 The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Brook Show. All right everybody, welcome to Iran Brook Show. On this Thursday, August 24th, I hope everybody is having a fantastic week. Today, this is our News Roundup. This evening, we've got an interview with Duncan Scott, the person who's bringing We the Living, the movie, to the world. It's going to be a fascinating discussion. I think you're really going to enjoy it. He's going to talk about the making of We the Living, the movie, which is, wow. It's an amazing story, then how the movie was discovered, Iran's attitude toward the movie. And what's happening with it right now, which, again, is a fascinating discussion in terms of what is going on with it. So I hope you all join us tonight at a little unusual time. It's going to be at 8.30, instead of at 8 p.m., 8.30 tonight. Duncan Scott, We the Living, whether you've read the book or haven't read the book, I think you'll really enjoy this and get something out of it. It'll be enjoyable and entertaining. Let's see. Yeah, the reason I'm doing it at 2 p.m. is at 1 p.m., I had a book club meeting. I'm part of this network, and we had a book meeting with Chris Miller. Chris Miller is the writer who wrote Chip War, which was one of my favorite books. I talked about it a few months ago, probably my favorite book of 2022. It was an excellent book, a really interesting, thought-provoking, blew my mind in terms of the strategic implications and everything else. And so it was great to have a Q&A with Chris Miller and the author of the book and see his thoughts and how they've changed it all and what his thoughts are moving into the future. Yeah, so that's why an hour later, we'll talk more about Chip War and a little bit about what I've learned from this Q&A with Chris Miller. But always trying to learn more from world-class experts, and Chris Miller certainly is that when it comes to the chip industry and the geopolitical implications of what's going on in the chip industry. So the kind of everything involved. And you listen to somebody like Chris Miller talk about geopolitics, China, Taiwan, I mean specifically China, Taiwan, United States, chip manufacturing and all of that. And it gives you such a contrast to the populist gibberish nonsense that presidential candidates express, is expressed the right word, on a debate stage. I mean it's just, I mean God, this country, I mean maybe the best illustration of how in decline this country is, none of us have video recordings of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. But one can imagine, imagine those debates, right? And put that Lincoln-Douglas debate up against what we saw last night or what we see in every four years, I mean last night was nothing unique. In terms of the quality of just the rhetoric, the discussion of ideas, I mean what Lincoln-Douglas debates were hours long and long expressions of ideas and about fundamental principles and about big issues and big things. And yesterday was just, I mean all of the debates. I don't want to say yesterday was extraordinary to be at because I don't think it was. It was just bad as usual, maybe a little bit better because Trump wasn't there. But just blah, just awful, just awful. And at this rate Democrats will continue to win because if this is the best they can do then, I mean again, Democrat debates are blah too. I mean they're all just awful. And it's not a projection on the candidates necessarily, right? Somewhat on the candidates. But it's a reflection on the American people, on the audience, on what people actually want and expect. They don't want thoughtful, deep, principled debate. They want sound bites, they love when these people start arguing with one another and insult each other. They love the fact that somebody can rattle off 55 things they're going to do when they become president but can't discuss any one of them in a little bit of depth. And look, I get why they don't. I'm not blaming the candidates. It's not the candidates' fault. It's the audience's fault. Like nobody wants them to talk about it, right? Imagine somebody up there yesterday would have come up and said, Social Security Medicare is going to bankrupt this country. We need to really reform them. I suggest we privatize them over a period of 30 years. I mean the booze would shut that down and this is Republicans, right? Imagine a Democratic convention. And nobody, I mean there's no discussion could happen there. People on the stage would be yelling you down. I mean there were so many times where you wanted somebody like Vivek, you know, in a number of times had the opening and started to say something radical, interesting, controversial, meaningful and just shut himself down and said blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, just to fill in the time rather than actually go depth. I think the most meaningful moment in that sense was when he talked about the possibility of school choice and what he would do with the education department budget that he shut down. And it was a real opportunity to really begin and attack government education and to attack government schools and to present private education as an option and to present school choice as a real ideal and yes, can do much at the federal level, but here's what I can do and here's how I would encourage the states to embrace school choice and this is what I would do in order to push the states to embrace school choice and this is how we change the tax code to make education saving accounts on a federal level more meaningful. And I mean you could really have come out with three minutes or what is it? It's not even three minutes. What are the 45 seconds, a 45 second answer or a minute answer that really encompassed a big chunk of that and just gave people a sense of I'm really against government schools and I want to give you the parent options. I want to give you the parent control over the dollars we spent on your kids' education but you get to control them. You get to decide that solves the war curriculum problem. That solves the transgender problem. That solves all these problems because you, the parent, you get to choose the kids' school. God, just 45 minute seconds like that. One issue, dive into one minute with depth into that. But no, his introduction of school choice was latched on to a gazillion other things he wanted to do because he doesn't want to go deep, because nobody wants to go deep into any particular issue up there. And if he'd done that, I think he would have, I mean as it is, there's no question that he won that debate and he got what he wanted out of the debate. I mean there's no question about that because everybody else paled in comparison and everybody, everybody after the debate was only talking about one thing and that is about Vivek. How long that is sustainable, whether he can maintain that, I don't know but that was, the debate yesterday was basically Vivek's coming out party. He did a great job at doing it. I mean he did an awful job actually discussing ideas but he did a great job at bringing attention to himself. He got everybody to argue with him. He got everybody to attack him, which is exactly what you want in a debate because that way your name keeps coming up. You get those 30 second response times constantly. You get the same more than anybody else and you get the attention and what Vivek needs right now is attention because nobody knows who the hell this guy is. And yesterday millions of Americans learned who he is, like him or dislike him. Now everybody knows there's a Vivek out there and this is who he is and this is what he is. I wouldn't be surprised if he climbed significantly in the polls, particularly the national polls. I'm not sure how well he's going to do in Iowa but I do think he'll climb in the national polls because of this. So yeah, so in terms of content, thumbs down. It was awful. There was nothing good about it. Everybody said exactly what you expected him to say. I mean, now the good line, the only good line, Vivek had in a thing and this is Alex Epstein's direct influence. There's no question, this comes from Alex. Is the line about more people dying from attempts to deal with climate change rather than with climate change itself, that was really good and it would have been, again, he could have said more. He could have gone deeper into that. He could have been less suggestive of this conspiracy theory. Oh, not quite a conspiracy theory, but this idea that this is all a facade for something. He could have gone more into this issue of energy and the importance of fossil fuels and why that is instead of just sloganeering. And again, Alex could have given him a one minute statement about energy that would have blown everybody away and have been amazing and dramatic. He almost did it and then backed off, just like he almost did it in education and then he backed off. And, you know, he probably knows. He probably knows more about what the voters, what the audience actually wants than what I know. So I just know what I think would be effective intellectually, would be effective in terms of an argument, would be effective in terms of stimulating people thinking about this issue in a different way, but he knows what his audience wants and his audience, Republicans, Democrats, it doesn't really matter. The audience doesn't want to think, God, the last thing they want is to think. I mean, if we had an audience that actually thought, if we had an electorate that actually thought, that actually used their gray cells, then, yeah, the world would be a different place. All right, so overall, I thought Vivek won, not because he made the best points, but because he got the most attention, because everybody talked about him. I mean, the stories are that afterwards, if you went into the spin room, the room where all the press was, nobody wanted to talk to anybody except Vivek. They all waited for him to enter the room. They ran up to him. What are your takeaways? How do you do tonight? What comes next for the campaign? How do you build on the momentum? That was the story last night in terms of the press, and that's exactly what Vivek wanted, because that means he's going to hit all the new shows tomorrow. He's going to be on all the stages. He's going to be invited to speak everywhere. He is now the guy that I think everybody is chasing in terms of second place. I think you'll overtake DeSantis in the polls. I think you'll see that soon. Again, the national polls, I don't think you'll overtake him in Iowa, but in terms of the national polls, he's the interesting guy. He's the challenging guy. He's got something different to say. And he pissed everybody off, and wow, that's an achievement. How do you piss everybody off? I mean, Pence looked angry and offended, and it's like, oh, I've got all this experience. Yeah, and that's why this country is in a mess, because people like you have experience. In terms of content, I think the best person up on stage yesterday was Nikki Haley. By far, she was good on foreign policy. She was as good as you can be in that context on abortion. She's the only one who had a, quote, reasonable view on abortion. I think she was the only one. God, she was so good on this. Just on this, she should get, I don't know, some prize or something. She literally said, the reason we have a debt problem in this country, you cannot only blame on the Biden administration. We Republicans did it. Many people in this stage, DeSantis, Pence, others, voted for government spending under Trump. The deficit and everything else is something Republicans made happen. Wow, just for that, she should be the nominee. I mean, yeah, I mean, that made my day. It was the best statement of the night by far. It was a grown-up statement. It was, again, a statement that took people seriously, that took the audience seriously, and it absolutely true, a true statement without being sloganeering, without actually explaining this. I thought Nikki did really well. Nikki's not going to be Secretary of Treasury. She doesn't have that expertise. You've got to get somebody from Goldman Sachs to be Secretary of Treasury. That's a must. If Nikki is part of a future administration, she might be Secretary of State, but she is the one candidate up on that stage. She is the one candidate up on that stage that I would suggest that Trump, that I think Trump would take as a VP candidate. I don't think anybody else there, there's no way he takes Vivek. There's no way he takes DeSantis. Nikki is the one who I think he might. She's not going to overshadow him like Vivek would. She's not going to out-energy him like Vivek would, and he hasn't said awful, horrible things about her like he has about DeSantis. There's no way he takes Rand Paul for VP. He gains nothing with Rand Paul as VP. It would be political suicide for Trump to do that. With Nikki Haley, he gets somebody who's serious, responsible, has foreign policy credentials, was a governor, and a woman, importantly, a woman. I think that's likely. Of all the candidates up there, I think the only one that is viable for VP is Nikki Haley. I thought DeSantis didn't do himself damage. He didn't do anything awful, but he didn't do anything spectacular either. He had a solid, boring night. This is not going to allow him to challenge Trump. Again, I think at this point, there's no way DeSantis challenges Trump. The only way DeSantis becomes the nominee is if Trump somehow drops dad, implodes, falls out of a window. If something happens and Trump is not running, gets thrown in jail and actually decides not to run, or somebody decides maybe it's not a good idea to run as a Republican while in jail, that's the only way DeSantis might rise. DeSantis has got this stupid expression on his face. He's not comfortable. Haley's comfortable up there. He's vivic, except for the stupid smile. He needs to stop smiling so much. God. Except for that, it's vivic is more energetic, youthful, with more ideas and more radical. Bottom line is, this is how bad the Republican Party is. The Republican Party is in really bad shape and just horrible. Trump can not come to any debate. He can skip every single debate and he'll still win. This is the other very disappointing thing about yesterday. The attacks on Trump were mild. Even Christie was mild. Come on, guys. What do you have to lose? Trump is not going to take Christie as a VP candidate. Go after him. Really go after him. He is a loser. What do you have to lose? DeSantis, if DeSantis is serious about the nomination, who cares if he's going to be booed? You're not talking to that audience and you're not even talking about winning. You're talking about chipping away at Trump's lead. So either DeSantis needs to bribe Christie to do it or DeSantis needs to do it. And yes, he risks short-term booing. He's not winning anyway. DeSantis cannot beat Trump right now. The only way he can beat Trump is by chipping away at Trump's supporters. And the only way to chip away at Trump's supporters is to remind them over and over and over and over again that he's a loser. I don't see what else you can do. That he can't win now. Everybody was hinting. DeSantis kept hinting, I won. Florida had this big margin. Other people haven't won. No, say it. He is a loser. He lost four different campaigns. I don't know who the strategy just saw, but at some point you have to say, I'm going to swing for the fences. Because unless I hit a grand slam home run right now, the game is over. I mean, I'm sitting in their bases loaded. We're down three runs. The only way I can win is with a grand slam and what am I going to bunt for those who know baseball? I'm going to bunt. And the probability of bunting is I'm going to lose. It's not an issue of the testing. It's an issue of telling the truth. Telling the truth about Trump. And again, what do you have to lose? You've got something to gain and you've got nothing to lose because you ain't winning this. So DeSantis, in spite of Scott's prediction, was not spectacular. He was okay. Again, didn't do himself harm. Wasn't the scent of the tension. He wishes he was attacked like Vivec because then everybody would be talking about DeSantis. Nobody today is talking about DeSantis. Everybody today is talking about Vivec. You look at the headlines. It's all about Vivec. DeSantis, it was an okay night. Okay night. But it wasn't the kind of night he needs in order to break through. And again, I'll say what I've been saying for six months now. DeSantis will not be the Republican nominee. At least as long as Trump is running. All right. Let's see. We got two other topics. We'll do them quickly. Oh, three other topics. I forgot. Okay, Pigosin. As you know, the reports are, we don't know, reports are that Pigosin died. Even Putin now has sent his condolences and described Pigosin as a talented businessman who made serious mistakes in life but also sought to achieve the necessary results. So even Putin is mourning, quote, mourning Pigosin's death. It seems like he was on the plane. It appears that FSB did it, that the Russian security services did it one way or the other, whether it was ordered to shoot it down or whether there was a bomb on the plane itself. But that plane was brought down by something. It wasn't just an accident. Putin said in his address that the investigation is going to take time. Of course, it's going to take time. They have to have the right story and they have to make sure to cover up and they have to send the message but not be too explicit about assassinating opponents. All 10 people in the plane died, including Dimitri Utkin. And maybe this is why they chose this moment to assassinate Pigosin because Dimitri Utkin was with him. Utkin was his number two. He was the co-founder of the Wagner group. Utkin was really the military leader of Wagner. I remember that Pigosin was a hot dog salesman. Pigosin had no knowledge, never served in the military. He was a small-time cook before he became a hot dog salesman. He was called a Putin's chef. He was like the marketing guy. He was the guy out in fun. He was the political schmoozer. He was the one who got the Pentagon, the Kremlin to pay them the big bucks. But it was Utkin who really ran military operations. And I think that part of this goal was to take up both of them at the same time. Utkin is a nasty, mean type of person served in the Russian special forces. Reportedly, it was a neo-Nazi, had multiple Nazi tattoos. This is rich coming from regime that claims that the Ukrainians are Nazis. But Utkin had multiple Nazi tattoos, including the SS insignia. Supposedly, Utkin insisted on calling the operation the Wagner group named after Richard Wagner, the composer, the Nazis that Hitler himself and the Nazis appropriated. And he used to greet subordinates by saying hi-all. And often signed his name with the SS insignia lightning bolt. Anyway, nasty character, probably a neo-Nazi also died in the plane crash. I mean, good riddance to both of them. He goes in and him, both nasty characters. This opens up a lot of questions of what happens to the Wagner group now, particularly what happens to their Africa operations, who takes them over. Also in Syria, do the Wagner group disintegrate? Do they get a new leader? Does the Kremlin take direct control over them? What they do for the Kremlin in Africa is way too valuable, you would think, for this just to go away. It might be that it took so long to kill Pogosin since the mutiny, because the Kremlin had to set up a backup plan of what to do with Wagner and what to do with the military operations in Africa and in Syria and who knows where else they have people. I don't know, but that seems likely that you would need to create an alternative setup for how to run those operations. I mean, there are tens of billions of dollars at stake here that are really crucial. And yeah, so, you know, hard exactly to tell, but exactly why it took this long for Putin to get revenge, hard exactly tell why now, hard to tell exactly why this way, what the message says, but the message is clear in Russia. Do not oppose Vladimir Putin in any way. If you do, you fall out of a window or fall out of the sky, whether you get shot first and a knife driven through your eye before you fall out of the window, it doesn't really matter, but you will die. One way or another, you will be dead. This is particularly, you know, noteworthy given the ongoing, I see on Twitter, constant comparison of the Russian regime to the American regime. So many people keep writing to me, particularly after Veerik's comments yesterday about Ukraine, which were awful, I think, just awful. And he has a geopolitical understanding of China-Russia relationship of a five-year-old. And that's a compliment. I mean, it's so stupid, his own analysis. He's trying to rationalize a position that probably doesn't even believe in because he thinks that's what are getting votes, but it was a five-year-old analysis of the Ukrainian war. But, you know, God, what was my point? My point was the people responding, supporting his position by saying, yeah, the US regime is just as evil as the Russian regime and Ukraine is even worse. Indeed, if you read General Flynn today on Twitter, then Ukraine is Ukraine, the country of Ukraine is responsible for most of the child abuse and child trafficking in the world. They're responsible for drug trafficking, money laundering. Every single evil in the world today is centered in Ukraine and run by Zelensky. That's how insane some of these people are. But with all due respect, the United States still does not drop its political opponents out of windows. It just doesn't happen. You know, many people might accuse the Justice Department of going after Trump using the Justice Department. At least we have courts, you can appeal, you can go to Supreme Court. You might assume that all of that is completely corrupt. Yeah, but Trump did not get a bullet in the forehead. He did not fall out of the Trump Tower. His plane was not shut down or blown up. Just that. It's just a little bit of an improvement over the situation in Russia. I mean, God, the people who make that moral equivalency, I find completely and utterly despicable and ridiculous and anyway. Yeah, Pope Zelensky was a lying, I think, vivic throughout there. Just disgusting. So I can't support vivic, although I want to support vivic. Right, God, I really do want to support vivic because the climate change is excellent, and some of the economic policy is excellent, and, you know, but on everything else. Who was it? Who was it? It was, no, it was the Santas. The Santas who was sending special forces team into Mexico to deal with the cartel. Another one who is going to send us to war. You know, let's end the war in Ukraine by going to war with Mexico. That is brilliant. Just frigging brilliant. Let's take a war far away from us, and let's let the bad guys win that one, and we're going to go and engage in a war here in our territory. For what exactly? The world is going to hell. I mean, it really is. I don't see a way out of it. Anyway, new bricks for all of you conspiracy theory advocates. You remember the bricks, we talked about bricks. Well, I talked about the fact that the bricks in the meeting in South Africa this week, we're going to invite other countries to join them and to become to grow the bricks. I'm not sure that we'll be able to pronounce it. We'll be able to call them bricks anymore because they're going to add. So 23 countries applied to join the bricks, and they have accepted six countries, six countries that are going to make the bricks now the real powerhouse in the world. Who are the countries that they've accepted? So in addition to bricks, Brazil, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The bricks have expanded to include now Iran. Sorry, it's just so funny. Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, God, four big Muslim countries have just been added to the bricks. And then on top of those two, we've got Ethiopia. Ethiopia is kind of mixed Christian and Muslim and Argentina. Why? Why those? I don't know. What does this do for the bricks? I have no clue. Iran and Saudi Arabia together there. I guess we can find a brick, a brick, you know, we can do, we can do, I don't know, some kind of battle between Shia and Sunni over there. I don't know. This just makes the bricks even more ridiculous than it was before. So the whole bricks thing and the whole conspiracy theories around it and the whole, you know, there's so many libertarians out there that think that bricks are going to do away with the fad and destroy the dollar and we're going to have a gold currency because of bricks. Yeah, Iran wants a gold currency. Yeah, no question. Egypt, Argentina, and Ethiopia, you know, want to get off the dollar and they want to establish their own central bank and they're going to trust the Russians and the Chinese to put. It's just so filled with fantasy. This is what in the 1970s and 80s was called the non-affiliated group. There was a non-something group of countries. These were third world countries that claimed not to be on the American side or on the Soviet Union side, but were actually mostly on the Soviet Union side, where they were non-affiliated, non-something bloc. And that's what bricks is and it's meaningless and it doesn't do anything. All right. Finally, a quick story about Jordan Peterson. So Jordan Peterson, if you remember, we covered this on the show a few months ago. God, I'm having to speed through these. We covered this a few months ago on the show. Jordan Peterson, there was a complaint to the College of Psychologists of Ontario in 2022 about things that Jordan Peterson said that people found offensive. Oh my God, they found them offensive and unsensitive. And they complained to the College of Psychologists of Ontario. The College of Psychologists of Ontario told Peterson that he had to undergo sensitivity training. That he had to, and if not, and if he did not go through sensitivity training, he would be kicked out of the College of Psychologists in a sense, lose his license to practice psychology in Canada, which is just unbelievable and horrific to do. Now, I wouldn't have no problem with that. If the College of Psychologists was truly a private college, a private licensing organization, and there was competition and you could be licensed by somebody else, and you could still study practice psychology, but you can't. They have a monopoly, a government-granted monopoly, over the issuance of licenses for the practice of psychology, so they control the market. So if you lose the ability to practice psychology from the College of Psychologists, you lose your ability to practice psychology in Canada. And therefore, Jordan Peterson was going to lose his license, which is just such a violation of free speech and so horrific. Jordan Peterson sued, and it went to what's called a divisional court in Canada, and the court ruled for the College of Psychologists yesterday. And the court says this in response to his lawsuit, quote, the order is not disciplinary and does not prevent Dr. Peterson from expressing himself on controversial topics. It has a minimal impact on his right to freedom of expression that he has to go and do sensitivity training here. He can express himself on controversial topics as long as he does it sensitively. He just does it nicely. He just does it by the speech code dictated by the College of Psychologists. So, no, this is just one example of the fact that Canada is much worse in America in this sense. There really isn't free speech in Canada, and the court has just backed this up. It's a horrible ruling. I feel bad. I'm not a fan of Jordan Peterson's, but I feel bad for Jordan Peterson. Basically, I don't think he's going to allow himself to go through sensitivity training. Basically means he can't practice psychology in Canada. Now, maybe he can do something else. Maybe there's another form of appeal, but this is bad. This is horrific. This is a really, really bad state of affairs. Yeah, I mean, just terrible. All right. You can ask me questions, of course. $20 questions get priority. We're going late, but I'm going to try to do all the questions. So, please jump in. I'm going to try to do questions on the debate first. It looks like almost all the questions except one about either debate or the election or something like that. But we have a lot of people watching right now, more than usual, I think, because I'm talking about politics, and politics is the be all end all. 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Yes, I mean, I think that's right. It just drives me crazy that Vivek sucks up to Trump and licks his boots so badly. Again, he's not going to beat Trump by doing that. The best he can do is position himself a VP and Trump indeed praised Vivek for his performance. Of course he did because Vivek was bootlicking Trump's boots. But there's no way Trump chooses Vivek as his VP candidate. That's just out. Vivek would just outshine him intellectually and charismaticly. So Vivek infuriates me about some of the things he says. And I love some of the things he says. And that's the challenge with him. That he's the best and the worst at the same time. How will we deal with that? At this point I'm just going to let the election play out. I still think if I was voting in the Republican primary I would vote for Nikki Haley. But the reality is that Nikki Haley doesn't have a chance at this point. I don't think Vivek has a chance. I mean, it's Biden basically. And Scott, stop it. Right now the question is which Republican are you voting for? Forget Biden for a second. I know you can't. I know it's all single-minded here. But this is my point about Trump. Trump is winning the Republican nomination. Even as awful, as horrific, as terrible as he is. Republicans are voting for him. So later on don't say, well, we only have it's a two-party system. There are only two candidates. Right now you have eight, nine candidates. Pick one and fight for them. And then we'll talk about Biden when we get to that election. But right now it's all about which Republican. And Trump is the worst of all worlds. So pick somebody other than Trump. Find somebody good other than Trump. God. Yeah, so Vivek just frustrates the hell out of me. And I'm not the only one. I know other people who feel the same way. Constantly frustrating, frustrated by Vivek, by the fact that he is so good and bad at the same time. So positive and so negative at the same time. And the worst thing about him, I hope this is just strategic. I hope this is just an attempt to that if Trump falls out, he captures the make America great again crowd. Is the bootlicking for Trump is just disgusting. I find disgusting. Wes says, it seems odd to me that there's no discussion what happens to Joe Biden's health takes a nosedive before the next election. The only way I can see Trump winning is if Joe Biden can't run or is dead. Well, but then it depends who Trump is running against. I fear that any Democrat can beat Trump, except maybe Kamala. And I think the Democratic Party, would the Democratic Party rally around Kamala if Biden can't run or will they pull out the governor of California or will somebody else come to the forefront. Hard to tell. I find it hard to believe that anybody really wants Kamala on the Democratic side, but as you see, there's a lot of people who don't want Trump on the Republican side in the end, they can't get rid of him. Once somebody is instantiated in such a position, very hard to eliminate them. And unless you're Putin and then it's easy to eliminate them. So I don't know how you do that. But, yeah, I mean, it is, it's going to be interesting to see what happens on the Democratic side as we get closer. You know, nobody's excited about Biden, but again, he's the guy. Nobody will challenge the status quo. This is what I said about, I mean, an entire political system, an entire political system is a system of cowards. They're all cowards. Nobody will take on Trump, nobody will take on Biden. Come on, people. Biden's obviously not the person the Democrats want to run. And Trump shouldn't run, even if a majority of Republicans want him to. You know, the Republican Party should be doing everything in its power to undermine Trump. But they won't. Harper Campbell, do you think the GOP base will vote for a young, swarmy, Ivy League, tech bro like Vivek? No, I think at the end they won't. Again, I think in the end of the day, I don't think he can win, but he is the guy everybody's talking about and to the extent that name recognition is big. So I think he can win in some states. I think he can win Republican votes and certainly in blue states, I think he can win Republican votes. I think he can win Republican votes in certain northern states. If he can win Republican votes in the south, I don't know. He might be able to win Republican votes in Texas. Can he win in South Carolina? I don't think so. Can he win in Iowa? I don't think so. I don't think so. You see, even here, the questions, everybody has questions about Vivek because he won the debate. Everybody, he's top of mind. Clark says, Vivek gives me Ben Shapiro vibes. There's a little bit of that. Are younger conservatives looking for a fast-talking more intellectual type as opposed to a slow-talking Bible thumper? Well, but I don't know. I mean, I don't know. Maybe they are, maybe they're not. I just don't know who people are actually, what young conservatives are looking for, how many young conservatives they are. I mean, you'd have to ask somebody like Charlie Cook, who's Charlie Cook backing? Obviously, he's backing Trump. But if he had a second choice, what would Trump go for? My guess is he would go for DeSantis. But I'm not 100% sure and he might be. I mean, who is going to speak at Turning Point USA's big conferences? Who is the guy who is driving young conservatives? I think it will probably be between DeSantis and Vivek. I can't see any of the other people. Scott was very disappointing last night. Tim Scott was just blah. He was boring. Again, didn't do anything terrible. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing stood out. He was just boring. So really the only people out there that I think are viable is Vivek DeSantis and Hailey coming out of that. Other people could win, but Scott didn't make any impression Tim Scott. And Christie obviously can't win. And what's his name? You know, again another of the best statements made yesterday was Pence saying that he explicitly said, unbelievable he explicitly said on that stage that Trump asked him to put Trump ahead of himself Trump above the Constitution. I don't know why that isn't getting more play. I don't know why Republicans don't make a big deal out of that. But he basically said Trump thinks Trump is more important than the Constitution. That's what Pence said. And that was, it was a great statement and he said, I put the Constitution first and you can sense how uncomfortable that made the audience feel. They didn't know what to do because it was a great line but by applauding that line they would be attacking Trumps. They didn't know what to do with it. And I don't think so I don't think Pence can win because he doesn't have a base of support. So it really is one of those three I think who are going to vie for second place and yeah, I mean I don't know how that plays out. You know, I'm not a particularly good political procrastinator prognosticator ultimately. I mean, I never thought Trump would win. God, I mean I never thought he would win the primary. When he won the primary I actually on election day thought he was going to win before the election day. I thought there was a good chance he would win. So I wasn't shocked when he won at all but I was shocked that he won the primary. I was shocked that he kept winning in South Carolina that evangelicals kept voting for him. That surprised me. So I don't know how the dynamics all of this plays out but it could be that Vivek is the candidate of the youth and maybe I still think Trump is the candidate of the youth. Alright interesting. Almost all the questions are being asked by people who always ask the questions and yet we've got a lot of people listening live right now don't usually listen live. So I encourage you to become maybe a first time super chatter or just ask a question if you've already asked in the past but use your time here to both support the show and to ask a question. Challenge me. Tell me I'm full of it but do it on super chat because reading the chat is hard. James Taylor says I kind of like Chris Christie yeah of course who doesn't like a straight talking New Yorker New Jerseyer. He seems like the guy the only adult in the room. He suddenly was an adult yeah but you know from when he governed New Jersey he's a you know he's a political machine kind of guy he's corrupt he's a traditional Republican he's not going to do anything radical we're going to cut waste I love that when they all want I mean who's against cutting waste everybody loves cutting waste even Democrats want to cut waste of course they can't find any waste and Republicans have a very hard time finding any waste but my argument is that 80% of the government spending is waste from the way perspective right. So yeah I mean he's just I mean when it comes to actual policy he's super bland and he's super uninteresting and they're not going to get anything anything new or exciting from him and you're not going to get the kind of policies that this country needs unfortunately from Chris Christie. He's too mainstream. He's too conventional he'll be like a bush senior like boring and when it comes to actual policy issues I don't think that's what you want urban porcupine I think Vivek was the winner DeSantis the loser because he needed to stand out and didn't yeah I think you could that is a good reading of it. Overall the debate was just affirming on my decision to leave the GOP. You get a thumbs up for me I don't understand anybody who remains a GOP registered Republican I mean maybe vote in the primaries but then leave immediately I couldn't stomach being a registered member of the Republican party couldn't stomach it. Michael what happens when Trump views Vivek as a threat and starts going after him I don't see Vivek going after Trump given how much he's been defending him. Yeah I mean I don't know but I don't think Vivek is going to rise that far as to make it to be a threat to Trump. If he is that would be amazing I mean look I'm going to support pretty much anybody who can overthrow Trump so I will throw my support is worth exactly zero but I will throw all my support behind Vivek if he is a threat to Trump. I will support DeSantis if he is a threat to Trump and I don't like DeSantis at all because I really do think that Trump is the enemy. Trump is the worst thing that can happen to this country. He was the first term and I think a second term would just instantiate the threat that he poses to American Liberty and to the Republican party and its sanity in the future so pretty much any of these guys as I tweeted last night every single one of them even the guy from North Dakota is a better candidate than Donald Trump as a human being and as a potential president any one of them is more of an adult and more rational and more reasonable than Donald Trump is so let's hope somebody poses a threat to Trump that would be amazing Frank says I can't see Trump winning blue state primaries or being the convention nominee when he is under indictment and maybe jail center, GOP won't do it he is overwhelming by 40-50 points leading the group I just don't see who's threatening him I don't see blue state Republicans I mean that's like upstate New York, are they really offended by Trump? They care about the indictments? I mean I hope you're right I think it would be great if you're right I just don't see it yet Wisconsin is a blue state or at least a borderline state that group yesterday in Wisconsin was very pro-Trump I mean every time somebody criticized Trump you could hear the booze and they were not a small fraction they were real booze and they were a real significant number Charlie says I've been thinking everyone demonizes political fascism while the whole world seems to have embraced economic fascism but it seems like economic fascism inextricably leads to political fascism yes absolutely that's what you're seeing the rise of the populist right to fill in that gap to bring us more economic fascism there really is nobody left or right who represents socialism or communism out there I mean none of them are real socialist almost all of them are various types of fascist they all want to use the state to impose their will on the people all because they want to do it one way and Democrats want to do it the other way but they're all more fascistic in a sense than socialist nobody even on the left is arguing for a dramatic expansion in the welfare state almost all of them are encouraging a dramatic involvement in the government in our ideas, in our education and in regulating businesses and that's fascistic and that is across the board left and right oops I didn't mean to do that let's see Mary Alene says thanks for watching the debate so I didn't have to not my pleasure but my responsibility my commitment to you and thank you Mary Alene for all the support so my commitment to those of you support me to do that so that you won't have to it's not fun to watch these things so many other things I would rather do but it is work so it's necessary for me to do to do my job all right again I just remind the 150 people watching that several of you have not traded with me a value for value so now is your opportunity because I only have four questions it's going to go fast Yvonne who do you know now find the exercise prescriptions put why do you now find the exercise prescriptions put forth by Peter T. I'm more convincing that those in body by science look I come at this from the perspective of ignorance right from the perspective of ignorance but I'd say a couple of things one is I still am a huge advocate of body by science for gaining strength and gaining muscle and if I if there was a super slow high intensity super slow place here in Puerto Rico I would be doing that probably twice a week I'd probably go up from once a week to twice a week when I did it there was no question I got stronger and and made a huge difference so it was fantastic so I'm a big supporter of body by science for that but I do agree with Peter I do and I see this in myself one of the things as you get older is that you lose things like balance and I don't think body by science helps you there I really don't you could increase bulk and strength and a lot of the muscles get stimulated and then they grow but balance is more than that balance has to do with body mind coordination it has to do with small muscles for example in your feet I know when if you stand up on one foot bare foot you can sense those muscles little muscles in your foot working muscles that you're not going to work in body by science so I think that spending a significant amount of your time that you would spend with the machines in body by science spending some additional time on core on small muscles on coordination on balance on things like that on doing stuff on one foot God I find that hard is really important and again in the 20s and 30s you'll think I'm ridiculous and you'll think I don't need to practice that that's all down but when you get into your 50s and 60s it goes and it goes quick slowly even if it seems silly even if it seems stupid the more you'll train yourself the more the muscles will grow and the more the brain muscle communication will improve so I'm a big supporter of doing that and that is something Peter Atia talks a lot about and then finally I just it just seems to me that and I look at people out there and I know it in myself body by science got me stronger but did it increase my ability significantly to climb stairs did it increase my ability significantly to run at the airport to run to the gate at the airport did it increase significantly I think the strength of my heart and the impact on cardiovascular disease and if you look at did it increase significantly my VO2 max I mean that would be interesting did VO2 max does VO2 max grow up significantly because of body by science I don't think so I mean when I did body by science most of the exercises did not increase my pulse that much I did not get to anywhere close to my max except maybe a one or two exercise of the six that you do so you have to do something to get your heart rate in and it might be high intensity interval training but it sounds like zone two really really matters and again I don't know I'm not an expert I mean you just have to go at this point by who makes the most reasonable argument so I would today if I were doing it right if I had the tools to do it I would combine super slow high intensity weightlifting with zone two zone two walking running I do it in the elliptical you can do it on a bike with high intensity some kind of really high intensity workout where you really getting you know your heart rate up to zone five heart rate up to close to max so and that's so what I'm trying to do is instead I can do the high intensity and with balance training and now that's a lot of work and that goes against the body by science which says just work out once a week for 20 minutes I just think that as you're getting older that's not going to be enough so I work out pretty much every day now you know an hour an hour and a half in the gym every single day I'm feeling great I don't know if I'm as strong as I was when I was doing the super slow probably not as efficient because I'm spending so much time but I have no problem running to a gate right now you know we'll see I'm about to get some blood tests I'm hoping and again Peter Thier claims and I believe him that there's a high correlation between VO2 max and generally cardiovascular health and low probability of cancer, low probability of heart disease and it's the best that I can make sense of right now I'd love to see Peter Thier and McGuff debate this and have a discussion about it I don't know enough about physiology to do it but I guess what I'm trying to say is I'd like to combine the two to the extent that I can but McGuff would say you're wasting your time on the zone 2 and you're wasting and not only you're wasting your time you're doing damage to your joints and I you know and so that makes sense but I do not have the knowledge to be able to figure that out and I so I'm doing the best that I can with partial knowledge and the time it would take me and the effort it would take me to figure this out like to study the biochemistry I don't think I can so you know I'd love to see that discussion between Peter Thier and McGuff and maybe I'd learn more from that discussion and maybe I could enhance you know enhance my knowledge that way but short of that I just don't see how to do it so I'm trying to do everything because being 62 the amount of life left to me is shrinking and I just want to try different things to stay alive James says what will cause a civil war in Russia is it even possible for Wagner to retaliate how does a Russian civil war impact people in the west will impact Africa and the Middle East only no I mean Russia collapse will impact the whole world I mean a civil war in Russia would stop the war in Ukraine a civil war in Russia has the chance of somebody better coming to power or somebody worse coming to power which would impact the rest of the world you know I think a civil war in Russia would impact China and it would be interesting to see how China responds to something like that no I mean it would have global impacts on pretty much everything so it is it is a major would be a major geopolitical event it would have impact on everybody have impact on oil and gas it would it would raise prices it would impact India because India buys most of its oil now from Russia but I don't think there's a huge probability of it but the positive is if two factions within the military you know decided to fight over the fight over the war over leadership of the Kremlin if one faction sided with Putin and another faction fight with somebody else but one of the pagosan things illustrated is that there's a lot of incompetence there's a lot of and it's not clear who's left there to challenge Putin I mean one of the things Putin has been brilliant at doing is eliminating all opposition and surrounding himself with yes men and it's part of why he's losing the war in Ukraine it's because nobody will critique him and it's all you know he's just surrounded by yes men surrounded by people who won't challenge him and therefore who's going to fight him who's going to take it up so I don't see a civil war you might see a coup where they get rid of Putin they decide he's a loser or if the Ukraine war suddenly flips and Ukraine makes substantial advances and Crimea looks like it's being threatened you might see them kick out Putin but I don't think it would be a civil war in that case I think it would just be a consensus among the generals or among the people in the Politburo and they would just kick him out and it would be substantial geopolitical event Stephen thank you Stephen Burnetti says I do not have any question I do want to thank you for being such a tremendous value thank you $100 really appreciate that really really appreciate the support thank you Andrew Republicans in a quandary a portion don't care about winning per se there after political bloodlust against the left or is that getting carried away should we want a splintering I think a splintering would be good a splintering would suggest that there's enough mass there's enough energy there's enough principle behind the anti-Trump side of the Republican party to splinter away I don't think that's happening I think much more likely is that the people who are more and more and more dominating the party and everybody else is just cowering to them so a splinter would suggest that the cowering is stopped and something more substantive is raising as an anti-Trump movement I don't see it I don't know where it comes from the people who are clearly anti-Trump are super marginalized within the Republican party Trump dominates the party I mean this is why he should have lost 2020 by a much much much bigger margin and it's the only way that this party would be shaken up and something better would have come about and I said this at the time Trump needed to lose by a landslide unfortunately not only did he lose by relatively small margin but he then spun it as I didn't even lose which was brilliant just brilliant and allowed him to maintain control over the political party but that's why he had to lose by such a big margin that the message would have been clear Americans don't want him he is a loser and that would have sent a clear message to a Republican party the small loss was not clear enough maybe that's because he was facing Biden Biden was such an awful candidate all because people just vote for him no matter what I'm for splintering even if it means a period of losing I'm for a third party quickly James G says 5 channels for video to review under 20 minutes uneducated let me copy this so these are channels that I can review but I need specific videos all channels are great to watch you guys have to give me specific content I don't have time to start watching a whole bunch of channels and watching random videos find a good video James G says was 150 enough for UK vs USA housing market yes I just need to I need to find that video again I apologize I basically forgot about it and I need to resurrect that there's a bunch of stuff that I'm behind on again even though I promised you it wouldn't be on anyway we'll get there PB says glad I I got you life today could you please explain similarities and differences between neo-conservatives approach versus Nikki Haley's view regarding Putin Ukraine etc thanks you know I don't know if the neo-conservatives at this point have a particularly unique approach I mean neo-conservatism as an ideology and as a driving force intellectually and within the Republican party and to a large extent died out after the failures of the Bush administration and the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan they are still out there you know different people but it's not a I don't think it's a cohesive approach anymore and I don't think they have any kind of significant influence I haven't really monitored if commentaries of the magazine, the neo-conservative magazine if their approach towards Ukraine and Russia is significantly different than let's say pro supporting Ukraine and non neo-conservatives are so I'm not sure I mean neo-conservatives have this view that it's it's America's responsibility to be the policeman of the world it's America's responsibility to bring democracy to the world and to enhance the world democratically and it's okay to sacrifice American troops in order to bring this vision of the world in that sense they're very similar to the left's what do you call liberal internationalism which is Woodrow Wilson's progressive internationalism views about America's not just a shiny city on the hill but a shiny city on the hill that sends its army established little satellite states all over the world that mimic America and that's our job and that's our responsibility and that's our moral responsibility so I think you can support Ukraine in the war from that perspective Ukraine is a country in my view and I've talked about this moving towards greater liberty, greater freedom towards being a good country, a decent country and you could support the war and support Ukraine from that perspective of bringing democracy to the world but I also think you can support the war and you come up with the same outcome basically from the perspective of purely American interest Russia as a geopolitical threat to the United States supporting Ukraine as a very cheap very cheap method of reigning Russia in also to a large extent I think reigning China in because I think that as long as as long as you know it's very difficult for the Russians to take Ukraine that I think has implications to our China views taking Taiwan and the unity of the west the unity of the west in the face of this and everything else I think is a warning sign for the Chinese vis-a-vis Taiwan what else so I think you can be a America you know I don't want to call myself an America first but you know kind of a properly defined America first America self-interest let's call it that American self-interest foreign policy foreign policy and still be a strong support of American support for Ukraine in order to hold back on a authoritarian who might start a war with NATO and that would involve US troops directly unless we leave NATO but that's a very difficult process and unlikely to happen anytime soon so I think the worst case scenario imaginable is Putin invades Poland or invades Lithuania Latvia or Estonia and the United States suddenly has suddenly has to go fight in Europe that would be horrific let the Ukrainians let them do the fighting let them diminish Russian military force let them show the world that Russia is a paper tiger let them destroy Russia's capabilities and discourage it from engaging in further war and American can just send equipment mostly equipment it's not going to use anyway it's not costing the America taxpayer that much money because this is equipment that wasn't going to be replaced anyway let the Ukrainians use that equipment to push back the Russians and to harm them as much as possible alright Daniel says don't forget the cognitive benefits of exercise especially cardio that's what I read but again I'm not in a position to say yes these benefits are absolutely unequivocal if Duff came up and said but look here the argument why it doesn't really provide you with any cognitive I don't have I mean it certainly seems that way and it makes sense and this is why I'm paying attention to Peter Tia because he makes sense to me without given that I have limited knowledge what doesn't make sense to me are some of these fanatics some of the this is the diet this will change your life I'll tell you this is virtual if you just take this virtual you will live longer it's just not true and once you dig into some of their claims you find that they're based on flimsy medicine I liked Peter Tia's approach from beginning to end in that it was an approach that recognized the limitations of our knowledge today and that was I think his biggest strength he approached it from a completely objective perspective he approached it from the perspective of what do we know and what do we don't know and let's not pretend that we know a lot more than we know and he says I'm going to emphasize the things that we actually know and I like that approach so because I like the approach I'm willing to take his prescriptions seriously right given my lack of technical knowledge all right JPS 1776 are you still doing an annual health human longevity yes still doing it do it every year try to do it every year I'm doing it next in October so I'll be in California in October and I'm going to the San Francisco office and I'm doing but I'm also I'll be in both the San Diego and the San Francisco office because I'm also doing a stress test so I can get my VO2 max and get my maximal heart rate you know the real numbers not the estimated numbers that the algorithms give you but an actual real number under stress test so I'm kind of excited I like data so I'm kind of excited to get more numbers but yes I'm absolutely doing human longevity still Daniel says do you think Trump has any shot at winning a general election the thought gives me hippie gibbies I don't know if hippie gibbies is good or bad I assume bad yes I think he has a chance I think he has a shot I mean Biden is so weak Biden is so pathetic Biden could be mumbling up on stage during the debates I mean he might not even be cognitively there there is a chance and who knows given that the recession is probably not going to happen anytime soon could happen next year we could go into an election year in a recession an incumbent almost never wins when there was a recession when he's up for think Jimmy Carter think George Bush senior they didn't win mostly because during the election year there was a recession even if it was over by election year nobody knows that so if there's a recession in 2024 the Republican is likely to win and maybe the Republicans suffer in the House and Senate because of abortion and again that might be not be a bad idea right I'm all for the divided government right I don't want Republicans to win at all and I don't want Democrats to win at all Ma, quarterly and monthly zooms summer shows left I don't know what that means quarterly and monthly zooms what are we talking about maybe in the chat you can tell me what you're actually asking quarterly and monthly zooms for big time supporters yes we're doing those and if you have not got an invitation to do one of those in a while then please email me youron at youronbrookshow.com not anything else youron at youronbrookshow.com and I'll make sure that we get you scheduled I don't know what summer shows left but you know we're on schedule so far until I start traveling starting in mid September 250 tier picture on like myself and for shows left I don't know what for shows left means but yeah email me right email me and we'll get you scheduled I don't know why you haven't been scheduled but yes you should be on a quarterly thing and if you haven't got an email from Angela then please let me know that you haven't got that email and I'll talk to and make sure we get you scheduled we'll get you scheduled for September so just email Angela email me if you don't hear from Angela just we'll make it happen yes they will be one-on-ones they're coming up Michael Sanders interesting you say Trump is the candidate of the youth the Hitler Youth Gen X seems to be way more sympathetic to fascism and an idolistic strongman they're more interested in a strongman but look you only hear from the people who are most vocal I don't think most Republicans are fascist I don't think most Republicans are nihilists but most Republicans do support Trump including most young people do support Trump for whatever that's worth and that is the reality I don't want us to jump too far to to what that means all right thank you guys terrific job in the superchat we went hour 15 which is not what these news roundups are supposed to be so long and I love it that you have a lot of questions that's great sometimes I can go over sometimes I have how it stops today I could go over a little bit but now I do need to run and yes I will see you all I will see you all tonight hopefully we've got Duncan Scott for an interview we're going to be talking about we the living the movie fascinating really really interesting story of how the movie was made when it was made the role fascist had in making it the role the Nazis had in maybe banning it and how it was destroyed how it was rediscovered and where we're going to be screening it today no one has a final question are you familiar with the systematic iterate anti-aging protocol Brian Johnson is developing the stuff he does is pretty remarkable with every effect on his body precisely managed yes I mean I am familiar with it I am following it from a distance obviously you have to be a billionaire to be able to afford to do everything that he does and monitor everything you also have to have an enormous amount of free time you couldn't do this and actually have a life and a career and stuff going on to do it but I am following it a little bit the last thing I read is about I don't know if it is specific stimulus that he does to his penis you know go figure but you know all kinds of stuff that he does for that organ I see no problem with that it certainly should be a part of your anti-aging protocol I do find what he is doing interesting he is like this massive one man guinea pig how much you can learn from one man's experience is questionable scientifically you know he is taking one track how much can you learn from that is going to be interesting but yeah I mean I wouldn't do what he is doing he is nuts because it is all consuming it is the only thing that matters it is all he does but yeah follow it absolutely and I hope a bunch of scientists are following it because how much can I learn from it but I hope a bunch of scientists are following it and in five years ten years we will be able to write significant papers about what worked and what didn't work one of the challenges you are going to get is he is doing so many different things how do you know which of them actually had the effect there is no control group there is no control Johnson it is only making one change he is doing all the changes it is going to be fascinating fascinating to see what actually happens all right guys thank you I appreciate the support I appreciate all the questions keep the questions coming again we will be available for questions I want to stick to we the living and stuff for for tonight show but certainly we will be doing a show tomorrow we will be doing a show Saturday so keep the questions coming on health and politics on Pagosin on Russia whatever you think I will see you tonight and if not tomorrow morning it was great to have so many people I assume a bunch of new people were on today I hope you subscribe please like the show before you leave we had 150 people watching at any given point of time so we probably had 400 people watching 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