 Okay, let's jump in. Wow. Wow, that me late one. I remember being in Argentina. So he won the election for the presidency of Argentina. It wasn't even close. He won by 10 percentage points. And which is which is 12 actually, I think 56 to 44, which is pretty amazing. I was in Argentina. I remember last, I think it was last year, earlier this year, last year, maybe it was last fall. I can't remember. Anyway, I was there and we met with a bunch of people who know me and kind of fans and have been working for him and with them and kind of the objectivists and libertarians of Buenos Aires. We actually have an objectivist conference in Buenos Aires and we will again in April. So I think it was earlier this year. Anyway, there was some talk about, yeah, Millie is going to, he's running and, you know, probably doesn't have a chance, but it'll be interesting to watch. And, you know, he's a character. So I got to know a little bit about him from people who know him. He's obviously a character. He's quite a clown, but he's also an economics professor and has a, I think, a deep grounding in Austrian economics. He has read, I think, most of Ayn Rand and has a, you know, a somewhat understanding of Ayn Rand's philosophy. He's also a Christian or somewhat religious, not clear how Christian or, but he is religious. He's definitely religious. And he swears, I mean profusely and he yells and he screams and he jumps up and down and he's incredibly passionate. And I think shockingly, although it's not a shock now after the elections leading up to this, but it's still shocking. He won. And he won by a big margin. And this is a guy who ran on a campaign saying to abolish the Argentinian central bank and replace basically Argentinian peso with a dollar. Great idea. And, you know, he's, Millie is also very, very pro-Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies generally. So you can imagine the dollar will be the official currency, but they will be, he will encourage currency competition. You know, he ran on a campaign of abolishing most of the government ministries in the Argentinian government. So, you know, there's a video of him with a list of all the governments and he's, this is what I'm going to do, this ministry, you know, is very theatrical. Anyway, he wants to abolish him. He wants to fire, I think, two-thirds of people who work for the government, privatization on mass scale. I assume this is, you know, he's talked about massive and immediate reductions in regulations and taxes. Argentina has crazy taxes and crazy regulations that distort everything. And it's going to be super interesting. I don't know exactly how it all works out. I don't know exactly what he will do and what he is able to do, given the particular, the particular system of government Argentina has and the culture and the bureaucracy and what, let him get away with and so on. But, and sadly, I don't think this election is a sign that the population in Argentina is dedicated to free markets. I think his election is the ultimate expression of, we've had it. We've had it with you fascists. We've had it with you socialists. We've had it with you, you know, Peronists who are kind of fascist socialists. We've had it with all of you, with the last hundred some years of politics in Argentina. We are done. It is, you know, we're upset and we won't have it. And while I think what was expected of this election was that the conservative kind of the right wing mildly right of center candidate would win. They've had it so much. And there's so many that they're willing to go really radical. And, you know, at least a third of the population is willing to go really radical. And then enough of the people who voted for the right, center right, saying the one thing we don't want is the same old Peronista party that we've had for decades. The one thing we're willing to take a gamble on this guy who we don't completely agree with, just avoid another term of this looting disastrous candidate. The fact that the guy who is running, who is the economy minister in the current government, got 44% is shocking because he has an economy that has been devastated by this government, has been crushed by this government and riddled with corruption, but more importantly with what do you call it inflation 140%. I mean, the Argentine economy has been decimated for decades, but over the last few years it's fallen off a cliff in a way that I don't think anybody expected. And for anybody to vote for the existing economy minister is suicidal and crazy. This election should have been between Millet and the right conservative between two opposition characters, not between the establishment guy. Anyway, so now the question is what can we do? He doesn't, his party doesn't have a majority in the parliament. They, you know, so how does he pass laws? How does he dismantle the central bank, dismantling a central bank in a country the size of Argentina is not simple. I mean, there's a sense of which is simple. You can just do it. And I'm not against that, but it's unlikely that that's how it's done. It's not simple. While these things have happened in places like Panama is on the dollar. Ecuador is on the dollar. It's never happened on an economy the size anywhere close to the size of Argentina. I'm looking forward to seeing the plan. I'm looking forward to seeing it put in place because it'll be super exciting and it's a super step forward. And it's a super increase in the amount of freedom Argentinians will have. They will actually be able to earn income in in a currency that doesn't lose its value 100% of its value well over 100% of its value every year. I see Daniel Daniel is just given, you know, he's contributed on a super chat 5000 Argentinian pesos. Now it was a time where 5000 Argentinian pesos would have made my day and would have got us to our goal. And wow, I mean it was a lot of money. But today with inflation and the devaluation of the Argentinian pesos and this is probably the official rate the unofficial rate. It's a it's half of this is 14 bucks. So 5000 Argentinian pesos is 14 bucks. It you know it's it's actually in the in the real market. It's seven bucks. So that gives you a little flavor of kind of how decrepit the whole thing is. Thank you Daniel. That was Daniel's first super chat. So really, really appreciate that. Anyway, I think it's super exciting. It's it's more than exciting because it's it's it's really interesting because it's going to be interesting. What can a free market president president, he's going to be president as of December 10th do when the country is not really free market, even though it elected him and he has a mandate, you have to say winning by 12 points. What can he actually get away with? What can he do? What will be the backlash from the people who elected him? How much room will they give him to do what he needs to do? All fascinating questions. And in that sense, Argentina is kind of the canary in the coal mine. To what extent can you change dramatically? Not like not even like Reagan and Thatcher much more. To what extent can you change dramatically? Change an economy of a culture in a culture where the people are not. We don't know how aligned the people are with you. And certainly the political class is completely misaligned. And there's no tradition of, you know, solid kind of, you know, change of power, democratic change of power, where who knows what the bureaucrats and the military and who else, what they will do if if if this is pushed too much. But again, he won by 56 to 44. So you got to believe that he will have a significant mandate. My advice to him. And by the way, if anybody knows me, and and he needs some advisors, he needs, I don't know, a secretary of the economy, or I'm sure he's got people in mind. But if he needs anybody kind of to bounce ideas off, I am available. I'd be happy to do it. I would want to find a way to support him and to see if you can put together a kind of a rational program. How quickly you can liberate an economy. To me, all of these are fascinating questions and questions that it would be cool to be involved in doing. I doubt I'm going to get that phone call. But anyway, if anybody out there knows me lay and you can tell him my guess is he probably knows who I am. Or he knows people. A lot of people around him certainly know who I am. I am available as a consulting advice, anything like that. And I will be in Argentina in April for a big objectives conference. Now, this is not not to suggest. I mean, the only reason I am supporting Millie is not because it's not because he's an end cap. It's in spite of the fact that he claims to be an end cap. And that's because his program is not a program to institute an awkward capitalism. He's not, he strikes me that he's not a nihilist like so many in the Libertarian Party. He's not a nihilist like so many, not all, but so many end caps in the United States. He is, I don't know if you saw him three days ago at a big demonstration waving the Israeli flag. He's a massive fan of Israel. He's even a fan of the United States where end caps in the United States are not fans of the United States or of Israel. So I'll give him that. He's even in a weird way. A fan of Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve, but I'll forgive him that. Yeah, I mean, there are better people out there and he might call himself an end cap. And he is religious and he's anti-abortion although he wants there to be a referendum on abortion, at least not instituted from above the banning of abortions. So anyway, let's see what happens. Maybe my last trip to Argentina is what made this possible. That's delusional, I know, but what the hell? Maybe this next trip will make it even, you know, will help put together a completely rational program for him. Who knows? Maybe one of my people in Argentina can arrange a meeting with me and Millet when I'm out there in, what do you call it, in April. Anyway, I am super excited. Again, I don't know what the outcome is going to be, but I'm super excited to watch the process and to see what happens. One way or the other, we will learn a lot about this. And then the question is, can somebody like Millet with his attitude and his little bit crazy persona, can he get stuff done? We don't know that yet. We have no evidence that he is a doer, other than political doer, podcast doer. But is he a doer? Can he actually go out there and produce? Does he have the people around him who may be businessman, people who've actually achieved things? And will the businessman around him be radical? Will they try to undercut his radicalism and try to force him to compromise? I mean, so many questions, so many questions. And at this point, so few answers. And as time passes now, we will get more and more of those answers. So again, I'm excited because I'm a curious guy and I want to see how this plays out. I'm excited to watch it. One other aspect of this, part of the fun of this is to watch the mainstream media go apoplectic around this. They're comparing Millet to Trump. Yeah, Trump was really a free market guy. There's certain elements of the brashness of the way they speak, although Millet is like 100 times worse in a sense than Trump. But Millet does not come across as a pragmatist. Millet does not come across as a kind of somebody committed to lying, committed to untruth, committed to making up reality. Millet does not come across as the kind of primacy of consciousness that Trump has. He's outspoken and crazy, but he's got ideas. He's got principles. He's got beliefs that are clear, and he will be evaluated based on where he achieves them. Trump had none of that, and certainly his beliefs that Trump had were not aligned with free markets. Now, the one thing maybe they should comment, although I think Millet has a grasp on it versus Trump that doesn't, and that is hatred for the left. But that's it. It's the only thing they have in common.