 Hey, let's talk about philosophy, you know, there's so much stuff that we could talk about but You know, even with you know, Anne Rand philosophy in that direction Educating man, but what's this all about? We hear this all the time of the 21th convention We see it as an ongoing theme, but we don't always connect it to all the paleo stuff diet stuff You know lifestyle dating. Yeah, where does this play into it? I mean, so I ran was a 20th century novelist and philosopher She wrote I mean dozens of books and famous books out shrug the fountain had a lot of people probably heard of right And that I think the connection it's interesting the 21 convention that I did a couple years ago about the idea of self The idea of the self-made man. I mean, I ran really taps into that American ideal in her novels and her characters a number of her characters and even just the idea that she presents of The whole person is really that you are a being as she said of the self-made soul So it's really that you're not just a self-made man in the material sense in the physical sense But all aspects of your being are really about your control your improvement what you do for yourself And so that whole thing kind of ties into all these areas that people want to improve their lives It's all about taking conscious control and doing that for your life Which she identified what the philosophic roots of that were Did you want to yeah, I mean so the if you can think about it this way she viewed philosophy is in effect The ultimate self-help guide so a lot of like self-improvement stuff is scattered You know, it's a bunch of different ideas and what philosophy is really doing is giving you an integrated view of the world and Of human life and how to achieve human potential and it's doing it with rigor So it's it's saying not just here's some thoughts I had but we need to be able to prove This is the basic nature of reality This is how we achieve reliable knowledge and this is what a moral successful life looks like and so it's basically Allowing you to have a consistent framework rather than just a grab bag of ideas that might clash with one another and not fit together And then I and a framework that's true that's connected to reality so that you can actually achieve your goals and success in reality you know this is It's like such an interesting thing because where she came from and where she was speaking from I think is very relevant and It's gonna kind of have a little bit of a curveball, but I you know always loved art. I loved cinema I loved theater and one thing that came around with the advent of communism All that stuff was like this really really good art before they killed them all right but like but no I mean it was like some of the best plays like like all cinema drives from like, you know eyes and signs stuff And it's just like battleship at Tempkin It was like, you know, you know, it was like finally we can speak and have a voice and then it just spun into the You know, there's like this sort of thing, but she came from you know The the rejection of those things and could you guys speak a little bit about the history of how that yeah Yeah, she was originally born in Russia in the Tsarist period So she was born in 1905 when the Tsar still ruled Russia and that in that kind of cultural Yeah, that cultural thing was still there where where many Russians were looking to the West and they were innovating They were doing different things. There was a large French influence I mean Russia was very tied into Western ideas. Wow, and then she don't yeah And you don't yeah, I mean and you know the communist wife that always so she grew up and basically as a teenager Saw the Bolshevik revolution and her family was thrown out of its business They tried to flee to the Crimea while the civil war was going on and ultimately when the Bolsheviks won when Lenin won and the Soviets Took over she basically went back to what was then Leningrad and lived until the 1920s when she basically escaped I mean she was she petitioned to have a visa to to leave to go to the United States to visit relatives Which the Soviets allowed? But she knew all along that she would never go back because she knew she was one of those people that the Soviets couldn't tolerate her Ideas already by the time she was in her teens in early 20s completely rejected the idea of collectivism rejected the idea of you know this forced state of This collectivist ideal and she knew that she was gonna get into trouble with that She was actually it's interesting that you mentioned that she was a huge huge fan of cinema That was actually the ideal that she had she came to America because she wanted to work in movies Yeah, and then when she got to America she first went to Chicago and then eventually made her way out to Hollywood It's a really interesting story. Really. Yeah, she made her way out to Hollywood and get this She goes and just is trying to find work doesn't speak great English and Goes to a movie set and you know because that's where the movies are made and she's waiting at the gate and Cecil B. DeMille actually drives off the the studio a lot and sees her and he's like, you know You look interesting like you're not the average American woman just saying so he gives her a ride And she connects up and then he gives her like, you know a basic job I don't know if Don if you remember what what job she gets She just like a basic job and extra things like that starts working ultimately starts Yeah, ultimately starts working in costume departments Wow, and then screenwriting and then you know there's a number of movies actually now that that were based on some of her Screenplays Wow, so she basically worked her way up through Hollywood and then and then decided to turn her attention to writing novels And then ultimately after the novels and the writing philosophy So it's crazy because one of the most prolific filmmakers of that time and I forget her name was was a female Yeah, and that's so rare and I'm Rand Female you know see that yeah as a as a philosopher is a writer is a massive producer of cultural influence. Yeah Dude, that's that's nuts. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she's really she's got a really interesting biography I mean she worked in RKO studios for a while King Vidor Was it he was the producer of the the Fountainhead movie I think and so yeah She had all kinds of Hollywood connections back in the day and you know was actually, you know So so connected in Hollywood so to speak that she actually was she actually testified before the House on American Activities Committee along with You know Bogart and all these other people That and Eli Weasel and all you know all these other people that that were involved in Hollywood at the time So she was really plugged in