 The radical Fundamental principles of freedom rational self-interest and Individual rights This is the Iran Brook show right everybody welcome to your own book show on this Sunday evening. I hope everybody's having a fantastic weekend. Don't forget for some of you at least tomorrow is a holiday I know that's not universal, but so it is Juneteenth or something like that I can't pronounce anything so I certainly can't pronounce this holiday and Yeah, at least it's a federal holiday. If not for most of us All right, so today we've got a bit of an eclectic show We're gonna cover a bunch of different things and yes Ali. I do have I do have your your show your question from Yesterday right here in front of me, so I will get to it when we get to the questions It'll be the first question up. 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Kennedy junior junior and His appearance on Rogan and other appearances, but just generally running for president He also did the alone musk thing on on Twitter So we've got we're gonna talk about him and We're gonna talk about Him but then we'll also talk about again God we'll talk about COVID vaccines because Somebody sent in me a couple of questions with a contribution of PayPal So I promise to answer those questions. So those will be of first We'll talk about so the first question he asked or one of the questions he asked was about the vaccine So we'll talk about COVID vaccines. I want to I want to just lay out how I think about this and how I think people should think about it and and Yeah, and and we you know and We can see where that takes it. I again. I know a lot of you will disagree hate me whatever But we will do COVID vaccines and then Then there's a somebody else in me Somebody else in me a video About Texas and so we're gonna cover that video. We're not actually gonna watch the video. It's a 30-minute video I don't think we have to watch it. I'll give you the highlights of it and We'll talk about it. We'll talk about Texas as a state where it's like pluses a few minuses and And so on so we'll definitely we'll definitely cover that And then we've got the other question that the guy who sent me two questions had and And this is Jim Jim DeWild he sent me the happiness this is about happiness So we'll talk about happiness studies why some places are happy where the places are not and and Yeah, everything associated with that way, you know, blue states more happy than red states So why are Scandinavian countries more happy than Americans? So we'll talk about happiness studies a little bit and Yeah, then then we'll go from there So That is a lot that should be a lot to cover But it should be entertaining Right. I'm here to entertain and educate and Elucidate and everything else. All right. So so let's start with Robert F. Kennedy. I was gonna do a whole show on Robert F. Kennedy As a presidential candidate. I want to do one show in DeSantis I want to do a show on a number of the leading candidates as we progress through this But, you know, everything hit the fan over the last, I don't know 48 hours 24 hours over over, you know Kennedy's appearance on Joe Rogan and and then this scientists claim that what You know RFK was saying was complete nonsense and then and then Rogan Rogan challenged this scientist to come on together this doctor to come on the show and debate RFK and he offered him a hundred thousand dollars to his favorite charity The scientists said no, I don't debate kooky conspiracy theorists lots of other people chimed in and and the the The amount of money to debate RFK is now I think at one point five million dollars So there's a number of different people have put their money together To encourage this debate on on Joe Rogan's show So then there's a whole discussion going on and is it disguised a responsibility model duty in a sense to To do the debate because he said that RFK is full of it So is he then is it required to defend himself? You know for one point five million dollars sounds pretty appealing. He's saying no, this is not what I do RFK is wrong, but I'm not gonna get into a public debate on him. He's basically not worth it So that's where it is Twitter is all over the place with this and and all of a with all over with it in terms of in terms of RFK in terms of claims of vaccines We'll get into all of that a Wi-Fi and and in 5g you should probably all shut down your Wi-Fi networks right now Because it's melting your brain and and 5g is doing all kinds of awful things to you. So so beware and and we're gonna we're gonna actually Google this while the show is going on and found a website Happen to be run by people friendly to RFK They confirmed all of the worst fears about Wi-Fi and 5g God, I've heard that cell phone cell phones melt your brain since the invention of cell phones since since the since the When was that it must be the late? Well, I would be exposed to cell phone in the late 90s early 2000s No early 90s. What am I talking about mid 90s mid 90s early 2000s from the day cell phones were invented They were gonna fry your brain and they were gonna kill you and you were gonna get brain cancer and brain cancer rates have Skyrocketed since then right no they haven't but anyway So I have Kate junior is is running for president. He has a significant support from Democrats If he goes up against Biden, he would probably have 20 to 30 percent today Of the vote. He is good-looking. He is charismatic. He is after all a Kennedy and And he has some some real, you know, real gravitas, I guess because of that He also is a conventional leftist So he takes all the boxes or many of the boxes not all the boxes for kind of a Left-of-center not a wacky You know a walk because because RFK is actually Pretty good on free speech. He's pretty good on on the whole trans issue is pretty good on some of the walk issues But he's a he's a left-of-center on economic issues. He's way left-of-center a Democrat So that's the context right here's here's a here's a guy Who believes that we should not drill? We should stop fracking We need more regulations of oil and gas No offshore drilling no Alaska drilling We should subsidize as much as we can Windmills and solar panels He wants to know nuclear no nuclear all in Solar wind and all the unreliables as Alex Epstein says Band plastics band plastics Wow, I mean I imagine life without plastics I think I don't think you can because I don't think you realize how dependent your life is on plastics So let's start with who this guy is this guy is a Rabbit environmentalist has been for decades well known in the environmentalist movement. He is anti Everything including nuclear He is also Leftist when it comes to education. He is anti-school choice. He is for Common Core He is for forgiving student loans. He's actually for the government actually paying for everybody to go to college for four years right He's sympathetic to Russia He believes mass shootings are caused by Prozac So the drug drug industry and drug companies are basically responsible for mass shootings anything's Wi-Fi and and five G networks are destroying your brain and and and frying you Generally, so here's a guy. We haven't even got a vaccines Here's a guy who on every important issue pretty much. Oh, I forgot I forgot a big one He he believes in single-payer health care, although he also thinks you should be able to buy private insurance on top of it If you want, but he believes in socialized Madison He believes in he's a huge supporter of Obamacare He'd actually expand Obamacare again single-payer So on every major issue Every major issue This guy at least from my perspective from my values and from the things I and many of you I think most of you believe in You know think he's bad Right. I think he's bad. He's worse than Biden on almost all of these Um, I mean, I think I think Biden Mowers a lot of these things but this guy has the credentials. He actually is an Environmentalist in a way. I don't think Biden really is right. Yes. He's pro-Israel. He's pro a few things But not too much not too much pro-Israel And yeah, I'm not saying he doesn't have anything good. He's pro Gay marriage. He's pro abortion. He's pro gays adopting He's pro a lot of on the social issues many of the social issues actually pretty good He's good on on trans, you know, he's good on a lot of these things. I think he's pro-Israel Maybe he's not right. I mean, I didn't look into his is real credentials But on the things that relate to what we would consider scientific issues, certainly economic issues health care issues This guy is the worst. He debated Alex Epstein and he was terrible awful horrible Alex, I think ran so close around him. So he's a person who I Don't believe has credibility on anything Like if Joe Biden came out tomorrow and said XYZ the regarding science or health care you should exercise more you should eat sugar you should eat fat I don't know whatever You would go like who's Joe by you know Joe Biden's like a loser. Why would I trust him on anything that has to do with science? And you can't Here's a guy who has crusaded on environmental issues where he's wrong on all of them wrong wrong wrong And and not just wrong factually. I think Morley in morally offensive ways He's a huge advocate for in a sense stopping civilization in the name of climate change Now he of course you would never say that but that's an implication and he knows that's implication. He's smart He's not an idiot so Why does anybody on? Quote outside Why does anybody skeptical about all these environmental stuff? Why is anybody skeptical about? single-payer or any of the rest of it? enthusiastic about his anti Vaccine position. I have no idea. It makes no sense to me Typically with somebody with this kind of resume speaks. I think it's it's it's fair to dismiss him. He's wrong on so many things on so many things and on so many things related to science And it's application of policy then yeah And so Why would you believe him on something that's related to science and policy? I don't So one way to evaluate a claim Is to evaluate the person making it this guy has no credibility zero when when I You know criticized him on a tweet somebody said yeah, you a doctor you're on and I'm like is RFK a doctor No So Yeah, this guy is horrific He's a horrific because he's much worse than biden on every important issue and he's a kook when it comes to vaccines and 3g and wi-fi and health policy and all this other stuff So on the on the on the normal issues He's worse than biden And and then he is a complete nutcase on other things Now I'm not going to refute all his claims about childhood vaccinations Because others have done it on twitter far better than I could ever do and I encourage you To go check them out. There's a guy named bad stats Who's taken issue by issue? Link to articles that refute this stuff This stuff is just plain false now. I did a little I just did a little A little, you know, I like numbers. I'm I'm a little bit of a stat guy. I like a little bit of empirics I haven't done anything deep. So I just wanted to get a eyeball eyeball What's going on? Right? So RFK is is big on vax autism Vax of the the percentage of the population has been vaccinated has gone up Autism has gone up Right. I I saw somebody Um, you know, uh, the stock market's gone up Autism has gone up. Uh, lots of things have gone up autism. You can find lots of correlations Correlation is not causation. He throws these facts around. I mean he has caught constantly on so many lies So many lies Just factual stuff that he doesn't know what he's talking about, but he throws it out. He's he's a good debater He's a good speaker. He's a good interviewer because he says it with confidence. So who's going to question him? Rogan. Rogan's too ignorant to question She just throws it out. Bam, bam, bam. Half of them are not true. Just factually just plainly not true So yes, the rise of vaccination rates and the rise in autism are highly correlated So a lot of things correlated with rising autism But then I looked I said, okay, let's look around the world And let's see countries that have relatively low vaccination rates Did they also have relatively low autism rates? just A quick overview like Didn't spend a lot of time on it. Just clicked on a few countries based on their vaccination rates and based on their autism rates Doesn't seem like there's a relationship just casually Countries that have low vaccination rates high autism rates Countries with relatively high vaccination rates relatively low autism rates autism rates are high Everywhere in the world right now Everywhere in the world right now even in Africa autism rate in a place like Nigeria autism rates are high It's a problem and we don't know what's causing it. Something's going on with autism Something is increasing the rate of autism, but study after study after study Have looked at the issue of vaccines. I mean, we're talking about children here And and I know I know you think there is a big conspiracy and every pediatric doctor in the world Doesn't give a shit about children about little babies And he's happy to vaccinate them even though he knows that these vaccines are going to cause autism And just because he's such a mindless nobody right all these doctors. It's not mindless Nobody's And what they're doing is they're just vaccinating these kids because they don't care, you know, our entire profession of doctors is is inhabited by psychopaths And most of you who have No degree. Well, I'm not talking about you specifically most of the people out there who Follow who have no medical degree zero knowledge of medicine Don't know statistics very well because statistics is hard. I explained this over and over again during covid how hard it is Some idiot like rfk comes out And says this stuff and yeah sounds reasonable. All right, cool. And all those doctors They're just part of their establishment. They're just doctors insane It's insane that this guy's taken seriously. It's insane The people like rogan give him a platform It's insane the 20 to 30 percent of the democratic party wants to vote for him It's insane that many republicans want to vote for him to hell with his environmentalism Tell a single payer and his support for obamacare. He's anti-vax. Yay And and it's again, it's not just anti-vax. You have to look at the whole body of work 5g wi-fi I mean the guys are kook And and you don't need a lot to do this again bad stats has a great thread on twitter Debunking him or linking to different places that debunk him There are articles out there that debunk these these studies the fact that uh, you know, he cites He says oh this study shows x and then you actually go read the study and it doesn't show x at all It doesn't all this all the claims that he's making are just not true They're just not true. He's just lying And most of us are not going to go into articles and check but I do sometimes And these guys just lie they make stuff up Or they're too stupid to be able to read a scientific journal and figure out what it actually says You know, he takes generally he takes correlations in observational studies with no controls And he takes that correlation as evidence of causation He ignores completely ignores any study That shows that the claims are wrong or if he doesn't ignore him He just says it's a fraudulent study. It doesn't count. It's fraud Now a lot of studies are bad studies A lot of studies are really really bad But it takes real work to discover that I mean one of the things I really admire about uh, uh, what was his name? scott alexander Astral codex something Who's a substack I've I've often recommended on the show is when when ivermectin was debated He took all the studies Analyzed them one by one. This one's good. This one's bad. This one's okay. This one's mediocre. He waited them And then he made a decision based on the actual evidence presented in the study and then he said ivermectin most likely With a high probability does not work But he didn't just say oh those studies are fraud. He actually presented detailed analysis How many people out there? I mean so so for for astro codex Whatever astro code it took it took pay extra codex 10. Thank you astro codex 10 It took painstaking work. I mean days of work To analyze the study come to conclusion about them put it all into a pot in an interpost And and wait them and then and then come to a conclusion. How many people how many people? Yeah, so many Michael says so many studies are flawed absolutely, but it takes real work to figure out which ones are flawed on which ones are not How many people actually do that work? before coming to conclusions So many people do not So many people do not they don't do the work They just come to conclusions without the work and given RFK's history on environmental issues on climate changes on his lack of ability to think and and to deal with information that he was reflected in his debate with alex Do you really think he did the work with vaccines? No way No way now some people might have done the work. I'm not saying the work hasn't been done, but him No way If you actually look at the studies he mentions It's it's unbelievable how he misrepresent says I've talked about this in the covert vaccines every time somebody tweets me look at this study It proves covert vaccines are killing people I go read the study and it doesn't prove that at all And actually it it contradicts the conclusions of the authors and I can look at the numbers and it doesn't prove What the person is stating at all And this is common Complicated studies you link to them you say this is what the study shows And then you assume the 98% of your audience is not going to actually link click on the study And even if they do click on the study, how many of them understand a study can actually analyze the statistics and actually see What's actually going on? They just believe you you cited a study. You've got a citation. You must be right the fact that you're Completely perverting and distorting the citation So you can go on and on on you can read all this stuff again, um I I encourage you. I mean, this was a funny one, right? So so he claims that remed rem Decivier rem decivier something like that, right? This is a drug was used during covet He says it kills 53% of Ebola patients And that it's only it's it's the psychopaths of the cdc because the psychopaths because they're crazy was he's completely sane Allowed to give it to covert patients when it was killing 53% of people who had Ebola Now this is so stupid Ebola is so deadly the people who died that were given remedies fear died from the Ebola 53% of people died from Ebola This was a trial. It turns out turns out remedies fear is not effective against Ebola So they died of Ebola. They didn't die from the remedies fear It turns out. It's not probably not very effective against covert either But they tried He cherry picks the correlations. He cherry picks the studies. He misatsuppets them He abuses the science of statistics and he abuses the science He abuses science period And this guy is taken seriously by serious people Um, another guy who I recommend reading. Um, also on twitter the real truth Also has a good a good stream a good series of tweets That deals with Actually he produced they actually produced a video That that's on his twitter feed that actually deals with Just taking argument after argument and off the argument that rfk makes and showing that it's complete bs complete bs So rfk is full of it. He's an idiot, but he's worse than an idiot because he's a deceiver He's a liar. He's one of these people that has built his career on a lie He's built his fame online He's built in fame His fame on scaring people to death particularly parents He's built his fame On perpetuating absurd conspiracy theories Where he has not qualified um, anyway so rfk The only thing to do with him is to dismiss him and to dismiss everything he says He's useless What about what about covet 19 an excess death? So I have this question from and this is of course a big issue for rfk But I've got this question from uh, from uh, um From my listener jim, uh, jim wild. He says he's a long-time and objectivist and he has a few questions for me and one of them is Uh, you know, he says, uh He's always been concerned about covet mRNA vaccines for they have never been severely tested on humans. That's just not true Um, and had never been tested on long-term effects No drug is really tested on long-term effects if you think about Years and decades there'd be no drugs on the market if they were tested on that indeed no treatment is really tested on long-term effects Uh, you'd have no innovation if you waited until long-term effects to rise up Um, and so he's very suspicious Of the uncanny number of people in my direct environment experienced great side effects Including death within weeks and in some cases hours after getting the cover jab jab interesting fact Nobody in my extended environment. I know a lot of people has died Following a covet vaccine nobody. I mean nobody has even got really bad Um side effects from the covet vaccine in my I know a lot of people I travel a lot around the world I mean a lot of people nobody now. I don't know if that's just me. That's something unique. I don't know but We've all been vaccinated and nobody that I know of has had any serious side effects Not saying some people don't get serious side effects. Nobody that I know it has died Nobody but I keep meeting people who say, oh, I know a lot of people And I wonder if you actually made a list and of the people they actually know if they named them and everything How many they really are Anyway, he says never having trusted big government or it's corporate disconies and big pharma They mean these corporate conists that constantly produce drugs that save the lives of millions of people around the world Um, who's vaccines have saved the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world over the last You know, 70 80 years or whatever that big pharma And also of course Remember mRNA vaccines What is the relation between mRNA vaccines and pharma and big pharma? Well fiza, okay fiza, but but fiza didn't really develop the mRNA vaccine. Who developed the mRNA vaccine? Anybody, you know, I mean two companies Moderna and uh, it was it called. Um, I had it on the tip of my tongue a second ago BioNTech bioNTech is bioNTech big pharma BioNTech big pharma. No bioNTech is a small biotech company was a small Need a lot of money, but it was a small biotech company out of germany run by two Turkish immigrants right um That's big pharma. Uh, what about uh, what about, um Moderna Moderna was a startup with really no product. No real revenue Big pharma wasn't big pharma so COVID COVID-19 vaccine was not produced by big pharma other than fiza who teamed up with bioNTech But the real science was bioNTech's not Big phamas. Anyway, don't trust big pharma. Don't trust the cdc Um, considered media censorship here facebook and other media and all of that fouching the rest of government here in abroad Spoken one voice added to the famous actors doctors. Da da da da And then he gives me a million links to all the stuff All the people who who think that uh, COVID vaccines are Bad for you Well bad for you And uh, kill you basically kill you Excess deaths have increased because of COVID vaccines. All right, so Let me let me say for the I don't know how many a time That I believe that all that stuff all those links all those doctors, um, you know John Campbell and uh, and everybody else And a bunch of others. I don't know all sin and and there's a there's a bunch of them that have made now a career They've made zillions of dollars. They're for my new york times writer baronson, I think Who've made millions of dollars? On on on this lie about COVID-19 about the vaccines Um, I don't believe a word they say I don't trust anything they do Again, I have watched their videos Every time I've looked at the data every time I've taken one of their claims And actually gone into the papers and looked at the data. They're lying Or they're deceiving or they're misrepresenting They're just wrong Now I can't do that for every claim they make I can't do that for every single paper I can't do that because they can arbitrarily make claims at infinitum But after a few after you discover somebody's wrong one two three times I don't have to trust them anymore if you discover i'm wrong and I won't admit it and so on when I keep pushing the same line But i'm blatantly wrong three times stop listening to my show Scott is that going okay after after stop But why do you listen if somebody's unreliable why listen why take him seriously? I can't take any of these people seriously and I don't So again, not randomly but because I've tried that so that's one first If you have the statistical knowledge if you can read a scientific paper at least somewhat I'm not pretending that I know this inside out. I don't but I can read a paper I can read the conclusions up to a point. I can look at the data a little bit I can look at the stats to see if they make any sense or not If if you have that ability and you look at the data and you see that it's wrong wrong And then it's wrong then you stop trusting these people That's one So that's one criteria. Just look if they lied or not Look if they're trustworthy or not two Most of us are not doctors. Most of us are not epidemiologists. Most of us are not Biologists from pharmacy experts and and we're not going to go do the research We're not going to go do the the lab work when we don't have the knowledge to evaluate many of these claims So how do you evaluate the claims? Well, you look for people you trust So let's take the covid vaccine I know a lot of doctors a lot of doctors Partially because I come from a family of doctors my father's a doctor my uh my uh Father's doctors have cousins who are doctors. I have a niece who's a doctor um I'm missing doctors anyway, but my father has most of my father's friends are doctors So I've I've hung around doctors since I was a kid. I've hung around hospitals since I was a kid I know doctors a lot of doctors and doctors I trust my dad You know his reputation in Israel is was as one of the best doctors in the country not to Say he couldn't make mistakes, but I trust my dad as a doctor So I I I have a lot of family with doctors Then I've I've acquaintances and friends who are doctors a lot of them um People I know people I'm friendly with People I'm acquainted with a lot of doctors all over the place Then um, I have a lot of doctors I just do I have a I have a concierge doctor in california and in before the concierge for this doctor I had a different one another doctor. I'm talking about medical doctors, right? And then I have a doctor here in Puerto Rico. Again, I have one now, but you're covered at somebody else um And and all of these doctors are my doctors because I vetted them because I chose them because I trust them Because they seem to know what they're talking about about healthcare And then the doctors I kind of follow on Like I'm reading a book now by dr. Peter Atia who I recommend but dr. Peter Atia um On lifespan, which I am still relatively early on in the book, but I so far highly recommend highly recommend sounds really good A lot of my doctors like my concierge doctors in california and and this doctor are not And and atia are not conventional doctors. They're the more functional medicine kind of doctors So I know a lot of doctors friendly a lot of friends with another doctors um Friends with and and and and have a lot of family whose doctors now these people I believe I trust more Then I trust some random doctor who goes online and who says COVID's gonna kill you. I mean, uh, COVID vaccines are gonna kill you Because I know because I've vetted them and I'm sure you know doctors. You have a doctor you could check around other doctors But you find people who know people's knowledge who you can trust It's not easy I'm in a good situation with the come we got the doctors because I have a lot of connections and if I wanted, you know, if if if I get Sick with something really bad There's a lot of people I can call to get advice to figure out what the best treatment is to do all that Who I trust And if all the doctors I know Of all the doctors I know, I don't know 30 40 50 This you know something like that dozens of doctors. I know there's only one Only one Who is skeptical about vaccines? um Nobody else's not a single one of these other doctors are And about COVID vaccines not a single one of them. I don't know my dad has had The vaccine he's been I don't know he's been boosted two three times. I don't know however many they allow in Israel Is my dad poisoning himself on purpose? Is he going against his own medical knowledge? Can he not read the medical papers? Does he not know mRNA who it's never been tried on humans? Of course, it's been tried on humans Moderna and BioNTech have been trying mRNA vaccines on humans for years now They haven't been successful But they know they don't harm Other vaccines risk-free, of course not No medication is risk-free You take Advil, it's not risk-free. You take Tylenol. It's not risk-free No medication. No medication that you take is risk-free Are there certain age groups That where COVID vaccines Cause it can cause heart problems. Yes, we knew this from relatively early on and I indeed Argued early on that. I don't think young people should get vaccine. Certainly not. I don't I didn't think children should get vaccine and like the healthy Young people probably didn't shouldn't need didn't need the vaccine I didn't think it was a problem if they got it, but I didn't think they needed it. Why? Because COVID was not a threat to them Not a significant threat By the way, a bigger threat than the vaccine But not that big of a threat You know and if you look So that's a second thing, you know a third thing if you look, you know, I'll just I'll just say this is simple You don't need a degree in statistics for this if you look at countries If you look at that the 10 most vaccinated states in the united states Versus the 10 least vaccinated states in the united states. Just look at that the 10 states Most vaccinated highest percentage vaccination the ones with the least percentage vaccination and you look at excess deaths It's not even close During you know COVID and post COVID The states with the least number of vaccinated people have the most deaths By a lot I mean controlled for this size of population by a lot It's not even close It's not even close So, you know, I I throw up my hands because It is shocking the extent to which people are open receptive to conspiracy theories because And and with good reason we don't trust the quote political authorities. All right But it doesn't mean if you don't trust the political authorities, I don't trust the political authorities It doesn't immediately mean that I have to trust the kookiest Craziest nutcase who comes in the corner spouting the latest ridiculous conspiracy theory You don't trust the political authorities search for better authorities I mean The right position has always been anti lockdowns Anti mandates pro vaccines. I mean, it's easy. Why is that so hard for people? That's anti the political authorities pro science anti lockdowns anti mandates pro vaccines That's been my position from day one from day one I was never for mandates now Can private companies mandate? Sure private companies can mandate you wear a mask private companies can mandate you take a vaccine But is The government mandate Absolutely not and should companies mandate vaccines Probably not. It's none of their business. It's mostly particularly once we discover the vaccines were not very effective at preventing transmission Then it's why would companies even do that other than virtue signal? So But this is a position people can't hold. No, if you're anti Lockdowns, and if you're anti mandate, you must be anti vaccines. No I'm not Frustrating. Frustrating. So Jim. No, I think the entire field of covid vaccine Excess death people are dying from the vaccine is Complete nonsense. It is a self perpetuating Money machine for these people. They are lying. They're making stuff up And I talked about this years ago I talked about when when the first guy showed up on brit Weinstein calling himself the inventor of the discoverer inventor of mRNA vaccines and I looked him up And he turned out to be One in a team that had originally done some of the work that would later lead to mRNA vaccines an inventor of mRNA vaccines Was a completely bogus title and and that brett Weinstein would take him seriously was bizarre And and then you read up his bio and you read that he was kicked out of the team And and he had to leave the whole field And he had to go into medicine because when he was because he couldn't do any research anymore because he was kicked out And that he was basically a disgruntled employee or disgruntled somebody who who thought he deserved credit and never got the credit He deserved other people got Prizes for for the discovery he did not all of this stuff when you discover all of that Then yeah, he's just a discunderal thing and he's now he's found a way to get back at them And he's also found a way to make a lot of money by claiming that mRNAs are killing you mRNA will go down mRNA vaccines because the covet Use is just I think the tip of the iceberg of how they're going to be used It's going to go down as one of the great biotech innovations It's going to it's already in the process of radically altering all treatments of cancer There are a number of mRNA uh cancer delivery systems and vaccines That are that are that are having phenomenal results in cancer treatment And yes, they bear risk All drugs all drugs any drug that is uh that is prescribed or even over the counter drug I mean if you've ever read the the disclaimers the side effects on pretty much every drug Scary spooky stuff scary scary spooky stuff All right, uh, so that was that question God All right, I'm gonna skip texas. Sorry Sorry, james. So I'm gonna I'll do texas Sepid show it just doesn't I run out of time So I I will take texas out. So I'm not gonna do texas. I spend too much time on all this other stuff I will do texas in a separate show. It deserves a separate show. We'll talk about the value of texas So let me let me jump to this other question the gym wild how because hopefully we can answer this fairly quickly And then I'll take your super chat just relating to the super chat You know, we've got a lot of people watching live, which is great But let me just let me just Say that uh god, what is going on here? Word is uh word is going nuts on me. There we go. All right, so um Super chat is a way in which you support the show you make the show possible you show value for value You're here. You enjoy your show. You're hopefully benefiting from it. 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It's about happiness He says one of my closest friends is a center left you believes in the virtues of mixed economies In debates about politics and political philosophy typically brings up the point that more or less all research shows That on average people in the mixed economies of european nor the countries in the netherlands Are the happiest with their lives and therefore that the middle of the road systems are the best by test um, I reply That with the following points one You're making what we call a in business a low base comparison You're comparing versus relatively low values to situations That are even worse in this case the countries on hand have traditionally offered relatively high level of civil liberty Uh, which is great and a moderate level of economic liberty, which is not so great Their civil liberties offered is higher and is pretty much any other area in the world right now While the economic liberty rates uh about about average versus other western countries on high versus the rest of the world These countries actually even do well versus the land of the free the usa USA Not only does not do better than on the european countries But it does worse Consider typically the blue states offer a relatively high level of civil freedom While others typically the red states offer relatively high level of economic freedom But none of the u.s states give the people a high level of both civic and economic freedom And um, what's worse the trend isn't both kinds of states blue and red are quickly diminishing B If those Nordic countries Capitalism and the principles of objectivism that people that people's happiness while being in wealth would dramatically increase Having heard your recent podcast about your proponents of statism create how proponents of status who create resonance For their ideas through pragmatic arguments in the next debate I will surely include specific anti-pragmatism arguments and label that thinking and behavior as the philosophy of laziness Which it is anti-idealism and mediocrity And even it's most even of all philosophies anti-life and anti-reason All right other than the above how else would you argue against the average happiness as the highest in mixed economy argument? What do you think is wrong or can't improve in my reasoning? So a few things one is Every country in the world today, you know with exception, maybe of north korea and maybe kuba is a mixed economy All countries are mixed economies So when you're comparing the happiness of a mixed economy You're comparing to what to other mixed economies So the first thing to realize is There is no pure laissez-faire. There's no free market anyway There's the mixed economy here and there's a mixed economy here and they're mixed in different ways And we can measure economic freedom. We can measure other types of freedom and liberty, but All of them are mixed Mixed of socialism capitalism mixed of Freedom in the social sphere and lack of freedom in the social sphere depending on the issues depending on the place So you're comparing a bunch of grays. There's no black and white here And I think that's the point you're trying to get to an aid, but it's much stalker than that It's not that the countries that have mixed economies are better. Everybody has a mixed economy So now take the the famous studies that show that scandinavian countries are the happiest in the world Finland for example is the happiest country in the world. I don't know if you've met any fins ever I don't think they're the happiest people in the world anyway, but Every study shows that they're the happiest people in the world, okay What can we learn from that? Well one How do the studies define happiness? What does happiness actually mean? In the studies are the studies studies that just ask people if they're happy Are the studies trying to find proxies for happiness are the proxies for happiness that they're finding any good Did they correspond to the kind of happiness that I would consider happiness My view is on all those constants is no no no no no Most of these studies are measuring life satisfaction. Are you satisfied with your life? Now one of the reasons scandinavians are satisfied with their lives Is because they're not very ambitious So life's okay if you don't have big expectations If you don't want to I don't know change the world make a lot of money Buy a beautiful home have a great life. I don't know for whatever if you're not ambitious Then whatever life's throws at you is fine as long as as long as I food on the table Decent job. I can bicycle to work When it's not too cold to bicycle and and you know Everything's good. Everything's good. The heating is on got heating. That's good I know Finland's not a scandinavian country. It's a Nordic one I know but it's kind of scandinavian. So we're gonna we're gonna include in scandinavian Denmark same thing. Denmark happiest people in the world. Well generally danes in america pretty happy But in america people danes are dramatically richer And in america so so people say why are the Nordic countries more happy than americans because americans are ambitious americans want more of out of life They buy self-help books all the time and they they want to achieve And as a consequence of that desire to achieve when they don't achieve they they're not as happy And even what they do achieve then they want to achieve more Which is good, which is actually what builds real happiness. Maybe not life contentment and satisfaction in the moment And that's what you find in danmark with all I love danes, but what you find in danmark and in scandinavia is mediocrity Settling for the average Settling for just okay Americans don't settle some americans are not quote happy. They're not quote satisfied. They always want more Scandinavians are less anxious Because they have a safety net so for example economically They're less anxious Because they've got a safety net and everything's taken care of like a free education free healthcare free this free that Americans are more anxious. Yeah, but that's because americans are risk takers They're willing to take on risk because they know that with risk comes reward It's part of what it means to be ambitious So again, they self-report greater anxiety because they have greater anxiety, but it's not anxiety you want to not have It's anxiety that is a consequence of more freedom more choices more ambition more upside Americans are dramatically richer than europeans including Scandinavians and non-scandinavians like finland And americans with similar genes to those nordic states have similar life expectancies Americans are more successful. They have more entrepreneurial enterprises. They are more startups. They are more I mean on every level of economic success americans just blows these countries away so um I mean that to me As i'm suspicious of economic of happiness studies period And then even if you and then if you figure out what exactly they're measuring they're not actually measuring Happiness not not in the sense that we mean it and what they are measuring is something that yes if you if you if you if if if If you if you're not ambitious to go up the ladder if you're ambitious stops it just okay, then You're satisfied it's just okay americans do they credit or not And and and that doesn't say anything about freedom because americans are freer in any dramatic way Than scandinavians at the margins. They are we have a little bit more economic freedom a little bit in some ways We have less economic freedom and if you look at the economic freedom indexes Denmark is often freer than the us listed as freer than us if you look at social freedoms We're pretty free even in the red states as compared to you know, one of the things that europeans don't have is they don't have a first amendment So they have hate speech laws so um You know, so all of that So don't dismiss the americans being free, but it's not that much freer than So people think of america's laws of fair in those countries as status and and status is happy and no all just mixtures of We regulate our businesses Scandinavia regulates less taxes more america taxes less regulates more And if you add up all the taxes we pay federal state local Payroll all of that we don't pay that much less than the scandinavians or the europeans do so All right, that's my answer. Hopefully uh, jim that helps you uh with your friend and uh and uh Yeah, all right, texas we're gonna do another time um Thank you james for the question. I watched the video i've got i've got i'm not gonna we're not gonna watch the video But um, I i have got notes in the video and we will be talking about the points the video makes about texas But that deserves As we said a uh a whole show on its own All right, thank you everybody. This is great. So we've got we've got some good uh, super chat questions We're still like 360 short. So, uh, let's do this because I see we've got quite a few five Two five dollar questions ten dollar questions. Let's 20 dollar questions from now on We're already at an hour. So 20 dollars or more questions 50 dollars or more gets priority um and uh Uh questions on anything. I mean, uh, you can start with these topics, but questions on anything And uh, we are going to jump in. I see there's a lot of questions on the topic at hand COVID vaccines, uh, uh, stuff like that. So we'll definitely Uh, we'll definitely look at those. Um, Look at those. All right. So, uh, yeah If again, we've got a hundred people watching four dollars from each person blows away So please consider if you're not going to do a 20 dollar question or more Please consider doing a sticker for like five dollars or ten dollars or three dollars or whatever And and we can get and we can get up to uh, we can get up there quickly Okay, um Let's see Ali. I'm going to answer Ali's question first because Ali's been waiting patiently from last episode He asked it at the very last minute just as I was Closing up and I didn't see it until I'd already turned off streaming Um, so let me start with that one. Um, so Ali says one of the youtuber one of the youtuber is just a youtuber out there Um, did some stats on number of jewish People hosted by lexfried and found that 80 of the people are jewish Uh, Eric Weinstein asked to cancel the youtuber. Do you agree with that? I mean if that's all there is to the story then no, of course not Just pointing out that people of jewish descent happen to be the 80 of the people interviewed by lexfried man Doesn't mean anything. Now if the guy Used that to argue that lexus is is uh, Is discriminating or that jews are running in the world or that the elders of zion are trying to take over Or anything like that then that's horrible. I still don't think he should be canceled from youtube But um, yeah, I think she'd be condemned if he's expressing anti-semitic views But you know people often, um, give the stat that, um jews get x number of the noba prizes In science and other noba prizes Way, uh disproportionate Um to uh to the percentage in the population. That's not anti-semitic. That's just factual It just is and then you can debate why that is And and you know, it's interesting that 80 percent if it's true that 80 percent of the people lexfried man has interviewed a jewish It's interesting why that is but it it it logics then has to do with the disproportionate number of jews who are represented and are successful in fields that interest likes freedom And uh, so and and look, you know, the the the person who did that probably counts me as jewish Does that mean anything? I don't really count myself as jewish. So what is it? What does it actually mean? So no, I don't think people, you know, I again youtube has the right um to cancel anybody they want but Something like that doesn't strike me as worthy of cancellation I think very few things in my social media platform if I had a platform would count as worthy of cancellation Ali, hopefully that answered your question feel free to ask a follow-up if um, if uh, you need to um, let's see michael for 50 dollars um Big pharma not just saving lives It makes life so much more comfortable. Absolutely Whatever this comfort we have headache muscle ache heartburn hay fever motion sickness There's an over-the-counter remedy or even better. There's a prescribed remedy It makes it more comfortable. You know, you how many people rely on viagra for sex. I mean, that's cool. That's amazing So I agree with you completely for a big pharma. Let me let me be state this clear big pharma is heroic It has to overcome the FDA has to overcome conspiracy theories It has to overcome price controls placed on it by bite administration the bush administration It has to overcome medicare. It has to overcome the fast govern regulatory state Big pharma's effort on behalf of human life and not just length of life quality of life life The quality of the life lived Their contribution to this is is just unbelievable their heroes heroes And to argue that covered i've said cover 19. It's not even big pharma It's biotech and biotech is like biotech is like this amazing technology That's revolutionizing the world that we're living in as we're living in it And to diss it like this to just dismiss it to ignore it Or to argue against it or to make them out as villains Is there cronyism there? Well, of course there's cronyism the government is constantly threatening big pharma with regulations and controls and and and new taxes and And to negotiate medicare to negotiate prices, which is just a way to control prices and drive them down I mean Big pharma is amazing And I don't I don't understand right and left so eager to make big pharma the villain the villain and Where the defenders of hating big pharma? I'm curious if they're willing to come on and try to defend the hatred of big pharma All right, uh, we're about halfway to our goal, but that's only halfway. So there's still a lot of room And uh, again value for value everybody keeps telling me last few shades of shows have been amazing We have we've had over a hundred people watching live for quite a while now We should be able to get to 650 today of all days given how many people are watching Somebody come in with a hundred two hundred dollars three hundred dollars. Get us get us over the hump It it would be shocking if we had a day with stable over a hundred people watching and couldn't get to our target Ali says second question by Ali talking about Lie in science. We should bring string theory. I watched the debate between mico caco A string theory propagandist and noble prize winner and sabina a phd physics He was not able to defend his theory. No, I mean, I'm not a physicist. I don't I don't have a deep Deep understanding of it Uh and But It strikes me as wrong and everybody I know who Knows physics thinks it's wrong and and and it's bad science. So it's it's probably bad science I don't think it's lying. I just think it's bad science. It's it's um You know, it's a bad methodology in science I I think it's it's too much based on kind of a paparian uh methodology But from everything I've seen and heard from people it's just it's just Not a useful path For science to go through it's it's just detached from reality Thanks Ali Uh, okay friend harpa I'm listening how to make how to make friends and influence people If you have read it, what are your thoughts on it? Would you happen to know of any good books about friendship? I don't know about any good books about friendship and I have not read how to make friends and influence people I don't know. These are the kind of topics. I don't read books about I mean I go out and and um Ali says Miko Kako is not a Nobel Prize winner. I thought in the question you said he was um, but anyway, um Yeah, I mean, I think I don't I I I don't think Strength theory is legit Or the guy debated him was the Nobel Prize winner and who so who who won the debate Who won the debate was it Miko won the debate or the other guy? I I do not know any good books about friendship or Have strong opinions about oh, I haven't read how to make friends. Uh, and so on Michael says it's a good book for salespeople quite likely given that I've never been a salesperson although I've raised money. That's kind of a salesperson. So you could argue I have been um, Frank says Frank Rockfella Does an environmentalism in a welfare state have got God in a deistic sense? And government is its helping hand thereby replacing the invisible hand of the market Thoughts on that idea Um, I don't know that environmentalism I think environmentalism has Some kind of concept of God But you know, it's it's got Gia. It's got Mother Nature. It's got It's got, um You know the intrinsic value of the environment is in a sense that overrides all other things Is in a sense placing a God above everything else Um, I don't know that the welfare state we got has really a God in a deistic sense I government is a helping hand, but I I don't see how the welfare state is inherently Religious in that sense environmentalism clearly is religious. So welfare state is just the application of altruism to politics It's it's it's necessitated by altruism. He sacrificed some for others. You help them with their sacrifice You make sure that the sacrifice is done Um, they do indeed replace the invisible hand of the market although I don't like the term invisible hand I don't like the implication of invisible hand and indeed in In in Anna Smith. He uses the invisible hand in a different sense invisible hand is a sense in which The self-interested actions of individuals through the invisible hand lead to social War being they they They all these egoistic acts erase themselves For a kind of a collectivistic purpose, which is um, which is uh social war being which is what capitalism items of beliefs leads to So I I get it on vimealism I I think you're absolutely right that environmentalism is both a religion and it has a deity It's created a deity I don't think the welfare state does. I don't know what the deity is there with the welfare state government is The servant no matter what government is the servant Government is the instrument of justice the instrument or morality and the instrument of god In in for the environmentalists and the interests of morality for the welfare statists Thanks, frank really appreciate that was $50 that got us much closer to our goal. Thank you gail Really appreciate the support All right, kevin You're on least vaccinated versus most vaccinated Maybe a correlation without a direct causation true Anti-science often results in less health population less healthy population obese succumb to COVID at a higher rate. No. Yeah, absolutely. But um It could be that But it's easy to control for that, right? So you can take two states with similar obesity rates One state is more vaccinated. One state is less vaccinated and and and you test those out None of these are difficult issues And none of these things are not things that people have done Right. I mean there's a there's gazillion studies out there The the the medical literature is filled With post-covid analysis of the vaccine of COVID itself of what's happened And It's you know, the science is pretty clear The vaccine saved millions of lives It created some risks for young people Probably was unnecessary to vaccinate young people certainly was unnecessary to vaccinate children Uh, but Vaccines clearly saved millions of lives particularly older lives particularly of older people And it's not responsible for excess deaths. Anyway, anyway In every single country where there's excess deaths, there's a reason for those excess deaths. Part of it is COVID still People forget that people still get COVID and old people still dying from COVID Part of it is deaths of despair in the united states In the uk a lot of it has to do with the fact that the nhs Uh through COVID was basically stretched to the limit And is functioning today at sub par Has massive labor shortages one of the reasons for massive immigration allowing mass immigration into uk Is to fill the roles of of uh, of people in the nhs But it is under budget. It's it's it's it's a it's a system that's that's broken Sweden has very high rates of vaccination Very high rates of vaccination and no excess deaths So You know, and you can find other countries with the same thing So There's a lot going on and you have to control four of those things. So yes, you can't just look at One of the other they could be confounding factors. It could be it could You know again correlation is not causation So as I said just just my casual observation But you have to be careful of casual observations. I grant you that but You can test all these things you can test these are processes and people having people do Why so many people out there particularly on the right, but also on the kooky left Want to believe the kooks And not the actual medical professionals Doing the calculations doing the evidence Because one group is on youtube and the other is not Why somebody like pietatio or some of the other doctors online? Really interesting and doing breakthrough work and challenging and pushing the envelope on a variety of different issues You're guarding medicine. Why nobody believes them They believe the kooks. I mean if you watch these doctors They look a little kooky just like they look a little kooky and they talk a little kooky and their whole Stake is is a marketing stick. It's not a science stick And then they they they have oh CDC report proves this and then they they give you an out-of-contact sentence and say see People are getting I don't know this disease because of the vaccinations then you go and you actually read the cdc report That's not what it says at all. It says the says something completely different And how many times how many sentences like that? Do you literally have to go and check and see that they're false before you come to the conclusion that these guys are kooks They're not worth listening to they don't know what they're talking about and ignoring them as best policy I guess I have to actually go and read everything and prove everything and and of course I have done videos I've done several videos where I've taken a particular claim and debunked it Has anybody out there have you seen has anybody seen anybody out there debunked by debunking? That would be cool Somebody debunked my debunking debunked bunk bunk But that would be cool Right Show me I'm wrong. I mean Kevin just did that. I appreciate that Kevin He he showed me that a statement I made probably not accurate and he's right I can't just take the least and most You have to control for obesity My guess is if you control for beastie you get the same result, but you have to control for obesity You have to do that for example So I'm all for you showing me I'm wrong all for doing that but It's very rare Thank you Kevin Let's see Linda. Thank you WCZN First super chat. Thank you from New Zealand. Thank you for the first super chat. Really really appreciate it And then west came in with a hundred dollars. Thank you west Really appreciate the support and getting us Significantly closer to a target, but still 180 short 180 short. It's just nine nine twenty dollar questions We can do this Nine twenty dollar questions. There have to be nine people out there who are willing to put twenty dollars in and Have a question. If you don't have a question, you can do a sticker Kevin also says do corona viruses not mutate significantly enough to reduce the effectiveness of the vaccine from host to host Well, not from host to host, but over time. Yes, and that's why the vaccine boosters Have been adjusted to take into account the mutations So the vaccine you would get today for covid and i'm not suggesting anybody under the age of 75 get a booster, but Booster shot that you get today for covid Is is different in terms of the immunity The protection it gives you then the booster you got A year ago or two years ago because They've adjusted the booster shots to the particular mutation the particular virus that exists today and So absolutely, but it doesn't it doesn't mutate from host to host it mutates over large populations. It mutates over periods of time that's why One of the problems with the first vaccine Was that when was it omnicon or whatever? When it mutated it became less effective. So they had to come up with a booster That was good for the mutation But the beauty of it is the scientists on top of it and and and they're completely aware of this and they're constantly trying to improve it They would love to have a vaccine that covered all the mutations. So if you could figure out Which part of the virus was likely to mutate And attach it if the if the if the vaccine could attach Disable that part that was not generally mutating Then you could have an all mutation vaccine I don't think they have that yet. They're working on it supposedly but of course covered is mutated into a pretty weak Virus just like the other covered viruses that caused the flu there. Sorry not the flu the cold the common cold The covered virus will ultimately mutate probably into another common cold Which we we will keep having covered constantly throughout the years, but it won't be a killer Even for old people or beast people or people diabetes that it won't kill as many people as the original cover did Partially because we're somewhat we've developed immunity to it through getting it and through the vaccines and partially because It's just getting weaker An honest user. Thank you. Really appreciate the support Um I recently this is joseph I recently reread the reminding manifesto again. I was struck by bans many rich psychological insights Yet she wasn't a psychologist Did she consult with band underneath in short? How did she verify her psychological insights? I mean, I think she most of her psychological insights are I think derived from introspection and observing the people around her She I think she had this unbelievable mind that could observe people And through introspecting into her own mind Figure out their own psychology and their own motivation and what was driving them And She had to be able to do that To be able to write the novels Any great novelists Novelist has to be a good psychologist in a sense Because what are they doing? They're describing the psychology of characters that they're describing characters They're telling you what's going on in their head. They're describing how they respond to different things They're giving you different to use a jordan peterson term archetypes But these are psychological so i'm sure she was discussing psychology with netallion brandon but You know during this period but she wrote novels before she met nathania brandon She wrote the fontan head before she met nathania brandon And the fontan head is a profoundly psychological book. I mean think of dominique Where are you going to get dominique is? it's all psychology wine and even even even the even uh twoy Deep psychological observations about all of them So there's no way for her To do that unless she has keen observations now Whether she learned psychology for brandon whether she taught brandon psychology is a good open question I I happen to think she taught him a lot more than he taught her but I could be wrong. I don't know Uh, but you get her psychological mind from reading her novels Nathanael brandon is not still alive. He died five years ago something like that I mean, you can't be who go is a great psychologist. I mean anybody who's written really good novels novels that really delve into characters have to be good psychologists Not in the sense of treatment in a sense of observation and that's the difference between her And and a psychologist that she's not there to treat although i'm sure she'd have some good observations about that She's there to observe Diagnose Andrew says I started rewatching yb's rules for life. We visited I was amused that youtube advertised as related Jordan peterson's video bear your cross Is there a more diametrically opposite rule for life from yb rule than that probably not I should probably i'm gonna look at that um, i'm gonna look at bear your cross and maybe do a uh a video um commenting on that one Because yes, that is perfect. That is perfect. I will be doing a video on A second video because i've done this before but this will this will be another one on um On the seven deadly sins that also be an opposition of my rules of life So we'll do the seven deadly sins and why Why i'm opposed to the seven deadly sins why I think they're not sins for the most part They're upside down Stephen oppa Would interview heather mcdonalds in a recent debate with jordan peterson? She successfully defended the renaissance and the enlightenment Also, she wore two excellent reviews of all all my deutscher's music. Yeah I mean heather mcdonalds is a is a really interesting uh interesting woman. Um, I can I can look into um, I can look into trying to connect with her um And figure out what I would interview her on but Um, I haven't seen actually let me copy paste this because I haven't seen her interviews with um with jordan peterson. I think that would be super interesting um You're saying not interviews debates with jordan peterson. I I didn't know those existed. They'll sound really really cool um Huh, I'll look for that. Thanks, steven Frank says isn't inheritance crucial for the stability and progress of civilization It does that in play respect for family structure No, I don't think inheritance is crucial for the stability of anything the only inheritance that matters is Intellectual that is knowledge Civilization is built on the knowledge of the past. We're constantly building layer after layer after layer after layer on the knowledge of the past Once in a while we get a genius who accelerates that and then we keep building on that And then there's another acceleration with more geniuses and in every field So we depend on the sciences of the past of the thinkers of the past of the artists of the past Of the philosophers certainly of the past to build on their knowledge. So that is the only sense inheritance matters Monitoring heritance doesn't I mean if if if people gave all their money away to people who are unrelated to them What difference it would make the money wouldn't go away? Indeed arguably A lot of people are doing that a lot of the new billionaires don't want to live it to their kids So so no, I don't think inheritance has much to do with progress of civilization other than This idea of knowledge building on knowledge and you want a continuum of knowledge You don't want the the the chain of knowledge to be broken. All right only $150 short of a go Um, I like numbers as high thoughts on the Lincoln project is the Lincoln project kind of the never trump a project That was started in 2020 or 2016 I can't remember um I mean the problem with many of the people in the Lincoln project is the ultimately gained democrats They didn't really stand for anything. They hated trump. I'm all with them on that 100 But they didn't represent anything as an alternative to trump. They don't offer anything positive And many of them who were a public and became democrats Some of them are are neocons who I disagree with on Most stuff other than a mutual disregard for trump So I don't know. I I'm not particular enthused by people who define themselves In terms of a negative All right, and that's what I think the Lincoln project is Michael says do Scandinavian Scandinavian strike You as happy. I don't think anyone's really happy in a continent world No, not particularly, but of course it's hard to make generalizations. I know individual Scandinavians who are happy Um, and and but it depends on on their individual philosophy their individual ambition They're striving as Scandinavian strike me as content is and I find the same thing in the Netherlands. They find me as Satisfied they're okay with life life is fairly easy for them and it's it's you know The the challenge is not that big their politics are not that distraught. They it's just okay It's okay. And if you're not ambitious, that's perfect But if you're ambitious people who are ambitious leave those countries Many people are ambitious leave those countries Hopper Campbell do status laugh at free market movements trying to stop them. Do they see our resistance to futile? Yeah, I think they do. I think they they think it's pretty ridiculous Justin says I've k juniors gfk's nephew Please respect the kennedy. I have no respect for kennedy gfk was awful an awful human being and an awful president um, his statement don't ask what you know You know what the country could do for you, but what you can do for your country Is is an exemplification of how bad and horrible he was Um, it's basically, you know asking you to sacrifice for the state Um, it it's in the state above the individual. So no, I have no respect for the kennedys any of them. Um, I don't like them. I ran suddenly hated gfk. He thought he thought he was terrible Worst president in american history up to that point in her view I can't even imagine what you would have thought of the more recent presidents Uh, but uh, but yes, no no No love of respect for the kennedys at all He completely screwed up cuba gfk Ultimately, um Let us the johnson who gave us the welfare state who gave us medicare God, I mean the gfk and johnson were just an awful combination Yeah, you can't respect. I mean the kennedys have done nothing to deserve our respect Jacob says if you understand the mechanism A purpose of aluminum Juvents the i ls activated the never-ending increase in number of vaccines And doses in first second year of life. You must consider vaccine possible cause of autism um Given I know a lot of people who understand all that I don't But given that I know a lot of people understand all that much better than I do Um and who are you know deep in in the in into the science of it in the biology of it in the Epidemiology of it and all that stuff and they don't think that The the that is what is going on and that's what causing autism Including people who have children with autism who've researched this inside and out Who don't believe the vaccines caused autism You know, do I know 100% that that's the case? No not first handed. I don't but but every single person I that I respect Uh, almost every single person I respect Um, uh, that has looked at this data came has come to the exactly the same conclusion and I have no reason to doubt them And and and I'm pretty sure if I went and looked at the studies. I come to the same conclusion, but Maybe I will maybe I won't do people need to understand objectives and before they can develop the self-esteem To embrace it or do people have to really have Self-esteem before they read I ran in order to embrace her I mean, it's both. You need some level of self-esteem. I think to be able to embrace otherwise. It's it's it's such a big leap um, and then of course The knowledge you gain from her Enhances your self-esteem and helps you build that self-esteem. So I think you have some level and then ever increasing and it's a It's a virtuous circle the more you learn Uh, the more you learn then, uh, you know, the more you can do the more The more self-esteem you can attain How much of an effect do you expect to have with 34,400 subscribers? I don't know. It depends if my subscribers depends on my subscribers depends on, uh Uh, ambitious they are depends how smart they are depends on how You know, uh, how many of them be coming to lectures I mean, I take heart in the fact that many of the people Who are studying full-time today at the iron man university who might be future intellectuals Came to objectivism by being one of my subscribers so That's all I need right if a certain percentage of 34,000 not that big of a percentage Go on to become objectivist intellectuals then I'll have a huge effect If I have 34,000 people who are basically not going to do anything with this material other than maybe improve their own lives But they're not going to take it out into culture in any way and not going to become writers and not going to become speakers And not going to become intellectuals and not not going to influence their friends Not going to influence anybody else, but just live slightly better life Then very little effect on the culture. I'll have an effect on some of the 34,000 So it depends on you not on me I do what I can Wesley thought on the just world fallacy the just world fallacy that is people get what they deserve Some evidence suggests it leads to greater psychological over being I think there is a sense in which it's a just world It's not a just world free of accidents That is of of things that happen that people don't deserve. It's not a just world in a sense of uh, Free of evil that might do horribly unjust things but overall I think the world is just overall Big picture good people have good lives and bad people don't And but there are accidents and there are bad people and there are bad circumstances that affect you and and That throw wrench into that So you just have to you have to understand the world is what it is and there's you have a You have some control of what happens to you but not complete control of what happens to you But in that part that you have control if you do a good job You will live a good life Michael texas seems to be more of a freedom spirit orientation than florida Not your why florida ranks higher in terms of economic freedom because it's just economically freer Um, there's less regulation texas is very high Regulation a lot of licensing laws um You know businesses are taxed. I think more than florida. So there's just a lot of a lot of Government intervention and economy in texas More, I mean more than in florida and more than in some other states It's not ranked high in terms of government intervention. It's ranked high in terms of low taxes Our fk jr. Believe cia killed his father and uncle All right, maybe if you become president he can reel the secret file You think that'll change his mind? No, I mean he's a echo He's crazy Fender oppa says thanks for making my twitter feed more valuable. Oh, I I didn't know I had any impact on your twitter field Guys 120 dollars short. You can make it happen still six questions 20 dollar questions. Come on Daniel says when did you begin learning english Iran? What was your journey like love the show as always? I mean, I I started english from day one I mean I was I grew up with two languages english and hebrew my parents spoke english at home I spoke hebrew outside of the house so You know every day was a little bit of both I think at the age of three or four I told my parents no more english only hebrew and I rebelled And I stopped speaking english But then my parents took me to london and I had to speak english So I learned english again in london during the period in london because I spoke english at home and with friends I ended up forgetting my hebrew. So when we got went back to israel. I relearned it very quickly, but I had to relearn it Um, so I've always had english and hebrew interchangeably um Jennifer is it possible that the definition of autism is wide-ended in the past century? So more people are diagnosed with it. I think that's probably true But there is something going on with autism It does seem to be You could argue that autism was underdiagnosed in the past. So I'm not an expert on this. I don't really know You could argue both directions that it was underdiagnosed historically Autism has always been around um, and um, and and it's just we're just better at diagnosing it now Or the diagnosis has expanded so today we're we're diagnosing people with autism that shouldn't be diagnosed with autism um Or something in the environment Is causing the autism I don't know what it is. I I haven't researched it. I suspect it's a little bit of all I suspect it's a little bit of everything Um, but I I yeah, I don't know I just Um, I think the scientists have looked enough at the relationship between autism and vaccines And there's so many parents with such a clear interest to figure this out That it was so simple as it's the vaccine stupid Everybody would know that and they and and they would you know They'd figure out either to fix the vaccines to change the vaccines to do something to eliminate this horror Daniel an amazing show yesterday you're on here's to another thanks. Daniel. Hopefully this was another Frank says economist Stanley Eggerman died his book claimed Slave who is an economic viable ownership was profitable and agriculture efficient. Was he right? No, he wasn't right He was absolutely unequivocally wrong about that Slave who is unprofitable was was bad economics Um, it was bad for agriculture. Maybe for agriculture, but then there was no necessity for agriculture um The north was much richer than the south as a consequence partially why they won the war Uh shazbot I have heard that autism could be linked to problems with the digestive tract Have you heard anything about that? No, but you know, they're linking almost everything to the digestive tract right now You know the biome biome in in in the guts the the the balance of the biome the kind of bacteria that are there The relative this or that, you know, almost everything is now They're finding some kind of relationship to the biome. So Could they find something with the autism? But the science is still young I mean, we we just don't know there's so much about the human body. We don't know the biome is just one of those things We're just starting to learn more about and figuring it out. So a lot more is related to the gut than we know and and Still work to be done All right Thank you, uh, w cz and Uh Mpoki mpoki Popo something like that How should one ideally structure life's goals or values? Family career romance health Do you believe do you believe come what comes first and why most important things one should strongly consider? So so that's a big question a big question for like uh late at night So I'm really going to encourage you to go back. Uh, first of all to read iron man's, uh, Ethics, uh, the the objective is ethics in the virtue of selfishness Also to go back and and watch my videos on uran's rules for life, which I'll discuss a lot of that um, and uh, and my videos on on the virtues, but Primarily, I would encourage you to go study iron man's ethics a little bit and listen to lenda picoff's ethics I will just say That you have to create a hierarchy of values. You have to create a hierarchy of what's most important and what's least important Um, I would say that the most important values Are as iron man talked about it the cardinal values the values in which all other values depend our reason purpose and self-esteem And those are the things you should value above all And indeed it's only within the context of reason and The integration of any value into your life and into A flourishing successful life. Can you evaluate family career romance health? Now purposes is is unique here So your life has to have a purpose and and that purpose requires you to have a central a central purpose and and That central purpose is likely to be career and career Is likely to be at the center of your life. You're going to spend more time Working than anything else you do. You're gonna The your career is where you're going to get yourself esteem from it's going it's it's where you're going to get the material Values that are going to make it possible for you to survive and to live and to feed your family to the extent that You value your family So I would say The abstract concept of reason purpose and self-esteem and the virtues that are related to that those are the primary values And then on the purpose you've got career, which is your organizing value of your life and then within that You've got to now evaluate family chosen family wife and kids Versus unchosen families siblings and parents Well chosen family more important than unchosen family How important is unchosen family parents siblings? Depends. Are they good? Are they nice? Do you love them? Do you get you know, do you enjoy their company? Don't you enjoy their company? But it all has to be within the context of your life of Your flourishing of whether they are objectively good for you There's no duty to have a family and there's no duty to love your parents. There's no duty To do all these things health. Well, you got to be healthy life acquires that But how much time do you spend on health and what point in your life? Well, I mean the the reality is the earlier you start the easier it is But you know, what does that mean? Do you obsess 24-7 about Exercise and about diet and about all these things and do you do marginal things that probably don't have that much of an impact and on and on and on and on and on So, I mean, this is real work that you have to do in the context of your life And in the context of what makes you What is good for you objectively? What is going to allow you to flourish and prosper in your life? But I encourage you to read the objectives ethics to watch uh, lennepikov's courses on on the values and the virtues and then On the Iran book show to to go go watch my shows on the virtues and and watch my shows on The Iran's rules for life. We have like, I don't know 1920 of those and and and in many of those I talk exactly about these issues Thank you pokey Bre oh, by the way, we reached our goal. Thank you guys fantastic um Bre says I sent one of my B shorts to the top b behavior scientist tom sealy In the world because something was odd. He said it was new behavior never studied and we are setting up a study Can you help with my noble speech? Absolutely I'd be happy to one of one of one of my dreams is that some noble prize winner and the scientist stands up and attributes their success to I knew Rand's epistemology Right the iron rands view of of epistemology that will be so amazing So cool. So So yes looking forward to that brian. Congratulations. That's very exciting James says, do you think uh, what do you think about texas attempting to ban property taxes? Do you think property taxes are necessary for state? How did state survive without them? No, I think it's fantastic to ban property taxes. I I I really hope they do I I don't think you should be I don't think you are renting your property from the state, which is basically what properties texas do But let me just say this i'll say it now I think the odds of texas banning property taxes are close to zero I think it's very very very unlikely The texas will actually ban property taxes if they do Wow, that'll be huge. But yes, property taxes in texas are higher than they are in california Because of that proposition that passed in the 1970s that kept property taxes. So Yeah, i'm not a fan of property taxes because it basically implies that the government owns your property And if we you don't have property Banning them would be fantastic and They're not necessary. Absolutely not necessary Daniel says have you ever visited fresno california? If so, what did you think? Have you visited sequoia forest in california? I'm pretty sure i've driven it through fresno Not much. It's it's middle of agricultural country. There's not much there. It's a little boring um Sequoia forest is amazing beautiful I visited both the big sequoia national park In in the center of texas and the sequoias in the north of texas along wood one in the north Amazing particularly the big sequoias out in oh those are redwoods Sequoia national park one of the most beautiful places ever and really interesting and fascinating and i've been there At least twice. Maybe i think three times. I mean, it's sequoia national forest three times Daniel says Where would you live? Iran if port of rica did not have its texas this where is the closest to coming To live on the mainland. I don't know I really don't it really would depend on my tax situation. That is how much money I was making What were the sources of their money? I still think the best place in the world to live is california um, and you know, I If I had a choice I I would live in in san diego. I would buy a condo In in a tall building in downtown san diego That would be that would be amazing. I I there's there's A lot that I love about california that just doesn't exist in texas With all due respect to texas the weather is a thousand times better Particularly in san diego um I can't go to new hamshire. It's too cold. Um And and I and I don't particularly like it. Um california is incredibly productive Um and creative and innovative and and interesting Um, so I you know, I I actually I you know, I know I you know california is where silicon valley is it's where San diego is where the biotech industry is headquartered and and it's a it's an amazing place in so many regards. It's you know, the You know going going Anyway, it's it's just there's a lot of pluses if if if it was somewhere else I don't know. I guess it would be austin texas. I I love austin texas. I Uh, I don't particularly like the weather but other than that, but the weather's not that bad Most of the year it's just really really bad in the winter and in the summer. Um, I I I saw I would probably be in austin texas I would not go to new england and Not interested at this point in my life of living in new york, although I would have liked two 20 years ago, maybe um, you know, I'd love to live in in argan or Seattle if the weather was better if they didn't if it didn't rain all the time But I I don't I'm not going to choose my state based on the politics of the people there Particularly the old agate and I'm not going to start a business and I'm going to do I'm not going to deal with the government in that sense So taxes matter but other than that not a lot more the people matter and in san diego people are great Orange county people are great Um But austin austin texas I wouldn't live. I don't think anywhere else in texas Yeah, I mean that that that that's my That's my best guess. I mean, but I consider living in europe. I consider living in lisbon or Or in uh, basalona or in places like that So, you know, the iberian peninsula the weather's nice my kind of weather The people are super friendly. The food is amazing. Um, I don't know spanish, but I'm already used to not knowing spanish from living in porto rico Daniel says have you been to hana lulu hawaii? What is your favorite restaurant bless places to visit? I have but it was a long long time ago. So I don't have a favorite restaurant I'm sorry. It was before it was a foodie and before I kept track of these things um, and um, but yeah, hana lulu is very nice Beaches beaches beaches. That's what there is in hana lulu. That's what you got to see I would go out of hana lulu go take a road trip Out I think it's out of the island to where the mountains are some beautiful beautiful places On other parts of the island. It's a shame that people just stay in hana lulu rent a car and go driving. It's it's a gorgeous place Frank says isn't permission to produce an aspect of altruistic welfare state and isn't this a symbol of deism Not spoiling god's creation Well, that's I think the environmentalists have that aspect But I don't think every mixed status to one permission. I think the permission to produce is a lot about Philosopher kings and philosopher kings don't necessitate a god or It could be just control the need to control people. I don't think that necessitates a deity And I don't think it's just about not spoiling god's creation. It's it's more like not doing what not Not doing Um, what I tell you not to do that is following orders It's got a lot to do with authoritarianism and a kind of an authoritarian epistemology James asked do you eat texas barbeque? Yes, I love texas barbeque my favorite barbeque. Do you have a favorite barbeque? Yeah, texas What else do you eat in texas when visiting? I eat a lot of barbeque I eat a lot of food. What do I eat specifically? I don't know Um Oh, mexican food some really good mexican restaurants in austin Steak some good steak places particularly in dallas. There's some good steak places um Yeah, I mean meat but um mexican tex max But also just mexican authentic mexican a lot of good mexican restaurants in texas But barbeque barbeque barbeque. I love barbeques tacos a lot of good tacos in uh in in texas All right guys, it's late two hours in thank you another another Show where we met our target really really appreciate that we're gonna have a good month this month. Um, it looks like Certainly if we continue on this pace, I will see you tomorrow tomorrow morning sometime Not sure exactly maybe noon. Maybe one o'clock So tomorrow afternoon east coast time will do a news roundup. I will see you then Thank you to everybody. Thanks to all the superchatters. 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