna see before the next big one I think you're gonna see prices go up in more than just housing you're gonna have to see a more generalized kind of price inflation for the bubble to actually burst because I think interest rates are gonna have to go quite a bit higher than where they are today and that could be caused by all this optimism that's out there about Donald Trump's economy optimism caused by the tax cuts which is which causes maybe loosening up a bank regulation that encourages banks to lend more which then leads to them taking all that money printed by the Fed and circulating and more into the economy and by doing that driving up prices and then the Fed panics and drives up interest rates and boom everything comes crashing down that's kind of the scenario I see I see it more happening in 19 or 20 than in 18 but but it could happen this year okay thank you sure sure anytime so that's only prediction all right one prediction all right thanks Russell really appreciate the call if you want to call in and make a prediction ask me about predictions I'll take on anything stock markets whatever you want 188 9 0 0 3 3 9 3 8 8 9 0 0 3 3 19 and if you want to ask a question about anything just an open-ended any topic any topic appropriate for general audience family audience then you can call in 8 8 8 9 0 0 3 3 9 3 after the next break which is coming up in about a minute I'm just gonna take general questions anything you want so the person who called in originally to ask me about I can't remember now anymore feel free to call in now and I will take your call all right so since 1968 it's 50 year anniversary to 1968 we have become safer and we have become richer quality and standard of life when it comes to safety and when it comes to money technology stuff far better than it was in 1968 culturally our universities the way people think is is much worse we become more emotionalist we become less educated we know less history the student focus on you know on what's the establishment and the privilege that 1% and everything else has become much broader now not only do we have Occupy Wall Street but we also have the the you know the Donald Trump movement if you will now and I'm not saying everybody the Donald Trump movement is an emotionalist I'm saying the movement the people who really motivate and incentivize by Donald Trump that is emotionalism that is and you can see it sometimes on my chats where it doesn't matter what Donald Trump does says it's great with them emotionalism is rampant today so culturally that's all much worse and it's interesting it's interesting that the good the material stuff can get better just as the spiritual cultural stuff gets worse and our universities get worse it can't that can't that's not sustainable at some point we will suffer and maybe that's the crash we just talked about we will suffer materially from the spiritual deficit and the deficit of reason that is so prevalent in the culture we live in today we're not in a culture of thinking all right we're gonna take a quick break in listening to a run book show on the blaze radio network all right we're back and yeah Mike's called back from Pennsylvania let me take that call and then I want to cover a different topic hi Mike how's it going hey what's up you're on I'm good I'm good hey don I was I was just calling to ask you about I've been reading this book lately I'm in the middle of it it's by Thomas soul black rednecks and white liberals yep and I was actually very fascinated about some of his input I mean he goes back way toward like the 1700s in the beginning of our the United States as we know it all the way up until current times but I was very impressed on his view on how in his terms that he believes that culture plays more of a role than anything else as far as race relations I was just curious how you felt on his take on that work you've even never read his work I've had some of his work I haven't read all of it but but I'm a I'm a admire of Thomas soul as they as they can't you know he's one of the better people out there I think he's flawed but but I think almost everybody's flawed so but he's definitely worth reading and he's definitely worth engaging with his ideas are worth with discussing I think a lot of his stuff on races is excellent and a lot of his stuff on economics is very good I don't think he's a great economist he's a good economist but he's a good I think he's a good cultural commentator he strikes me as a little too well not strikes me he is a little too conservative for my liking rather than you know a radical like I am radical for capitalism and I'm challenging all the fundamental questions that around in the culture he doesn't he's somewhat accepting of many of the of the bad ideas in the culture like like collectivism and altruism he accepts certain elements of them but again he's one of the better thinkers out there so don't get me wrong this is the thing about when conservatives say it culture culture what matters I agree with him culture is much more important than politics but the question fundamentally is what determines culture and the left will tell you what determines culture is race or gender or class or things like that and and the right will tell you what determines culture is religion or tradition some of them today in the in the modern right will say yeah we agree it's race so they all miss the point they miss what is important here what what determines culture and what determines politics and what determines everything in life are ideas and what I mean by ideas is philosophy so what what Thomas Sowell and what most conservatives do is they ignore philosophy or they have embraced a bad philosophy and therefore they're ineffectual in combating the bad philosophy of the left because they've embraced a bad philosophy of the right but they ignore fundamental ideas and the reason they know fundamental ideas is if you take fundamental ideas seriously you cannot be religious sorry guys because religion is the negation of reason when it comes to fundamental ideas like the nature of the universe and the nature of human cognition so what you find is and this is why most intellectuals are leftists because they reject religion as they should but then they have no they have nowhere to go they have no home and they tend to gravitate towards the only home there is if you know which is which is the left because they can't reject religion they can't challenge fundamental philosophical ideas presented by the left so you see this even with Jordan Peterson who's one of the better guys right over Thomas Sowell or without these guys whenever they whenever it's it's it's really fundamental issues they refer to well but God or Jesus or the Bible says X well who cares who cares right you have to argue for a reason and that's what they don't do sorry go ahead Mike I haven't really heard too much of his input as far as religion goes a lot of the YouTube videos that I've seen and the works that I've read thus far yeah are strictly from like an economical point of view and I loved his debates during the early 70s and 80s they seem like very old videos with him and Milton Friedman oh yeah a lot of these issues yeah I know I'm too unaware and ignorant of his religious side of things you know but that's why it doesn't get into more fundamental philosophical questions until he stays on an economic analysis because if he gets there then you have to bring up the religion and he's a good enough intellectual to know that bringing on religion religion is a losing proposition but he is a conservative and in his embrace of religion it's not that he's a he's a religious right you know big-time advocate of religion in the in the mom majority sense no he's an old-time conservative who still thinks everything is based on religion but it feels a little embarrassed by trying to actually do it right I'm trying to actually I get articulate that case and that's why he can't get deeper and he can't articulate the argument the same with Milton Friedman by the way well being one wasn't religious Milton Friedman just didn't want to do philosophy he didn't believe it was important he didn't want to go there it was too controversial why discuss ethics when you can discuss economics and it's all utilitarian anyway he didn't believe there was any importance in philosophy so Milton Friedman was great if you asked him about the minimum wage or if you asked him about the value of trade but he fell apart on deeper intellectual arguments because he had none he didn't go there right because he was an economist who didn't believe as unfortunately most economists don't believe of the importance of philosophy and the importance of philosophical ideas so that limits Thomas Solan it limits Milton Friedman on what they could do I think what our soul is religion limiting him with Milton Friedman it's just a disdain for philosophy and and an acceptance of utilitarianism as the only legitimate way of thinking about the world which is a kind of economic way of thinking about the world right oh gosh that makes sense well one last night before I let you go sure I just wanted to I don't know if you remember me I called you a few weeks back and I was talking about the whole venture period debate thing or whatever yep and I wanted to bring it up to you that in your free time if you ever get a chance that Sam Harris and Ben Shapiro debate did go online a few days ago you might find it interesting him Sam Harris and Eric Weinstein had like a two-hour more of a discussion than an actual debate per se but you might find it interesting so I'm gonna give you a heads up was it in was it on Sam Harris's podcast yes it was okay waking up podcast number 112 it just released like a few days ago yeah I'll find it in also a bench appeal was on the Dave Rubens show and had some nasty comments about Iron Man so really I watched that interview I don't remember hearing him I thought he said something about objectivism being what was the word used garbage garbage okay I did it like a once through a couple days ago about the rewatch it but yeah I don't want to take up too much more of your time but I just figured I give you a heads up you might find it fascinating no I appreciate that and actually the next show I do the living objectivism show probably on Monday well I will be taking on Ben Shapiro's argument about Iron Man and I will also be listening to this waking up episode and just maybe do a whole show on Ben Shapiro which will be fun and and then if we can get Ben Shapiro on line to debate me even better even better be a lot of fun I'll keep watching man I appreciate it I appreciate it thanks all right we'll well almost done we've got like less than a minute and a half so all we got to do now is is wrap up and you know next time maybe we'll talk about I want to talk about why we're doing so well materially so what we indicated earlier in spite of the situation in the culture in spite of the situation in ideas we are doing better than what anybody would have expected the economy is doing better innovation is doing better a standard of living is doing better than what we would have predicted given how bad things were in 1968 and the fact that the culture and everything else what what is it that made it possible for us to get as rich as we are today materially now I know there are a lot of people who are poor who've been left behind but even so how did we get to where we are today that's gonna be an interesting discussion and quite controversial I think because I think the reasons 30 for success a lot of the things that Donald Trump and his campaign attacked immigration trade went to China and Silicon Valley all right you're listening you've been listening to your own book show have a great rest of the weekend and we'll catch you on next Saturday same time same place you're listening to your own book on the blaze radio network bye