 The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Book Show. All right, everybody. Welcome to Iran Book Show, and this Wednesday, May 31st, is... It is the last... Last day of the month. It's the last day of May. Wow, that passed quickly. Amazing how quickly this year is passing. Okay. What's going on? I will be traveling just to give you a quick heads-up. I'll be traveling the first week in June, so starting tomorrow until next Friday. I will try to do as many shows as I can while I'm traveling. I will be in Dallas tomorrow doing a debate on inequality with James Golbrith, professor of economics from the University of Texas in Austin. It's a private event, so sorry. I know some of you might have wanted to come, but it is a private event. And then I'll be in Austin all of next week. All right, so, yes, I'll see when I do programs. I'll try to do one tomorrow and Friday for my hotel room. Hopefully that'll work out. We will see. And certainly I'll do some shows over the weekend. All right. Let's jump right in to our news roundup. So it's made the news that Uganda is in Africa, if you were wondering. A country in Africa, a former British colony, I guess, has just passed some of the most extreme anti-gay laws, probably in the world right now. Although much of the world has significant anti-gay laws, certainly Russia and much of Africa. So this is a law that's created a lot of angst, of course, in the western world, which has a very tolerant view of LGBTQ. In Africa, gay sex is still criminalized in most of Africa. Not all of Africa. There are a number of countries. South Africa, for example. South Africa, for example, has legalized gay marriage. There are a number of countries in the African region that have, that basically have legalized the Oral Bisexual Act or decriminalized it. Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Lesotho, and Cichellis have decriminalized same-sex relationships just in the last decade. And generally, young people in Africa are far more, you know, pro-gay is not the right terminology, but far more accepting of gay and gay sex than are others. Uganda passed a pretty restrictive law. A gay sex is banned and could result in significant jail sentences. If caught, what they call aggregated homosexuality, aggravated homosexuality is both, you know, the supplies to rape, a homosexual rape, it applies to homosexual relationships with a child. It applies also to having homosexual sex where, among consenting adults, where one of them has HIV, aggravated homosexuality has the death sentence. Somebody who knowingly promotes homosexuality, not clear what promotes even means, could spend 20 years in jail. You can imagine what actually being caught having homosexual sex involves decades in jail. Organizations convicted of encouraging it could receive a 10-year ban. Currently, there are 22 nonprofits in Uganda that are under investigation for allegedly promoting homosexuality in the country. You can imagine how the government defines promoting homosexuality. And so, you know, this has obviously come under attack from much of the West. It turns out that the United States actually sends about $1 billion annually for various programs in Uganda. Did you know that? That our foreign aid goes $1 billion, $1 billion. And the Biden administration is threatening to withhold that $1 billion. I think they should permanently stop providing $1 billion to Uganda and maybe stop all this foreign aid stuff anyway. You're promoting all kinds of horrible, horrific things. Uganda and many African countries have very, very intolerant cultures to homosexuality. It is, you know, people are beaten, people are killed. People are treated just horrifically for being homosexuals. It is truly a travesty. And the fact that the United States supports this is, yeah, horrible. So, yes, withdraw their $1 billion, absolutely. For those of you who say, well, aggravated, disaggravated homosexuality, you know, rape. So what? So they got a death penalty for rape, big deal. Of course, raping a woman doesn't carry that kind of sentence. Anywhere near that kind of sentence. Rape of women is very, very common in Uganda. Almost a quarter of all women report that their first sexual encounter in Uganda was, I think it was 40% of women, was by rape. Women, you know, women generally sexual assault, sexual crimes against women are not particularly prosecuted, particularly hard. There are new laws in the books that are more stringent about prosecuting rape of women and girls. But when it actually comes to courts, it is rare that these things are actually prosecuted. So clearly these laws, even if you think, yeah, rape, that's a bad thing. Well, rape is a bad thing no matter whom you rape, no matter what sex the person you rape is. So this is a bill basically that's anti-gay, anti-homosexuality. It's a bill that is trying to dictate what you do with your sex, what you do in the privacy room, in your bedroom. It is a disgrace, it is disgusting, it is horrific. This is kind of evil stuff that's just horrible. And of course, part of their energy comes from, you know, attacking the left. So part of the energy comes from, oh, we've seen what gay cultures look like. Look at America and look at Europe. We don't want to be like them. You know, we hate the LGBTQ plus, look at, you know, the kind of Putin, and why the white likes Putin so much is all the kind of language he uses, attacking homosexuality and attacking. And it just feeds into, oh well, we kind of like Uganda because they're anti-woke. This is good. This is prevalent all over the world. Somebody says even China has some of that. Yeah, even China has it, although this is one of the worst. I mean, the death penalty is one of the worst. Horrible in the news and, you know, this is where you have to side, I think, wholeheartedly with those people advocating for gay rights, LGBTQ rights against authoritarian, horrific regimes like this that want to criminalize private human activity that affects nobody other than the people participating. What's interesting is that this is, what's interesting is what has happened with Ted Cruz with regard to this. So Ted Cruz put out a tweet yesterday about this, and the tweet read, the Uganda law is horrific and wrong. Any law criminalizing sexuality or imposing the death penalty for quote, aggravated homosexuality is grotesque and an abomination. All civilized nations should join together in condemning this human rights abuse. And he finished off with the hashtag, hashtag LGBTQ. This is Ted Cruz. So first, thumbs up to Ted Cruz. I haven't done that in like, I don't know, since he read out of Atlas Shrugged on the center floor years and years ago. I think that was 2014 or something like that. So, wow, Ted Cruz said this. I don't know what's happened to Ted, but good for him. But what is really interesting, I mean, that's interesting that Ted Cruz would stand out for individual rights of gay people in Uganda. That is pretty unusual and pretty unexpected, I would say. But good for Ted. But what was truly, I don't know, informative and indicative is the comment section on Twitter, the response to Ted Cruz's tweet. Oh my God. Oh my God. His base, people who probably vote for him, voted for him. People in generally voted for him for president, maybe in 2016 in the primary. The right flipped out completely on Ted Cruz. Why do you care about human rights in Uganda? What about the January 6th writers? Wow. What's wrong with this law? Isn't homosexuality bad? Good for the Ugandans. They finally have the courage to do what we should be doing. Those are the responses. Here's one prominent right wing evangelical pastor. And I think this is indicative, right? Tell it to God, Ted. And he quotes Leviticus 2013. If a man lies with another male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood is upon us. And the evangelical goes on to say, was this law God gave to his old covenant people, quote, horrific and wrong? Yes. It was horrific and wrong. Much of what God tells the people to do in the Old Testament is horrific and wrong. It would be cool if people stood up and said that stoning, stoning adulteresses, wiping out whole people, men, women, children, so not a seed among them over me, and beasts, by the way, beasts as well. Yeah, I mean, if you find Ted Cruz's tweet, I encourage you to find it and tweet it and retweet it. Look at the comments section. It gives you a flavor for a cross section of America that is truly scary. If you think woke is scary, you know, and woke is scary. Go read. People who follow Ted Cruz scary on steroids. And it doesn't seem to be just a few people. So it's going to be interesting. It's going to be interesting to see how Ted Cruz positions himself. And this does surprise me how strong his condemnation of this law is, the fact that he chose to comment on it. And he, you know, I think he actually doubled up on it later on. Let me see if I can find that story. I thought there was a something where he doubled up on it. And the stories are, you know, there's stories about Ted Cruz's wokeness, right? Ted Cruz is now woke because he's defending individual rights in Uganda. Where is, where did I see that? He kind of doubled up on it and followed up on it. Yeah, I don't see it, but okay. So be it. I think if you find it, you'll see him commenting afterwards. Ted Cruz has been forever a massive disappointment, good for him, good for him for standing up regarding this and for standing with individual rights for a change, even if it is in Uganda. My perspective is it's better than nothing. Bri, just because this is on topic, Bri says, when I was a kid, I said something homophobic and my mom yelled at me. She, she worked at Bletchley Park and knew Alan Turing and knew what the British government had done to him for being gay. Morality can justify, well, a false morality, can justify any atrocity. Yeah, I mean, I found that super interesting. There was that movie about Alan Turing. I'd never known, didn't know much about Turing other than kind of Turing's law and, but what a hero he was during World War II. And then how the British government treated him, how horrifically they treated him afterwards. I didn't know any of that story and the movie brings it out and it really is chilling. He is a man who contributed enormously to the victory of the UK and the Allies in World War II. And because he's a homosexual, he's just horribly treated by his own government. Just horrible, just horrible. So I can't, if somebody remembers the name of the movie, I'll put it up because it's a good movie and it's worth watching and it's a nice slice of history and important slice of history that's worth knowing about. I just read Oscar Wilde, somebody mentioned Oscar Wilde, imitation game. Thank you, imitation game is the name of the movie. Somebody mentioned that Oscar Wilde died in Paris. In some context, I can't even remember. So I looked up Oscar Wilde, why was he in Paris? Why did he die in Paris? And I knew Oscar Wilde was sent to jail for being a homosexual and he was in the early part of the 20th century in Great Britain. He was sent to jail, I think for three years, hard labor. Three years of hard labor. So horrific time in jail. And when Oscar Wilde got out of jail, he packed his bag and left England never to return and lived in Paris. So the Brits have been horrific in their history towards gay people and towards very, very prominent gay people who contributed enormously to the culture and to security and to the world. And, you know, the Western world has come a long way over the last 50 years, certainly over the last 30 years in accepting gays and in starting to treat gays with the kind of dignity that they deserve and providing them with equal rights. And I think gay marriage is brilliant. And it's, yeah, it just shows that the rest of the world needs to catch up. Western culture is superior. It is better. One of the indications of that is attitudes, I think, to homosexuality. And one of the things that we should be exporting to the rest of the world. Not in the form of crazy, you know, far out leftist LGBTQ, you know, crazy nutty of you, but the basic idea of individual rights, the basic idea of dignity and the right of people to engage in the sexual relationships as long as a consensual between adults of their choice. And that freedom is something the United States should be exporting through word of mouth, through the bully pulpit, through moral, you know, through morality and through moral example. And ultimately, through not supporting countries that choose to go the route of barbarism. It's it's it's certainly a reason not to be supportive of Russia. But yet it is one of the reasons the right is so supportive of Russia. More about that in the future. All right. Let's see. So that is the Ted Cruz Uganda story. Horrible story out of Mexico, but not not surprising really not surprising story out of Mexico. The Mexican president Andre Manuel Lopez Obrado has said that he would actually support an agreement, an agreement with some of the nation's most powerful violent cartels. Some kind of agreement to stop the violence. So he wants a peace deal with the cartels. I mean, what is the job of government? Somebody says, am I for cultural imperialism? Absolutely. I'm for cultural imperialism. Absolutely. Not by use of force, not by by coercion, not by going to war, but by exporting our culture and by advocating for our culture and by articulating the case about why our culture is superior to theirs. Absolutely. I'm for cultural imperialism, if that's what it's called. I'm for turning the entire world, the entire world into a haven of Western culture, because Western culture is a culture fundamentally of individualism. It is a culture that is superior. This current culture, as bad as it is, as bad as today's culture in the West is, is far superior to cultures anywhere else in the world. And in many respects, it's superior to any culture that's ever existed in human history. I mean, I know you guys are, you know, so many people are obsessed with war culture and woke this and canceled this and LGBTQ plus and whatever. But overall, overall, you have never been put aside the economics for a second. You've never been freer than you are right now. You've never had more protection for your freedom of speech than you have right now in the United States and in Western cultures. It's not perfect. It's far from ideal. It's far from what I would like to see. But God, you know, any kind of, any kind of perspective on history would suggest that, wow, life is so good right now. You know, people are complaining about the FBI and they should complain about the FBI. The FBI is doing a lot of horrific things. But what was the FBI like in the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s under J. Edgar Hoover? It had a file on everybody, on all of you. They did horrific things. They followed J. Edgar Hoover's complete agenda. You could speak more freely. 10 years ago before anyone started calling everyone bigots, really? Is somebody calling you a bigot? Restrict your ability to speak freely? People call me a bigot all the time. I say exactly what I believe all the time. You know, part of this is people have become soft. Somebody yells at them and they freak out and they go hide. Somebody tries to cancel them at Twitter and they go running to, I don't know, the latest crying to Ben Shapiro or whatever. You know, part of the problem is that the current generation of kids doesn't have a spine. Doesn't have a spine. Stand up to the bastards. Stand up to people who call you a bigot. Tell them what you think of them. Yeah, it's time to stop self-censoring. People are constantly self-censoring. By the way, people were self-censoring 20 years ago. I know this and people are called bigots 20 years ago. I was yelled at 20 years ago. I was for standing up after 9-11. I was demonstrated against. I was attacked physically 20-something years ago. I couldn't publish. The Wall Street Journal wouldn't accept a four-page ad from the Einren Institute. We were willing to pay them $100,000. The Wall Street Journal wouldn't accept it because it might offend Islam. New York Times didn't accept it. Washington Post accepted it. But the Wall Street Journal wouldn't. I mean, everybody is so sensitive today and so focused on how bad things are today that you miss how good things are today. Ten years ago, gay couples couldn't get married. That's a big deal for gays. 50 years ago, white people and black people in Virginia couldn't marry each other. We've come a long way in the last 50 years. I mean, to not see the ways in which we today have in some ways a worse culture and in some ways a better culture, but no matter what, in a cumulative, a far better culture than any other country in the world and in some respects a better culture than we've ever had before. In some respects worse. You have to have that kind of perspective to be able to fight evil and to be able to fight what's bad. You have to also recognize what's good. I mean, just think of how much better I believe women, and I think objectively women are today than they were 50, 60, 70 years ago or at any point in time in human history. And women are not in good shape in Uganda. It's part of what a primitive culture is. Almost every kind of a culture treats women badly. That's part of they don't have rights. They don't have property. They're treated as sexual objects. The rape is more prevalent. That's part of it, right? All right, let's see. Mexico. A Mexican president is advocating for a deal with the cartels. These are cartels that are responsible for the killing murder of thousands and thousands of people. These are put aside the fact that drugs should be legal. But these are people who engaged in the most horrific violence. They kidnap people. They murder them. They often kidnap them and then use acid to melt their bodies so nobody ever finds them again. They massacre. They torture. I mean, I can't think of more, much more horrific organizations in the world than the Mexican drug cartels. And the Mexican president has come out and said, we need a peace deal. We need a truce. We need some kind of agreement where we reduce the crime that these cartels are involved in. I mean, the one job of a government, the one job of a government is to protect our physical well-being. The one job of a government is to protect us from violent criminals, is to catch the criminals, put them in jail, is to prosecute crime and to protect our streets and to make it safe for us to protect our individual rights. Life. That's the one most important job of any government. In many respects, if you understand the individual rights, it's the only job of the government. And basically, Mexico and government is treating it. No, no, no. We'll negotiate with these guys. We're not going to prosecute them. We're not going to put them in jail. We're not going to figure out who they've murdered and actually go after them. We're not going to work with the drug authorities to shut them down. We're going to allow them to be in business. We're just going to negotiate with them so they don't behave quite so meanly. We don't want them to be mean. It's just horrific. I mean, this guy is just unbelievable. Imagine if the United States' attitude towards the mafia was, well, we need to negotiate them. We need to figure it out. I mean, I know that it is standard for American politicians and for our government to want to negotiate with terrorists and to want to negotiate with people who want to murder us and kill us, who are foreigners. But usually, they understand that they have to go after criminals inside the country. Mexico is at a different level, right? And, you know, recently, a woman by the name of Lopez Obrador. No, sorry. That's the president. Recently, a woman who is searching for a missing brother published an open letter to the 10 organized crime groups, calling them to stop the practice of forced disappearance, where they melt the body and you never even know or burn it so you never even know that you never find the missing person. Again, this is the practice they should stop. Keep the murdering. You can keep the murdering. Keep killing people. Keep torturing people. Keep all that. Just please return the bodies after you kill them. So, Amlo, who is the president of Mexico, that's his nickname, says I agree and hope he can achieve peace. That's what we all want is peace. He says violence is irrational. And we're going to continue looking for peace to achieve peace and that is what we're doing. And if there is an initiative of this kind, of course, we support it. You know, the only way you achieve peace with the cartels is if you destroy them and crush them and defeat them, put them in jail. Look what El Salvador did to its gangs. Maybe the Mexicans can learn a little bit from El Salvador. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. I mean, I can't think of anything more outrageous that, I mean, I'm sure there is some, that a leader of a country can do than say we're going to negotiate with the main crime families in our country to achieve peace. All right. That looked longer than I thought. So, like, quickly, you know, the debt deal that McCarthy and Biden struck is now being voted on in the House of Representatives. We will see what happens. As I said, the debt deal is almost a non-event. But, you know, nobody seems concerned. Certainly nobody in our politics seems concerned with the fact that U.S. debt is just, it's just going out of control. Within a few years, the percentage of debt to GDP is going to be higher than Italy's. Not a particularly healthy economy. Not a particularly wealthy country. Not a particularly, you know, successful economy. The United States has gone from about 60% of GDP debt, which I always thought was really high for the United States. In 2007, to double that, well over 120, close to 140 by 2028, maybe 140, but now it's 122% of debt. So double. In what? In 15 years? And by the way, this covers two Republican administrations, George Bush and Donald Trump. It covers Republicans, you know, in the House and the Senate, having majorities in the House and the Senate. Doesn't matter. GDP, debt as a percent of GDP has gone from 61, 62%, to over 120% during that period. Most of that period, I think. I think it's right to say that most of that period had the Republicans have at least the House or the Senate. So I have some control, and yet they have allowed this to happen. The only time you saw during this period kind of debt to GDP flattening a little bit is after the deal that Republicans cut with Obama, which was much better than the deal they just cut with Biden, that slowed the growth of government a little bit. But then, you know, Trump accelerated and then COVID blew it up and then Biden has just accelerated further. Just unbelievable. And the stunning thing is nobody really, nobody really cares. Nobody really cares. All right, finally, well actually let's call that a day. We'll call that a day. I'll keep these stories for tomorrow or for next time. And I will go to your questions. And we are only $50 short of our target. So, you know, two and a half, $20 questions will get us there. So it'd be great if you have a question and you can use the super chat to ask it and help us get to the goal. Thank you, John, for, John just says thanks for covering this topic, topic was the Uganda thing. All right, Remo, 119 euros. Thank you, Remo. Really, really appreciate it. Let's see. I just sent you an email with a three-minute timestamp of an interview with one of the greatest heroes, Michael Milken. Yeah, one of my, certainly one of my greatest heroes when it comes to business. I've added two questions with it related to private equity. Can you please answer it on your next show? Let me make sure I've got the email. I don't see the email. So just make sure you sent the email to the right address, Iran at your onbrookshow.com. Iran at your onbrookshow.com. And yes, I'm happy to answer any questions regarding Michael Milken and private equity that you might have. I will check that out. And thank you for 120 euros. Oh, that is very, very generous. I appreciate it. Okay, JJ Dick Bees. Again, we're short 50 bucks. I recently watched Ken Burns' Doc at Vietnam War, and it struck me just how chaotic and terrible the 60s were. People who think the world is falling apart today should watch that and see just how bad it was back then. Yeah, I mean, the Soviet Union was kind of at its peak power. Communism seemed to be spreading all over the world. The left in America was, there were riots. There were racial riots, race riots after a number of times during the 60s. There was Woodstock. There were hippies. There were demonstrations on American campuses, and people got killed in these demonstrations. The 1960s saw the assassination of an American president, assassination of a leading, his brother, a leading candidate for the Democratic Party. They saw other attempted assassinations, and of course it saw the assassination of a leading, you know, Martin Luther King, the leader of the Civil Rights Movement. Violence was starting to really pick up much more than today, and violence into the 1970s was horrific in the United States. No question, inflation was picking up in the 1960s from an economic perspective. Economic growth was declining. You know, the government established a welfare state for the first time in American history, a real developed welfare state. Medicare was instituted. I mean, yeah, I mean, it looked like the darkest of times. And in many respects, existentially it was, much worse than what we're seeing today. And hippie culture was celebrated, was celebrated by many. All right, Richard is with us. Richard says, if the United States implemented laissez-faire tomorrow, would there be a need for international supply chains outside of resources not in the ground here, would we be able to have diversified labor, etc. here? Well, I mean, you definitely have diversified labor here much more than you do. You'd have, I think with laissez-faire, you'd have, you know, basically some form of open borders policy. So you'd have a lot more immigrants and therefore a lot more workers. But at the same time, the United States would also lower part of laissez-faire, would involve lowering tariffs to zero. So allowing any American to buy any good from anywhere in the world, and it's still quite possible that goods from outside of the country could be better or cheaper. And therefore, I don't think it is the case that all supply chains would move to the United States or manufacturing would be in the United States. There are places that are better at manufacturing certain things than Americans are. You know, the Germans are better at manufacturing lenses than any American company is. You know, it's likely that the Vietnamese and the Bangladeshis are just better at producing cost-effective clothing than the Americans are. So there's a wide variety of goods. Again, comparative advantage would dictate that there is a wide variety of places where comparative advantage works and where other countries, people in other countries would be producing more. Zero tariffs allows you to create a division of labor society instead of over 300 million in the United States, over 8 billion people around the world. And that generates an increase in wealth and an increase in productivity and an increase in human well-being across the board, including in America itself. All right. Thank you, Richard. Frank says, for producing every day, even when you don't feel like it. Thank you, Frank. Really appreciate it. That's $50. Really, really appreciate it. You guys have really come through today. In the last few days, actually, we've hit and beaten and exceeded our targets in the last three days, the last few days quite generously. Richard said, did Michael Milken publicly speak out against leading politicians that support free markets in a way that got him targeted by Giuliani at all? Or was he simply targeted because his financial success and high salary comps? Yeah, he was targeted because of his financial success. He was targeted because Giuliani recognized that he could build a political career of overgoing after Wall Street. He was targeted because of the kind of rhetoric you see today about greed and about inequality and about salaries and about all of that stuff. Michael Milken basically became a poster child for Wall Street at a time when businesses in the Midwest were shutting down and Wall Street was doing amazing. And the perception was that the U.S. economy was rewarding finance and now rewarding production. The West Belt was being created. And there was just this whole attitude around negativity around what was going on in U.S. business. And he was a scapegoat. But more than that, he was a rung on the political ambition ladder explicitly for Giuliani. Giuliani took the office. He went from deputy justice, number two at the Justice Department, to District Attorney of the Southern District of New York specifically to reign in Wall Street and specifically in reigning in Wall Street to go after Michael Milken. And he took the change in position because he knew the Treasury job ultimately was a dead end politically. And if he wanted to go into politics, what he really needed was a position that got him in front of cameras and that was Wall Street and that's where he took the Southern District of New York position. But no, Milken was not political. Milken did not speak out particularly about these issues. But he was wrapped up in the anti-Wall Street and symbolized the evil of Wall Street. I will say one other thing and that is Milken's Drexel Burnham, the firm that Milken worked for, had been a small investment bank insignificant and had suddenly bolted to being the largest investment bank in the world or in the United States. And that created a lot of resentment among other investment banks that it had replaced. And there was really a lot of lobbying by traditional investment banks to try to crush, to try to go after Drexel Burnham and Mike Milken as a consequence and wrapped up in that, at least based on what I've read, was the fact that Drexel Burnham was also a firm dominated by Jews, Milken is Jewish. And some of the wasps that dominated the other investment banks did not appreciate these up-and-comers dominating investment banking. Now all of that has changed over the last 30 years, but that was true in the 1980s. Certainly in the 70s and the 80s as Drexel became a big deal and ultimately Drexel was destroyed, not only Mike Milken, shut down explicitly by the government. Richard, what if the U.S. could import all the skilled Germans, Bangladeshis, except we suck up all the comparative advantage by bane draining other countries? Maybe, but I don't think so and it's not clear that they would leave. Germany is a pretty good place. A lot of knowledge is built up within German companies. There's a lot of IP. It's not that easy to take that IP away. It's not clear, Bangladeshis want to move again. It's not clear that making textiles in the U.S., you could live the kind of life, you know, you could own enough to live in the United States. The United States has a higher cost of living than Bangladesh. So no, it's not clear when you play out the economics of it that, no, everybody just gravitates to one place. There's no reason for them to, other than it's laissez-faire and they want to go towards freedom. And millions and millions of people would do that, but a lot would stay. And yeah, I mean, if you had one laissez-fait government over the entire world, then everybody, I mean, but I guess I don't, except for, you know, the, what do you call it, the kind of risk of enemies, you know, let people produce where they want to live and let's trade. I think that's a more optimal outcome. And I think a cheaper one for us. So if the Bangladesh, he moves to the U.S., his wages will go up, his productivity goes up, but his wages also go up, his t-shirt won't get, won't get cheaper. It'll get more expensive. Whoops, I don't mean to do that. Okay, one more from Richard. For providing value for covering issues, not covered anywhere else. Thank you, Iran. Would love to see more coverage of financial markets, perhaps in the future of international trade and markets with current political trends. Yeah, happy to do that. We'll start doing that in the next few weeks. A lot going on in markets and with maybe possibly a recession coming, there'll be a lot to talk about. Robert, the reactionary sneering chant of go woke, go broke almost inevitably descends into go anti-woke, go morally ideologically bankrupt. Absolutely, absolutely. It's really sad to see how low the White has sunk and how they're willing to take out somebody like Ted Cruz is one of them in the name of, I don't know, in the name of their religiosity, in the name of their craziness, in the name of their, I'd say, primitive Middle Ages morality. Adam Reed, Alan Turing contributed the most to victory in World War II, teaching U.S. forces to break the Japanese code. Yeah, I mean, unbelievable what he did. Again, I encourage you to go watch Imitation Game, an amazing, amazing, amazing movie. Frank says, tomorrow's ideas for today's thinkers. Tomorrow's ideas for today's thinkers. Is that the tagline for the Iran book show? Is that what you're suggesting, Frank? Thank you, Frank. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, in particular, Remo. Really appreciate the support. And don't forget, send me that email. I'm still tracking my email looking for it. I haven't seen it yet. And you're on at youronbookshow.com. Thank you, Frank. Thank you, Richard, for a series of $20 questions. Thanks, everybody. I will see you. I hope tomorrow I will try to do a show tomorrow. I'll be in Texas time. So it might be later in the day. The news briefing might be later in the day. Same thing. It will be true probably on Friday. The news briefing later in the day. Of course, all contingent on the hotel having good Wi-Fi. I think it should. It's a good hotel. It should have good Wi-Fi. And talk to you then. Oh, don't forget, if you haven't seen the interview I did yesterday with Uncle Garte, I think you'll really, really enjoy it. So go check it out. Check it out. Frank says, forget woke, wise up. Yeah, we should all wise up and reject woke and wise up. But stop obsessing. Bye, guys.